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It should be disqualified on a technicality, the chosen scene probably wasn't shot in 2014.

I would definitely have taken that scene from Modern Times, as that is one of the most memorable Tramp scenes for me (along with the bread dance).

Die Hard is worthy for '88, I'd have gone for the jump off the roof with FBI helicopter explosion.

Good point.

I'd have gone for the initial Bond reveal after he says "Bond, James Bond" for the first time in Dr No.

While I disagree that that's the only memorable thing about M:I (exploding water tank is up there and Eurostar helicopter scene), by virtue of you saying that's the only scene that stands doesn't that make it iconic?

Is it lazy/offensive of me to think "take something from a Mel Brooks movie"?

Not wishing to be a traitor to my race, I'd still take a scene from Toy Story to represent 1995, even over the great Pulp Fiction.

I'm not even that well versed in US cinema being from UK, just that scene popped into my head as something fairly familiar (iconic may be a stretch).

As a black man I'm sad that we aren't listing examples of Indians, Chinese, Japanese, native Americans or other racial denominations.

On reflection and slightly contradicting what I wrote above, maybe there should have been some Busby Berkley stuff, Jimmy Cagney, Laurel & Hardy (Way Out West?), West Side Story street dance fight, the Indy clip should have been him running from the boulder, Citizen Kane the snow globe dropping to the floor - to name…

Joking aside, I liked it.

The good thing about Red Skull is that you just need to do someone looks good with red latex mask. While Hugo was good as Johann, I don't think the role is impossible to recast. Certainly less jarring (though ultimately for the better) than the two different Rhodey's.

I know they have different power sets, but I can see producers thinking "that guy shocks things kinda like Electro shoots electricity, we've already done that."

I always thought Spot was considered one of Spidey's cheesier rogues (like Hypno Hustler).

I think the signs are good for Suicide Squad, so hopefully that will encourage the studios to think about the more non-standard looking villains for their upcoming superhero flicks.

I still hold out hope that Red Skull will re-materialise in the modern day world (possibly during Infinity War). I think he could easily fit into a 21st Century setting, especially with the way things are going in current politics across both sides of the Atlantic.

Way more than the uninteresting (for me) 'why are they using Peter and not Miles' arguments that are springing up around this, I would gladly never see the Green Goblin in another Spider-Man movie or at least for 10 years.

JK will be brilliant, because he generally is in anything he does. I think he was the best thing in the completely pointless Terminator remake/sequel thing that was out last year.