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Grim Fandango
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"Wait, that's where they're ending the movie?"

I wasn't really feeling the German-Christmas-demon-as-black-guy-from-Baltimore thing, so I was just waiting to find out why they canceled this one last year after the Newtown massacre.

This list is actually my favorite of the avclub's annual traditions, but it's hurt by not having any clips of the movies mentioned.

If the characters weren't all a bunch of willfully oblivious sociopaths, then an episode where a family is hunted down in the cold and dark by a crazed trucker might not make for the best sitcom episode.

The wassail was just microwaved Gatorade.

AND IIIIIIIII-EE-AYE WILL ALWAYYYYYS LUUUUUUUUUUUUV YOUUUUUUUUU

I've never even heard of at least ten of these fifteen movies, so…there's probably a reason for that. That's the tricky needle to thread in "worst of" lists: yeah, you can top it off with the infamously bad, but you're forced with making the choice of going after the irrelevantly unwatchable or the more famous

No Deakins this time? The end of an era. Skyfall was the coolest looking James Bond movie by a factor of like a million, so it's a bummer if Deakins has toned down his work schedule to the point where he's mostly just doing CGI consulting.

Indie movies, you just got Dadded.

I tried to figure out what the ruined sexy lady parts were, but I could only get to five if I counted both boobs individually.

He can take heart that he may be gone, but his Infinite Ammo cheat is not forgotten. He must have shared the code with every single participant of that gunfight. If we're going to give Breaking Bad crap for using Hollywood gun "logic" in a stylistic (and likely apocryphal) manner with Hank and the neo-Nazis, then we

It's a show that violated the Peter Principle. Once upon a time it was a show about mid-level working joes (CIA and terrorist alike) mostly caught up in their own bullshit, trying to get by. Carrie thinking she should have been able to stop 9/11 was a sign of her own delusional megalomania brought on by her condition,

I never saw any season one beyond the sleepy pilot, but it's kind of remarkable how the show has grown over the years. I'm still not a big fan of the show's characters, but it's a unique tv organism. Lots of shows adopt different movie aesthetics, but I haven't really seen one do the pulsing, rhythmic, Eurotrashy

Considering that he's about to be banned for threatening Jordo (and his dad) with murder in a revolutionary purge of the nation's police forces, I would say I'm looking rather prescient, thank you very much.

Can somebody explain why I'm the bad guy next to this lunatic?

If you're pre-composing thousand word reviews of Agents of SHIELD (!) ahead of time…this site redesign is the least of your problems.

Beyond the three to five million extra consumers who will now see it?

I think the Coulson/Skye relationship would make more sense if Skye was his nine year-old daughter, and not a 20-something hobo hacker trainee. I get that it's supposed to be a parental relationship, but this is a really parental relationship.

What are you hectoring me about? You've never turned a game off only to get back into it later once one of the teams turns it around?

…Javad Zarif is the real Iranian Foreign Minister. It was a reference to current events.