What's the hands-down no-messing best action film of the decade?

I really did love action movies in the late 1980s and much of the 1990s but i feel like i haven't seen a great one in 10 years or more give or take the comic book-y type
(Batman Begins, Star Trek etc). I'm sure the Bournes are all they are cracked up to be but haven't seen them.

I'm sure there must be lots of undiscovered classics, or ones that didn't get the respect they deserve at the time and suchlike. My own fave would be Miami Vice but what's your own favourite action film from the 2000s so far?

watch the bournes.

Collateral, if that counts. (But I'm probably the wrong person to ask, since I avoid action films by and large.)

miami vice
casino royale
kill bill pt 1
district 13
bourne ultimatum
exiled

Nid de guêpes (a.k.a. The Nest)

Ong-Bak or Kung Fu Hustle

the bourne movies, yeah, but children of men had me on the edge of my seat more than anything i can think of.

Only slightly facetious answer: The Incredibles.

Collateral, if that counts.

Oh yes it does.

Star Trek was pretty fucking exciting.

The Host (Gwoemul)

Star Trek is all lens flares and shit editing. Liked it enough, but failed to deliver the action goods. I love Miami Vice, but I don't think it's action is particularly great save that final shoot-out. Same with Collateral. Looks like the Bourne movies are the way to go.

let's do it

the bournes obvs

Ong-Bak or Kung Fu Hustle

― admrl, Monday, November 16, 2009 5:12 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

both very fun

Crank 2: High Voltage

Bournes
Batman Begins
The Transporter
Everything on omar little's list for sure

Bourne Identity = #1 tho

Kung Fu Hustle x 1,000,000, if rep cinemas still existed in this town I would go see it twice a year
Crank
Transporter 2
District 9

district 9, bournes, children of men, kung fu hustle.

Bourne Identity Supremacy = #1 tho

kung fu hustle = comedy
children of men = scifi

yes i concur...both dope imo and both have action but neither are action films.

agree w/ bourne supremacy tbh

this decade has been a little disappointing on the action front to me but then again i don't get as much out of the 'crank' school of action flicks as some other folks

the action in children of men (like the escaping the farm scene where the car wont start) is better than pretty much anything else this decade except bourne shit

agreed w/ the action in children of men being amazing (like, shit i am falling out of my chair amazing) but jho has been on point

casino royale had some awesome action scenes

for me the Bournes rate: Supremacy, Identity, Ultimatum...but all 3 are very good.

this decade has been a little disappointing on the action front to me but then again i don't get as much out of the 'crank' school of action flicks as some other folks

― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:35 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

having like 500m to spend on explosions and cgi has hurt the genre somewhat - too many movies are hermetically sealed and humorless - u dont get over the top silly shit like predator or weirdo strangely artful stuff like terminator anymore - its all t3 these days

crank is hilar tho

what's an 'action' movie then? you have to be a spy?

casino royale is stupidly better than any other bond movie this decade in a fairly eye-opening way, and is probably in my top 5...the drop to QOS is ridic obv

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5104A10E9PL._SL500.jpg xp

what's an 'action' movie then? you have to be a spy?

― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:42 AM (38 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

comedy is in it for the lols, sfi is sparkling yr imaginarium w/krazy concepts and action is abt forceful a-dog shit - so its a matter of emphasis and motivation imo

forceful - a dog shit

II

If we count 2012 as action - its only purpose is to generate excitement, then that. Not as a good a film as the Bournes or Casino Royale - not a good film for anything except the FX - but for reconnecting you with cinema's primal impulse to make the viewer think WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT AND HOW ARE THEY DOING IT? it's one of the best I've ever seen.

collateral is NOT an action movie, you ppl are crazy

jho is right, too, about kung fu hustle and COM.

for me, the prototypical action movie is still Die Hard, so if i can't discern a clear lineage leading back to it somehow, i'm less inclined to think of something as an action movie. arbitrary, sure, but it works almost all the time

anyway, omar was pretty otm at the outset

btw think u all should rethink yr casino royal luv - bad enough that it completely ruins the character "james bond" in some half assed attempt to be all bourne - but the whole thing is just has a pandering cobbled together mess

it is sprawling and magnificent iirc

the drop to QOS is ridic obv

yea that was a bummer, they really f'd it up

i think also the whole aesthetic that spielberg kinda popularized w/saving private ryan (i think the technique is to remove every other frame) to make the action seem a little more jagged and vérité works only for a certain type of film but a lot of action films that aren't served well by it end up using it excessively.

casino royale suuuuuuuucked

boring answer, but it's probably one of the bourne movies

o hay whatre the kids into poker parkour skinny suits sensitive spys - hells yeah throw it all in there ffs

parker posey in: poker parkour

i'm not a huge action person, myself - but i loved all the Bourne films. thought they were fantastic. and if they count i'd also include Children of Men and District 9.

i actually really liked casino royale and quantum of solace - more than i've liked other bond films in the past. the cinematography was interesting in that it seemed like in quantum, there were tons of shots focusing on daniel craig's neck, and i think it moved upward to focus on his jaw in casino.

jho that is retarded, bond has always been about poker/casinos and stylish suits

i agree about 2012, it was actually pretty amazing aside from the family issues.

casino royale was a++ until he won the poker game, and then it was an absolute mess from thereon in. really spoiled it.

QoS was better all round, I think.

QoS was better all round, I think.

I agree.

sigh there is no modern analog to COMMANDO

watchmen, iron man pretty good, if you don't consider them a subgenre.

iron man might be worth considering for best, in fact.

yes, ice cr?m - kitchen sink style is the essence of bond!! there is no golden age of purity where 007 movies are concerned

oh duh, iron man, yeah

watchmen: emphatically no.

bad movie, in general, and not at all ACTION-y

lol i forgot i didn't see casino royale, it's quantum of solace that suuuuuuuucked

watchmen was painful - i'm trying to think the last time i saw a movie with such cloying, heavy-handed use of popular music.

iron man was pretty awesome.

iron man is closest to golden age die hard style action, imo, in that it has cool action and a wise-crackin hero

yeah but it was about a suit, the dude wasn't any hardass himself.

maybe the transporter? is that 00's?

u guys bond is abt being a stylish misogynistic sociopath not a mopey lil bitch basically

QoS was better all round, I think.

