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=41Forever post_id=10077 time=1557957327 user_id=69] Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan?

I love that somebody voted for Calamity Jane, because any invocation of Howard Keel is funny. He was, like, the real-life Troy McClure.

How about a list of your own?

John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara were paired a lot. So were Cary Grant and Irene Dunn. Some of those films were uneven. Some were pure poo.

Well, by "top," I mean to imply some legacy of quality left behind, whether in a modest degree of quality over a high number of films, or an overwhelming degree of quality over a few films. John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara were paired a lot. So were Cary Grant and Irene Dunn. Some of those films were uneven. Some were pure poo.

Double Switch wrote: As an ardent Hitchcock aficionado, I must go with the remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much even if after a while Que Será Será crawls all over my last nerve. It kind of works, doesn't it, though? Singing that goofy song like she has a gun to her head, knowing it may be the salvation or doom of her child, is as tense as it gets. As with Jimmy Stewart, one of Hitchcock's talents was finding a pained, disquieting dark side even in America's favorite paragons of easy wholesomeness.

Is there a keeper from the Kurt Russell/Goldie Hawn ouvre? We're looking for some degree of quality here, man.

Side question: Who are the top screen pairings of all time? When you see the names Doris Day and Rock Hudson paired, you almost automatically know you're in for light, frothy fare, but they co-starred so frequently, I think they're probably in the top five or 10 on most objective lists, right? Using only actors who appeared as romantics opposite each other in more than one role, counting returns in sequels as the same role: 1) Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn 2) Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers 3) Myrna Loy and William Powell 4) Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall 5) Doris Day and Rock Hudson 6) Marcello Mastriani and Sophia Loren 7) Um, John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara? 8) Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland? 9) Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence? 10) Cary Grant and Irene Dunn? Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello? Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan? Was Joe vs. the Volcano that much of a keeper? That's a pretty straight, white, and American list, with some exceptions. Sue me all you want.

You're on a desert island, that remarkably has a film projector, a screen, working power, and reels and reels of old Doris Day films. You don't want to spend too much time with Doris, what with you needing devote most of every day to survival and pursuing rescue, but when you need to rest at night, you're not above cranking up the projector. What's going to be your go-to film?

Questions About the Universe In Guardians of the Galaxy, there was all this falderal about how infinity stones are so vastly powerful that they destroy all but the most powerful beings from the most ancient of races who would choose to wield one. How come, in this film, folks are tossing them around like jelly beans? Where does Thanos' army even come from? Was the time portal jammed open? How do they get troop transport ships through there? Military strategy: Thanos' army, in this film as well as Avengers: Infinity War, is largely made up of ravenous canine-like creatures, of limited intelligence, that do all their fighting hand-to-hand, and maw-to-guts, so in the last film, the Avengers largely oppose them with a hand-to-hand army from Wakanda, led by hand-to-hand fighters Black Panther and Captain America. How about some artillary? How about some ballistics? How about some air support? Missiles? It seems there are a lot of military forces in the world that could have really helped out in both films. Thanos had a gunship hovering overhead in this film. Shouldn't the few airborne folks in the Avengers army — War Machine, Iron Man, Pepper, Falcon, etc. — have been dispatched to take out that ship right off? Why did Dr. Strange open up all those portals in front of Thanos' army? Wouldn't it have been more effective if some of the incoming army had appeared on Thanos' flanks or behind him? And if Dr. Strange can open up portals that big, including portals that can transport beings from planet to planet, why. not just open a big hole underneath Thanos' army that opens on the other side in deep space. Wong also did some cool thing in the first movie when they're battling in Union Square or something, where he opens up a portal and sends a giant Hulk-sized thug of a creature into some tundra environment. When the creature tries to jump back through the portal, Wong closes it, and the creature gets it's forearm cut off by the closing portal. Why doesn't Strange try that on Thanos in either movie? Open a portal beneath his feet, and then close it on him really fast and cut him in half? Easy peasy. Thanos gets to handle Thor's axe? Does Stormbringer not have the charm that Mjolnir has to only be held by the worthy? What happens to Gomorrah? She's there, she save's Quill's ass, she kicks him in the nuts, and then she's mysteriously gone. Part of the closing action seems to be setting up a third GotG film in which they search for her. These are the questions that keep me up at night.

I liked the film. It was face-palmingly twee at the start, and it almost failed the eight-minute test with me, but it got better.

Spider-Man: WtF?! would have been a great title.

How weird is it that half the world is now the same age they were five years ago and half are five years older? Billions of younger siblings are now older siblings. Hundreds of millions of therapists will be needed to deal with the trauma. Half of Peter's classmates will be in college or done with college, while half of them will be catching up. Hundreds of millions of spouses will be materializing out of the dust only to find that the person they were embracing only five minutes ago in their time is now with (or married to) someone else. When the returning spouses, say, "Hey, WTF?" the only answer they'll get back is, "What? Captain America told me to move on, OK?" And then the returning spouses will be all, "OK, whatever, I guess. You've gotten old and fat anyhow." Prisoners will be re-materializing in cells that have long since been re-occupied, having to complete their sentence even though the associates they went away with have long since been freed. Physicists will be all, "WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN YOU GOT AN IMAGE OF A BLACK HOLE WHEN I WAS GONE?!!! I'M THE BLACK HOLE GUY!! IT'S NOT YOUR THING! IT'S MY THING!!" Some will come home to find memorial tributes to themselves, a somber corner of the room of their old home devoted to photos and prayer candles. They'll find their names on that big memorial in San Francisco. But others will have the punch in the gut that they've been gone for five years and not a single person knows they were missing. Are you a billionaire industrialist? Too bad. Somebody took your company when you were gone and it's going to take a lifetime of legal wrangling to undo that. What if you disappeared in the middle of coitus? Are you just going to re-materialize and climax even though your partner is long gone? How freaked out will you be? And what do you mean Trump is still the president?!!! I GAVE YOU FIVE YEARS TO FIX THAT SHIT!! Where's Thanos?! I PREFERRED OBLIVION!!!

