I remember a similar analysis of this scene's sound design from college. Good stuff, especially the focus on the squealing puppies. Did you have Steve Schneider for a TA?

Why are we giving more attention to this woman? Why? By this point, she's the most photographed barn in the world.

It's unsurprising that a reformed Trotskyist would support a neoconservative war. Trotskyism itself is distinguished by its idea of eternal revolution, of the idea of spreading Communism far and wide. Neoconservatism is just the Negaverse version of this idea. It's the idea that we should use our arms and the media to…

I'm okay with new versions of DW, but it's not really an idea which plays well in a feature film format. So much of the Whovian mythos and tradition comes from cruft accumulated from years upon years of serials. I can't imagine how well that would play as a standalone movie unto itself. Fans won't love it, and new…

In The Mouth of Madness is maybe John Carpenter's greatest film, but it fared so poorly with critics and audiences that he probably got scared off from doing any other movies like it.

I would like to point out that the book she's taking out is a Pennsylvania Digest, i.e. a case law digest. No fucking reason to read that. Even law students in PA would just use Wexis.

Drive is, if anything, a cross between The Driver and To Live and Die in LA, as directed by Michael Mann. The Transporter has nothing to do with it.

I bet everyone reading this thread owns at least a few items of electronics or clothing that have been assembled in hellish conditions which have caused even more misery in this world than what Roman Polanski did to that girl, no matter how reprehensible that act was. We are all complicit in some set of tragedies or…

"Though no one would mistake Wasikowska for Ruth Gordon"