Benjamin Grimm

Star Wars never did anything for me. Don't know why.

No. I just learned about the 3D version today when reading the Wikipedia article. I did see it in HD, though.

Most episodes of Adventures of Superman were about common crooks who would shoot their guns at Superman's chest until they ran out of bullets, and then they'd throw the pistol at him. The episodes with Mole Men and the like were the exception, not the rule. And yes, Incredible Hulk was like The Fugitive. And maybe if the show was called The Hot-Tempered Wanderer I wouldn't have been so disappointed in it. But I wanted the Hulk to be the Hulk! I wanted him leaping great distances. I wanted him saying "Hulk will smash puny humans!" I wanted the army going after him with big powered super machines. I wanted the Leader, and the Abomination, and all I got was a mopey Bill Bixby and a sleazy journalist. I know that CBS wasn't looking to cater to the comic book fanatic; they were focusing on the general public. And given that the series lasted a bunch of seasons, I guess they succeeded. But they lost me pretty early on. I think I probably bailed before the end of the second season.

Edgy DC wrote: Totally not analogous to The Adventures of Superman. So totally not! It is to me. Comic book character operating in the much more boring real world. It's kind of like if Dorothy stayed in Kansas for the whole film.

It wasn't at all what I was wanting/expecting from a Hulk show. The Hulk was just a goofy looking growling beast; he didn't have the personality of the character in the comics. He didn't really have any personality at all. Sure, it was cool when Bill Bixby (don't even get me started on David Banner) transformed and made some bully pay, but I would've liked something a lot more comic-booky. To put it in Superman terms, I was hoping for something more like Smallville and ended up with The Adventures of Superman instead.

I think we disagree here. I hated that damn show.

Hopefully this one won't take any inspiration at all from the original TV series, which left me profoundly disappointed.

Watched Dial M For Murder for the first time yesterday. Very enjoyable.

Lotsa good choices, but my heart is with Shadow of a Doubt. Perhaps I identify with it because I too am a creepy uncle.

I didn't know it was Hitchcock's favorite. I'm glad I share his taste! I suspect, though, that it wouldn't win a poll of favorite Hitchcock films. (Not sure what would... probably Psycho or The Birds.)

Anyone else remember these books?

Not sure exactly why, but I have a special fondness for Shadow of a Doubt.

Well, I wasn't looking for spandex. But I also wasn't expecting shlubby.

This is a shot of Chris Evans' stunt double filming a scene as Captain America in England recently. I'm trying not to read too much into this, but it's surprising how utterly lame it looks.

The Hulk has had so many different incarnations in the comics. The Hulk who was in the original Avengers was more of a social misfit/Mr. Hyde kind of guy, not the mindless rampaging "Hulk smash" guy who came along later, and who the movie Hulk is more closely based on. It's really hard to imagine the movie version of the Hulk sitting around a big shiny conference room table with Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, and Hawkeye.

Wow... I hadn't noticed that.

Rosemary getting raped by the devil could probably count as a scary scene. Cassavetes really was fantastic, by the way. My favorite line in the film, I think, was when Rosemary wanted to change to a different obstetrician, because the one that she had, Dr. Sapirstein, had been ignoring her extreme pain for three months. Her husband, Guy, exclaims, "But that wouldn't be fair to Sapirstein!" He was such a creepy character... pimping his wife's womb to Satan so that he could get TV and movie parts.

I watched this just last night. (It was recently shown on HBO Signature.) It wasn't the first time I had seen Rosemary's Baby, but the last time was so long ago that last night's viewing was almost like watching for the first time. I know that this isn't exactly current, but figured it might be a fun movie to talk about.

Top talent the alligator!

When he makes the big leagues, I hope his fan club wears these wigs to games:

I'm not sure that's it. It's not trying to be a list of "best movies" but a list of "movies you should see." I think Titanic was included because of its place in movie history as a mega-blockbuster.

I've seen 61 of them. If my math is correct, that's 61 per cent. 12 Angry Men (1957) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) The 400 Blows (1959) 8 � (1963) The African Queen (1952) Alien (1979) All About Eve (1950) Annie Hall (1977) Apocalypse Now (1979) The Battle of Algiers (1967) The Bicycle Thief (1948) Blade Runner (1982) Blazing Saddles (1974) Blow Up (1966) Blue Velvet (1986) Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Breathless (1960) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Bringing Up Baby (1938) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Casablanca (1942) Chinatown (1974) Citizen Kane (1941) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Die Hard (1988) Do the Right Thing (1989) Double Indemnity (1944) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Duck Soup (1933) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Enter the Dragon (1973) The Exorcist (1973) Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982) The French Connection (1971) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather, Part II (1974) Goldfinger (1964) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968) Goodfellas (1990) The Graduate (1967) Grand Illusion (1938) Groundhog Day (1993) A Hard Day's Night (1964) In the Mood For Love (2001) It Happened One Night (1934) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Jaws (1975) King Kong (1933) The Lady Eve (1941) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) The Lord of the Rings (2001,2002,2003) M (1931) M*A*S*H (1970) The Maltese Falcon (1941) The Matrix (1999) Modern Times (1936) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) Network (1976) Nosferatu (1922) On the Waterfront (1954) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Paths of Glory (1958) Princess Mononoke (1999) Psycho (1960) Pulp Fiction (1994) Raging Bull (1980) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Raise the Red Lantern (1992) Rashomon (1951) Rear Window (1954) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Rocky (1976) Roman Holiday (1953) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Schindler's List (1993) The Searchers (1956) Seven Samurai (1954) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Singin' in the Rain (1952) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Some Like It Hot (1959) The Sound of Music (1965) Star Wars (1977) Sunset Blvd. (1950) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) The Third Man (1949) This is Spinal Tap (1984) Titanic (1997) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Toy Story (1995) The Usual Suspects (1995) Vertigo (1958) When Harry Met Sally... (1989) Wild Strawberries (1957) Wings of Desire (1988) The Wizard of Oz (1939) Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) The World of Apu (1959)

Willets Point wrote: I'm thinking this may be a good first movie theater experience for our little one. Like metirish, I'll wait a few weeks and look for a matinee. SPOILER ALERT I have to say, there is a very harrowing scene, where (spoiler alert) the toys are about to be incinerated and they resign themselves to their impending deaths. You'll have to judge (as best you can) how much your child might be upset by something like that.

That's good news! Having him fade away wouldn't have been a good thing. Hopefully he'll keep it up and play himself into the conversation for 2011.