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

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead? Actiony? Probably not. But that's another good Hawke movie, imo.

I liked training day a lot. I might have voted for it.

Xpost that is a good movie but, yeah, not actiony enough.

probly is for this poll

it may not have Blade Runner's relentless explosions and gunplay but

great quote, http://webtools.gieskes.nl/pages/images/explosion.gif*~~~laurel~~~*http://webtools.gieskes.nl/pages/images/explosion.gif

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

ethan was in a dumb boston crime movie too. *what doesn't kill you*.

and speaking of ethan and australian doomsday horror action movies i still haven't seen daybreakers.

and speaking of willem defoe...

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Wait what was the dumb Boston crime movie.

re: discussion upthread, i v much wanna see boondock saints, if only so's i can watch overnight

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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

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.

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.

did you see shooter?

what i remember about shooter was it being very loud, like the sound design was pretty spectacular. that and levon helm.

levon helm is in Shooter? !!!!

I never saw it.

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.

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.

you should definitely watch shooter. very entertaining.

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maybe you would like

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it may not have Blade Runner's relentless explosions and gunplay but

Misread 'explosions' as 'eyespoons' for some reason. Made me think I watched the wrong Blade Runner.

shooter snuck in on the very bottom of my ballot. v entertaining movie.

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

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.

love where eagles dare, clint is v much prototype mcclane in it

yes - everything is either baffling or annoying to him, usually both

Here's that helicopter scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOFzswp9LEs#t=2m10s

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...

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

sleepy hollow #1

nothing wd fucking surprise me at this point

kind of sad i didn't vote SH tbh

wish i'd voted M tbh, pretty sure it's an action movie

i will be sad if Die Hard doesn't win

Likewise.

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?

towers

it's a better movie and it is the platonic ideal of the action movie

altho i'm more than a little heartbroke that Midnight Run isn't gonna place

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.)

hyphenation & purism & execution

FYI it's not better than Gremlins.

look i can't be bothered to rustle up the Snoop shaking his head gif right now

FYI it's not better than Gremlins.

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Why is "remove bookmark" broken

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Because your imaginary friend keeps re-adding the bookmark while you sleep?

a) It is not better than Gremlins as a Christmas film!
b) It is not better than Gremlins.

I have love for Gremlins. It made me a Phoebe Cates fan 4LYFE (I was too young to see Fast Times until a few years later). Still, Die Hard is Die Hard and Gremlins isn't.