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  1. Benjamin Grimm
    Which comedies would you add? Looking through the list quickly, I spotted 12 comedies: 22. "Some Like It Hot" (1959) 26. "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939) 35. "Annie Hall" (1977) 46. "It Happened One Night" (1934) 54. "MASH" (1970) 60. "Duck Soup" (1933) 69. "Tootsie" (1982) 78. "Modern Times" (1936) 80. "The Apartment" (1960) 85. "A Night at the Opera" (1935) 88. "Bringing Up Baby" (1938) 99. "Toy Story" (1995) If I were to add some comedies to the list I might include Young Frankenstein and The Out-of-Towners (the original one with Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis). I'm also partial to Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run.
  2. Benjamin Grimm
    Don't these kinds of lists come out more often than they ought to? It seems there's a new list every few months. Of this group of 100, there are two that I saw for the first time in just the last year or two: The Bridge on the River Kwai and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. I enjoyed them both, but liked Treasure a lot more.
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    Some I'm not sure of, but by my count I've seen 60 of the 100.
  4. Benjamin Grimm
    Have you heard anything about a Magneto movie? I seem to remember reading a rumor about it a few months ago, but it didn't seem like an authentic rumor to me. Captain America is reportedly going to be a "partial" period piece. I guess that means that either the first part will be set in World War II and then he'll get frozen in the ice, or else maybe the World War II stuff will be told in flashback. Incredible Hulk does have an all new cast from the awful 2003 movie. I've heard it referred to as a "relaunch", so hopefully it will have an all-new origin as well and have nothing to do with the first film. I sense that critics will howl with laughter at the Thor movie. They really have to move ahead carefully with that one, I think. Spider-Man 4, 2009? Interesting. Sub-Mariner yes, Aquaman no. I wonder if that's because people think that Vincent Chase's Aquaman movie was really made? I remember a TV entertainment journalist reporting that the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie had broken Aquaman's box office record.
  5. Benjamin Grimm
    I know I saw The Rock, and seem to remember thinking it was okay. I'm not sure about Armageddon. Is that one of the two killer asteroid movies that came out around the same time? All I remember is that one had Bruce Willis and one didn't. One involved astronauts landing on an asteroid, and one didn't. I saw one of the two, but don't know which one. All I remember is that the one I saw had Tea Leoni in it. I don't even remember if I liked it! (I guess that means I was lukewarm towards it.)
  6. Benjamin Grimm
    What? Is three inches bad? I... Oops! Never mind!
  7. Benjamin Grimm
    I'm surprised to learn that he got as small as 3.75 inches.
  8. Benjamin Grimm
    I can't be objective. It got me. By the end of the movie I was a field of goosebump. Four stars. I don't expect the casual viewer to react like I did, but for someone who knows and loves the characters as much as anybody, they did something right. (A lot wrong, but enough right for the goosebumps and the four thumbs up.) MUCH better than the first movie. And now... Mets 2, Yankees 0 in the 7th. LET'S GO METS!
  9. Benjamin Grimm
    Bumping this just in case anyone else has seen it by now and would like to cast a vote. Today Spidey 3 starts its seventh week in the theaters. That's a pretty long run, isn't it? I don't pay attention to such things, but I wonder how long most hit movies stay in release, and how quickly the flops are shut down?
  10. Benjamin Grimm
    Time to make this thread a poll. I've read a few more reviews, and none are as positive as the one with three stars from Jack Matthews of the Daily News. The general consensus seems to be that it's better than the first movie, but still not all that good. We'll be going to the 7:25 p.m showing tonight. I'll miss Mets vs. Yankees, but I'm afraid that's probably a good thing. (Maybe I'll watch it on TiVo-delay, but I can't stay up too late because I have an early flight tomorrow morning.)
  11. Benjamin Grimm
    Jack Matthews in The Daily News today gave the new FF movie three stars and said that it's a lot better than the first movie. That's encouraging. I watched the first movie again last night on DVD; it was only the second time I had seen it and the first since the night it opened in theaters two years ago. I again had to gnash my teeth at how badly they handled the character of Doctor Doom. But there were parts that I enjoyed. The whole "Galactus is a giant cloud" thing has really dampened my enthusiasm for FF/Surfer, but seeing a good review in the paper this morning has me feeling a little more optimistic. I'll be seeing it tomorrow. Good or bad, there's no way I want to miss seeing a Fantastic Four movie on the day it opens.
