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

i feel like camp, whilst not essential, is a key element of a lot of great action flicks

everything about that movie was pure shit

tied w/Demolition Man:

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#62 (TIE)

TAKEN

Pierre Morel
2008
United States/France
(184 points, 6 votes)

taken was pretty rad for a movie about how if you go to france u will be kidnapped by muslims and the french police wont help u

― max

yah idg why ppl like taken is it entirely for lols like i have said before the premise of this movie is that there are teenage girls who like u2

― plax (ico)

i loved taken's monstrous xenophobia so much

he just left that blonde chick from gossip girl chained to a bed in brothel needle in her arm dead

also he shoots the french cop's wife

so great

― WINNING. (Lamp)

i feel like 'taken' is a movie that might contain the most pimp of all his performances

― the gush of yesterday (omar little)

LIAM NEESON

still have to see this

im astonished that you havent!

now that's how you do a racist-action movie

me too :(

i have a v particular set of skills

taken is one of the greatest examples of the power of a badass speech. that speech sold the movie all by itself. the hand to hand action in it is pretty cool, but the car chase was draggy for me. i dig that its only like 90 minutes

they shouldve just called it neo-con bourne

I don't even know what Taken is.

yeah this movie is SWEET and SO RACIST/conservative/fucked up

i love movies with badass speeches :(

What, is that the Liam Neeson reboot as action star vehicle?

i will find u and i will kill u

taken was pretty rad for a movie about how if you go to france u will be kidnapped by muslims and the french police wont help u

― max, Saturday, February 14, 2009 7:34 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also the only way to not die at the hands of french muslims is to be a virgin

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Sunday, March 8, 2009 3:59 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you. I also cook.

i felt a bit dirty after it finished but i was laughing pretty solidly along the way and yes brevity is good

its a cool speech by itself, but combining it with neeson's trademark mega-intensity... damn. damn!!!

Man the apparent "let's not even bother to tell the other girl's parents and just have a happy reunion at the airport" thing (SPOILER ALERT) is like one of the greatest dropped plot threads EVAR.

tightest movie imo

I would like to know if it is popular in Albania.

neeson is really well cast. hes so tall, too, and sorta hunched over, like he just seems like a guy that would throw you out a window

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#61

MAD MAX

George Miller
1979
(196 points, 6 votes)

I think Mad Max probably affected me in the same way that Star Wars affected the people who were a few years older.

― walter kranz (walterkranz)

Great film. Really surprised me at how Hitchcock it is.

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta)

Mad Max is great but I only got around to seeing it last year. I love the way it doesn't strictly define the time and scenario, like you can tell civilization is on the brink of collapse, but it's never really stated directly, just implied by the scenery and dialogue.

I also like that it's a slo burn than a fever-pitched action movie...the slower development makes Max's transformation much more convincing.

And ending the movie right after the final gang execution with no formal denouement was also awesome.

― furious styles p diddy kong (San Te)

I read somewhere that this was one of the most successful films of all time as far as production cost:worldwide tickets sales is concerned.

It's a fucking badass movie.

― Trip Maker

"Mad Max".. the original...a surprisingly affecting, emotionally harrowing film, rich with pathos and genuine tragedy.

@ 2:55

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUl9CuL_mno

(He's a really good sport and leaves an outgoing msg for a crazy fan)

i think Taken is instructive because it gets you to think about how a little bit of what u might call badass magic can go a long way for involving an audience in a movie. its not just about the punchings and explosions, its about making u anticipate them. but for a shorter movie, it's pretty sloppy, neeson's guy kinda seems like a great character in search of a better movie, which is why i didnt vote for it

I've seen the end of Taken about 3 times and the beginning 0 times.

i posted about it in that thread, but i love the stuntwork in mad max. love the vibe of that movie. i decided i had to vote for either it or road warrior and not both so i went with RW, but tbh MM is more my style - nastier and less mythological. it kinda drags though, less of a superbly engineered thrillride

the stuntwork in mad max is SO crazy

I tried to watch MM and realized I'd rather be sitting on my stoop with a beer and a cigarette so I only got about 10 mins in.

i remember some crazy interview with george miller, who was a doctor before he became a director, and he talked about having to treat all these brutal accident victims in the trauma unit and that somehow inspired him to make mad max

lol xp

x-post - Yeah. I tried to watch it last year and I fell asleep within the first 1/2 hour.

that is a very unlikely movie to fall asleep in front of imo

mad max was actually made about me

I voted for DM

my main memory of "Mad Max" was that I really didn't care about the beginning but the second half of the movie was amazing

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#60

JAWS

Steven Spielberg
1975
United States
(201 points, 6 votes)

'Jaws' is the first film where I can remember all the pre-release hype. I was nine or ten when it first got released in the UK, and was really anxious that it was going to be certified as an 'AA' or even an 'X'. Imagine my surprise and delight when I saw - from a poster on the front of a bus - that it was going to be an 'A' instead, hurrah. I bought loads of crappy cash-in mags, with a few stills from the movie plus some blurry but bloody shark bite pics, and persuaded my Dad to take me to Welling Odeon to see it. And yes, pretty much the whole audience jumped out of their seats at the head in the boat moment!

Stylistically, it's a strange sort of hybrid between 70s 'New American Cinema' and the mechanical blockbustering of 'Star Wars' etc. A lot of the non-shark scenes have got the feel of an Altman movie - lots of overlapping dialogue, etc.

― Andrew L

Much more interesting, because at that stage he was still making movies for adults. The bonding/scar scene in Jaws is as good as Spielberg ever got at 'grown up' men.

― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac)

Spielberg was very influenced by Altman at the time (and Bogdanovich too) so the overlapping dialogue stuff is no surprise. The head in the boat moment is fantastic because it is one of the few horror moments that are truly unexpected - the hole in the boat mystery justifies the scene. It also is one of the few parts of the film which make no sense - since if the shark had killed him he would no longer be in the boat.

The Jungian had a lot of fun with the land.sea conscious/unconscious dichotomy, Fruedians equate the shark with the death drive (though on the boat it could also be sex).

Real shark fin. Num num. 'Snot as if sharks are an endangered species.

― Pete

Jaws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GKP_dB3Hmw

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

I fall asleep a lot though.

I hope that all three Mad Max movies make it in. Hell, I hope the hypothetical Mad Max 4 in progress makes it in.

i voted for Mad Max, it's a genius example of how to make a low budget movie that doesn't look constrained by its budget, plus altho there must have been lots of post-apocalypse stuff before it it basically created our most enduring modern vision of how hilarious the world will be as society crumbles to a conclusion

OK, now I can't call Jaws an action movie. Sorry.

I love Jaws a lot. It's one of my favorite movies of all time but it would never have occurred to me to consider it an action movie.

itt people do not know what an action movie is

Jaws is awright but fuck off tbh

its a shark movie save it for the shark poll

Yay! Mad Max was in my top 10. Loved it even more when I discovered that the stunt work was home brewed by gear heads who thought it would be cool to do some insane ballistic shit with cars.

at that stage he was still making movies for adults

:o