This past week presented me with a couple of unique moviegoing opportunities. In addition to the ParaNorman showing I previewed the last time we met, I was also able to check out one of my all-time favorites, Jaws, on the big screen thanks to Cinemark’s “Fall Classic Series”. For as much as I enjoyed the pic long before this week’s showing, I have to say that viewing it as an audience member in a packed theater for the first time opened my eyes to a whole new appreciation. Not only was I genuinely startled in a few scenes that repeat television and DVD viewings had long left me numb to, but I also came to respect Robert Shaw’s timeless turn as Quint even more than I previously had. In short, my adoration for Spielberg‘s masterpiece was not only reaffirmed, it somehow found a way to expand.

But enough about my love of all things Jaws related. This week’s Top 5 includes the news that James Gunn is in talks to direct Marvel’s intergalactic tale, Guardians of the Galaxy, Sight & Sound’s personal Top 10 lists from some of cinema’s most revered directors (Spoiler Alert: that shark movie I drooled about in the opening paragraph appears on Tarantino‘s), a new red-band trailer for John Hillcoat‘s Lawless, Disney’s plans to reboot The Rocketeer, and an animated look at how The Dark Knight Rises should have ended. A brief recap and link to each can be found after the jump.

This video has been making the rounds over the past few days and though the piling on of nitpicking over Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises has gotten pretty heavy already, this one’s all in good fun.  The good folks over at HISHE have put together an animated take on how The Dark Knight Rises should have ended.  Some of the points are comically valid, but others are a bit far-fetched (there’s no way Bane gets taken down by sleeping darts without his goons retaliating immediately).  At the end of the day, while far from a perfect, The Dark Knight Rises was a damn fun ride.  Despite the vitriolic flame wars that broke out over the film’s merits, Nolan’s trilogy put a stamp on the Batman legend that will loom large for a very long time.

Hit the jump to watch the HISHE video, along with another ending parody that is definitely worthwhile.