I agree.

― sarahel, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 17:06 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

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the poker game in casino royale killed that movie for me. if you're going to have a long, drawn-out scene to appeal to the poker stans, you can't have someone win it with a straight flush ffs. wow what an amazing poker player, he went all in with a straight flush! he should've bluffed them all with a 2-7 or something. (i know, /pedant, but still.)

I didn't think Watchmen was a bad movie but it's pretty emphatically NOT an action movie.

Kind of ;_; that people hate QoS so much

elephant in the room? the two towers.

FANTASY

but whatever to the fact that craig ruins the bond legacy - those are pretty shitty movies in their own right

a fantasy can't be an action movie?

we're narrowing down here.

so, it's got to be a dude, in a vest, in a city, basically?

u guys bond is abt being a stylish misogynistic sociopath not a mopey lil bitch basically

― SMH (ice cr?m), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:11 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

jho he is a stylish misogynistic sociopath in casion royale, u r on dRuGs

i have no idea what lj's post quoting mine is supposed to convey.

you've disappointed him

but take it to a subboard, imo

vest? What is this, a chick flick?

xxxp

xp - i can't see why, considering our previous disagreement about paul thomas anderson movies.

Wolverine was pretty good, I thought.

o hay whatre the kids into poker parkour skinny suits sensitive spys - hells yeah throw it all in there ffs

― SMH (ice cr?m), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:04 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol have you never heard of this character james bond before?

but whatever to the fact that craig ruins the bond legacy - those are pretty shitty movies in their own right

― SMH (ice cr?m), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:13 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

agree w/ this tho, which is why i liked craig's bond more than the others

also bourne 1 was kind of drab and boring tbh. didn't see the others tho

pitch black, crouching tiger and cloverfield. although they probably aren't really action movies either? pitch black gotta be close enough to count.

cloverfield was kinda silly.

jho's comment only makes sense if you've only ever seen Pierce Brosnan's Bond movies (which are in and of themselves awesome, especially "The World Is Not Enough")

Bourne 1 was drab??????? I don't understand you ppl at all

i've checked the dates and The Transporter (2002) is almost certainly the best Die Hard type movie of the 00's

u guys bond is abt being a stylish misogynistic sociopath not a mopey lil bitch basically

― SMH (ice cr?m), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:11 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

jho he is a stylish misogynistic sociopath in casion royale, u r on dRuGs

― itdn put butt in the display name (gbx), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:14 PM (30 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dude did u even watch this moive - or maybe its the other bonds you havent seen

1 craig wears a suit like hes a 15 y/o at a wedding and walks around frowning like he just got his face stepped on - dude is a hulking brooding thugg - not bond style glib dandy

2 he spends the whole movie catching feelings for some bitch whos trying to kill him - real bond wouldve taken the 1st opportunity to throw her out a window and head for the bar

3 the direction tone plot etc is also so not bond

its really quite shocking how little you all know of and appreciate james bond - wish tombot was still here *sob*

also the new bonds just suck in their own right

Casino Royale was great but not so much as an action film (as good as the parkour chase was)

i get the impression that ice cr?m doesn't like the new james bond movies.

might have to go with Iron Man

TS - Bond v. Bourne

I watched Casino Royale on DVD and I think they stand a good chance of revitalizing Bond with Daniel Craig. It's a much better movie when you can FFWD through the opening credits (aauuugh. bad flash animation with even worse backing song, totally terrible).

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― El Tomboto, Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:28 PM

I like the Bournes/Iron Man/Incredibles/Casino Royale as mentioned above but I'm going to be in an army of one and rep for Die Hard 4, purely for the scene where Willis jumps out of an exploding lorry onto a hovering F35 jet then surfs down a collapsing freeway bridge as the jet explodes about him. It takes a certain kind of chutzpah to get away with a scene like that.

or Hellboy if it counts xp. don't really want to count comic book films tho (Spiderman 1 also dece).

o no i couldve sworn i recall him hating on this xp

Die Hard 4 had its charms.

also pretty sure TOMBOT loved the fact that Bond was a brooding thug

that hated rich dandies

jh0 I hate to say it but in this case I think it is you who is the ass licker.

if that scene from die hard 4 is in then kung fu hustle is in

spy kids imo

ok so how many ppl are digging through old threads to find TOMBOT expounding on Bond?

xp

die hard 4 is such a stain

CR was too long but pretty dece

QOS on the other hand was a mess... you shouldn't have to know BACKSTORY going into a bond movie. i had pretty much purged the character names and details from CR from my memory so when QOS started with all these references to the last movie i was pretty dismayed

it's basically the pirates of caribbean syndrome

^^ okay, i think i might be confusing them then. Which is the one with the African paramilitary guys? That's the one I liked better.

sarahel: did james bond go to a CASINO ROYALE in the movie you saw?

lol

jh0 I hate to say it but in this case I think it is you who is the ass licker.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:38 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dude why are u talking to me abt ass licking stop

QOS on the other hand was a mess... you shouldn't have to know BACKSTORY going into a bond movie. i had pretty much purged the character names and details from CR from my memory so when QOS started with all these references to the last movie i was pretty dismayed

it's basically the pirates of caribbean syndrome

only difference being it's actually pretty easy to remember the characters from Pirates of the Caribbean, but yeah I agree with yr general argument as being lost about the backstory for the first 20 minutes was the main thing I didn't like about QoS (though overall I did like the movie)

missing from thread: gladiator

the casino part was only a portion of the movie - and i saw both of them on dvd in the same week.

also matrix seqlols - 2nd matrix car chase is pretty great

^^^^^^^ YES

actually - I saw quantum of solace before casino royale, and maybe not knowing the backstory/having seen the first one made it more interesting.

