I NEED AN ACTION MOVIE.

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I have at my disposal a projector.

Recommend to me a stupid, visually impressive movie that will go well with lots of beer (also pot).

You have 5 minutes.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 27 January 2006 04:36 (twenty years ago)

Wild Wild West, obv.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 January 2006 04:40 (twenty years ago)

brokeback mountain

― gear (gear), Friday, 27 January 2006 04:41 (twenty years ago)

The Die Hard trilogy works for me.

― Freud Junior, a man of science and soft focus (Freud Junior), Friday, 27 January 2006 04:41 (twenty years ago)

RONIN

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:01 (twenty years ago)

die hard definitely does the trick every time too

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:01 (twenty years ago)

i saw this thread and thought "ronin". it's really great. failing that, conan the barbarian, maybe my favorite movie ever, if i'm honest.

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:03 (twenty years ago)

Aliens.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:04 (twenty years ago)

i was gonna say aliens next

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:04 (twenty years ago)

ronin really is the best movie ever though huh

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:05 (twenty years ago)

Matrix trilogy could be good for a beered up laff too.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:06 (twenty years ago)

or cry is more like it

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:10 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha :D

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:12 (twenty years ago)

Now I want to drink beer, smoke pot and watch action movies!
I like The Bourne Supremacy a lot, esp for the fighting and the car chases.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:16 (twenty years ago)

big trouble in little china

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:18 (twenty years ago)

Lethal Weapon!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:25 (twenty years ago)

The Indiana Jones movies!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:25 (twenty years ago)

Does the Empire Strikes Back count as an action movie? There is lots of action!

― Freud Junior, a man of science and soft focus (Freud Junior), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:29 (twenty years ago)

Kung Fu Hustle too.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:35 (twenty years ago)

yeah both bourne movies are a good time.

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:41 (twenty years ago)

i looove the bit in ronin where deniro pulls the bullet out of himself, and then later wakes up and the old creepy french spook is showing him his miniature collection (??!?) and explaining how the LEADERLESS SAMURAI would CUT THEMSELVES; i kind of smile and go "ahh, screenwriting"

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:45 (twenty years ago)

I heart Ronin.

...I ended up getting Starship Troopers. Shh.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 27 January 2006 06:14 (twenty years ago)

COMMANDO

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 27 January 2006 06:26 (twenty years ago)

oh wait you wanted visually impressive

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 27 January 2006 06:26 (twenty years ago)

The French film Dobermann (starring Vincent Cassell) is what you ought to see. It's visually striking, morally bankrupt, and totally senseless. Great fun!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 27 January 2006 07:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/full/t0/64/t06413ffm5j.jpg

― mason storm (mason storm), Friday, 27 January 2006 10:48 (twenty years ago)

The Silence.

― Masked Gazza, Friday, 27 January 2006 10:53 (twenty years ago)

Ned's suggestion is #1. That movie is GREAT.
I would also suggest Kung Fu Hustle, but you already went with the boring choice, so oh well.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 27 January 2006 13:49 (twenty years ago)

SNAP.

...I had too, the video store was closing and it was the only thing anyone had requested.

I remember Dobermann. I was in France when it came out.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 27 January 2006 14:08 (twenty years ago)

Ronin, OBVIOUSLY. Who doesn't want to get wasted and sit around hollering, "DRAW IT AGAIN. I SAID, DRAW IT AGAIN. WHAT COLOR WAS THE BOATHOUSE???" C'mon.

Second choice: The Transporter

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 27 January 2006 14:27 (twenty years ago)

The Transporter is hot but I don't know how well it would go over with lots of beer (also pot).

Geoff's suggestion of Conan is probably #2.

Does DUNE count as an "action movie?"

― TOMBOT, Friday, 27 January 2006 14:30 (twenty years ago)

It counts as visually impressive and Sting is stupid, so it's in.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 January 2006 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Fuck dumb action movies (and Kung Fu Hustle is smart, btw).

An all-time smart one that just came out on DVD: Clouzot's The Wages of Fear.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

http://yann95200.free.fr/images/Covers/Out%20For%20A%20Kill.jpg

― mason storm (mason storm), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Predator

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Con Air

Bad Boys

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Face Off

― barbarian cities (jaybob3005), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Broken Arrow

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:55 (twenty years ago)

not action, but you can never go wrong with Young Guns (or Young Guns 2: Blaze of Glory, for that matter)

― barbarian cities (jaybob3005), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Armegeddon

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:57 (twenty years ago)

COMMANDO seconded

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

All this Ronin talk -- I'd forgotten how great that movie was.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Bad Boys II!

