Reverend Jax

I have no problem wiht Tobey McGuire as Spidey. My problems with Affleck are follows: It's not that he's terrible, because I would be lying if I said I hated or even disliked everything he's been in, but for a superhero role, one which viewers are familar with, teh requirements and expectations are higher. If Affleck goes and does a romantic comedy (shouldn't take TOO much imagination to picture him doing that) then he was room to work with the character and he can not be exactly who the screenwriter or director wanted him to be, and we as an audience won't care. But playing a character we already know, he has to nail it. Plus, I've already seen him in so many other things, I can't picture him as DareDevil, I'll just be seeing a Bartalbe or a Boston Genius' best friend or some damn whiny WWII soldier. Toey McGuire I haven't seen much elsewhere (just Pleasantville) and lets face it, he has Peter Parker written all over him. He doesn't seem to have Spidey's unique sense of humor and cocky backtalk, but anyone who has read Spidey in depth knows that Peter Parker's the deeper more important character to the story than his alter-ego as Spider-Man. Not saying he couldn't screw it up, but from all the trailer and info out there now, it is not a forgone conclusion. It's still very much in the air. I also had no problem with Snipes as Blade, at least in the first one, I haven't seen the second one yet. I need one of those whatcamacallits...money.

Well MAYBE I will! What's it about anyway?

I am, and it sounds more like a rewriting and farfethced story-telling just to bring back a popular character. Anyone else saw LOTR and kept hearing "...Mister Anderson..." in the scenes with the elf king?

I voted for West, but if he was a choice, I would have voted for the only man to do Batman justice off the comic pages: Kevin Conroy, the voice of Batman in all the 90's animated series. Ask me who my favorite Joker is. I'll give you a clue, it's the same as my choice for best Luke Skywalker ;)

Everyone missed that Juanbe put Hotel California on an 80's list. Hotel California was '76. As i can always find some way to bring it up, I'm sure anyone who's read anything else I've posted knows I'm going to bring Rush in to this. Now I prefer 70's Rush, but it's all sooo good. Other's include the Police, U2, REM, the Cars, Prince, Tom Petty, and the B-52's.

Did anyone see the simpsons a few weeks ago with the return of Artie Ziff where Homer says "...and no funny stuff, and by funny stuff I mean: hand-holding, goo eyes, misdirected woo, which is pretty much any John Woo film..." I busted up laughing.

Ben Affleck = DareDevil, it hurts just thinking it. Worse than Val Kilmer as Batman. Almost.

Thanks alot! Now I have to clean up the drool from my keyboard!

I've heard of it. It's on the perpetual movie-to-see list in my head. I think she was in Kalifornia too, which was supposed to be good too.

Some classics: Assablanca No Pants in Arabia The Wizard of Ass Cum with the wind Bridge over the River Cum Sit-On-My Kane Bend-Hur Those were the good old days, the golden age of porn...

Reese Witherspoon's a fine actress and everything, but what she has really impressed me with is her ability to pick good roles. I was so impressed, i made it a policy to see everything she does becasue I have faith in her ability to chose a script to work with. So when Legally Blonde came out, I went to see a movie that I would have normally passed up. I was cute and pretty funny, by no means an Election or Pleantville or Cruel Intentions, but not bad either.

I think there's good music out there in any genre, we just live in time where it's not in the mainstream. If you look for stuff, you can find what you're looking for. I used to think Rap and Hip-hop was all devoid of intelligence or significant meaning. But that's only because since I'm not into the hip-hop scene, i only see the mainstream stuff. The imiation of good hip-hop. I listen to a few things by De La Soul and the Roots (who actually play instrumental without DJ and sampling, that's big points in my books), although with a few older Public Enemy tunes and although it's still not my thing, I no longer have that lake of respect for the genre, just for the record company and 'studio gansters' with half-naked women and bentleys and all the platinum jewelry in their videos. And I understand how people who aren't into rock nowadays can not like it based solely on the mainstream rock scene.

At the end of Live's Throwing Copper, 'Horse' is damn good track, and coming from a Cuban family, I can truely appriciate the line "It's the middle of the night and you're here, playing dominoes and drinking beer". That's sums it all up for me

Neil Peart isn't underrated among drummers, but he is in the general public, my pick for most underrated is Mitch Mitchell of The Jimi Hendrix Experience (listen carefully the drumming in 'Fire' and try to disagree with me).

John Entwistle is a fabluous bassist, but underrated he is not. On an interest side-note, ever notice how some of the greatest bands have bassist as lead singers? The Beatles, Waters' Pink Floyd, The Police and of course Rush. What other ones are there out there?

