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

could probably get a good fight scene out of it tho

thanks omar!!

by only beef tho is that you didn't bump the nominations thread w/ a link to this one so i missed all the fun today :(

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sorry gr80. i was being shot at, so i was pinned down in this thread and couldn't get over to the other one to bump it.

results will commence again tomorrow morning at 7 AM PDT, 10 AM eastern. going to try to get 20 films out before i head to work, to catch up to the pace.

you crazy bastard.

...good luck.

be sure to

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to see the rest.

ha

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^^ best shot in the movie. Just watched this the other night and it really stood out as a spectacular shot.

I remember going to Gatorland in Florida, where they claimed they trained/sourced the alligators used in this movie.

Man, this is old, but really funny:

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Shit...voted in the nominating poll but not the actual one.

Temple of Doom is only the third best of the 80s Indys but still pretty damn good. Took me quite a long time to warm to, though. Didn't really get it til I started to see it as the "disreputable" Raiders. Like a tribute to those 40s serials with the racism and low taste in tact.

The Hurt Locker is awesome and definitely not Oscar bait. Every now and then the academy just gets it right.

Die Hard With a Vengeance is simply a joy. The ultimate ridiculous popcorn action flick. Really, only Raiders keeps it rom bing my fave action flick of all time.

I really need to finally see Branded To Kill and Con Air.

really sad that i'll miss all the countdown fun because of stupid time differences. awesome countdown, can't wait to see the rest. and glad to see far upthread that i wasn't the only tsui hark voter

For tht mattter need to see Apocalypto, Assault and Vanishing Point as well. Gotta emit tt the gay bashing scene excerpted in The Celluloiud Closet had always sorta scared me away from the latter.

*gotta admit

I voted Temple of Doom higher than the other 2 Indys because for whatever reason Temple of Doom was the one I had on tape when I was a kid and I would just watch it over and over. As an adult I can see that it's probably the worst of the three movies but it's hard to argue against 11 year old me.

as long as you accept that 11 year old you was racist I guess

Hey, I made Time and Tide my #2, so it should get a tiny boost. Whiiiich may be the only points it gets. ;_;

<3 harrison ford watches indiana jones

i love action movies like damn but i don't know how these threads work ohwell! will keep reading tho

could you guys start calling Black Hawk Down racist, please

Vanishing Point as well. Gotta emit tt the gay bashing scene excerpted in The Celluloiud Closet had always sorta scared me away from the latter.

Somebody could write a good article/essay about homo hitchhiker scenes in 70s road films. VP, Two-Lane, Five Easy Pieces all have 'em. Was this something that scared people back then?

And Mean Streets, sort of. (They weren't hitchhikers, though, and it wasn't a road movie.)

Apocalypto has no business working, but it totally does

next poll should be top 75 racist movies

laurel, time & time def still has a chance of placing, we're in the early stages here and i'm sure everyone's voted for this awesome movie. right everyone?

The lesbians in Five Easy Pieces never struck me as objects of fear/derision.

If I'd voted in this, Temple of Doom may have been my number 1.

The lesbians in Five Easy Pieces never struck me as objects of fear/derision.

Toni Basil's fairly chill, but Helena Kallianiotes comes off as such shrill harpy (or stereotypical cruel butch dyke) I imagine 1970 audiences may have cheered her getting thrown out of the car.

and in 2LB, Oates just snaps at H D Stanton, "I ain't got time for that!"

Black Hawk Down is like Assault on Precinct 13 in Somalia.

I interviewed Kal Penn once, and he related the total hell of going to school after the release of "Temple of Doom" and enduring weeks and weeks of racist teasing. "Oh, what do you have for lunch, Kal? Monkey brains?"

Huh. I brought up ToD in the context of "Short Round" in the Long Duk Dong thread yesterday. Nobody responded though.

Also, I didn't vote in this, but I would be surprised if Big Trouble in Little China didn't place. It would have been on my ballot, but I feel sorta weird about that too. Anyway, interesting after all the racism discussions of the last few weeks that people felt chill enough to vote for ToD.

Huh, I don't think of Big Trouble ... as racist. I think of it as pretty Chinese-forward, actually. Silly though it may be, Kurt Russell is definitely the comic relief buffoon, always out of his element and playing catch-up. How many fights begin with him immediately getting knocked out while his Chinese crew kicks ass?

Like, it's as if Kurt Russell were literally dropped in the middle of some crazy Chinese actioner, like Zu Warriors or something.

(Hmm, will Super Cop make the cut? Drunken Master 2? Any Hong Kong?)

Yeah, that was sorta the idea I forwarded in the LDD thread, but it's one of those things where I don't know if I'm being blind (see the billboards of Duluth).

My "weirdness" criteria being "would I feel comfortable suggesting to a Chinese friend that we watch this?" and my answer being "I hadn't thought of that before, but now it's bothering me."

Like, I certainly would feel like an ass suggesting to a South Asian friend that we watch Temple of Doom, for instance.

But Temple of Doom IS racist, quaintly, retro-y racist or no. Big Trouble essentially is a crazed wuxia film.

I don't know enough about Chinese cinema to be able to acknowledge or refute there. I totally assume that it was made with those intentions, and I love the movie. I'm just not sure how it comes off.

I would err on the side of defending it too. It's just I'm not confident.

shit forgot the other guys too

Apocalyptico is definitely pro-hick.

rewatching temple of doom like 5 years ago i really was blown away by how incredibly racist it was (and how it ended with the colonial british saving the day)

however, the fact that black hawk down can be compared to it, and that some ppl like that film, completely absolves it of course

We all know that the colonial British were about ending child labor abroad and returning property to the locals so ToD was historically accurate imho

I'll just let Armond take over, bye

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Thanks, Doc. And now, my picks for more of the best action movies of all time.