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

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why i oughta

max, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:51 (fourteen years ago)

Hah, accounting error/dead people voting/missing ballot boxes.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:51 (fourteen years ago)

lol omar, well played

Steamtable Willie (WmC), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:51 (fourteen years ago)

OMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:51 (fourteen years ago)

oh shit, i counted some inception ballots a few times too many. very regrettable error. let me prep the actual top 3.

LOOOOOOOOOOOL twist ending

I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:52 (fourteen years ago)

OMAR!!!

okay that was funny

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:52 (fourteen years ago)

*wakes up from nightmare*

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:52 (fourteen years ago)

damn homie why

a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:52 (fourteen years ago)

XD

original bgm, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:52 (fourteen years ago)

can't wait for morbs to go through what we all just experienced but like 1000x more

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:52 (fourteen years ago)

that tricky bastard...

scott seward, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:52 (fourteen years ago)

beautifully trolled.

shart practice (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:53 (fourteen years ago)

twist ending... inception at #1

original bgm, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:53 (fourteen years ago)

OMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajsNJtnUb7c

I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:53 (fourteen years ago)

Inception is the worst movie Nolan's made to-date, totally pointless garbage

max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:53 (fourteen years ago)

it was all an illusion...

scott seward, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:53 (fourteen years ago)

i need to lie down

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:53 (fourteen years ago)

x-posts ^^ That's what went through my head when I read that, E3. lol.

wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:53 (fourteen years ago)

(BTW, I liked Inception fine, but it is BY NO REASONABLE STANDARD OF JUDGMENT USED BY HUMANS WITH BRAINS THE THIRD BEST ACTION MOVIE OF ALL TIME.)

SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:54 (fourteen years ago)

so confused now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA3WGf9pX0A

original bgm, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:54 (fourteen years ago)

stayed tuned for thrilling conclusion of action poll

I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:54 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah. Kinda figured that had to be a gag. Good one, omar.

SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:55 (fourteen years ago)

Road Warrior went in at SIXTEEN. of course you could vote Inception #3. I mean.

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:55 (fourteen years ago)

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTUyOTcwNDkyOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMjQyMzQ3._V1._SX475_SY732_.jpg

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:55 (fourteen years ago)

This poll has entered the fabled "Thirteenth Floor."

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:55 (fourteen years ago)

tag: "You can go there ... even though it doesn't exist!"

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:56 (fourteen years ago)

lolling at the idea of "Annie Hall" being the action equivalent of "Inception"

(thinks and smiles) (DJP), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:56 (fourteen years ago)

do u think the 13th floor will place at 3rd, 2nd or 1st

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:56 (fourteen years ago)

well we all know #1 is Timecop, so

(thinks and smiles) (DJP), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:57 (fourteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/raiders.jpg

#3

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

Steven Spielberg
1981
United States
(731 points, 18 votes, 2 first place)

raiders of the lost ark is great in ways that the other movies don't even try to repeat. i like the relative seriousness with which the ark and religious history is taken, the ways in which spielberg creates this vague sense of unease w/r/t the quest, like how some disturbance is being created. the jokey bullshit isn't insulting and sallah and marcus brody are actually a couple of sharp, interesting characters (who somehow turned into buffoons in last crusade).

― omar little

its interesting how different the first 3 actually are (havent seen the new one yet) -- last crusade is essentially a comedy, & was my favorite as a kid, but raiders is funny while still being a top-notch globetrotting adventure movie. its sort of bizarrely the only indy movie where they really got it just right.

maybe the most underrated scene in the whole series is the one at the beginning of raiders after indy swipes the idol & is being chased to his plane by about 1000 natives bent on killing him, & his pilot upon seeing this takes about 5 seconds to decide between starting the plane up or reeling in the fish he's caught.

― deeznuts

ending of raiders... both the melty-faces and of course the warehouse shot are beyondddddd classic

― s1ocki

one thing that's great about the Ark is that its powers are implied or uncertain most of the time. People know what it IS but everyone's guessing about what it can DO, and that makes the unexpectedness of the ending all the more unsettling. That and it's flat out gruesome as well -- but one of the most effective things about the death of Belloq is that while we see him looking in horror at something within the Ark after the angels change to skeletons, we never see exactly what it is (and the only view of what is in the Ark a bit earlier is equally peculiar, seeming to show clouds and smoke rising up from impossible depths).

― Ned Raggett

Rewatching Raiders a few years back was what finally convinced me what a genius with sound design Ben Burtt is/was.

The audio track feels so much richer and more crucial than it did for any of the SW flicks; you had Indy's revolver sounding like a fucking hand cannon, the meaty thuds of body blows mixed with Harrison's yelping, the sput-sput-sputtering of the sand-choked engines, the freaky ass electrical power beam that fries everybody at the end and shorts out the generators, etc.

Great Stuff.

― kingfish

Rank the Indiana Jones Canon

omar little, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:57 (fourteen years ago)

i think termaintor 3 still has a chance

TERMAINTOR 2 (some dude), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:57 (fourteen years ago)

alien 3 for the win. all you fincher freaks on here...

scott seward, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:58 (fourteen years ago)

*sigh of relief*

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:58 (fourteen years ago)

fortunately I fucking love this movie as well

Raiders is the movie that made me decide at a young age that Harrison Ford was my favorite actor

(thinks and smiles) (DJP), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:59 (fourteen years ago)

aliens is number one. lethal weapon cannot beat out aliens. it would be sad.

scott seward, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:59 (fourteen years ago)

really dig last crusade but can't be angry at a movie with nazi faces melting and then exploding coming in over it

original bgm, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:59 (fourteen years ago)

I'm gonna start an unironic slow clap here for omar. Well played.

Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:59 (fourteen years ago)

Aliens/Die Hard #2 (pick one)
Timecop #1 (VANDAMN)

(thinks and smiles) (DJP), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:00 (fourteen years ago)

lol @ this forum getting incepted

Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:01 (fourteen years ago)

omar little: lovable scamp

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:01 (fourteen years ago)

you kids are gullible, he didn't even have the header in bold on Inception

valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:02 (fourteen years ago)

anyone who thinks about doing a poll should look at what omar dude did for future reference.

scott seward, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:03 (fourteen years ago)

Raiders is like, movie childhood. In an "awesome adventures" way, not a "locked under the stairs" way

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:03 (fourteen years ago)

kingfish otm re: raiders sound design

saw it 7 or 8 times in the theaters, still remember the fwhoommp of the ark lid closing

I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:04 (fourteen years ago)

the people under the stairs is underrated.

scott seward, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:04 (fourteen years ago)

haha Scott beat me to the PUTS ref

(thinks and smiles) (DJP), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:04 (fourteen years ago)

i feel like we're not gonna have a lot to say about these last ones cuz we've said so much alreayd

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:05 (fourteen years ago)

i sincerely apologize for my grievous error in tallying the ballots. i sat here numb for the ensuing minutes unable to bring myself to post, leaving everyone hanging and scrambling for answers.

omar little, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:05 (fourteen years ago)

PUTS! lol yeah it was pretty good

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:06 (fourteen years ago)

WRONG

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:06 (fourteen years ago)


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