Of course, there's no Igor in James Whale's FRANKENSTEIN and BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, either. In the first film in the Universal series, Henry Frankenstein (for some reason, the first names of the Monster's creator and his best friend are switched from the novel) has a sadistic and moronic hunchbacked lab assistant and…

That's interesting. John Ford apparently knew Earp (and as TOMBSTONE notes, Tom Mix wept at his funeral), although of course MY DARLING CLEMENTINE bears very little resemblance to history.

That description doesn't fit many of the movies on this list, including the first two. CHALLENGE OF THE MASTERS, for instance, has no bad guys and no fatalities. It begins as a romantic comedy about the conflicting egos and cultural misunderstandings of a a rich aristocratic kung fu master and his new Japanese…

Maris is awesome. I met her and Erica Henderson and Joe Quinones two years ago at Free Comic Book day at Geeksboro in Greensboro, NC, where the owner was having a pig picking for pro guests at Acme Comics next door. It was basically a min-convention with really good whole slow-roasted hog.

The short story, "Wendy Darling, RFC" by R. Gracia y Robertson has the following exchange between the adult Wendy and her WW1 pilot lover:

Interestingly, Barrie apparently wrote Hook as a double role for the ACTRESS who played Mrs. Darling. The actor playing Mr. Darling objected, and was given the role instead. This began the tradition of portly visibly aging Captain Hooks. Barrie meant for him to be more dashing and attractive.

Him being American (and so blond) threw me at first, but the kid won me over.

It has quite a bit to do with the original work, although ultimately it's not as dark. I don't know about the play, but Barrie's novel makes it clear that Peter switches sides and joins the pirates occasionally, to thin out the ranks of the Lost Boys by killing some of them in battle.

Isaacs is wonderful in this, much better than Hoffman and the best Hook I've ever seen (I do wish Boris Karloff's performance had been filmed). The film is a terrific adaptation that catches the melancholy other versions leave out. Fuck the millennial hoopleheads who want to talk about HOOK instead.

I really want to see this, although I wish the music were better. Cantopop can be treacly, of course, but there are some great songs in classic Hong Kong movies — I love the one that Sally Yeh sings on the soundtrack of Tsui Hark's masterpiece PEKING OPERA BLUES when Yeh, Brigitte Lin and Cherie Chung embrace in the…

The film losed quite a bit of steam when it gets to DC (something I'm told by a lbirarian friend is also true of th novel), but it's gorgeous and sometimes affecting, and Helena Bonham Carter is wonderful in it.

There's some speculation that Harvey dumped the film in revenge for Jeunet not giving him final cut. As extreme as that sounds, he's been accused of doing that before.

I was actually thinking more about the Dark Overlord, myself, but I'm not terribly bothered by the fall. Most high falls in older movies look "fake", whether they're done with dummies or Hitchockian rear projection, but I was used to it by the time I was a kid. The ED209 and the practical gore effects and the…

Because a friend of mine who shared this on Facebook said it better than I could, I'm just going to quote him. I apologize if he's already said some version of this somewhere in this thread. Tecnnically, Phil Tippett's Dark Overlord is Go-Motion a la his masterful Vermithrax from DRAGONSLAYER (still the best movie…

Yes, but when I watch the work of Raimi, Waters or even Uncle Lloyd, I never feel like I'm watching films made by smug assholes for smug assholes whom I want to punch twice in the face and once in the taint.

I refuse to watch any of that shit, having seen quite enough of it in theaters (if one includes the tiny one at Geeksboro).

I've defended the better AV Club writers before from get-off-my-lawners who claim you're all twatnabulous hipster-kid hoopleheads. Gee, thanks for giving them such a strong argument to use against me in this piece, which reads like an Onion satire of the kind of smug juvenalia they think you're all guilty of.

Wasn't Dixon the one who was appearing on Limbaugh and FOX last year, claiming that Evil Liberals had made comics too grim-n-gritty and killed all the fun?

Plus, his hair is just gross.

Dammit, those are great. The one about Lana Turner, Johnny Stompanato and Sean Connery was the best documented account I've ever read, citing lots of press from the time. I'd always read that Stompanato was slapping Turner around on the set and Connery walked up and decked him without knowing who he was.