Yes, but the "action" in Keaton's films is another part of the comic routine. They are probably better classified as comedies, even if the style of comedy in them is very physical.

You could have also gone with The Dirty Dozen from 1967. The author would probably classify it as a "war movie," but that film was really the forerunner to the "commando" films staring actors like Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Steven, Seagal, and Jean Claude Van Damme in the '70s, '80s, and '90s.

This movie almost seems to get unfairly regarded as a car chase with a movie attached to it. Whenever I watch this movie I'm struck by the fact that, yes, the car chase is amazing, but the rest of the movie around it is also pretty damn solid. The plotting is tight, the supporting cast is stocked with people like the…

It would only be offensive to people who don't know that Sellers is spoofing the popular Charlie Chan series of detective films where the supposedly Chinese lead character was always played by a white actor in yellowface, while his son was always played by an Asian-American one.

I haven't seen anything like this since the Anita Bryant concert.

This world is such a violent place. If it wasn't, I'd be back on the circuit riding motocross. But I'd give it all up tomorrow to live in a world without crime.

Um, no. There are a number of soldiers who were not in the massacre, including Shirley Temple's husband. And the concept of the family isn't limited to those specific soldiers at Ft. Apache at the start of the film. It extends to the whole Calvary. Hence Ford's trilogy of films on the subject with Wayne in the lead.

He definitely did. In Ft. Apache, I see that scene as Wayne doing what was best for the family & community of the Fort, something which Fonda had treated at best as a minor annoyance and at worst with outright contempt, with disastrous consequences. At the cost of turning the fool Fonda into a hero, Wayne will be able…

I always found it sort of ironic that Ford was integral to the making of the "Duke" iconography that the American Right has cherished 'lo these many years, because when you look closely at Ford's films the message in most of them is that this mythology is mostly bullshit. He usually concedes that those myths have…

Mass communication and media seems to vanish in both the "Wars" and "Trek" space operas. I guess the theory is an advanced society with faster than light transportation doesn't have time for Fox News or Kardashians.

I never thought of the presence of a detective as being all that integral to a "noir" film. Really, I think of hard-boiled detective stories, both in books (as in the works of Hammett or Chandler) and in film, as more of a subset of noir.

And by 70's, I assume you mean whatever unit was used to measure time a long, long time ago in that far, far away galaxy?

Plus, you know how hard it is to get people to update to a newer version of something once they're used to it, especially if the new version has its own issues. Like, how many people stuck with Windows XP until Microsoft definitively pulled the plug?

Yeah but Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick sort of blew that one out of the water. And then James Cameron finished it off.

"What is this 'suspension of disbelief' you speak of?"

Great. Now use science to explain why the droids don't rise up and kill their human masters.

As opposed to Anakin, who was supposed to be the opposite but turned out to be one in fact. Though the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree, as they say.

Well no, non-profit ventures solicit money from the public all the time. It's what the Greenpeace people are doing when they ring your doorbell.

Well yes, but this time they give you an even bigger spherical weapon capable of destroying multiple planets in a single shot, and from a further distance. Did you miss the scene where Oscar Isaac gave us all a helpful, diagrammatic comparison with the old Death Star?

It's very hard - I'll give you that. Bond fans aren't quite like Trek fans, but "Casino Royale" (2006) would be about the best example I can think of of a reboot that purged nearly everything die hard fans hated about a franchise, hit upon aspects of it they loved, and managed to attract a few new fans in the process.