Maybe it's because I was grading on a curve after Begins, but I really like a few of the action sequences in TDK. The chase scene at mid-movie plays extremely loose with geography at times, especially if you know downtown Chicago, but the threat/counter threat is always clear.

I think that's what they were aiming for with Spectre. Pity about that.

You mean Brosnan never has that predatory undercurrent, right? Because Dalton's Bond was mean as hell.

People always seem to forget the entire castle made of freaking ice.

"Don't worry. The second one is"
*shot

Prince would be responsible for 4 of my top 5 guitar solos, if we were doing that.

I was gonna go with the first solo in Highway Star. Using Lord just feels like cheating considering how much distortion he uses - it's almost like picking a guitarist.

Vader was never seen to really fuck anyone up before. He projected an aura of badass in the original trilogy but you never saw him do much physical damage - even Luke in his first ever lightsaber battle is able to ding him on the shoulder. But when he lights up the saber in the hallway and you realize these guys are…

That entire back half of Ip Man 2 is hilarious. Gotta love a culture-swapped remake of Rocky IV. Plus, from a storytelling standpoint, in no way did they convince me that Ip would have that much trouble with a regular ass boxer guy when he took the Japanese general the fuck out in the first movie with barely a scratch.

Skyfall is not going to beat out The Raid.

Batman Begins is the first movie I saw in theaters where I was really like, man, this is poorly shot action. I was distinctly relieved in the theater when the first action scene in The Dark Knight was legible and impactful.

Fuck the tracking shot, that bone breaking sequence might be my favorite thing Tony Jaa ever did.

The first half of that last duel is pretty boss, when it's still mostly practical - it's fast and dramatic and everything it should be. But then the prequels reassert themselves, and the CGI takes over, and there's still 5 minutes to go.

Casino Royale has maybe my favorite ever moment of characterization through action, when the bombmaker leaps through a transom (!) and Bond just crashes through the wall.

The White House?

"Taste" is mostly a reference to class, but then Donald Trump has terrible fucking taste.

GAAAAAAAAAARCIA!!!!!!!

That's the Iliad, dude. There aren't good guys and bad guys.

What about modern Westerners suggests they can't connect with pride and childish entitlement? That's a perfect description of the goddamn president.

That was already in the European release. They get everything.