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

man crank... i saw it without knowing a thing about it. i was at uni had loads of freetime on my hands and one day, i was looking for a film to go watch. on the cinema guide, there was just one line about this movie but man, that was more than enough to get me to go see it: "it's like speed, except instead of a bus, it's a killer who can never slow down".

ya i would love to watch empire again too bad you can only watch the shitted-up version

x-post - And I generally like all those people too - even Renolds who most people seem to hate on a lot.

i dont think snipes was too old, just too insane.

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tbh the only thing I liked about that film was Parker Posey camping it up

Supposedly Ryan Reynolds likes to ad lib "jokes" and in this case the director left them in? I find him about 0% funny, though.

xp to Blade 3 comments

it's pretty bad when you are watching a movie about a team of people who hunt down and kill vampires and the character that causes the most incredulous "are you even for real" reactions is Reynolds and not any of the vampire characters, particularly when you have Posey attempting to become the world's largest spiral-cut every second she is on screen

At least of the original trilogy, Empire is the least shitted-up of them all. And most of the changes were improvements (Wampa arm) or fairly neutral (replacement of Emperor hologram w/Ian McDiarmid).

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#32

THE BOURNE IDENTITY

Doug Liman
2002
United States
(311 points, 13 votes)

i just rewatched the first one last night.

still pretty good!

except i could never get with that paris car chase. i think the reason is the music. man there's some poor soundtrack choices in this movie.

the scene with clive owen in the field is still amazing tho.

― s1ocki, Monday, February 9, 2009 8:25 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3 how bourne can walk into a room and find the hidden gun/ammo/passport/money in seconds

― mookieproof

clive owen, franka potente, fight scene in the apartment and my genuine surprise at the time at matt damon's acting + hotness.

― Disco/Very (Roz)

THE BOURNE POLLTIMATUM

I was reading about the cutting of a Wesley Snipes film made in Bulgaria; he refused to do pickups for a scene that had problems, and when they contractually obligated him to do so he delivered all his lines with a Jerry Lewis impersonation so they would be unusable.

OG Bourne is a great, great movie

xp: omg lol

<3 Bourne

Liman's dad was chief council for the Senate's Iran-Contra hearings, FYI. Dude knows his intrigue.

i only voted for supremacy, but the first two bournes are incredible. liman's bourne has to get a ton of credit for setting the template for the series - bourne's entire approach to dealing with hairy situations, the lateral thinking, the treatment of the character itself. love the location shooting in this movie too.

first bourne still awesome, i think it might be the one i enjoyed the most. i think i mentioned this upthread abt taken but the chase is all kinds of wrong wrt to paris geography (stupid pet peeve of mine)

Loved the first film. Second was okay. Last one was just meaningless destination hopping, apart from that decent scene in Waterloo.

voted for this Bourne as stand-in for the whole series but i feel like it's probably diminishing returns anyway.

i think these get overhyped but undoubtedly influential, a lot of the hand to hand scenes feature today's shitty god-knows-what's-going-on editing.

i just really really really love clive owen's little death speech i think.

i think i only voted for 1 & 3

really didnt mind that 3 was just three awesome set pieces strung together

I have a problem w the Bourne movies bc I actually really enjoyed the books and they're way complex and all the characters are better. So I can't fully enjoy the movies. But otoh M Damon, and the darkness and obscured-ness of everything in the 1st one is just so great.

really?

xp yeah, i hated that. they were great set pieces, but as a movie it was so thin and perfunctory where the previous two weren't. i couldn't excuse it

i excused it

Liman is a great action director, his fight scenes are always choreographed to make sense. Even in a semi-turd like Mr. and Mrs. Smith, I appreciate things being legible instead of a morass of whip-pans like Batman Begins.

killing off lola in 2 was pretty amazing

3 is awesome just for the whole "-i'm in my office; -no you're not, I'M in your office" lolz

:D i read The Bourne Identity when it came out, it was a massive bee in my early teen bonnet for reasons that aren't wholly clear to me now

lol, howso

13 years old just seems like the ultimate sweet spot for a movie like the Matrix and i can have a kind of obsessive personality w/r/t certain cultural artifacts. it was a simple twist of fate that i'm not dressing up in Neo suits at every Comic-Con in the western hemisphere right now.

