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
xp
― 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
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/pointblank1.jpg
#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
gonna just pretend that says Gross Point Blank
― Mordy, Friday, 17 February 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
Kill Bill 2 lacked any of the manic energy that made KB1 fun.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
oh score - I wouldn't have thought of Point Blank as an action movie, really, but it's fucking awesome. Even the Mel Gibson remake is good
i couldn't give a fuck whether anybody likes Tarantino or not anymore, i don't think any other QT flick counts as an action movie but Kill Bill 1 is a total classic, relentless inventive fight scenes in ever-changing (yeah ripped off) styles that ramp the odds higher and higher and past sanity but who gives a fuck so visceral, so satisfying
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
i kinda enjoyed the first KB, but i didnt love it. when KB2 came along i was just in a certain mood where all of tarantino's tics and conventions seemed totally transparent and boring to me. i thought it was a tedious movie, but maybe i didnt give it a fair shake
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
lets talk about how much lee marvin owns
OH HEY YOU GUYS HAVE PROBABLY NEVER SEEN THIS BEFOREhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY4bL_bO8sA
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
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
Yeah will be an excellent way to keep avoiding Lubitsch, Wilder, and Sturges. I won't vote in it either.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not saying I didn't like KB1 okay. But I think its ADHDness, coupled with my own ADHDness made it a bit ... overkilly? Gratuitous? Something, in a not-fun way. KB2 made me laugh more, and that counts for a lot in a patently silly movie. I'm certainly not defending one over the other – just realizing my personal preference.
― "renegade" gnome (remy bean), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
KB1&2: I've always watched them back-to-back since they've both been available for such. At three hours or so, it's shorter than than plenty of 'epic' flicks that don't justify their longer runtimes as one feature!
― Jurgis Rudkus // Dick Butkus (Pillbox), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
Sturges > Lubitsch > Wilder
Lee Marvin - he's always drunk and violent. and he shd have done more contempo films like Point Blank.
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Friday, February 17, 2012 10:57 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This kinda sums it up for me. Death Proof is an action flick for sure, though.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
point blank is great, but i think of it as a part of the man-movie/badass genre as opposed to an action picture, which is why i didnt vote for it. parker is one of those great not-sure-if-i-want-to-root-for-this-guy antiheroes
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, February 17, 2012 11:00 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That's it. I'm gonna nominate The Apartment for the romcom thread.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
I have never seen this Point Blank movie. :/
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
always forget Death Proof cos i'm still sulking that the Grindhouse movies got separated for UK release
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
The Apartment would def be high up on my romcom ballot, fwiw.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 17 February 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
tho now im watching the trailer for PB and it sure looks like an action flick to me. i just havent seen it in a long time i guess
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
x-posts I saw it here but the separate release in the UK was lame, yeah.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
if you edited down The Two Towers and Return of the King to just the Sam and Frodo scenes, it's basically a love story
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/terminator.jpg
#19
THE TERMINATOR
James Cameron1984United States(407 points, 15 votes)
very tough to find comments on this one for some reason. maybe i need more coffee.
― omar little, Friday, 17 February 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
OG Terminator is such a badass movie
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
too low
― Brad C., Friday, 17 February 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
boormang's i have seen: zardoz, excalibur, deliverance.
need to see point blank, lee marvin is so colossal
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah will be an excellent way to keep avoiding Lubitsch, Wilder, and Sturges
if this poll happens I am totally voting for the Apartment fyi
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPPxI_qEzsI
The Thing has pretty great action sequences - helicoptors, flamethrowers, guns, w/e. Is Crank the, er, "purest" action movie on this list?wrt/Battle Royale, "nasty stuff happening to people in quasi-woodland areas" seems fairly well split between Pred/Rambo-style action flicks and backwoods-US horror films, so it gets a pass.
I mean, it seems pretty likely there'll be no Douglas Fairbanks/Errol Flynn movies (or any OG swashbuckling, or Buster Keaton - the motorcycle sequence in Sherlock Jr is even better than the one in Akira - or etc etc etc) on this list; wringing hands over The Thing seems like the wrong avenue for anguish.
― etc, Friday, 17 February 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
OK so hey guys I'll start the romcom thread next week after omar blows up ilx with the action top 10.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
romcom poll would be fun
― CANDY aka JUNK (some dude), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
james cameron is some kind of proof that movie budgets need to be indexed to inflation over a directors career or something
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
Sweet!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
Man, 1-18 better be absolutely phenomenal for the original Terminator to place at 19.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link