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

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

i wanna see fugitive 2: in the doghouse

hell yeah

max OTM, TLJ just owns that character so thoroughly

well there was literally no fugitive in that movie iirc

yes, there was

no it was just about a bunch of us marshals chasing each other around

the fugitive is no switchback. that's all i know. hell i should have voted for switchback.

set to the benny hill theme music xp

Someone wake me up when MIB places.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MTTSxrbpyY

kinda h8 the Fugitive anyway. Probably due to it being one of my dad's favourite movies and having to watch it a million times

Oh look, a bunch of movies I've never seen. And demolition man, which is a hoot.

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CASINO ROYALE

Martin Campbell
2006
United Kingdom
(205 points, 8 votes)

saw this last night.
thought it was a brilliant action flick. probably my favorite straight-up action film (not that there are many anymore) since bourne identity.

craig was just fantastic i thought, kept enough of what i liked about old bond films but dispensing with all the ho-ho-ho smarmy smug shit.

the opening action sequence was pretty breathtaking i thought.

yeah, overall, way better than i had hoped.

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson)

I'm impressed with the range of actors they got in, even if the roles were at points thankless. Giancarlo Giannini as Mathis, Isaach de Bankole is Obanno (the African armed group leader), Jesper Christensen as Mr. White...not quite the ensemble group dynamic of From Russia With Love but still.

Mads Mikkelsen did pretty well as Le Chiffre precisely because of two factors in the script rather than his own pretty good performance: 1) no time wasted on his backstory, 2) carrying over from the book the fact that he's as much under severe pressure as 'in charge.'

― Ned Raggett (Ned)

the getting ready scene in the hotel bathroom, before the big game, may have been my favorite - vesper looking even more gorgeous without her makeup, preparing to fix her face in the mirror, and telling bond, via the mirror, after he's feigned dignified outrage that she's had the temerity to buy a dinner jacket FOR him - "there are dinner jackets and then there are dinner jackets - and this is the latter" and "i'd sized you up the moment i laid eyes on you" - phewEE! and capped with the luxuriously long take of bond trying it on, and looking at HIMself in the mirror, and loving what he sees (shades of the boy who did not come from money, learning how to "pass")

and the equally generous shot just after, of vesper looking at herself in the mirror with an unexplained weariness, trying to rise above her burgeoning interest in this thug, knowing more specifically than bond the way that it would all end badly

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand)

New James Bond = Daniel Craig.

no it was just about a bunch of us marshals chasing each other around

I would watch this movie

too long

I liked Casino Royale a lot. The one after it is utterly incoherent, though.

casino royale sucks

ya quantum of solace was sooooo bad

CR gets points for the introduction of the seatless ball-slapping torture chair.

wasnt the bad guy in quantum trying to do something really mundane like control water rights in bolivia or something?

Casino Royale is amazing

Quantam of Solace is very silly but I enjoyed it

it beat goldfinger proving you guys h8 bond

CR gets points for the introduction of the seatless ball-slapping torture chair.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:26 AM (2 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that was in the book too and i remember wondering whether it'd be in the movie and then when i saw the dude cutting out the bottom of the chair i nearly fainted

all bonds kinda look alike to me. i mean i would watch any of them if i was bored and had nothing to do. but picking favorites is too much work.

i actually liked remington steele bonds too. i like them all kinda.

Tracer's dissection of that scene in CR is really brilliant. As was Drew Daniel's takedown of Sin City up-thread. Both of you, thank you.

I don't know why I didn't consider The Fugitive. It maintained high-tension throughout with some good wise-cracks, and a great pairing of likely and unlikely hero types matching wits.

i gave casino royale 34 points and i could've spared some more. i think its the 2nd best bond movie ever, with a thin margin b/w 1st and 2nd. craig & green have awesome chemistry, the action is inventive & exciting and superbly staged, its just a fuckin ownage movie. im a lifelong bond fan so i probably dig it more than i would if i was just appreciating it as a good action picture, but fuck, i think its great on its own merits

I'm not a big fan but Casino Royale is quite distinct from the previous ones

(in that it's largely a Bourne rip-off)

i did not like either of the new bonds because they were not funny

Tracer's dissection of that scene in CR is really brilliant. As was Drew Daniel's takedown of Sin City up-thread. Both of you, thank you.

― one little aioli (Laurel), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:29 AM (15 seconds ago) Bookmark

yeah, i also always loved this post by trace:

haha i almost forgot to mention how amazing the shower scene was! this girl is truly shaken by what she has just seen and overcome with fear about - well EVERYTHING: almost dying, the reality of what her boyfriend is going through, her growing interest in bond and knowing the betrayal that lies (lays?) ahead; she is shattered.

and bond sits down with her, gives her a big shoulder to lean on. so touching. and then - starts sucking on her fingers??! he is totally emotionally INEPT. "chicks always dig it when i suck on their fingers... so uh that oughtta do the trick amirite?"

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, November 22, 2006 2:33 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

i liked casino royale because the bad guy had asthma and a badass silver inhaler

What the bond movies have going for them is that they barely make any sense. I voted for zero bond movies, which is weird because they obv meet one of my most important criteria.

I want to say CR is the only Bond film with credible, visceral action.

(in that it's largely a Bourne rip-off)

― Number None, Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:30 AM (30 seconds ago) Bookmark

yeah, no, not at all - you could make that argument for QoS, but not CR

texas hold 'em scene & chris cornell theme are disgusting but casino royale is otherwise fantastic

lol Slocki

I want to say CR is the only Bond film with credible, visceral action.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:31 AM (2 seconds ago) Bookmark

there's one other, which i voted for

Lol the finger-sucking was SO WEIRD that it cut down into "any form of human contact that will get through to someone"-territory and somehow got by.

casino royale was amazing until vesper kidnap/ball torture, pacing after that felt off imo. Still vv good.