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

okay i won't watch the red riding shows. all i need is one thumbs down.

28 Days Later = Not zombies.

Would argue that Dawn of the Dead remake is an action movie while original is straight up horror. Remake would have made my ballot for this poll.

was In Bruges british?

― Jurgis Rudkus // Dick Butkus (Pillbox), Saturday, February 18, 2012 4:47 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, but it only has action in the final reel. I'd call it a black comedy.

xp - yeah, one of my favorite aspects of the original DOTD is how slow and ponderous much of it is! it captures the sense of isolation and dread perfectly.

i voted for original dawn of the dead in this poll and in my head i was voting for the long directors cut and not the theatrical version. just so you know. long version is top ten alltime for me. and yes it makes a difference to me.

i love the descent. i voted for it here. sorry action purists.

― scott seward, Saturday, February 18, 2012 10:51 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Me too. I am one of the weak-willed who pulled some questionable choices from the nom list due to wanting to marry them.

see, I would raise my hand right now & say "The Descent is easily my favorite horror film of the last ten years." But ask me if it is also my favorite "action movie" and all of a sudden my brain starts short-circuiting.

imo we should decide to do

1) ROMCOMS
2) COMEDIES

so ppl know to nominate for one or the other

― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, February 17, 2012 5:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is kinda old now, but i think the interesting thing in these two polls is the meta qn of where certain movies placed on each!

the 'definitional questions' are fun to fight about anyway, and as a matter of consensus they kind of come out in the wash anyway

my 2c

anyway

the 'red riding' novels are kinda going for some brit 'l.a. quartet'-era ellroy, at least from what i've read, and the films try the same thing w/diminishing returns. they're supposed to be sort of a single story over the three films but they don't hang together very well and the grimness is a bit much and the depiction of 'the north' seems to be the depiction of the south in a lot of american cinema, as this place where you go to die violently at the hand of basically anyone you is not you if you have morals of any kind. the bad guys are so evil is almost comic.

I think that it is inevitable that movies that could place on a romantic comedy poll would place on a comedy poll. And they shouldn't be excluded from one because they were on the other.

Bringing up Baby comes to mind.

xposts: The Descent is cool as hell. And fkn love love Dog Soldiers

Ray Winstone/Colin Farrell are in a sorta actiony thing called London Boulevard, came out last year I think. But I don't know if it's any good. Anyone sen it?

*seen

yeah. it's not very good iirc.

most hollywood comedies are "romantic comedies" even though the "romcom" is like an 80s-born thing. so i'd just do "comedies" or something.

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can we do a best farce poll

lol s1ocki

hur hur best farts poll

yeah, i liked dog soldiers too.

so i'd just do "comedies" or something.

I kinda agree with this but then if a Farrelly Bros film placed higher than The Philadelphia Story I'd Morbs-out worse than he ever did.

lol

but arguably a lot of farrelly bros movies are romcoms so what diff would it make

yeah, i mean all american mainstream comedies have a romantic plot or subplot.

i mean there's something re. mary is a romcom no? also that jimmy fallon one.

ya zacks

is ravenous considered a british movie? man, i love that thing. okay, brits are good to go as far as low-budget horror/action goes. i notice nobody mentions guy ritchie. i don't know if i've ever seen one of his movies from beginning to end. just caught parts of them on cable.

i don't know if i would vote in TWO comedy polls. maybe just one big one. obviously i would have no problem coming up with 50 great comedies that i love. they would all involve zombies. just kidding.

ravenous is a good movie. i rented that back in 2000 or so, my roommate mocked me for renting it. the next day i came home and she was like, "oh, that movie? i saw it sitting on top of the VCR and got tempted. it is surprisingly awesome."

guy ritchie isn't so bad, really.

I like guy ritchie - lock stock and snatch are good fun. I haven't seen rocknrolla

i enjoyed the red riding movies, i mean i wouldnt necessarily recommend them and theyre not very good but theyre kinda, i dunno. if youre ever in the mood for that kind of thing they hit the spot.

Dead Man's Shoes a decent but patchy descendant of Get Carter but as per above that's maybe pushing 'action' a bit too far.

Red Riding is the only worthwhile thing I've seen Andrew Garfield in.

yeah, Dead Man Shoes is closer to horror than action. It's great though

Red Riding is the only worthwhile thing I've seen Andrew Garfield in.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, February 18, 2012 12:58 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what a strange thing to say

why?

Guy Ritchie is appalling! But only someone who lives in this grim island of ours would understand..

i love jeffrey jones in ravenous, cracking walnuts with his bare hands

antonia bird who did ravenous did that movie *face* with robert carlyle. i think i remember liking that one? its been awhile. she should do more action movies.

why?

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, February 18, 2012 1:14 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i can't figure out if its a backhanded compliment to the red riding series, a dis of the social network, or a meditation on andrew garfield

a dis of Andrew Garfield, who's a cute kid.

his voice is my text message alert sound, you know

(him angrily yelling "MARK!!!" in the social network)

anyone want to come over and eat adult brownies and watch westerns tomorrow? i can't hardly wait.

like... porn brownies?

my kids can't leave town fast enough!

yes, they are laced with porn.

*raises hand* I would like to do that

seconded!

god I would so do that

The suggestion earlier involving a pile of coke, nine packs of cigarettes, and a week off is now tantalizing to me. I think those days are past, for me, but goddamn.