See, the crow has a beak that's a little straighter, to make it easier to nitpick television shows.

Yeah, but the other problem is that Gravity doesn't have a whole lot to say. There's some conception/birth imagery which is interesting but I don't understand what this whole "grand vision about humanity" is that you're talking about. What did you get out of it that I didn't?

I just didn't see the point of it, and if it was a better scene that wouldn't have mattered. Like I said earlier, I don't think we need a scene of her talking to that random guy. Cuaron was kinda jumping through hoops to get some lines in there for Bullock, to give her someone to talk to. It would have been so much bolder to just cut the bullshit and have almost NO dialogue after the first few scenes. All Is Lost did this perfectly.

Oh that's not what I'm saying at all! From what I've read, the film's story is really interesting and dark and complex.

I really thought it was awful. When she started howling along with the dog, I cringed. A few people in the audience started to giggle, and I don't blame them. I don't think the movie needed a scene where she connects with Earth, let alone a scene this awkward.

They're really pushing this for the religious crowd, I guess. Not a hint of any of the darker elements of the story, especially not those gigantic, six-armed angels.

Death Grips just dropped their new album for free. I don't think they're capable of making a song that isn't straight fucking FIRE. This is probably the most low-key song on the album.

I think the "sad song" thing hits the nail on the head. We had just gone through a tremendous tragedy that defied comprehension. In 80s slasher movies, the victims deserved it to a degree. They were reckless, irresponsible teenage jerks. But once we saw innocents die on a massive scale, that idea flipped. The violence got a lot more brutal, and the victims got a lot more sympathetic. It stopped being "horror," really. Saw and Hostel didn't focus on scaring people at all. They wanted to disturb people. Because we realized how disturbing this sort of thing really is.

And now that we're a decade removed from that event, with bin Laden dead, we can go back to getting spooked for fun. Horror movies don't really reflect violence in society anymore, because nothing can top what we've already gone through.

But seriously. Torture Porn as a genre started to explode in a time when America was very angry. And since we couldn't just personally rip out the throats of everyone we hated, we resorted to watching people pretend to do it in movies. That's just my theory, anyway.

Also, it's interesting that the genre has totally died out in recent years. Now it's all found footage and haunted house movies (sometimes both at once.) Thanks Obama!

Is there a God? Probably not. Not the omnipotent being that most religions talk about, at least. But if your belief gets you through the day, then more power to you. As long as you aren't using religion to hurt people, I have absolutely zero problem with it.

Are you guys doing the extended editions of the first two films? Or is that a bridge too far?