poll of really over the top, ludicrous, violent, "offensive" action films of the 21st century

You're missing Raindeer Games.

I voted Sin City. Prettiest of the bunch.

I heard Domino's pretty good.

domino is not actually "pretty good," but it's definitely the best of what i've seen off this list.

Man On Fire for taking itself so seriously

- a husband-and-wife pedo team kidnaps a kid in 'running scared' and he's rescued just in the nick of time by vera farmiga

^^^ omg i remember this

in that new yorker article about the lionsgate marketing guy they talk about the crank dudes' new movie called like game or something... it looks like it hilariously makes no sense at all... jason statham plays a guy who is like, someone's avatar in a video game, and he has to rescue his wife, who's like a hooker in another video game??

man on fire and shoot em up are dope - im a denzel stan tho

Also there's that Clive Owen film Shoot 'Em Up, and Jeremy Piven's Smokin' Aces. One thing you can say for a bunch of these films is that they're really cinematic -- in that they do what only a film and no other medium can do. Sure they're ludicrous and "offensive," but a lot of times they're totally visually arresting too.

man on fire is the stupidest

i love that he puts a bomb up that dude's ass

shit is ice cold

if you will

WHY SO SERIOUS

Maybe Dark Knight belongs on this list too

i mean, i've seen it like three times, i think, but it's srsly just a live action super juvenile revenge-fantasy anime. THE WORDS ON THE SCREEN

nah, dark knight doesn't have enough violence porn

"serious" fans of Man On Fire = the dudes rubbing their chins thoughtfully while they discus this deep and meaningful picture
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/8194/1208986694233ct6.jpg

i think csi: miami is rocking this style in a police procedural mode except without the gleeful amorality because everything in the end has to be set right and anything transgressive gets punished

anything transgressive gets punished

When my wife and I were dating, I'd often hang out in her dorm lobby and wait for her to come down. And often all these religious, Orthodox college girls would be so excited because L&O: SVU was on. Not L&O, or Criminal Intent or anything else. They specifically wanted to watch the show about the girls who got raped. I found it utterly bizarre, but maybe you're on to something - maybe they were attracted to the catharsis of transgressive actions being punished?

the cops are so saintly and protective selfless in that show, maybe there's something to that.

the insane hypocritical moralism of the csi shows is hilarious imo

wtf anyone voting for something other than crank in this poll i welcome death by suggest ban

o my crank or bad boys 2 ??????

I liked the kind of ludicrously extreme ones like Crank and especially Shoot 'Em Up the best, because they drop all pretense of being some kind of post-Tarantino clever reference-happy shit and just try to be as over-the-top as possible, like an action movie version of Dead Alive, or maybe a less overtly satirical Hot Fuzz. I mean, Shoot 'Em Up isn't just a retread of a bunch of gun stunts and badass one-liners from old '80s blockbusters -- it's a whole bunch of crazy new gun stunts and badass one-liners, and it feels more like a no-frills '80s action movie than some kind of stylized '90s "bullet time" bullshit.

yeah its like choosing between two tpyes of ice cream one of which is chocolate flavor and one of which is poison

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Maybe I'm just an old git but pretty much any action film these days is over the top, ludicrous, violent, and offensive to me. Any time a street stall is smashed in a car chase or a bar is trashed in a fight, I feel for the owners and their families. And I'm fed up of ammo clips that can hold a thousand rounds, and supposedly regular (ie not superhero) dudes who can take a dozen bare-knuckle hits to the face, fall two stories, and bounce straight up ready for more.

dude u dont like bad boys 2 bad boys 2 is amazing

i have not seen, ok i will get it, and maybe crank too, and try to suspend my delicate sensibilities.

Any time a street stall is smashed in a car chase or a bar is trashed in a fight, I feel for the owners and their families.

yah its true in the heartwrenching documentary crank i felt v. badly for the small business owners of los angeles their small businesses always getting trashed in motorcycle chases and defiled with high-octane public sex u cant help BUT feel for theses innocent by-standers

oh i.c. idk bad boys 2 is too cheesy and 90s imo but maybe i will rescrn

This is my favorite genre of movie. The more ludicrous, the better!

Right now I'm leaning heavily towards Domino

u cant help BUT feel for theses innocent by-standers

yeah basically i'm just a big stupid puppy who cares too much.

ahem hem BOONDOCK SAINTS

oh wait that was last century, nm

I'm with ledge and go one step further - add James Bond movies to the list.

i saw crank on the day my ex-gf was moving out of the apartment. thank u crank for being there for me when i needed u <3!

it must be bad boys II. any film that has both a 'everyone can see you on the tvs in an electronic store and ya'll sound lolgay' AND and invasion of cuba must win.

where's WANTED

omg the watch films

oh man which one had the vertical becoming the horizontal when he rides his motorcylce up a skyscraper!!!

btw "Smokin' Aces" totally should be on this list, that shit is crazy, like "Ocean's 11" for assassins

i love this shit, but i kind of hated smokin' aces

and wanted

BOOO

smokin' aces was pretty awful it was so talky and grainy and poorly edited but WANTED was dope imo even w/the borderline retarded fight club v/o

i will throw a huge no one will agree with me vote in here for the fact that "Death Race" is fucking fantastic as long as you do everything you can to ignore the fact that it is in any way associated with the original flick

Um, Kill Bill Pts. 1 and 2...

(I saw "Smokin' Aces" at the Brew 'n' View, which has $4 admission and cheap beer, and that was the right way to see it. Nice editing.)

