By the halfway point in the film, every minority was either dead or evil.  That boils it down pretty easily.  It's especially egregious that the only major character that dies is the black guy, despite his power literally being that he can't die.

I really need to rewatch Melancholia.  It was my favorite movie last year and one of the most powerful movies I've ever seen in theaters, but I haven't seen it since then.  I could definitely see that making my eventual list.

I always forget how amazing The Thing is, leave it off my list, see it on someone else's list, and immediately cut something off mine, because The Thing is fucking awesome.

Japanese:
TOKYO STORY, Ozu
SEVEN SAMURAI (or RAN or, like, 30 others), Kurosawa
GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES, Takahata
MILLENNIUM ACTRESS (or PERFECT BLUE), Kon
SPIRITED AWAY (or PRINCESS MONOKE), Miyazaki
BRANDED TO KILL (or TOKYO DRIFTER), Suzuki

Japanese:
TOKYO STORY, Ozu
SEVEN SAMURAI (or RAN or, like, 30 others), Kurosawa
GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES, Takahata
MILLENNIUM ACTRESS (or PERFECT BLUE), Kon
SPIRITED AWAY (or PRINCESS MONOKE), Miyazaki
BRANDED TO KILL (or TOKYO DRIFTER), Suzuki

I understand why some people have a hard time with Fear and Loathing… but they are wrong, and it is amazing.

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. No Country For Old Men
3. Citizen Kane
4. In the Mood For Love
5. The Thing
6. The Battle of Algiers
7. High Fidelity
8. Wall*E
9. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
10. Brick

Morrison's New X-Men for me, followed by X-Statix.  The Dark Phoenix and Age of Apocalypse are up there, but probably tied with Days of Future Past.

Morrison's New X-Men for me, followed by X-Statix.  The Dark Phoenix and Age of Apocalypse are up there, but probably tied with Days of Future Past.

X-Men: First Class has some seriously troubling racial issues, but is up there with Spider-Man 2, The Dark Knight, Super and the Avengers in my Top 5 Favorite Superhero Movies Ever.  I just hope they introduce a minority who is not a) evil, or b) dead.

X-Men: First Class has some seriously troubling racial issues, but is up there with Spider-Man 2, The Dark Knight, Super and the Avengers in my Top 5 Favorite Superhero Movies Ever.  I just hope they introduce a minority who is not a) evil, or b) dead.

God, the things JLU did with Grundy, Aquaman, Fate and Hawkgirl should be studied by ANYONE who wants to write any of those characters, ever, or (at Marvel) the Defenders.

God, the things JLU did with Grundy, Aquaman, Fate and Hawkgirl should be studied by ANYONE who wants to write any of those characters, ever, or (at Marvel) the Defenders.

Nina kind of bored me last year, but she's almost taken steps into supervillainy this year in some pretty interesting ways.

Nina kind of bored me last year, but she's almost taken steps into supervillainy this year in some pretty interesting ways.

Surely we're not counting The Wire as a procedural?  At least by the standard definition I see kicked around here, isn't that term more for the 'case of the week' shows?

Surely we're not counting The Wire as a procedural?  At least by the standard definition I see kicked around here, isn't that term more for the 'case of the week' shows?

"The Return" was bad-ass from start to finish.

"The Return" was bad-ass from start to finish.

It's astonishing how much better DCAU fight scenes got over the years.  The fights in season one of Superman: The Animated Series were poorly staged, but by the end of JLU, the fights felt brutal without breaking a PG-mold, and they got VERY good at figuring out how to stage impressive, insane superbrawls. Justice…