^^ the bullet time stuff is p classic even if it's been ripped off seven ways till sunday since then.
― ledge, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
The Matrix still rules. Lets pretend the sequels dont exist though.
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
it's like the 1st velvet underground album*, look at how much bad indie that spawned
*if the 1st velvet underground album was actually good and listened to by millions of people
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
lol JS
Yeah, it's not my thing.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like ive seen the matrix enough times to last me for a long while, but i voted for it anyway. its a wicked cool movie, even if it's hard for it to not seem diminished by the horrible sequels. there's some neat performances in it too! im a big keanu fan but even if you aren't, you have to admit it's an apt role for him.
apparently the original idea was for the machines to be using humans as living processors, which makes way more sense but the studio didnt understand it
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
ya i understand that the matrix is now the least cool thing in the world and it is very easy to hate it but it was still pretty sick at the time and if the sequels/bad ripoffs didnt exist we'd proabbly all still think it was sick
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
i couldn't vote The Matrix cos of the douchery around it and in its wake but the Wachowski boys used to know how to put on a kick-ass action sequence back in the day.
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
and there were lots of still-kinda-cool ideas in it (that neither of the sequels seemed to remember at all)
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
no real desire to see the matrix again but its a dope movie man, i saw it in LA on a trip w/ my dad and brother when it was in some kind of limited release, i was 13 and i went back to school the next week or whatever and couldnt even describe how insanely good it was.
― max, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
Live and Die is awesome. Matrix deserves a mention. Dawn of the Dead is not a fucking action movie by any stretch. Does shambling count as action? Is it because someone drives a truck and flies a copter? Is it because there are guns? Is Bambi an action movie because there's a fire and someone gets shot (not saying who!)?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
its true, dawn of the dead is a lot like bambi
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
glad to see to live and die in LA on here. was so blown away when I saw it in the theatre that I sat through the next showing. so anti-80s, so out of step with where the culture was at the time, a big shot of coldblooded nihilism when every other action movie seemed to be a celebration of reagan-era military power like rambo or top gun. also major "who is THAT" moment at willem dafoe.
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
yeah Dawn of the Dead is a classic example of a movie i love more than lots of the films i voted for, but i couldn't vote for it cos it isn't an action movie
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
the matrix is really accomplished visually and technically, but it's a p deece movie from a storytelling perspective too. it's not just a collection of visual gimmicks, it sucks you into its world and has some decent jokes and a cool mystery to unravel. its fun
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
Speaking of bad Matrix ripoffs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U6jYuqERXI
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
yup. i can never watch it again but it's pretty tight, it prob belongs even higher tbh
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
the soundtrack is probably the most embarrassing thing about it but i played it to death in 8th grade. every movie i made w/ my brother featured at least 1 track from the matrix soundtrack
― max, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, in a "canon" sense Matrix could be top 10, even though I can't imagine ever seeing it again.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
true story: I made my windows xp background the scrolling matrix text for a while
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/lastcru.jpg
#35
INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
Steven Spielberg1989United States(295 points, 10 votes)
last crusade is like the only action movie that manages to be really, really funny without giving up thrillpower.
― Jordan
Crusade; Scene on the airship where Vogel get's beaten by Indie, luzzed out the window and then actually shakes his fist at the Zeppelin as it lifts off. Cue cod joke "no ticket."
― Alex K
Last Crusade feels cheap - look at the FX at the end of Raiders versus the guy falling off the edge of the cliff in the tank. And the final scene is a very balsa-wood affair. It doesn't even move like rock would if the fury of the LORD was being visited upon a remote hidden cave. Tchoh!
― Dave B
Indiana Jones LOVE thread
― omar little, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
Saw the Matrix opening night in I want to say Denver, and the theatre was half full. Want to say the movie came after a whole bunch of disappointing alternate world movies, like the Thirteenth Floor and stuff? Anyway, the Matrix is wild because it did not become a thing for months.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
Like Def Leppard's Hysteria.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
i do remember people talking about it like 'you gotta see this cool new thing' before it became a huge phenomenon
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdNwaa7w3q8
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
i love last crusade but i remember being kinda bummed as a kid that it was so xian
compared to raiders' old testament fury
Last Crusade nearly made my 50 and wd have been the only Indiana Jones flick i'd've countenanced voting for if there weren't at least 50 better flicks i've seen. but imo action movies shd remind me of being 15, not 10.
