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Top 5 Completely Over the Top Films

Obviously this applies to any film in any genre that you think is completely over the top nuts in any way, shape or form.

1. Dead Alive

Peter Jackson before he dealt in sprawling, long winded epics. This is THE zombie movie to see. Hilarious acting, hilarious catch phrases (pretty much everyone is familiar with "I kick ass for the lord!" by now, right?), and tons and tons of blood. I can hardly sit still during the custard/pus scene. Must see scene: Lawnmower vs. Zombies!!!

2. Live Free or Die Hard

John McClane goes from limping around barefoot and using whatever he can find as a weapon in the first Die Hard to launching a car into a helicopter and then later wrestling with a jet plane. This movie is over the top in an amazing, I can't believe this is happening kind of way.

3. Rambo

The same thing goes for Rambo as Live Free or Die Hard. Except this time he goes from setting booby traps around a forest to turning around a machine gun attatched to a jeep and blasting the dude in the front seat. So breathtakingly savage I watched the whole movie smiling and slackjawed.

4. Dead or Alive

Takashi Miike is one of the reigning kings of over the top. Just in the beginning of this film there is a guy doing what I will assume is the world's longest line of cocaine, a greasy stripper, an incredibly slow throat slitting that spews a geyser of blood, a guy getting shot in the stomach at a restaurant and everything he has eaten so far gets flung towards the camera,  a guy jumping on top of a car in the middle of a busy street and blowing away the passenger....this is all in the first 7 minutes of the film. It just gets better and better from there.

5. The Doom Generation

 Loads of sex, slurping down a certain seminal fluid (twice!), decapitation, castration, arm being shot off, a stabbing in the male nether region...this film has it all.

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laylor:

Obviously this applies to any genre that you think is completely over the top nuts in any way, shape or form.

1. Dead Alive

Peter Jackson before he dealt in sprawling, long winded epics. This is THE zombie movie to see. Hilarious acting, hilarious catch phrases (pretty much everyone is familiar with "I kick ass for the lord!" by now, right?), and tons and tons of blood. I can hardly sit still during the custard/pus scene. Must see scene: Lawnmower vs. Zombies!!!

2. Live Free or Die Hard

John McClane goes from limping around barefoot and using whatever he can find as a weapon in the first Die Hard to launching a car into a helicopter and then later wrestling with a jet plane. This movie is over the top in an amazing, I can't believe this is happening kind of way.

 

3. Rambo

The same thing goes for Rambo as Live Free or Die Hard. Except this time he goes from setting booby traps around a forest to turning around a machine gun attatched to a jeep and blasting the dude in the front seat. So breathtakingly savage I watched the whole movie smiling and slackjawed.

4. Dead or Alive

Takashi Miike is one of the reigning kings of over the top. Just in the beginning of this film there is a guy doing what I will assume is the world's longest line of cocaine, a greasy stripper, an incredibly slow throat slitting that spews a geyser of blood, a guy getting shot in the stomach at a restaurant and everything he has eaten so far gets flung towards the camera,  a guy jumping on top of a car in the middle of a busy street and blowing away the passenger....this is all in the first 7 minutes of the film. It just gets better and better from there.

5. The Doom Generation

 Loads of sex, slurping down a certain seminal fluid (twice!), decapitation, castration, arm being shot off, a stabbing in the male nether region...this film has it all.

 

Timur Bekmambetov. directed Night Watch, Day Watch and the new Angelina Jolie movie, Wanted. All of which would have to be described as "over the top"

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Has anyone seen Riki-Oh?  I've heard about it and seen a few clips, and it sounds like it might fit in here if it lives up to it's reputation.

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How are we defining "completely over the top nuts?"  Maybe I haven't seen enough movies that qualify, but the first poster has some varied movies on the list, and I'm a little confused.

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Yes, I have seen Riki-Oh and yes it is definitely over the top. It is also very stupid even in a low budget context. I think Cronenberg would appreciate the various exploding body parts.

Risselada:

Has anyone seen Riki-Oh?  I've heard about it and seen a few clips, and it sounds like it might fit in here if it lives up to it's reputation.

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I purposely left it broad so any kind of film could be included. So, over the top violence, over the top sex, over the top dialogue, over the top acting...whatever the person deems it, it is so.

pippin06:

How are we defining "completely over the top nuts?"  Maybe I haven't seen enough movies that qualify, but the first poster has some varied movies on the list, and I'm a little confused.

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Risselada:

Has anyone seen Riki-Oh?  I've heard about it and seen a few clips, and it sounds like it might fit in here if it lives up to it's reputation.

This is the my leader for the over the top Kung Fu movies. And it takes a lot for that.

In the early days of the Daily Show when Craig Kilborn hosted, they used the exploding head as their intro to their Five Questions segment.

Rounding out my top five in no particular order:

Over the top evolution: Idiocracy

Over the top literacy: Evil Dead

Over the top coincidence: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

 Over the top revenge: Oldboy

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In terms of over-the-top anachronisms and strangely disjointed hallucinatory scenes, Walker would be a fine addition to the list.

And, pretty much a given, but Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 are completely over-the-top and completely awesome.  I'd say they're sort of poster-children of over-the-top done to near perfection.

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Smooth_J:

In terms of over-the-top anachronisms and strangely disjointed hallucinatory scenes, Walker would be a fine addition to the list.

 

Don't forget about Altered States in reference to strangely disjointed hallucinatory scenes.

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How could we have gotten this far in a discussion of Top 5 Over the Top films and not mention the most infamous committer of over-the-top, hyper-unrealistic excess fests - Michael Bay?  He's had Bad Boys I and II, The Rock, Pearl Harbor, Armageddon, The Island and most recently Transformers.  And they're making another one!  How big of a surprise is that, but anyway...