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

I'd buy that for a dollar.

Henchman Emil, with real melting action!

That commercial was totally fake.

I'd buy that for a dollar.

I still say this all the time lol

I was particularly enamored of the lax standards of the PG rating in the '80s.

Cf. this interview today w/Lea Thompson at The AV Club: http://www.avclub.com/articles/lea-thompson,69639/

Tom was so awesome, because we had this love scene and… You know, back then, it was always boobs boobs boobs in every movie, and it was required for me to show my boobs in these two love scenes.

I still say this all the time lol

― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 11:26 AM (30 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too like on a daily base

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/t2.png

#4

TERMAINTOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY

James Cameron
1991
United States
(700 points, 21 votes, 1 first place)

T2 would be a lot more effective if it hadn't been so heavily publicized that Arnie was the good guy this time - if you'd seen the first one but had no prior knowledge of the second, you'd totally assume the T1000 was a human freedom fighter who'd been sent back to protect John, and it would be a great twist.

― chap

T-1000 killed hospital guard Lewis. In that scene, the T-1000 arose from a black and white checkerboard floor take the form of red-headed Dan Stanton, and then killed his twin brother Don Stanton. They both played censors in Good Morning, Vietnam. See?

― Kerm

So the terminators went back in time and created themselves? I WANT ANSWERS.

― David Allen

i still can't believe i was in highschool when this movie came out - the mythology of its cutting-edge special effects continues to resonate in my brain or something (also, saw it in a double-bill with t1, at a theatre in the mall that only highschool kids went to i think - rowdy)

― rrrobyn

traumatic event as a kid when all my friends went to see it in the cinema and i couldn't because my parents wouldn't even let me watch pg-13 films, much less this one. though most other parents were happy to make the concession because it is kind of children's film.

― Gukbe

yeah seriously dude who is the intended audience for terminator 2? i dont remember anybody being more excited about it than my 8 yr old peers

― and what

terminator 2

i forgot about that nude scene in Howard The Duck

T2 inextricably linked in my mind with guns n roses, it was like these two entertainment franchises had RETURNED together, in a blaze of metallic fury

#1 in my hypothetical ballot by a mile.

Hah, I was too lazy to even come up with a hypothetical ballot.

I love the Terminator view at the end of the G'N'R video that rates the band as 'WASTE OF AMMO'.

what would have been on your ballot if you had hypothetically voted?

guess I should've saved my upthread robocop trolling for now

Saw it again recently, G'n'R is entwined around the film like the roses around the guns.

Wasn't it part of one of the first "music videos largely featuring scenes from the film they're in"? xp yep!

people really love T2.

termaintor

xxp T2 and 'Robin Hood Prince of Thieves'?

aliens is gonna be number one. i'll betcha.

thing that always gets me in T2 is during the motorcycle stunt when they full-on just show the stunt man who is clearly not arnie, guess they figured people would be so wowed by action they wouldn't notice

robocop rules so much.

Anymore, I tend to think of T2 as a Best Buy home theatre system demo reel, padded out with a relatively uninvolving and muddled plot. Shit was the bomb when I was 14, though.

robocop himself is amazing but then you have the villains and murky corporate dudes and ed-209 and the verhoeven/neumeier flourishes. owns.

reload action on the gun in the t2 motorcycle/truck chase scene totally wowed and confused me at the time (i had no idea about lever action shotguns).

Ugh graceless muscle men with guns, blah blah blah. Very disappointed in u all.

you should go back in time and warn your 14 year old self that you were gonna be wrong all the time in the future.

x-post

the part where robocop goes back to his home

finally caught up w/this v enjoyable thread and have already dutifully re-screened die hard 3. it's been a while, and like others on the thread, I was surprised by how much I dug it. might even like it more than the original. I dunno, bruce's smugness kind of grates and sam jackson adds an appreciated dose of energy and lols to the proceedings.

except for those scenes where bruce tells sam that, yes, in fact, HE is the real racist. those are p uncomfortable and weird.

ending sequence is seriously lame tho. *SPOILERS for this ancient movie* bruce essentially shooting down a helicopter with a pistol? c'mon, no fight with simon? no fight with the badass female terrorist? gtfo with that. would have much preferred that alt. ending mentioned earlier in the thread.

also, whoever said this is a great NY movie is 100% otm.

you should go back in time and warn your 14 year old self that you were gonna be wrong all the time in the future.

