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

Somehow I'd managed to avoid Akira all these years, despite being well aware of it since its release. Well, honestly, it wasn't that hard to avoid. Anyway, watched it last night. Pretty cool, I guess, pretty much exactly what I expected. I guess I'm just not a fan of anime style, though as a kid I do recall sitting rapt watching "StarBlazers."

The most I was ever enveloped in Anime was the Voltron cartoon series that came on in the mid 80s, which may actually be a different type of animation than proper "anime" (I dunno).

Die Hard was Bruce's second film role, right? He did some date movie first and then WHAMMO he became the biggest action star in the world for a couple years.

Blind Date? With Basinger? Was that pre Die Hard?

wanna see the alternate-universe die hard with burt reynolds

Yeah, I guess that was Blind Date, the year before, which flopped hard with a vengeance.

xp or with Sinatra as a sequel to The Detective

TS: Die Hard with Burt Reynolds vs. Raiders with Tom Selleck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSyHSgEbNng&feature=player_embedded#!

do you guys remember the whole sean young catwoman debacle?

poor sean.

she'll always have blade runner though...

Yeah, I bet that really brings in the residuals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyUx73RJ51o

I bet she makes more money off Ace Ventura.

Sean Young Pariah is an awesome youtube channel, by the way.

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watched robocop last night... I don't think it has aged well

also watched ronin, pretty cool, surprised that deniro was good in something in recent memory. I took some screengrabs with closed captions which summarize the entire movie.

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I rated First Blood and Death Wish very high, so don't give up on Rambo or Bronson.

aww @ that last one

xp

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watched robocop last night... I don't think it has aged well

so, so offtm

More relevant today than ever, probably.

robocop to me is one of the "best-aged" scifi/action movies i can think of

"spasm of six-year-olds" is a great collective noun

Thanks. I coined that

hahaha @ Edward III

Comedian Rory Scovel has a bit on his album about how prescient Robocop was when it comes to what Detroit would be like 20 years later. He imagines city council members thinking, "I know this SOUNDS crazy but should we . . . build . . . a robot cop now?"

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#24

POINT BREAK

Kathryn Bigelow
1991
United States
(371 points, 14 votes)

on tv again last night. of course i watched it. I still can't get over the fact that Utah doesn't shoot The Swayze after he chases him down that waterway thingy when he's got him in his sights and stuck on the fence. I mean is it whats underneath the mask? That wet poodle Swayze wears on his head throughout the film? I mean Utah, this guy used to fuck your girlfriend and now he wants to kill her. Shoot the fucking guy.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V

this movie and the dialogue quoted herein (esp. g-kit's) rule. i should be disturbed by the number of swayze movies i like. maybe he's the BAD (as in Paul Fussell) generation's gene kelly. i'm not sure what basis i have for his aesthetic distinction, but don't be lumping ally sheedy in with MSM (eh) or Lori Petty (meh). is californication a post-point break record?

― gabbneb

Point Break vs. Top Gun????
Hmm, this is a tough choice for me.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, December 19, 2002 7:07 AM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Point Break, for sure. Would Tom Cruise or Val Kilmer actually do their own skydiving scenes like Patrick Swayze. Don't forget Gary Busey's Angelo. He is way cooler than Anthony Edwards as a sidekick. Top Gun has some classic one-liners but you could turn some scenes in Point Break into songs. Edge: Point Break.

― Ex-Tennis Star

Point Break: A Beautiful Film

magnificent still

Vaya con dios, dude.

I keep forgetting Patrick Swayze is dead, and then I remember. ;_;

BTW, Tom Cruise c. 2012 would totally skydive for a role. In fact, I'd be shocked if he hasn't already.

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#23

BATTLE ROYALE

Kinji Fukasaku
2000
Japan
(376 points, 11 votes, 1 first place)

Fun as a black comedy, but with the participants forced to kill one another it removes much of the edge of the Lord Of The Flies commentary of human nature or society. The comedy was pretty good, though there was very little suspense (the film only really set us up with one hero so the ending was - whilst a bit confusing - understandable).

― Pete

I loved this film. I was with three friends, and one of them really liked it, and the other two thought it was not socially realistic, which I thought was rather misunderstanding it.

― Martin Skidmore

I saw this and loved it and everyone missed the point!

I think the real context is resurgent japanese militarism, the revival of imperial traditions, etc. and BR isn't to "punish" youth so much as toughen them up and teach them to be STRONG and the sweet flashback/death thing gets used all the time in Japanese stuff esp. w/r/t WWII and the whole thing is about the impending sense of moral tragedy and defeat and pure cruelty of the imperial mindset.

I mean... kids sent out to die? It's like a crude crude metaphor for a draft!

