Great movie. And one of the things that makes this opening so effective is how unnervingly quiet that room in the mental hospital is before Walsh drags the chair over. Also, Dwight Yoakam's performance is tremendous.

Yeah, not to pile on, but D'Angelo's articles just have a pretentiousness to them that can be hard to take. I feel like I'm listening to a grad school TA attempting to differentiate his ability to recognize a well-filmed scene from my own by throwing in terms like "rack focus." His perspective isn't nearly as…

I remember just thinking "isn't this Movie 43? What is this?" and then everything went bright white and I woke up hours later.

Yeah, doesn't he use some horrible-looking clamp to repair his gunshot wound? And Predator 2 features not only hot-coal cauterization, but an injection using a needle the size of a magic marker.

I'm assuming they intended to have a strikethrough on "McClane" but forgot to add it.

True. Not sure why Cross gets such a pass, but he does seem like an insufferable asshole in real life.

I dunno, Ben Kingsley and F. Murray Abraham probably rival her for at least having baffling careers. Kingsley in particular has a bizarre filmography.

Yep, Transsiberian is wonderfully moody and emotionally nuanced until you hit the last, terrible 30 minutes. What a letdown.

Agreed on the characters not being cartoons. My wife and I marvel at how similar one of our friends is to Shoshanna, and I once knew (and detested) a girl just like Jessa. Simply because these characters aren't particularly likeable doesn't make them less realistic. And I think that's why I do enjoy Girls — it has no…

The second season has been quite a bit darker than the first, and I've got no problem with that, but the show also showed in the first season that it can put out great pure comedy episodes (thinking of "Welcome to Flatbush"). The second season could have used one of those.

Funny, that's the first thing I thought as well. Tasha's rejection of Hugo as a "CGI gimcrack" endeared her to me eternally, so I'd love to see her take on this.

I'd always keep OK Computer and Kid A at the top (and the fact that a band released those two albums in succession is astonishing) but In Rainbows is just a thoroughly good album. It sounds like a band having fun, and even the B-sides (especially Down Is the New Up and Bangers 'n' Mash) are great. The only track I…

To me, Amnesiac is still their most puzzling album…on a song-to-song basis, it's really good, but it just doesn't work as a cohesive album for some reason.

I read some review that called The Eraser "flat," and I think that description applies to King of Limbs pretty well. It feels sonically one-dimensional, and even the best songs, like Separator, just don't have much depth or richness. And it might have been nice if they'd found a place for Supercollider and Daily Mail.

It's particularly frustrating in remakes, when the selection of some celebrity voice actor directly contradicts the nostalgic appeal of the subject matter. Did anyone care that Hugo Weaving was Megatron in Transformers? God no. Would it have killed them to have the great Frank Welker voice the character, alongside…

Yep, I can't think of anything that tops Airbag-Paranoid Android, although "Automatic for the People" and "Drum's Not Dead" open pretty well too.

Wow. Well done.

I remember that my friend's little brother watched it, and after doing so he refused to move off of the floor for an hour because he was afraid of creating Tremor-baiting vibrations.

I always systematically rejected Coldplay because they picked up the reputation as a Radiohead rip-off so I never listened to them (same logic as why I refuse to watch "Family Guy" out of love for the Simpsons), but — cool story bro — "Clocks" had a huge impact on me. I was working one summer at a huge law firm, and…

Yessir, my brother and I viewed Tremors dozens of times when we were kids, and to this day he'll condescendingly say "Thank you, Earl" when told something he feels is obvious (especially when prefaced by a warning that something "has a good six-foot reach!").