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

I dunno if the Thing really belongs here but tbh even if this were a romcom poll and it was inexplicably placing I would still say: TOO LOW

omg you saw Pearl Harbor in the theater

WHY

the Battle Royale movie is okay - I don't remember too much about it tbh, aside from Beat Takeshi - but DJP def OTM about the book, which is incredible.

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I rated The Thing at least halfway up my list. Don't understand the hate. Some people are just flat out wrong about some awesome movies.

I don't think anyone hates The Thing, they are just arguing it isn't an action movie

btw I have never seen it

omg you saw Pearl Harbor in the theater

WHY

― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Friday, February 17, 2012 10:31 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I blame my ex.

xps - I don't think anyone has said they hate it. I just think there is some question of whether or not it is an action movie.

I rated The Thing at least halfway up my list. Don't understand the hate. Some people are just flat out wrong about some awesome movies.

― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Friday, February 17, 2012 11:32 AM (39 seconds ago) Bookmark

get out

not hating on the thing, just don't get in what way it's an action movie.

lol xp

didn't vote for The Thing which i love, cos not action movie. ditto Battle Royale, which is closer to an action movie, but no.

maybe if they had guns and a long chase scene across the arctic tundra

WE NEED MORE RIGOUR ON THE NOMINATIONS THREADS TO HELP THE WEAK-WILLED AND CONTRARIANS

Dan, you will like The Thing. Kurt Russell & John Carpenter can't go wrong.

I haven't seen Battle Royale either but how is it not an action movie? The book comes across like an action story.

The Thing is prob my all time favorite movie, but it doesnt belong & 'its awesome' is no rationale for its inclusion

still not down w/ The Thing as action (or Jaws, for that matter), but a minor quip b/c so far each placement has been a film that I love dearly! Surely this cannot continue unabated but there are such riches ahead that, you know, it just might

i feel like BR's action sequences are cruel and random but not really heroic like an action movie shd be - it's a satirical inversion of an action flick, if anything.

if your movie consists of ppl hunting and shooting each other in epic gun battles for 90 minutes I'm giving you the action movie banana, there's really no other way for me to evaluate battle royale. it's science fiction only in that it takes places in some dystopian future.

also the DC of battle royale stinks, much prefer the hard-to-find theatrical cut. less talk more shoot.

WE NEED MORE RIGOUR ON THE NOMINATIONS THREADS TO HELP THE WEAK-WILLED AND CONTRARIANS

― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Friday, February 17, 2012 10:35 AM (15 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Guys, when this is all over, I'm considering starting a nom thread for romcoms that will accept any nom that has at least an amusing argument. This is moving in the opposite direction of what NV is demanding, but it is for a genre/marketing term that I suspect is not sacred to anyone.

Should I?

yeah

don't get me wrong AP, i accept the rules of this thread as long as me impotently yelling about it is one of the rules

impotently yelling is listed as a synonym for the internet

both battle royale and the thing are movies i really like but i didnt vote for either of them because i didnt feel like they 'fit' ::shrug::

I haven't seen Battle Royale either but how is it not an action movie? The book comes across like an action story.

im not sure how well i can defend this but i feel like battle royale is essentially j-horror, the action is meant more to shock and sicken rather than excite? obv the thing is just horror

there's no way a movie where a helicopter chases a wolf isn't a romantic comedy

AP - yes.

Die Hard to win romcom poll, tbh.

I will nominate both Die Hard and Point Break as romcoms jftr

lol xp

Battle Royale is funny! And social satire!

note: this movie is actually 2003, my bad.

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#21

KILL BILL VOL. 1

Quentin Tarantino
2003
United States
(381 points, 15 votes)

Anyway I thought it was a lot of fun. When the credits started rolling I was kind of surprised, it certainly didn't feel like I'd just sat through 120 minute film. I think Tarantino just watches lots of genre schlock and reads silly magazines with a notepad beside him and writes down all the goofy schtick things he wants to have in a movie and then writes whatever he can to tie them all in together, to be honest.

I thought the 5,6,7,8's (the Japanese girl band) should have stuck around for the Yakuza fight scene. Did anybody else get a vision of Phil Two wearing the Crazy 88 uniform after they saw this movie? I did. I imagined him just standing in the corner posing with his sword while the fight went on and trying not to get hurt, with a big grin on his face.

If Volume 2 doesn't have a robot in it I don't see how it can possibly match up to Volume 1. There's only so much to be mined - maybe he'll rip off some Bollywood next?

― TOMBOT

The only part of the movie that I couldn't take was the scene where she was slamming that dude's head in the door, partially because it was the only violent scene that looked real to me and, coming relatively early in the film and knowing the reputation, I was waiting for his eyes to pop out and his brains to shoot out of the top of his head. The way they handled that (plus the fadeaway from when she pulled out her rapist's throat) set my expectations for the rest of the movie, so when they had the disembowling scene I was completely shocked and didn't quite believe my eyes. Fucking excellent fakeout.

The anime sequence fit in pretty seamlessly because much of the rest of the movie was a live-action anime flick. The silhouette battle scene is one of the most gorgeous fight sequences ever filmed, matching the drunken battle outside of the restaurant in "Drunken Fighter II" and the Michelle Yeoh/Zhang Ziyi showdowns in "CTHD". I will be interested to see if I like Vol. 2 as much because I'm just not as into westerns.

― DJP

KILL BILL Volume One (SPOILERS YO)

crank for best romcom
xp too

Battle Royale might me a straight genre flick but, aside from that, it pretty much consists of nothing BUT action sequences, so there's that.

the KBs never did much for me but i should prob revisit em, havent seen them since they came out

oh wait, anchor bay is putting out a blu-ray with the battle royale theatrical cut in march! yay

er.. I meant to say that BR is NOT a straight genre flick.

KB1 was a genre-exercising scab on the wrinkled, sunbleached ass of KB2

oh man someone plz do a romcom poll

ronin for romcom, it's a total bromance between deniro and reno

I didn't like KB that much. Never saw the 2nd. Was there a 3rd? I don't even know. I have no idea why I didn't like it or had no desire to see any of the others but I didn't and I'm someone who like QT a lot in general.

KB1 is great, DJP otm about the silhouette sequence which, tbh, reminds me of nothing so much as some of Frank Miller's super-stylized fight sequences in Daredevil & Wolverine in the 80s

yeah I'm a tarantino apologist but the KBs are where I draw the line

I just bought a used copy of Battle Royale book the other day, psyched to read it now

eh KB2 is good too but it's pretty different tonally

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screw you guys, I love Kill Bill

xpost Kill Bill 1 is OK, but Kill Bill 2 is much better, and makes the former better in context, too.

kill bill is the movie that brought us swords on a plane lolz
also yeah, it's great

I still like 1 more than 2 but they're both pretty great

Find Kill Bill 2 mostly a bore, too many conversations, but the first one is terrific fun, Tarantino throwing cool stuff on screen at a good whack, & had my vote.

yeah I'm a tarantino apologist but the KBs are where I draw the line

― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Friday, February 17, 2012 10:49 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha! I am just the opposite. I LOVED KB, but I didn't vote for it because I had other priorities. Happy to see it place hight, though.

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#20

POINT BLANK

John Boorman
1967
United States
(385 points, 10 votes, 3 first place)

I like the decsription I read somewhere of Lee Marvin in Point Blank "moving like a black shadow through the California sunshine". Something like that anyway. I can't think of anyone much else who could've played the role with the same sense of simmering, almost pre-programmed violence waiting to be unleashed while showing virtually no emotion.

― Matt #2

Point Blank has one of THE great "WTF?" endings.

― General Doinel

iirc KB1>KB2