My dad came downstairs and sleepily asked, "What the hell is going on?" I frantically told him to shush as the film was approaching the climax. Once the credits started to roll, I sank back into my seat, sweating and panting.

What's with all the love for The Square? I found it to be completely inept on almost every level. Almost no character development, boring characters, flat acting and disastrous direction. A Simple Plan, as some have mentioned, is the exact opposite. Strong performances, well-developed characters, and superb direction.

For me, the "stranger within" genre is my favorite. Unless its truly awful (like "Devil's Pond" or "The Resident"), my adrenaline will speed up. My favorite entry, is of course, "Fear," and I have a story about that which I will tell at the bottom. Other good ones are "Fatal Attraction" and "Single White Female."

Also good but criminally underrated is "Copycat." Two terrific performances from two of the top actresses working, great atmosphere and a compelling story. Awesome.

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Okay, so I have a pretty funny story about the first time I saw the movie "Fear." I was on break from college, and since I am a night owl, I was watching the movie in the living room with headphones. An hour into the movie, I was terrified. I was screaming into my hands and damn near hyperventilating. Shortly thereafter, the new puppies we had just bought (Gordon Setters) woke up and started whining and howling, waking up my parents. My dad came downstairs and sleepily asked, "What the hell is going on?" I frantically told him to shush as the film was approaching the climax. Once the credits started to roll, I sank back into my seat, sweating and panting. I was shaking for the next hour as I wrote my review on iMDb.

The only other movie that scared me that much was "Insidious." I got a funny story about that too, btw.

What's with all the love for The Square? I found it to be completely inept on almost every level. Almost no character development, boring characters, flat acting and disastrous direction. A Simple Plan, as some have mentioned, is the exact opposite. Strong performances, well-developed characters, and superb direction.

Well I disagree completely on the characters. Ever seen a movie hitman like Joel Edgerton's in that movie? The way he's clearly a scuzzy, low-level criminal but the film makes clear how much he cares about his girlfriend, what code he follows, etc. Or the way his girlfriend is not a gangster moll but a simple, even perhaps mildly retarded woman. As for the direction, you didn't notice the way everything seems suffused with menace, or the way the shot was handled when I have my "Oh fuck" moment at the end, when we're so busy focusing on the two characters scuffling in the foreground that we don't notice the character in the background until



I realize that you're iconoclastic just for the sake of it and feel that cinematic achievement has never surpassed The Rock, but I think you're off base here.