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.
xp
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
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, 17 February 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think anyone hates The Thing, they are just arguing it isn't an action movie
btw I have never seen it
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Friday, February 17, 2012 11:32 AM (39 seconds ago) Bookmark
get out
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
not hating on the thing, just don't get in what way it's an action movie.
lol xp
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
maybe if they had guns and a long chase scene across the arctic tundra
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
WE NEED MORE RIGOUR ON THE NOMINATIONS THREADS TO HELP THE WEAK-WILLED AND CONTRARIANS
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
Dan, you will like The Thing. Kurt Russell & John Carpenter can't go wrong.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't seen Battle Royale either but how is it not an action movie? The book comes across like an action story.
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
The Thing is prob my all time favorite movie, but it doesnt belong & 'its awesome' is no rationale for its inclusion
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Jurgis Rudkus // Dick Butkus (Pillbox), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
― 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?
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
yeah
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
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::
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
― 99x (Lamp), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
there's no way a movie where a helicopter chases a wolf isn't a romantic comedy
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
AP - yes.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
Die Hard to win romcom poll, tbh.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 17 February 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
I will nominate both Die Hard and Point Break as romcoms jftr
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
Battle Royale is funny! And social satire!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
note: this movie is actually 2003, my bad.
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#21
KILL BILL VOL. 1
Quentin Tarantino2003United 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)
― omar little, Friday, 17 February 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
crank for best romcomxp too
― Jibe, Friday, 17 February 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Jurgis Rudkus // Dick Butkus (Pillbox), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
the KBs never did much for me but i should prob revisit em, havent seen them since they came out
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
oh wait, anchor bay is putting out a blu-ray with the battle royale theatrical cut in march! yay
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
er.. I meant to say that BR is NOT a straight genre flick.
― Jurgis Rudkus // Dick Butkus (Pillbox), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
KB1 was a genre-exercising scab on the wrinkled, sunbleached ass of KB2
― "renegade" gnome (remy bean), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
oh man someone plz do a romcom poll
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
ronin for romcom, it's a total bromance between deniro and reno
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
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
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I'm a tarantino apologist but the KBs are where I draw the line
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
I just bought a used copy of Battle Royale book the other day, psyched to read it now
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
eh KB2 is good too but it's pretty different tonally
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
screw you guys, I love Kill Bill
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
xpost Kill Bill 1 is OK, but Kill Bill 2 is much better, and makes the former better in context, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
kill bill is the movie that brought us swords on a plane lolzalso yeah, it's great
― Jibe, Friday, 17 February 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
I still like 1 more than 2 but they're both pretty great
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― woof, Friday, 17 February 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
― 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.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
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#20
POINT BLANK
John Boorman1967United 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
― omar little, Friday, 17 February 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
iirc KB1>KB2
my preference for the latter may just come down to the fact that I like dirty talky western stuff more than slick well-cut ninjas (even if they are shot really, really well)
― "renegade" gnome (remy bean), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
nonsense. the right one placed!
― Jurgis Rudkus // Dick Butkus (Pillbox), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link