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

YERRRR MYYYY BESSSSH FREN, EDDDDARD. I MEENNNIT. RLLY.

WATCH DIE HARD ITSH GUD

fugggen YIIIIPPPEEEEKAYAYYYYY rite
rite?

I do think that Ebert was right about Die Hard, i.e. the Lt. was a
tremendous wet-blanket on Brooooce taking out the Eurotrash.

Anyway, my ballot, which I'm sure has the most Shakespeare adaptations:

1 Heat
2 The Thin Red Line
3 Children of Men
4 The Incredibles
5 Batman Begins
6 District 9
7 Drunken Master (the FIRST, much better one)

8 Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
9 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

10 Ghost in the Shell
11 Aliens
12 the bourne ultimatum
13 Miami Vice
14 House of Flying Daggers
15 Le Samourai
16 GI Joe: The Movie (animated)
17 Predator
18 Raiders of the Lost Ark
19 The Dark Knight
20 Spider-Man 2
21 Die Hard
22 the bourne supremacy
23 Ronin
24 Tears of the Sun
25 The Bourne Identity
26 The Iron Giant
27 Titus
28 Collateral
29 Inception
30 Excalibur
31 Enter the Dragon
32 Strange Days

Hur hur

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Titus? Action?

(I haven't seen it)

in keeping with the rest of the non-action movie list tbh

second Leeee on children of men and d-9, these are ACTION MOVIES, no lie.

otoh, have terrible, terrible problems w fuggin inception coming in above EXCALIBUR, the obv reason that film was invented. UTHAAAAAH!!! but w/e.

are you drunk?

this thread is reminding me of when the lights come on at the club and everybody's still stumbling around because they don't want to go home

omg bro totally see u at the romcom poll tomorrow

well yeah

xp

fwiw, here's a breakdown by gender:

#1 movie among male voters was 'die hard'
#1 movie among female voter was 'ronin'

voter?

omar are you gonna do this romcom poll or

I do think that Ebert was right about Die Hard, i.e. the Lt. was a
tremendous wet-blanket on Brooooce taking out the Eurotrash.

Eh, the only scene that struck a false note for me was when he ices Godunov in the parking lot. Mayyybe the one line too where he says "the guys out here love ya" or whatever. He's a valuable character otherwise.

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

― Jurgis Rudkus // Dick Butkus (Pillbox), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's totally hilarious. Nolan made a movie about dreams, put a scene in the beginning where the characters show that they can do anything and defy all laws of physics... and then it turns out that the dreams always end up with machine gun battles.

When the fuck did making a great film have anything to do with whether you "care to revisit" it?

Movies are like hotels, didn't you know?

If only Inception had had some in-movie explanation for why they couldn't do whatever crazy ass shit they wanted when they were in someone else's head.

If only Inception had had some in-movie explanation for why it was such a boring stupid movie ＼(^o^)／

That f'in transit van falling in slo-mo from the bridge. All the time. Also a complete lift of a scene from the excellent The Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin (a novel about controlling dreams within dreams).

When the fuck did making a great film have anything to do with whether you "care to revisit" it?

Right around the same time that video rental became affordable IIRC.

Personally I tend not to watch movies twice, unless a friend of mine hasn't seen it yet and wants me to go with them.

romcom fuck fuck fuck fuck

I think you're thinking of "pornos"

maybe a double ZING and EXCELSIOR there

Eh, the only scene that struck a false note for me was when he ices Godunov in the parking lot. Mayyybe the one line too where he says "the guys out here love ya" or whatever. He's a valuable character otherwise.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:51 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Naw naw, Ebert is bitching about the chief. "He could be a fucking bartender for all we know!" Clearly he just was taking the opportunity to grind his axe about implausibly dumb commanding officers being used as plot devices to keep movies going, since the chief in this movie is just completely awesome. "Looks like we're gonna need some more FBI guys."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID80fUT5SwQ

Can't believe I left this off my ballot

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

Terrific interview with Peter Weller here: http://www.kevinpollakschatshow.com/archive/?p=861

omg bro totally see u at the romcom poll tomorrow

― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:16 AM (8 hours ago)

no way man this party is not over keep it goooooinnnn

i watched the punisher last night. the 2004 thomas jane one. i dug it. could watch a movie like that every night.

and now i really want to see the war zone one. i know i saw the 80's dolph one but its all a blur.

omar are you gonna do this romcom poll or

― ⚓ (gr8080)

i'll hand the romcom poll off to morbs

morbs, if you need advice on how to run it letz cyber chat about it

v late on this (it's a long thread!) but

i also love that the secret character arc of die hard is RVJ learning how to shoot people again

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 5:42 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, was weirded out by that when i caught this again by accident last year. i think this movie would be perfect if it ended five minutes earlier, before Karl tries to kill Maclane.

also thanks omar for amazing work. and also, can't believe no lethal weapon!!!

What the fuck, Kevin Pollak has a interview series? With dude from "Freaks and Geeks" as his sidekick?

Nolan made a movie about dreams, put a scene in the beginning where the characters show that they can do anything and defy all laws of physics... and then it turns out that the dreams always end up with machine gun battles.

many xposts

I mentioned it already in this thread but:

1. Until Neo become The One he's only able to defy the laws of physics to a certain extent (did you miss all the training etc?)
2. Guns are cool

the matrix had no excuse rly (xp well i mostly meant the sequels, which i've only half-watched, so don't know if they had any reason why after the end of the first one he was suddenly p lame again) but the whole incepted-person-having-to-believe-it's-reality thing ruined any chance inception had of being interesting. more freight trains on the road for some reason, fewer boring explosions for some reason.

the sequels don't exist as far as i'm concerned

it's pretty much a given at this point that a good 40% of ILE film conversation around a movie is going to involve arguments that make one question if the person making the argument actually watched the movie

xxp: um for most of the second movie Neo flies around the Matrix like Superman and iirc doesn't actually use any guns; it's the other characters who don't have his powers who are still run and gunning

what would kill bill have been like if theyd had lightsabers

i still don't get why the punisher came back to town to punish and let everyone know that he was alive. element of surprise, dude...

the knowing is part of the punishment

kinda dumb if you ask me.

oh and way to involve other people in your thing by moving to weird rooming house right next to three other people. right after your thing had everyone in your family killed. abandoned place in the country would have been more sensible.

but i dug it.