W. BRUCE CAMERON - Dear Action Movies

Dear Action Movies,

I’ve been watching you for a long time now and have gotten to know you pretty well, but I think that in order for our relationship to keep growing, there are a few questions I need you to answer.

First, you know those scenes where the Hero is standing in a circle of bad guys, and they all attack him, and he manages to fight them all off? How come the bad guys all wait their turn — is that some sort of bad-guy etiquette thing? Because it seems to me, if I were watching this Hero kicking and punching my buddies into oblivion, I might be tempted to turn to the bad guy next to...