I liked the kind of ludicrously extreme ones like Crank and especially Shoot 'Em Up the best, because they drop all pretense of being some kind of post-Tarantino clever reference-happy shit and just try to be as over-the-top as possible, like an action movie version of Dead Alive, or maybe a less overtly satirical Hot Fuzz. I mean, Shoot 'Em Up isn't just a retread of a bunch of gun stunts and badass one-liners from old '80s blockbusters -- it's a whole bunch of crazy new gun stunts and badass one-liners, and it feels more like a no-frills '80s action movie than some kind of stylized '90s "bullet time" bullshit.

I agree, I love both of those movies.

wise move

Hah b-b-b-but it has CHARLOTTE RAMPLING in it?!?!?

Crank is great fun. Shoot 'em Up is very similar while managing to be a steaming pile.

Mentioned upthread, but Death Race nails this genre like no other.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Ticks all the boxes. Offensive and ludicrous especially.

yes! didn't see results first time around

Having seen all the movies listed in this thread (and enjoyed most of them) I find myself looking for a silly over the top with violence movie to watch. Any recommendations?

The one with Rhona Mitra where there are anarchist zombies in Scotland or something?

It was on TV last night. I recorded it.

Doomsday! It is wonderful. Punisher: War Zone is also wonderfully ott.

Doomsday!

xp haha yes! Sorry I lied, there are no zombies but there is a killer disease outbreak and a giant wall along the Scottish border.

Have seen Doomsday already. Not Punisher tho, so there's my entertainment for tonight.

the top 5 movies in this poll were all massive good times for me

Stephen Seagal's son rides a motorcycle and shoots a bazooka in medieval brazil/japan.

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

"Any recommendations?"

have you seen War, The Bank Job, Crank: High Voltage, Chaos, Transporter, Transporter 2, and Cellular?.

omg War, that movie was outright nonsense

highly recommended

and have you seen A Perfect Getaway, Resident Evil: Extinction, Ultraviolet, and Resident Evil: Apocalypse?

once they get milla and statham in trilogy of space zombie shooters i can finally die and go to heaven.

haha I am going to die because someone else besides my wife and me will rep for "Ultraviolet"

please do not see ultraviolet! i slept through this movie and inland empire, and my dream impression is inland empire had more exciting action.

Yes to all, except for ultraviolet.

all you really need to know in order to make up your mind, jibe:

Violet Song jat Shariff (Milla Jovovich), was infected with hemoglophagia over a decade ago and after being detained and studied, she loses her husband and her unborn child. She is now a ruthless killing machine with only hours left to live due to her terminal-stage hemoglophagia. She is hired by an underground resistance movement of hemophages waging a guerrilla war against the Arch-Ministry and its megalomaniacal, mysophobic leader, Vice-Cardinal Ferdinand Daxus (Nick Chinlund).

oh wait then you saw it? well, nobody can like everything.

Nope that's the only one of your recommendations I haven't seen. That plot summary makes it sound ridiculously silly. Off i go to find it on the web.

It IS ridiculously silly!

i'm really impressed by her english, though. is it true that at the time of fifth element she knew no english at all?

but yes, it is not ridiculous enough to be entertaining. i think it is probably almost exactly the same movie as the theron aeon flux, which no one is recommending.

JUDGE DREDD

I had Doomsday on in the background last night while I was cooking and even then I had to change the channel.

Ultraviolet is way better than the AF movie. Bear in mind it is the same director and almost the same movie as Equilibrium, so it's not like it's a masterpiece, but as dumb schlocky eye-candy, you could do a lot worse

i don't like any of these movies :-/

ok again i say with emphasis really everyone needs to see "Death Race"

lol talk about mixed signals

perfect getaway doesnt really belong on this list

also, it's pretty great

Death race is fucking great, agree.

really? hm.. where you guys stand on terminator: salvation?

dodged that bullet, dont know

total shit

You guys are netflix recommendation AI nightmare!

Terminator: Salvation is one of the most boring movies ever made and actually made me put Christian Bale several notches below Tom Cruise in the "would see a movie starring him" stakes.

terminator was such trash srsly cannot recall a more inept and tedious movie released last year

i enjoyed guy ritchie's "revolver" which is less gleefully amoral & violent than many of the movies itt but makes up for it with some truly o_O OMGWTFLOL moments. basically if there was anything u tht wld be unthinkably cool & badass when you were 13 that movie probably has it. xcept dinosaurs, sry.

oh well no I won't see it

Seriously praying that The Expendables lives up to the finest of these movies.

And Jesus Christ Terminator: Salvia was worse than you guys just said

also doesnt have that dead dude from joy division using magic to fight dark elves either so i probably shouldve qualified that "you" somehow (xxp)

Terminator Salvation sucks yeah. Have so much hope for The Exepndables.

I always have a shit ton of hope for any movie starring Statham btw. Dude has rarely disappointed.

re: expendables, I'm a little sad that stallone's latest Rocky/Rambo entries were semi-respectable rather than going back to the insanity that is Rocky IV, so that doesn't look too good for expendables.

has anyone seen JVCD? that monologue clip kind of put me off, but might be willing to give it a go.

I'm not sure if I would "recommend" Tunnel Rats by Uwe Boll but I certainly enjoyed it.

John Rambo was semi-respectable? I only remember it finishing with half an hour of non stop violence, which doesn't sound too respectable to me.
JCVD really isn't a movie like those talked about in this thread. Good movie but not at all violent iirc.