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The next superhero who should have his or her own movie

  1. Dr. Strange
  2. Wonder Woman
  3. Captain Nice
  4. Sandman
  5. The Comedian
  6. The Elementals
  7. Aquaman
  8. Spaceman Spiff
  9. Nexus
  10. Herbie the Fat Fury
  11. Hawkeye

But only if Jeremy Renner gets to play him again.

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But only if [del]Jeremy Renner[/del]Alan Alda gets to play him again.

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Surgeon by day; drunken Groucho Marx imitator by night. It’s Hawkeye!

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The next superhero who should have his or her own movie

  1. Dr. Strange
  2. Wonder Woman
  3. Captain Nice
  4. Sandman
  5. The Comedian
  6. The Elementals
  7. Aquaman
  8. Spaceman Spiff
  9. Nexus
  10. Herbie the Fat Fury
  11. Hawkeye
  12. Elektra (a good movie this time!)
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The next superhero who should have his or her own movie

  1. Dr. Strange
  2. Wonder Woman
  3. Captain Nice
  4. Sandman
  5. The Comedian
  6. The Elementals
  7. Aquaman
  8. Spaceman Spiff
  9. Nexus
  10. Herbie the Fat Fury
  11. Hawkeye
  12. Elektra
  13. Nightspeed

My Champions RPG hero in college - a young British diplomat by day, a crimefighter by night; very fast, pretty strong.

Next category:

Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list)

  1. Dark City

Murdock, the hero, after being threatened and on the run throughout the movie, gets near-godlike powers, smites the bad guys, and has a quiet talk with his dream girl in the sunshine on Shell Beach. Perfect.

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Next category: Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list)

  1. Dark City
  2. Casablanca

Seriously?

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Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list)

  1. Dark City
  2. Casablanca
  3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

What happened to the boy who got everything he ever wanted? He lived happily ever after!

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Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list)

  1. Dark City
  2. Casablanca
  3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  4. Titanic

Sorry. But I thought the ending shots of Rose dying and going back to the Titanic, where she had the singular, most important experience of her entire life, was spot-on the best way to end the movie.

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Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list)

  1. Dark City
  2. Casablanca
  3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  4. Titanic
  5. The Blues Brothers

Dancing to the Jailhouse Rock

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Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list)

  1. Dark City
  2. Casablanca
  3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  4. Titanic
  5. The Blues Brothers
  6. Being There

If you’ve seen it, you understand. I can’t explain it, so I’ll just say how I thought it was the perfect choice, and then I’ll just quietly walk away.

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Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list)

  1. Dark City
  2. Casablanca
  3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  4. Titanic
  5. The Blues Brothers
  6. Being There
  7. Shawshank Redemption

Andy escapes, the Warden blows his brains out, Hadley is now a jailbird, and Red joins Andy on a Mexican beach.

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Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list)

  1. Dark City
  2. Casablanca
  3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  4. Titanic
  5. The Blues Brothers
  6. Being There
  7. Shawshank Redemption
  8. The Color Purple

It’s the last movie on Earth you’d expect to have happy endings all the way around, and the scene where the wind catches the African robes gets me every time

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Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list)

  1. Dark City
  2. Casablanca
  3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  4. Titanic
  5. The Blues Brothers
  6. Being There
  7. Shawshank Redemption
  8. The Color Purple
  9. Blazing Saddles

Where you headed, cowboy?
Nowhere special.
Nowhere special? I always wanted to go there.
Come on.

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Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list)

  1. Dark City
  2. Casablanca
  3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  4. Titanic
  5. The Blues Brothers
  6. Being There
  7. Shawshank Redemption
  8. The Color Purple
  9. Blazing Saddles
  10. The Wizard of Oz

It was just a dream after all. Or was it? Anyway Dorothy is safe and sound back in Kansas.

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But what about Toto?

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Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list)

  1. Dark City
  2. Casablanca
  3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  4. Titanic
  5. The Blues Brothers
  6. Being There
  7. Shawshank Redemption
  8. The Color Purple
  9. Blazing Saddles
  10. The Wizard of Oz
  11. A Fish Called Wanda

With or without the ‘afterwards’ they give on screen , e.g. Archie and Wanda having 17 children and opening a leper colony

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Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list)

  1. Dark City
  2. Casablanca
  3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  4. Titanic
  5. The Blues Brothers
  6. Being There
  7. Shawshank Redemption
  8. The Color Purple
  9. Blazing Saddles
  10. The Wizard of Oz
  11. A Fish Called Wanda
  12. Animal House

Enter the Deathmobile

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Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list)

  1. Dark City
  2. Casablanca
  3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  4. Titanic
  5. The Blues Brothers
  6. Being There
  7. Shawshank Redemption
  8. The Color Purple
  9. Blazing Saddles
  10. The Wizard of Oz
  11. A Fish Called Wanda
  12. Animal House
  13. Ghost

It seems a fairer and less ideologically bound afterlife than most.

Next up: Famous non-royal father/daughters

  1. Henry Fonda & Jane Fonda
    Clarification: instances in which father and daughter were each famous in their own right; Bill & Chelsea Clinton wouldn’t count, for instance, because Chelsea is really only famous for being Bill’s daughter.
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Famous non-royal father/daughters

  1. Henry Fonda & Jane Fonda
  2. Keith and Lily Allen

[Alright, famous in the UK anyway]

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Famous non-royal father/daughters

  1. Henry Fonda & Jane Fonda
  2. Keith and Lily Allen
  3. Steven Tyler and Liv Tyler