Sorry, I learned today that Watchmen’s Senator Blake is Mad Men’s Bob Benson, so I have no mind left to be blown by things I should have realized sooner.

sorry to shout but HOW DID I NOT REALIZE JOE BLAKE WAS BOB BENSON?

Shut the feck up, James

You should watch Short Term 12. It’s Dever, Brie Larson, Rami Malek, Lakeith Stanfield, and Stephanie Beatriz -- basically every breakout actor of the decade except, like, Adam Driver. Dever and Larson are great together in it.

I’m probably just forgetting something, but who’s the “men and women of the cloth” in Watchmen? Is it just a reference to Sister Knight’s nun-like costume?

Counterpoint:

Yes to Beasts of the Southern Wild! Quevanzanhe Wallis deserved Best Actress that year, even before you get to the fact that she was frigging six years old..

Oh man, didn’t notice they left off Ex Machina. That’s top 5 for me on the decade!

Great list. Short Term 12 is quite possibly the #1 movie of the decade for me, and Logan might be top 10. And I don’t understand how you have a list with Hereditary but not The Babadook, a movie that covered the exact same themes with twice the nuance and none of the pretentiousness.

Surprised that Short Term 12 hasn’t made it on many end-of-decade lists. Did you consider it at all?

This makes me even more interested in checking out The Outer Worlds!

Right, I’ve been telling myself that I can’t buy D:OS2 until I actually finish D:OS1, but it’s been a year or so since I beat Braccus Rex and... 

In a very different way, the mobile game Badland is one of my favorites for side-scrolling background animation. So unsettling yet so beautiful.

And why Skyrim’s dungeons are basically just three different textures in different colors, with five different monsters in different colors.

I’ve always thought the technological improvements have held games like this back over the last decade or so. You can’t have the diversity of enemies or dialogue of the 1990s when every new creature takes 100s of hours and every possible line of dialogue needs to be recorded.

I haven’t gotten out of Athkatla in my last two playthroughs (one on a super-old iPad, one on computer) so I probably won’t take this plunge. But I’m curious: how are they possibly going to make THAT MUCH text a pleasant experience on a TV?

I think Blizzard consolidated Battle.net and their other games into one app/program — so you can launch your Diablos and your Hearthstone and this “Overwatch” game that people seem to like, all from one place. 

“Donkey Kong”

The original name, “Stop Poking Me: The Orc’s Lament” was a bit ahead of its time.

Every time I walked through a Target or Walmart in the 2000s I thought about re-buying the Diablo II Battle Chest to replace the one I’d lost. That big-ass box never failed to catch my eye and tempt me back.