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

someone should make a movie about making the TV show about the fake band gina was in to promote her movie about being in a band

gina can play herself

the cloud atlas cast is like a whole list of people i wouldn't want to be in any hypothetical movie of 'cloud atlas' in any possible world

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

It's a great show too... Lots of great interviews on it.

Over the long term, I think I like Speed Racer more than any of the Matrix movies. (would have put it on my ballot also)

2. Guns are cool

(xxxxposts again)

Man, I was watching "Still Bill," and when Cornel West shows up, just to hang, I was, like, there is literally no reason for Cornel West to be in a Bill Withers doc.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, February 23, 2012 3:25 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh god, cornel west. bill withers has 10x the intellect of that self-promiting piece of shit. which is obvious from the scene they have together.

there's a similar scene in the documentary "soul power" where don king and muhammad ali are bloviating about whether capitalism and black nationalism are reconciliable and withers is just sitting in the middle, eating his ham and eggs and obviously pretending he is somewhere else.

i guess what i meant to say just above is that while cornel west acts really condescending toward withers, the joke is on him since withers says things that are wiser, more interesting, more perceptive, and more self-knowing in that 90-minute documentary than west has said in an entire career of offerring comment on anything and everything.

brother cornel is cool as hell and has had a lot of cool shit to say in his career.

that is incorrect

he's a professionally useless blowhard

http://i.imgur.com/NRNOn.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412YK0X4PPL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

being a self-promoting blowhard doesn't invalidate the cool things he's had to say

interesting how u hate the loud and brash blackman but praise the 'humble' one... the one who perhaps knows his place... hmm...

go fuck yourself

"how interesting"

do i need to show you an amiri baraka tattoo or something before you consider my opinions valid? or is just possible that this particular "brash" black man is a huckster and the so-called "humble" one (who is plenty angry in his own right) is a brilliant one?

or maybe you'd rather hear criticism of west from an Actual Black Person?

here you go: http://libcom.org/library/what-are-drums-saying-booker

amateurist I love you man but I think you just got trolled

yeah maybe. still i'll take the gospel of "cornel west is useless" wherever i am welcome.

love how this thread has petered out into lengthy discussions of Gina Gershon and Cornel West

Petered out? You mean RAMPED UP!!!

*gina gershon jumps out window, cornel west explodes*

i think that happened once really

Just watched North by Northwest. I couldn't stop imagining it redone as a Bourne style thriller - teal and orange, fast cut fistfights, insane car chase, parkour, no-holds-barred love scene on the train. I think it could work.

only if the guy doing the parkour is CGI cary grant

dudes... THE RAID. Instant classic.

Titus? Action?

The play is action!

tbf it's no Measure for Measure

Doing a Die Hard marathon here. The first and second. Awww yeah.

YIPPEEKAYAY

Many a stunt driver had a profitable career at The Globe

Die Hard 2 is underrated. That plane crash is fucking terrifying.

Also, John Amos as the villain!

I got Inception for Christmas.

Parents: "I remember you talking about this movie a lot"

WTG ILX

I have Inception and like it and watch it occasionally!

I don't want to remember if I liked it

What, because of a handful of negative ilxor reviews? Be your own Lorax, here, man.

the part in DH2 when the dude gets pushed into the jet engine... yeesh

Still not sure what was up with villain's naked stretching/martial arts practice at beginning

the steam powered luggage sorting facility at the airport is also a little wtf.

brother cornel is cool as hell and has had a lot of cool shit to say in his career. ― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass)

^^ ntm

he's a professionally useless blowhard ― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist)

^^ ntm

I've seen Cornel from both sides now, as sage and crank, but still somehow, it's West's self-importance I recall. I really can't see West at all.

Just watched Commando for the first time in a long long time - Bill Paxton is also in that too!

WAHT?

(Googles)

OMG

Yeah that was my reaction too.

I love DH2 as it's basically a James Bond movie only with extra yippie-ky-yay'ing. Confrontations with Dennis Franz are hokey, but awesomely funny too.

I wish I could see Die Hard in the historical context of only knowing Bruce Willis from romcom fare

Yeah you have to appreciate seeing the posters for Die Hard in the lobby of the theater and going, 'the guy from Moonlighting and Blind Date? that's going to suck.'....then being gloriously, wonderfully wrong.

was it that much of a hard sell? i mean he was kind of a raffish tough guy even in Moonlighting, and that was a pretty popular action movie leading man template already at the time with Harrison Ford, etc.

Also, Hudson Hawk didn't even get nominated? It's kind of a batshit action movie.

it's pretty rare that an actor who is already hugely famous and a bit pigeonholed makes a film that completely changes everyone's entire perception of them in an awesome film in which they arrive in some newish, fully-formed style. clooney and 'out of sight' is kind of similar in that regard, 'one fine day' being his 'blind date.'