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

iirc omar did the same thing in the films of the 00s poll

PG movies now are about 'off-color references' in a shrek movie.

no I think I did

xp

i feel lucky that i was a kid when movies like raiders and back to the future were coming out

totally

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#2

ALIENS

James Cameron
1986
United States
(776 points, 21 votes)

the scene where they're holed up and the aliens are getting closer (the whole "20 metres... 19 metres..." etc scene), i mean, you can't really beat that.
― s1ocki

and then the aliens are in the ceiling!
― s1ocki

The first film was more of a classic horror film written with a degree of sophistication and unflinching, realistic gore (relatively speaking) that was inarguably not child friendly. The second one, though still violent and gorey, reads more like a western shoot'em up. It's not exactly Spongbob Squarepants but it's easier on the sense than the first one.

― Alex in NYC

i actually think this is a really canny film. i mean it's not the kind of thing i will watch 50 times and find something new each time, but it's pretty provocative and exciting the first few times. i think the script is very well-constructed even if it's not the most literate or even believeable thing on a line-by-line level. i think james cameron has a good story sense.

― amateur!!!st

Watched this again last night and it was as wonderful as ever. One of my top 5 movies of all time.

― krakow

"Aliens" : Some nice effects, but actually kind've a crap film.

the poor kids who got Donnie Darko

and then the aliens are in the ceiling!

Rethinking doing jokey poll about romcoms. Maybe just do a top 10 movies to troll ilx with poll.

"kind've"?

Oh, right. And I punk'd the '00s TV poll similarly, as I recall.

can i just say, the top three (assuming #1 is what i think it is) IS THE SAME AS MY BALLOT TOP 3

james cameron is some kind of proof that movie budgets need to be indexed to inflation over a directors career or something

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, February 17, 2012 11:08 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

eh maybe not!

poll should've been called "Some nice effects, but actually kind've a crap film: The Top 75 Action Films Poll Results Thread"

man, is it really lethal weapon? really? GOAT status for mel? you realize a vote for lethal weapon is a vote for anti-semitism, right? i hope you are all proud of yourselves.

that is still the worst ilx thread title of all time for so many reasons

Aliens was in my top 5. It deserves to be up here for sure.

Alien was the first R rated film I saw, Aliens the first R rated film I saw in the theater.

man, is it really lethal weapon? really? GOAT status for mel? you realize a vote for lethal weapon is a vote for anti-semitism, right? i hope you are all proud of yourselves.

― scott seward, Tuesday, February 21, 2012 12:10 PM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it ain't.

Would Aliens get a Pg-13 today?

and then the aliens are in the ceiling!

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 12:09 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love this scene. "That's impossible, that's inside the ROOM!"

congrats to "Timecop"

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what the http://webtools.gieskes.nl/pages/images/explosion.gif

Alien is really such a better film, but Aliens is the best Cameron film as far as action goes, imo. He is best when he does things by the numbers and Aliens is pretty much perfect execution on that.

I'm not reading it wrong, man! Look!

Alien is really such a better film, but Aliens is the best Cameron film as far as action goes, imo. He is best when he does things by the numbers and Aliens is pretty much perfect execution on that.

― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 12:12 PM (51 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what does this mean

PVT. HUDSON 4 EVAR

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alien is better but aliens is the best

lol I should of known that the Aliens thread would have multiple digressions re: "kind've"

There's a scene in Near Dark where Bill Paxton is hitchhiking (I think), and some dude either yells at him from a car or chucks a beer can at him. It's Cameron in the car. He loves action.

does that clear it up s1ock

Have we ever polled Bill Paxton's lines in "Aliens?"

Alien will always be my favorite, but Aliens is so much fucking fun...so glad it came in #2

robocop - what a fuckin movie. so much can be said about why it owns, but i think one underrated aspect is ronnie cox's performance as dick jones. he has so much fun with that part.

someone earlier in the thread was shittalking the production design on robocop, which is just so wrong! the production work on robocop is really intelligent and awesome. first of all, brutalist architecture in a sci-fi setting = always good. the ed209 is a great example of the thought they put into things - its deliberately absurd, evoking something built by corporate committee and made to look intimidating at the expense of practicality, with redundant hydraulics, feet that can't fit on stairs, a body modeled after the huey chopper. this is underlined the first time we meet the ed and it literally growls like a lion. and what could be more haunting than robocop without his helmet, peter weller's face lost in all that machinery - what an amazing image! weller's got some great line readings in this movie, especially "they fix everything"

also, killer ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEknoNtHSMs

terminator 2 - my dad brought me to see this when it came out, i was 6 years old, i loved it more than words can say. if i ever have a kid they're watchin this before their 8th birthday. the terminator sacrificing himself at the end... omg... manly tears...

t2 suffers from being about 1/20th as vicious as the first one and the edward furlong/t2 scenes bring the whole movie down a lot but it's still pretty awesome.

― omar little, Tuesday, February 21, 2012 11:42 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

having watched it again just a few weeks ago, yeah, it didnt really jolt me like it did when i was younger. i still love the way it builds up for that first 45 mins or so, right up until they break sarah out

inception lol

aliens - i'm just gonna quote slocki on this one:

ok so i watched this again (thank you alex for reminding me of this terrific movie!) and when it was over i am slightly embarrassed to say that i exclaimed loudly to no one in particular, "rockin' good times!"
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, August 21, 2004 4:02 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark

i read it as aliens is a better james cameron movie than alien, which is not a james cameron movie, and also that it is 'by the numbers' but what are the numbers it is by

Want to say that Paxton may be second to Ford in the amount of money his films have made, thanks entirely to Cameron.

he's awesome in t1

I knew a dude who once argued very convincingly that every Bill Paxton film was amazing, because Bill Paxton was in it. I think he was able to successfully defend this thesis right up until he was confronted with "Twister".

did he break down into tears

u know what is good tho, paxton's directorial debs, HATCHET (is that what it's called? it's good!)

lol I should of known that the Aliens thread would have multiple digressions re: "kind've"

Yeah, it was sort have a no-brain-her.

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#1

SPACE JAM

Joe Pytka
1996
United States
( ∞ points, 24 votes, 10 first place)

Ebert loves Space Jam!

― Veteran of the Psychic Wars (Abbott), Thursday, April 9, 2009 7:58 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

As with Space Jam, I couldn't recognize a few of the characters from just their voices, and that worries me. But I'll still see it, if only to avoid rationalizing why I saw Space Jam and not this.

― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, June 19, 2011 2:54 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Space Jam was just a fucking tragedy.

― hay lbj hayyy (absolutely clean glasses), Sunday, June 19, 2011 4:04 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

space jam ruled

http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

― little dieter wants to FUCK (Princess TamTam), Sunday, June 19, 2011 4:12 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark

Space Jam Poll

OH NO I CANT BELIEVE ITS SPACE JAM THAT WON. OMAR WHAT THE HELL.

― little dieter wants to FUCK

lol

im glad someone finally appreciated that, thank u amon

XD

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that scene freaked my shit OUT

I was such a huge horror movie/alien fan that when I saw aliens in the theater, I hated it. it was like sipping from a cup expecting water and getting soda.

I came around tho. aside from paul reiser's hair it's a pretty awesome movie.