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

have 2 agree

wait a second, who gave con air a first place vote. i just noticed that!

that wd be me iirc

it's a bummer cos i haven't got time to chew the fat right now. i'll be back.

man this is weird i think i voted for almost everything thats shown up so far

i didnt vote for any of these :|

maybe that means all of yours are in the topsies

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.

Good results so far, voted for Die Hard 3 and Assault on Precinct

oh the first one in the series?

lol s1ocki too fast

monday with nothing to do iirc

~i'm back~

I wish I had voted. I never vote in any of these things and then always regret it.

― 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

i always never vote until max badgers me into it

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!

I voted once in something

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.

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'

oh shit i didnt realize this was happening

if raiders isnt an action movie, i'm handing in my fedora and quitting

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

man wish tombot was around to have voted in this :-/

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.

should have badgered him out of retirement like u did me

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, 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.

the era of the ilf crew ruining everything seems to be over

thank god.

i dont think i ended up including con-air on my list but if theres one thing to say about it (+ a lot of bruckheimer action films tho def not all) is how great the casting is. so stupid and trashy but why wouldnt you watch a movie with cage, buscemi, malkovich, colm meaney? dave chappelle? armaggedon is kinda like this too, makes up for a lot of failings w/ a killer cast

most movie threads are pretty dangerous still ime

heh one reason why i was into this poll is that i knew the film brigade would not be interested

at first i thought my ballot was kinda garbage but now im fine w/it - theres a bunch of stuff thatll show up where ill be like 'oh man why didnt vote for that' but who cares i really like all the movies i voted 4

yeah i spent like 20 minutes on my ballot just culling mostly. my top 10-15 is more or less "in order" but the rest was just kind of as i thought of stuff.

i pointedly left temple of doom off my ballot. if it had just been the first 20 minutes or so it mightve made it. or if no capshaw.

it was CONSPICUOUSLY absent from your ballot

do you remember that scene where that big ball rolled after indy? what would you call that?

You can have a movie with action scenes without it being an action movie. I know "action movie" is hard to define, but if you'd read my argument above, you'd at least see why I don't think RotLR or LC are ones.

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, February 13, 2012 2:05 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I get irrationally intimidated by it. I hope one day to be too old to care too.

ToD would have definitely have been on mine. It's not the best IJ but it's my favorite.

i left temple of doom off because i already had SPOILER on my list. also temple of doom is my least favorite indy

lol no cusack?

You can have a movie with action scenes without it being an action movie. I know "action movie" is hard to define, but if you'd read my argument above, you'd at least see why I don't think RotLR or LC are ones.

― Tuomas, Monday, February 13, 2012 2:11 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think your definition is completely arbitrary. it's like saying a movie isn't a musical if the main conflict isnt resolved through song.

ToD in tons of Saturday morning matinee fun, except when she's screaming and whining.

Is tons.

wait how is the main conflict resolved in raiders if not through action

tuomas

smh

smh

s1ocki otm, LOTS of action movies are more about fx and thrill rides and monsters than violent conflict resolution

ya i would say god melting everyone is a pretty action-y move on His part