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

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

Oh wait, nevermind. I see now.

"It's all in the reflexes"

i watched To Live and Die in LA for the first time two nights ago after getting stoked on it from the voting thread. i watched it back-to-back with Altman's California Split for a dope yin/yang double feature of 70s/80s slimy LA awesomeness. Watch it alongside friedkin's Cruising for westcoat/eastcoast "good cop gets scummy to save the day" bookends.

pretty sure i have seen every scene in The Matrix just from living in a college dormitory 1998-2000 but have never watched it all the way through. its def a movie that had to be made but its never interested me and i feel like its done so much more harm than good.

Empire Strikes Back has always been my favorite star wars. Just so dark and beautiful.

only seen Bourne Supremacy, really need to see the first two!!!

have never seen The Warriors or Big Trouble in Little China!!!!!

i feel like its done so much more harm than good.

oh ffs

I assumed a gravity movie referred to something like Taken with Liam Neeson, where there isn't any real plot per se, it's just something really heavy being dropped from a great height and smashing through everything beneath it until it is lodged firmly in the earth or explodes. Roll credits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D03E9kUTTtQ

oh man, saw TDK originally in a theater with my ex who was really squeamish/emotional about screen violence and daaaaamn this movie

i feel like its done so much more harm than good.

'bullet time' was the Eddie Vedder Vocal Style of 2000s action cinema

hah, I like that definition! Death Wish, Oldboy, maybe Kill Bill vol 1?

gr080!!! YOU NEED TO SEE BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA. u/k.

yeah that's such a gr80 movie

You really, really need to see Big Trouble in Little China. Like, now. Or tonight, whatever.

i can remember it being in theaters and sounding like the greatest movie ever but not being allowed to see PG-13 movies ;_;

i basically hadnt seen anything ledger had done between monster's ball and TDK when it came out, so i still kinda thought of him as a lame-o when i heard about the joker casting. wz glad to be wrong, and after seeing it i caught up on stuff like brokeback and im not there & found out that yeah, he was legit. the moment in the TDK trailer where he goes '...like me!' in that chipper clown voice was when i was first like whoa, is this gonna own?

i think my first PG-13 movie i saw in the theater was Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. i went with like 12 bros for my 12th birthday party then we had a sleep over at my house it was awesome.

lil' gr80 adventures

Commando, for example, is a gravity movie, because it's just an expanding cast of increasingly powerful bad guys for John Matrix to effortlessly destroy. Also, they kidnapped his daughter, so... he has a bulletproof vest of morality to justify killing like 3000 dudes.

suggest big trouble little china / warriors double feature

An expanding cast of powerful bad guys + Dan Hedaya tbf

the dark knight is the best batman movie, prob my favorite superhero/comic book movie (maybe tied with ang lee's Hulk)

[1]suggest big trouble little china / warriors double feature

― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:39 AM (26 seconds ago)[/1]

doing this.

Kudos to you, Dan Heyada, for being in both Commando AND Clueless.

lol oops on formatting there

otm warriors/big trouble dbl feature.
gr080, ilx has planned your weekend viewing

Commando AND Clueless AND Alien: Resurrection!

damn now I wanna have a big trouble/warriors dbl feature

my fave Dan Hedaya moment is the espresso scene in Mulholland Drive

just wanna warn everyone that when the road warrior places it will unleash a flood of quotations from moi

was Big Trouble.. PG-13 over there? it was PG over here. they musta cut bits out of it for the UK cause usually U.S. PG-13s were 15 rated over here (Gremlins) or hacked to bits (Temple Of Doom).

damn now I wanna have a big trouble/warriors dbl feature

― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, February 16, 2012 2:43 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Road Warrior better be top 10.

Per Dave Kehr:

The dialogue, by W.D. Richter (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai), has a loopy originality, but because it bears no resemblance to any known form of human expression it just works as a barrier: everyone seems to be sharing a private camp joke, and we can't identify with anyone the way we need to for the action to have any real sense of exhilaration.

Wrong, but interesting.

think big trouble was pg-13 for combo of violence and f-bombs, nothing too intense in it iirc

xxxpss

xx-post lol Australian

should we call it mad max 2

Also, not only does Rosenbaum consider "Big Trouble ..." a "debacle," but he also implies Carpenter lost creative control over the film. As per Rosenbaum, this is both the first and only time I've heard this.

Hell, I love the shit out of "Thunderdome," which shares with "Big Trouble" this incredible giddiness.

FUCK THUNDERDOME

oops sorry caps

When we were kids we just figured the way Wang Chi, for example, talked... was some sort of Chinese thing and also awesome and necessary to emulate at all times. Like, how can saying something like "my destiny rests in your capable hands" as his friend gets out of the car not be the beginning and end of cool diction?

Thunderdome is awesome, and the car chase at the end is ace.

I mean, come on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmlTGeKL4os

This movie is at least as good as Last Crusade, and prolly as good as ToD.

Thunderdome is fine as an oddity, but it's just....ugh it's so stagnant & huge & contrived & sooooo dated compared to Mm1 and 2. Miller-Kennedy are key for Max, & I think the loss of their involvement really shows in Thunderdome.

a big trouble/warriors dbl feature

^^^I have done this and will confirm that it is a right and good thing to do.

And those fucking little ewok-lost boys kids are the woooooorst (xpost)

Miller directed the action, though.

i can remember it being in theaters and sounding like the greatest movie ever but not being allowed to see PG-13 movies ;_;

Hi my life.

i think my first PG-13 movie i saw in the theater was Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. i went with like 12 bros for my 12th birthday party then we had a sleep over at my house it was awesome.

Yes, my little brother did this, too. Then he sang the theme song 70x a day for three months.

i wish i would have voted in this. i guess i always feel intimidated by the movie threads so i don't feel qualified to vote in them or something.

but i guess it's kinda silly to feel unqualified to vote in a poll where con air and demolition man end up in the results

^^ I am going to C&P that into a word doc and read it to myself every time a poll comes up and I feel that way which is pretty much every movie poll.