I was annoyed that the entire ending of QoS related to Casino Royale instead of the movie we'd just actually watched. I think. To be honest I was sort of not caring at that point since the baddie had been taken care of.

have completely forgotten the ending---bad guys died in the fire, right? then what?

pizza party @ bonds house irrc

planet terror - secretly better then death proof - has some pretty cool shit too

the main thing I remember about QoS was the girl O_O

I can't remember, they didn't show Vesper's death again at the beginning of QoS, did they? Had they done that (maybe as part of the credit sequence?) it may have made more sense.

also yes super hot Bond girl

planet terror was pretty great

having like 500m to spend on explosions and cgi has hurt the genre somewhat - too many movies are hermetically sealed and humorless - u dont get over the top silly shit like predator or weirdo strangely artful stuff like terminator anymore - its all t3 these days

crank is hilar tho

― SMH (ice cr?m), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:41 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tgus us a very giod and insightful post ice cr?m thank u for articulating what we are all feeling in our hearts when we see crap like 2012

honestly crank 1 would probably be my nom re: the thread question

the bonds have all been smirking butlers since connery, craig is the 1st since him to convey a lot of what bond is about imo. i also liked quantum of solace but they need to bring back martin campbell or a similar frankenheimer-type craftsman. QoS was trying too much to be bourne 2 and 3, CR had a good classic bond style to it (albeit kinda pared down in terms of setpieces)

craig deffo conveys the cruel/sadistic blunt instrument side of bond v well - i thought russell crowe would've made a good bond along similar lines, but he's too fat and old now - QoS was p crummy too ya

Blade 2

did anyone mention RAMBO

If I could only pick one, it would be a toss-up between the following very different movies:

Children of Men
Crank
Bourne Ultimatum
Transporter 2

I shouldn't be surprised I haven't seen Wanted on here yet, since it was pretty flawed, but I found it to be a memorable and outrageous/fun action movie.

Rambo was terrible, and I say this as a huge fan of First Blood.

I need to watch some Jason Statham action nonsense, I think I'd quite enjoy it.

wanted had too much time devoted to rip roaring loom action, plus i find it kinda stupid : /

guys what about the fast and furious movies? I've only seen the Tokyo one and it was lolzy, but are the other ones dece?

xp omar otm

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

the '00s needed a no-doubt pick like this^^^

which movie started the parkour thing?

wanted was retarded in the bad way

o i forgot about the decade thing

lol dates

what about visionary director zach snider

wanted was retarded in the bad way

the movie tickled me for some reason. I have kind of a weakness for stupid action, though. I almost put Unleashed on my list, too.

Shit, one I totally forgot about was Sin City.

prob go with children of men. crank is stupidly funny tho

I can't imagine a non-stupid action movie being any fun, though Wanted was stupid and not fun.

die hard is the most fun of any action movie ever and pretty damn smart imo

dark knight?

Die Hard is great, but smart?

Cellular

first Bourne in the best -- the others are marred by extended computer-animated car chases iirc

QoS was better all round, I think.

Ah, Mr Contrarian, I've been expecting you...

Since the kicking QoS got on release I suppose it was inevitable it would eventually get positively re-evaluated, and be the subject of all sorts of QoS >>> CR type comments.
I do like QoS though. But not as much as CR, which may well be my fave action film of the 00s.

die hard is the most fun of any action movie ever and pretty damn smart imo
--jØrdån (omar little)

u kno it

Running Scared
Exit Wounds.
Bad Boys II

wanted is totally stupid but i kind of love it? maybe because james mcavoy is dreamy.

I kind of love it because it has stupid meta-text floating around everywhere and Morgan Freeman says "motherfucker". I recognize that these are not the best reasons to love a movie.

Last King of Scotland is much better action movie than Wanted, plus Forrest Whitaker's weird eye!

i haven't seen that, but i think it is the only good movie james mcavoy has ever been in, which is too bad. i watched becoming jane. that's pretty off-topic, i guess.

wanted was deeply stupid and ott but kinda entertaining. this is the only context that I'd speak positively of it tho, I'd never ever tell someone that it's worth seeing over most everythingelse
mentioned

horseshoe have you seen 'band of brothers'

Last King of Scotland is much better action movie than Wanted, plus Forrest Whitaker's weird eye!
--Philip Nunez

this movie is really awful

also was waiting for dan to rep wanted :D

cgi is unfortunately one of the worst things that has happened to action films imo. we need more ronins.

re: Last King of Scotland
I don't mean to say it was good. It is just much better than wanted. Plus, did I mention Forrest Whitaker's crazy eye? His eye trumps floating text and "motherfuckers" etc...

wtf I also loved "Last King of Scotland"

I'd say wanted is better if only because it is not as crpytically racist as Last King

?????????????????????????????????????????????????

How was "Last King of Scotland" cryptically racist?????

don't ask me to defend that, btw, because I honestly can't quite remember what it was precisely that made me think that, but there was something about last king that really, really turned me off

xp

you are racist don't ask me about it

for anyone considering watching it last king of scotland is def not an action movie and it contains one really super vile shot you will want to unsee

I wish I could recall exactly dan! something about how the story was wholly fabricated into this "isn't Africa craaaaaaazy?" thing, plus something at the end

I'd have to watch it again tbh

I am being cryptically critical and xhallopy sorry

is generation: kill a film ;)

Last King definitely sensationalizes a dictator for entertainment, but still acquits itself much better than Wanted, which stupidly celebrates righteous vengeance,
which even Die Hard doesn't do (or not as much). I forget, but doesn't Willis offer Rickman his hand before he bats it away and plunges to his doom?

oh go

is generation: kill a film ;)
--luol deng (am0n)

oh god HURT LOCKER

i could see last king of scotland being considered somewhat racist in that it fits firmly into the telling the story of 3rd world depravity through the eyes of a white guy who just happens to be there cause theres no way audinces could possibly sympathize w/these savages otherwise subsubgenre a la the killing fields and cry freedom etc

Last King definitely sensationalizes a dictator for entertainment, but still acquits itself much better than Wanted, which stupidly celebrates righteous vengeance

The problem with your thesis is that righteous vengeance, particularly in action movies, is awesome.

Also, any fictionalized account of any historical figure will be viewed as sensationalism pretty much by default, as the point is not to give an unvarnished retelling of facts but a story, but that's an argument for another thread.

oh yeah hurt locker

that actually approaches what I was thinking

It's by no means perfect, but I liked Last King.

the story was wholly fabricated into this "isn't Africa craaaaaaazy?"

