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

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

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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

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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!)

it is pretty dreamlike in the way all the characters are cardboard finger puppets

there we go

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ironically, i liked inception more than shutter island because, as far as movies about sweaty bigface missing his dead wife go, inception was more of a surreal freakout.

lol @ "sweaty bigface"

first read that as "sweaty meatface" - worked okay

inception was more of a surreal freakout.

yr doing it wrong

you guys got the memo that 'inception' didn't actually place in the top 75, right, just checking. i could do a florida recount if it would please you, though.

any time Lenny tried to "emote" with his doughface

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfck5gE21c1qd0v72o1_500.gif

actually according to the recap, every movie that placed was Inception

peter weller is apparently a really popular lecturer.

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i don't remember sprout-face saying "ass"

I loved Inception when I saw it, but Mr Veg waited forever to finally see it and I could hardly stay in the room when he watched it, it was just so smug and unbearable. Like I had been...BONNNNNNNGG....incepted!

his squinting there reminds me of Brad Pitt's character's attempt to appear mysterious in Burn After Reading

@ gif

I keep running across the second half of Inception on cable and pretty much every time I watch until at least the hotel ballet

http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2008/08/08/burn-after-reading-chad.jpg

I still love the snow shootout

lol great jpg there

i'm too lazy to search, but someone said basically the same thing somewhere upthread: it was when inception actually became an action movie (raid on the snow fort, essentially) that it started to bog down

inception was pretty good but not really an action flick. can't believe it placed so high in omar's poll.

DJP let's you and I make a pact to get Inception on the ballot in all genres,

could call it the "FP Axis"

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/good-day-die-hard-jai-courtney-bruce-willis-spartacus-293877

That article needs an editor, but I like the choice.

Want to say Weller went back to school and got a PhD in art history or something? Or philosophy?

Thanks, Wiki, font of all knowledge:

In 2004, Weller completed a Master's degree in Roman and Renaissance Art at Syracuse University and occasionally teaches courses in ancient history at the university. In 2007, Weller was finishing a Ph.D. at UCLA, in Italian Renaissance art history.[11] He expects to complete his dissertation in 2012.[12]

oh c'mon