When he lost the beard.

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Honestly, I'm hard put to think of a film for which Alfonso wouldn't be a great choice.

Admittedly I read the book after seeing the movie, but I love them both. The movie is great at selling the tone of the book, even if it doesn't unfold as elegantly.

@avclub-73aaacf9803fed2a04f802f3f85225e5:disqus Uhh, maybe his Baron Munchausen mode.

Louis CK and Charlie Brown, you say? http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Kwaidan motherfuckers! Actually, that's probably PG.

It wasn't empty. The themes and characters were really compelling and well established.

If a gimmick is cool and well-executed enough, I'd say it's sufficient justification for a movie.

I'm a noob. Which movie is this?

I think that's the problem. It was so effective that people were disappointed in the final film basically being a social commentary drama.

It was just too contrived. And I'm not even talking about the water or God's plan, the way it sets up scares was such a put-on.

Youtube really is a much better fit for found footage than movie theaters, because short of extensive research, there's usually little way to verify them.

The first half of Lost Highway is more or less that.

I think Twin Peaks scares me more than his films, even. BOB crawling over the couch towards Maddy. NOPE. White Eyes Laura in the Black Lodge. NOPE NOPE NOPE. Why is it that screaming backwards sounds so much scarier than forwards?

Unsettling, yes. Scary, not so much. I would have liked a little more transition between Ashley Judd believing in the bugs and going full tinfoil (literally), but it was still really compelling and twisted. It's especially fucked up how it's sort of a happy ending.

Such a great ride. I'd say it's tied with Indiana Jones for best in the park.

You thought that was otherwise good?

I thought she was incredibly over the top. If they wanted to make that movie really unsettling and subversive, they would have made her so charismatic and persuasive that Thomas Jane himself starts to wonder whether he should follow her. As it stood, the movie was just "LOL DEMAGOGUES AMIRITE?"

I guess the twist devalued the philosophy to some extent, but it wasn't wildly lower quality. I just kept thinking of ways the kid could have checked whether or not his brother was telling the truth.