The uncle who was the 60s radical shoulda been another clue.

― Sterling Clover

I thought that by putting kids into this situation it was meant to put a focus on all the school cliches: the drama that sgs describes or the athetic girl, who falls in love with 'the loner'- who is in love with someone else, spending time in the movie trying to find her and tell her. And then all the little groups (and how trust between these break down, as seen in the lighthouse scene).

There are a few holes in the plot, as described elsewhere on this thread, not least as to how they found a boat to get away from the island.

anyway: best teen movie ever!

― Julio Desouza

Battle Royale

What has Beat Kitano been up to?

Er, Beat Takeshi?

the funniest part in this movie is how they all get random weapons and some just get useless shit. gotta see it again cos i can't really remember what the crap weapons are though, i just remember some are just shit.

Something like a dustbin lid, i think.

Fantastic film - in my top ten.

i don't love battle royale. i admire its craziness though.

i kinda want to watch point break right this second. i wonder if its on netflix...

i voted for this movie (bottom end of my ballot) but maybe i shouldn't have cos i seriously have a hard time remembering much of it.
also point break, so awesome. can't believe ppl doubted it would show up in here. i have made so many ppl watch that movie.

magnificent still

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, February 17, 2012 10:40 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

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battle royale is overrated crap.

Want to say a shocking majority of these films are not streaming on Netflix.

point break owns though *fires gun in the air while unleashing an anguished cry*

I love the book Battle Royale

on tv again last night. of course i watched it. I still can't get over the fact that Utah doesn't shoot The Swayze after he chases him down that waterway thingy when he's got him in his sights and stuck on the fence. I mean is it whats underneath the mask? That wet poodle Swayze wears on his head throughout the film? I mean Utah, this guy used to fuck your girlfriend and now he wants to kill her. Shoot the fucking guy.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V

classic chris v

Battle Royale is historic as one of the first films with CGI blood, which has since revolutionized movies, given how many more takes and set-ups can be done without needing to clean up and reset gags first.

r.i.p. big swayze. from the swayze thread i started a long time ago:

swayze bro or no?

dude really loves some fancy dancing and there is father hood and city of joy and ghost to answer for, but i think things come out in his favor:
the outsiders (bloody greasers)

uncommon valor (bloody big muddy mia revenge)

road house (homoerotic bloodfighting)

next of kin (bloody hillbilly revenge)

steel dawn (bloody post-apocalyptic murder gangs)

youngblood (bloody hockey fights)

red dawn (greatest bloody russian movie ever made)

point break (bloody zen surf robbers)

i mean, seriously, dude has spilled a lot of blood for such a freaky ballerina. i can't decide whether being the scariest drag queen on earth in To Wong Foo is a plus or a minus.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, July 21, 2006

lol freaky ballerina

Want to say a shocking majority of these films are not streaming on Netflix.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, February 17, 2012 10:55 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is true! I have been disappointed.

i really hope there's some crazy lurker out there who plans on taking off a week, getting a mountain of blow, and blasting through the top 50

Who needs lurkers? The power to make that happen lies within you my good sir.

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#22

THE THING

John Carpenter
1982
United States
(378 points, 10 votes, 1 first place)

The blood test scene is one of the greatest movie moments ever; terrific Morricone score (mostly electronic, IIRC, something of a rarity and an obv. trib to Carpenter); even Kurt Russell doing his Clint schtick was OK (I love the moment when he pours whiskey into his computer!) Plus a really sharp script by Burt Lancaster's son!

― Andrew L

Just re-read Ebert's old review. He misses the point on a couple of fronts. One, he complains about the lack of characterization, but the fact that these characters remains so vivid to us today is surely because of the way Carpenter drew them; most films today, I leave not knowing half the characters' names. Two, he complains that the dudes would have benefited from the buddy system, but how so? If Ebert was paying attention, it's introduced way, way early that someone may have already been Thing-afied by way of the Norwegian dog wandering around. The buddy system would not have helped.

Anyway, re-watching again tonight, this movie is just tight.

― Josh in Chicago

i really want to like this but.. there's a shaggy funkiness to carpenter's movie that goes beyond kurt russell and which seems.. well, not in evidence here. everybody has great hair, for god's sake! in an antarctic research station!!! in the 1982 movie there was this kind of crass bonhomie, pot smoking, everybody a little nutty, as you would be. it's funny how sequel peeps will architect everything down to the nth degree as far as plot and set continuities go but then just throw hairstyles out the window, and the look of the movie, too. why not match the cinematography as well as the plot? why's it all got to be this ultra-contrasty shiny wetness?

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand)

you've got to be fucking kidding

― Countdown to Alma Cogan (Noodle Vague)

The Thing