For all you Blade Runner fans.
I said I'm sorry. I've made mistakes, but fear was never one of them.
Lilah ,'Conviction (1)'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Polter-Cow - Jun 22, 2007 12:39:52 pm PDT #9597 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Kathy A - Jun 22, 2007 1:18:15 pm PDT #9598 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Entertainment Weekly recently had a 25 Best Action Films of All Time:
1. Die Hard
2. Aliens
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. The Road Warrior
5. The Matrix
6. Seven Samarai
7. Gladiator
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. Hard-Boiled
10. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
11. Speed
12. The Empire Strikes Back
13. The Wild Bunch
14. RoboCop
15. Enter the Dragon
16. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
17. The Bourne Supremacy
18. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn)
19. Goldfinger
20. Kill Bill Vol. 1
21. Spiderman 2
22. Predator
23. Drunken Master II
24. Lethal Weapon
25. The Incredibles
Nutty - Jun 22, 2007 2:20:02 pm PDT #9599 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think they need a more orthodox definition of action picture. Because, any movie where Yoda is in it, and doesn't go zapping around the room? I mean, there's action in the Empire Strikes Back, but that's like saying there's milk in my fridge, you know? There's lots of other stuff in my fridge too.
Kathy A - Jun 22, 2007 2:23:50 pm PDT #9600 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Here's what they say about Empire Strikes Back:
Maybe you're thinking it doesn't feel like an action movie, what with Luke's kinda boring, Jedi training on the swamp planet, Han and Leia's chaste romance, Chewie rocking the third-wheeliness, and Lando pimping it up at Cloud City. But the best of George Lucas' sci-fi sextology still found time to blow our minds. Not only did it get us to believe in a little green puppet, it boasted blistering sequences, like the Imperial attack on Hoth, the Millennium Falcon dodging through the asteroid field, and the most hand-optional father-son reunion since the Hook family's last Christmas party.
Nutty - Jun 22, 2007 2:26:48 pm PDT #9601 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Feh. I'm sorry, the first 20 minutes of Return of the Jedi is more actiony than the whole of Empire. Iron bikini! Duels with giant snot monsters! Blind hand-to-hand combat! Betrayal, intruigue, Wookies!
(Whenever the trilogy was on -- USA used to run the whole thing on Christmas Day -- I used to watch all the way through up to the end of the Tattooine sequence and then turn it off.)
Kathy A - Jun 22, 2007 2:33:13 pm PDT #9602 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I do like the bike chase in the forest in Jedi.
Polter-Cow - Jun 22, 2007 2:37:19 pm PDT #9603 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I love that shit. Maybe that's why Jedi is my favorite of the three.
§ ita § - Jun 22, 2007 5:13:38 pm PDT #9604 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 22, 2007 5:26:07 pm PDT #9605 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I love that shit. Maybe that's why Jedi is my favorite of the three.
I...just...weep for Polter-Cow.
Jesse - Jun 22, 2007 5:35:19 pm PDT #9606 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That...that could be awful.
That picture looks kind of awesome, though.