Virtuousity is Terminator 2 but way more realistic, throwing out the fantastical stoic and logical robot for a more realistic charismatic lunatic who copies historical figures one

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is a fun adventure through a fantasy land where being hit really hurts and magic powers are used reactively in an instant. They really were wise to license the Valve IP like that

Chain Reaction is about a man who does the last step in a globally important scientific experiment, and then he's chased through cold worn-down environments by people with guns and radios whose organization starts with C. There's a Freeman with a Doctorate and an airboat vs helicopter battle.

The Primevals is about how scientific expeditions with no oversight are really cool but you gotta watch out for accidentally genetically engineering your people to become deranged goblins

Split Second is about how if you mope around in grimy rooms enough, the serial killer you're chasing will stop by to attack people within 50 feet of you to give you another hint, and if they do it enough times you'll be able to find them eventually

Space Pirate Captain Harlock is a poem made of fancy spaceships and explosions. It's about um, uh, well, how destroying the things you love because you think they could be better is a bad idea?

Renfield is about how the cycle of violence will only end when someone is brave enough to stop, turn around, and commit violence in the other direction

The Thing is about how being frozen in ice for thousands of years makes you extremely impatient and if you could like, hold on just a minute longer, you could achieve your goals instead of screwing it all up.

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Knowing is half the battle. The flailing and being confused half. The being trolled by people who know way more than you and don't really have to flex like that but think it's funny or something half

Minority Report is about how it's great to put people into super-jail for crimes they didn't commit, unless they're cops. It's got some fantastical sci fi wonderland chase sequences, so much sci fi is tame in comparison

The Tomorrow War is about how if you use time travel in a very inefficient way, and fight monsters that are immune to small-caliber ammunition using assault rifles, the only thing that will keep literally everyone on earth from dying horribly is a culture of building swimming pools on the roof.

Rush Hour is a conventional buddy cop adventure where the reclusive loner for some reason loves talking to people. There's some neat vase action

Project A is about how the Hong Kong navy primarily specialized in land battles and scooby-doo style antics

The Young Master is about constantly fighting off the cops for the freedom to defeat bank robbers by pretending to be an old man in a dress. The fight scenes are quite elaborate, but they follow such a clear rhythm the seams of the choreography are showing

Who am I? is about dude where's the game where your character does parkour like Jackie Chan? He rolls around so effortlessly, he can be standing one moment and roll upwards 6 feet onto a platform above in the next moment. There's lots of fun gags in the fight scenes too

but I think this is the first one where the hero takes the chief hostage at gun point in response

Police Story is about what it takes to make a good police officer: police brutality, wanton destruction of civilian property, staging elaborate scenarios to make witnesses believe they're about to be brutally murdered. I've seen a lot of police chief "you have to hand in your badge"-type scenes,

Perhaps it's an offer of reconciliation, offering reconciliation without believing it will be accepted is a deeply strategic move

The Armour of God is an action-adventure movie about traveling to darkest Europe to battle an exotic religious cult over control of artifacts that belong in a museum. As is appropriate, the most powerful armour in the movie is a suicide bomber vest, which is used to comedic effect in the finale.

how the global power structures are actually only held in place by social conventions built to defend against normal human powers so even a small amount of unexpected ability is enough to do almost whatever you want in the shadows

X-Men: First Class is one of those war commando type movies, about everyone having a special set of skills except their skills make clouds and energy blob shapes, about

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is about how if superheroes are at all common enough, technology once again becomes more important than inherent personal power.
Something that bothers me about eye lasers is that they never move like a person looking at things eyes' move

X-Men: Dark Phoenix is about how aliens can read minds and speak perfect english and yet still sacrifice their entire species in a half-baked scheme to persuade someone who was a heroine days ago to commit total genocide rather than just negotiate something about terraforming Venus or whatever.

how professor X became bald, and how Magneto personally wronged every mutant on earth and none of them would want to unite under his banner.

X-Men: Apocalypse is about the constant desire to tear everything down and start over from the beginning when things annoy you, and how if you were old enough "the beginning" to you would be "technology". It's a prequel that explains things like how cyclops got his glasses,

When something precious to Liam Neeson is taken, he uses his particular set of skills to get back at those who did the taking, in Darkman, his special skill is being able to print nice faces.

Man with the Screaming Brain is about how after the fall of the Soviet Union, the integration of communists and capitalists was served well by a can-do fix it attitude, but there were still some growth pains

Army of Darkness is a comical remake of Home Alone, where the thieves and macaulay culkin swap roles halfway through the movie

Snow White is a musical about how people with royal blood are more inherently qualified to rule, and the evil technocrats should be doomed to be destroyed by their own manipulative language models