Putting together Straw Dogs and Dead Ringers is perfect.  I have the (now out of print) Criterion editions of both and I don't think I can watch either one again.  They're that good.

Listening to the Heat soundtrack while driving freeways at night: so. fucking. badass.

Heat, now and forever.

He did; he played the kind of anger that's extreme annoyance, like he puts up with most shit but not this kind of shit.  Running a bank for criminals should mean criminals leave you the fuck alone.

Another Earth?  (Although @avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus most likely called it.)

@avclub-792b765aa995daf26cf6f17f519c949d:disqus : my respect for Stephen King just jumped by 22%.

"You ever seen anything like that before?"
"I've never even heard of anything like that before."

Didn't know about that; it's taken from the novel Hannibal.

I would rank The Thin Red Line as the most (or nearly the most) plot-driven (only Badlands competes with it) and The New World as roughly in the middle.  Also I'd argue that The Thin Red Line really benefits from the strong plot; it's Malick adapting about as non-Malick a work as you can get, and it's amazing.…

Absolutely one of the best films of the last decade.  I start losing my shit about halfway through. Not just Gandolfini, but all the voice work is spectacular here.

So he's Alex Mahone again?

Are several large women turning up dead?

For you I prescribe a hot bath, dry white wine, and some Corelli trio sonatas. Feel better, my friend.

It's close, very close, but I gotta give the edge to Miller here, because Miller is a sleazier and less refined writer than Moore.  Put it this way:  Moore writes about the fear, but Miller makes you feel the fear, with all its racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and authoritarian overtones.  And of course it's the same…

Count me as another AI fan.  It's a great, muddled movie, where there was some kind of possession or transference between Kubrick's ghost and Spielberg.  His weakness for happy endings turned into one of the most disturbing finishes I've ever seen.  And it somehow liberated him—Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List…

I'd recommend The Dark Knight Returns not for its dystopic aspects (although it does have them) but for another reason, especially for young 'uns like @avclub-0f780783d400c0776a205d3f88b9737a:disqus :  it is the best evocation of 1980s America in literature.  Works like American Psycho (and, to a lesser extent, The…

Oh, and sorry about the bad day.  Russian tea and Brian Eno make for good therapy.

"Dragonchasers."  (But seriously, it's "Denial, Anger, Acceptance.")

Honestly, Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly is one of my favorite works of dystopia, although it's not considered that way.  (Richard Linklater upped that factor considerably in the movie, well worth seeing.)  What makes it compelling is that Dick stays on the fringes of that society, giving you a sense of what's…

The correct answer is "680 miles away is not nearby."