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

i need to lie down

x-posts ^^ That's what went through my head when I read that, E3. lol.

(BTW, I liked Inception fine, but it is BY NO REASONABLE STANDARD OF JUDGMENT USED BY HUMANS WITH BRAINS THE THIRD BEST ACTION MOVIE OF ALL TIME.)

so confused now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA3WGf9pX0A

stayed tuned for thrilling conclusion of action poll

Yeah. Kinda figured that had to be a gag. Good one, omar.

Road Warrior went in at SIXTEEN. of course you could vote Inception #3. I mean.

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This poll has entered the fabled "Thirteenth Floor."

tag: "You can go there ... even though it doesn't exist!"

lolling at the idea of "Annie Hall" being the action equivalent of "Inception"

do u think the 13th floor will place at 3rd, 2nd or 1st

well we all know #1 is Timecop, so

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#3

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

Steven Spielberg
1981
United States
(731 points, 18 votes, 2 first place)

raiders of the lost ark is great in ways that the other movies don't even try to repeat. i like the relative seriousness with which the ark and religious history is taken, the ways in which spielberg creates this vague sense of unease w/r/t the quest, like how some disturbance is being created. the jokey bullshit isn't insulting and sallah and marcus brody are actually a couple of sharp, interesting characters (who somehow turned into buffoons in last crusade).

― omar little

its interesting how different the first 3 actually are (havent seen the new one yet) -- last crusade is essentially a comedy, & was my favorite as a kid, but raiders is funny while still being a top-notch globetrotting adventure movie. its sort of bizarrely the only indy movie where they really got it just right.

maybe the most underrated scene in the whole series is the one at the beginning of raiders after indy swipes the idol & is being chased to his plane by about 1000 natives bent on killing him, & his pilot upon seeing this takes about 5 seconds to decide between starting the plane up or reeling in the fish he's caught.

― deeznuts

ending of raiders... both the melty-faces and of course the warehouse shot are beyondddddd classic

― s1ocki

one thing that's great about the Ark is that its powers are implied or uncertain most of the time. People know what it IS but everyone's guessing about what it can DO, and that makes the unexpectedness of the ending all the more unsettling. That and it's flat out gruesome as well -- but one of the most effective things about the death of Belloq is that while we see him looking in horror at something within the Ark after the angels change to skeletons, we never see exactly what it is (and the only view of what is in the Ark a bit earlier is equally peculiar, seeming to show clouds and smoke rising up from impossible depths).

― Ned Raggett

Rewatching Raiders a few years back was what finally convinced me what a genius with sound design Ben Burtt is/was.

The audio track feels so much richer and more crucial than it did for any of the SW flicks; you had Indy's revolver sounding like a fucking hand cannon, the meaty thuds of body blows mixed with Harrison's yelping, the sput-sput-sputtering of the sand-choked engines, the freaky ass electrical power beam that fries everybody at the end and shorts out the generators, etc.

Great Stuff.

― kingfish

Rank the Indiana Jones Canon

i think termaintor 3 still has a chance

alien 3 for the win. all you fincher freaks on here...

*sigh of relief*

fortunately I fucking love this movie as well

Raiders is the movie that made me decide at a young age that Harrison Ford was my favorite actor

aliens is number one. lethal weapon cannot beat out aliens. it would be sad.

really dig last crusade but can't be angry at a movie with nazi faces melting and then exploding coming in over it

I'm gonna start an unironic slow clap here for omar. Well played.

Aliens/Die Hard #2 (pick one)
Timecop #1 (VANDAMN)

lol @ this forum getting incepted

omar little: lovable scamp

you kids are gullible, he didn't even have the header in bold on Inception

anyone who thinks about doing a poll should look at what omar dude did for future reference.

Raiders is like, movie childhood. In an "awesome adventures" way, not a "locked under the stairs" way

kingfish otm re: raiders sound design

saw it 7 or 8 times in the theaters, still remember the fwhoommp of the ark lid closing

the people under the stairs is underrated.

haha Scott beat me to the PUTS ref

i feel like we're not gonna have a lot to say about these last ones cuz we've said so much alreayd

i sincerely apologize for my grievous error in tallying the ballots. i sat here numb for the ensuing minutes unable to bring myself to post, leaving everyone hanging and scrambling for answers.

PUTS! lol yeah it was pretty good

WRONG

this is starting to feel like the last day of camp

xpost to s1ocki

raiders also v gory for PG, guy gets shot in forehead and bleeds out during early barroom fight, propeller splattering strongman blood all over the turret hatch, faces melting etc

anyone who thinks about doing a poll should look at what omar dude did for future reference.

^This. I think Fight Club would've been a respectable alternative, btw, omar.

iirc omar did the same thing in the films of the 00s poll

PG movies now are about 'off-color references' in a shrek movie.

no I think I did

xp

i feel lucky that i was a kid when movies like raiders and back to the future were coming out

totally

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#2

ALIENS

James Cameron
1986
United States
(776 points, 21 votes)

the scene where they're holed up and the aliens are getting closer (the whole "20 metres... 19 metres..." etc scene), i mean, you can't really beat that.
― s1ocki

and then the aliens are in the ceiling!
― s1ocki

The first film was more of a classic horror film written with a degree of sophistication and unflinching, realistic gore (relatively speaking) that was inarguably not child friendly. The second one, though still violent and gorey, reads more like a western shoot'em up. It's not exactly Spongbob Squarepants but it's easier on the sense than the first one.

― Alex in NYC

i actually think this is a really canny film. i mean it's not the kind of thing i will watch 50 times and find something new each time, but it's pretty provocative and exciting the first few times. i think the script is very well-constructed even if it's not the most literate or even believeable thing on a line-by-line level. i think james cameron has a good story sense.

― amateur!!!st

Watched this again last night and it was as wonderful as ever. One of my top 5 movies of all time.

― krakow

"Aliens" : Some nice effects, but actually kind've a crap film.

the poor kids who got Donnie Darko

and then the aliens are in the ceiling!

Rethinking doing jokey poll about romcoms. Maybe just do a top 10 movies to troll ilx with poll.

"kind've"?

Oh, right. And I punk'd the '00s TV poll similarly, as I recall.

can i just say, the top three (assuming #1 is what i think it is) IS THE SAME AS MY BALLOT TOP 3