Michael Haneke
This doesn't have anything to do with anything, but I just rewatched Haneke's "Funny Games" a couple weeks ago, and it has been nigh on IMPOSSIBLE for me to watch violence in a movie since then without thinking about it differently. What a great goddamn movie!

about time.
this has taken awhile.
and by the way: anger did comments? awesome.

re: children of men
i'm a little surprised to see "Children of Men" on top of this list. i loved the movie, but everyone to whom i recommended it came away from it feeling the same way Justin Smolin. it's strange, but those problems - the stiff dialogue, plot holes, political content etc. - seemed beside the point. to…