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

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Screenwriter Jeph Loeb states that the film was originally conceived as a vehicle for Gene Simmons (who passed on it), and later scripted with Nick Nolte in mind to play the lead as an out-of-condition former commando struggling with the demands of his mission. Walter Hill was originally involved in the development process.[4]

gene... simmons?

is there another gene simmons i dont know about

Well, he starred in Runaway.

I wonder what was in Alyssa's sandwiches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9zzHnRYxtc&feature=related

Saved you 90 minutes.

Simmons was also the villain in Never Too Young to Die

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvOvVtE4rgI

Oops, I forgot that we're trying to not include Youtube embeds here. Apologies.

TRANSPORTER 3 is on TV right now and normally i'd never decide to watch something like that but because of this thread I am-- noty as good as the first two but loooooooooool @ this chase scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1omNcm-OPo

also last nite i watched:

MAD MAX: i'd imagine this movie is a lot easier to appreciate if you first saw it in the 80's... i wasn't really feeling it at all, but i def appreciated the stunts and action and the way you could tell they were being as creative and pr0 as they could on a low budget

TAKEN: this movie is so fucking awesome. already know i'm going to be re-screening this a lot. if you like this movie please please please see HAYWIRE (feel this would have placed if it were a year or two old instead of a month or two old)

looking forward to ROAD WARRIOR tho

Road Warrior is awes.

Haywire is awes.

Taken is amusing but obv pretty racist.

Bummed that you weren't feeling MM, but I kinda get it. I forget what it would be like to see it for the first time. I grew up with it, it seemed like THE coolest movie for a long time to me. The stunts/low budget steez are def worth seeing

I can't wait for you to see Road Warrior!

I have never seen Taken.

Toecutter was such a weird villain in all the wrong ways imo

wrong how

i dunno i just wasnt feelin it. i admire the attempt at creating a sexually ambiguous psychopathic gang boss but i don't think it really worked

;_;

otm; omar should run all film polls, maybe the world.

― horseshoe, Friday, February 17, 2012 1:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

totes

i would pay cash money for a show or bløg w/omar, slocki and cankles talking about movies

also the choice of still has been topshelf radical

So I watched Dirty Harry today

Kind of racisty in spots

Jumping into this late, but the hand-wringing about the politics of <i>The Incredibles</i> is pointless, because it doesn't offer a coherent libertarian politics; if anything's Randian about it, it's an incredibly diluted, anodyne version where what's most important to the Parrs are familial bonds (e.g. the end where they're having a blast watching Dash come into second place). So, rather than vicious social/cultural norms or, gasp, <i>federal regulations</i> reining people in, Dash limits himself voluntarily. But then, you can argue that having superpowers more than compensates for this kind of self-limitation, but the moral of the Dash plot arc is something like being sufficiently mature that you don't need triumphal recognition. On a level, it's insular, but it doesn't have an anti-regulation, ur-capitalist soul; remember where Bob works -- a private insurance company that's bent on ripping off its customers. And the one governmental presence -- you know, the not-TLJ fed -- is portrayed unambiguously (imo) positively; he's weary but well-meaning, sympathizes with Bob, etc.

So: ok for liberals to like!

xpost re dirty harry:

yeah a bit. although it gives him a cool latino partner so everything's cool, right?

politics aside that movie is kind of amazing. it's like a perfect cop movie.

so its not 'perfect' then?

?

some other films that might have been in my list:

-manhunter
-firefox
- emperor of the north

and some HK ones:

-fighting ace

-jet li's fearless
-a chinese ghost story III
- painted faces
- yes, madam

I was just rejecting the whole 'politics aside' business.

manhunter is great

just rewatched point break movie is str8 fyre beautiful i broke down twice

am watching Dirty Harry :D

as an aside, I love that there were always helicopters in 70's & 80's movies. "Technology! Innovation! Whooosh!"

Also we just realized Scorpio = Garak from Deep Space Nine

Oh yeah. Plain simple Garak.

If anything the moral of Incredibles is a fairly standard Disney "don't let social conventions limit your true potential" type thing. I mainly just like the bitching action scenes and amazing retro design and music myself.

Ooo, has there been an ILX poll on animated movies similar to this one? I would certainly be down. It would result in much less genre controversy as well (probably).

I think we did Pixar ones, not sure about others.

Oh actually that was a poll poll not like this one iirc

i would totally do an animation poll. (i feel like i'd need to sub-contract the stills out to omar though.)

xpost I never said Incredibles was libertarian, just oddly neo-con, is all.

sexually ambiguous psychopathic gang boss

Road Warrior has one of these, too! Hmm...

I want to watch the Road Warrior, but I am worried it will be tainted by annoying Bellflower vibes.

humungus swung both ways.

I sometimes wonder if sexually ambiguous villain codes as homophobic

see: to live and die in la

see: baron harkonnen

xpost Gukbe: the only thing that made Bellflower remotely tolerable was the Road Warrior stuff. There's no way Bellflower's terribleness could flow backwards. At least I goddamn well hope not.

God that movie.

I sometimes wonder if sexually ambiguous villain codes as homophobic

see: to live and die in la

― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 (dayo), Saturday, February 18, 2012 4:55 PM (44 seconds ago)

all TLADILA fans need to watch Cruising. NEED not "should"

hey dayo time for a new DN

when i watch macgyver with my kids i revel in all this is Murdoc:

http://www.angusmacgyver.fr/photos/galerie/saison4/4x09%20(5).jpg

you have my permission to use this for your dn dayo youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI

I'm keeping it in protest of I Miss You-gate

thanks ade but I would feel bad covering a classic

http://www.angusmacgyver.fr/photos/saison6/6x19%20(1).jpg

lol speaking of that limp bizkit video and TLADILA,

i've always wondered if someone's ever compiled every film/tv show/music video shot in tht LA River, and the wiki has a lengthy but by no means exhaustive list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_River#Filming_location

would make for a great youtube fan vid