Harry's monologue confession to Sally during the countdown is perfect. Would that more people be this honest with the people they say they care about.

Was it the studio or was it Ivan Reitman (director)? In every interview I've seen with Reitman over the years he has said he (not the studio) suggested to Aykroyd that the story was way too big and would be unfilmable due to the exorbitant cost, and he suggested making it a smaller, going-into-business story set in present day to make it feasible (and also to help with the comedy). He also suggested bringing in Harold Ramis to help Aykroyd with the re-write and to Aykroyd's credit he readily agreed. It also made it a no brainer to cast Ramis as a Ghostbuster (since Eddie Murphy turned it down to do Beverly Hills Cop instead). Ramis was used to writing for Bill Murray, who they were thinking of asking to replace John Belushi (who died after Aykroyd had written the first treatment), and Ramis and Murray were friends and had already worked together on screen successfully once before in Stripes.

Rogue One (2016). The first cut reportedly was a mess. Original director was fired. Ron Howard Someone else was brought in as a replacement. They re-wrote and re-shot about half the movie.

There are some great scenes in the original trailer that are not in the movie as a result, and that sucks, but I think we can all agree that the movie came out awesome regardless.

Edit: Fixed. Same result, though.

Superman (1978)
Superman II (1980)

Excellent movie. J.K. Simmons won an Oscar for this for a reason.

Movie: Top Gun: Maverick (2022). The original was a fun movie with a thin plot. Pete Mitchell a.k.a. Maverick is a much more interesting character three decades later. He's coming to terms with the impending end of his very protracted adolescence / young adulthood and he has some regrets. For me, his rekindled relationship with Penny Benjamin is the best thing in the film. Finding love later in life can be complicated for a number of reasons. They handled this very, very well.

I saw it in the theater three times and have watched it three times at home now as well. It is very, very rewatchable for me. I get it if young people don't get what the big deal is, but there is more to this movie than just nostalgia for nostalgia's sake.

TV: Currently watching a four-part NetFlix documentary called Pepsi, Where's My Jet? and it's a hoot. I remember the ad campaign in the mid '90s and this case making the news sometime later.

Did he tell you about his small dick yet?

If I'm not mistaken, Julie Delpy improvised that scene and ad-libbed that line. Linklater liked it so much he made it the ending.

As opposed to what? These are comic book superheros. It's ALL made up and ridiculous. That's the point. Everything OP mentioned was made up... just like everything in the comic books, even the characters themselves, most of which are mutants or aliens, Batman notwithstanding.

Superman and Superman II have better written (and better acted) characters than most superhero movies, I'd say.

> Superman II (1980) is ridiculous

You misspelled "awesome."

> Freddy vs Jason

I still remember seeing the trailer for the first time in a theater, ahead of some movie I don't remember. At the end of it when the title card was shown and the trailer narrator said those words there was quite a reaction from the crowd. It wasn't quite laughing; it was more like a simultaneous laugh of astonishment, holy-fuck-I-have-to-see-this reaction. I think people were genuinely impressed just by the balls of the idea.

I know the movie had script challenges and it has some problems but man is this movie still a blast. I was 31 when it came out, and had grown up on a steady diet of horror and slasher flicks. I literally grew up with Jason and Freddy, so I was all in. I was not disappointed.

Wonderland (2003)

My favorite movie of that decade, and it isn't even close.

I think Marlon Brando was the first, actually, to negotiate a payday that was earthshaking in the industry. In early 1975 Brando signed on to Superman: The Movie with a salary of $3.7 million and 11.75% of the box office gross profits, totaling $19 million. That was for five minutes of screen time. Those numbers may not seem huge but in the mid '70s, on an inflation-adjusted basis as compared to even 1989, they were massive. America was just about to come off the gold standard (May of that year), so the dollar had not yet begun to depreciate. While Nicholson's numbers for Batman were impressive the dollar by 1989 was already worth nowhere near as much as it was in the mid '70s.

Anyway, whether Brando or Nicholson made "more" is beside the point. Brando blew the doors off when it came to actor compensation. I don't recall another actor getting that kind of back-end deal until Nicholson for Batman, actually.