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

good choice, and quote! xxxxxxxp

prime B Keaton / J Chan to come, I presume.

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#52

GET CARTER

Mike Hodges
1971
United Kingdom
(219 points, 8 votes)

do you think ian hendry would have been better than caine in the main role in get carter? hendry was originally going to be cast, until caine showed an interest in the film? now, of course, its difficult to imagine anyone but caine in ut, but its arguable that caine doesnt have that effortless aura of violence, and had to work at it? perhaps that makes him in the role better though?

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, January 28, 2005 5:40 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I like the idea of Performance, but the last time I saw it it seemed to be kind of a mess. Get Carter however, is an extremely effective little piece of filmmaking. Oh yeah, Poor Cow is good too. I heard Terence Stamp tell a funny story about making it once.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, January 28, 2005 6:07 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Taking Sides: Performance vs. Get Carter

never seen get carter :(

year zero for action movies

wow when did youtube start letting you upload full movies

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

forever ago.

1971

http://tubedubber.com/#aoa3OTJfWIY:pbKCWBTgTR8:0:100:0:0:1

get carter owns bones. great fucking vibe to that movie. i need to watch again, havent seen since i was like 13. the stallone remake was horrible conceived from the start, because sly ultimately cant stand to play unsympathetic characters

You know what's a cool old movie nobody talks about? Hit Man, the blaxploitation remake of Get Carter.

Get Carter is so great

I've never seen Get Carter. :/

not really a ton of action tho, really

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I went on a Mycocaine bender recently and watched that, the Italian Job, What's It All About Alfie? etc. he was a load of fun in the 60s.

a... "mycocaine bender"?

hahahaha

all the kids are doing it

lol thats not even on google, what are you talking about dude

think phonetically

say it out loud, lol

genius

homonyms yo

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oh jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFIQIpC5_wY

lol @ thats not even on google

What's It All About Alfie? etc.

Did you just watch Alfie or pull out all the stops on the theme a la Cilla Black and Cher?

it's a helluva drug

i was assuming "mycocaine" was some sort of streaming video site, lol

Did you just watch Alfie or pull out all the stops on the theme a la Cilla Black and Cher?

lol just the movie. abortion subplot was a bit 0_0

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#51

AKIRA

Katsuhiro Otomo
1988
Japan
(225 points, 8 votes)

the comic helped but the film was huge, i remember seeing it with a friend and then afterward the two of us deciding we would get 'tetsuo' and 'kaneda' (sic?) vanity tags (we were fifteen, very very ready to drive, and had heard vanity tags were only like fifteen bucks more and hence couldn't figure out why EVERYONE didn't have vanity tags) and then arguing who whould get what. i haven't seen it since high school so i have no idea how well it's held up but it was huge at the time.

― j blount (papa la bas)

i agree that it's a plus when anime doesn't take itself too seriouly. i've lost my tolerance for retarded cosmology and convoluted hierarchies in my shit. i just want laffs n dope animation, maybe a wee bit of the old ultraviolence. which reminds me--watching Akira last night on dvd it was significantly gorier than what i remember from my youth.

― ian

Akira: Classic Or Dud?

the music in akira is so dope

http://i.imgur.com/fVhJC.jpg

yeah the akira sdtk is one of my all time fav albums period

its an incredible movie too. one of only a few anime features i wouldve voted for

lol xp

only animated movie i voted for

been way too long since i voted for it

i mean saw it

basically not one week goes by where i dont say KANEEDDAAAAA HEELLLPP MEEEEEEE out loud to someone

like if i told you this was from an action movie and played it w/o showing you what it was from you'd want to see that movie no matter what
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-wv4pFodIQ

I have never stayed awake all the way through Akira. :( Think I've tried to watch it 3x?? I should try again w more caffeine.

love akira

akira looks and sounds as dope as blade runner which is about as high praise as i personally can give a movie

in some ways I feel like the best action movies are animated, cuz you can control how the action occurs in exact detail

thats cheating tho

lol akira

Oh, shit. I don't think Akira would've ever occurred to me if I were making a list of favorite action movies (didn't pore over the noms thread or vote in this poll), but...absolutely. It's more akin to something like Pixar/Ghibli than to trad anime in terms of being a lean, story driven movie that utilizes animation as a tool rather than relying upon it as a genre. If that makes sense. I would LOVE to see this on a big screen.

yah, but you compare the street fighter animated movie w/ the real life action one, and maaaan

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I love Akira but i didn't even consider voting for an animated movie in this poll

Akira is amazing on the big screen

in some ways I feel like the best action movies are animated, cuz you can control how the action occurs in exact detail

― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 (dayo), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 5:29 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

naw, there's something visceral about seing REAL SHIT HAPPEN, some gut reaction, that animation or non-perfect CGI can never replicate imo

action rockism