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:17 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just want to note that a big part of the reason that i am not wearing leather dusters everywhere i go is that the matrix sequels were really, really shitty

in what sense lol xp

2 had Brian Cox being a badass
3 had Edward R. Murrow yelling CODE TEN ABORT

love all three unashamedly

Is the third Bourne the one where he jumps from a window into the window of an adjoining building, and the cameraman actually follows him?

i feel like one of the few people who really didn't give a shit about The Matrix even when it was new. i don't know how the world didn't have Keanu sci-fi fatigue already by then.

― CANDY aka JUNK (some dude), Thursday, February 16, 2012

List of Keanu Reeves sci-fi films preceding The Matrix:

Johnny Mnemonic

ya in morocco

that was horrible :(

xxp about killing off franka potente. identity is my favorite bourne.

w/ bournes i think i voted for 2 and 3 and not for identity. i think it was challop-by-vote, the first bourne really is good and fun but i think both sequels surpass it.

wow i literally never know what movie morbs is going to step in and defend

That scene in 3 felt like the Bourne guys one-upping new-Bonds for stepping into their territory.

Berlin magazine fight in the second one is the best fight scene of all.

There will be maybe half a dozen movies on this list that aren't designed for 13-yr-olds. Even crank was designed for 13-yr-olds and then marketed to the arested development pop of USA which is basically like 80% of males between 18 & 50.

p. sure a movie in which high school students use a time machine to collect figures from history is at least marginally "science fiction," whatever else it is.

xxxp

the escape from the american embassy encompasses all the things i love about the series. the way he grabs a map and a walkie talkie and has to improvise in the moment how to escape - hes not gonna rambo his way through all those soldiers, he knows he needs to be evasive and smart. its just cool as hell to see a guy thinking on his feet like that, and see it conveyed so well (as in the duel with clive owen at the end)

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#31

THE WARRIORS

Walter Hill
1979
United States
(313 points, 13 votes)

Film's still fucking gold and anyone who says "dud" should be handcuffed to a park bench and smacked in the groin with a nightstick.

― Alex in NYC

Warrrrriorrrsss.....
Come out and Plaayyaayyyyyyy!

So yeah, classic. And a nice tie in w/the samples used by PWEI from the other thread. This is a good day.

Anybody want to hazard a guess how many times the "Can You Dig It!" line has been sampled?

― jjjusten

'Warriors' is a fun silly gritty genre movie, sniffed at by the bourgeois mainstream in its day and now overcelebrated as some monument of '70s cinema by fanboys. Middle Ground, people.

― Dr Morbius

I'm not an NYC person, but I still have a sentimental regard for this movie. My high school cross country team adopted it as our team movie (supposed to be inspirational, given the plot) and it wound up being a giant in-joke for us over the years-- "Can you dig it?" shouted mock-Cyrus style was one of our favorite team sayings.

― Chris F.

My favorite bit is when they finally get off the train at the end and swan sez "we fought all night to get back to this?" like he forgot coney island sucked

― El Tomboto

Walter Hill's 70's Gang epic "The Warriors": Classic or Dud?

how is that a 'defense', s1ocki? it's a defense of the idea that some dude don't know shit (yeah, it's a full life)

Here it is, insane: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi596246809/

warriors yessss

too low

p. sure a movie in which high school students use a time machine to collect figures from history is at least marginally "science fiction,"

yeah, fuck everybody.

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the interplay between damon and potente is pretty cool in identity. i like the way her character's background is suggested. and the scene where bourne has this crazy intricate plan for getting info from a hotel and she just walks in and charms the desk guy into giving it to her is great.

i do agree that the idea that ppl would have keanu scifi fatigue PRE-matrix is pretty weird

keanu fatigue as a concept is highly suspect

Here it is, insane: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi596246809/

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:40 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i remember that featurette! it was cool

Max, please start wearing dusters.