Take a page from John Darnielle and cover older protest music.  Problem solved!

Take a page from John Darnielle and cover older protest music.  Problem solved!

@TashaRobinson:disqus : if it helps, I don't think the main protagonist of the film - Wiley Wiggins - is a swaggering, bullying, beer-drinking teenager, either, nor will he be.  He's too shy and introspective, and the film dynamic that really sucked me in is watching him get (sorta) initiated into this world in a kind…

@TashaRobinson:disqus : if it helps, I don't think the main protagonist of the film - Wiley Wiggins - is a swaggering, bullying, beer-drinking teenager, either, nor will he be.  He's too shy and introspective, and the film dynamic that really sucked me in is watching him get (sorta) initiated into this world in a kind…

I'm glad someone else thinks 2 is the weakest Toy Story film.  All these years I've felt like I must have seen a different cut, or something, given how highly people praise it.

I'm glad someone else thinks 2 is the weakest Toy Story film.  All these years I've felt like I must have seen a different cut, or something, given how highly people praise it.

Yeah, what's that all about?  Someone needs to walk him around Vienna for 24 hours until he counts the ballots again.

Yeah, what's that all about?  Someone needs to walk him around Vienna for 24 hours until he counts the ballots again.

My husband despises it and I love every minute of it.  I don't think there's ever been a movie that's more closely matched my own experience of going through high school - the mix of excitement and terror of being initiated into an older group of kids through a few hazy, ill-advised nights on the town - that I…

My husband despises it and I love every minute of it.  I don't think there's ever been a movie that's more closely matched my own experience of going through high school - the mix of excitement and terror of being initiated into an older group of kids through a few hazy, ill-advised nights on the town - that I…

Likewise, although I prefer Happy Together, though I'm sure that's a minority opinion.

Likewise, although I prefer Happy Together, though I'm sure that's a minority opinion.

Yeah.  I know this listmaking inevitably leads to the endless threads where people list their own favorites that missed the cut, but I find it hard to believe that a film as massively influential, successful, and just plain brilliant as Silence of the Lambs didn't crack the top 50.  It's true that Fincher's take on…

Yeah.  I know this listmaking inevitably leads to the endless threads where people list their own favorites that missed the cut, but I find it hard to believe that a film as massively influential, successful, and just plain brilliant as Silence of the Lambs didn't crack the top 50.  It's true that Fincher's take on…

Yikes.

Yikes.

Also worth pointing out that the film's only explicit 'poke you in the face' use of 3D, the usual stock-in-trade of the gimmick film, is for the needle going through the eye of the doll during the opening credits.  So the needle pokes you in the eye.  Chilling bit of foreshadowing, that.

Also worth pointing out that the film's only explicit 'poke you in the face' use of 3D, the usual stock-in-trade of the gimmick film, is for the needle going through the eye of the doll during the opening credits.  So the needle pokes you in the eye.  Chilling bit of foreshadowing, that.

It's a little tangential to what we usually call the Holocaust itself, but my favorite is a Hungarian film called Cold Days, which deals with the massacre of Jews in Novi Sad in 1942.

It's a little tangential to what we usually call the Holocaust itself, but my favorite is a Hungarian film called Cold Days, which deals with the massacre of Jews in Novi Sad in 1942.