Movies That Were Probably Made By a Spasm of Six Year-Olds on Acid: The Top 75 Action Films Poll Results Thread

'oh, you know that Tyler's worldview is just bullshit, right?'

I'm just not entirely sure that the movie (or Palahniuk) believes that.

I think the movie does (never read the book), or at least everyone I've ever discussed it with has interpreted it this way. The protagonist being mesmerized by Tyler Durden's ideology, then slowly becoming disillusioned with it is like the main story arc of the movie. Still don't think it's a great movie (the two personalities reveal was too literal, and the final scene makes no sense), but you'd have to be a bit stupid not to see that it's critical of Durden.

Did you guys know that Cronenberg apparently said that an Eastern Promises sequel could be a possibility? Kind of want an entire movie of Viggo as undercover Russian crime guy who beats people up. Like a combination of Eastern Promises and A History of Violence

I'm still going to complain that the original Shaft (or any other key blaxploitation movies) isn't on here.

Haha, should've voted for Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song... That one is definitely an action movie in the literal sense of the word, since the second half of it consists of nothing but the protagonist running through various locations. (Not a great date movie though, as I found out.)

I think the movie does (never read the book), or at least everyone I've ever discussed it with has interpreted it this way. The protagonist being mesmerized by Tyler Durden's ideology, then slowly becoming disillusioned with it is like the main story arc of the movie. Still don't think it's a great movie (the two personalities reveal was too literal, and the final scene makes no sense), but you'd have to be a bit stupid not to see that it's critical of Durden.

― Tuomas, Monday, February 20, 2012 2:13 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is true, but the movie isn't exactly a consistent critique of anything. it ultimately makes clear that tyler's philosophies are A) fascist and B) a device that the protagonist uses to protect himself from emotional commitment, but it spends a lot more time making tyler and his ideas alluring than it does dismantling them. i like the dissonance, cuz pat answer message movies are almost always awful.

I liked Fight Club a lot, but this may be related to seeing it when it was a first-run box office failure and before it became a message movie for confused alterna-bros.

On the other hand, it can't be denied that it is nowhere close to Fincher's masterpiece, The Game, which is as deep and reticent as FC is ultimately shallow and superficial.

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alterna-bros.

fixed

idk imo the game was kind of woeful

thank god bros have moved on to worse movies with less content, like boondock saints

This, I thought, was a really good look at one way in which the visuals of Fight Club undercut what's being discussed on screen, in the "pick a fight with a stranger" scene.

a guy was doing work on our house and i showed him my room full of records he said "so is this your man club?" hahaha! i think he meant man cave. i blame man cave phenomena on fight club. pretty easy to blame lots of things on fight club.

― scott seward, Monday, February 20, 2012 4:46 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol.

there's a bunch of women who stan for Boondock Saints too. Very weird.

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I have never seen Boondock Saints.

it's prob worth catching but there's bits of it are cringe

Fight Club, like its latter-day counterpart Inception, is the sum total of its wasted talent.

I missed the title of the post and immediately thought "this is the kind of objective statement you'd get in academia." Works pretty well as taught, yup.

I cringe at most anyone taking Palahniuk books as anything other than pulp novelties, but the other movie adaptation I'm aware of -- Choke -- has some pretty funny moments and gains a lot from the casting.

I pretty much can't stand Boondock Saints from the opening minute. But yeah, a lot of women like it, too.

re students if it's not boondock saints it's that zooey deschanel movie whose name i forget

Boondock Saints is not "worth catching". Your life will be worse for having seen it

Number None is my friend

There really could be a long list of "movies influenced by Tarantino that somehow managed to miss what people found appealing in his films."

you're just mad cos they've got quasi-donegal accents at various points iirc

Kind of fucking astounded that anyone is taking Fight Club as uncomplicatedly cheering on Tyler!

i think guys just like the graphic, initially unsentimental violence in F.C.

Fincher's masterpiece, The Game, which is as deep and reticent as FC is ultimately shallow and superficial.

god, the game is just the worst fuckn movie. such a wonderfully nonsensical thrill ride for an hour or so, but such a colossal mess at the end. panic room is likewise terrible. dude's definitely had his ups and downs.

i like fight club becuz pixies duh

IMO everyone should watch Boondock Saints just so they can fully enjout the making of/hitjob doc "Overnight" abt the jackass who wrote and directed it

Fight Club is the best movie ever set in Delaware.

you guys should fight it out on the fight club thread.

I always assumed Fight Club was set in Chicago

can we go back to the "bunch of women" who like boondock saints thing. who is this "bunch"

^^ "Overnight" had out of sync audio on netflix streaming, I need to see if they ever fixed that

I don't know, Matt! I have met several, but it's always been friends-of-friends at parties. They are often evangelizing this film.

yeah i would say the Boondock Saints stans i have encountered IRL or via social media are pron 50/50 male/female

the game sucked imo

I didn't see The Game until years after its release and it's just ehhhh... it has a few moments.

They fool you by casting Michael Douglas and Sean Penn

overnight is on youtube.

boondock saints is the biggest p.o.s., it's kind of a litmus test.

they fool you into thinking its a movie.

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like one of the few movies that if you like it, i question your judgment completely.

panic room isnt terrible! its fun

re students if it's not boondock saints it's that zooey deschanel movie whose name i forget

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, February 20, 2012 5:41 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

500 days of summer?

IMO everyone should watch Boondock Saints just so they can fully enjout the making of/hitjob doc "Overnight" abt the jackass who wrote and directed it

― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, February 20, 2012 5:48 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

thats a great doc

yeah i would say the Boondock Saints stans i have encountered IRL or via social media are pron 50/50 male/female

― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, February 20, 2012 5:52 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

I imagine most pro-boondock saints feeling comes from an 'irish pride' sentiment

i once bailed out of a party when the cops showed up and ended up across the hall in this girl's apartment. lots of candles, and this movie playing on a flatscreen.

― goole, Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:18 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's my story

er 'this movie' = boondock saints

tbf, it makes the irish seem like a silly violent caricature, so yeah it's probably beloved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfXuNJxWw88

there was a ffiiiIIIREEEEFIGHTTTTTTT

I imagine most pro-boondock saints feeling comes from an 'irish pride' sentiment

― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 (dayo), Monday, February 20, 2012 12:58 PM (10 minutes ago)

also "scumbags deserve to be executed fuck the judicial system"

re students if it's not boondock saints it's that zooey deschanel movie whose name i forget

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, February 20, 2012 5:41 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

500 days of summer?

― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, February 20, 2012 4:56 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, that one.