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

75 APOCALYPTO
74 INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM
73 GOLDFINGER
72 VANISHING POINT
71 DIRTY HARRY
69 (TIE) THE HURT LOCKER
69 (TIE) DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE
67 (TIE) CON AIR
67 (TIE) BRANDED TO KILL
66 ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
65 SIN CITY
64 INFERNAL AFFAIRS
62 (TIE) DEMOLITION MAN
62 (TIE) TAKEN
61 MAD MAX
60 JAWS
59 THE FUGITIVE
58 CASINO ROYALE
57 COLLATERAL
56 THE INCREDIBLES
55 ENTER THE DRAGON
53 (TIE) MIAMI VICE
53 (TIE) KUNG FU HUSTLE
52 GET CARTER
51 AKIRA
50 LA FEMME NIKITA
49 DISTRICT 9
48 TOTAL RECALL
47 THE WILD BUNCH
46 THE GREAT ESCAPE
45 COMMANDO
44 THE KILLER
43 THE FIFTH ELEMENT
42 SPEED
41 BULLITT
40 YOJIMBO
39 LE SAMOURAI
38 DAWN OF THE DEAD
37 TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.
36 THE MATRIX
35 INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
34 CRANK
33 THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
32 THE BOURNE IDENTITY
31 THE WARRIORS
30 THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
29 THE BOURNE SUPREMACY
28 ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
27 BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA
26 THE DARK KNIGHT
25 PREDATOR
24 POINT BREAK
23 BATTLE ROYALE
22 THE THING
21 KILL BILL VOL. 1
20 POINT BLANK
19 THE TERMINATOR
17 NORTH BY NORTHWEST
17 STARSHIP TROOPERS
16 THE ROAD WARRIOR
15 THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
14 THE FRENCH CONNECTION
13 THE SEVEN SAMURAI
12 ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
11 HARD BOILED
10 BLADE RUNNER
9 LÉON: THE PROFESSIONAL
8 HEAT
7 RONIN
6 CHILDREN OF MEN
5 ROBOCOP
4 TERMAINTOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY
3 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
2 ALIENS
1 DIE HARD

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I've seen 56 of these, incl the top 21.

Go and watch The Thing stat!

I think i've seen 69 of the top 77. Looking forward to watching Ronin and To Live & Die In LA.

Want to revisit a few of the ones on my ballot as well - Dobermann, The Seventh Curse, Asoka, etc.

ha! the inception thing had me fooled (and upset).

how many people voted?

35 or 45 I think

Good poll, ta Omar.

Body-swap comedies should be the next poll, btw.

BIG ftw

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093418/ obv

Blade Runner ftw (they have memories from other, different bodied people!)

moon

ok maybe not strictly a comedy tuomas, don't start

Anyway, BIG is a promenent but controversial member of the body-swap canon, as no bodies are swapped, but the film still relies on the identity mechanics that make body-swap comedies the most vibrant modern artform. It would be fun to watch a Lynchian, existential horror version of Freaky Friday. More Kafka, less Disney.

"It would be fun to watch a Lynchian, existential horror version of Freaky Friday. More Kafka, less Disney."

you mean like The Fly?

Yeah, I suppose so! But even just two humans swapping would be genuinely terrifying, I imagine.

uh Lynch has done that

Dead Ringers?

Well, his characters transform but...oh, why am I even defending this.

Sorry. btw, I do genuinely love body-swap comedies. Here's IMDB's list http://www.imdb.com/keyword/body-swap/?title_type=feature

The best body-swap movies were all made before 1942 (/Morbs)

Yeah LOL Lost Highway

how did these polls work? how many films was one supposed to list???

we were asked to submit a ballot of 50 films, assigning 50 points to the film we liked the most and 1 point to the film we liked the least of those

films were then ranked based on how many points they got out of all ballots

we were asked to submit a ballot of 50 films, assigning 50 points to the film we liked the most and 1 point to the film we liked the least of those

so wait basically our top film gets 50 pts, 2nd gets 49, etc.?

yes.

Nominations thread: TOP 100 ACTION FILMS OF ALL TIME NOMINATIONS AND DISCUSSION THREAD

Voting thread: BEST ACTION FILMS OF ALL TIME VOTING THREAD (VOTING CLOSES FRIDAY FEBRUARY 10)

amateurist, if you had voted, how would the results have changed?

OK I didn't vote in this because I wasn't following ILX when the ballots were due. But here are some of my favorite action movies, in roughly descending order, more or less OTOH. I limited myself to one film per director. Left off some films that I don't really consider "action movies": A History of Violence, Blade Runner… Also, I barely even thought about European action cinema (which I know only a little), and probably didn't include enough Japanese films…. Etc. etc.

1. The Blade (Tsui)
2. Once upon a Time in the West (Leone)
3. Objective, Burma! (Walsh)
4. Police Story (Chan)
5. Heat (Mann)
6. Boiling Point (Kitano)
7. Die Hard (McTiernan)
8. The New One-Armed Swordsman (Cheh)
9. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
10. RoboCop (Verhoeven)

11. Scarface (Hawks)
12. The Road Warrior (Miller)
13. A Better Tomorrow (Woo)
14. Play Dirty (DeToth)
15. A Touch of Zen (Hu)
16. Assault on Precinct 13 (Carpenter)
17. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
18. The Longest Nite (To)
19. The Driver (Hill)
20. Jaws (Spielberg)

21. Legendary Weapons of China (Law)
22. Dirty Harry (Siegel)
23. Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (Yuen)
24. Ulzana's Raid (Aldrich)
25. On Dangerous Ground (Ray)
26. Children of Men (Cuarón)
27. Crazy Thunder Road (Ishii)
28. Across 110th Street (Shear)
29. Sorcerer (Friedkin)
30. Graveyard of Honor (Fukasaku)

