I have a theory that everybody's list clusters to some extent in the years of their childhood and their coming of age.  Most of mine are from the late sixties to the early 80s:

I have a theory that everybody's list clusters to some extent in the years of their childhood and their coming of age.  Most of mine are from the late sixties to the early 80s:

NORTH BY NORTHWEST may be the most purely entertaining film of all time, or one of them - I've got it in a tie with CASABLANCA and JAWS.  But PSYCHO is in my top ten at #3.  It's my favorite of H's, it's the "greatest," and I'd say it's pretty inarguably his most influential film.

It really is a singularly great and unsettling soundtrack.  Purely and simply the voice of Plainview's madness.

It really is a singularly great and unsettling soundtrack.  Purely and simply the voice of Plainview's madness.

Mucho points for mentioning THE LONG GOODBYE - one of my favorites too.

Mucho points for mentioning THE LONG GOODBYE - one of my favorites too.

That was Todd's most idiotic statement in this useless article.  It's almost impossible to make a good TV show, period.  Of course it seems easy when all you've done is be a watcher rather than a doer.

That was Todd's most idiotic statement in this useless article.  It's almost impossible to make a good TV show, period.  Of course it seems easy when all you've done is be a watcher rather than a doer.

I was trying to remember that quote.  The expression on his face as he's saying it makes it the most frightening moment in the entire series.

I think the moment before he beats her to death - when he's describing the life together that they'll never have and then he finishes up by saying their daughter will be "a whore-skank just like you" or something along those lines - is the scariest moment in the entire series.

Babel, Christ, what a dog that was.  It had that horror-movie thing where you're constantly screaming "DON'T FUCKING DO THAT" as the characters make stupid decision after stupid decision, and it wasn't even a horror movie.

THE KILLER INSIDE ME was decent.  Although I think she was third-billed in that one.  And I'm too lazy to google to confirm it.

Good.  The posters were incredibly annoying and I gotta assume the show was too… let's not even get into how suck-ass people with last names for first names are (not all of them, I've got a friend named Miller who's aces).

I googled Amy Miles and she's actually fairly hot for a CEO.   Unfortunately, like most CEOs, she sounds like a sociopath/moron.

He looks damn good for a guy in his early 50s.  Aside from a few white hairs in his beard, he literally hasn't aged in 20 years.

You know what, I didn't even think of MARTYRS and now I wonder how that's possible.  I would say it was a lot more horrifying than nauseating - probably the most nauseating moment was actually when they were feeding the captives that gruel-mush stuff, not the torture and violence.  

BREAKING BAD is the Great American Novel of our time.  And I haven't even seen the fourth season.

Thanks! (I think.)  I found it online, maybe I'll take in all three some afternoon, and see if I finally manage to make myself hurl.

Let's see - I've never actually puked over anything, but there are three works of art that made me so nauseous I had to lie down for the better part of an hour.