If Darabont does anything, he should do Preacher, great comic and I beleive he could really do it justice.  I am reading the Dark Tower now and its not my favorite Stephen King novel, none of the Dark Tower series have been great.  If any King novel deserves a movie, I'd say his doppleganger Richard Bachman's novel The Regulators, which was better than Desperation, which I also loved or and I don't know if you've read it yet, but a couple of his short stories from Full Dark, No Stars were great. I could see Darabont directing an adaptation of 1922 or Fair Extension, hell maybe even Big Driver.

I enjoyed both Fright Nights when I was a kid, as well as Silver Bullet, which is similar to Fright Night, only more compelling because the kid is in a wheelchair.  The concepts about Fright Night I liked best were Peter Vincent 's campiness and Jerry really seemed like a nice guy, nobody wanted to beleive he was a vampire.  Farrel seems creepy from the get go and the guy playing Vincent doesn't seem campy enough.  I also liked that the kids already had this fascination with horror movies.  I'll see it because I like when vampires in vampire movies are actually the "bad guys" and not some ancient old dude swooning over a teenage girl. I haven't seen two minutes of any twilight movie despite my girlfriend begging me to do so, sorry at some point you have to be a man, and a man should have principles, and stand by them.

They shouldn't shoot in Japan, they should re-write the script completely ignoring the first movie or have Logan waking up with Proffesor X reading his mind or he was having a bad dream.  Wolverine's origin in the comics has been changed a dozen times, why not in the movies as well.  The current origin story is good, with Daken, Cyber, Sabretooth and others all being manipulated by Romulus.  Also what Logan bad guy is cooler than Cyber and Omega Red?  Jackman is not a bad Wolverine, for those complaining, they could've picked Danny DeVito.  Short enough for you? They didn't make comic book movies for comic fans, but for broader audience, it sucks, but Marvel/Fox/Sony/Disney are businesses whose main goal is to make money.  As far as the short list goes, Fuqua is good and I'd like to see him try.  If I had my choice though, I'd go with Clint Eastwood, he wouldn't do it, but given his experience with gritty performances and how to look bad ass by just staring at people, I'm sure he could direct Jackman to emulate him a bit.  Hell I wouldn't mind seeing Eastwood as an older Logan, I know he's too tall, but who fucking cares, his on-screen charisma and personality resemble Logans.  Someone mentioned Keitel as Wolverine and I could have seen that in the 90's, but when I imagined the X-Men movies getting made when I was a kid....Bruce Willis as Wolverine and Pat Stewart as Professor X...but even as a kid I thought the first movie should only have Angel, Cyclops, Jean, Beast, and Iceman with Picard leading the way.

I liked the Hangover, but didn't over-react by calling it the funniest movie ever, I only hold Step Brothers in that high regard.  I know people will disagree, but I like to think I know a thing or two about comedies. The reviews are correct about the movie re-hashing almost scene for scene the original movie.  However, it was actually funnier than the original.  It will make a ton of money, the theatre was sold out on a Thursday night here, may not be surprising to most, but I live in a small Texas town with a population of about 100,000.  If you're a movie snob like most critics, you won't see this movie, if you're someone who likes to laugh....and you will...then go see it.

I liked most of these movies, I didn' expect to see BTILC on this list, I guess I am not the only one who has some sense of great cinema.  I agree InnerSanctum, Ebert usually picks movies that the often stupid Oscar commitee will like.  He'll pan a great piece of Americana for a subtitled French movie about existentialist philosophy.  I think criticism shoulde be genre based, I am not going to complain about the lack of action in Pride and Prejudice nor will I say that the comedic stylings of Will Ferrel lacks emotional range. I am not a fan of RHPS, but I assume it's akin to fans of Python, those who aren't just don't get it, so I guess I am in the "don't get it crowd" with RHPS. Loved Clue, Tim Curry had a wide range of roles in the 80's, maybe thats a testament to the man's underaprecciated genius...Legend, RHPS, Clue...and in almost every movie his role is unforgettable.  Russel is also underappreciated for his comedic timing and some of his action movies...Tombstone was great, Used Cars was funny, he was the voice of copper in the Disney movie the Fox and the Hound, he's done sci-fi with stargate and soldier, I like Overboard and Capt. Ron as well.  I don't think either of these actors have ever received their due.

The reviewer made this sound better than it was, I was pissed I wasted money to see this, I knew better, but I was bored and the movie I wanted to see was not playing in any theaters nearby.  Paul Bettany is a crappy lead, the plot was predicatble and so was the dialogue, no character building.  I blame bad directing for some of it and maybe bad casting. It's a campy movie, people in the theatre were laughing at lines and sequences that were meant to be serious.  The three bankable actors were great as expected, plummer, urban, and dourif.  I was sitting beside two black people, they never said a word the entire movie, that's not good because they talked all during the previews for X-Men, which looks better everytime I see a preview.

Why don't we argue about something that matters?  For example: Who played the best Wyatt Earp? Costner, Russel, Lancaster, Flyn, Fonda, Stewart, or Garner?  Who played the best Bruce Banner/Incredible Hulk? Norton, Bana, Bixby, Ferrigno, or CGI?

Future arguments will include: Best Prof. X? Best Magneto? Best Spider-Man? Best Capt. America? Best Superman?

Point being is these things will never end as long as Hollywood keeps recycling their material. I would like to see a college study that links which of these characters you prefer to your personality type or religion.  If you like Nicholson you're a type B Jew, Ledger is for sociopathic individuals who worship talking rabbits...and so on.

I have been an x-men comics fan for years, I even enjoyed X-Force, X-Factor, and other off-shoots of the original cast of the original X-men.  I understand the desire to stick more to the original story arc, with the original X-men from the 60's, however that cast has changed multiple times in the comics, why cant it change in the movies.  Age of Apocalypse, House of M, the Phoenix Saga, are all examples of Marvel trying to re-write the X-men or the Marvel Universe.  I distrust Bryan Singer, not because he's a homosexual, but because he's ruined what could have and should have been a great franchise.  It's not because he didn't follow the comics to a t, but because there wasn't enough character development, and if he loved the characters, the way most fans do, he would have tried harder to stay true to them not the story lines in the comics.  He got Wolverine and Jean Grey right, but he whiffed on so many others, Storm, Iceman, Nightcrawler, Juggernaut.  I will see the movie, because it does look entertaining, and watch it with an open mind, but if they screw this one up never again.

I like most of King's books, but my favorite so far is The Regulators.  I know they made Desperation, but it was weak.  The Regulators is the better of those two books and should be considered, Tak is the best villian King has ever written.  On the subject of The Stand, I don't think it can be done in one movie, and I assume that neither does anyone else.  That's common sense.  A tv mini-series could be done and done well.  The Walking Dead is a great example, as long as they keep The Stand off of the major networks they could do it some justice.

Isn't western a genre? I liked him the most in The Wild Bunch. I love that movie, one of the best westerns out there.  I hope they don't try to remake it, because it is good the way it is.  The violence is great by modern standards.  I can still watch that movie and not get bored.