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

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.

Stagecoach has more "action" than the Leones.

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, February 17, 2012 2:45 PM (30 minutes ago)

definitely made it onto my ballot

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.

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

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.

I'm thinking a separate war movie poll would be worthwhile.

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,

Morbs can box. Tuomas better bring a cutlass.

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.

Oh, I see.

Also, I'm from Texas and the handle you singled out is my IRL last name.

Have the Rifftrax MST3K guys done "The Thing"?

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.

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.

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

xxxpost to Elvis

WAR MOVIE POLL YES PLZ

you shoulda stumped for some of these in the noms thread amt!

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

i dunno the virtues of stagecoach aren't really in its "action" are they?

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, February 17, 2012 4:19 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

well the stuntwork was pioneering, and great stunts are one of the biggest kicks i can get from an action picture

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

― lil kink (Matt P), Friday, February 17, 2012 3:00 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

images off, kids

tbh i probably would've voted for once upon a time in china or peking opera blues. laurel and someone else were big time & tide supporters. it would've been an uphill battle to get any hark on the list because of the vote splitting

WAR MOVIE POLL YES PLZ

OK, I'll coordinate it but I'll wait until the smoke clears from this one first...

I never vote in these things, must break the cycle, but have caught up. Awesome to read this huge thread and love the variety between 'action' and then hyper-speed action that became a kind of thing post-80s

Think Escape from New York is easily the best Carpenter (like the remake of Assault.. more, its probably one of my favourite remakes iir). Caught it in the last week and just hope this will make the top 10

Seen most of these - but of the ones I haven't its the Bourne trilogy that I need to watch.

nevertheless, Grisso, you are spiritually British, if I may use an oxymoron.

We should have a best thriller poll just to clear up any confusions earlier :-)

yeah i guess peking opera blues is an action movie isn't it?

best tsui hark movies OTTOMH:

1. the blade
2. peking opera blues
3. chinese feast
4. dangerous encounters of the 1st kind
5. shanghai blues
6. love in the time of twilight
7. a better tomorrow 3
8. zu warriors from the magic mountain (original version)
9. once upon a time in china
10. green snake

VG - right, exactly. I was just saying that it's different for me. I like those things and can def appreciate them but there has to be something else going on or I'm going to get bored and lose interest. No matter how cool those elements might be individually I don't get overly excited about them as stand alone things which is why I've never really thought of myself as an action movie person despite the fact that if I were to list out my top ten movies of all time (something which I've never done am not really sure I could really do) I'd guess at least 3 if not more could probably be considered as such.

tsui hark in particular i wanted to at least give one token vote to, but couldnt narrow it down

YOU GUYS ARE NO HELP AT ALL. It was Jibe, btw.

So I'm guess now that we aren't going down to 11 today? :(

*guessing

OL said he was done until Monday.

also

http://www.youtube.com/v/3bozxgVQ9m0&feature=related&fs=1&hl=en

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Man oh man great memories of watching that at like 1am when I was 14 or so.

hope Hard Boiled is top ten

who did tai chi master? i love that movie.

Now I'm gonna watch Godard's Le Petit Soldat over a burger so that Morbs doesn't scream at me.

^^There's some good action in that one.

I am loving this thread to death. And so happy that even though I didn't vote, I got quoted in the post about the movie I surely would have rated #1.

maria is going out tonight so netflix will be my mistress. thinking one of these:

the big bird cage
caged heat
grand theft auto
the way of the gun
women in cages
battle beyond the stars

although.....speaking of bruce willis, should i watch set up?

I've been wanting to see Way of the Gun forever...I really need to watch that damn movie

i tried way of the gun once. the first 10 mins were awful imo, that's all i got thru.

way of the gun is really cool & underrated lil flick

http://www.youtu.be/9w6UUkkOmgo

yeah idk man

i am sorry but that is garbage

thats not the whole movie m8, its a scene from it

its an intentionally unpleasant movie and it feels real try-hardy at times when its going for that effect, but theres some cool stuff in there too. its a mixed bag imo

ooh this is on netflix now. never seen it. rick ross fave.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/weirdposters/SOnGWnwF1AI/AAAAAAAAXnQ/cTULkqgTyjo/god_forgives_i_dont_poster_01.jpg

i remember being rly disappointed; the usual suspects is so tight and imaginative, and way of the gun read worse than the 90s tarantino clones like "love and a .45"

xp

netflix kind of a treasure trove for smelly dusty 60's westerns. there are a ton of them on there.

hah, i hate usual suspects. i think its one of those movies that seems like a better idea when you're not actually watching it

the fountain bit in Way of the Gun...that shit gives me the heebie jeebies