I haven’t seen this yet, but it sounds like it will make an interesting contrast with Primer. I couldn’t even come close following everything that happens in Primer, but I never felt like the reach of the filmmakers had exceeded their grasp. The mind fuckery of it was mesmerizing, never frustrating. Sounds like that…

Oh hell yes. For years I’ve recommended Day of Reckoning to anyone who would listen. It’s perfectly understandable that anyone would take one look and dismiss it as worthless DTV/VOD trash, which admittedly it is. But somehow it’s DTV/VOD trash raised to the level of art.

Yeah, it’s just one of those kind of movies. There’s an unwritten rule that Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, Clue, or A Christmas Story have to be on in the background at our family gatherings.

The 80's were a simpler time.  Also, cocaine.

I don’t think the OP is saying we necessarily want fewer movies from Malick, I think it’s more like Malick seems to have serious issues when it comes to the tradeoff between quality and quantity, and so some of us would rather wait 10 years for another masterpiece like Badlands or The Thin Red Line than get…

That bizarre MPAA policy about allowing PG-13 movies to include exactly one f-bomb has been used creatively in many movies over the years.  The best one though has got to be in Spaceballs when Dark Helmet discovers the self destruct cancel button on the ship is out of order. “Fuck! Even in the future nothing works!”

Aside from it being described somewhat ambiguously as a horror film, almost nothing about this movie seemed like it would be up alley. I gave it a chance though, and it ended up being completely mesmerizing. What really got to me was how it was kind of a variation on the sociology experiment in Lord of the Flies: let’s…

Still, you gotta admit Real Sex was better than watching the scrambled Playboy Channel for an hour and considering the endeavor a success if the image of an unscrambled naked breast randomly appeared for 1 or 2 seconds.

I imagine I’m in the extreme minority here, but I still think Punisher: War Zone (2008) is the most satisfying attempt to bring Castle to the screen, big or small. For all its flaws, the 2008 movie at least seemed to get all the main elements right: an imposing, fully believable Frank Castle, a solid if unremarkable…

I always thought it was a matter of them going nuts and doing something with the color saturation and/or contrast in post production. I seem to recall Crystal Skull as being a particularly egregious example of this. Everything has this highly unnatural, harsh, blinding sheen to it that instantly pegs it as a movie…

Good call.  If that’s what they were going for, it would be a clever approach.  Somehow I don’t think they’re that clever though.

Every theme in that game is burned into my dreams forever. The theme that plays over the closing credits is what I want to hear on my deathbed in my last moments of consciousness.

That story is surely the absolute, all-time, gold standard in terrifying dystopian futures. It makes the worlds of 1984 or The Matrix look like Club Med. RIP Mr. Ellison.

A new startup wants to upload your brain to a server, but with one very small catch: They don’t actually do anything except freeze your brain, a service that another company has offered for decades (http://alcor.org/).

Yeah, this blows my mind too, because I swear rock doesn’t sound recognizably different in 2017 than it did 26 years ago. Yet, in 1991 something from 1971 like Zeppelin would have obviously been ancient like you say. What is this phenomenon? Is it just me getting old? Has rock really just not changed since the early…

This guy. Love him or hate him, nobody can deny that he’s been ludicrously lucky when it comes to the Daily Doubles. There’s no way he can continue to land on them every single time AND bet big money every single time AND get them right every single time. But so far, I think that’s why he has been demolishing…

I can assure you that it lives up the general hardcoreness that the title implies, and then some.

Like I said, I wonder about the economics of it, especially now that I checked and it turns out that his plan was not to vaporize the gold, it was just to contaminate it so that it would be temporarily unusable. Actually that makes me even more curious now. Would it be possible to permanently remove the gold from…

“... whatever Auric Goldfinger was up to when he tried to irradiate Fort Knox.” I believe he was trying to (permanently?) remove all American gold reserves from circulation, thereby increasing the value of his own gold by an order of magnitude. I’ve always wondered whether the economics of such a scheme are sound,…

I’ve always loved Inland Empire, but yeah now that people smarter than me have basically “solved” twin Peaks: The Return, I think IE is the only major Lynch work that more or less remains a complete mystery. It seems to resist any kind of complete, consistent theory that would tie it all together.