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

don't know why anyone cares what morbs thinks about anything anymore

Theoretically bcz I know what I'm talking about, even though film is the one area on the board where this doesn't mean much.

Freud made a parfait?

lol'n p hard @ 'cineaste' rn

sometimes walnuts are just walnuts.

eric: maybe Spellbound? I'd like to continue this weird metaphor, but I'm stuck with trying to figure what psychoanalytic school influenced Trouble with Harry (much love).

people expecting a clear narrative from poll results is def in my pox ilx pet peeves. it's just a bunch of random people's opinions combined mathematically! there is no interesting story and it's very rarely gonna be surprising or revealing.

part of what makes the road warrior so awesome is the great casting. the gyro pilot, pappagallo, wez, the feral kid. most of them never did anything beyond australian films but even the bit players are distinctive and memorable. I remember spotting the gyro pilot's girlfriend in razorback a few years later, and she's got 5 minutes of screentime in RW.

max is prolly gibson's best role. imagine some other grizzled dude playing him - clint eastwood, or kurt russell - it'd be a totally diff movie. the sandblasted weariness is great, but he's not a robot, the little smile he flashes when he finds the music box, and his scenes with the feral kid are so damn touching.

the final sequence is still the highwater mark of car chases for me, not just cars crashing but the physicality of people trying to storm a big rig en masse.

I think I may have to sneak out of the office and listen to Verhoeven's ST commentary.

Best director commentary ever = Herzog. Interviews, interjections into his own movies--never get tired of it.

sorry for talking about the movies guyz

cable junk is gonna show up cause some people here like cable junk not cause 'that's part of the story this poll is trying to tell'. if you want poll results that don't have cable junk, look at a msg board that doesn't have people who like cable junk.

xp

Predator is the high-water mark and there'll be no Lethal Weapon / Point Break / Top Gun / Under Siege.

I'm starting to think this is 75% happening!

I saw Road Warrior on NYC opening night w/ a theater full of bikers who stomped their boots at the end.

lol'n p hard @ 'cineaste' rn

ok, 'ppl who've reevaluate their faves from pantsweeting days'

really don't know why anyone cares what morbs thinks about anything anymore. or acknowledges his posts in any way.

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his sensibility is totally different from mine, but i do think morbs' role as board crank is sort of important, and i wouldnt want a movie poll where he *didnt* wander in and tell everyone how vulgar and wrong they are

max is prolly gibson's best role. imagine some other grizzled dude playing him - clint eastwood, or kurt russell - it'd be a totally diff movie.

this definitely. he's a total movie star in it.

(pantswetting obv)

OH: I HAD FUN @ ROAD WARRIOR

Morbs, you can't be that far away from pants-wetting days again, can you?

Sorry, it was an easy set-up. At first I read it as pants-sweating, and I was all, huh?

Many x-posts, but I think you're missing that even hardcore stat nerds will start talking about players they loved and experiences they've had with baseball that inform what made them stat nerds to start with. You don't become a baseball nerd without some kind of visceral love for the game (and its history and narratives etc), IMO.

I saw the road warrior a couple times during it's theatrical run, but the most perfect instance had to be at a drive-in double feature w/ mad max

that was my point, eh xp

http://bigstickcombat.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/old-man-with-cane.jpg

xp

think you're missing that even hardcore stat nerds will start talking about players they loved and experiences they've had with baseball that inform what made them stat nerds to start with.[

srsly, how could you miss that this is exactly what I was saying?

VEORC = visceral enjoyment over replacement cineaste

Is your argument against, say, Commando that it fails at what it set out to accomplish? Or can a bodybuilder slaughterfest just never be good?

you know when ppl dub movie clips w/ their favorite songs on youtube? they all suck except this one

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

xp - because I don't think you are? You appear to judge films against some Platonic standard of content and quality, which tends to not reconcile with visceral enjoyment IMO.

SIXTEEN?????
Road Warrior is #16???? *cries*

Curse my stupid non-voting ass.

Anyhoo...

Remember lingerie?

Which, FWIW, stats nerdery doesn't do. Numbers matter largely in the economic context of the game, not as values in themselves.

yeah, that's why Kung Fu Hustle made my best of the '00s list, its ripeness for exploitation by Lacanian semiotics

Driving Miss Daisy would look good with Ace of Spades playing over the top.

if vegemitegrrl and I had voted we prolly coulda lobbed the road warrior into the top 10

I think my only post on the noms thread was asking omar to give all my points to the road warrior

I love early Gibson: Tim, Gallipoli, Year of Living Dangerously, Bounty, Lethal Weapon 1 & 2...I even liked Bird on a Wire!

Post-Braveheart, I was kinda done.

But Max will always be his finest. The brutality of one feeding into his anarchy in the second, and those moments with the little wolfboy... Mel was TITE.

I think this means I'm watching RW this weekend.

We've all been through it in here. But we haven't given up. We're still human beings, with dignity. But you? You're out there with the garbage. You're NOTHING.

payback is a cool post-braveheart mel, iirc

speaking of point blank?

I am gravely disappointed. Again you have made me unleash my dogs of war

Fresh water! Sunshine! Nothing to do but breed...

GIVE ME BACK MY SON

I can't overstate how much I love the Toecutter from MM1 though. That dude was fucking great.

Mad Max and Road Warrior are surely two of the best movies ever made.

morbz, there is a lonely planet for you:

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=50

the ghost of jay blanchard haunts it though. BE CAREFUL!

Station Master: That must be your friend over there. They didn't leave much of him.
Bubba Zanetti: Must've cut his heart out, eh?
Station Master: Yes. That's what I meant. Poor bastard!
Toecutter: [whirls on the Station Manager] The Nightrider. That is his name... the Nightrider.
Station Master: [frightened] The NightRider.
Toecutter: Remember him when you look at the night sky!
Station Master: I will.
Toecutter: Take your hat off.
Station Master: Anything you say.
Toecutter: Anything I say. What a wonderful philosophy you have. Take him away.

just realized wez was also bennett in commando!

Best director commentary ever = Herzog. Interviews, interjections into his own movies--never get tired of it.

It bears repeating that the John Carpenter/Kurt Russell commentary tracks on The Thing, Big Trouble, etc. are equally as great.

Just realized that RW & MM were the only violations of my dumbass will not forte for more than one movie in a series rule.

xpost oh shit I will have to listen to russell/carpenter commentary

FWIW, I think accusing Morbs of being anti-fun is totally wrongheaded. Do you think it's more likely that he consistently lobs contrarianism grenades into random threads out of some grave sense of duty to educate the plebes or because his refined skill at poking hornets' nests makes him titter like a giddy schoolboy?

I hate rhetorical questions.

morbz is momus jr. i can dig it. i liked momus on ilx. i like morbz on ilx. they have their fun.

I think it's mostly because he thinks if he pokes those hornets enough, they'll get the point and stop stinging