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

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)

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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

^^^^^

I liked Inception. I don't understand the vitrol.

it sucks, if that helps

Oh that's why!

it's a very easy movie for people to feel superior about because all movies that have anything to do with dreams must be surreal freakouts even though most people's dreams aren't like that

peter weller's in a bunch of history channel THE ANCIENT WORLD documentaries too

Most of my dreams end up with Neil Diamond or Robert Smith singing beeping alarm clock songs.

no no no, it's easy to feel superior cos it's a v. mediocre action flick with nerd accessories to make it seem deep, man

it's a very easy movie for people to feel superior about because all movies that have anything to do with dreams must be surreal freakouts even though most people's dreams aren't like that

most people's dreams ARE like action movies with huge explosions, car chases, and guys in uniforms with guns tho

i find that it's easy to feel superior abt inception mostly because it sucks

also cos Chris Nolan is a tool

I don't "feel superior" about bad movies, mostly I just get irritated about sitting through them

xp

kinda how i feel about ilx

I mostly laughed my way through Inception tbh - any time Lenny tried to "emote" with his doughface or someone launched into exposition about how dreams "work" in particulr

i like Inception OK, but omar's fake-out of it getting the #3 spot was jarring (and classic!)