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
― 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.
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
best WDYLL ever
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
Updated for today:
75 APOCALYPTO74 INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM73 GOLDFINGER72 VANISHING POINT71 DIRTY HARRY69 (TIE) THE HURT LOCKER69 (TIE) DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE67 (TIE) CON AIR67 (TIE) BRANDED TO KILL66 ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 1365 SIN CITY64 INFERNAL AFFAIRS62 (TIE) DEMOLITION MAN62 (TIE) TAKEN61 MAD MAX60 JAWS59 THE FUGITIVE58 CASINO ROYALE57 COLLATERAL56 THE INCREDIBLES55 ENTER THE DRAGON53 (TIE) MIAMI VICE53 (TIE) KUNG FU HUSTLE52 GET CARTER51 AKIRA50 LA FEMME NIKITA49 DISTRICT 948 TOTAL RECALL47 THE WILD BUNCH46 THE GREAT ESCAPE45 COMMANDO44 THE KILLER43 THE FIFTH ELEMENT42 SPEED41 BULLITT40 YOJIMBO39 LE SAMOURAI38 DAWN OF THE DEAD37 TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.36 THE MATRIX35 INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE34 CRANK33 THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK32 THE BOURNE IDENTITY31 THE WARRIORS30 THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM29 THE BOURNE SUPREMACY28 ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST27 BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA26 THE DARK KNIGHT25 PREDATOR24 POINT BREAK23 BATTLE ROYALE22 THE THING21 KILL BILL VOL. 120 POINT BLANK19 THE TERMINATOR17 NORTH BY NORTHWEST17 STARSHIP TROOPERS16 THE ROAD WARRIOR
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
Well I watched it three times, and I don't feel crazy...
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
you've got to love the way william smith just comes blasting out of that door, grunting like a beast.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
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?"
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i remember russell spends like 5 minutes talking about how much his kid likes to play hockey.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
:)
Yeah, Carpenter/Russell commentary on The Thing is also great.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, February 17, 2012 2:45 PM (30 minutes ago)
definitely made it onto my ballot
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno the virtues of stagecoach aren't really in its "action" are they?
is they were expendable an action movie? in general combat movies are waaaay underrepresented here.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
many xxxposts to ENBB: Some of my favorite things in life come frome good kickass action movies: nothing I love more than a good pratical, non-cgi explosion; car chases/car stunts, and oldschool fights and people-stunts. Like, I seriously turn into a 5 year old if something blows up real good.
I don't know what it is. It's just fun! To me those kinds of movies are like the definition escapism for me. Blow up a thing, roundhouse kick to the chest, jump in a car and drive away real fast. ie, WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE :D
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
Have the Rifftrax MST3K guys done "The Thing"?
I watched that a month or so back and all I could think is man, there's enough weird silent staring moment and random shouting for those guys to have a ball.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
I'm thinking a separate war movie poll would be worthwhile.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
― some dude,
Morbs can box. Tuomas better bring a cutlass.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, I see.
Also, I'm from Texas and the handle you singled out is my IRL last name.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
There are two different ones that Rifftrax sells, but they aren't by Nelson/Corbett/Murphy so I naturally distrust it. Seriously though, the Carpenter/Russell commentary track IS the Rifftrax version.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
i know it sounds weird but there is one really beautiful bomb-defusing sequence in powell & pressburger's "the small back room" which is a lot better than most of the stuff in hurt locker.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
you shoulda stumped for some of these in the noms thread amt!
i intended to watch some shaw bros movies before voting, but i didnt get around to it. i did get some cool recs out of my friend though so i'll be watching them regardless. my HK action phase was in my early teens and as such i dont feel comfortable voting for a lot of stuff i havent seen since i was that age, so while i had a bunch of cool HK stuff in mind i ended up not voting for it. tsui hark in particular i wanted to at least give one token vote to, but couldnt narrow it down to one picture.
i was positive that i DID vote for police story, but looking at my ballot im astonished to see that i omitted it. i did vote for zulu, and stagecoach and where eagles dare. i passed on duck you sucker (it'll always be fistful of dynamite to me) for reasons i'll get into when good/bad/ugly places
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
xxxpost to Elvis
WAR MOVIE POLL YES PLZ
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
when was that? i basically wasn't on ilx at all for a few months (almost a year, maybe) until recently.
the blade is the tsui hark movie you want to top this list
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link