A Constant Visual Feast

“Action cinema’s “girls with guns” subgenre seems an unlikely source of prestige, going by name alone, and the bodies that arbitrate movies’ cultural value – the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for instance – seem to agree. Institutions like AMPAS rarely honor action films of any sort, save for undisputed all-timers: Enter the Dragon, The Matrix, Die Hard, The Terminator. Acknowledging movies of the “girls with gun” variety, where the lurid promise that you will, in fact, get what you pay for pays off with girls, some guns, and lots of punching and kicking, is clearly a bridge too far for them.” (Full piece available at Cool Material.)