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― scott seward, Tuesday, February 21, 2012 11:40 AM (7 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol otm.

Wasn't it part of one of the first "music videos largely featuring scenes from the film they're in"?

This has been done forever iirc

T2 motorcycle scene redux:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctRBsLAGS40

graceless muscle men with guns

to be fair, they are robots

aliens is gonna be number one. i'll betcha.

― scott seward, Tuesday, February 21, 2012 11:36 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

taking bets for die hard as well

man, robocop is TOOOO LOOOOW. was hoping it would be #1. boddicker is all-time.

t2 suffers from being about 1/20th as vicious as the first one and the edward furlong/t2 scenes bring the whole movie down a lot but it's still pretty awesome.

honestly can't think of a bad guy I like more than boddicker

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/inception.jpg

SEE THIS MOVIE

― I have an iTunes playlist called "That Feeling" (Tape Store)

Whew! I saw this on Sunday night and it's taken me this long to slog through the posts here. Which is kind of surprising, as this didn't really seem like the kind of movie that would inspire much discussion among sophisticated filmgoers. I enjoyed it, but it was both fairly pat, plotwise, and not ambiguous enough to make me think much about it after the credits had rolled. The filmmaking metaphor is interesting to me, though, and something that seems more worthy of exploration than the mechanics of the plot.

I honestly haven't been terribly excited about anything Nolan has done (although there's no reason it necessarily should've been, it's interesting and a little sad that Insomnia hasn't been mentioned once in this thread), but I think he's good at making pretty pictures. Something that you look at and appreciate aesthetically in the moment and then forget once you've walked away from it. This and The Dark Knight are far and away the most engaging and fun of his movies IMHO, but I can't help but think that that has a lot to do with the fact that I saw them both in IMAX.

More than anything, Inception made me want to rewatch a bunch of other solid reality-bendy low-key sci-fi flicks mentioned numerous times in the thread (Dark City, Eternal Sunshine, Minority Report, Brazil, etc.) and read some Dick.

― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare)

yeah after a week or two of digestion this is how I feel - a pretty competent and entertaining movie that didn't really... deserve... all of the intense exegesis devoted to it afterwards. it seemed very straightforward in execution and it seems that others on this thread upon rewatching confirm that it's all pretty tightly interlocked underneath, there doesn't seem to be too much wriggle room. I agree also that so far the most interesting sticking point is the parallels between dream-making in this movie and movie-making in real life.

― You’re going off of her word that the farmer’s wife is the farmer’s wife? (dyao)

I think movies like "Shutter Island" and "The Inception" are totally B-movie in spirit but blockbuster big in execution. Perhaps that's why I have a trouble reconciling their ideas, as such, with their execution. They're both so much bigger and more expensive than they need to be. Again, as I mention above somewhere, "Inception" cost about 24,000 times what it cost to make "Primer," which shows that the execution of even hyper-complex ideas doesn't need the support of endless shootouts and pointless (but impressive!) special effects like cities folding on top of themselves. The difference between this and something like "Shutter Island" (again) is that Scorsese relishes his overblown elements almost as camp, whereas Nolan approaches it with total seriousness. Yet at its heart "Inception" is still just an old school "Twilight Zone" styled mind-scramble that falls far short of the emotional and/or metaphysical profundity of, say, Charlie Kuafman's best.

― Josh in Chicago

admittedly the only way i may have enjoyed inception more was if one of the "dream defender" dudes or whatever have driven by dicaprio in level 1 and shouted "think fast!" and nailed him in the head with a beer can

― ('_') (omar little)

Inception (with implanted spoilers)

WHAT?!?!

what the fucking fuck

you know, i was an inception defender, but this is fucking RIDICULOUS.

inception voters, out yourselves. wtf weere you thinking?

*sends T-800 back in time to terminate everyone who voted for Inception*

I did NOT expect that

can't believe that beat TERMAINTOR 2

Did NOT see that coming. Voters be trollin!

good joke, omar, now tell us what the real #3 is

what is wrong with you ppl

lol xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxps

robocop!!! boardroom scene is still, to this day, awesome.
and peter weller! <3

T2 is cool. Ripped Linda Hamilton turned 2 of my best female friends into crazy gym rats in final year of high school. They wanted her abs more than anything in the world.

lol this would be the best joke

please tell me it's a joke