His finest hour. If only he'd dragged it out to longer than an hour. Or the ten minutes it actually is if you're counting.

I adore Cage, bad and good, but I hate him when he's boring. Bangkok Dangerous is easily his worst performance. It's painful to watch, especially for someone who usually derives some pleasure from pretty much all of his performances.

Considering the writer, Lem Dobbs, also came up with Kafka, which nearly destroyed everyone's careers, I can imagine there's all sorts of bad blood between them.

My favourite moment in this piece of shit is at the end, when Pacino taunts De Niro in the warehouse or whatever it was, and then bolts as fast as his old legs can carry him, leaps over a railing, and plummets out of shot. Sadly, it's not as bad-movie-funny as 88 Minutes, which nearly gave me a hernia from laughing.

His dad's gotta eat, I guess.

Nope, there's a very definite lineage. Deliverance too. It's more than just a modern retelling, though.

Am I the only person here who liked the soundtrack?

::spoilers for lucky people who have yet to discover the brilliance of The Prisoner for themselves::

Thanks Scott. I actually agree with everything you say about The Strangers, and yet by the final third I had almost completely lost interest. That first half an hour is wonderful, though, and genuinely upsetting. There are some moments that are perfectly framed, in ways that I've always wanted to see done in a movie.…

I loved the strike and the boxing episode. However, all of the time wasted on Apollo and Starbuck isn't coming back any time soon. And the episode with the racist doctor and his terrible racist racism. Dreadful stuff. A lot of the third season is a bust, but that matters little when the first four episodes are among…

Wow, I really hope you both like it. If not, feel free to curse my name. And Marcel, Fassbender is absolutely fantastic in this. I hope you've also seen Hunger, in which he is incredible.

You have my eternal gratitude, and that of about six other people who love quality TV about bigamy.

Mr Fhtagn, they're referring to this quote:

Masterful horror and social commentary
I'd probably give this an A-, and The Strangers a C. The latter is a good idea done with an admirable eye on economy, but the characters do too many stupid things, and the house it is set in is too restrictive an environment, so in the end the characters just go back and forth…

Breaking AV Club protocol
Please forgive me for intruding on the American Idol thread with a question about something completely different, not to mention something that has probably been addressed elsewhere, but will the TV Club be covering the return of Big Love? Your coverage of Tell Me You Love Me was excellent,…

He really does answer the hell out of questions. They're possibly the most complete responses of anyone who has been interviewed on the AV Club. Some of those other too-cool-for-school hipster assholes with their monosyllabic bullshit answers should look and learn.

I reckon his last line will be, "Bush out!" ::devil horn fingers and tongue wag:: ::kicks over monitor and slinks off::

Heat Vision and Jack
Bret namechecked Heat Vision! Sweet.

I'd agree that the TV scene is scarier, and Nakata is better at creating an atmosphere of dread than Verbinski, but the little details in the remake add up. The corpses look scarier, the video is more disturbing, the ending is suitably dark. If I had to choose between the two, I think I prefer the remake as well, but…

TIE Fighter and KOTOR are amazing, but there was one other good Star Wars product of the last ten years: Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars (not the new wooden version). Just for the scene where Mace Windu takes on a robot army, it deserves kudos.