5. Die Hard
Right Wing? The Die Hard franchise is right wing for one major reason: John McClane. He's the everyman, the working macho guy who isn't interested in heroism or the deeper complexities of human existence or in complaining about his situation (though be bitches plenty). He's trying to be a family man, a good cop and a good American. He's the ideal Western hero. In the first film, authority is treated as a complete joke as officers trying to handle the situation on the outside are shown to be little more than government bureaucrats stifled by red tape and political correctness and plain stupidity that must have been a requirement for their high up government position. McClane ain't that guy. He gets the job done and doesn't march to anyone's tune but his own. The anti authority tone would run heavily through the franchise even being prevalent in the last incarnation, Live Free or Die Hard. McClane even had to teach a geeky hipster punk in that film what being a man and hero was all really about.
Anymore? The fifth Die Hard film, A Good Day to Die Hard, hits theaters on February 14th and Bruce Willis has stated that he wants to make one more to cap the series off. Long live John McClane.