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

haha!

prefer alien to aliens for many reasons but mainly bc slow-burning sci-fi horror is just the best kind of movie.

The cast agreed to do the co-ed shower scene only if Verhoeven agreed to direct the scene naked, which he did.[2]

respect

Hahahaha "Don't throw me in the briar patch!"

apparently sigourney weaver only agreed to do the last scene of aliens if james cameron directed it in a power loader, which he did

"OK Cronenberg if you want me to actually fuck somebody in the ass it has to be YOUR ass"

"Very well"

lol

Hahahaha "Don't throw me in the briar patch!"

irl lols

i still want a power loader

citation needed xxxp

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

Wandered away from thread for about an hour. Omar, I kiss you.

xp John Connor's foster mom is of course - Vasquez!

Alien is a better movie overall, I mean. As an action movie, Aliens is better!

My beef with Cameron is that he makes very by-the-numbers films and that's where he's best. I'm sure there are exceptions to this, but...

Aliens works well because you have a group of stock characters, the environment is actually tightened up from the original -- no ambiguity about what different environments are, no lingering mysteries (lol space jockey) and it's a war movie! Even the poster tagline is "THIS TIME IT'S WAR!"

..the beef comes in where throughout the years -- mostly notably with Avatar, ugh -- he seems to think that by having stock characters going through motions you get a good movie

i love the story about cameron in a meeting to try and sell aliens and he just walks up to a whiteboard, writes ALIEN on it, and then adds a $ to the end of it

I'd believe that.

Cameron is a lot of things but i don't feel like 'by the numbers' is really the one to pin on him

i still haven't seen avatar. i'm the 1%.

sounds about right!

btw I'm mostly overthinking this because a couple months ago I remembered that I got the Alien Anthology for Christmas over a year ago and I've since watched them all multiple times

*cameron walks up to whiteboard, writes

AVATAR

turns around, studio execs nod, cameron then adds

AVATAR$

room breaks into applause*

i dont even know what 'by the numbers' means in this context

TRUE LIES$

true lies sucks.

true lies $ucks

tbh angry mom in a forklift defeats the VPA with an assist from half a robot is pretty by the numbers

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

#1

DIE HARD

John McTiernan
1988
United States
(1011 points, 29 votes, 4 first place)

the original film is one of those rare moments where a genre is invented, defined, and completed in a single movie. There's not one frame out of place in that thing, nor one non-quotable line of dialogue. I love stuff like the cowboy German going "I got fifty bucks riding on them assholes!", and basically everything Reginald VelJohnson says to try and keep Bruce Willis motivated. Even the way he says "Roy" is just perfect. Great fucking movie.

― Doctor Casino

(A) best action film EVER by a generous margin; (B) my favorite Xmas movie

― ex-juggalist (Pillbox)

"Oh, the weather outside is frightful
Dum-dee-dum-dee-dum-delightful"

The only way to sing this song.

― trishyb

great moments in cinema:

when al leong is waiting to ambush the SWAT team in the lobby and looks around cautiously and then steals a candy bar from the display case.

― omar little

the movie is undeniably radical, one of the greatest american action movies

― max

max otm

die hard completely changed the paradigm for action flix and broek hearts of a whole bunch of actors who'd been lifting and tanning way too much in the hopes of becoming the next sly/arnie

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.)

You want perfect and efficient character introduction? Check out all the beats in the first ten minutes of "Die Hard" alone that establish who John McClane is, culminating in him riding the limo with Argyle ... in the passenger seat.

Also, x-posting the above, yeah, Willis and Rickman are 90% of this movie, but "Die Hard" might have even worked as a minimally set stage play with these two in the leads.

The elements of "Die Hard" that have aged poorly are the same '80s elements that have aged poorly in virtually every single film of the same vintage (from "Crocodile Dundee" to "Rain Man" to "Big" to "Working Girl." The hair, random drug jokes, the (first?) token black hacker genius, the yuppies ... they're the visual equivalent of gated snares and chorus effects on guitars. The difference is that "Die Hard" set (or reset) the action film template, so its cliches transcend. And damn is it efficient. Watching it with an eye on the clock is an education. Characters are all introduced, action in motion precisely 20 minutes in.

― Josh in Chicago

die hard is, at times, my favoriteest ever movie

― deej--nuts, butthurt, and yelly (gbx)

Yippie Ki Yay! It's the Die Hard poll

okay i can live with that

That's a good #1 imo.

So I guess I should add T2 to the list of movies I should now watch because of this thread.

STUDIO EXEC: what should we do about the aliens franchise, jim?

[cameron silently picks up dry-erase marker]

EXEC: theres no white board here jim

[cameron forces exec to ground]

EXEC: what are you doing jim oh god

[cameron writes ALIENS$ on exec's face]

everyone should own a copy of T2.

Die Hard is the bestest

for inspiration. like the bible.

yippee ki yay, motherfucker

the movie is undeniably radical, one of the greatest american action movies

― max

no ambiguity about what different environments are

Really don't know about this - there's a big difference between the dead corridors of the base, the gigeresque contours of the processing plant underside w/infestation, the breached secure space of the landing craft, and the disintegrating lair of the queen.

what i love so much about die hard besides everything else is the fact that its SUCH a christmas movie, in the way that every character is unconsciously singing christmas songs to themselves the whole time, the way everyone in real life does all holiday season long. such a great touch

fists with your toes

lol max

WELCOME TO THE PARTY, PAL

^ say this out loud to myself all the time

Alien has an all-white stasis room with people in white pajamas!

idk, I'd rather talk about DIE HARD now.

i watched die hard for the first time on xmas eve last year!!

Wait, what is Diehards?

i also love that the secret character arc of die hard is RVJ learning how to shoot people again

I bought a bluray of T2 for $5 at target, there's no reason not to own it

german for "the hard"

T/S: Paul Gleason in "The Breakfast Club" vs. Paul Gleason in "Die Hard."

Or: "Don't mess with the bull, young man, you'll get the horns" vs. "Oh, I hope that's not a hostage."

i love movies with multiple tiers of asshole authority figures

(see also robocop of course)