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

thread needs more Morbs imo

i like the bourne movies a bunch, but i didn't vote for them cuz i knew everyone else would. i voted for OUATITW and warriors though. cuz they are in my heart 4ever.

(fingers itching to start the "what's the rest of the poll" speculation, but I'll wait until 25)

a/v club weighs in on demolition man today, coincidentally
http://www.avclub.com/articles/demolition-man,69379/

i think The Morbz Superiority is gonna crack the top 10

serious question; you know the deranged wife/ romantic subplot aspect of Inception? well i LOVED all that (the stuff in Paris etc) much better than all the action shizzle. is there a movie that's like that *all* the way through?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_(1981_film)

^ just came on TCM Underground a few weeks ago, btw.

ooh!

MORRICONE

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#27

BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA

John Carpenter
1986
United States
(354 points, 12 votes, 1 first place)

this movie rules. total classic.

― chaki

this is one of the best movies of all time. this thread needs to be overrun with great quotes from this great movie.

― f. hazel

this movie was so much better on re-viewing it than i thought it would be! the whole premise that the sidekick is the actual hero is so great and something i probably was completely oblivious to when i saw it as a kid!

― s1ocki

I really feel like BTiLC deserves respect as a genuinely good film! There's probably some really good detailed defense of the Carpenter aesthetic out there, but it seems to me that a lot of what could be perceived as bad about this and other films of his is really in the service of art. I don't know if it's Camp, but it's something akin to it, right?

― Dan I.

BIG TROUBLE in little china: C/D?

Yeeeees.

I LOVE THIS MOVIE

Yes, it's great. And fun.

And awesome.

Also 80's Kurt Russell <3

My mind and my spirit are going North and South.

total nonstop classic

no I mean black blood of the earth

^yes!

if we're not back by dawn... call the president

love big trouble, one of two carpenters i voted for. i always wrote it off when i was younger but i remember when i finally saw it i was amazed at how lively and creative it is, and how it did a lot of things i totally didnt expect

VG - yes to 80s KR tho the hottest is def this 80s KR imo.

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#26

THE DARK KNIGHT

Christopher Nolan
2008
United States
(355 points, 13 votes)

I thought it was an okay film, but by no means a great one (speaking as someone who has no strong feelings either way about the superhero genre). Plot was an incoherent string of implausible schemes; Dent/Two-Face was a pointless character who contributed nothing more than a nice piece of gross-out SPFX; Bale as Wayne was okay, Bale as Batman was laughable; fight scenes were inept and far too plentiful; the oppressive brutality and seriousness made the comic-book contrivances seem glaringly ridiculous; and the last hour was a slog. The film does raise some interesting philosophical and political questions, and a lot of the acting was top-notch (fine work from the supporting players and a star turn from Ledger), but that's all I got out of it. Want to see it again, but mostly 'cuz I'm sure I must have missed something.

Felt the same way about the LotR movies, though, so maybe it's just that I don't like fun.

― contenderizer

this movie is way too long but it has some pretty awesome stuff, i really liked heath ledger as the joker--definitely brings something new to the role, this sort of oopsy little-boy-ness that is deeply creepy. some pretty good set pieces though if it does get way too self-serious by the end. i dug it mostly!

― s1ocki

i think this movie is great -- yah a little long but it didnt get in the way -- and i think that s1ocki's concern about it getting 'self serious' at the end actually works in its favor, it feels like a comic book in the same way we talked about casino royale being good because it had long boring parts like a book, lolz

its better than batman begins by a lot, first scene is an incredible opener too -- one of my favorite movies this year. id be surprised if AW wasnt feeling it after watching it but then what do i know

― K DEF FROM REAL LIVE (deej)

Batman carries on beginning in ... The Dark Knight

RE: BTILC - as a kid I had nightmares about the old dude w/ beams of light shooting out of his eyes & mouth, and also the underwater scene with the chains o corpse parts.. having the nightmares only made me want to watch it more, though!

such a badass flick

the dark knight ownes

though i still lol when i think of 'juggaloker' - coined by tuomas i think

omg beardo Kurt for LIFE, enbb otm

Watched TDK again recently, and I know it's hardly challops, but Jesus Christ every second Heathe Ledger is onscreen is amazing. He really got the core thing about the Joker - that if you're in a room with him, you're probably thinking that you'll probably die.

On a second viewing the scene where we learn that sometimes the truth we need to hear, we can only hear from a Terrifying Big Black Man kind of jumped out as a mistake, but that and the voice is pretty much it on the cons column.

I like the Dark Knight but as an "action movie" it's pretty bad

Yeah like Die Hard, it's basically a gravity movie.

it's definitely too long.

Yeah I don't know where I put Tdk but it's not high on my action movie list. I love it, but it's no Big Trouble in Little China

the phone sonar crap at the end was so ill conceived it kind of ruined what should have been a really cool climax

whats a 'gravity movie'

One where the central conflict is resolved by gravity, duh.

pencil scene is utterly classic still & always

We really shook the pillars of heaven, didn't we, Wang?

Yes you did. Yes you did. GOD BLESS YOU KURT RUSSELL & JOHN CARPENTER

"vertigo" is the classic gravity movie

though i still lol when i think of 'juggaloker' - coined by tuomas i think

coined by Violent J!

:0

this is a movie w/ the pencil scene, a dude w/ plastic explosives messily sutured into his viscera & Aaron Eckhert's oozy half-face - that somehow Nolan etc. managed to skate through w/ a PG-13 rating is just messed up.

honestly i was mesmerised by Heath Ledger in this, still find it incredible that it's even him under the make-up. the bit where he has Brian the fake-Batman tied up and shouts "LOOK! AT! ME!" was the most frightened i'd been by a villain since at least 'Se7en'.

easy to forget because of its ubiquity, but dark knight is a pretty intense movie. I always think of the grown woman sitting next to me in the theater covering her face with her hands during the scene with gordon's son (and no I don't think she was a film critic).

heath ledger was really very good in this

dying @ gravity movie

I thought HL was great in it iirc but I only saw it once in the theater. It's not that I didn't like it but I never felt the need to watch it again.

I still don't get what a gravity movie is?

Oh wait, nevermind. I see now.

"It's all in the reflexes"