AFI TOP TEN OF 2004 — Page 2

The Azkaban film was the closest any of the films have gotten to the feel of the books. I found it pretty thrilling. The next film is the one I'm really hoping they do well.

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So true Priest. God, I hope we're not going to say the same thing about the Rent movie by that hack Columbus.

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I thought that Spiderman 2 easily had the best screenplay of any big budget superhero popcorn movie in decades

I actually think The Incredibles has by far the best screenplay for a superhero movie in recent memory.

Maybe I need to watch it again (I caught it on a plane), but I thought Spiderman 2 was inferior to the first installment. Besides my annoyance that they turned NYC into a Generic American City (what track on the MTA passes skyscrapers like that?), the character development and plot twists seemed very arbitrary and artificial - as if they were obligated to do something with these characters to fill in the time. I also think that Kirsten Dunst's MJ has become the most irritating superhero's damsel ever committed to celluloid.

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Updated On: 12/14/04 at 02:06 PM

Why didn't they include that "A Christmas Carol Musical" movie with Kelsey Grammer and Jason Alexander and the utterly brilliant Jennifer Love Hewitt? Cuz, like, that was, like THE GREATEST musical of the CENTURY!

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