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

i saw thief when it came out and visually even then as a kid i was like wooooowwwww what the hell am i watching? i had never seen anything that looked like that or sounded like that. tangerine dream plus dreamsequence safecracking. thing was intense.

INFERNAL AFFAIRS - this kept getting taken off my ballot because i felt it wasnt really an 'action' movie but then snuck back on every time i thought about how important the threat of action is to the movie, the loaded gun always in sight. also its just a p rad movie

THE FUGITIVE - didnt vote for this but i wish i had since a) CHASE and b) any movie that got parodied by the simpsons probably deserved a vote

COLLATERAL - i just really like the way this movie looks. but all the weird little parts of this movie really add up to something greater for me, like its less about anything than just everything. i remember i snuck into this movie with a friend on a whim after we saw something else, and the xp of seeing this enough to make me completely forget what we had gone to the movies to see in the first place

MIAMI VICE - i think i really came around to this after i rewatched it when it placed in the ilx films of the oughts poll. there are a bunch of good posts itt

I took collateral off my list precisely because of the 'way it looks' - mentioned in the collateral thread I think but it really is just michael mann making love to LA at night, the action is, well, collateral to that ; )

actually my least faves are wall-e, the toy stories, cars 1 & 2. the cars movies are so fucking bad. and offensive even.

― scott seward, Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:58 AM (1 hour ago)

I'm with you except I loved toy story 3, inexplicable because I didn't like the first two

I honestly cant remember anything about 'miami vice' except the beginning scene in the nightclub. v. dissapointing, im going to give another watch though

I freaking love MIAMI VICE. kinda fits my dream of Terrence Malick making an action movie.

I don't have anything good to say about TAKEN but i once took a class on "captivity narratives" and it's kind of an apotheosis of the form.

JAWS is like half horror, half action (tension and release), and that structure is one of the reasons i love it.

miami vic seem cool. u guys like the rock?

That reads like small talk re: drugs.

miami vice and the fugitive were both p high on my ballot.

the fugitive was one of the first for-grown-ups movies i remember really enrapturing me in the way that things like ninja turtles and back to the future had only a few years earlier (i was 13 when it came out)

missed the bond clusterfuck but iirc "the spy who loved me" is for better or worse one of the most action-y of bond movies

i won't hear a bad word about TLJ in the fugitive

"i didn't kill my wife." "i don't care." << he found such a great mixture of pity, humor, resignation, and pride-in-office in that one reading

at this point i will see any movie with TLJ in it

it's no secret that i think Men In Black is top notch cinematic entertainment

Pretty much is. I recall it crossing some sort of threshold for costing a million dollars a minute, too.

remember when he was two face

i do remember

#90skid

we should do a thrillers poll, thrillers is the best genre

― lag∞n, Tuesday, February 14, 2012 5:35 AM (5 hours ago)

this is totally OTM. this thread and the voting thread made me realize i like thrillers prob 10x more than action movies.

we should have done 2 polls w/ a rule that a movie could only be nominated in one or the other

I wonder how many pre-1971 movies wd make that one

none

not a single one

ya, because no one here has ever seen any old movies. and if they did, they would hate them, because ilx posters are stupid and ignorant. good call

But it's a scientific fact that movies did not get thrilling until the '70s. Until then they were merely suspenseful.

that's true too

old movies more like ::plays violent videogame::

it's no secret that i think Men In Black is top notch cinematic entertainment

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 3:43 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

co-sign, but I took it off my ballot cause it was more about the humor than the action imo

most old movies are just people like... talking

they aren't even in colour so many of them

"I wonder how many pre-1971 movies wd make that one"

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/4/A70-2159

they aren't even in colour so many of them

― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 4:03 PM (13 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what?? really?? bleh!

ya, because no one here has ever seen any old movies

fukkov

and if they did, they would hate them

WELL LOOKS AT DA POLL

"I wonder how many pre-1971 movies wd make that one"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/Trouble_in_mind_post.jpg

bleh and white

http://varifrank.com/images/ThirdManAlley.jpg

you know, if you were really upset about ilxers not watching old movies, it might be helpful to constructively suggest some that non-film-buffs might dig instead of just rolling your eyes for 8 years straight

did you even vote in this poll morbs?

i can't even read. i thought it said post-1971. i miss alan rudolph movies. i wanna go rent them all.

to educate other people presupposes you care about them

morbz totally voted. here's his ballot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-erjci4JzoA

to educate other people presupposes you care about them

well, beyond treating them like teddy bears for you to arrange around your superiority picnic

it might be helpful to constructively suggest some that non-film-buffs might dig

yeahhhh, I've nevvvvverrrrr done this

beyond treating them like teddy bears for you to arrange around your superiority picnic

In fairness, when I unfolded the wax paper I got "I love the Pierce Brosnan Bonds"

Dr Morbius is just waiting for the right ilxor and a bunch of balloons to make it OK that his wife died and he never traveled.

it was lj iirc

treating them like teddy bears for you to arrange around your superiority picnic
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080205080846/southpark/images/3/3a/Cartman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JchKa8Ox3Hs

Thank you Morbs for guilting me into liking only old things because joyless cypher is win

Also thank you for pointing out the rich cornucopia of pre-'71 balls-out action films that have been shafted by this poll.

Can't remember if King Kong was nominated...I probably should have voted for it.

I voted for the new one, gave it 166 points

treasure of sierra madre! should have voted for that.