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

superman could hit light speed but I don't think he has the mass required to distort the time-space continuum

where's caek when you need him

But his mass will increase as he gets closer to light speed, until he approaches infinite mass. YOU JUST GOT EINSTEINED.

1994 Keanu Zen vehicles:

Little Buddha > Speed

wonder how little buddha is gonna place

I drove a '94 Keanu Zen for a while. It handled like whoa.

Will Point Blank place? In addition to Point Break?

If ever I regretted forgetting to vote in a poll, it is this one.. still, happy to see that Commando placed \m/ Every McBain joke on the Simpsons ever was already made with a straight face in that movie!

Not forgetting Pitch Black!

la femme nikita - dope, but besson needs to stop rehashing this over and over

district 9 - i was hard on this movie when it came out for the pumped up action stuff, but by the same token... the action in it is REALLY fucking sweet. i think it's a movie where my esteem of it has risen a lot since it came out. could really use more movies like this and fewer dark of the moons

total recall - proudly voted for this, gonzo fun with sick effects, great one-liners, ultraviolence and brutalist architecture. and some cool ass sci fi shit to ~make u think~ - i like it more than starship troopers, but not as much as robocop

the wild bunch - havent seen this since i was 13, and ive never been excited about revisiting it. in my head it's a little bit of a drag

the great escape - i've never been a steve mcqueen guy at all. his 'understated cool' always seemed too close to boring for me. replace him with lee marvin and im on board

commando - probably the best movie with a badguy wearing a chainmail vest made of lavender yarn. i watched this back to back with 'red heat' a while back, and while it's far worse and less competently made, commando is also way way more entertaining. here's my favorite exchange from it:

Matrix: [reading about Boy George in a pop magazine] Why don't they just call him Girl George? It would cut down on the confusion.
Jenny: Oh, Dad, that is so old.
Matrix: Ha Ha. You know when I was a boy and rock'n'roll came to East Germany, the communists said it was subversive.
[thinks and smiles]
Matrix: Maybe they were right.

the steel drum soundtrack is pretty kickin rad too. commando was also one of those 80s action movies where the female lead rolls her eyes and complains about how much she hates 'macho stuff'. i seem to notice a line like that in 4 out of 5 80s action pictures i watch, i guess that was like a go-to thing for screenwriters back then.

the killer - owns. i should've swapped its spot with a better tomorrow though, because i like the latter more. woo's best macho tragedy is probably a bullet in the head, but i felt like it was too serious for me to vote for as an action movie

the fifth element - loved it when i was a kid, but its too stupid and goofy for me now. its a kids movie. dig the production design though, i like how it looks like a euro sci fi comic

speed - awesome as hell, i should've rated it higher. can watch this any time it's on. one of keanu's most convincing performances. and omg sandy...

bullitt - sick chase but i tend to zone out through the rest of the movie, didnt vote for it

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#40

YOJIMBO

Akira Kurosawa
1961
Japan
(278 points, 9 votes, 1 first place)

“Yojimbo -- when Mifune wakes up after getting a beatdown, he asks where he is.

Guard #1: "The brewery---"
Guard #2 [slaps #1]: "Quiet! [to Mifune] At the gates of Hell."”

-- Leee

:D

yojimbowns. i gave it 46 points. i love the slightly camp swingin soundtrack. dog with human hand in its mouth is one of the all time great 'yeah, its gonna be that kind of movie' moments

yesss

My #1. I love the Red Harvest plot -- it seems like an almost perfect narrative structure for maximum badass action.

A Comparison of 'Yojimbo', 'A Fistful of Dollars' and 'Last Man Standing'

oh MAN i knew i forgot to put something on my ballot

But his mass will increase as he gets closer to light speed, until he approaches infinite mass.

The problem with this is that you've disproved your own argument while making it. As Supes gets closer to the speed of light, his mass increases exponentially, so he can never actually reach the speed of light, just get closer and closer to it. He can make time slow down, but not actually go backwards. Also, the time dilation is from his perspective only.

red harvest is such an awesome title for anything i cant believe that none of the movie ripoffs have just used it

xp Whatever nerd shit anyone else posts in this thread, I think that's got it beat.

What you are forgetting is that he is Superman.

i was watching fistful recently, and while it's a solid flick with a killer climax, i spent most of it wishing i was watching yojimbo instead.

his costume is indestructible, you really think it doesn't have mass-resistant coating too? rmde

LA FEMME NIKITA - this was a lock for ballot if only because it seemed to epitomize a kind of artful european cool to me as a kid

THE KILLER - have been thinking about why i love this movie so much and i think it just this taciturn masculinity to it that elevates cliche - one last job, the code of the killer, the obsessed detective - to the level of myth

THE FIFTH ELEMENT - were gonna end up cartoons in cartoon graveyard

BULLITT - this is like bonercity right here

YOJIMBO - saw this p recently on netflix (lol) and it snuck into my top ten. just a bunch of iconic images perfectly distilled

Considerably better ending to Superman...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yavK0mnE3wI

that's a cartoon

It's a cartoon DEMONSTRATING A BETTER ENDING TO SUPERMAN
Don't make me go all Tuomas on you...

For one thing, you would not like to see a picture of me in just my underpants.

Toshiro Mifune is pretty much the coolest.

multiple xposts: H4A, I'm going to ignore your McQueen hate and focus on the Lee Marvin love. Dude is badass.

It's conceivable, if not likely, that Superman's physiology does not align with the rules of our own known universe; I know DC has been cagey about Krypton's location. In any case, Superman's powers clearly give him the ability to surmount/subvert several seemingly immutable laws of physics, so I suppose flying faster than the speed of light could be one of them. But again, paradoxes abound. It will take much more study of quantum physics/dark matter/dark energy to make sense of Superman's place in our universe.

ok ok

they dont make em like lee marvin anymore. wish they couldve cloned him

It will take much more study

If you don't have any actual Kryptonite to study, then, much like Gus Gorman, you're left just making things up.

son of a fucking bitch why did i forget to vote in this aghhhhh

My prediction: Ronin may just win this.

(I've seen every movie on this list so far, except for Taken)

lil late to the discussion but the 5th element owns, one of my fav movies, had no idea anyone in the world disliked it

yeah the idea of disliking the 5th element is so bizarre to me

seriously

Oh mna, Ronin.

It's really just a matter of where, exactly, Ronin places.

i watched 5th element recently on a friends lol home theater and was enraptured

now i wish i had vited in this poll and if we do a thrillers one i promise to vote

there's plenty to dislike about 5E! i like it, but come on

So I'm not the only one with the MULTIPASS stuck on repeat in my head now, right?

theres plenty to dislike maybe but the concept of disliking like the whole movie, i dunno, just doesnt sit right with me

t2, die hard, ronin will all place in the top 5. probably raiders otla too.

is ronin really that widely loved, feel like on the ronin thread its just the same five of us saying 'this owns' to each other over n over

i just think it's too late for me to watch the fifth element

5e has a lot of components that i feel like could/would be 'fun' but all together it's just deeply unpleasant for me

the only thing separating the fifth element from hudson hawk are some nutty visuals

i do love bruce willis, though