That's really cool. I remember a lot of noise being made about developing "critical thinking skills" back when I was in school, but most of the assignments were still just barfing back plot points or force-applying "concepts" or whatnot. That sounds like a genuinely engaging ways to get kids to think about what they…

Lots of good stories here in the comments, but that is the one that I just cannot, cannot wrap my head around. Wasn't Straw Dogs pretty infamous when it came out? How could somebody have heard more than the title of the movie and have NO idea that it wasn't a schoolin' type movie? And yeah, to CONTINUE with it? Just,…

Timecrimes has a pulpier vibe to it that I really liked. And the "schlumpy dude sees boobs, investigates" angle is much more relatable to me than the engineers in "Primer."

Wait… As a commenting newbie who doesn't know what's what with people's accounts, are you a writer here?

Awwww yeah life finds a way baby!

The Passion of Joan of Arc is the most genuinely powerful silent movie that I have seen, by a fairly wide margin (out of only like a half-dozen movies, but still). The end is a huge punch in the gut, despite knowing exactly how it goes.

All kinds of anxiety (sexual and otherwise) in Dracula. As a teenager I remember reading Jonathan Harker's endless angst-having from the "temptation" of the female vampires in the early part of the book and thinking, "man I would KILL to have female vampires trying to sex/kill me."

I saw Herzog's version years ago, and while I enjoyed it, the only parts that I can remember clearly today are the score and the plague of rats.

Right. It gets the whole point of social interaction backwards. Relaying "contextual information" with friends or dates is fun because (presumably) it says something about the PERSON doing the contextualization, about their interests and and about their priorities. Simply recalling facts isn't the point.

And c'mon, posing for pictures for a creepy dude? I can do that!

I want to see the ending sequence of the "The Room" simultaneously with three characters, and yes, three dresses.

That's the thing with Nietzsche people. They only want to talk about what THEY want to talk about.

I still have a fantasy football guide from 1994 kicking around my parent's house which I like to flip through when I'm up there (PERHAPS IRONICALLY).

I know now why you bone.

This is easily the stupidest non-nipple-related thing the FCC has ever done.

I like her, but I don't LIKE like her.

"Family brand with certain mythic elements" is my favorite focus-grouped genre!

Yeah, but Total Recall also had a chick with three boobs.

Who wants to hear my club banger about Israeli/Palestinian land swaps?!?

This is a lot like how I felt. I'm pretty squemish and had to look away during some parts, but it ended up feeling too weightless by the end to really be disturbing.