Doubt away.

While he's probably not in quite the same class as Ozu, Kurosawa, and Mizoguchi (though I've only seen one Ozu and two Mizoguchi so far), I'll go to bat for Seijun Suzuki, too.

This is one of my three or four favorite films of all time, and I am pretty literally always happy to see an article about it pop up.

I'm relatively okay with Zack Snyder directing this movie, but I hate the fact that David Goyer is writing it.

This is how I picture you, Drunk O'Brien.

There's something horrifying about that sentence.

Indeed. Everything popular is bad. The Wire was good for awhile, but too many people have seen it now, so I guess that one is out. The only good movies are movies from more than 25 years ago that no one - yourself included - has seen because they just faded away into obscurity. The only good album is An's…

Succinct, but not inappropriate.

Dozens of people have said it on this very site that you are reading right now. You've even commented on some of the other ones.

At some point, Jay Z became Jack Donaghy. It happened so slowly we never even noticed, but…

I got The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Christmas one year. After the boring family stuff was over, I went upstairs and played it until I beat the entire damn game. No sleep, no food, just game.

The Valiant books are pretty much all solid, at least as much as I've read, and since they've only been going on for about 18 months, they haven't had time to get too nuts. You can pretty much jump in wherever, but the first trade of each book is crazy affordable.

I don't think I did…?

And I disagree with that - film is more than a checklist, and a 'perfect' film can be perfect in a variety of ways, rather than just ticking off boxes of stereotypically 'great' elements.

I lean towards the more upbeat moments - I'd be hard-pressed to think of a more resonant moment in film this year than Frances dancing down the streets to "Modern Love" - but yeah, that's a fantastically uncomfortable one.

I absolutely love Side Effects. I love its descent from a high-minded medical thriller to a trashy riff on softcore 90s Cinemax films. I love that this is what Soderbergh decided to bow out on. I love the performances, I love the excess… this isn't a movie that belongs on most folks' lists and it isn't a movie I'll…

I feel comfortable stating that I have never seen anything like Gravity on a purely visual level. I haven't seen every movie, but I've seen an awful lot of 'em. Still, if you'd care to name a few, I'd be happy to hunt them down and check them out.

I don't understand your problem. It's a 'vague outline'? Did you want him to do a minute-by-minute recap?

But film is a visual medium; is it really fair to take such a breathtaking, never-seen-anything-like-it movie as Gravity and dismiss it because it only reinvented one aspect of filmmaking instead of all of them?

My personal picks for the year (though I haven't yet seen Wolf, Llewyn, or Her, all of which I'm ridiculously excited to get to)