5. Have you ever been told the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise?

...no. Really. For all the faults of the prequels, that scene answers your question pretty perfectly - you can be insanely powerful and still have blindspots due to pride or trust.

I knew Crybaby wasn’t going to make the list, but it pleases me to see it getting love in the comments anyway.
I had wondered how they’d go about updating the original for the 2010s and Yuasa did NOT disappoint, both in terms of modernizing the story in a way that still carried emotional heft and visually making it…

Have to say, overall pretty strong list.

About the only thing I’d argue (and even that only somewhat, since you still made a good choice) would be Suspiria. The ritual’s a solid choice, but personally, I’d have gone with the first rehearsal.
It doesn’t have quite the over-the-top flourish of the finale, but there is…

Not for nothing, I know it’s a longshot for the Academy, but if Toni Collette gets a Best Actress nom for Hereditary, I will be TOTALLY fine with that.

“I don’t care that it’s for DC, I just love doing cameos!”
--I sincerely love that this was one of the last appearances of his to make theaters while he was still alive. I know there’s more coming, but it’s such a genuinely entertaining and slightly self-ribbing take from a man who, from everything have heard,…

One thing I will indirectly give the special - this aspect was responsible for a wonderfully sick string of jokes from We Hate Movies on their episode discussing Seventh Son.

Simply put - Zero Bumble Thirty.

“My name’s Talking Tina and I don’t like you...”

*throws his Christmas special spec script on the fire*

Just as well...

End this with Santa having a Twilight Zone style screaming breakdown of “I’M THE GOD! I’M THE GOD!!!” and you’ve got yourself a Christmas special, my good man!

Santa warned that motherfucker what’d happen if he didn’t shut up.
An example had to be made.

This is where I’m apparently the ultra-freak - the bulk of my Rankin-Bass nostalgia isn’t reserved for their holiday specials, but their Tolkien adaptations.

(Okay, I’ll concede that, a few good bits aside, that Return of the King adaptation is a mess, but I will fucking throw down for their version of The Hobbit.)

Prettymuch this. The first iteration was born out of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special, so it makes it in by the two sweetest words in the English language - de-fault.

There’s other songs where this could work.

Unfortunately, this is not one of them, because seemingly like clockwork, every year or two, some other duet decides the world needs YET ANOTHER BLOODY COVER OF IT.

...seriously, these past few years, I’m already half sick of the song even before the debate gets started.

Every year, Bob Geldorf secretly prays for it, that he may be spared his creation shambling the earth once more.

Every year, his prayers go unanswered.

“Have a holly jolly Christmas, and in case you somehow just missed the thing I’ve been saying over and over for the past two minutes, well oh by golly have a holly jolly Christmas this year!”

Leonard Shelby: “Huh...Burl Ives. *reads* Don’t believe his festiveness. He is the one. Kill him.”

There’s a reason why one of his best roles in the past 20 years was Les Grossman, the balding, paunchy, foul-mouthed studio head in Tropic Thunder. Even under all that makeup, you could tell Cruise was relishing being able to play a completely unleashed and unapologetic asshole.

Watanabe gets arguably the best line read in the movie with “Let them fight!” but otherwise, yeah, he’s pretty squandered.

Going off the definition from UrbanDictionary:

I’m trying to get excited about this. I really am.
I know Mignola’s been talking it up in a big way, and I like Marshall’s stuff in general.

But the fact that so much of the sales pitch just keeps coming back to ‘Darker and more violent’ as their baseline leaves me...very cautious.
If you didn’t think GDT’s version was…

I went through the whole list of comments for this, and am surprised no one’s said it yet:

“Here’s a tip - a beard is no substitute for a jawline, no matter how you trim it!” -- Henchman #24, The Venture Bros