But parts of Africa are pretty crazy, and the film didn't shy away from the reasons for that! It unequivocally acknowledged the various socio-economic factors at play (including Western meddling), rather than just portraying Africans as politically backwards or less civilized or what have you.

it contains one really super vile shot you will want to unsee

Yep, know the one you mean. Horrible.

xp to jho

i haven't seen band of brothers. but james mcavoy isn't in it, is he? what other reason could there be for watching something?

I forget, but doesn't Willis offer Rickman his hand before he bats it away and plunges to his doom?

Rickman tried to pull Bonnie Bedelia out with him and Willis undoes her symbolic watch clasp causing Rickman to plummet.

also I think that the fact that he story of the doctor is NOT TRUE irritates me on some level

james mcavoy's all up in band of bros for 1 or 2 episodes!

i remember my sister being critical of the we can't make a movie about africa without a fabricated white guy thing with last king of scotland. i think it's sort of an interesting problem.

but i am scared to see it bc of the gore.

xpost oh well obvs that is going on my netflix queue! <3 omar

it's 10 episodes, i think he shows up in the 4th or 5th. btw it's like saving private ryan but without the cornball shit, just soldiers trudging across europe skirmishing with germans. dopest shit ever imo.

oh yeah hurt locker

― luol deng (am0n), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 2:12 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ok yes gives bourne a run for its money imo

i had filed hurt locker under war films but tbh it's probably better than everything else mentioned here and i might have to go with that

1 craig wears a suit like hes a 15 y/o at a wedding and walks around frowning like he just got his face stepped on - dude is a hulking brooding thugg - not bond style glib dandy

― SMH (ice cr?m), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dogg there's a LOT of thug in the og bond... if u saw bodybuilding sociopathic sean connery as a 'glib dandy' then idk man, that's a 'you' thing

band of brothers does own, omar are you pumped for... THE PACIFIC

(i am)

fuck yes

The Pacific (hbo miniseries from spielberg/hanks)

^_^

i had filed hurt locker under war films but tbh it's probably better than everything else mentioned here and i might have to go with that

― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 2:23 PM (9 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its tricky presenting itself as serious then fucking w/all sorts of fun action tropes - it kinda becomes action not war because dude is a lone wolf

cankles is right, connery plays bond as a rapist, those first few movies theres like no actual spy shit, just connery putting the hurt on women, and then at the end they take down blofeld or goldfinger or whoever

true

i hope kathryn bigelow makes a movie per year from here on out, she's awesome.

btw this would be considered a smart action movie imo.

fwiw the second half of the last king of scotland was some of the most genuinely edge-of-seat gripping cinema i have ever witnessed...it was so involving i wanted to jump

really want to see hurt locker

fuck yes

The Pacific (hbo miniseries from spielberg/hanks)

― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 2:25 PM

i can't fucking wait

cankles is right, connery plays bond as a rapist, those first few movies theres like no actual spy shit, just connery putting the hurt on women, and then at the end they take down blofeld or goldfinger or whoever

― max, Tuesday, November 17, 2009 2:27 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah maybe dandy/thug isnt the best catch all here - but thug connery never caught feelings walking around all frowny and sorry for himself is basically what im saying

those first few movies theres like no actual spy shit, just connery putting the hurt on women, and then at the end they take down blofeld or goldfinger or whoever

Except for From Russia With Love, which for large stretches is a rather low key cold war espionage thriller. It's probably the 'purest' Bond film in regards the original books, as well as being arguably the best.

i thot the vesper love interest death plot dealio was in the books

t kinda becomes action not war because dude is a lone wolf

― SMH (ice cr?m), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:26 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm -- the seeming political neutrality and total isolation of dude makes the war just this reason that this badass can go defuse bombs.

it's pretty amazing that i actually read some conservative blogs talking shit about THL. i guess politically atheist films are just as bad as politically left films? idk.

craig bond is an introvert i guess ultimately is what makes it suck so hard

Haven't seen Hurt Locker, but if it is as serious/smart as advertised, it would seem more engaging/moral-uplift than fun. Is it?

THE PROTECTOR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXIGP6_fNZk

it's pretty amazing that i actually read some conservative blogs talking shit about THL.

that is astounding, actually.

haven't seen Hurt Locker, either. really want to.

i think i said this on the bigelow thhread -- i found hurt locker to be like a photo-negative of an action/war movie. the audience's (my) states of heightened tension and relaxation are reversed from the norm. i thought every scene was intense and involving and terrifying, EXCEPT the ones where it lapses into trad actioner stuff. basically, when guns started to go off, i calmed down

totally! i hadn't thought of it that way

i read some military blogs that criticized this or that technical or operational detail (these do kinda stick out once you're told, i won't ruin it), but thought it got the vibe, the feel, and the emotion mostly right.

one of my favorite true-to-bond scenes from casino royale was when he was on the beach w/M after that broad in the red dress was tortured & killed (her corpse was tangled up in a hammock) and M says somethin like 'i'd ask if you can remain emotionally detached, but that's not a problem with you is it' and he just says no in the coldest fuckin way, lettin you know he dont give a FUQQQQ that he was pretty much directly responsible for her death~

oh now i'm curious about that stuff

xp 2 goole

ha maybe i'll pull up the bigelow thread and go ruin it there

one of my favorite true-to-bond scenes from casino royale was when he was on the beach w/M after that broad in the red dress was tortured & killed (her corpse was tangled up in a hammock) and M says somethin like 'i'd ask if you can remain emotionally detached, but that's not a problem with you is it' and he just says no in the coldest fuckin way, lettin you know he dont give a FUQQQQ that he was pretty much directly responsible for her death~

― NEW YORK DESERVED 9-11 (cankles), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 2:40 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

YES this was so great--also i love that the dude looks like he is made out of playdough--he genuinely doesnt look human

yeah but then it turns out he does totally give a fuck - theyre trying to have it both ways - even more so in the second far shittier one

duh dude

uh, he def didn't give a fuck about that broad

hello ice cr?m, we would like to introduce you to this intriguing concept called "storytelling"

i think one thing the bond flicks were missing since connery (along with the sadistic touch) was a lead actor that women in the audience would flock to see. like half the girls i know just swoon over craig. even the lesbos.

