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

it certainly has some action scenes...

after halfway point its just a ride

i liked seven and panic room. didn't like the game or fight club. did not see zodiac or ben button. alien 3 is my fave of his.

zods is totes a great flick

yeah people like it

i wish Judgement Night was nominated

adventures in babysitting was robbed.

Is The Goonies an action movie?

action/adventure/goonierific

if blade runner fits in here, history of violence should too. that movies is for all time.

so i think if i read it correctly i voted for 29 movies and 12 are on the final list. that's almost half almost. so far.

HoV fits a lot more, and it is awesome as hell.

i lied. 13 have made the final list so far.

history of violence is scary! i liked it a bunch. i'm kinda good with 90% of all cronenberg.

"what is an action movie" is a beautiful wittgensteinian conundrum btw. everybody uses the term but it's difficult to define what it means. if i had to pick a textual definition it'd be a film whose major appeal (to whom? implied by marketing only? actual audiences?) is its scenes of violent destruction and aggressive movement.

i also wonder if what we mean when we talk about "action movies" in the american sense has something to do with technology (cars, guns, etc.) which would rule out a lot of hong kong films which are more about hand-to-hand combat, the supernatural, etc.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language-game)

Fight Club is too gay for you guys

OR IS IT

IT IS.

I wish it was much, much gayer.

fight club is one of those films i'd be inclined to revisit if the nature of its appeal to so many folks didn't seem so dubious. i'd need some distance from it (in the form of time) before i could probably assess it fairly.

TBQF i'm not a big fincher stan anyway. we've been through this before, but although i'm not really sold on the auteur/metteur en scene distinction, i think explaining fincher as a metteur en scene makes a lot of sense. he applies a lot of creativity and craft to scripts which run the gamut from pretty great to pretty bad.

Fight Club just annoys the hell out of me. Needs more gay.

feel the same way about scorsese btw

xpost ha

also true

fight club is dumb. unless you are a stoner college student. then its friggin' brilliant.

What's a "metteur en scene"?

i kinda wanted my money back after i saw The Game. i was conned. i should have called the cops.

Anyway, I gotta agree that Fincher's movies shine or stink on the strength of their scripts (which IIRC he doesn't write). For example, Benjamin Button looked gorgeous and was masterfully directed, but the plot was just boring and pointless, so it was not a good movie.

i guess i need to watch ronin again. oddly, I have no memory of it - though I did see it in lolcollege, so there is probably a good reason for that.

fincher's like the nu-ridley scott but i think rids is better, like even the past decade he's made a couple of stone-cold epics that i oft view w/a strong drink in hand followed by a post-screening rumination. kingdom of heaven should have found a place on my ballot (and maybe this poll!)

The fact that Fight Club became this aspirational message movie that supposedly tapped into some huge feeling of disenfranchisement was just a huge facepalm to me. Like, really? THAT movie speaks to you?
And the whole unreliable narrator thing annoys the fuck out of me, at least with this movie.
I'd rather something that's ballsout batshit right-wing crazy aspirational, like Red Dawn, than some made up 'maybe it is real, maybe it isn't' crap. the wishy-washyness really bugged me. the whole thing bugged me.

all of it annoyed me except meatloaf, basically.

end rant.

yeah, fight club seemed crazy dumb to me when it came out. i think sometimes i don't understand movies, though.

I love Fincher, so hating Fight Club should pain me. but it so doesn't.

What's a "metteur en scene"?

― Tuomas, Monday, February 20, 2012 3:28 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It means he's like Michael Mann

you guys are breaking the first rule abt fight club

i think the paluhnik thing works best as kinda high concept gross-out clive barker in lit clothing but if you try to get all heavy and existential with me i ain't having it.

For me the problem with Fight Club is that it's most vocal stans seem to have completely missed the point of the film.

^^^^^

and speaking of clive barker and david cronenberg, everyone should have voted for nightbreed. action-packed!

If FC was not held up to be more than it is, it wouldn't annoy me half as much

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i would have voted for that, maybe.

For me the problem with Fight Club is that it's most vocal stans seem to have completely missed the point of the film.

everyone should have voted for nightbreed. action-packed!

plus it features cronenberg as a therapist/serial killer!

you guys are breaking the first rule abt fight club

― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, February 20, 2012 4:35 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aloh

bummed that ilx doesn't consider 'no country for old men' and action flick

a guy was doing work on our house and i showed him my room full of records he said "so is this your man club?" hahaha! i think he meant man cave. i blame man cave phenomena on fight club. pretty easy to blame lots of things on fight club.

xxxxp the central idea of the film is that 'you don't have to be a corporate doormat, but at the same time, you don't have to destroy civilisation to do that'. Aside from that the film is a satire, of consumerism, corporations, advertising, self help groups, and even of the ideology Durden spouts (which is no different really to the other self help ideologies featured).

Driving Miss Daisy action flick y/n

The film essentially has two twists. The first being the Calvin & Hobbes twist, the second being 'oh, you know that Tyler's worldview is just bullshit, right?'.