THE ISLAND!

― TOMBOT, Friday, 27 January 2006 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Leon

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Oh NNNOOOOOOOOO. I love Besson AND Reno, but that movie is not for drunken hilarity.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's way too sad.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Funnily enough, a lot of my favourite action movies come from France, the one country you wouldn't think of producing great action films. Dobermann, Leon, Nikita, The Red Circle, Le Samouraï. Ho!...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:13 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to a COMMANDO party tonight.
Rush Hour

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:18 (twenty years ago)

its a shame that Snakes On A Plane isn't out till summer.

― mason storm (mason storm), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:51 (twenty years ago)

It isn't really an "action" movie, but why not Twelve Monkeys?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)

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Wait that's Sam though!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:01 (twenty years ago)

Laurel THEY CHASED EACH OTHER IN CARS

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

crucial dialogue from climax:

"I never left."

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

I blame my inability to decipher plot and character motivation in this film entirely on watching The Transporter and The Transporter 2 essentially back to back a couple weekends ago. It's amazing I can even type really.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Who says I Never Left?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

(I feel we should watch Ronin again next time I am in Montreal. It could be a thing.)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

WHAT DOES CAR CHASING HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING? EXPLAIN PLEASE.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:05 (twenty years ago)

de niro!!

he never left!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:06 (twenty years ago)

You guys should never watch a spy movie again.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 10 February 2006 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Jean Reno doesn't NEED to know what's in the case because the REAL MacGuffin is SEAMUS

― TOMBOT, Friday, 10 February 2006 20:07 (twenty years ago)

I can't tell what Greg is trying to say about the car chasing.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:08 (twenty years ago)

I have a feeling I wouldn't understand any of this, either. I'm terrible at figuring out movies when they involve sinister, underhanded plots and lots of well-dressed men.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:09 (twenty years ago)

tombot otm

you guys got too high

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Is Vincent cia or not?

Laurel, I was being daft :( I just liked that they chased each other!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:09 (twenty years ago)

There is an indicator earlier on in this thread that probably explains at least part of why we didn't understand this movie.
xpost - slocki wins!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:11 (twenty years ago)

I maintain that I actually understood it but that understanding has not yet reached my conscious mind.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:11 (twenty years ago)

in the end it's vincent who's the ronin

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:15 (twenty years ago)

OK you people. Watch it sober next time!

Right, so no, Vincent is not CIA, but the only "man in car" encounter I can think of is the one Sam engages in to get Gregor's cell phone tracked. I don't know what other "bald man in car" you're talking about. Sam is still CIA, he "never left", and he never cared about the case, he just wanted Seamus out of commission. Which is also why he scared Deirdre off at the end, because he was aiming for her boss specifically and wanted her safely out of the way.

I havn't seen Transporter 2 yet. Does it still have Jason Whatsisface in it? I will Netflix.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:18 (twenty years ago)

btw Andy posting Emperor Of The North up there is fucking awesome, best fight scene ever filmed, ever, and quite likely Lee Marvin's baddest ass role, yes, as a hobo, yes, a hobo named "A Number One," yes, a hobo named "A Number One" who has to beat Ernest Borgnine the maniacal train conductor mano a mano on the back of a moving locomotive.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 10 February 2006 20:18 (twenty years ago)

What is Transporter (and Transporter 2 for that matter)?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:19 (twenty years ago)

I did get that putting Seamus out of commission was the point in the end! Yet I didn't realize it was Sam's point. aha. Thank you!

