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

I watched Terminator again maybe a month or so ago, and I was struck at what a straight to video sort of cult film it looks like - cheap effects, cheap reused effects - but it works.

haha. sorry about duplicate post. Heinliein is overrated. Guy is kind of a dick.

We need to find Omar a less demanding job.

TR, actually (watching in real time now), features all sort of prescient tech stuff.

wwwaaaaayyyyy back when I was in junior high, I was into Avalon Hill's "bookcase games" with the tiny cardboard game pieces, hex grid boards, etc. One of my faves was this:

http://www.msu.edu/user/storto/sstsaler.jpg

I HAVE PLAYED THAT

bugs mr rico millions of em

zilions

I admit that the 'recruiting commercial' at the end of ST is pretty funny. The rest of it gets bogged down because the characters do stupid things relative to the exact same scene in the book. Example: in the movie, Zim deliberately injures a recruit by throwing a knife into his hand. In the novel, he has a long discussion with recruits about the purpose of the military (as Heinlein saw it, IOW 'here's some more militarist propaganda for the reader').
But Heinlein is a dick, the book isn't intended as satire (it was written as an argument against cutting back on nuclear testing), you have to pick your own way through it.

btw morbs voted and his #1 was indeed timecop.

― omar little, Friday, February 17, 2012 1:27 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

DJP looks like you are a stone cold psychic about this list.

Oh god I still remember the pissy whines of Heinlein fanboys over the lack of the combat suits in ST.

holy shit is that game any fun? i will find a used company if so

my best friend's dad was an o.g. 60's-70's tabletop gamer

i remember the rules being nigh incomprehensible

How could a game with ZILLIONS OF BUGS not be fun?

I mean, there's "Ants In Your Pants" and this, right?

used copy xxp

I am just a preacher, you are all absolved (except somedud).

btw C van Dien whipped = genuine bonerz

http://images.tvrage.com/people/1/211.gif

the book starship troopers is sort of campy fun of its own like the lol old conservatives idea that western democracy would collapse because it was too soft on teen delinquents

I can totally imagine a future that looks like Recall and RoboCop.

I can't. seems like garden variety 80s vision of the future, totally prefab and arch, like paul reiser's hair in aliens. compared with blade runner, robocop is half a step away from hobo with a shotgun.

yeah if at the very least you can admit to casper boners you are allowed in my house.

casper the friendly boner

http://www.huronhs.com/images/gallery/39/68_album.jpg

I literally looked over my shoulder before scrolling down past Casper's head there.

haha me too

You guys who haven't seen it would it help to mention that RUE MCCLANAHAN is in this movie?

see, this is the kind of stuff that made it hard for me to get into ST

oh look a girl is grossed out by bug guts hur hur hur

holy shit is that game any fun? i will find a used company if so

It's not terribly different from other hex grid games of the era. Basically it's Panzer Blitz with different graphics and slightly different movement rules (the bug tunnels give you an advantage). Fun game, but you can get bogged down with the details.

The best mix of everything is this game:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li0dcfMr9c1qzr8nao1_500.jpg

i love all the future-details in starship troopers like the fact that the main characters have south american names and come from buenos aires but speak american-accented english, so much little stuff like that in it

And I'm still mad at myself for not buying this when it came out:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41DgfBjTRlL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

You guys who haven't seen it would it help to mention that RUE MCCLANAHAN is in this movie?

omg can't believe I never noticed this

xpost But the stupidity of the pretty characters is part of ST's appeal! They are just gormless soap opera fascists, save Doogie.

WAHT. Elvis I want to play that game

wau, EfNY game is by TSR!

compared with blade runner, robocop is half a step away from hobo with a shotgun.

Dude, let's remember: this is future Detroit we're talking about. Robocop may have actually been a little too utopian a vision.

Escape From NY is still in this poll, right?

why the shit doesn't Arnie have eyebrows in this film? It is freaking me out.

srsly concerned when scrolling past casper

I was too much of a snob about ST when it came out, like 'omg giant bugs and guns, ugggh this is so stupid' and it took me a long time to just chill and enjoy it.

That being said, I still hate Independence Day with the force of a thousand suns. It's just toooooo corny for me.

i love all the future-details in starship troopers like the fact that the main characters have south american names and come from buenos aires but speak american-accented english, so much little stuff like that in it

Always wondered if this was a nod to South American-style fascism. I still need to read the first volume of that giant Heinlein biography that came out last year...

to me it's just a funny way of implying a homogenized global monoculture

1) if i drew up a top 75 i think at least 50% would be hong kong movies

2) tsui hark's the blade is the best action film ever IMO and i'm guessing it won't appear on this list :(

3) if these don't appear on the list, dey was robbed:

- white heat (seriously dudes?!)
- the driver
- across 110th street
- where eagles dare (totally ridiculous fun)
- rolling thunder
- duck, you sucker
- darker than amber

4) other than halloween assault on precinct 13 is so much john carpenter's best movie it's not funny. the thing is impressive but i think it suffers from a script that kind of peters out.

Well, Independence Day was directed by Roland Emmerich, one of the dumbest filmmakers ever. So comparing ST to ID is kinda like comparing apples and oranges that someone peed on.

where eagles dare (totally ridiculous fun)

yeah no doubt. the dynamic between richard burton and clint eastwood is hilarious.

you will find plenty of ID, sorry "ID4" defenders on ilx i think!

I voted for Rolling Thunder.

That being said, I still hate Independence Day with the force of a thousand suns. It's just toooooo corny for me.

The best way to view Independence Day is not as a homage to Earth vs. The Flying Saucers and Pal's War Of The Worlds but as the real thing. It *is* a movie from the 1950s, only with millions of dollars in the budget.

Rifftrax's version of Independence Day is as funny as classic MST3K.

5) i mean, king boxer/five fingers of death is gonna be in the top ten, right?

6) what about the new one armed swordsman?

7) legendary weapons of china?

8) fong sai-yuk? once upon a time in china? zu: warriors of the magic mountain?

9) jeez, people.

xpost

yeah where eagles dare, once i realized what it was gonna be like, is just incredibly entertaining

and duck you sucker is also one of the most entertaining movies ever made

Escape From NY is still in this poll, right?

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, February 17, 2012 2:12 PM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I ranked it high on my list, but I'm a little nervous it won't place at this point. VegemiteGrrl, if you had voted, I think a lot of our pics would have been reinforcing.

also:

10) the french connection? the french connection 2?

11) is something wild an action movie?

12) i kind of like the resident evil movies

yeah no doubt. the dynamic between richard burton and clint eastwood is hilarious

The cable car scene alone is one of the best combos of action, suspense, and HFS moments. Burton and Eastwood are basically commando vampires.