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

OH HEY YOU GUYS HAVE PROBABLY NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY4bL_bO8sA

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.

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.

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!

Sturges > Lubitsch > Wilder

Lee Marvin - he's always drunk and violent. and he shd have done more contempo films like Point Blank.

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, 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.

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

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, 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.

I have never seen this Point Blank movie. :/

always forget Death Proof cos i'm still sulking that the Grindhouse movies got separated for UK release

The Apartment would def be high up on my romcom ballot, fwiw.

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

x-posts I saw it here but the separate release in the UK was lame, yeah.

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

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#19

THE TERMINATOR

James Cameron
1984
United States
(407 points, 15 votes)

very tough to find comments on this one for some reason. maybe i need more coffee.

OG Terminator is such a badass movie

too low

boormang's i have seen: zardoz, excalibur, deliverance.

need to see point blank, lee marvin is so colossal

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

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.

OK so hey guys I'll start the romcom thread next week after omar blows up ilx with the action top 10.

romcom poll would be fun

james cameron is some kind of proof that movie budgets need to be indexed to inflation over a directors career or something

Sweet!

Man, 1-18 better be absolutely phenomenal for the original Terminator to place at 19.

so 2 likely places above the OG Terminator, another fat slice of rong

love the horror movie vibe in the scene here from 1:20-1:35.

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

i'd class Point Blank as an action movie, just that it has a different pacing to the Platonic action movie i think

xp to etc
what is with the thing inspiring goofy remakes. i'll repost this cos i really like it :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT7AH4JyuNs

the terminator is magnificent. love the scene in the dingy motel room where he slices open his eye. love the grimy vibe to the whole thing. i think its a better movie than T2 but i voted for 2 on the basis of it being more of an action extravaganza and also being way more important to my childhood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcCJ24MozOg

"phased plasma rifle in a 40 watt range"
"just what you see pal"

so 2 likely places above the OG Terminator, another fat slice of rong

^ The pacing of the first Terminator is amazing, none of the sequels even come close

i voted for 2 on the basis of it being more of an action extravaganza

^this

I have never seen this Point Blank movie. :/

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, February 17, 2012 12:04 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me neither, but now I know what I'll be watching this weekend!

"phased plasma rifle in a 40 watt range"
"just what you see pal"

40 watt! that's lower than a light bulb.

first time i saw Terminator i was blown away by the end, that ridiculous "it's dead...it's not dead..." dragged out finale which is the proper way an action movie shd be done. there's a slew of action flicks that are let down by limp or stupid endings, come to think about it.

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#17 (TIE)

NORTH BY NORTHWEST

Alfred Hitchcock
1959
United States
(408 points, 15 votes)

The flirty dinner on the train, no question. People always talk about how actors not taking their clothes off onscreen can be the sexiest thing and usually it's not true but here, wow.

― Alba

The auction scene is genius. Hitchcock really forces the reader to do the impossible: feel embarrassed for Cary Grant. Then there's James Mason, at his most elegant and icy, casually putting him in his place.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn

I'm just remembering the auction scene. It is terrific. There are lots of similar scenes in other Hitchcocks, aren't there, where the hero escapes the baddies' clutches in a large crowd by putting on a big show. The 49 Steps at the party meeting and that party scene with the Nazis in Notorious.

― Alba

Favorite Scene in Alfred's Hitchcock's "North By Northwest"

I have never seen this Point Blank movie. :/

me either! want to now

also all the people with the super hilarious 'im going to nominate au hasard balthazar for a romcom poll since its really a love story lolooool' have shiny new suggest bans yr welcome

T2 is better in every way deal with it

THIS ONE'S FOR YOU, MORBS

one of these kind of polls for Hitchcock movies would be awesome

NxNW is just fucking great and the old cliche about it inventing Bond movies is mostly true

NORTH BY NORTHWEST - i just really really love this movie and it feels p right on this list

"Apparently the only performance that would please you is if I played dead."

I don't think I voted for NxNW and I have NO IDEA WHY!

The only action movie with Martin Landau playing a homo.

i know T2 is great and epic and all but i just don't think the original shd've been franchised up, i blame T2 for that fucking monstrosity i had to sit thru at the pictures last year or whenever

nxnw is one of the most entertaining movies of all time.

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, February 17, 2012 12:08 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

'sudden bursts of violence' are not the same as action scenes - im sticking with that, because otherwise why not vote for ultraviolent Pulp Fiction

i voted for some keaton, ford, hitchcock and some of that stuff might make it - should've voted for flynn's robin hood too, so that was an oversight, but discussion about what should and shouldnt rank is part of the whole shebang here - if i 'anguish' over one thing it doesn't mean there's no room for talking about anything else

The very first band I was ever in was called North by Northwest. Probably my favorite Hitchcock, or at least a very close tie with Rear Window.

heh north by northwest ranks while i post that - i voted for it, and rightly or wrongly ive always thought of it as the most important ancestor of the 'action film' genre