  12. Benjamin Grimm
    Paste Pot Pete and the Trapster are the same guy. (After a few appearances in Strange Tales he realized he needed a better name and a costume.) I think the name change came in FF #36, the first time the Frightful Four got together. The evil FF had three previously seen characters: The Wizard and Pete, who had teamed up in Strange Tales, and the Sandman who up to that point was (I think) just a Spidey villain. The fourth member of the team was a brand new character, the mysterious lady known as Medusa. When the Wizard found her she wasn't living with the Inhumans. Instead she was living in a cave, wearing a yellow dress, and using her hair to toss the locals around. (Gosh, I love that old Lee and Kirby stuff!) I was talking about this with my son the other day. Now that so many Marvel characters have been (or soon will be) on the big screen, it would be cool if they started to tie it together into an onscreen Marvel universe. Having the Torch in the next Spidey movie would be a good way to start.
  13. Benjamin Grimm
    I don't think I know who Carnage is. I'd prefer the fourth movie to be a Strange Tales kind of movie where Spidey teams up with the Human Torch to fight the Wizard and Paste Pot Pete.
  14. Benjamin Grimm
    If I remember right, Vic, you weren't too crazy about the first two Spidey films. The third one is definitely the least of them. And I agree, they should tell a good story and use whatever characters fit into that good story.
  15. Benjamin Grimm
    I'm not familiar with Phoebe Zeit-Geist. I sense a potential spinoff thread where we fill in those blank word balloons, though.
  16. Benjamin Grimm
    When I think Frank Springer, I think Invaders. I believe he inked the first dozen or so issues of that title. Roy Thomas writer, Frank Robbins penciller, I believe.
  17. Benjamin Grimm
    Electro.
  18. Benjamin Grimm
    No, Venom isn't worth the price of admission. And I'm sorry, but I have no idea who Bruce Campbell is.
  19. Benjamin Grimm
    No, no nudity. I took my ten-year-old AND my five-year-old.
  20. Benjamin Grimm
    Well, they didn't want to set up Spider-Man 4 because they didn't know there would be one, and they didn't want to leave loose ends. We still don't know but given the box office the movie has done, I think a fourth movie is now inevitable. Whether it has the same cast and crew won't be known for a while.
  21. Benjamin Grimm
    This movie wasn't made with a Spider-Man 4 in mind. There may yet be one, but this movie doesn't set us up in any way for what might come next.
  22. Benjamin Grimm
    Probably so they can sell three times the merchandise. Actually, each of the villains did play a key role not only in the action, but in the theme of the movie, so the reason probably isn't as crass as merchandising. Though I'm sure the suits don't mind that aspect. Spidey 2 was terrific, but when it comes to comic book movies I judge them by the ten-year-old inside of me. The first movie gave me multiple goosebumps. Spidey 2 only once. And Spidey 3 not at all. My order of preference is the same as the order in which the movies were produced, but in my opinion the quality gap between Spidey 2 and Spidey 3 is greater than that between 1 and 2.
  23. Benjamin Grimm
    I enjoyed a Spider Weekend with my son this past weekend. We watched Spider-Man on DVD on Friday night. We then watched Spider-Man 2 on Saturday morning, and then on Saturday afternoon we went to the theater to see Spider-Man 3. I liked it. I didn't like it as much as I liked Spider-Man 2, which I didn't like as much as I liked Spider-Man, which remains my favorite Marvel Comics movie.
  24. Benjamin Grimm
    I think the special effects could have handled Iceman. My guess is that they didn't want him to look like Frosty the Snowman. He would have been much cooler (no pun intended) if he was covered with frost and riding on that ice slide. It didn't ruin the X-Men movies for me, but I feel less of a connection the the X-Men than I do to the FF, Spidey and Hulk.
  25. Benjamin Grimm
    I didn't hear that. It's pretty much how they handled Iceman, though.
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