probably not a big challops to say that lazenby, moore, dalton, and brosnan were serviceable lightweights of varying quality in comparison.

i forget what his reaction to strawberry fields' death was (in QoS)

Fleming's Bond is ripe comedy material. I forget which book, but M thinks Bond is too stressed so he makes Bond go to a vegan health spa and he becomes a weird Earth-hippie for about half the book. Bummed they can't incorporate this kind of stuff nowadays.

hello ice cr?m, we would like to introduce you to this intriguing concept called "storytelling"

― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 2:46 PM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

id like to introduce you to an intriguing concept called "lick my nuts"

hmmm im intrigued

i dunno, half the point of the continued existence of the franchise at this point is to fuck around with the well-established mythology. the brosnan years were an attempt to climb the dapper dashing connery empyrean peak again, but there's probably no point trying. now they'll muck around in the late 80s dalton hardman realism doldrums that are obviously not doldrums.

and he becomes a weird Earth-hippie

oh man he could get into kale and bulk almonds, start cycling...

Didn't they halfheartedly nod towards that in "You Only Live Twice"?

see the earth hippy thing could be great with Craig as lead imo. his Bond was made for that type of piss take.

Le Chiffre: Wow. You've taken good care of your body. Such... a waste.
Bond: Spinach and broccoli are some of the most nutrient dense vegetables you can eat. Each fruit or veg has different things going for it.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01413/daniel-craig2_1413640c.jpg

g guh

I'm sorry, I meant "Never Say Never Again"

xp: what the hell

maybe he is undercover with nutrition-minded actual Nazis

xp oh dear

i could get into a new version of bond if it was actually fun or compelling rather than a half assed cobbled together collection of current movie things

you already said that

could u get into it if instead of a movie it was a grape-flavored ice pop

no and maybe

Rambo was terrible, and I say this as a huge fan of First Blood.

"National Lampoon's Cattle Call was terrible, and I say this as a huge fan of National Lampoon's Vacation."

First Blood is a very strange movie. Are there any other movies where one guy kills cops for two hours then cries like a baby?

I wish more action movies were like that.

again, Kung Fu Hustle

Wild Zero

Is that the guitar wolf one? Lock and Lolll!

dudes if kung fu hustle is an action movie then home alone is a high-tension home invasion thriller

inevitable post:

"maybe it is ;) "

How has dark Knight only got one mention on this thread?

i think the whole universe is sick of ilx talking about the dark knight

But yeah, Bourne (all of 'em, in order, when you're off work with a hernia), CoM. Die Hard 4.0 is good fun.

First Blood is a very strange movie. Are there any other movies where one guy kills cops for two hours then cries like a baby?

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this is why it's the perfect vietnam movie, it's like shock corridor in the woods

The sad thing is i feel like the action scenes in these movies - a problem for this decade in general - is that the action direction hasn't been that great (even the Bourne movies). When i think of the 90s I think of stuff like John Woo's output, Terminator 2, the first Matrix... not that much I can think of on that level for the 00s.

i think also the whole aesthetic that spielberg kinda popularized w/saving private ryan (i think the technique is to remove every other frame) to make the action seem a little more jagged and vérité works only for a certain type of film but a lot of action films that aren't served well by it end up using it excessively.

Exactly. The blurry handheld cam action of the Bourne and Batman can be effective in a sense, but even in those films, it's bad when you can barely tell what's going on, especially in the third Bourne movie.

yeah qn for the panel - wd the matrix be your choice if it had been released in '00 - it may well be mine

the matrix is unintentionally hilarious -- but, no. it would not be my choice.

the matrix is good but it's not quite a decade-owning classic. and the sequels are just dire enough to cast a shadow over the original imo.

i have avoided the sequels entirely despite assurances that i wd at least enjoy some of the setpieces in reloaded - neo can fly at the end of the matrix - the story arc is complete

ong bak was pretty good

HURT. LOCKER.

loved when he fought the dude whose special fighting technique was just grabbing parts of the room and hitting people with them

the only good thing about the sequels was the AC Transit bus and the OPD parking lot.

the matrix is good but it's not quite a decade-owning classic.

it's certainly arguable!

Is Oldboy an action movie? Because that had some of the sickest action sequences ever.

No doubt the corridor scene in Oldboy is one of the top action scenes of the decade, but i definitely wouldn't call it an action film.

Yes, the second two matrix movies were disappointing, but to say that it actually takes away how great the first one was is just ridiculous. It's not like they went back George Lucas-style and changed the film, merely shattered your illusion of the competence of the filmmakers -- what's already done is still a great movie, still quite watchable and fun.

and as aceoluthic says, there are even some nicely done sequences in the sequels, but yeah it probably isn't worth the effort at this point unless you're really curious and want to kill some time

it doesn't change the quality of the first but throws some of its slightly lamer aspects into relief due to how much they're played up in 2 and 3.

that scene that moonship journey to baja posted was pretty oldboyish

the end of oldboy was so fucking stupid btw

Watch them with French audio track on. Then they are great movies (unless you know French).

oh god i go away for two seconds and it's all oldboy up in here

ok

i completely avoided mentioning that film as it is a neo-classical tragedy, not an action movie

yeah it has some great action sequences. it has many awesome things that films have. it is an amazing movie. the end is poetic. we shouldn't probably be discussing it here.

if it's poetry, it's that new shitty type that doesn't even rhyme imo

wow, wish i'd been reading this today. action!!
but anyway xpost:
for me, the prototypical action movie is still Die Hard, so if i can't discern a clear lineage leading back to it somehow, i'm less inclined to think of something as an action movie. arbitrary, sure, but it works almost all the time
― itdn put butt in the display name (gbx), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:58 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark

I almost prefaced my list with: Die Hard is the constant by which all action movies are measured in my mind

it is on netflix!!!!

one of the best parts of undergrad education was that my film studies survey course started with Die Hard, 35mm, big screen - entertained, educated and vindicated all at once

did it also include Laura Mulvey's "Riddles of the Sphinx"?

Wow so Children Of Men is good then? I must see that, the trailer was laugh out loud terrible but then maybe the real film doesn't have that awful voice-over?

nope!

so when do you think they're gonna do a Mad Max remake
i worry

unless, of course, herzog does it, obv

gbx, if The Hurt Locker is an action movie then Tranformers 2 is a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta.

