2 out of 3 ain't bad
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 February 2012 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
morbs what should the 74-39 best action films of all time look like
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 16 February 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
i am really happy with the results so far. like i didnt vote for speed because its been so long since ive seen it that i feel everything i remember about it comes from sitcom parodies of it rather than the movie itself but even if speed 2 made this list id be like 'yep, thats got a boat chase p sweet' i just cant hate any of these movies
i am torn by h4a's comments on steve mcqueen. i can see his institutional cool coming across as lame but i mean:http://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/LRG/27/2785/9IRTD00Z/posters/steve-mcqueen-bullitt.jpg
― (_()_) (Lamp), Thursday, 16 February 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
those weren't shown in theaters, Matt Fucking Asstrong
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:15 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
u know commercials are shown in theaters right?
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 16 February 2012 01:46 (twelve years ago) link
sorry I mean short commercial movies
lol pwned
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 16 February 2012 01:46 (twelve years ago) link
fucking ahistorical shithead
gr80, "action film" is not a genre, but a marketing term.
but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZSTM3knaao
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 February 2012 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
thanks for the history lesson, gramps.
glad you didn't vote!
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 16 February 2012 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
meeeee too! stay tuned for the 75 Greatest Romantic Comedies Poll.
lol pwned & excelsior
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 February 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
i love the great escape, but i also like the getaway and the hunter and tom horn and the magnificent seven and hell is for heroes and the thomas crown affair and papillon and le mans as far as action-y mcqueen goes.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 February 2012 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
i just always really liked the guy. since i was little. in the same way i always liked burt lancaster. man, i should have written in the crimson pirate. always loved that too.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 February 2012 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
if we're mentioning the car chases in bullitt and french connection the the 7-ups deserves the same breath- caught it based on nominations thread talk over the weekend and wheeeew
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 February 2012 02:32 (twelve years ago) link
i like the 7-ups better than bullit. as a movie. but not more than the french connection.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 February 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
about right imo
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 February 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
hey this thread is moving way too fast if you have a job but
i couldn't bring myself to see spirit. despite my long boyhood love for eisner. just couldn't do it. sin city LOOKED cool. and that was about what it had going for it. and that's it.
loving Eisner should be what STOPS anyone from watching this amirite
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Thursday, 16 February 2012 06:14 (twelve years ago) link
meeeee too! stay tuned for the 75 Greatest Romantic Comedies Poll
really want this to happen tbh
― encarta it (Gukbe), Thursday, 16 February 2012 06:36 (twelve years ago) link
i'm down
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 16 February 2012 06:41 (twelve years ago) link
lets just make sure everyone knows romcom is a marketing term, not a genre
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 16 February 2012 06:42 (twelve years ago) link
I would vote in this, a personal first
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 February 2012 07:03 (twelve years ago) link
Return of the Jedi ftw
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 February 2012 07:43 (twelve years ago) link
ahistorical romcoms
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 16 February 2012 07:47 (twelve years ago) link
Think I'll have to check out a copy of Demolition Man; http://www.avclub.com/articles/demolition-man,69379/
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Thursday, 16 February 2012 07:53 (twelve years ago) link
Also if Ronin's not in the top 10 I will cry actual tears
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 February 2012 08:03 (twelve years ago) link
no way ronin isn't in the top ten, i mean come on how many movies have such lovefest threads as this one does? it has a shot at top 5 and maybe even first place i'd say.
― Jibe, Thursday, 16 February 2012 09:11 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 February 2012 09:39 (twelve years ago) link
It only it were any good.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 16 February 2012 10:08 (twelve years ago) link
romcom is a marketing term, not a genre
you're banned from it for using "romcom", TVhead
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 February 2012 12:32 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/dawndead3.png
#38
DAWN OF THE DEAD
George A. Romero1978United States(288 points, 8 votes)
saw Dawn recently, and have to say, it doesn't hold up very well...part of it is the wooden acting (a staple of Romero flicks, it pains to say), but the vaunted make-up/special effects seemed cheap and obvious...(the undead all had blue skin, but red lips...they couldn't have used blue lipstick?)...
― henry s
i totally get the flaws in dawn but i could probably watch it once a day for the rest of my life
― da croupier
I read an article by Alex Garland where he talked abt how Romero's 'Dawn of the Dead' being an amazingly moving experience for 'boys of a certain age' - ie ME! I really like the way that both DOTD and Knightriders (Romero's other great movie) are abt ways you can build fragile, imperfect 'communities' - it's like a metaphor for ILX, or something...
