I agree, Dravez. I think that it's worth noting, too, that the film is openly against the prevailing orders of state and religion. It views the world we live in as broken, from its nearly mummified upper class/government to its ineffectual pacifist forebears to its militant nemeses. The film condemns us all, and…

Fourth. Again, if anyone takes issue with Kubrick's use of the same in The Shining, I won't even take that person's opinion seriously. Ever.

Look into my eye.

To further Propinka's point, it is also notable that the primary audience to whom this is being marketed is adolescent. As such, they can be expected to be malleable under the force of the ideas in the media they consume. This isn't a case of adults making an informed decision based on coherent systems of belief. this…

OtP, see also the infamous "animal crackers" scene from Armageddon and the sex scene from Pearl Harbor (in my opinion, a contender for the worst scene in the history of cinema).

Lots of European art films fall into the long-take-for-its-own-sake trap. Pusher, for example, doesn't really need that camera to be locked on its protagonist like it was Resident Evil 4. It doesn't add much to the story (certainly not much that couldn't have been accomplished otherwise). It certainly called attention…

I was thinking of the sex scene in Pearl Harbor, actually, which is one of the silliest, stupidest scenes I've ever seen.

Himself, you have cellular phones to thank for teenagers' insistence on talking during everything now. Cell phones and bad teachers and parents.

Word has it. I went on a date to that awful Jennifer Lopez/Jim Cajesus vehicle Angel Eyes and there was a three-way conversation in it that annoyed me more than any single scene I have ever seen in anything else, simply because of the outrageous number of cuts in it. It was especially notable because there was an…

Fancy has it. Cuaron would have been in error had he tried to make his actors speak more clearly than they would have otherwise. Of course, he is a native Spanish speaker who goes to the trouble of making films in English; I think he could care less about whether one English speaker could understand another when he…

I concur with Padrock, K&G, and CBM. The scene, like the film it is in, is striking in its naturalism and visual wit. I do not consider myself an oblivious viewer. I am an unabashed cinephile and I watch films fairly frequently; I also hold them to high technical and intellectual standards. Cuaron's film seeks to do…

Teadoust FTW.

The Blind Side is the unofficial sequel to Crash.

Ticket prices in E.KY and environs run from $5.00 to $8.75. Boxofficemojo includes prices from around the country- including matinees.

She only broke into American cinema by playing a role she originated in Spanish. She might have gone straight back to Spanish-language films had Cruise not instantly made her a celebrity.

Oswalt really brought it. His Wonderboy sounds like the sort of man who peels gummi candies from the underside of his couch and eats them, then holds himself and cries.

I'm not so sure about Seth Green. He sounded pretty much like Seth Green. The rest of the guest stars actually created characters.

Note the discussion of why this is an unambiguously bad thing in the comments section on the review of this movie. These kids are being brainwashed.

New Moon will top out at Satan's feet.

@JVS:
Boxofficemojo puts the average current ticket price at a little more than $7. That would mean approximately 20 million tickets were purchased for The Twilight Saga: New Moon.