Ong Bak sucked btw.

and if Children of Men is an action movie then it was crap after all.

children of men starts with a bomb going off and then proceeds through an hour and a half of chase and flight and fight scenes until it winds up with a big blitz of a military showdown and a daring last-minute escape. if it's not an action movie i have no idea what any of these words mean.

Children of Men is probably the least "sci-fi" sci-fi movie ever.

nah, it's got gadgets and stuff.

so when do you think they're gonna do a Mad Max remake
i worry

Miller's been in development on #4 for a good decade or so - Brendan McCarthy was living out here for YEARS doing design - but last I heard might be doing it as a reboot rather than use/deal with Gibson

guys don't you know you're justing being mollified by empty action when watching these movies

re Last King upthread: But it's not the story of Africa told through the eyes of a white guy because we won't care otherwise. It's the story a white guy who thinks it's all just a hilarious joke about craaaazy Africans - until he realises he's way out of his depth, and there is far more at stake than his entertainment (a point the Gillian Anderson character foreshadows for him). It's from a novel by an English writer who grew up in east Africa: a little unfair to criticise him for writing a debut novel about an Englishman in east Africa. Either way, it's not an action movie.

i'm kind of with gbx re: hurt locker - i can't think of any other movies that were more "pure" action than it, i.e. most of the story being told simply through the position of bodies in relation to other bodies and the landscape

it's bad when you can barely tell what's going on, especially in the third Bourne movie.

This makes no sense to me. The fight scene editing in The Bourne Ultimatum was amazing.

pineapple express

Miami Vice or Children of Men.

i'm kind of with gbx re: hurt locker - i can't think of any other movies that were more "pure" action than it, i.e. most of the story being told simply through the position of bodies in relation to other bodies and the landscape

This isn't what "action movie" has come to mean, though.

or: All films contain action, so Mulholland Dr.

"action"

also, I wish I had time to list the hundreds of films that match or exceed The Hurt Locker by Tracer's definition.

(Armond is right; now officially overrated)

also, I wish I had time to list the hundreds of films that match or exceed The Hurt Locker by Tracer's definition.

And to prove your point, you'd stock that list with kinetic actioneers by Tsai Ming-Liang too, right?

no

or maybe YES

So then we're back to Miami Vice, which has pervasive coolness and loud bullets and sunshine.

really puzzled by the repeated inclusion of Kung Fu hustle itt

because of all the fighting, (kung fu) and the hustle (hustle)

oic

KFH is so goddamn kinetic, wtf. Also it's not called Miami Vice.

KFH is too stitched together; a pastiche of isolated funny ideas that don't quite cohere. shaolin soccer is vastly better

what do I know tho, I'm a man known to be mollified by empty action

i like shaolin soccer better too, but they're both pretty great.

Scene breaking the toad dude out of the prison/asylum alone lifts KFH ahead of SS, and that's leaving out dancing gangsters and a caddish landlord floating gently to the ground (movie moment of the decade for me)

for me the egg gag in SS >>>>>> every single gag in KFH. but agree to disagree etc

if 'agree to disagree' was an option god wouldn't have given us sb

sb is pretty up there in greatest action movies of the aughts

it's a political thriller shurely

i'm just gonna say 'transporter' again for those arguing for a narrower definition of 'action film'- transporter

KFH was just so front-loaded... there's this great action sequence right near the beginning and the rest is just chow being cruel to a disfigured girl with a crush on him like in every movie he does

(seriously, weirdest directorial trademark ever)

I guess the key is to not see all his movies then.

I assume someone mentioned District B13 (but again, that's a 3-star film at best, so to hell with action movies).

Surprised no one's mentioned Apocalypto yet.

That's because Apocalypto is just okay.

I thought I'd hate Apocalypto but it turned out to be much better than I thought it would be. I'd rate it better than okay but still nothing great.

apocalypto is deserving of consideration imo

rip tombot

This isn't what "action movie" has come to mean, though.

i dunno, i think die hard fits it pretty well - it's all about how the hell is mcclane going to get from one side of the room to the other; will the table protect him from bullets; etc

"action" is what makes something quintessentially filmic - i always think back to that crazy scene in blood simple when m. emmet walsh has his hand creeping around the window and gets a knife stuck in it - that's fucking action in my book - the climax hinges on this totally physical detail that would just not come across if you were reading it or hearing it dramatized on the radio

oh oh and don't forget - NO SHOES ouch ouch ouch

lol apocalypto is so awesome - im smiling just thinking abt it - the end omg

Maybe not the best, but in my mind "Apocalypto" is the most "action-film" action-film of the decade - in that 90% of the movie is dialogue-free chase scenes and fighting.

If we're going with a more expansive definition of "action film" then how about "No Country for Old Men"?

its pretty actiony but prob too much thinkingy

great 1 tho def

NCFOM is the slowest paced action film i've ever seen

if it is an action film

apocalypto is great

in length

tho i guess if hurt locker can be action ncfom can be too - its more of a thriller that scolds you for enjoying thrillers maybe

I don't remember NCFOM being that slow-paced. It does have lots of chase scenes, and lots of dialogue-free sequences that depend on physical arrangements of objects moving in space.

Is there such a thing as a dialogue-free sequences that DOESN'T depend on physical arrangements of objects moving in space, particularly in mainstream cinema?

some movies take place on earth

this is retarded. andre gregory and wallace shawn's mouths were objects moving in space.

