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

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#41

BULLITT

Peter Yates
1968
United States
(275 points, 9 votes)

bullitt owns and strangely enough i think it's elevated by the quieter scenes which are fairly basic and workmanlike (bullitt goes to the grocer's! bullitt looks through a suitcase! delgetti uses an archaic flip book to create composite sketch!)

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ok that's all for now! back later...

even i know that speed is great

for some reason i remember the 'date' scene in bullitt really well

Guess I should rewatch this. Car chase aside, which along with French Connection set the gold standard for car chases, I found it pretty boring. Though it's been a long time since I last saw it.

saw bullitt quite recently and was struck by how clueless the scenes of policework & basic law are. like sub-A-team. decades of law and order franchises have kind of drilled this into audiences maybe? you can't have a car chase ending in a death and then just... go home. idk maybe the 60s were a little more renegade-cop-friendly.

Yeah Ford for four (maybe 5 if The Last Crusade or more than one Star Wars rocks up), Ahnold has these two and Terminators and Predator and maybe... Conan?

Will Smith on 3? MIB, Bad Boys, Wild Wild West, Independance Day.

oh man Wild Wild West for #1

Bad Boys or BBII had better be on this list.

Hancock for #2

Bullitt was a pretty easy cut from my ballot. Aside from the car chase, it didn't seem very actiony. The airport foot chase at the end got downright boring after a while.

I remember Speed being pretty good (haven't seen it forever), but I don't really think you can call it an action movie because everyone is just sitting in a bus.

but the bus is SPEEDING

I am trying to come to terms with the incoherence in my wild swings between championing and condemning equally questionable movies.

Yeah, but I mean...the earth is constantly MOVING. Does that mean every movie set on EARTH is an ACTION movie? Ha. I think not.

I never saw Speed

I did, however, see SPEED 2

in the THEATER

for FREE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSzUBvwe6kg

.the earth is constantly MOVING. Does that mean every movie set on EARTH is an ACTION movie? Ha. I think not.

depends on whether the earth is about to blow up or not iirc

The 5th Element is like the #1 movie that my wife will watch anytime it's on TV that i will either immediately register my disapproval and campaign to watch something else or go find something else to do, can't stand that fucking movie

I really think they should have kept the franchise going with Sandra Bullock accidentally wandering into all of these situations with vehicles that can't be stopped and a new dashing leading man attempting to save the day.

you know what, there is one movie where the plot is resolved through the rotation of the earth, and that movie is superman

SPEED 7: RUNAWAY GONDOLA

Bullitt is amazing b/c it's so UN-actiony! And the soundtrack is so lackadaisical compared to what's happening, there's some tense scene and yet the music has the feel of "walking to the bakery on a sunny Sunday morning, la la la." Also there's no dialogue WHATSOEVER for like 13 minutes during the big chase scene.

someone needs to make "The Earth that couldn't slow down"

How can the same shit happen to the same gal five times!?

Superman is so awesome, not least for having such a classically Silver-Age Superman/nonsensical plot resolution

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like even when I was an 8yo I didn't understand how spinning the earth backwards was supposed to make time go backwards

I really think they should have kept the franchise going with Sandra Bullock accidentally wandering into all of these situations with vehicles that can't be stopped and a new dashing leading man attempting to save the day.

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, February 15, 2012 11:22 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well she was in the blind side

Things that were good about the speed movies: bus jumping huge gap, cruise ship crashing into port for like 15 minutes.

i shamefully have never seen the fifth element but there was a movie review site i used to read when it came out and i still remember that the first line of the review for it was, "i have seen the future and it is really skinny women" which still makes me lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GINhAtoaV6A

In Speed 10, Sandra Bullock's character would be a total agoraphobic shut-in who never leaves her remote house... which is now hurtling down the mountainside as part of an avalanche set off by crafty bank robbers! How will Gerard Butler save our heroine and stop the snow from sweeping millions of dollars into the villains' arms???

How can the same shit happen to the same gal five times!?

dude have you ever seen Murder She Wrote? after a season or two it's a wonder that she wasn't being routinely arrested on suspicion of murder... my fantasy ending for that series was for Angela Lansbury to reveal in the final episode that she was actually a psychopath who had murdered all the victims from previous episodes and framed the convicted killers.

I think The Fifth Element might be the first movie to place that I'm not terribly interested in revisiting. I remember liking it okay, but I also remember it being way too...noncommittal, maybe? Like Besson didn't seem all that invested in making a compelling or coherent movie. The visual style isn't enough on its own to do much for me, especially when faced with an hour of Chris Tucker's screeching.

"Murder She Wrought"

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Just to keep us going, a little thematic diversion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TO_1VYIrHs

Suck it, Bullitt.

First half of 5E with Leeloo's introducton and Bruce Willis being surly and the cigarette dispensers and the people being hidden in comedy drop-down showers and refrigerators and things = win. Second half = meh.

the costumes are amazing

It's OK, I wasn't invested in seeing a coherent movie, so LB BFF

like even when I was an 8yo I didn't understand how spinning the earth backwards was supposed to make time go backwards

― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:24 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this enraged me then and still kinda does

i know!

xsxp Yeah, people wearing geometric bubble shapes on their heads as hats is pretty cool, too.

like even when I was an 8yo I didn't understand how spinning the earth backwards was supposed to make time go backwards

And people wonder why Americans are bad at science.

It's the theory of relativity. Time does go backwards because Superman goes faster than the speed of light. However, time only goes backwards for *him*. The rest of the Supermans are all told from his time-altered perspective.

whoa

In Speed 10, Sandra Bullock's character would be a total agoraphobic shut-in who never leaves her remote house... which is now hurtling down the mountainside as part of an avalanche set off by crafty bank robbers!

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I was sure Speed would be top ten. Damn you all

think your confusing speeding bullets with the speed of light there...

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