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

vegemitegrrl, do you love the rachel ward revenge/schoolchildren movie? i love that one. speaking of aussie revenge. plus, i still want to marry rachel ward.

http://www.crawfords.com.au/libary/movie/images/fortress.jpg

Dirty Harry is totally more fun than Mad Max, mostly due to Clint's dry sarcasm.

I need to re-watch Assault but I remember it being more sneakily subversive than right-wing

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the gang of loony rapists appears in a lot of 70s films

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erm7QDCl-3s

The kid getting shot in Assault => surely nastier than anything on MM?

omg scott - that movie!! I saw that when I was a kid. If it's the one I'm thinking of it terrified me.

maybe i'll watch 13 assassins tonight. haven't see that. so many options...

Those masks were awful and then there was this part where they had to swim in like caves or something iirc.

fortress is intense. and amazing. and i think it was just an aussie t.v. movie, right?

I am looking for something to watch on demand and Last of the Mohicans is under "Action". Would you guys consider that an action movie?

Fortress is awesome. I watched it SO much growing up, but I havent' seen it in years. Is it based on the Chowchilla kidnappings?

lol i forgot about rapist jeff goldblum in death wish

Scott, 13 Assassins is BAD.ASS. You should def watch that.

The kid getting shot in Assault => surely nastier than anything on MM?

I don't remember tbh

the thing with one of the convicts playing a key role in the defense of the precinct thankfully muddies the politics of the movie considerably

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do not use fucking "romcom" unless it's referring to Nora Ephron and that swill

liked this when released:

http://www.gq.com/images/entertainment/2010/11/tony-scott/tony-scott-the-last-boyscout.jpg

(but it is not among the 2,000 best films I've ever seen)

^^^pollthread i would bookmark

Last Boy Scout was in my top ten. Feeling some affinity with Morbs

it's okay. we've all been there. it passes.

Wow, the cashier in that Death Wish clip is Maria from Sesame Street!

Michael Winner said, "(Dino) De Laurentiis said 'Get a cheap English band.' Because the English bands were very successful. But I had a girlfriend who was in Sesame Street, a Puerto Rican actress (Sonia Manzano), who played a checkout girl at the supermarket (in Death Wish), and she was a great jazz fan. She said, 'Well, you should have Herbie Hancock. He's got this record out called Head Hunters.' She gave me Head Hunters, which was staggering. And I said, 'Dino, never mind a cheap English band, we'll have Herbie Hancock.' Which we did."

Fucking Fortress! I had totally forgotten that. Man, between that and Testament, watching HBO went a long way towards fucking me up in elementary school.

i voted last boy scout but doubt itll place

voted for it too but yeh top15 def not a place for it to show up.

it's the forgotten one in the Shane Black canon

I really dig Last Boy Scout. Black is great.

What's the consensus on Long Kiss Goodnight? Is it worth seeing?

Tom Hardy in Mad Max 4? that's a shame, old mel as mad max would be kinda intriguing tbh.

okay, there are two zu movies on netflix. do i watch them both?

zu warriors and zu warriors from the magic mountain.

― scott seward, Friday, February 17, 2012 7:34 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you watch the 2nd of those, the one from 1983

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, February 17, 2012 7:35 PM

*adds to instant queue*

they've been trying to make thunder road (mad max 4) for years. they were in discussions with gibson in the early stages iirc.

Yeah I'd been following along on and off, but I hadn't heard about Tom Hardy.

Maybe it'll be like a cool Star Trek reboot. Maybe. But ugh. Just...George, buddy: please don't make this movie if you're going to take a giant steaming crap on everything before it. Let Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull be your lighthouse.

lol thunder road.... I mean fury road

ha thunder road!

wowee yeah watched first half hour of zu with the kids. very cool. they had to go to bed. we'll watch the rest tomorrow.

briefly put on a richard gere/topher grace vehicle about russian spies but it was too horrible. now i'm checking out statham cop/serial killer movie.

might switch over to tokyo gore police though.

this thread makes me want to see all kinds of action.

oh also checked out some weird animated thing with woody harrelson doing voices. kind of a cross between sin city and moulin rouge or something. i couldn't take it. bunruku? something like that.

i was actually too lazy to go upstairs and read books so i read the subtitles for Zu to the kids. that counts, right?

i interviewed the star of tokyo gore police and she gave me one of my favourite inty quotes ever:

“Through many unreasonable incidents and battles, Ruka’s mental state was something I tried to keep as the core of this film,” she says. “Otherwise, the message of this film would not reach the audience, because there are many visually shocking scenes. If so, I did feel it would be meaningless. Ruka was alone yet strong and beautiful as a lull in the wind, and so was I when I played Ruka.”

xxpost Scott: the Gere/Topher movie is BAAAAD, I'm glad you bailed. And Bunkraku is not great. It's a good idea, but it's just...awkward.

I think a lot of HK and shaw bros stuff suffers from vote splitting... fer instance my fave shaw bros is the gritty urban revenge movie, the delinquent

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

I added a whole bunch of old noir films to my instant queue based on their titles alone

cophater
big house USA
plunder road
short cut to hell
crime against joe
cage of evil

I can't believe I made a shortlist and forgot to vote. Was Last of the Mohicans nominated? Love that film. Won't place now obv.

Plunder Road: really should be the new title of Mad Max 4

I really dig Last Boy Scout. Black is great.

What's the consensus on Long Kiss Goodnight? Is it worth seeing?

YES YES YES YES YES YES

so that's a yes

it's a wonderful movie.

i stanned hard for Shane Black and put LKG, Lethal Weapon and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang on my ballot. am bummed that KKBB won't be placing.

KKBB is alltime. Goddamn I love that movie.

ladies and gentlemen, thanks for your patience. i actually planned to unleash the poll this week because i assumed my job was starting next week, but whaddya know. and i don't have monday off, so we'll see if i can get all 15 out. might have to start a bit earlier...

omar we <3 you, you are awesome

http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/2/nicholas_cage.gif

HORROR (this is already happening year-by-year, right? has anyone done an all-time poll?)

This needs to happen. I know the idea has been batted around before, but it never seemed to take hold. Hell, I'd be willing to do it myself, or at least assist, if folks are down.

omar, i like the graphics you have cooked up for this thread. a lot.

keep missing the results due to geography, no way can i load 2800 or w/e messages on phone can someone post a rundown?

why don't you people use COMPUTERS?