― Andrew L
the original is so beautiful and so sad and i just know that the new one won't be as beautiful or sad. especially the long version of dawn of the dead which is just so perfect and staggering.i didn't even bother watching the texas chainsaw remake cuz i knew there would be no way they could capture the brilliance of the original. they should have just put the original back in the theatres. Or just remade Tobe Hooper's Eaten Alive which is a great creepy movie, but one that could be improved upon with a remake.
― scott seward
I could make a movie where balls-out ridiculously insane people chop up girls in hot pants that scream and stumble everywhere they try to run. It's not scary. I can't imagine people in the 70s thinking it was scary, either. I spend the whole time watching these movies going "well if i was in that situation its obvious that i could get away. All these people are dead because they're idiots dying for the plot." But i can come up with a million scenarios where an average joe protagonist can be pitted against an antagonist they might not be able to overcome and make it as scary as all get out. To me it seems almost like the people who create most horror movies are more students of the genre looking to recreate past cliches rather than pursue anything original with the goal of creeping people out.
― Stuart (Stuart), Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:36 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
why haven't they done a movie of stephen king's "the mist"? it's a great play on that scenario...
― s1ocki
― omar little, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
oh they have they have slocki!
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
Slocki is happier in 2004.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
lol u dicks, "The Mist" was fun
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah the ending was especially hilarious!
― ledge, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
I enjoyed the mist v much
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
This is another one I wouldn't consider at first glance an "action movie," since so much of it is dedicated to inaction. And rather than "resolving conflicts through action," it's generally the case that taking action makes things monumentally worse for everyone involved. But chacon ses gouts I guess.
― The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
okay "fun" != "funny"
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
i had to throw that one in there
― omar little, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
Nah I did enjoy The Mist on the intended level, just until the v last rofflesome sadtrombone.wav scene.
― ledge, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
final scene made the movie imo
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
haha I am pretty sure this convo happened on the thread about The Mist
anyway I don't think it made the movie but I loved the last scene
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
i watched die hard with a vengeance last night. it had been a while, but i really fucked up by not voting for that. i'd say it's very nearly as good as the original, just not as iconic. jeremy irons doesn't have quite as much fun as rickman did in DH, but he's still awesome as hell (love the callback to rickman putting on an american accent, with irons going 'holy toledo'), same with sam jackson - they could've played that character as a buffoon and it would've been awful, but hes cool and funny and relatable in a way thats similar to mclane. and it has an incredible opening scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxRijqJHOOE
another thing i'd forgotten - it's a fantastic new york movie
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i appreciate how DHWAV doesn't waste any time whatsoever, it's like 2 min in and the cops have already yanked mcclane out of bed and are driving to drop him on that corner in harlem w/the sandwich board. btw i feel like that scene is out of the '70s, it's so offensive and amazing!
― omar little, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/toliveanddieinla.jpg
#37
TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.
William Friedkin1985United States(289 points, 10 votes, 1 first place)
Fantastic film, one of my favorites from the 1980s, criminally ignored of course. Maybe the runaway success of CSI will win the movie new fans on video. (Wish the same would happen for Manhunter, despite the Anthony Hopkins conspiracy to make it disappear.
― Phil Freeman
i was just thinking about this movie. shotgun to the face so painful!
― poortheatre
i saw this movie last night on 35mm. when "shotgun to the face" happened at the end, the crowd was silent for a few seconds and then up near the front there was one girl who just quietly said "oh no!"
― omar little
just watched this on canks rec and the car chase is so good, it's like one half if kafka made a car chase, one half video game with endless baddies
you think you lost the tail but then baddies show up everywhere people running around with assault rifles, you start going the wrong way down the highway, your partners in the back seat ready to hurl, questioning his very existence...
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo)
Wang Chung's "To Live and Die In L.A." soundtrack - C/D
― omar little, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
The Mist wasn't fun! it was just a bunch of people yelling at each other most of the time!
ok so it's fun by ilx standards
― CANDY aka JUNK (some dude), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
Die Hard with a Vengeance is tremendous, i like it better than the original in many ways tho it's not as taut or iconic. The kinetic camera work is totally engrossing, when most steadicam stuff becomes an annoying tic.
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
the only think i remember about To Live And Die In L.A. is that i saw the guy from CSI's wang
reagarding my comments on the mist, that was before the movie was made, i wasn't being all sarcastic!
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
i know that's what i <3ed
― omar little, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
OK, so I should put Live & Die in my queue?
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
I should have voted Die Hard waV. I wanted to cover too much ground and ended up vote splitting via selecting only one of a series.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
To Live & Die In L.A. has the best Willem-Dafoe-consorting-with-Eurotrash-mistresses material of any of his movies. Even better than Finding Nemo.
― The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link