31. Forty Guns (Fuller)
32. Ronin (Frankenheimer)
33. Zulu (Endfield)
34. Killer Constable (Kwei)
36. City on Fire (Lam)
37. Blueprint for Murder (Okamoto)
38. Navajo Joe (Corbucci)
39. Yes, Madam! (Yuen)
40. The Limey (Soderbergh)

41. Task Force (Leung)
42. Dark of the Sun (Cardiff)
43. The Great Duel (Kudo)
44. Get Carter (Hodges)
45. Rolling Thunder (Flynn)
46. Rock 'n' Roll Cop (Wong)
47. The Four Feathers (Korda)
48. Darker Than Amber (Clouse)
49. I Spit on Your Grave (Zarchi)
50. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Tsukamoto)

Special prize: L'Argent (Bresson)

i wasn't sure whether to put T2 on since i haven't seen it in 20 years.

actually maybe THE BIRDS should be on there

oh well

adding 45 points to HEAT'S tally would not have placed it ahead of CoM

actually maybe INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS too

do overs

Con Air - 50
Die Hard - 49
Dirty Harry - 48
Kill Bill Volume 1 - 47
Master of the Flying Guillotine (One-Armed Boxer 2) - 46
Midnight Run - 45
Hard Target - 44
Starship Troopers - 43
Ong-Bak - 42
Robocop - 41
For a Few Dollars More - 40
Under Siege - 39
Magnum Force - 38
Die Hard with a Vengeance - 37
Sonatine - 36
One-Armed Boxer - 35
Conan the Barbarian - 34
Aliens - 33
Die Hard 2 - 32
Hard to Kill - 31
Machete - 30
North by Northwest - 29
The Terminator - 28
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - 27
Leon: The Professional - 26
Rush Hour - 25
Lethal Weapon - 24
Hard Boiled - 23
The Bourne Identity - 22
Mad Max - 21
Enter the Dragon - 20
From Russia with Love - 19
Running Scared (1986) - 18
The Enforcer - 17
The French Connection - 16
The Hidden - 15
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - 14
You Only Live Twice - 13
The Seven Samurai - 12
The Dirty Dozen - 11
Death Wish 3 - 10
The Getaway - 9
Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx - 8
Dead Heat - 7
Get Carter - 6
Strike Commando 2 - 5
The Running Man - 4
Death Race 2000 - 3
Red Sun - 2
Extreme Prejudice - 1

50 the killer
49 independence day
48 starship troopers
47 hard boiled
46 aliens
45 the fifth element
44 terminator 2
43 children of men
42 hero
41 minority report
40 return of the jedi
39 the matrix
38 robocop
37 top gun
36 GI Joe: The Movie (animated)
35 the fast and the furious: tokyo drift
34 election (johnnie to)
33 a better tomorrow
32 Akira
31 le samourai
30 miami vice
29 for a few dollars more
28 mission: impossible
27 demolition man
26 three kings
25 total recall
24 the bournes (8 points each, maybe?)
23 Commando
22 under siege
21 crouching tiger hidden dragon
20 ronin
19 street fighter (animated)
18 infernal affairs
17 face/off
16 ghost in the shell
15 appleseed (2004)
14 thomas crown affair
13 goldeneye
12 Kill Bill Volume 1 (Tarantino, 2003)
11 to live and die in l.a.
10 the untouchables
9 steamboy (2004)
8 terminator
7 city hunter
6 north by northwest
5 Die Hard
4 the good, the bad and the ugly
3 War of the Worlds
2 Speed
1 d-war

sick list amt, givin me some viewin ideas

Just saw a preview for a tv show where Ashley Judd plays Liam Neeson's character from Taken. I expect it to be amazing/terrible.

<3 her but that sounds awful

some youtubez for some of the less well-known films on my list:

killer constable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Kz7aixrFI
(check out those swords!)

boiling point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMow8XsAVt4
best. trailer. ever. that's a well-known film critic getting his ass shot at :55 btw. i love this movie so much. not for all tastes.

crazy thunder road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edkgd45wtkA
high water mark of japanese biker-punk cinema.

task force
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDMw66ChElI
cantopop cheesiness + explosions + swordfighting + people diving w/ guns in slo-mo + romance

longest nite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Zbr3970Dg
this is from johnnie to's late-1990s period that culminated w/ the mission (the film that helped introduce him to festival-type audiences rather than just HK genre-film fans). he was on fire around this time (see also: lifeline, hero never dies, running out of time).

navajo joe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGcK_qyL9Ug
burt reynolds without a moustache! an ennio morricone score that prominently features people literally screaming! lots of zooms! i rest my case. django is pretty good too.

the great duel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLYsXkZHlwI
check that shit out.

OK.. major LOLs: when you watch the demonstration video for facebook's timeline feature, it begins with the opening bars of the main theme from "assault on precinct 13."

i shit y'all not.

ulzana's raid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXw4qsJjR9k
this movie is fucking brutal.

warning: that scene is kind of disturbing.

speaking of disturbing

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

def some good films on your list amst, gonne see if i can track those on your list that i haven't seen. also, kind of surprised that i've seen all but one of the movies that placed in the top 75 (branded to kill).

ulzana's raid is a vicious flick

aaaaand not a fucking "action film."

Terminator 2's "I am keeler robot who awnly shewts to vound" makes it the ideal Obamafan action crapper.

there it is

literal stfus

itt Arnold Schwarzenegger talks like Zsa Zsa Gabor