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Crecy is crazy underrated.  If Ellis decided to just do historical second-person examinations like that for the rest of his career, I would have no problem with that.

I am down with this entire list.  For someone with as diverse and offbeat a catalog as Nina, it's extraordinary how good just about all of it is. 
And as someone old enough to have seen Empire in the theater as well: that's really the movie that made Star Wars what it is now.  If it wasn't such an unforgettable…

I honestly can't genuinely think of books or songs as perfect individual things; to me they can contain perfection, yet somehow I feel the scope of music and writing are too vast to do more than bottle as much perfection as they can.  But for whatever reason, I feel like a film can be perfect - perhaps it's a matter…

if on a winter's night a traveler is perfect.

If Torment had a cerebral, turn-based combat system, then yes, an absolutely perfect game.  Even the insanely fiddly inventory is worth it for the golden sphere reveal alone.

Cat's Cradle  is the most timeless and universal, whereas I can see making an argument for his other books to be perfect at particular times in one's life (especially as one gets older).

Perfect final shot.  Just amazing.

@avclub-6997a8bd0e1042b70b60c5c879a1780e:disqus Yes, there is pretty strong stigma attached to the Covenant books; there are many who can't make it past the opening third of the first book, for reasons I won't reveal.  I will say that I think there's some very worthwhile stuff in those books, and that the series…

If Ellison's immense wrongness weren't so equally entertaining, he just wouldn't be Ellison.

Did that really happen?  If so, amazing.

My favorite movie.  Ever.  I would change, nothing, nothing, nothing at all.  Even the treacly Hollywood music during the coda is perfect.

I never thought I'd see a film that was a perfect marriage of John Carpenter, Guy Ritchie, and Doctor Who, but there it is!

Miss Scrawler: "Now I'm gonna go home and sleep with Tom Hardy!"

I loved Madeline Kahn…so…much…It…I..it…uh..flames…flames…on the side of my face…

A bit of a Pyrrhic victory.

Are you me when I was eighteen? 

And about Crouching Tiger…has that movie fallen out of general favor?  Because I think there's thematic and formal depths to it that will keep it a rich experience for future generations, but I feel like I'm in the minority.

By the same token, is there a Bowie album you find most unimpeachable?

This.  It wouldn't be so timeless if it weren't so of its time. (Paradox!)