I groaned at that too. That was was pandermonium. That was taken from the script of Kung-Fu Pander. It was dreamed up by execs eating at the Panderosa Steakhouse. That was Marvel going all, "We've kicked DC's ass in everything except Wonder Woman. We need a Chickz Rool Action shot. Write that in there for me. Don't worry about whether it makes sense." Besides, everybody was looking to clear a path for Captain Marvel. Isn't she supposed to be faster than any of them?

=LWFS post_id=8984 time=1556860506 user_id=84] Was just reminded of how much I really did enjoy this while rehashing it with a co-worker. So funny and fun, especially in that thar middle. Hulk and the stairs, some Ant-Man or other's bladder control issues, the very idea of a Time Heist... it's just four-color joy in motion, really. =41Forever post_id=8397 time=1556413546 user_id=69]We like Hawkeye, the under-appreciated Avenger.

What does a Beatles farce look like with only one Beatle. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTRhNDYwZTYtMzQ5Ni00YTNhLWFjOGUtZjFmMmUyNjQyMDM1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjE5MjUyOTM@._V1_UY1200_CR85,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg> Most of the remade Beatles and Wings tracks are distinctly lesser versions but some are interesting alternatives. But originals like "Ballroom Dancing" and "Wanderlust" are great additions to the McCanon. On the other hand, you can get them on the Tug of War album and pass on the rest of this as filler, but it's still filler that eclipses the film.

Less than Zero is a rare movie whose title is also the rating I would give it.

An excellent entry. Isn't really a collection of pop songs, but certainly a few are there among Queen's hard-rock underscoring. A more difficult call to make is whether it is truly an awful movie. Rather than being a bore, it certainly works despite itself as a goofy farce (the world is saved by a New York Jet, for God's sake), although it's hard to say whether it would even be embraceable as camp without Queen to move things along.

The Dick Dale-Stevie Ray Vaughn video posted in the NBF made me think of Back to The Beach and how, while the soundtrack is a little bit uneven, it's mission of using contemporary-retro artists to revisit the surf era of the early sixties, it ends up being a delightfully perverse collection, and as much of a time capsule of 1987 as it was of 1962. The film, on the other hand, is a boring attempt to cash in on a joke the filmmakers themselves don't seem to get. The main appeal outside of the soundtrack is to see young Lori Loughlin make her bikini-clad debut and think, "Wow, there goes a big-time future felon. I wonder if she was already a criminal when she made this film." "Catch a Ride" (Eddie Money) "Pipeline" (Stevie Ray Vaughan & Dick Dale) "Sign of Love" ('Til Tuesday) "Absolute Perfection" (Private Domain) "Surfin' Bird" (Pee-Wee Herman) "Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun" (Marti Jones) "Jamaica Ska" (Annette Funicello & Fishbone) "Wipe Out" (Herbie Hancock, featuring Dweezil Zappa and Terry Bozzio) "California Sun" (Frankie Avalon) "Wooly Bully" (Dave Edmunds) Yeah, the Avalon Track is neither here nor there, and Annette probably subtracts more from Fishbone than she brings, and the production on the Marti Jones track totally isn't her sound, but still, there's some keepers there in an absolute shit show of a film. I also want to nominate Empire Records for being the best cinematic collection of 90s power pop this side of So I Married an Axe-Murderer, while (unlike SIMaAM) being an irredeemable abomination of a film. There's probably a scientific way of measuring this, compare the soundtrack's collective rating with the film's collective rating at two authoritative sites. But this doesn't really work with Back to the Beach as the film inexplicably gets a 5.8 rating at IMDB and a 71% Critics' Score and 63% Audience Score at Rotten Tomatoes, while I remember the film as raw sewage, even by the lowly standards of TBS hangover fare that it ended up being. Folks must be watching with their ears. What do you think of when you think of Bad Film with a Good Soundtrack? Our phone lines are open. Give us a call. [YOUTUBE]UAJEbuTBodI[/YOUTUBE]

Two nines and a ten so far.

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BTW, YoungerPooper loved Gwen and Miles (AND Spider-Ham), and her birthday just came and went... Turns out that it's a lot harder than you may think to find a non-bootleg Spider-Gwen replica hoodie. It's like the girls-don't-buy-stuff Rey-merchandise deficit all over again. My friend Mike the Marvel merch nut says https://www.hottopic.com/theme?q=spider%20gwen%20merchandise&fbclid=IwAR1DzzeOaLi9L3P__1KtrnRs32N7SNWeXXbC6-fHt5Fd3C1XN1Rs3EGq6kMHot Topic should be stocked up. PS: Your daughter IS a spider-being.

Color-by-number script missing more than a few numbers. I don't get how it escaped development so underwritten. Plus, the 90s references seem to have come from somebody that didn't really remember the 90s too well. Also, there hasn't been a big movie that so shamelessly offered itself as a military recruitment tool since Top Gun.

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I didn't see it. And so, while I have no particular stake in a host vs. a non-host, I think it's amazing that Hollywood has thrown up its hands in trying to figure out which entertainer people might find entertaining. I mean, what was going on around the table the year they came up with Alec Baldwin?