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i wonder maybe i didnt actually see the matrix in 'limited release' maybe i just saw it before it was a thing. but man! i hadnt seen any previews or anything when my dad took us, had no clue what to expect, and it just completely killed me.
― max, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
Reverse-Dirty Harry moment here - all the movies to come I'm going to be thinking "Really? This is better than the Matrix? Really?".
Helped a lot by context - there had really been a dearth of exciting action films by 1999, and this was the indie "have you heard about?" alternative to The Phantom Menace's bombast.
Also it was cool, which is kind of an uncool thing to acknowledge considering how terrible the sequels were, but the fact that it wasn't an aging Bruce Willis in a vest was not incidental.
(Blade, the year before, was kind of the Matrix's John the Baptist)
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
all three indies are gonna place, huh
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
That's surprising to you?
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
aging Bruce Willis in a vest pisses all over nerd fests
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, February 16, 2012 10:57 AM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol so otm
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
lol I love Blade.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
Lots of love for The Last Crusade as well - you are only ever 5 mins away from someone getting punched in that film.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
sean connery is really great in last crusade.
― max, Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
Blade II is pretty ex. too
― "renegade" gnome (remy bean), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
I can't believe I've never seen any of the Blade movies.
― The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
I never forgave the matrix for starting out with a rich, intriguing cronenberg/PKD premise and then devolving into the dumbest "shoot guns is cool" denouement, and this from a guy who liked T2
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
the soundtrack is probably the most embarrassing thing about it but i played it to death in 8th grade
haha i saw the matrix with my mom in suburban ct and the first thing i did after the movie ended was have her drive to the mall so i get the sdtrk
but i tried watching the trilogy again recently and thought it was just really corny
― (_()_) (Lamp), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
Some great gags in that movie, not least the Knights', 'He chose poorly' line which got the biggest laugh at the screening I went to.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/crank2.png
#34
CRANK
Mark Neveldine/Brian Taylor2006United States(297 points, 8 votes)
This was basically the Scream of action movies. So unbelievablely ridiculous.
― Elvis Telecom
I bought this today, sight unseen, and it is, in fact, possibly one of the greatest films ever made.
― El Tomboto
The whole thing is a huge video game, and they have opening credits that actually look like a video game! I really need to watch this again.
― mh
Has Dr. Morbius seen Crank?
― milo z
doubtful. he should, tho
― impudent harlot
Come anticipate Crank with me (do not click if you hate Jason Statham action trash)
― omar little, Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwXxxniIeQs
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
i'd seen some commercials for the matrix before it came out and i had an anticipatory priapism. i was an anime-crazy 13 year old and the matrix clearly had a similar sensibility. my recollection is that it opened strong and was a surprise hit theatrically, but then had an even bigger second life on home video
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, February 16, 2012 10:57 AM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark
yeah, otm. i dont have much hope for blade placing at this point but i gave it more points than the 'trix
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
in a way The Matrix and Blade et al are an attempt to take action flicks out of the hands of sweaty middle-aged working stiffs with bad attitudes and hand them over to dungeons and dragons kids. i just like sweaty middle-aged working stiffs a lot better.
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
there was a period where i was like YEAH CRANK, CRANK IS THE SHIT but i basically just think its douchebaggy crap now. neveldine/taylor might make an awesome movie one day though
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
I will absolutely defend the 2nd Matrix movie, solely because of the extended action sequence that ends up on the highway. The third movie was terrible.
also PHIL YOU MUST SEE THE FIRST TWO BLADE MOVIES AND NEVER, EVER, EVER SEE THE THIRD
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
One of my friends put on The Matrix the first time I dropped acid, that was unpleasant. I don't think I've seen it since.
So much love for the Last Crusade.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
Last Crusade over ToD, big mistake.
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
i was kind of meh on crank but i will say that amy smart is crazy hot
― max, Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link