When I think of dialogue-free sequences in mainstream cinema, I think mainly of the "montage" sequences that are used to advance the plot or skip over a period of time, usually with a catchy pop song playing in the background. These usually depend on lots of brief shots spliced together that establish a mood and setting and don't spend a lot of time demonstrating the mechanical logic of complex interacting moving objects.

ok forgot tracer's original definition involved the story being told by the position of bodies in relation to other bodies and the landscape but still "hands-down no-messing" means we don't have this kind of debate

ok good point - i think it's not enough that you are simply seeing the relationships of bodies in space but that those relationships carry the full weight of the narrative - they are the story, rather than a diverting break from the story

in which case most jet li movies aren't really action movies, they're traditional old dramas with a few spectacular set pieces

action movies are when people fighting or shit blowing up is the selling point, next

^^^

what about wise-cracking

action-comedy

ok good point - i think it's not enough that you are simply seeing the relationships of bodies in space but that those relationships carry the full weight of the narrative - they are the story, rather than a diverting break from the story

Yeah but then, for example, you can start lumping in every slasher flick that contains a sequence where someone all by themselves creeps down a hallway or into a room and gets ambushed by a killer; it seems to ignore the big things that are the primary hallmarks of the modern action film, ie:

- chases
- explosions
- gunfire
- melee combat

I would nominate "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World", which I thought was pretty actiony.

i think slasher flicks are really awesome examples of action movies! haha sorry i always do this - end up trying to completely redefine the topic under discussion so that i get to talk about hurt locker some more

I'm not a big action film fan so I haven't seen most of what's in this thread, but my carefully considered answer would have to be battle royale

ok now you can go back to arguing about what an action film is thx

master and commander is a legit nomination imo

Also I liked "Minority Report" despite the high Tom Cruise quotient.

gbx, if The Hurt Locker is an action movie then Tranformers 2 is a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta.

Ong Bak sucked btw.

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

still trying to parse this...like, how does it map intelligibly to my analogy about KFH and home alone?? is there singing and dancing in transformers 2? srs q!

kung fu hustle is a comedy w/fighting in it and home alone is a comedy w/home invasion in it. so if the former is an action movie then it might make sense to consider the latter a home invasion thriller. i guess i'm just confused how considering the hurt locker an action movie would then, logically, make transformers 2 a G&S operetta

trying to make sense of my world here

i want to know why morbs thinks ong bak sucked

i mean it does, i'm just curious about his rationale

ong bak was entertaining when i watched it, but all i remember is tony jaa's knees flying around

the protector was ~horrible~

tho the scene with the XTREME GANG was fucking hilarious

The point is that Morbs doesn't think "The Hurt Locker" is anywhere near being an action movie and, if you're going to call it one, you might as well start throwing arbitrary inappropriate labels on other movies.

I can't comment on "The Hurt Locker" since I haven't seen it but I have seen "Home Alone" and the pervasive slapstick comedy rather emphatically keeps someone from viewing it as a home invasion thriller; conversely, comedy and action have been close bedfellows for decades so being funny doesn't actually mean that "Kung Fu Hustle" can't be an action movie, particularly if the action sequences (of which there are a ton) are the ones that stay with you after the movie.

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTIwMjIwMDQ2OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODc5ODIzMQ@@._V1._SX266_SY400_.jpg

action movies are movies with lots of violence that's supposed to be fun to watch, i think that's pretty much it.

master and commander is a good pick. not a ton of action but when it's there it's great.

lots of mastery and commanding

i will always rep for master and commander, but it's not really ~about~ action (a la tracer's theory) in the same way that die hard or hurt locker or even kfh are

it's a movie about being on a boat

it's a ~*man movie*~ tho so maybe that makes it seem extra action-y

def a man's movie, what with all the seamen

i guess i consider it to be old-school, like how folks might consider certain films from the '60s and '70s to be action films even though they might be thrillers or dramas w/one or two action setpieces (cf. bullitt.) only flicks with nonstop, OTT action are considered action movies anymore though, or so it seems.

speaking of action movies that are "thinking" movies--eastern promises and history of violence

i loved eastern promises but that was more like a drama with a great set piece stuffed in

and a terrible voiceover and shitty naomi watts

is King Kong action or adventure?

god the end of that movie was such BS. xp

I'm not a big action film fan so I haven't seen most of what's in this thread, but my carefully considered answer would have to be battle royale

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:56 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

o shit otm y2k!

lol i luvd the end of eastern promises

naomi watts was pretty dope, ending was cool. looking forward to the possible sequel!

with naomi watts cradling the baby and stuff?? xp

naomi watts owns fuk u s1ocki roast in hades u fuckin shartlord

battle royale sucked btw lets all just admit it

(if u dont agree w/me u r lying 2 urself and 2 god)

CANKLES NO

i dig battle royale but it's not the most amazing film ever imo.

i don't think these count as action films but 'election' and 'triad election' are dope.

this was actually the point where i turned against the movie

*spoilers*

Nikolai Luzhin: Your uncle is fine, he is in Edinburgh, in a 5-Star Hotel. I was ordered to send him to Heaven with a bullet in his brain... instead I gave him a first class ticket to Scotland.

with naomi watts cradling the baby and stuff?? xp

― Alf, Lord Melmacsyn (s1ocki), Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:27 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

was thinking of how viggo became the baws - do not recall baby cradling

i don't think these count as action films but 'election' and 'triad election' are dope.

― jØrdån (omar little), Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:29 PM (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so amazing. election 1 has some of the best plotting i've ever seen...

battle royale is weaboo anime dogshit, just like oldboy

haha s1ocki i cant really argue w/that tbh

[last lines]
Tatiana's Voice: My name is Tatiana. My father died in the mines in my village, so he was already buried when he died. We were all buried there. Buried under the soil of Russia. That is why I left, to find a better life.

the fishing scene is the harshest shit of its kind since the cornfield scene in casino

I loved the ending of Eastern Promises.

seconding (or thirding) district B13 and Sin City from above

the fishing scene is the harshest shit of its kind since the cornfield scene in casino

― jØrdån (omar little), Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:30 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the slow reveal of the main dude's true character is so so dope

sin city is a v dope movie

also jessica alba = stripper come on

and yeah district 13 takes place in the "future" but who gives a fuck its all face kicking and leap and jump nutzoid stuff

she's a stripper who doesnt get naked, i give that premise the gas face

real talk

the only strippers who get naked in hollywood films are actual irl strippers or car models recruited for stripping scenes. also: demi moore

please, this is just my own personal opinion, but i found sin city to be objectionable and repellent. although i understood why it had made its aesthetic choices, there was just no story that i could in any way empathise with.

i couldn't get offended by anything in sin city, i just thought it was kinda boring tbh

re: strippers who don't get naked, Vivica A. Fox vs Jessica Alba; who wins?

