Die Hard 2 (1990)

A plane full of people blowing up is awesome.  9/11 ruined Hollywood action films because everyone became "sensitive" about it, when in fact watching anything blow up in a film, whether it's a building or a plane or a truck, is fucking great.  I mean even for 1990, when action films were really, really great, like Total Recall, a plane full of people blowing up, over time on the screen as it smashed to the ground was actually pretty heavy stuff.  The first Die Hard had nothing so catastrophic.  The film ends happily with snow and a nice christmas song despite the mass murder, so it's all good.

Fun film, just as good as the first Die Hard.  The villain is not so memorable, but the guns shoot and the plane blows up and John McClane is right when the fat stupid cop says he's wrong and he kills the terrorists and shows them all and wins.  I also like planes and airports, so that just makes the film even cooler.