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

or maybe you'd rather hear criticism of west from an Actual Black Person?

here you go: http://libcom.org/library/what-are-drums-saying-booker

amateurist I love you man but I think you just got trolled

yeah maybe. still i'll take the gospel of "cornel west is useless" wherever i am welcome.

love how this thread has petered out into lengthy discussions of Gina Gershon and Cornel West

Petered out? You mean RAMPED UP!!!

*gina gershon jumps out window, cornel west explodes*

i think that happened once really

Just watched North by Northwest. I couldn't stop imagining it redone as a Bourne style thriller - teal and orange, fast cut fistfights, insane car chase, parkour, no-holds-barred love scene on the train. I think it could work.

only if the guy doing the parkour is CGI cary grant

dudes... THE RAID. Instant classic.

Titus? Action?

The play is action!

tbf it's no Measure for Measure

Doing a Die Hard marathon here. The first and second. Awww yeah.

YIPPEEKAYAY

Many a stunt driver had a profitable career at The Globe

Die Hard 2 is underrated. That plane crash is fucking terrifying.

Also, John Amos as the villain!

I got Inception for Christmas.

Parents: "I remember you talking about this movie a lot"

WTG ILX

I have Inception and like it and watch it occasionally!

I don't want to remember if I liked it

What, because of a handful of negative ilxor reviews? Be your own Lorax, here, man.

the part in DH2 when the dude gets pushed into the jet engine... yeesh

Still not sure what was up with villain's naked stretching/martial arts practice at beginning

the steam powered luggage sorting facility at the airport is also a little wtf.

brother cornel is cool as hell and has had a lot of cool shit to say in his career. ― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass)

^^ ntm

he's a professionally useless blowhard ― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist)

^^ ntm

I've seen Cornel from both sides now, as sage and crank, but still somehow, it's West's self-importance I recall. I really can't see West at all.

Just watched Commando for the first time in a long long time - Bill Paxton is also in that too!

WAHT?

(Googles)

OMG

Yeah that was my reaction too.

I love DH2 as it's basically a James Bond movie only with extra yippie-ky-yay'ing. Confrontations with Dennis Franz are hokey, but awesomely funny too.

I wish I could see Die Hard in the historical context of only knowing Bruce Willis from romcom fare

Yeah you have to appreciate seeing the posters for Die Hard in the lobby of the theater and going, 'the guy from Moonlighting and Blind Date? that's going to suck.'....then being gloriously, wonderfully wrong.

was it that much of a hard sell? i mean he was kind of a raffish tough guy even in Moonlighting, and that was a pretty popular action movie leading man template already at the time with Harrison Ford, etc.

Also, Hudson Hawk didn't even get nominated? It's kind of a batshit action movie.

it's pretty rare that an actor who is already hugely famous and a bit pigeonholed makes a film that completely changes everyone's entire perception of them in an awesome film in which they arrive in some newish, fully-formed style. clooney and 'out of sight' is kind of similar in that regard, 'one fine day' being his 'blind date.'

xpost to some dude- I was in high school when this came out and yeah, among my friends and I at least, it was "no way, this guy looks like an idiot." But a buddy went to see it and came back ecstatic, the rest followed suit. Funny, the debate with us then was whether the best movie that year was Die Hard or Young Guns.

i think one of the reasons Die Hard works so well is that, despite the action-hero status he would immediately attain afterward, Bruce Willis sort of translates as a 'regular workaday dude' a lot more of aptly than say Schwarzanegger or Stallone would have - and that kind of persona is sorta essential to the film's efficacy.

that said, I could maybe see Harrison Ford having pulled it off tho.

i'll take y'alls word for it, i was really young at the time so my earliest childhood memories are of willis as the unstoppable action star/blues singer

i think one of the reasons Die Hard works so well is that, despite the action-hero status he would immediately attain afterward, Bruce Willis sort of translates as a 'regular workaday dude' a lot more of aptly than say Schwarzanegger or Stallone would have - and that kind of persona is sorta essential to the film's efficacy.

that said, I could maybe see Harrison Ford having pulled it off tho.

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Scharzanegger, for example, never could have fit into that air vent.

It's funny, I have a friend who's a couple years younger and probably only ever knew of Bruce Willis's action roles and it was a hard sell trying to convince her that he's done good non-action work!

willis' regular dude thing is essential to this, i mean he spends most of the movie in terror and on the run.

WELCOME TO THE PARTY PAL

god i love die hard

The bit toward the beginning where the guy with a gun is doing the "hah, you're a cop, you wouldn't hurt me like that" bit and McClane responds with a line about how his boss keeps trying to tell him that

Harrison Ford did it pretty well in the Clancy one with the Irish terrorists laying siege to his vacation home. I think that was a movie. Patriot Games? Also, he was President Bruce WIllis in "Air Force One."

ford's more of a righteous angry guy who sticks his finger in your face. i couldnt imagine him wearing a tanktop and making fists with his toes

you need to watch Hollywood Homicide

was it that much of a hard sell? i mean he was kind of a raffish tough guy even in Moonlighting, and that was a pretty popular action movie leading man template already at the time with Harrison Ford, etc.

I remember there was an early series of teaser poster that didn't feature Willis at all, only a picture of an empty theater seat and tag copy that promised to "blow you through the back wall of the theater"

bruce willis will blow you in the back of the theater

http://robotmantheblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/reluctanthero2.jpg

I actually just sat and watched Die Hard (rather than just seeing bits and pieces of it in passing) for the first time the other day.

Damn. Y'all were OTMFM.