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

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

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.

OH HAY DID YOU GUYS FORGET POLICE STORY?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ2Z8pGWmmg

#2 or #3 for sure

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

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

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.

also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bozxgVQ9m0&feature=related

also is children of men gonna show up here?

I doubt it.

Action movies are so much more my jam than I ever realized. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY didn't I vote.
(repeat ad nauseum forever.)

― 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.

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, February 17, 2012 3:46 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

more conflicts around here should be resolved with violence imo

morbs vs. tuomas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aABT-FjR4_M&feature=player_embedded

DARK OF THE SUN!!!!

amateurist knows what I'm talkin' about!

holy shit ams thanks for that snake in the eagle's shadow youtube

Dark of the Sun is a Tarantino fave iirc

also can i just

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

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.

Only time I regret missing a poll is when the entry I'd have picked has a sad lil goose-egg.

yo youtubes crash 3,000+ post threads for us plebes, can we cio xxpost

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.

?

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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?

cut it out xp

on that score can we talk about BLIND FURY w/ rutger hauer?

:(

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

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.

wolf, I like yr youtubes. I feel like I am learning some v important things here

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9jbG-c2Ned4/S9Wc9cMgStI/AAAAAAAACdc/sSTa392gHqY/s1600/Kellys_Heroes_ODDBALLSAYSsilkscreen.jpg

on that score can we talk about BLIND FURY w/ rutger hater?

Only if we can talk about Blood Of Heroes too

like you can post a lot of them i love awesome youtubes just don't embed iirc

fyi, if you use the youtu.be link it won't autoembed and therefore cause this thread to crash on some ppl's computers

ah. ok, sorry about overloading thread.

am i crazy for wanting to watch that darker than amber scene three times in a row?

can someone post a permalink to the rundown of the-list-so-far because this thread is hell on my phone.

"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.

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.

best WDYLL ever

Updated for today:

75 APOCALYPTO
74 INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM
73 GOLDFINGER
72 VANISHING POINT
71 DIRTY HARRY
69 (TIE) THE HURT LOCKER
69 (TIE) DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE
67 (TIE) CON AIR
67 (TIE) BRANDED TO KILL
66 ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
65 SIN CITY
64 INFERNAL AFFAIRS
62 (TIE) DEMOLITION MAN
62 (TIE) TAKEN
61 MAD MAX
60 JAWS
59 THE FUGITIVE
58 CASINO ROYALE
57 COLLATERAL
56 THE INCREDIBLES
55 ENTER THE DRAGON
53 (TIE) MIAMI VICE
53 (TIE) KUNG FU HUSTLE
52 GET CARTER
51 AKIRA
50 LA FEMME NIKITA
49 DISTRICT 9
48 TOTAL RECALL
47 THE WILD BUNCH
46 THE GREAT ESCAPE
45 COMMANDO
44 THE KILLER
43 THE FIFTH ELEMENT
42 SPEED
41 BULLITT
40 YOJIMBO
39 LE SAMOURAI
38 DAWN OF THE DEAD
37 TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.
36 THE MATRIX
35 INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
34 CRANK
33 THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
32 THE BOURNE IDENTITY
31 THE WARRIORS
30 THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
29 THE BOURNE SUPREMACY
28 ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
27 BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA
26 THE DARK KNIGHT
25 PREDATOR
24 POINT BREAK
23 BATTLE ROYALE
22 THE THING
21 KILL BILL VOL. 1
20 POINT BLANK
19 THE TERMINATOR
17 NORTH BY NORTHWEST
17 STARSHIP TROOPERS
16 THE ROAD WARRIOR

am i crazy for wanting to watch that darker than amber scene three times in a row?

Well I watched it three times, and I don't feel crazy...

My biggest regret w/r/t not voting in this poll is my firm belief that I could've helped Cobra make it into the top 75.

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you've got to love the way william smith just comes blasting out of that door, grunting like a beast.

elvis telecom i'm curious if you have any other dvd commentary-related thoughts

My faves are the ones that are pseudo-MST3K riffing and make you feeling like you're actually in the screening room with them. The Carpenter/Russell ones are great because they're just friends hanging out and yakking about everything. I love the Big Trouble In Little China commentary because you can actually hear them cracking open a couple of beers and then somewhere in the middle of the movie they're talking about their kids for a long time until Russell says "hey maybe we should talk about the movie a little?"

yeah i remember russell spends like 5 minutes talking about how much his kid likes to play hockey.

:)

Yeah, Carpenter/Russell commentary on The Thing is also great.