Correct. Both Batman-Bane fights in “Rises” are superior hand-to-hand action scenes. The climactic fight is my favorite scene in the movie.

“Breaking the Waves” is a great film, and one of Von Trier’s best. It is pretty rough, though; “Dancer” might be more cruel, though. I hesitate to recommend his stuff, especially after the harassment allegations and his unwatchable most recent movie.

I’d personally rank “Traffic” at 1, but I have not seen either “Yi Yi” or “Beau Travail.”

Wes Anderson films aren’t exciting?

Dicks with extremely limited mental capabilities. They’re basically flying Id.

IIRC, it was in response to a recent national tragedy (a shooting, I think).

Never called her a “real sweetheart,” but your interpretation of the scene doesn’t jive with the performance or direction. If she was as bad as some seem to suggest, she would’ve kept pushing the family line instead of hanging up. The reveal of the mother’s status was already covered in this thread.

I can stand “Come On Eileen.”

Is this similar to the “it’s not a movie, it’s a ‘film’” argument? Because that is stupid.

“American Pie” is not worse than “We Built This City,” the official Worst Song Ever Recorded.

McGraw is surprisingly a very good actor.

Wahlberg is great in The Departed, stealing many scenes and handling a lot of memorable dialogue. What’s weird is that, due to Hollywood political shenanigans, he was the only person nominated from that amazing cast.

Eh to each his/her own. However, wouldn’t it be a vampire movie rather than zombie?

Ernest Cline in particular has questionable taste, I think.

It’s essential and plays for any age. It’s a story told from a child’s POV, not a movie made for children only.

“assembly line pap.”

In the military hospital scene, when E.T. is “dying” and Elliot’s vitals uncouple, Thomas starts furiously tearing the sensors off his body while yelling at the scientists, “he came to ME!” There’s so much fury and holding-the-screen charisma that you forget Thomas is really young. He’s acting well beyond his years; it…

I think he actually won the Oscar, too.

Jurassic Park does it briefly when the group is outside the raptor cage.

And none of them did particularly well at the box office.