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

In case it wasn't pointed out above (I'm not opening the whole thread), Yes, Madam! is available on Netflix streaming. Watched like half an hour of it last night as I went to sleep. Insanely fast-paced.

ones that didn't make the results in bold

terminator 2 - 50
sin city
crank
drunken master 2 (ilx fail)
Jaws - 46
Once Upon A Time In The West
the good, the bad and the ugly
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Die Hard
they live
the thing
Point Blank (I have second thoughts about including this, it is not very action-y)
le samourai
dawn of the dead (1978)
the empire strikes back
total recall
Speed
to live and die in l.a.
equilibrium
The Bourne Identity
hero
sword of doom
the dirty dozen
The Hunted
the running man
blade runner
goldfinger
enter the dragon
Raiders of the Lost Ark (again lol)
Kill Bill Volume 1 (Tarantino, 2003)
the dark knight
the seven samurai
Ghostbusters
The Matrix
Batman (Burton, 1989)
the wages of fear
kung fu hustle
army of shadows
on her majesty's secret service
INCEPTION
death race 2000 (only Stallone movie on my list)
pirates of the caribbean
mission: impossible
north by northwest
point break
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
star trek ii: the wrath of khan
the 39 steps
near dark
Ronin - 1

Actually that reminds me. Has anyone seen the last Punisher movie? (The one with that Ray guy from the Rome tv series?) I had heard it was good, wondering if it's worth a look.

god I sound like my mother in law. "the one with that actor, from that other movie"

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess it's probably not any good.

are you talking about Punisher: War Zone? Allegedly it is a wholly ridiculous movie

Conan the Destroyer >>>> the Barbarian anyway

― piggyback payoff (NZA), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:10 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what in sweet fuck

i mean, grace jones in a fur bikini counts for a lot but really now

looking forward to digging into amst's youtubes btw, thx for dropping some ~cineaste science~

and lest it not be said enough

ALL HAIL OMAR LITTLE

yeah plus amz dropping film geek science that is ACTUALLY IN THE SPIRIT of the thread. i really wanna see some of those now.

i posted this 75 list on my facebook and one of the only responses i got was: THAT LIST SUCKS! everyone's a critic... thanks a lot, mom.

punisher war zone is absolutely batshit insane and totally wonderful

he uses a grenade launcher to shoot an rastafarian gangster acrobat (who also has an irish accent), is all i'm saying

re: T2 text "the most iconic cinematic image of manhood from the days of the presidency of George Bush 41," I love that tradition of linking any cultural element with the political administration at the time.
starfighter tropes of the Carter administration
Vulcan rebirth iconography of the Reagan era
etc.

Whatever we do next will not be as awesome as this was.

A ballot submission movie poll poll: where do we go from here? I predict ilxor clusterfuck.

drunken master 2 (ilx fail)

yep. fight scenes in this are increeeeedible. (axe gang! insane finale in the factory!) would be near the top of my list if I had voted.

I guess this is when I'll admit I've never seen die hard. not sure how I avoided that film all this time but there it is.

re: apocalypto, I've never seen it but I toured chichen itza in the 80s and the guides talked a lot about human sacrifice (placing human hearts in the bowl held by chac mool, the well of sacrifice, etc). a quick scan of wiki backs up my memories of the tour. either way mel gibson's a tool.

Die Hard is totally, totally worth it. I probably first saw it in 2002 or so and instantly fell in love, so it's not a "you had to be there" kind of deal. Great cast, great script, some really stylish visuals in places...thoroughly recommended.

Yeah, I hadn't seen Die Hard until that same year when my roommate bought the trilogy DVD set. It's become an old reliable Christmas staple.

Die Hard is great. So many great secondary characters alongside Willis, and Willis is in full smirk. You gotta see it, Edward!

I heard a great interview with the director of Punisher War Zone, on the How Did This Get Made podcast --- she's Swedish, iirc...won a short-film Oscar, and then she couldn't get work so ended up signing on for the Punisher movie to be able to keep working. She researched the hell out of it and read the comics and said she had the blessing of the studio to get back to the violence of the comic books. She even went and asked punisher fans what they wanted from the next movie, stuff you don't see happening that much. But then when the movie came out the studio hosed her by releasing it right before Christmas, so no-one saw it, plus there were all kinds of marketing shenanigans...and the studio backtracked on the violence and she ended up copping a rash of shit for it being 'too over the top'.
She didn't tell it as a sob-story though...I mean she totally owns the movie, is proud of it, and got a lot of love from the comic book fans that did see it. So that made me curious about seeing it. AND McNulty/Dominic West is in it! LOL.

Re-screened T2 last nite. Need to watch it annually from now on.

Wish it had as much Gn'R as it had in my false memory though.

Did Omar ever confirm the number of ballots turned in for this poll? I would hope for 2X in the next one.

in the end 36 ballots were turned in, which was a bit lower than i was hoping for but it's all good. i'm still furious (furious!!) that DJP and jjjusten didn't vote. angry!!

jjjusten would have boosted by death race 2000 vote, but I wonder, would DJP have helped me push Pirates of the Caribbean over the top?

and yes we should hoist omar on our shoulders and parade him around in glory.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist)

http://7thsealmissions.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Victory-Through-Jesus2.jpg

someone shop robocop in there, please.

my only regret w/this poll is i had time to post images and info in the mornings but i was too busy w/work to participate in the discussion.

you were the engine that fueled our enthusiasm, omar.

...one set of footprints, etc

http://i39.tinypic.com/why39c.jpg

otm

only 36 folkx voted? do overs?

everyone who wanted to vote voted, except you, dealwithit.gif etc.

and everyone who chose not to vote and regrets it now needs to own their FAILURE

Okay ams. Go ahead. Poll it again. Poll it again. You're the ace film man, poll it again. It's a simple list, just poll it again. Poll what you say! Poll it again! Poll it again!! Two polls, ballots come through here, polls cancel other out. Oh my? Where'd you learn that?

omars a gangster

::shudders::

omar, my only complaint is that you obviously surpressed PotC despite known ilx love

WE DEMAND TRANSPARENCY

Conan the Destroyer >>>> the Barbarian anyway

― piggyback payoff (NZA), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:10 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what in sweet fuck

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 7:12 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

NZA needs to come back and explain his damn self.

so peter weller is a doctoral candidate in renaissance art at ucla now apparently. someone i was talking to went to a lecture there on the homoerotics of michelangelo without looking at the name of who was speaking and was kind of surprised to walk in and the guy who is speaking is robocop

apparently Weller is in the next Star Trek movie?!?

"There is no director living except maybe Kurosawa, Bergman, or Antonioni that I would fall down and do anything for. I met Antonioni three years ago in Taormina at a film festival. I introduced myself and told him that I adored his movies, his contributions to film, because he was the first guy who really started making films about the reality of the vacuity between people, the difficulty in traversing this space between lovers in modern day... and he never gives you an answer, Antonioni – that's the beautiful thing."[3]

ha, i don't have any good explanation, i just like destroyer better, i like grace jones, and the knifey guy

would ghostbusters have made the top 75 comedies of all-time?

xpost apparently Weller is in the next Star Trek movie?!?

!!!!!!!!!! fucking sweet

NZA *headdesk.jpg*

Weller showed up in one of my favorite episodes of Fringe I think last season or the season before...dude is still awesome.

inception shoulda won

flagged 4 life

^^^^^