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

Julia Stiles is generally horrible yes, but is quite tolerable in this series imo.

i didn't place Once Upon a Time which i think was one of those "haven't seen it recently enough" arbitrary decisions i made to get the list down to 50. i wish i'd placed it now i think.

25-27 a bit later, folks

btw I watched dirty Harry last night

jeez omar, why didn't you use some of your vacation days to post these results? ;)

xp did you enjoy it y/n?

I did! and I have some things to say abt it, l8r

Annoyed that Netflix is streaming cropped Dirty Harry.

one more thing on bourne supremacy... the moment at the end where he lets karl urban live is legit powerful to me. to me this is a sick movie and not just a great action flick, which is why i was so gravely disappointed by the failings of ultimatum.

what'd you think of DH lagoon.

The Matrix should have been higher, and anyone dissing it is either projecting their feelings about the sequels on to the original or just plain doesn't like awesomeness. Such an amazing experience to see that in the cinema not knowing much about it beforehand, just sitting there open-mouthed for the whole second half of the film. I mean the lobby sequence alone...

matrix is awful gtfo

calling something as deliberate as OUATITW "action" o_O

The Matrix's "We need lots of guns" made me want to puke

awfully awesome

tbh if you dislike slow-motion gunfights set to "Spybreak!" you have no business watching modern action movies

The Matrix's "We need lots of guns" made me want to puke

yep. this sort of brainless betrayal of the basic concept (which was liberally stolen/cribbed from better sources anyway) was just... ugh

"We're going to need guns - lots of guns" reminds me of one of the ways the Matrix is great - the rare film with an innovative schtick that has also thought about how to intensify its style and story in the last act rather than just do more, louder.

how is it a betrayal of the basic concept exactly?

calling something as deliberate as OUATITW "action" o_O

i said in the nominations thread that the term "action movie" will be forever coloured by the big 80s stuntfests that had better fill up the upper echelons of this poll or else. but there are films from earlier eras that really shd count as action movies even tho their pacing is more considered or sedate. having said that, Once is nowhere near Leone's actioniest picture as far as i'm concerned.

the big 80s stuntfests that had better fill up the upper echelons of this poll or else

cuz they need the help

how is it a betrayal of the basic concept exactly?

you control reality, what do you need a gun for?

it's similar to all the action movie nonsense in Inception, it's just conceptually nonsensical.

NONSENSE I say!

iirc they shot the basic concept with lots of guns

Yes, but they're only able to control reality up to a certain point.

gunpoint

also, it's just cool. Shut up

i love it when people who don't understand inception complain about inception

kind of wish there was a whole thread dedicated to it

or multiple threads

lol

xp I assume Shakey is mad at the idea that if we realise that our world is a consensual hallucination, we'll still try to solve things with guns & kung-fu.

Though of course it must be said that there is a considerable market segment that is receptive to the idea that you can beat people by thinking kung-fu faster than them - that next donut might be the key to victory! The intervening 13 years have probably not provided much to make the idea less attractive (pats belly).

i love it when we argue about whether nerd flicks are internally consistent enough

i love it when we facetiously say we love stuff

I never knew guns didn't make things louder

movies that "are just cool," like Ob*m*

and there it is, kudos

xp Now that you mention it, your tears are kind of delicious!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E586mYraTUs

old man hallucinates clouds indoors

I saw one of those science of Hollywood shows one time where they proved that if John McClane had done that abseiling with a firehose trick for real he would have been snapped in half. Die Hard: brainless

I wouldn't know, I've never seen Die Hard

oh wow i thought all the stunts in Die Hard were based on real life incidents

all Die Hard stunts were just part of Lenny DiCaprio's dream iirc

the point is it is about some endearing shmoe and not about goths who want to kill all the mean kids

basically if yr central protagonist does not have domestic problems and a boss who yells at them then bollocks you are not a proper action flick

thought morbs might appreciate the matrix's leninism *shrug*

Neo was considered a loose cannon by his boss, may have asked him to hand in his badge, not sure.

I thought the guns in the Matrix made sense, though it's been a while. It was a simulacrum of the real world, so the avatars (I guess?) worked with real world solutions, however malleable. I had more probs with Inception, which was a subconscious dream world where in theory anything could happen, but instead we get ... the Matrix and more guns.

THE BOURNE SUPREMACY - this was the only bourne i voted for. h4a already pointed it out but the chase sequences in this are incredibly visceral and really well executed

Morbs, even when I agree with you, you make it hard for me to want to agree with you.

Inception, which was a subconscious dream world where in theory anything could happen

argh

Save it for when it comes in at #1, folks