basically not one week goes by where i dont say KANEEDDAAAAA HEELLLPP MEEEEEEE out loud to someone
― max, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
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 whathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-wv4pFodIQ
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― one little aioli (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
love akira
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
akira looks and sounds as dope as blade runner which is about as high praise as i personally can give a movie
― max, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
in some ways I feel like the best action movies are animated, cuz you can control how the action occurs in exact detail
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
thats cheating tho
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
lol akira
― (_()_) (Lamp), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
yah, but you compare the street fighter animated movie w/ the real life action one, and maaaan
xp
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
I love Akira but i didn't even consider voting for an animated movie in this poll
― Number None, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
Akira is amazing on the big screen
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
― 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
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
action rockism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oruNL3TXmlc
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
I think you mean AKIIIIIIIRAAAAA
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― getting good with gulags (beachville), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
aaaaaa that one goole just posted
so fucking good
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
the way tetsuo starts killing people at the end is so uncomfortable
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
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....
― omar little, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
― 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
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
― 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 :(
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, matrix 3 comes to mind
― bnw, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
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/ewhen 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)
― 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
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
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
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
omar, is there any way you could post the list of what has been revealed up to now?
― Jibe, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
#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
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
thanks, gr80!
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Jibe, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
AKIIIIIIRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago) link
'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.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 06:04 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i bunged Get Carter a couple of points but was pretty uneasy about calling it an action movie.
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 07:37 (twelve years ago) link
AKIIIIIRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
should have been top 10
― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 10:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff458/dearlylovedaimee/Funny%20Animated%20Gifs/Eyeroll.gif
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 10:10 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― woof, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 10:15 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 10:24 (twelve years ago) link
oh come on akira is so actiony that explosions happen in the background with little to do with the main characters
― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 10:32 (twelve years ago) link
can't wack the visceral thrill of a cartoon explosion
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 10:34 (twelve years ago) link
The last third of the movie is Kaneda firing at Tetsuo and a huge destruction bubble overtaking the city.
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that's just friendship
― max, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 12:49 (twelve years ago) link
that's pretty inscrutable friendship imo
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, I know. There are also huge explosions in Dr. Strangelove, but that doesn't make it an action movie. Like I said above, IMO the basic requirement for an action movie is that its central conflict(s) are solved via physical action. That doesn't apply to Akira. Kaneda firing at Tetsuo is portrayed as futile; it's not a proper action scene in the same way the motorcycle chase is. (IMO the motorcycle chase is the only scene in Akira that follows action movie conventions.) Kaneda's conflict with Tetsuo is resolved in the mindmeld they have, and the Tetsuo's threat to the world is resolved by Akira appearing and helping him and the other mutant kids elevate to a higher level of existence. That doesn't ring "action movie" to me.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
(x-post to mh)
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 12:57 (twelve years ago) link
the entire last third is explosions and chase and destruction btw
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 12:58 (twelve years ago) link
grudging formalism such a tired look
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
Whatever. When I chose the movies in my ballot, with every sci-fi movie I considered whether the "sci-fi" quotient in them was higher than the "action" quotient. That's why I voted for Aliens, which I think is more action than sci-fi, but not for Akira, which is the other way around.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 13:02 (twelve years ago) link