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

Well, it is all downhill from there, tbf.

'Southern Comfort' is on Britishers TV tonight. Worth watching?

yes!

Is that the Deliverance knockoff with Powers Boothe and one of the Carradines?

man this thread has me going through a few of my favorites. especially hk stuff. rewatched the mission this afternoon, the blade yesterday, time & tide in the next few days (still pissed at ilx that this is not gonna place, has some of the most impressive & best action scenes of all time). i know ppl here love johnnie to's election too and it is quite great (that's gonna be for this week), but everytime i think of him i think of that great tracking shot at the beginning of breaking news.

xp Dunno who's in it but it's directed by Walter Hill. I will take Alfred's word and watch.

I'm not a fan of Election. I want to say I saw half of it, and by then it all felt like a year of a TV plot jammed into a movie. So many characters ...

oh yeah johnnie to. i forgot about him. running out of time, the longest nite, the mission, exiled all should have placed here. oh well.

btw can we move the "dirty harry = fascism?" conversation elsewhere?

a movie is either well-made or badly made, nothing more, etc

Harry's pretty blatant in its rugged individualism, this is the reason Magnum Force tries to paint Harry as not as bad as yer actual right wing nuts etc

tries.

but the first couple look absolutely beautiful, depiction of the city, clothing, jazz scores...beautifully crafted slightly racist paeans to gun law. like Conan, coming up.

can't wait for T2 to place. all shotguns should be 1. carried in a rose box and 2. reloaded by spinning them around your finger

Watched half of it with my kid before bed last night. He fell asleep when they were in the garage after they broke Sarah Connor out of "Pescadero" lol.

lol
http://www.theonion.com/articles/moviegoers-not-interested-in-hearing-what-is-isnt,27388/

can't wait for T2 to place. all shotguns should be 1. carried in a rose box and 2. reloaded by spinning them around your finger

― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 (dayo),

I know this is a little late, but dayo, will you be my valentine.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7FAsUT6FePU/SjSvD7oR06I/AAAAAAAAA1U/crWXr4EwNTo/s400/t2.jpg

~* tear *~

(of joy)

To Live & Die In LA just started on tv...yay! I've never seen it before!

prepare yrself imo

hope yr sofa has seatbelts

a movie is either well-made or badly made, nothing more, etc

The 'etc' is the key bit of the above.

Most films that make it to the cinema are 'well-made' in a boring kid of manner I suppose - but the types of content, for one, are of a variety: so w/Dirty Harry the good content are the action-y bits that are worth youtubing and the bad is the right-wing claptrap that surrounds it.

Not worth moving anywhere, its just some 'light' filler before the end of the poll tomorrow.

xpost Edward III - my collar is fully popped for this

take out the etc, then, go full wilde. A movie is either well-made or badly-made, and nothing more.

Too late! :-)

one of my greatest cinematic joys is showing folks TLADILA for the first time.

foiled by an extracetera

re: TLADILA, the character arc for Chance in this film (w/r/t viewer perception, what we're allowed to discover) is pretty singular as compared to other films i've seen w/similar morality.

w/characters of similar morality

Post #15 today!

Just to mess with the workweek-only crowd a little...

hasn't he given you enough?

pppbbbbtttthhhhh

i'll give you this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh8KnmRvqd0

thanking u

also in UK tv news - Collateral is on Channel 4 tonight preceded by, um, Under Siege 2

holy shit i gotta see that rothrock/yeoh movie

so many ridiculous plotholes and developments in 'collateral'...

haha true. i still think that having a cab driver actually manage to kill a professional killer, all the while protecting some hot chick he drove around before is bullshit. but i don't really care cos the movie is fun. also, love the fact that STATHAM! is in this but just for a few seconds.

holy shit i gotta see that rothrock/yeoh movie

― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, February 19, 2012 7:41 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IIRC the premise is really, really ridiculous but it is egregiously entertaining. righting wrongs is another good rothrock movie from HK.

corey yuen gets some flack from "hardcore" kung-fu dudes for indulging in "wire-fu" but i think he's a total master. that clip above is a great example. the editing is precisely choreographed with the action.

if you haven't, y'all need to see the legend a.k.a. fong sai-yuk w/ jet li.

xpost

haha STATHAM! should ALWAYS be in ALL CAPS and with an exclamation! mark! at the end.

srsly folks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD1QuGQPJg8

that's a good example of "wire-fu" but isn't it great?

All these clips from today are.

i know. the jet li flaunts it even more, though.

xp Dunno who's in it but it's directed by Walter Hill. I will take Alfred's word and watch.

well?

watched la femme Nikita, it's boring as shit.

replace your eyes

I feel like rewatching it after seeing Colombiana last night.

Okay TLADILA is awesome. Goddamn that is one nihilistic motherfucker of a movie.

A+ car chase, with the train and all, damn. Also glad they did it no-music, love that shit.

friedkin is def king of awesome car chases. between the one in french connection and tladila, he really knew how to handle those well. first time i watched french connection i was really impressed with the chase so i watched that scene again with the commentary. iirc friedkin was saying that they shot that scene in real traffic (not on a blocked street) and that at one point you actually see a car having an accident or almost.

(hides) I haven't seen French Connection. I will remedy that shortly.