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

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.

i didnt notice until this last viewing that my dude xander berkeley plays john conner's foster dad in T2

that scene freaked my shit OUT

oh hell yeah; I first saw T2 freshman year at one of the campus movie screenings in one of the big science lecture halls and that was the scene that made me go "oh shit this movie is AMAZING"

(puts hand over phone) "Your fostah parents ah dead."

haha i always knew that dude as "john conners foster dad" in 24 and stuff

http://images.wikia.com/avp/images/9/95/Powerloader.jpg

or when he goes ITS NOT A TUMAH

Seeing T2 for the first time I really felt like I'd crossed over, like "whooaaaa movies are like THIS now?? cool!"

can i just share this thing re: starship troopers

The cast agreed to do the co-ed shower scene only if Verhoeven agreed to direct the scene naked, which he did.[2]

ha i remember reading that

haha!

prefer alien to aliens for many reasons but mainly bc slow-burning sci-fi horror is just the best kind of movie.

The cast agreed to do the co-ed shower scene only if Verhoeven agreed to direct the scene naked, which he did.[2]

respect

Hahahaha "Don't throw me in the briar patch!"

apparently sigourney weaver only agreed to do the last scene of aliens if james cameron directed it in a power loader, which he did

"OK Cronenberg if you want me to actually fuck somebody in the ass it has to be YOUR ass"

"Very well"

lol

Hahahaha "Don't throw me in the briar patch!"

irl lols

i still want a power loader

citation needed xxxp

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

Wandered away from thread for about an hour. Omar, I kiss you.

xp John Connor's foster mom is of course - Vasquez!

Alien is a better movie overall, I mean. As an action movie, Aliens is better!

My beef with Cameron is that he makes very by-the-numbers films and that's where he's best. I'm sure there are exceptions to this, but...

Aliens works well because you have a group of stock characters, the environment is actually tightened up from the original -- no ambiguity about what different environments are, no lingering mysteries (lol space jockey) and it's a war movie! Even the poster tagline is "THIS TIME IT'S WAR!"

..the beef comes in where throughout the years -- mostly notably with Avatar, ugh -- he seems to think that by having stock characters going through motions you get a good movie

i love the story about cameron in a meeting to try and sell aliens and he just walks up to a whiteboard, writes ALIEN on it, and then adds a $ to the end of it

I'd believe that.

Cameron is a lot of things but i don't feel like 'by the numbers' is really the one to pin on him