i thought i voted for it but i seem to have left it off my final list
― Number None, Friday, 17 February 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
I can't see youtube at work but I am guessing the ID4 video upthread is Will Smith punching an alien?
― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
RE ID4 clip. Hahaha OK I will watch with a giant bowl of popcorn and some raisinettes and sour patch kids
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
will smith punching an alien face, forever
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
Action movies are so much more my jam than I ever realized. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY didn't I vote.(repeat ad nauseum forever.)
^This. If nothing else, this poll has opened my eyes to my relative snobbery towards action movies. So many dumb and useless ones get made that I tend to forget how many great ones there are. I hardcore love about 90% of the movies in this thread that I've seen, and I'm totes looking forward to seeing the rest.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
also this one, also starring rod taylor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rf_vulEuSw
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
Just watched a couple of clips of Darker Than Amber on youtube -- really wish this would get a DVD release.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Friday, February 17, 2012 2:42 PM (9 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the cut version, with a radically edited down climactic fight scene, is sometimes broadcast on TCM.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
the bladehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p1Az__E_mM
legendary weapons of china
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VngaSwSHNw4
snake in the eagle's shadow
IF YOU WATCH ONE YOUTUBE TODAY WATCH THIS ONE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qXdiIUB34Q
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
re White Heat.... why isn't every western and every gangster movie an action film? bcz they're not! White Heat is a character study in the context of a fall-of-a-gangster meller.
I mean, the summit of The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly is that 4-minute corrida at the end where the principals are circling each other, followed by 3 seconds of "action."
Stagecoach has more "action" than the Leones.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
OH HAY DID YOU GUYS FORGET POLICE STORY?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ2Z8pGWmmg
#2 or #3 for sure
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnIE8B8iMNA
if this thread doesn't culminate in a knife fight between Tuomas and Morbz over the definition of "action" I'm going to be very disappointed
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTpJuDsVyQE
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
action = some combo of destructive force + movement, no?
"spasm of six-year-olds" is a great collective noun
I was just coming here to post that. A pride of lions, a wake of buzzards, a spasm of six-year-olds, etc.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bozxgVQ9m0&feature=related
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
also is children of men gonna show up here?
I doubt it.
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, February 17, 2012 3:31 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
See, I would never have said that because they're not normally mine. Despite loving a lot of the things that have placed so far I wouldn't ever say I'm a big fan of action movies as a general thing. There are tons I've never seen and/or never wanted to see (C+F Independence Day). I think that's why I didn't vote even though I now realize I'm probably more qualified than some of the yahoos that did. I like ltos movies with action in them but there has more going for it too (although "more" could mean a hell of a lot of different things. I don't think I've ever walked out of a movie saying "those explosions were sick!" but there's lots of movies I think are amazing that happened to have tons of great explosions in them if that makes sense which I realize it probably does not.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, February 17, 2012 3:46 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
more conflicts around here should be resolved with violence imo
― some dude, Friday, 17 February 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
morbs vs. tuomas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aABT-FjR4_M&feature=player_embedded
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
DARK OF THE SUN!!!!
amateurist knows what I'm talkin' about!
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
holy shit ams thanks for that snake in the eagle's shadow youtube
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
Dark of the Sun is a Tarantino fave iirc
― Number None, Friday, 17 February 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
also can i just
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uALXfGvPLWc
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
I'm cool with not having voted because I already know which action films I like, and am sure I'll have other opportunities to alert people as to what they are on ILX.
― da croupier, Friday, 17 February 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
Only time I regret missing a poll is when the entry I'd have picked has a sad lil goose-egg.
― da croupier, Friday, 17 February 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
yo youtubes crash 3,000+ post threads for us plebes, can we cio xxpost
― lil kink (Matt P), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, the summit of The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly is that 4-minute corrida at the end where the principals are circling each other, followed by 3 seconds of "action."Stagecoach has more "action" than the Leones.
With you mentioning on the Spielberg thread that you've already forgotten 98% of War Horse, I'll forgive you forgetting the bridge sequence, the gradual massacre of Angel Eyes' posse, the hanging montage, and the Angel Eyes' executions from GB&U.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
I'm having trouble reconciling some of the movies on this list with the "spasm of six year-olds on acid" title. There's some seriously good and important movies on the list and less of the ridiculous action trash that I was expecting. Where the hell are…
- Nighthawks (Stallone vs. Rutger Hauer in 1981 NYC. Keith Emerson's soundtrack prefigures every Jan Hammer "big synthesizer" action theme that follows. Stallone wears a dress in both the beginning and closing scenes)
- Tango & Cash (more ridiculous than every other absurd movie on this list combined. Also, Kurt Russell!)
- Split Second (chocolate-addicted Rutger Hauer and goth Romulan Kim Cattrall vs. satanic monster in global warming flooded London. Furious amount of one liners (this is the beginning of the "we need more guns… BIG FUCKING GUNS" one-liner). Plus Ian Dury is in it!
Hell, where's the token Tony Scott movie since he helped invent this genre?
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
cut it out xp
― lil kink (Matt P), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
on that score can we talk about BLIND FURY w/ rutger hauer?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
:(
you don't like my youtubes? :(
it's weird that action movie rockism actually cuts against the movies that are gonna end up in the top 10
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
elvis telecom i'm curious if you have any other dvd commentary-related thoughts.
xp uh i do, i promise, but lots of them on one thread crashes my computer.
― lil kink (Matt P), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
wolf, I like yr youtubes. I feel like I am learning some v important things here
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9jbG-c2Ned4/S9Wc9cMgStI/AAAAAAAACdc/sSTa392gHqY/s1600/Kellys_Heroes_ODDBALLSAYSsilkscreen.jpg
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
on that score can we talk about BLIND FURY w/ rutger hater?
Only if we can talk about Blood Of Heroes too
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
like you can post a lot of them i love awesome youtubes just don't embed iirc
― lil kink (Matt P), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
fyi, if you use the youtu.be link it won't autoembed and therefore cause this thread to crash on some ppl's computers
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
ah. ok, sorry about overloading thread.
am i crazy for wanting to watch that darker than amber scene three times in a row?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
can someone post a permalink to the rundown of the-list-so-far because this thread is hell on my phone.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
"yo youtubes crash 3,000+ post threads for us plebes, can we cio xxpost"
i was actually wondering if the top ten shouldn't get its own thread. cuz this thread is getting kinda ridic. especially if you miss a bunch of posts and have to backtrack. but i'm not usually in favor of such a thing.
― scott seward, Friday, 17 February 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
I did not forget any (OK, not all) of those from GB&U, Grisso (jeezus where do you Brits get these handles?). I simply think they pale next to the climax.
if this thread doesn't culminate in a knife fight between Tuomas and Morbz over the definition of "action"
Ideally wearing only grease, tattoos and a bandanna.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link