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

ok folks

*sits up straight, pays attention*

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5. The Last Starfighter

Ahahaha. That worked for a fraction of a second as I was scrolling down.

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#5

ROBOCOP

Paul Verhoeven
1987
United States
(668 points, 18 votes)

robocop = so much disturbing shit! ed209 blowing away kenny in the boardroom, clarence turning murphy's hand into spaghetti sauce w/ a shotgun, the scenes where robocop first shows up at the police station, "bitches leave", robocop going back to murphy's empty house, emil getting covered w/ toxic waste, etc etc

― moonship journey to baja

Robocop was on this weekend. I had forgotten so much of it.

Like, how the Robocop vs 209 fight segues right into a SUX 6000 commercial with a dinosaur. When I originally saw that and that claymation T-Rex came on, my step-dad was all like "Oh COME ON NOW."

― Pleasant Plains

i was watching robocop last week & ruminating on how most movies would only have 2 characters as hardcore as bob morton & clarence boddicker only robocop is dope enough to have both

― and what

what movie is better than robocop? like on earth

― king of ^ flowers (Whiney G. Weingarten)

Robocop was bogged down by an inexplicable amount of Boddicker-free filler, but I think it's a strong movie even with all that stuff about the metal policeman.

― Telephone thing

POLL Verhoeven

great screencap

omg totes

I've not seen Robocop since the 80s. I should most definitely watch it again soon.

I'd say it's the number five action movie of all time.

Had I voted, Robocop might've been my number one.

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BITCHES LEAVE

people really love robocop.

MURPHY

Because it's awesome and funny.

going from boobs in everything to robocop makes perfect sense, because the 80s was also notable for there being no action film too violent for there to be a toy line from it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pOoSe2K5DU

best part of that commercial is the back to the future III music playing at the end

I'd buy that for a dollar.

Henchman Emil, with real melting action!

That commercial was totally fake.

I'd buy that for a dollar.

I still say this all the time lol

I was particularly enamored of the lax standards of the PG rating in the '80s.

Cf. this interview today w/Lea Thompson at The AV Club: http://www.avclub.com/articles/lea-thompson,69639/

Tom was so awesome, because we had this love scene and… You know, back then, it was always boobs boobs boobs in every movie, and it was required for me to show my boobs in these two love scenes.

I still say this all the time lol

― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 11:26 AM (30 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too like on a daily base

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#4

TERMAINTOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY

James Cameron
1991
United States
(700 points, 21 votes, 1 first place)

T2 would be a lot more effective if it hadn't been so heavily publicized that Arnie was the good guy this time - if you'd seen the first one but had no prior knowledge of the second, you'd totally assume the T1000 was a human freedom fighter who'd been sent back to protect John, and it would be a great twist.

― chap

T-1000 killed hospital guard Lewis. In that scene, the T-1000 arose from a black and white checkerboard floor take the form of red-headed Dan Stanton, and then killed his twin brother Don Stanton. They both played censors in Good Morning, Vietnam. See?

― Kerm

So the terminators went back in time and created themselves? I WANT ANSWERS.

― David Allen

i still can't believe i was in highschool when this movie came out - the mythology of its cutting-edge special effects continues to resonate in my brain or something (also, saw it in a double-bill with t1, at a theatre in the mall that only highschool kids went to i think - rowdy)

― rrrobyn

traumatic event as a kid when all my friends went to see it in the cinema and i couldn't because my parents wouldn't even let me watch pg-13 films, much less this one. though most other parents were happy to make the concession because it is kind of children's film.

― Gukbe

yeah seriously dude who is the intended audience for terminator 2? i dont remember anybody being more excited about it than my 8 yr old peers

― and what

terminator 2

i forgot about that nude scene in Howard The Duck

T2 inextricably linked in my mind with guns n roses, it was like these two entertainment franchises had RETURNED together, in a blaze of metallic fury

#1 in my hypothetical ballot by a mile.

Hah, I was too lazy to even come up with a hypothetical ballot.

I love the Terminator view at the end of the G'N'R video that rates the band as 'WASTE OF AMMO'.

what would have been on your ballot if you had hypothetically voted?

guess I should've saved my upthread robocop trolling for now

Saw it again recently, G'n'R is entwined around the film like the roses around the guns.

Wasn't it part of one of the first "music videos largely featuring scenes from the film they're in"? xp yep!

people really love T2.

termaintor

xxp T2 and 'Robin Hood Prince of Thieves'?

aliens is gonna be number one. i'll betcha.

thing that always gets me in T2 is during the motorcycle stunt when they full-on just show the stunt man who is clearly not arnie, guess they figured people would be so wowed by action they wouldn't notice

robocop rules so much.

Anymore, I tend to think of T2 as a Best Buy home theatre system demo reel, padded out with a relatively uninvolving and muddled plot. Shit was the bomb when I was 14, though.

robocop himself is amazing but then you have the villains and murky corporate dudes and ed-209 and the verhoeven/neumeier flourishes. owns.

reload action on the gun in the t2 motorcycle/truck chase scene totally wowed and confused me at the time (i had no idea about lever action shotguns).

Ugh graceless muscle men with guns, blah blah blah. Very disappointed in u all.

you should go back in time and warn your 14 year old self that you were gonna be wrong all the time in the future.

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the part where robocop goes back to his home

finally caught up w/this v enjoyable thread and have already dutifully re-screened die hard 3. it's been a while, and like others on the thread, I was surprised by how much I dug it. might even like it more than the original. I dunno, bruce's smugness kind of grates and sam jackson adds an appreciated dose of energy and lols to the proceedings.

except for those scenes where bruce tells sam that, yes, in fact, HE is the real racist. those are p uncomfortable and weird.

ending sequence is seriously lame tho. *SPOILERS for this ancient movie* bruce essentially shooting down a helicopter with a pistol? c'mon, no fight with simon? no fight with the badass female terrorist? gtfo with that. would have much preferred that alt. ending mentioned earlier in the thread.

also, whoever said this is a great NY movie is 100% otm.

you should go back in time and warn your 14 year old self that you were gonna be wrong all the time in the future.

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― scott seward, Tuesday, February 21, 2012 11:40 AM (7 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol otm.

Wasn't it part of one of the first "music videos largely featuring scenes from the film they're in"?

This has been done forever iirc

T2 motorcycle scene redux:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctRBsLAGS40