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Enrico Palazzo
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In space, no one can hear me high-fiving you, which I am totally doing because you exactly summed up my feelings on that omission.

I…I just don't get the intense negativity around Gravity. Just about everyone I've spoken to in the meatspace loved it, warts and all. But I come here and people are treating it like the Nickelback of movies, rating it lower than crap like Pain & Gain and motherplucking The Counselor.

Oh, come on. Not having Gravity on this list is basically just trolling. Yes, I know it had its flaws and the script and blah, blah, blah. But if you're talking about straight-up cinematic accomplishment, I don't see how it doesn't even end up in the top 20 of the year….especially on a list that includes The

I'm pretty dense when it comes to faces, but it took me a while to recognize that Pornstache was played by the same actor as Nick Sobotka. Great work by Schreiber.

This should be a cable TV show. Dark Tower? Cable TV show. Y: The Last Man? Cable TV show. Your mom? Cable TV show.

This is true? Ye gods, what a waste.

At Westeros's darkest moment, when all is lost and every character you love is dead, and it seems that hope is a thing to be buried under the snow of an eternal winter…that's when Rickon will ride back into the picture at the head of a previously undetected army to lay waste to everyone and everything that stands in

No, bad taste is whoever took that scene and cut it to "Yakety Sax"…which doesn't mean I didn't laugh my ass off (while facepalming) at the effect.

You are literally the first person I have ever seen cite Sansa as their favorite character. I'm kind of flummoxed. Not that I judge you for it, or anything. It's more a sense of awe, as if I'd just seen a unicorn.

The fact that Charles Dance didn't get nominated for an Emmy for his work this past season is perhaps the greatest pop culture crime of the year, in my book. That guy *owned* every scene in which he appeared, and he made Tywin - something of a one-note tyrant in the books - one of the most compelling characters on the

Yeah, what @mathyoucough:disqus said. There's a distinction between the actual Others and the dead humans (and horses, and gods know what else) they reanimate as their zombie minions.

In terms of TNG, I would really have gone with David Warner's Gul Madred over Tamalak. The latter was great, but there was no better confrontation for Picard than his interrogation at Madred's hands, and Warner absolutely nailed the part. I don't know if there's any topping "THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS," but I would have

Ye gods, what a good soundtrack that movie had.

I want to like that Deafheaven record so much, but I just can't get beyond the vocals. Not that the guy isn't screaming his heart out, and most likely doing it as well as it can possibly be done; it's just not my bag to the point at which it absolutely kills the entire experience for me. Sad face.

For real, man. The omission of Run the Jewels from this list is kee-razy.

A public service announcement for the commentariat: "Spider-Man" has a hyphen in it. This is important.

DeHaan was the bomb in Chronicle, yo.

Have you ever seen The American Astronaut? It's a super low-budget sci-fi musical that is about as close as you can get to a Coen Brothers space opera without the Coen Brothers actually being involved. And it's brilliant.

Don't be absurd. Actors can't "change their appearance." That's what CGI is for.

Buffy *was* buff, but more important than muscle, to me, is casting someone who looks like they actually know how to engage in physical activity, particularly violence. Sarah Michelle Gellar looked like she'd never thrown a punch in her life; any time they actually had to show her doing it instead of one of her stunt