say what you want about Independence Day but it portrays both a Black stripper single mother and a working-class alcoholic veteran with PTSD as people worthy of respect and admiration and most action films these days do NOT have the guts
Jasmine from Independence Day using those pole dancer legs to kick a metal door in to save herself and her son (and her dog!) from the oncoming fireball and then driving a fire engine through the wreckage to save survivors is way more fuckin badass than anything a Tom Cruise character has ever done and I’ll die on that hill
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