Hmmmmm I dunno. It's sometimes more Action/Adventure to me, and sometimes too thoughtful to be the platonic ideal

Zing.

Or everything about Paul Gleason's character…

Why don't we just bug out and call it even, man?

I agree that Die Hard is probably the most *representative* action film, but not that it is the best

Aliens is a far better action film. Die Hard has a terrific lead and a terrific villain, but it has a lot of problems in between

Hotel California is pretty good at least

I'm with you. I thought Daisy Ridley was delightful, but they did indeed write her as a Mary Sue. And that's not sexist. Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan is the biggest Mary Sue I've ever seen. But that doesn't mean Rey wasn't

But that's how acting works. White actors play a wide variety of ethnicities, and I don't think that's because Hollywood doesn't care about the differences between Swedish people and German people. The job of an actor is to portray a character, not a genetic makeup.

Yes, but you have to follow the logical outcomes of absurd statements like that. While I of course support giving opportunities to Filipino actors, what this philosophy effectively advocates for is for people like Hill to be only allowed to play Japanese characters.

"Hill is part Japanese, meaning that given Hollywood’s limited
understanding of the importance of diversity, she’s has been cast as
damn near every single Asian nationality, from Filipino to Korean."

For real. Even Prom Night fits the bill

I really don't think the consensus at all places Mighty Wind as #1

The way he brought about professional baseball players without having ever been one also made me so angry I had to post on FB about it. GRRRRR Kinsella, can't you just write about YOUR experiences????

Enjoyed your calling my attention to this scene, Mike, though the opening Sixteen Tons sequence might get my vote. That was one of those terrific movie watching moments (like when Captain Vidal smashes the man's head in with a bottle that doesn't break in Pan's Labyrinth) when a film makes you sit up a bit straighter…

Gran Torino*

Exactly

"Documentaries are as phony, in what they choose to show us and how their
subjects behave while we’re watching, as their entirely fictional
counterparts."

I'll near no criticism of the Dunkirk scene in Atonement, however

It's no longer the tallest building in the world