DCML Digest Issue 15

[Don Rosa]

> From: "L. Schulte" <lschulte at sfstoledo.org>
> Subject: Forbidden Planet/King Kong Again!
> I would like to read what Mr. Rosa thinks of "King Kong", now that he has
> revealed that "Forbidden Planet" is his choice for greatest SF
> movie of all  time, which I tend to agree with.

Off topic? Well, maybe not, as my favorite movies certainly influence my
comics a great deal.
Back in the mid 70's I wrote down a list of my 300 all-time favorite movies.
This list has hardly changed an iota... perhaps some movies that were new at
the time have dropped a bit in my estimation; they seemed so great mostly
because there had not been any quality "fun" movies for about 15 years, and
I was more thankful for them than anything else. I refer to a few movies by
Spielberg and Lucas which I now feel have aspects that are as much annoying
as they are entertaining. Also, there are one or two movies on the list that
I was greatly enamored of before anyone else seemed to know they existed
(main example: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE), that have dropped a few points in my
current estimation only as a gut-level reaction to how *over* popular they
have become with people simply because (as regards IAWL) WTBS television and
several movie channels run it literally non-stop among them from October
through January every year. Meanwhile, I doubt that I would add more than a
half-dozen movies made in the past 25 years to that list.
Ah, but you asked about KING KONG.
On my list of 300 favorite movies, KING KONG is #3.