Kit is pretty much an awesome character. His self-centered mentality and youthful idealism is just so perfect. 
 "Somebody dropped a bag on the sidewalk. Everybody did that, the whole town'd be a mess."

I got the impression because this was an older movie, and in black-and-white, that it would be more of an "interesting to watch" movie than something actually thrilling. Holy Lord, was I wrong.

Awesome scene, awesome movie. Michael Mann actually shows people doing the legwork and setting things up, instead of just the after-effects. Thief does extremely well.

Just saw this. The scene where Dafoe fixes the Generator with the missing man's son, and the power starts up "I'm on Fire" by Springsteen, and the missing man's wife wakes up, hears the song, hears her children laughing and thinks her missing husband has returned….phenomenal. An unparalleled scene of cinematic…

::Takes off mask::

Wow. Thanks, Em is Me, these are marvelous.

Agree on Ozymandias being terrific. I don't mean this in a reductive or snide way, but  it is kind of a funny poem and a good example of irony. The idea is so basic and it is a pretty fun introduction to what poetry can "do", while also containing some pretty exceptional themes.

Yeats was ridiculously good. The Second Coming is probably the most frightening poem ever written. When the end does come, I suspect it will be awfully close to what Yeats meant when he wrote

I think it is easily the most frightening episode. Sure, others make the world scary, and trap you in binds of cruel torturers, but there's nothing like being unable to think your own thoughts without the fantastic terror that a malevolent child could hear them and ruin you. Just imagine you were trapped, for your…

Eschewing, I'm there with you. Jane March's weirdo head and body got teenage Clownsaw through some wasteland times.

Lung, this comment made my day. She was wicked hot with some extreme dental issues that weren't a deal-breaker. Similar concept to the Seyfried Innsmouth look.

Street Trash! Fuck Yeah!

Street Trash! Fuck Yeah!

Fantastic point. It's pretty odd how so many key characters are these working-man types pushing 50, particularly since the other characters are almost cartoons of punk/mod youths. It's pretty inspired character casting for a movie where everyone ends up irradiated zombie fodder.

I first saw this movie when I was 8 years old, and the crematorium knowledge he lays down really stuck with me. What a professional.

Floyd D, great call on Frank's wedding ring. James Karen really sells his pathos with the ring and a prayer of forgiveness before he immolates himself.

For those of us living in the suburbs of Indiana, please explain the typical ethnic results? Cause srsly, I saw this film and it took hold in a place that awakened much later, coincidentally around the time suicide girls started to become a thing.

The commentary track on this is pretty great. Apparently Clu Gulager really didn't mesh with Dan O'Bannon, and attempted to thrash him with a pipe more than a couple of times. Unfortunately O'Bannon doesn't explain this matchup-for-the-ages at all.

It is pretty amazing how well directed all of the little sequences are. There's nothing really confusing or not well staged, as you say. It's all very clear what is happening, where everyone is, and what everyone is "doing" in a scene.

That is such a great, random background to give a (more or less) minor character in a horror movie. You're also missing the more gruesome detail about Ernie, in that he has an awfully good feeling for how long it takes to burn a body down to the ashes in a furnace.