(ans: the viewer)

xxp: LJ the mistake you are making with "Sin City" is attempting to look for a story to attach yourself to

o man u guys should see the spirit - that is if you want to see a real pile of shit

if yer looking for a story to empathise with in sin city you are probably watching the wrong movie tho lj xposts

haha i wasn't OFFENDED by sin city, i just left it with an empty head, could barely remember a thing from it, and didn't feel the slightest bit edified. what was objectionable was the amount of light and noise, signifying tit-all

i think you missed the point

despite that mangling of faulkner i sort of agree with lj

Despite repeated warnings I still really want to see "The Spirit" why because it look plastic

xp: "Sin City" is not at all about the story; it is about the visual experience. This is true of both the movie and the graphic novels.

i think louis just pitched sin city 2

there are a couple of harsh horror flicks that actually do fit here - eden lake, them, maybe wolf creek

not a lot of explosions, but lots of fighting and chasing going on

i mean if we're talking wham-bam borderline-offensive actioners, crank (which i loved) had a playful sense of semi-realism and a slightly improvised feel, but sin city was all gloss and lurid calculation

there was something arresting about the visual experience but it didn't do an awful lot for me as a movie

dan the spirit is one of those movies that makes u think whoever made it probably had only ever heard of the idea of movies but never actually seen one - just astoundingly bad

every time i see pictures of the spirit i remember wrestling through the first 15 minutes of sky captain and the world of bullshit and just say no

xpost haha see this is where ilx turns on me but crank was fucking terrible mindless bullshit, and not in the good way

'Despite repeated warnings I still really want to see "The Spirit" why because it look plastic'

lol this is kraken me up

sin city was just kinda boring to me but i didnt really dislike it either

i liked crank but only for a single viewing and i kinda think it's super-overrated b/c people give it too much credit for being shameless and offensive. i dunno, it's probably gavin mcinnes' favorite film.

crank is hilarious stop hatin

"i remember wrestling through the first 15 minutes of sky captain "
why? sky captain was very relaxing movie/ambien commercial.

what about that french martial arts musketeer movie, was that any good?

sin city was cool to look at, some good performances in there, amazing carla gugino moments, but the rest was kinda nil for me.

the one with werewolves?

xp

haha it's not like i'm gonna see crank again w/o drinking game, once was enough

but it was supremely shit-did-they-just-do-that entertaining

best thing about sin city was mickey rourke

crank 2 is more "i can't believe they just did that" but it's pretty bad

the one with werewolves?

xp

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:45 PM (42 seconds ago) Bookmark

fuck, i dunno! never saw

thatd be "brotherhood of the wolf" right?

For me, the make or break moment in "Crank" was the sex scene. That was where I just said "you know what, I am just going to laugh nonstop at this script from here on out because otherwise I'm pretty certain my head will explode".

brotherhood of the wolf yeah

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237534/

sucked imo

DAN OTM that sex-scene was so gratuitously, joyously OTT my jaw dropped, my eyes bulged and i shook my head in absolute awe at this piece of cinematic chutzpah

the scene where he humps the grandma?

what about that french martial arts musketeer movie, was that any good?

― goole, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:44 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol i forgot that even existed

he's not talkin bout brotherhood of the wolf, he means the musketeer, the one that was just dumas + inexplicable yuen wu ping choreography

unless he didnt mean that.

no nunez where he bangs amy smart in front of like 200 ppl in the middle of the street and she is inexplicably enjoying it more than any sex ever and they are all cheering and our heads threaten to explode

ha no i was talking about bro-hood of wolf as it turns out. i dunno WHAT yr talkin bout tbh

lol xp

the movie elvis mentioned, 'the nest'....that looks promising.

public sex w/amy smart yall

unlike LJ I did not cum in a wet fury at the sex scene

crank 2 has the exact same sex scene, but this time at a racetrack

hahahahahaha wait

imdb reviewer hates on "midnight run", he can fucking die

think u mightve just out louised louis dan

he will

xp

ha no i was talking about bro-hood of wolf as it turns out. i dunno WHAT yr talkin bout tbh

lol xp

― goole, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:50 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246544/fullcredits

catherine deneuvre + the director of timecop + the stunt choreographer from once upon a time in china

i never saw it, i just remember bein all http://s5.tinypic.com/oqhmc0.jpg when it came out

all u need to know about broho of the wolf is that it stars mark dacascos

oh man peter hyams

this thread is going fast and furious but a few points

1) amy smart is just slamming, like, i love her
2) brotherhood of the wolf was great--esp the part where monica belluccis boob turned into a mountain

oh also 3) sin city was fuckin stupid like every single frank miller anything ever

bros of the wolf was v eagerly anticipated by this guy, i'll admit

don't really remember much about it, tho, except for it being ott

kinda want to see crank just for amy smart

The Musketeer had a really good first action sequence and then got hella boring.

thats is how i feel about every movie amy smart has ever been in evan

yeah i'm with that

frank miller hasn't done a decent anything - comic bk, movie - for at least twenty years, but some of his comic bks, especially the ones drawn by david mazzuchelli, are better than 95% of the movies mentioned on this thread

no but guys see sin city was fun and awesome and lots of shit blew up and they turned that emo spiderman kid into a cannibal

mee too re amy smart dudes - we should run a train on her sometime

still haven't seen sin city all the way thru, but it was a fine movie to come into half-way at a brew and view w/booths and smoking allowed

icey :o

only if you guys all have to keep the poison from coursing through your body obv

yeah sure or whatever

that HURRICANE OF OWNAGE post is probably the best action movie review of the decade, hands down, no messing

that emo spiderman kid into a cannibal

you mean frodo, but same diff

haha whoops

my favorite action movie of all time is paddle to the sea

Terrible movie, but Shoot 'Em Up has some legit action.

ah but it's fucking rubbish, y'know?

Again I say, it's this movie.

http://i25.tinypic.com/1z6xco0.jpg

More people need to see it.

Here's a trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FtP7A_QwSs

by the way guys I'm gonna nominate D-War based on a 10 minute clip I saw in a shopping mall this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWI5uL_NevA

slug dragon beast thing with howitzers strapped to its back vs. puny tanks