Re: [MOPO] 'Finding Neverland' Named Year's Top Film, 'Aviator' Second

2004-12-01 Thread Joseph H. Bonelli
Thanks for the info, David, and welcome back to the World of Portent Commentary! Nice to hear from you!  If anyone really cares I'm escping back to the world of the living by moving to New Orleans (banana republic, yea, but OH so much fun!) from Jackson, Ms.   Though most of these "10 best

Re: [MOPO] 'Finding Neverland' Named Year's Top Film, 'Aviator' Second

2004-12-01 Thread Craig Miller
The Matrix, while fully boarded as a comic book by its writer-director brothers, was not first published as a comic. It sprang full-blown upon the public as a movie. (Men In Black and The Road To Perdition, while perhaps not making your best of the year lists, are two films that frequently surpris

[MOPO] 'Finding Neverland' Named Year's Top Film, 'Aviator' Second

2004-12-01 Thread David Kusumoto
Crossed the wire today; for what it's worth, though it didn't make anyone's list, I had "Spider-Man 2" on my "best-of-2004" list, the first time in years a comic-book-based-super-hero-action film landed on my "best" list. I don't recall if "The Matrix" originated as a comic book before its 1999 fi