Transporter and Transporter 2 are French-produced action movies meant for a certain mood, when nothing but action will do, forget about plot really. And none of the actors are big Hollywood names, so it's kind of nice that way. Also: explosions, oil fights, car chases.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:25 (twenty years ago)

And precision-kicking stuff in midair into tight spots.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

and not wearing a shirt.
http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/twentieth_century_fox/the_transporter/jason_statham/transporter.jpg

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:43 (twenty years ago)

I'm not precisely complaining about the no-shirt policy, but it's more the shaved head and mocking, laconic grin that kill me.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:46 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if my interpretation of the word "kill" in that sentence is right or wrong. He's no Vin Diesel, another shaved-head, laconic-grin competitor, but when he's in action he's in ACTION.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Le petit morte, if you like.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

So I will be avoiding Transporter and Transporter 2, then, is what you're saying.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

I actually kinda liked the first one, but it was a funny-once as jokes go and I won't be bothering with #2.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Action bores me, mostly. Sorry!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)

haha, but action is necessary for certain things or moods! Maybe you need a certain kind of action movie. I'm reminded of Blast Time, a making-of video about a hypothetical action movie directed by Woody Allen and starring Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson, by the awesome guys we've been championing on the googlevideo thread.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Okay, that sounds interesting, haha.

I don't know, I just tend to zone out during movies with action sequences!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:05 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

DEATH RACE II: Y/N??

― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Saturday, 14 January 2012 21:39 (fourteen years ago)

I really wanted to like this movie about a guy who goes to Detroit to train a SWAT team but it was all "Big ups, homeland security!" and made me angry.

― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Saturday, 14 January 2012 21:40 (fourteen years ago)

is there another thread on ilx about enjoying media/art/entertainment or w/e separate to the political/moral/whatever message?

don't want to hijack laurel's request :)

― til the power failure (darraghmac), Saturday, 14 January 2012 22:11 (fourteen years ago)

Great bad action movie: Invasion U.S.A. Chuck Norris may be played out, but it's by far the stupidest and most over-the-top action movie of the 80s, in my opinion. Basically every Chuck Norris "I'm an AMERICAN MAN" cliche in purest form, plus a ridiculous Red Dawn-derived plot where Soviets try to invade America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJex2LOTXIw

― Spectrum, Saturday, 14 January 2012 22:40 (fourteen years ago)

You guys are not helping me here.

― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Saturday, 14 January 2012 23:26 (fourteen years ago)

Operation: Endgame was horrible, in case you were wondering.

― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Saturday, 14 January 2012 23:26 (fourteen years ago)

Had no idea they even made a sequel to Death Race 2000. The appeal of that movie was its low-budget schlockiness, at least for me ... not sure how you'd recreate that these days.

― Spectrum, Saturday, 14 January 2012 23:58 (fourteen years ago)

i almost watched Ronin again the other day! scrolling through this thread, obv i need to

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, 15 January 2012 00:11 (fourteen years ago)

might design a tshirt says 'WATCH RONIN WEEKLY'

― til the power failure (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 January 2012 00:12 (fourteen years ago)

Ronin's great. Remember watching that one over and over back in the highschool days.

Anyone see To Live and Die in LA? Just caught that on TV a few weeks ago. Apparently by the same guy who made the French Connection. Great 80s cop/action movie ... the characters feel way more human and vulnerable than usual action fare, so the action scenes felt queasy almost, and had a pretty interesting dark underbelly/seediness to it.

― Spectrum, Sunday, 15 January 2012 00:24 (fourteen years ago)

there was some disussion of it lately but i can't remember the thread- william petersen got a mention iirc

― til the power failure (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 January 2012 00:37 (fourteen years ago)

So I just watched Enthiran and HFSWTFOMG.

Here's the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga67IeqRQZM

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 21 January 2012 06:54 (fourteen years ago)

Seriously, this is on the level of Shaolin Soccer and Hard Boiled, only even more bonkers insane. Plus music!

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 21 January 2012 06:55 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 21 January 2012 06:58 (fourteen years ago)

Went to see Soderbergh's Haywire tonight. It was pretty good y'all!

Doubt it could compete with the Bollywood robot ball, though.

― Lana Ballantine (latebloomer), Saturday, 21 January 2012 07:18 (fourteen years ago)

I want to see Haywire so very very badly

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 January 2012 07:25 (fourteen years ago)

And the article that got me to track it down: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-you-can-learn-about-india-from-their-action-movies/

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 21 January 2012 07:32 (fourteen years ago)

an unsung classic

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvni9KbZfoo

― Chris S, Saturday, 21 January 2012 07:35 (fourteen years ago)

Saw this last week. Still pretty hardcore now--wonder what folks thought then?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rf_vulEuSw

― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 21 January 2012 07:40 (fourteen years ago)

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