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

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

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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?

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

great thanks, little china otm

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sci-fi poll's been done iirc

― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:25 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and yeah horror's well-trod

Don't think there's been a write in poll for either, though I may have missed it.

If you type 'Best Horror film' in the search you will see a series of polls per year.

xpost to Scott, belated: 13 Assassins is really exceptional. Basically Seven Samurai redux again, but really well made/acted/etc.

i will watch 13 assassins soon. i fell asleep watching this last night on netflix:

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xxp,

I'm aware of the yearly polls, having voted in a few of them. There's not been a big all-time write in poll like this one.

I watched KKBB earlier this year and really liked it but wouldn't expect it to show up in an all time poll. I started thinking about True Romance yesterday and now think I need to watch it this weekend. Was that nominated?

Gubke - I was asking about LotM last night. I don't know if it was nomed though. Let me look . . .

Last of the Mohicans was and deservedly so. True Romance was not which I guess isn't surprising but there's certainly some resolution through insane and awesome action esp at the end in there.

you talking about KKBB makes me think ENBB stands for eat nougat bang bang or something

Well I do like nougat.

KKBB is like a weird linchpin film that represents both Robert Downy Jr's, comeback, Shane Black's comeback, and Val Kilmer's rebirth as weird character actor.

Black has taken his time following it up though. And when he does it seems it'll be with Iron Man 3 :/

did anyone ever see a.w.o.l. the movie shane black wrote under another name? i never have.

iron man 3 is gonna rule imo

this thread inspired me to watch HEROES OF THE EAST last night. i had forgotten how insanely great the editing in those shaw bros movies was.

If Iron Man 3 is half as good as Iron Man 2 ... it'll be truly terrible.

morbz will be happy to know that i went over to the cd pit across the street cuz i was bored and was gonna pick up some discount action movies and ended up getting a four-disc set of old musicals for five bucks. thought that was pretty good value for the money. 20 musicals. all-american co-ed! black tights! royal wedding! and so many more! plus lena horne in the duke is tops. and cab calloway in hi-de-ho.

also includes Killer Diller from 1943, an all-black music and comedy revue. excited to see that.

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

seconded. and this thread makes me wish a) the netflix/lovefilm in the UK streamed pretty much any of the movies mentioned herein and b) that i had hours to spend watching them.

my parents are taking the kids up to their place sunday and monday. i just bought a dozen heavy duty, uh, adult brownies. and i'm considering taking president's day off and closing the store and netflixing my way to enlightenment. i work pretty hard. i think i deserve a two day netflix holiday.

at the risk of jeopardizing whatever cred i probably don't actually have anyway, i will admit to not having seen the following:

73 GOLDFINGER
72 VANISHING POINT
67 (TIE) BRANDED TO KILL
66 ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
64 INFERNAL AFFAIRS
62 (TIE) DEMOLITION MAN
53 (TIE) KUNG FU HUSTLE
52 GET CARTER
51 AKIRA
50 LA FEMME NIKITA
40 YOJIMBO
39 LE SAMOURAI
37 TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.
20 POINT BLANK

actually, though, i think that is the best take-home aspect about polls like these, b/c now I am essentially C&Ping that same list into my nf queue

except for Goldfinger. Never been big on 60s Bond, for whatever reason..

did you ever meet anyone really into james bond? it's a concept i do not understand, to be fair

i just realised for years i've had to live and die in and escape from l.a. confused

i think every bond stan i've ever encountered has immediately defaults to a shitty sean connery impression whenever their favorite subject gets brought up

there are british people on this board so i'm respectful. they need one cool thing at least. otherwise they are just left with dr. who.

that brit statham cop killer movie pretty bad by the way. what was the last great u.k. action movie? that didn't involve james bond.

Someone who loves me bought me the DVD of Long Kiss Goodnight a long time ago, and I have watched it many times. Love so much. The same person bought me Under Siege 1 and 2, come to think of it.

KKBB just hit my radar maybe 3 years ago? And provides hysterical quotes for DAYS. JUST DAYS.

oh and do i need to watch the red riding miniseries thing on netflix? 70's britain can be cool.

re: bond - i like a lot of the bond villains, and the films where there are a lot of good action setpieces and what not. i've just never been that taken by the whole 'rakish debonair/playboy' aspect.

there are british people on this board so i'm respectful. they need one cool thing at least. otherwise they are just left with dr. who

lol fu scott

does 'the descent' count as an action movie? i kind of hate it but it's p visceral

was In Bruges british?

btw i think the red riding books are p dumb and whenever i saw any of the tv shows they were worse - lots of fairly empty Arty Crime Movie signifiers. too many shots of rain out of the windows in cars in motion. conspiracy underneath every interaction, like you never went to the shops just to buy a packet of damn crisps. it's grim up north.

if Dawn of the Dead can make this list, then The Descent can be counted as an action movie by any reasonable rationale

I'm _really_ into Bond, and I know others. It's not that weird. We're not deadly serious about it - I wrote something about why Bond is always fun and still relevant, and one of the points is the many ways it's been involuntarily entertaining through the years. There's a lot to like about Bond, from comedic aspects to the action to the IKEA-assembly formulaic tradition itself. Being _really_ into Bond isn't saying each, or even any movie is a masterpiece, in isolatino. The core thing, for me, is seeing the series evolve - what's done right with the next one, what's done wrong, how it reflects on the times, on the series, the producers, the character. It's a whole lot of fun nerding over that.