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  1. 33 minutes ago, slothian said:

    Watchmen (theatrical/non-cut version) vs Spider-Man

    School of Rock vs Guardians of the Galaxy

    Hellraiser vs Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

    Blade vs The Mask

    Casino Royale (2006) vs On Her Majesty's Secret Service

    Spider-Man, School of Rock, (never seen a Hellraiser but Phantasm's almost certainly better) Blade (I think...?), and Casino Royale (though it's a close one).

    4 minutes ago, slothian said:

    Two more!

    Se7en vs Fight Club

    Batman Begins vs Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

    Se7en and Return of the Joker (another close one).

  2. If your podcast is meant to explore actors’ ranges, then either Coming to America or The Nutty Professor is a must (just as Austin Powers was for Mike Myers). Unless you really want to cover Norbit….

    By all accounts (including @dc20willsave’s, IIRC), he was brilliant in DreamGirls and was robbed at the Oscars that year.

    I caught about half of the first Beverly Hills Cop last year. Not only was it one of his first major roles, but he’s genuinely good and fairly restrained in it (or at least the parts I saw).

  3. In light of Channel 37's latest episode, what some of the worst directorial debuts in film history -- specifically from directors who went on do better things, rather than ones who were always terrible (e.g. Uwe Boll) or whose directorial career never amounted to much (Simon Kinburg's, most likely)?

    The only one I can think of at the moment is The Sword in the Sword (Wolfgang Reitherman), but I know there are more (apart from Wes Craven and one alluded to in the Best directorial debuts thread).

  4. On 11/20/2022 at 1:55 PM, dc20willsave said:

    Sound of Music. It's not even close.

    Not for my Flickchart it wasn't. I love and grew up with both, but Sound of Music doesn't the same economy of storytelling (to paraphrase Tom) or as good a hot-to-miss ratio with its songs as Jungle Book (lest we forget The Lonely Goatherd). That said, Sound of Music has Christopher Plummer ripping up the Nazi flag and that's hard to beat.

    The Aristocats vs. Batman Returns

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    I really dislike both.

     

  5. On 10/20/2022 at 1:48 PM, slothian said:

    The original. The live action film has a phenomenal cast, but if you strip it back/notice the credits, it's simply a 90s John Hughes film using the 101 Dalmations story. By which I mean adult antagonists consistently humiliated by children/animals. Does Cruella de Vil need to be dropped in a vat of molasses? Hardly. But that's the kind of thing you get in the Home Alone films, Dennis the Menace, Baby's Day Out....

    On 10/22/2022 at 10:24 AM, dc20willsave said:

    As Iconic as Glenn Close is as Cruella DeVil, it's always going to be the original for me also.

    My thoughts on the original will be in Episode 14, but I'm inclined to agree with both of you. That said, I'd love it be a covered if HAA! ever did a Glenn Close month. She chews the scenery like a starving shark that stumbled upon a whale carcass and she actually got herself covered in molasses and baked into a cake in its sequel, rather than having a stuntperson or CG double get subjected to it her place. Also, unlike most John Hughes I know of, there are no annoying teenagers.