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

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

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/akira.jpg

#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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oruNL3TXmlc

I think you mean AKIIIIIIIRAAAAA

I used to love the hell out of that movie. Every once in a while I run a quick calculation in my head to see if my kid's old enough to watch it yet. Still gonna be a while I think.

aaaaaa that one goole just posted

so fucking good

the way tetsuo starts killing people at the end is so uncomfortable

i'm done for the day on this but i'm going to try to roll out 20 one of the next two days. if i can't, i think the top 10 will have to wait til monday. i've got limited windows of opportunity and during those i don't want to flood the thread with new films too quickly....

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 (58 seconds ago) Bookmark

its a double edged sword though, because its harder to connect with, your not seeing real people sweating and scrapping and tumbling, and the animes that get really over the top with exaggerated kinetic movement are even more distancing because you're just looking at it thinking 'what is this retarded crap'

akira's approach is highly stylized, but also selectively stylized - its more controlled than a lot of anime which crank the knob past 11, so the unreal moments are more effective

your a prince, omar

i'm no judge of anime (don't much like it tbh) but akira seems like a huge amount of care was put into moments that go by in real-time, rather than say, stretching something out in slo-mo or w/e

when i first saw it, it was with a group of devoted fans (seeing it on a laserdisc for the first time, maybe? ha) and they kept pausing it and doing slow mo to see details that go by in seconds.

when the first motorcycle slams into tetsuo you can see, in like one frame, the explosion break around him in a perfect sphere as he unconsciously protects himself. that kind of thing.

its a double edged sword though, because its harder to connect with, your not seeing real people sweating and scrapping and tumbling, and the animes that get really over the top with exaggerated kinetic movement are even more distancing because you're just looking at it thinking 'what is this retarded crap'

akira's approach is highly stylized, but also selectively stylized - its more controlled than a lot of anime which crank the knob past 11, so the unreal moments are more effective

― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 5:51 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

yah this is def true. but now we are seeing 'exagerrated kinetic movements' in real action movies too via cgi :(

yeah, matrix 3 comes to mind

i'm no judge of anime (don't much like it tbh) but akira seems like a huge amount of care was put into moments that go by in real-time, rather than say, stretching something out in slo-mo or w/e

when i first saw it, it was with a group of devoted fans (seeing it on a laserdisc for the first time, maybe? ha) and they kept pausing it and doing slow mo to see details that go by in seconds.

when the first motorcycle slams into tetsuo you can see, in like one frame, the explosion break around him in a perfect sphere as he unconsciously protects himself. that kind of thing.

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 12:58 PM (7 minutes ago)

i first saw it with a serious anime head who kept pointing out how accurately the character's mouths are animated to correspond with the (japanese) dialogue, something he kept pointing out as exceptional for an animated film

you guys are gonna think i'm foolin', but this is seriously one of my fave action movies. should have given it a write-in vote. its like a trance film. you can watch the whole thing on youtube too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqyWuN7D0Kc

i think tombot was the only one with me on the HW:WR front when i brought it up once.

I did not vote on this poll, but I am very much enjoying reading through it.

Get Carter should be immediately viewed/reviewed by everyone. So, so so good.

Mycocaine is just awes.

omar, is there any way you could post the list of what has been revealed up to now?

#75 APOCALYPTO
#74 INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM
#73 GOLDFINGER
#72 VANISHING POINT
#71 DIRTY HARRY
#69 (TIE) THE HURT LOCKER
#69 (TIE) DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE
#67 (TIE) CON AIR
#67 (TIE) BRANDED TO KILL
#66 ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
#65 SIN CITY
#64 INFERNAL AFFAIRS
#62 (TIE) DEMOLITION MAN
#62 (TIE) TAKEN
#61 MAD MAX
#60 JAWS
#59 THE FUGITIVE
#58 CASINO ROYALE
#57 COLLATERAL
#56 THE INCREDIBLES
#55 ENTER THE DRAGON
#53 (TIE) MIAMI VICE
#53 (TIE) KUNG FU HUSTLE
#52 GET CARTER
#51 AKIRA

thanks, gr80!

thx gr80.
looking at that list, only two movies i haven't seen, get carter & branded to kill. will see them soon, as i will most of the movies on this list, cos i have an urge for actioooon thx to this poll.

infernal affairs - voted for this quite high. agree with edwardIII (iirc) about the fact that ia>departed. this may be because i saw ia when it came out, i stepped into a cinema showing cos i thought it looked interesting but i had 0 expectations coming in. was blown away. whereas for departed i already knew what to expect.

taken - voted for this too. most ppl already said what was good about it upthread. they already stressed what was terrible abt it too. i guess i have a soft spot for this movie (and the first bourne also) because they take place in a city i know well so it's always fun to try and guess where they are etc. this must be more common when u live in the us tho.

AKIIIIIIRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

'Infernal Affairs' is great but can't get my head around the idea that it's an action movie. IIRC the main action scene where Wong is killed and there's a gun fight doesn't happen until about an hour in. Having said that I think I voted for 'Get Carter' which doesn't have much more in the way of action.

yeah i bunged Get Carter a couple of points but was pretty uneasy about calling it an action movie.

AKIIIIIRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

should have been top 10

http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff458/dearlylovedaimee/Funny%20Animated%20Gifs/Eyeroll.gif

Mostly I pushed things down that weren't that actiony, but Get Carter ended up high anyway. Dismal old Britain saturated in menace, really unsettling build to violence - John Osborne all-time creepy iirc.

Akira is great, but again I don't think "action" is its primary genre. Are there even any major action scenes in it besides the (admittedly brilliant) motorcycle chase? Most of the other "big" scenes are more in the horror vein, and of course the main plot is a sci-fi fable on friendhship, human evolution, and stuff like that.

I saved my token anime vote for NINJA SCROLL, which is almost as pure action movie as you can get, as it's basically just a string of fight scenes tied together by a minimal (though surprisingly effective) plot.

oh come on akira is so actiony that explosions happen in the background with little to do with the main characters