I knew I was going to enjoy it from the initial speech from the Colonel, although my favourite scene…the samurai house.

"In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" also got a rating somewhere in the 7s when it was first reviewed (a long time after it was released), then mysteriously was re-reviewed and given a 10 when the bandwagon started rolling.

Statham as The Stathe, in every film he's been in this decade. Well, the Transporters, the Cranks, Death Race and his little role in The Mean Machine. He fucking owned this decade.

*makes shitty anti-LiT comment because it sucked, not because it's apparently the done thing to do*

I believe this thread was about comedy performances, so in that sense Ferrell would certainly get in a top 20 of the decade - Anchorman and Talladega Nights are both great performances. John C Reilly in Step Brothers too, and Paul Rudd in pretty much all the films of this decade he's been in. I think Rudd is my…

Was there a Turkish Batman film to go along with Turkish Spiderman and Turkish Star Wars?

I don't think authors need to "know" stuff - like complicated maths, or science or whatever, in order to write books where the characters are. I don't read fiction to learn facts and figures about the world.

I absolutely adored the Baroque Cycle, and although I didn't realise it was this decade until I read about it in this thread, it would be right up there for me. Clever plots, lots of stuff going on, one of the all-time great fictional characters (Jack Shaftoe) and…that's enough good stuff about this book.

I'm also surprised by the AVC staffers' opinion of House of Leaves, but it doesn't change my opinion of it as one of the finest novels of the past several decades. Shame you guys didn't like it, but I completely fell in love with it and another read only made me love it more.

Happy ending? Guy gets fucked over, all women happily pair up in lesbian relationships (even those who were happily straight through most of the comic's run). Was once great, turned awful and stayed that way til the end. He ran out of story, I think.

I love that idea, DEFAULT TEXT. Lucas is much worse-written this time than his first appearance, for sure…he should be fighting House by trying to get him fired, or digging into his past, or something like that. It's not like the stuff that could get House struck off forever and out of Cuddy's life is that deep down.

MGS2 is there or thereabouts at the top of the list for me. Absolutely amazing game.

I think Half Life 2 is probably my favourite game of the decade too, and made me keep a PC for longer than I really wanted to, when I was saving up for a Mac. It has flaws, but they're smaller and less apparent than pretty much any other game, ever. Brilliant level design, brilliant enemy AI, perfect difficulty curve…

I think the two most obvious exclusions are Resident Evil 4 and Half Life 2. Both extraordinary games, both won a ton of awards…can I suggest you get more voters next time? I mean, you must have contacts within the industry, why not get lists from a few of those guys?

Maybe Jeffrey Dean Morgan is too big a star now. Although I hope they throw some $$ at him.

The gorgeous female reaper was a recurring character, wasn't an idiot or evil, and isn't dead.

Yeah, Crowley was great. Mark Sheppard needs a regular role on a cool genre series like this, he's way too good an actor to waste on bit parts.

I don't have any sort of a problem with this show being about two guys and mainly male relationships (Sam /Dean, brothers / Dad, brothers / Bobby, brothers / Cas) so I agree with that part of what Drolz wrote. Thinking about it, there aren't that many shows without a strong main-cast female character, and lots of…

Tool
So, I take it not a single voter so much as expressed a bottom-of-their-top-10 vote for "Lateralus" by Tool? I know, personal taste and all that, but no-one so much as mentioned it?

It may be mentioned below, but for none of the lists to have any Godspeed or Tool on it seems quite surprising to me, and would even if I weren't a fan of either band. Enormously well-regarded, successful (in indie terms) and still sound great today.