Tracer talked about going into see Children of Men blind, someone else mentioned that they say The Fifth Element knowing v. little about it, and then someone else said they had a similar experience with Fight Club, then there was talk of 'apologists' and shit went off.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
uh not that i voted for it. maybe it wasn't nominated. i like my denzel no-nonsense.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
training day is good, cant remember did it make my 50 tho scott
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
What, you mean the fucking incredible action climax!? Increasingly over-the-top action, when well done (the professional, time and tide, the long kiss goodnight) has been the best thing about the movies in the last 40 or so years.
― Dan I.
This guy is picking up what I'm putting down.
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
Congratulations to Ronin and ooooh I got quoted. Probably the most exciting thing to happen to me today. (My life is very little like an action movie.)
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead? Actiony? Probably not. But that's another good Hawke movie, imo.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
I liked training day a lot. I might have voted for it.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
Xpost that is a good movie but, yeah, not actiony enough.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
probly is for this poll
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
it may not have Blade Runner's relentless explosions and gunplay but
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
great quote, http://webtools.gieskes.nl/pages/images/explosion.gif*~~~laurel~~~*http://webtools.gieskes.nl/pages/images/explosion.gif
― omar little, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere, Laurel!
but you need to decide: bikini first, or machine gun? I say machine gun :D
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
ethan was in a dumb boston crime movie too. *what doesn't kill you*.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
and speaking of ethan and australian doomsday horror action movies i still haven't seen daybreakers.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
and speaking of willem defoe...
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjI1OTU5MjE5NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjI4MjIyMw@@._V1._SX640_SY955_.jpg
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― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
Wait what was the dumb Boston crime movie.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
re: discussion upthread, i v much wanna see boondock saints, if only so's i can watch overnight
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
that movie actually has some good "action sequences" (i put that in quotes because they are in quotes in the movie)
it's sorta too bad that willem dafoe never got to play lux interior
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
antoine fuqua who did training day did shooter too with markie mark. i liked that one a lot. i need to watch brooklyn's finest. his last crime movie. he did king arthur, didn't see that either. but i did see the replacement killers. he also directed tears of the sun. speaking of bruce willis.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
Mr Veg was just telling me last night how he was surprised by how much he liked Tears of The Sun. He said it's obviously been sprayed over as a massive vanity project, and rewritten a few times, but the movie itself was surprisingly good.
been meaning to see Brooklyn's Finest for a while.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
did you see shooter?
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
what i remember about shooter was it being very loud, like the sound design was pretty spectacular. that and levon helm.
― omar little, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
levon helm is in Shooter? !!!!
I never saw it.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
I like your mister! I actually voted for it, in fact, for reasons that have nothing to do with Monica Bellucci, thank you much. I'm a complete sucker for this kind film, in fact.
― omar 13337713 (Leee), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
you should definitely watch shooter. very entertaining.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
maybe you would like
http://theseconddisc.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/uncommonvalor.jpg
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
Misread 'explosions' as 'eyespoons' for some reason. Made me think I watched the wrong Blade Runner.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
shooter snuck in on the very bottom of my ballot. v entertaining movie.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
OK so I watched Where Eagles Dare last night, on the strength of this thread
It appears to mainly be the story of a set of backpacks, and how those backpacks get onto a mountain and then off it again
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 10:36 (twelve years ago) link
QT's borrowings from it, for Inglourious Basterds, are clear
What really blew me away though as far as later influence goes is the helicopter landing in the castle, near the beginning of the movie -- it is EXACTLY like Star Wars! The way it regally approaches and deliberately settles into the massive courtyard, the way the stormtroopers rush out into serried ranks to solemnly greet it - it is TOTALLY the same thing as when the imperial shuttles or whatever dock into the star destroyers.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 10:40 (twelve years ago) link
love where eagles dare, clint is v much prototype mcclane in it
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 10:48 (twelve years ago) link
yes - everything is either baffling or annoying to him, usually both
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 11:27 (twelve years ago) link
Here's that helicopter scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOFzswp9LEs#t=2m10s
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 11:32 (twelve years ago) link
Is anyone particularly bothered by the order the last five come in as? I'd be happy with any of them in any order, I think. Okay, I'd be a little surprised if Robocop comes 1st (and I'm still halfway havering on whether it might actually not make it), but apart from that...
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 11:40 (twelve years ago) link
i'm assuming there'll be at least one fucking ridiculous pick in the top 5 and i will be sad if Die Hard doesn't win but beyond that no
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
sleepy hollow #1
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 11:47 (twelve years ago) link
nothing wd fucking surprise me at this point
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 11:50 (twelve years ago) link
kind of sad i didn't vote SH tbh
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 11:52 (twelve years ago) link
wish i'd voted M tbh, pretty sure it's an action movie
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 11:53 (twelve years ago) link
i will be sad if Die Hard doesn't win
Likewise.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 11:57 (twelve years ago) link
Not dissing Die Hard, but why? Is it the least hyphenated (if you consider the others as the heights of space-horror-, dystopian-social-commentary-, period-adventure- and, er, very-big-action)? Or just a fondness for the tightness and location-based formalism - here are the towers, here is the heist, here is the cop, go? Or do you think that it's just a better movie than, say, Raiders?
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
towers
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 12:13 (twelve years ago) link
it's a better movie and it is the platonic ideal of the action movie
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 12:14 (twelve years ago) link
altho i'm more than a little heartbroke that Midnight Run isn't gonna place
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 12:15 (twelve years ago) link
well I personally find Raiders a bit dull so def. yes I think it is a better movie.
Die Hard is the definition of awesome action movie. Plus, it is totally hyphenated (best christmas movie ever made, for one.)
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 12:15 (twelve years ago) link
hyphenation & purism & execution
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 12:16 (twelve years ago) link
FYI it's not better than Gremlins.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
look i can't be bothered to rustle up the Snoop shaking his head gif right now
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link