oh and i didn't vote for any die hrds but yeah you gotta give props there.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
I like that I don't really know anyone in Assault - slightly awkward, likeable non-stars.
Also the absurd gang bodycount - goes from 'hmmm I am interested in these revolutionary looking dudes' to oh ok they are a zombie army (with the capacity to carry their corpses away).
And the music of course. Yeah, the ice-cream scene too. Maybe should have put this higher.
― woof, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
No die hards? But this franchise is king of the late 80s/early 90s big-budget action movie.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
i dig the die hards a bunch, but i guess i don't love them. as in i don't want to marry them. i voted only for movies that i would marry.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
scott, this is a "top" list, that it has nothing to do w/ the word "best" is pretty obv
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
<3 scott
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
i hate everything fuck tha world
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, February 13, 2012 12:36 PM
― am0n, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
it was the 'best' in the noms stage!
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
I wd marry Time & Tide. I think it would marry me back, it's a marrying kind of movie.
― one little aioli (Laurel), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
I'm looking back at my list and finding some curious and disappointing omissions. I have several RC movies, but no AP13. This one should have been at least midway up my list.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
the hurt locker and jarheads just jumble together in my mind to make one overloooong 7/10 movie where not much happens but soldiery lyfe is just so ~deep man~
― beware of greeks bearing petrol bombs (darraghmac), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
Fuck why did I not vote for precinct 13 after my brilliant defense of it above
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
THL is way more fun than jarhead!
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
"... the fact that it's awesome!" is such a great way to describe all of carpenter's best flicks
^otm
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
Also lol at "hostage" and its opening scene, literally have no memory of that and the precinct remake now
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
its cool how i saw both of those movies only, like, 5-6 years ago, and can barely remember them in any way
― one little aioli (Laurel), Monday, February 13, 2012 12:39 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark
i really fucked up by not voting for any tsui hark.
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
MORE, GIVE US MORE.
― one little aioli (Laurel), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
That was to omar.
He said he had to go to work!
I wish I had voted. I never vote in any of these things and then always regret it.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
Dirty Harry at 71???? Fuck all y'all
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
have 2 agree
― am0n, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
wait a second, who gave con air a first place vote. i just noticed that!
that wd be me iirc
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
it's a bummer cos i haven't got time to chew the fat right now. i'll be back.
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
man this is weird i think i voted for almost everything thats shown up so far
― (_()_) (Lamp), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
i didnt vote for any of these :|
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
maybe that means all of yours are in the topsies
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
APOCALYPTO - i only started to really vibe this after tombot posted about it on ilx. lush and lurid.
VANISHING POINT - looking over my ballot i think chase movies are the type of action movies i like the best. something about the way it focuses the narrative i think i find it easy to identify with the pursued, the glorious recklessness of it.
CON AIR - this is a trashy movie in p much every way. what i think distinguishes it from more contemp over the top action films is how straight the movie plays it, how it never really winks or stops to acknowledge how gratuitous and sometimes reprehensible it is. its view of criminals, woman, gays, humanity is terrible but it has the attraction of uncensored id before uncensored id was all you could get, i guess
BRANDED TO KILL - my #3. just owns.
― (_()_) (Lamp), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
Good results so far, voted for Die Hard 3 and Assault on Precinct
― Tuomas, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
oh the first one in the series?
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
lol s1ocki too fast
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
monday with nothing to do iirc
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
~i'm back~
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, February 13, 2012 1:18 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I always open the voting thread look at how long the list is get scared and close the thread
― lag∞n, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
i always never vote until max badgers me into it
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah if max hadn't ordered me to come turn in a ballot I prob would have conveniently missed the cut-off because lazy.
LOOOOOOOL xp xp!
― one little aioli (Laurel), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
I voted once in something
― lag∞n, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
Good results so far, voted for Die Hard 3 and Assault on Precinct 13.
I thought putting Temple of Doom in my ballot, but in the end left it out. All three 80s Indy movies are great, obviously, but they feel more like historical adventure than action to me. They have some great action scenes, but IMO for something to qualify as a proper "action movie", the main conflict in it should be resolved through physical action, and that isn't the case with Last Crusade, certainly not with Raiders of the Lost Ark. Temple of Doom is actually the most actiony of the three, which is why I considered voting for it.
― Tuomas, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
i'm never confident enough in my opinions to vote in these things. also feel like i'm not familiar enough will all the noms to be a 'good voter'
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Monday, 13 February 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
oh shit i didnt realize this was happening
― max, Monday, 13 February 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
if raiders isnt an action movie, i'm handing in my fedora and quitting
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 13 February 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
do you remember that scene where that big ball rolled after indy? what would you call that?
yeah i had only seen like 1/3 of the films on the noms list at best, and havent seen a ton of legendary HK flicks. but thats okay! fuck foreign movies anyway
(xp to goole)
my list is pretty all-american but fuck it, if there's one thing hollywood did well in the last 35 years it was that
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 13 February 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
man wish tombot was around to have voted in this :-/
― max, Monday, 13 February 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
this is the first time i ever voted in a movie poll. i used to get kinda irrationally pissed at ilx movie talk. now i'm too old to care. time works magic.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 February 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
should have badgered him out of retirement like u did me
― scott seward, Monday, February 13, 2012 2:05 PM (7 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i feel like this poll is kind of a 'safe space'
on the other hand, ilx has gotten WAY more horror/action/etc friendly over time. much to dr. morbs' chagrin.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 February 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link