I saw "world’s most depressing anime movie" in the headline and instantly thought of GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES. I own this on DVD and have never been able to watch the entire thing without being reduced to sobbing fits by the end. This thing is brutal.

*SPOILER*

Trepanation?! WTF!!! Had to wiki it to get a better sense. Messing around with the brain when you've got no idea wtf you're doing sounds insane.

Darth Maul was the one cool thing to emerge from TPM! Executed far too early. Don't know much about how he was resuscitated/developed in The Clone Wars cartoon but he had some real potential. He should have been as iconic as Darth Vader. He should have survived. He did not suck.

Looks like a JJ Abrams monster, like Cloverfield or that red thing in Star Trek.

I love it, too. Sure, they're kids and most of them aren't thinking about how something ignorant they post on the internet may haunt them and their future prospects if they ever intend to move onward from their sheltered little lives, but SHAME IS GOOD. The things they say may not raise an eyebrow in their…

I still think it's funny.

Crazy Protractor Beard Man. I got a damn protractor for a beard — now GIMME SOME CANDY!!!

That looks remarkable which is to say COMPLETELY FUCKING HORRIFYING.

Weesa gonna die?

Yes, agreed. I'm surprised this "one buy" idea was pushed in a playwriting course — I feel like you have certain freedoms in theater versus film. I was developing a script with a studio executive once and he floated this idea of "one buy" that an audience will accept. And the TK is one aspect of LOOPER that I…

Unacceptable!

Had to skim this one a bit because I've just seen LOOPER but haven't gotten around to slugging through all of DR. WHO.

And the way he was used in the film — as these almost subliminal inserts — is still such an unsettling effect. It's why the movie is still disturbing.

Looks like Bryce Dallas Howard's been hitting the gym...

Cap'n Crunch is almost as horrifying as Captain Howdy.

Most horror films rely on jump scares. Something appearing out of nowhere, almost invariably accompanied by a striker chord that further signals you to flinch. There are different kinds of jump-scares, some a lot cheaper than others. Almost all horror films rely on a healthy number of fake-outs. SOMETHING JUMPS…

that poseur cat's probably never even seen Empire.

Yes, I can appreciate that. I think it comes down to the idea that we dream every night but may not always remember our dreams. Unless I'm going through a phase of recording dreams as soon as I wake up, I may not recall dreams for long stretches. Only occasionally remembering a particularly striking dream that…

"Scientists who study dreams... discovered... that 75% of all dreams elicit negative emotions, or contain some kind of negative content..."