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

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

mad max was actually made about me

― max, Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:03 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol

Jaws is awright but fuck off tbh

― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:06 AM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

YOU fuck off tbh.

munich's more of an action movie than Jaws! i wish i voted for that actually

There's an incredible bit on the Mad Max DVD commentary where you see a shot of a bike's speedometer at 100 or something, and they note that there was actually a cameraman hanging on the back of the rider, at that speed, shooting over the rider's shoulder!

at that stage he was still making movies for adults

:o

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:07 AM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha, before he started making kids' movies like munich and amistad

Tt is making MM appeal to me far far more. I'll try it again at some point for sure, but maybe somewhere that I can also smoke at the same time, that would be helpful.

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the stuntwork in mad max is SO crazy

a stuntman broke his neck and died in a scene. Mad Max was my no. 1. looooove it.

PS Demolition Man?? Really?? worst part has to be the jarring Dennis Leary being Dennis Leary rant near the end.

be thankful I didn't vote for Judge Dredd

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#59

THE FUGITIVE

Andrew Davis
1993
United States
(202 points, 6 votes)

The Fugitive cos he's all sad about his wife n stuff and the police aren't very nice to him.

― Hard like armour

and it's one hell of an action movie. Without one-liners.

― kenan

was the fugitive the last ok thing he did?

― strgn

the fugitive is not okay, it has Tommy Lee Jones in it.

― Shakey Mo Collier

HARRISON DRUNKASS FORD

i voted for mad max. and jaws. even though its not an action movie. i just couldn't resist voting for jaws. i would marry jaws.

nothing against this movie, but really?

gave the fugitive 21 points, i might've had it higher if i'd seen it more recently. bitchin movie

oh man i love the fugitive

again, last saw it when it like came out

I remember really loving "The Fugitive" but its been a long time so I didnt vote for it.

andrew davis 85-93 is a pretty good run of action movies

lol no way i'm standing behind that spielberg quote ps munich sucked tho, movie for boring adults imo

anyone willing to ride for the sequel?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Marshals_%28film%29

you're a movie for boring adults

not you dan

i remember thinking US marshals wasnt bad? definitely no fugitive tho

God someone wake me up when The Transporter places.

yeah i havent seen it in a long time, but i remember it p much perfectly. my recollection is that it pretty snugly fits the mold of 90s action-thriller, but is really well done within those constraints. and TLJ owns in it

well there was literally no fugitive in that movie iirc

re: fugitive

yeah the fugitive is okay but i never thought it was great.

oh and don't blame me for voting for jaws. blame whoever nominated it on the ballot thread. i never would have thought of it either for this poll.

Fugitive is such a well made movie. What happened to Andrew Davis? Chain Reaction?

(I hope Chain Reaction does not make it)

God someone wake me up when The Transporter places.

damn, forgot to vote for Crank

us marshals and the art of war is a pretty decent double bill iirc

btw I loved both The Fugitive and US Marshalls

lol no way i'm standing behind that spielberg quote ps munich sucked tho, movie for boring adults imo

― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:17 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

munich's a really accomplished thriller underneath all the ~grownup stuff~!

i think this lil "speech" is delivered just as perfectly as the neeson "special set of skills" thing

Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Alright, listen up, people. Our fugitive has been on the run for ninety minutes. Average foot speed over uneven ground barring injuries is 4 miles-per-hour. That gives us a radius of six miles. What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at fifteen miles. Your fugitive's name is Dr. Richard Kimble. Go get him.

yup xp