Some movies I haven't heard mentioned: Cloverfield, Speed Racer, Furious 7 (at the drive—in! So many cars!), Snakes on a Plane, the Hateful Eight roadshow. And I'll second Tron: Legacy.

My local theater does a recurring Lord of the Rings marathon, so I've seen them in each in theaters about six times.

Oh, Samnee is next-level. He can do anything, but he's never flashy about it; he just tells the story the way it needs to be told.

DKR is Miller close to his ugliest, but it's good-ugly to me, but he's also at his most formally precise. I think it's a better formal masterpiece than Watchmen, especially the first issue. Look at the way Miller uses Bruce's big window to create a stifling grid-within-a-grid and then has the bat fly in and shatter…

I read War and Peace straight through in college. As Great Works Of Literature go, this one definitely has a high work/reward ratio.

I've been clamoring for years for a Pokemonverse civ-building/strategy game. Different terrains have a different chance of giving you different Pokemon if you build tile improvements there, and different Pokemon give you different benefits, resources, and research options.

FOOTLOOSE IS SO GOOD

OotP is the peak of (both versions of) the series, and it's basically THE PRISONER in a high school, though, which speaks to me more than the romantic focus of HBP.

My most obnoxious, contentious "this should be on here" pick: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Do you think Breakfast Club doesn't deserve a spot? It's one of my favorite movies ever.

I'm actually trying to read more stuff within a year or two of it coming out, after spending most of college reading stuff that was twenty years old at the earliest. But one back-catalogue thing that's blowing me away: Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. I'm almost finished with SYSTEM OF THE WORLD, and it's the most fun…

Goosebumps #748: I Was The Hammer-Boy!

For the record, I don't watch a /ton/ of horror, but the Babadook is hands-down the scariest movie I've ever seen. Subjectivity!

The thing with the conclusion of It Follows is that the uncertainties /pile up/ in the last few minutes to the point where we know /nothing/ about what's going on in the last shot.

My line on Goosebumps: the real horror in every Goosebumps book is the incommunicability of childhood experience to adults.

My favorite Warren Ellis comic is his twelve-issue run on Thunderbolts with Mike Deodato.

This might be an inane or obvious comment but: weird and cool as the stylization of the Sin City movie is, it can't possibly hold up to the stylization of Miller's original books. Sin City is one of the peaks of the development of Miller's style, and one of the most aesthetically perfect comics ever made.

My only disagreement with this list that actually elicits any feeling in me: where's John Hughes' runner-up spot?

Whedon's AXM was one of the things that got me into comics when I was twelve, and… I enjoyed it a lot as a twelve year old!
In retrospect, it had some problems. John Cassaday's art was good, though.

It's alright. Better than DC was a year ago, worse than Marvel was a year ago.