A quick shout-out for Fourth of July films

You can have your “Yankee Doodle Dandys” and “Born on the Fourth of Julys” (and your crazed sadism that is “The Patriot”); how about firing up some holiday-themed blockbusters with your grill?

“Jaws” and “Rocky” and Roland Emmerich’s “Independence Day” fit the bill — and the last of those, with the president hopping in a jet to fight the aliens, makes just as much sense as Emmerich’s “Patriot.”

For those fired up by the Broadway musical “Hamilton” for some birth-of-our-nation stuff, there’s HBO’s “John Adams” miniseries for really cool historical insight, and the movie version of “1776.”

To set your pulse pounding, though, it’s got to be the 1992 Michael Mann version of “Last of the Mohicans,” starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Hawkeye.

It takes place about 20 years before the Declaration of Independence, but it’s worth bending the rules to check this one out.

“The Patriot” is not on this list — not only is it violent in all the wrong ways; Time magazine listed it at No. 1 among its Top 10 Historically Misleading Films.

The “Patriot” himself, Mel Gibson, is reportedly making a sequel to “The Passion of the Christ.”

Well, why not? Until it was unseated by “Deadpool,” “Passion” was the highest-grossing R-rated film ever. You’ve got to know the studio would love to see a franchise out of it — “Passion II: This Time It’s Personal,” “Passion III: The Revenge,” “Son of …” well, maybe not that one.

Gibson reunites with “Braveheart” scripter Randall Wallace, who recently had a hit with “Heaven Is for Real” (more than $100 million on a $12 million budget).

This is Hollywood, after all. Just ask Iron Man’s Robert Downey Jr.: All it takes is a hit to resurrect a career.

San Franciscans, with the high rents and booming real estate market, are probably less surprised than most to learn 26 films have crossed the $1 billion mark worldwide.

Based on its record animated debut, “Finding Dory” will probably be swimming with the big boys before long. However, the current pool is clogged with titles not likely to go down as classics — among them, “Jurassic World,” “Minions” and some “Transformers” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” flotsam.

Yes, ticket-price inflation has won.

Needless to say, no movies before 1977’s “Star Wars” appear in the all-time worldwide Top 100, and only nine before 2000 make it. But when you apply the salve of “Adjusted for inflation” to the domestic-only totals, the world seems right again. The likes of “Jaws” and “The Sting” and even “The Graduate” land in the top 10.

What actor had starring roles in three of the current Top 10 worldwide grossers of all time and four of the Top 12?

Nicholas Winding Refn’s “The Neon Demon” is now in Bay Area theaters. Here’s something he told The Chronicle that didn’t make the paper’s recent feature on his film:

“[Expletive] the establishment. This movie’s from the future. Cinema’s not about being good or bad anymore. The digital revolution has created a whole new universe that doesn’t rely on a gate between quality and non-quality. It’s just beautiful, beautiful, absurd chaos. The only way to walk the path is singularity. The traditions of good or bad are gone. Welcome to the 21st century.”

Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man in Marvel Studios movies.