My favs are 'Babe, You Know I'm Gonna Leave You', 'The Battle Of Evermore', 'When The Levee Breaks' (because it make me feel like a cowboy walking in slow motion, don't know why, but it does), 'Dazed And Confused', 'Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid', and I better stop now before I go through half their discography.

Lots of you guys complain here don't understand that the one requirement for nomination that was a founding principle for the RNR Hall of Fame is that it has to hav ebeen 25 years since the preformer's debut was release. That why many of the bands you mentions haven't been entered. This was the first year Tom Petty was eligible. It's a big honor to be inducted the first year you're eligible. BLack Sabbath HAS been elible for almost 10 years, so that is an outrage. This was the first year that the '77 punks were eligible, but the Sex Pistols has made it very public that they will refuse any nomination (being all anti-astablishment). The Hall of Fame has be very reluctant to induct progressive bands like Jethro Tull, Styx, and Rush. I forgot if Yes got in, but I don't think so. I'd like to think Metallica will make it in in 2006 (my memory is kinda sketchy but i think 'Kill Em All' was a '81 release), but If Black Sabbath isn't in yet who knows. I'm sure the Police are in next year. Now, based on that, anyone else have some complaints that are reasonable?

I'm not going to be able to come up with 15, but here goes, in no particular order... 1. Tenacious D - Tenacious D 2. Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulance 3. Symphony X - V 4. Rush - Vapor Trails (yet to be releasse, but I've heard the whole thing, so it counts) 5. Incubus - Morning View 6. Live - V 7. ughhh...ummm...you know...stuff.... Can't think of anything else. Pumpkins greatest hit's left out because i felt the spirit of the list eliminated compilations.

damn i see some good choices and good taste in music here. Dream Theater's title track to their latest installment, 'Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulance', has still left me shaking from when i first heard it months ago . I'm a sucker for a really long song anyway, but 6DOIN really delivers. In my dictoinary, this will be an example under the listing of 'tour de force'. If anyone hasn't heard it and is interested in giving it a listen via download, make sure to get the full 42 minute version (you hear me, 42), because it is a suite and you might only get one of it's componant parts. Other defining songs include S&G's 'Sounds Of Silence', Queen's 'Somebody To Love', the Beatles' 'Across The Universe', Rush's 'Dreamline', Pearl Jam's 'Black', REM's 'Everybody Hurts' and all the songs off the Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds'.

John Petrucci of Dream Theater and Michael Romeo of Symphony X just blow mind with the things they can do with 6 strings and a pick.

All depend on whether it a score soundtrack (star wars, lord of the rings, etc), or a collection of songs from other artists (pulp fiction, i am sam). Those are two very different animals. I don't like when a movie seems to just get a bunch of popular songs or new songs by popular artists and throws a 15 minute clip of it in the movie when it doesn't seem to fit in or make any sense just to put it on the soundtrack. I think teen movies are most guilty (American Pie comes to mind at times). I really like it when the songs add to the scene and really give them a new dimension, like Tarentino films do. Anybody who see's the "Stuck in the Middle with You" scene will remember it forever, and it's because of the juxtaposition of the song (...clowns to the left od me, jokers to the right, here i am...hehehe). I like the way Good Vibrations was used in Vanilla Sky in the same way too.

I thought and thought and the only one i could think of that wasn't previously mentioned is Toy Story 2. That just outdid the original on all planes, and the first one was very good to begin with. I don't see hope for a Toy Story 3 because one of the cast members died (either the one who did Ham, Mr Potato Head, or Rex, I forget).

The fact that he has gone unmentioned is proof he is underrated. Not just for skill, but for versitillity, I nominatee Frank Zappa for all-time king of underrated guitar wanker.

I pretty much agree with everything you had to say. Fight Club is my all-time favorite movie and I wsa excited to see and new Fincher flick, even though he has had moments of...eh well...Alien 3, we'll leave it at that. I really didn't understand the part where :0 (warning, warning, spoiler ahead, keep reading from next smilie) Jodie Foster wouldn't clue the cop at the door in on teh situation. It seemed to me that he gave her a perfect oppurtunity. Without the audio coming in to the panic room, it should have been safe. I must have missed something. I thought maybe she wanted to kill them, not have them arrested, but that didn't make sense for me at the end. :0 Other than that little confusion, I was very happy with the movie. Jodie Foster sure can choose her roles.

1. Fight Club 2. Star Wars Trilogy 3. 12 Monkeys 4. Election 5. Braveheart 6. Pink Floyd The Wall 7. Being John Malcovich 8. American Beauty 9. Kevin Smith's New Jersey Saga (all five flims, even Mallrats) 10. Vanilla Sky So many runner-ups, i can't begin to be fair to them all by listing them all.