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Suddenly I have a refreshing mint flavor.

10 years already…
"Maybe Jurassic Park 4 will bring in Lem Dobbs to pen a film in which Peter Falk, Sam Rockwell, and Martha Plimpton spend 90 minutes running in terror from a pack of raptors."
Sadly, the filmmakers have waited too long. Hard to believe it's actually been 10 years since this thing occupied a pleasant

I hate Puff Daddy
Stop giving him attention. The Godzilla soundtrack album had many other songs, pick something no one's bothered to remember for 13 years next time. Just as a surprise. If surprises are too difficult, go with Blue Oyster Cult's song.

Barely any John Carradine mention…
I know he didn't say much (maybe Carradine was uncomfortable doing a German accent) but the scene in the Underground tunnel where he and Pidgeon fight it out is worth remembering.
Then again, you gave great kudos to George Sanders. As is only natural. This and Fury were what

90's Gamera vs. American Godzilla?
No contest, 90's Gamera wins. These three movies (the article makes me think only the first of them was covered here) were surprisingly good, especially for kaiju lovers. Naturally it's been a few years since I watched them so the details are escaping me, but as someone whose only

@ Adam K:
Yes, Man With the Golden Arm is pretty stagy. Thing is, I didn't mind too much. It could've been better, but seeing Sinatra in that stage where he'd actually let a director boss him around instead of doing the 'one or two takes and I'm done' crap is quite nice. Plus, I felt really lousy when I watched the

Mrs. Miniver holds up really well, at least I thought so. Part of that may be William Wyler's great direction.
Anyway, some more.
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. Jodie Foster's other 1976 movie might suffer by comparison with the one she's known for, but only here will Martin Sheen be a child molester trying

Ten years ago, in a junior college film class, I saw Masculine/Feminine. I hated it with a fiery passion that has barely ebbed in the intervening decade, and will not recant that view even after the couple of thousand movies I've seen since. Some of the details have faded from my mind, but I learned from that

Lemme think here…
The Glass Key. Not a GREAT Dashiell Hammett adaptation, but it's pretty darn good even so, and anytime Alan Ladd gets severely beaten by William Bendix the result must be seen.
The Hurricane. Good luck even finding this, but it's a John Ford disaster movie from 1938 in which John Carradine runs a

Lemme think here…
The 1976 King Kong. It has a LOT of problems (Jessica Lange acts like a bubblebrain most of the time, the jungle is damned boring, Kong doesn't get much to do, if it wasn't for being played by Jeff Bridges the lead would also be a bubblebrain, and a lot of the dialogue is completely ludicrous along

What, no votes for Dragon Ball/Z/GT? If you're looking for sheer quantity to fill out an AV Club writer's time, this is it. 508 episodes, 17 movies, and a few TV specials to round it out - oh yeah, that'd suck up the time.
…There is the minor issue of the series not being consistently well-animated, full of posturing

Dang, my Scorsese viewings are limited
At the time of this writing I haven't seen any of these. Not even Goodfellas, which qualifies me as some kind of idiot, most likely. I've seen mostly more recent Scorsese, except Raging Bull and Taxi Driver.

Haven't Tried it Since 1998
I remember being dissatisfied at the time, though. Watching Godzilla movies every chance I got as a kid made me know quite a bit about the guy, and this movie stomps all over its inspiration. It says something when the human characters in something like Godzilla vs. Gigan are more

Does it count if I saw the Godfather in that odd VHS release that put the parts of the first and second movies into chronological order? That's how I saw it, back in the 90's, but I really need to see both of them in the intended sequence.
Apocalypse Now… well, I saw it on VHS around 10 years ago. Probably should've

Yep, pretty much nailed it
I watched both versions within a day of each other a couple of years ago. Carpenter's version struck me as somewhat problematic (though the scenes with an inexplicable fog rolling in WERE the best part), but I can at least remember it well now. This version … I"m wracking my brain… I

Waitaminute…
…it served as a solid reminder of how effective a well-crafted, unironic horror film can be.
Did we see the same movie? The original was better than THIS, but that's not saying much. Uninteresting characters, hackneyed situations, lousy script, PG-13 neutering - wait, that's both of them.
As for this, if

I think you're talking about Splatterhouse? I've never played any of them because the eBay prices are surprisingly high (when most Genesis games can be obtained for under $5, these stay close to $50) but there can't be many other series that involve putting a hockey mask-looking thing onto a guy's face to obtain the

Ah, SNL movies
Oddly enough, I've skipped all of them I can think of, save The Blues Brothers and both Wayne's World titles. Reviews like this certainly don't inspire me to go back and revisit them, either.
Oh wait, I think I saw Coneheads. I have only vague memories, and the age of them means they wouldn't govern

Pinocchio… nah, I watched that on Friday night. As good now as it (presumably) was 71 years ago though. I can't think of any animation sequence underwater that predates it, too.
Sleeper? Yeah, that was just yesterday. How time flies. Back when Woody Allen was content to just make a pretty funny movie and did a

Maleficent
Really, she makes this all worthwhile. The villains and villainesses of Disney movies are sometimes more charismatic than the protagonists, but she actually called on the powers of Hell (in 1959) in a movie made by the Mouse House. I never thought of her as Joan Crawford-like until I saw that line though…