My favorite part about that story is how absolutely human Moore makes all the characters. The blind alien has a nice blend of excited yet also kinda suspicious attitude about the whole idea of being a superhero, the Guardians are allowed a little bit of good humor for once, and the Green Lantern in question (damned if…

It's a much different movie; same basic plot and similar character types, but Jordan made his own film (those are generally my favorite types of remakes, btw,) zippier and a little more lighthearted, but without losing the scuzzy underworld grime. You can watch "The Good Thief" without your affection for the original…

Nah, too squeaky clean. And their identities are public, so every little social or legal misstep would get plastered all over the various muckraking/celebrity rags in the city (or country.)

Shit, how'd I forget about "The Fly?"

I'm also a big fan of Neil Jordan's "The Good Thief" and Scorsese's "The Departed" (except for that dumb final shot.)

Yeah, but I think you have to have some kinda mutant power in order to be on the softball squad.

Well played.

Seriously, fuck that show.

Dead from all the speed they were clearly on for seven years.

Welcome back, sir. Can't wait to see what you've done with the place.

No question: I want to be part of Chris Claremont's 80s-era Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters.

While they pretty clearly inspired the Transporter series, those movies are unfortunately way less Hire/Ronin and way more Fast & Furious ridiculousness.

This is a good place to throw a shout-out to "Ronin's" corporate spiritual mini-sequels, the BMW "Hire" series from 2001. Short 5-minute commercials of re-fame Clive Owen driving people around in various states of panic turned out to be very hit-or-miss, but the hits were really something. Frankenheimer himself made…

Wow, that three-pack is 66% amazing. Good find.

I can't watch that "still sharp(e)" scene in Fellowship of the Ring without giggling.

Bean isn't so much the redshirt, it's just that his character in nearly every single movie is doomed. As I see it, he's the anti-Philip Baker Hall. When Hall shows up on screen, you know shit is about to get seriously real, and he's likely to dish out way more than he takes (hell, that rule even applied when he was on…

I'm not expecting the mad genius of the original series. I'm not expecting to blue myself. . I'm just hoping they're good enough that I don't do the George Michael "sad Charlie Brown walk"  after seeing the new episodes.

Damn, really? I was actually planning on commissioning a Raul sketch next time he came through Chicago.

"Some old, dying guy has offered to do me a favor by examining my unique ability to live forever. Surely he is a trustworthy ally with no ulterior motives, and these experiments will only be for my benefit!"

Did the movies do that, or was he supercharged in the comics before then? I always loved how you could tell how bad the X-Men's overall situation was by how much Claremont fucked up Wolverine. There was a solid two-year period (our time, not comic book time) when the entire team was in pieces (it was rare for even two…