Bustronaut Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 By request of Niners Fan in CT, action movies that take themselves far too seriously, including possibly the upcoming GODZILLA movie. (Movies in list not judged for quality, just tone) 2002 - Collateral Damage, Equilibrium, Reign of Fire, 28 Days Later 2003 - The Hunted, Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions, Paycheck, Tears of the Sun 2004 - Bourne Supremacy, Man on Fire, the Day After Tomorrow, The Final Cut, Night Watch, Primer 2005 - Assault on Precinct 13, Four Brothers, War of the Worlds, A Sound of Thunder 2006 - Apocalypto, Children of Men, City of Violence, End Game, Ultraviolet, Superman Returns, A Scanner Darkly, Southland Tales, 2007 - I Am Legend, Resident Evil: Extinction, Sunshine 2008 - Babylon AD, Eagle Eye, The Dark Knight, City of Ember, Cloverfield, The Day the Earth Stood Still 2009 - District 9, District 13: Ultimatum, Surrogates, Terminator: Salvation, 2012, 9, Knowing, The Road 2010 - Book of Eli, Repo Men, Daybreakers, Skyline, Tron: Legacy 2011 - Columbiana, Conan the Barbarian, Contagion, the Darkest Hour, Sector 7, Source Code, Sucker Punch, the Adjustment Bureau, Battle: Los Angeles 2012 - The Amazing Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Rises, Cloud Atlas, Looper, Prometheus, Total Recall 2013 - Gangster Squad, Man of Steel, Olympus Has Fallen, White House Down, After Earth, Elysium, Oblivion, Pacific Rim, Snow Piercer, World War Z, The World's End, This is the End 78 post-apocalyptic or joyless movies since 2002, and that's just in the "fun" categories of Action/Sci-Fi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzalez Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 You forgot Dredd 3D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 PRIMER and THE ROAD are action movies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzalez Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 I don't think he really watched any of these movies. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 PRIMER and THE ROAD are action movies? I was about to say the same thing about A Scanner Darkly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzalez Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 And a lot of these don't even take themselves all that seriously(The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, Resident Evil, etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Yeah, several of those either aren't action movies or don't take themselves very seriously. And wait, have you seen SNOW PIERCER? Is that even available? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted December 12, 2013 Author Share Posted December 12, 2013 Action/Sci-Fi, it's in one of only two actual sentences in the first post. I *did* forget Dredd, and the other RE movies, also the 28DL sequels. Of the movies listed, I've seen everything but Conan & the Resident Evil movie I did list. I got a screener of SNOWPIERCER, because I'm awesome*. *and I know some people in "the biz" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzalez Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Collateral Damage!? Sure it had terrorist themes, but it was still at the end of the day an Ahnold movie. This is a complete failure of you trying to start a thread so you can criticize Nolan's Batman movies, but has instead backfired, and shown that you don't know jack shit about movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted December 12, 2013 Author Share Posted December 12, 2013 You're right, I've wasted my life watching movies and haven't gotten anything from them. I shall sit in a corner and swing a cat around my head for enjoyment from now on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzalez Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 You do that now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 The Batman trilogy may have been 'serious' but my first question would be.. what's a better alternative? The Batman comics have always had serious tones some more so than others depending on who the writer is. For the most part (that means not everyone!) people disliked Batman Forever and Batman & Robin so this was a change of pace and they were better films. I won't bog down this thread with more Godzilla discussion so we'll move to others. The Matrix movies. I don't remember too much about the sequels except for some of the action sequences. There is plenty of 'serious' dialogue but maybe investigate what they were talking about... were the writers in too deep or was the script too intelligently written for the average viewer to understand it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 I demand comparisons. Which action/SF movies took themselves exactly seriously enough? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 What's worse an action movie that is supposedly 'too serious' or an obvious Oscar bait drama? I hate that shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted December 12, 2013 Author Share Posted December 12, 2013 Both are equally terrible, but you know to skip the dramas because they're released in November/December Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcosLoura Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 I don't get this thread. At all. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted December 12, 2013 Author Share Posted December 12, 2013 It's a Gonzales trap, *shhhh!* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 The remake of Assault on Precinct 13? Yeah, I can see that being overly serious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Correct me if I'm wrong... Mike does not like the idea of an action movie taking itself seriously and to me what he means is a dark tone or a script that is either "intelligent" or trying to be intelligent. This discussion began with the new Godzilla trailer. Some say they like the tone of the trailer and others do not. It's the same argument we had about Batman and Spider-Man. Some feel the movies should be "fun" which I guess means contain jokes and humor? Others like the idea of a director/writer trying to make a legit drama/thriller/crime film with comic book characters. See... I think a serious tone works with Batman and Godzilla very well. It does not work AS well with Spider-Man but that's not to say he doesn't have serious arcs. There is a middle ground for Spidey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Dudes. I finally really looked at this list, and its such an obvious troll. At the very end, he has two COMEDIES (The World's End and This Is The End) on his list of joyless movies that take themselves too seriously. And that's before even debating whether a movie that features neon aliens fighting giant robots while characters preposterously named "Stacker Pentecost" and "Hannibal Chau" spout dialogue ripped straight from Saturday morning cartoons could every qualify as "overly serious." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Are we sure it's a troll thread? Please confirm it's a troll thread.. http://deathvalleydriver.com/forum/index.php?/topic/1083-trolling/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Shit, have you seen the Smackdown thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 If it's not an elaborate troll, then it's one of the worst examples of incoherent list-making I've ever read. There is a movie where the President of the United States fires a rocket launcher on this list of "movies that take themselves too seriously." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted December 12, 2013 Author Share Posted December 12, 2013 *swings cat around head in the corner* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jrag Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 How exactly should The Road take itself? Lightly? I could play darts on a random list of movies and probably put together a more relevant list. I suck at darts. It's not that there aren't overly serious movies, but a good chunk of these A. Aren't serious or B. Shouldn't be any other way. I LOL'd the most at the inclusion of Children of Men, which is probably one of the best movies of the last 15 years and is directed by an absolute master. A story that is able to contrast a world falling to pieces with a beacon of hope; the final tracking shot makes you feel good about humanity. That's not something that can be accomplished with a lighter tone. It's a masterpiece. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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