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

it sucks, if that helps

Oh that's why!

it's a very easy movie for people to feel superior about because all movies that have anything to do with dreams must be surreal freakouts even though most people's dreams aren't like that

peter weller's in a bunch of history channel THE ANCIENT WORLD documentaries too

Most of my dreams end up with Neil Diamond or Robert Smith singing beeping alarm clock songs.

no no no, it's easy to feel superior cos it's a v. mediocre action flick with nerd accessories to make it seem deep, man

it's a very easy movie for people to feel superior about because all movies that have anything to do with dreams must be surreal freakouts even though most people's dreams aren't like that

most people's dreams ARE like action movies with huge explosions, car chases, and guys in uniforms with guns tho

i find that it's easy to feel superior abt inception mostly because it sucks

also cos Chris Nolan is a tool

I don't "feel superior" about bad movies, mostly I just get irritated about sitting through them

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kinda how i feel about ilx

I mostly laughed my way through Inception tbh - any time Lenny tried to "emote" with his doughface or someone launched into exposition about how dreams "work" in particulr

i like Inception OK, but omar's fake-out of it getting the #3 spot was jarring (and classic!)

it is pretty dreamlike in the way all the characters are cardboard finger puppets

there we go

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ironically, i liked inception more than shutter island because, as far as movies about sweaty bigface missing his dead wife go, inception was more of a surreal freakout.

lol @ "sweaty bigface"

first read that as "sweaty meatface" - worked okay

inception was more of a surreal freakout.

yr doing it wrong

you guys got the memo that 'inception' didn't actually place in the top 75, right, just checking. i could do a florida recount if it would please you, though.

any time Lenny tried to "emote" with his doughface

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfck5gE21c1qd0v72o1_500.gif

actually according to the recap, every movie that placed was Inception

peter weller is apparently a really popular lecturer.

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i don't remember sprout-face saying "ass"

I loved Inception when I saw it, but Mr Veg waited forever to finally see it and I could hardly stay in the room when he watched it, it was just so smug and unbearable. Like I had been...BONNNNNNNGG....incepted!

his squinting there reminds me of Brad Pitt's character's attempt to appear mysterious in Burn After Reading

@ gif

I keep running across the second half of Inception on cable and pretty much every time I watch until at least the hotel ballet

http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2008/08/08/burn-after-reading-chad.jpg

I still love the snow shootout

lol great jpg there

i'm too lazy to search, but someone said basically the same thing somewhere upthread: it was when inception actually became an action movie (raid on the snow fort, essentially) that it started to bog down

inception was pretty good but not really an action flick. can't believe it placed so high in omar's poll.

DJP let's you and I make a pact to get Inception on the ballot in all genres,

could call it the "FP Axis"

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/good-day-die-hard-jai-courtney-bruce-willis-spartacus-293877

That article needs an editor, but I like the choice.

Want to say Weller went back to school and got a PhD in art history or something? Or philosophy?

Thanks, Wiki, font of all knowledge:

In 2004, Weller completed a Master's degree in Roman and Renaissance Art at Syracuse University and occasionally teaches courses in ancient history at the university. In 2007, Weller was finishing a Ph.D. at UCLA, in Italian Renaissance art history.[11] He expects to complete his dissertation in 2012.[12]

oh c'mon

lol

would ghostbusters have made the top 75 comedies of all-time?

I'd be shocked if it wasn't in the top ten.

Re: Nolan, dude's good with the visuals, but the only movie he's made that was better than 'just okay' is The Dark Knight. And I have my suspicions that even it might not be that impressive if I were to watch it a second time sans IMAX. Like, he does a certain kind of thing well enough that I'll probably keep seeing his films (seen 'em all but Following), but that thing he does well isn't making particularly great films that I care to revisit.

this thread is reminding me of when the lights come on at the club and everybody's still stumbling around because they don't want to go home

YERRRR MYYYY BESSSSH FREN, EDDDDARD. I MEENNNIT. RLLY.

WATCH DIE HARD ITSH GUD

fugggen YIIIIPPPEEEEKAYAYYYYY rite
rite?

I do think that Ebert was right about Die Hard, i.e. the Lt. was a
tremendous wet-blanket on Brooooce taking out the Eurotrash.

Anyway, my ballot, which I'm sure has the most Shakespeare adaptations:

1 Heat
2 The Thin Red Line
3 Children of Men
4 The Incredibles
5 Batman Begins
6 District 9
7 Drunken Master (the FIRST, much better one)

8 Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
9 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

10 Ghost in the Shell
11 Aliens
12 the bourne ultimatum
13 Miami Vice
14 House of Flying Daggers
15 Le Samourai
16 GI Joe: The Movie (animated)
17 Predator
18 Raiders of the Lost Ark
19 The Dark Knight
20 Spider-Man 2
21 Die Hard
22 the bourne supremacy
23 Ronin
24 Tears of the Sun
25 The Bourne Identity
26 The Iron Giant
27 Titus
28 Collateral
29 Inception
30 Excalibur
31 Enter the Dragon
32 Strange Days

Hur hur

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/ashwednesday.jpg

Titus? Action?

(I haven't seen it)

in keeping with the rest of the non-action movie list tbh