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In this episode of the /Filmcast: After Dark, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley discuss Nicholas Cage’s career, attempt to stack-rank John Woo’s American films, and discuss movies that have changed the way they live. Special guest Dan Trachtenberg joins us from The Totally Rad Show. Additionally, /Film head honcho Peter Sciretta joins us for a discussion about video games as art. A big thanks to Josh for sending in the best e-mail we’ve ever received, and also thanks to all the /Filmcast listeners who sent in e-mails about Synecdoche, New York. Be sure to check out Filmbrain’s spectacular essays on the film, part 1 and part 2.

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  • I think Pulp Fiction may have changed my life, because it's what re-invigorated my love of movies.
  • i feel the exact same way about Clerks
  • cjstearns
    the Face/Off...Hard Target discussion was so money
  • cjstearns
    and that email about Fire in the Sky was so many shades of awesome..it sounded like a fucked up music video with out the music!
  • Scared of showers
    When I was little, my mom was a horror movie buff and she was always constantly watching them. She told me to go to my room because she said they were too scary for me but I declined because I was 10-years-old and I wanted to show my mother that I wasn't scared of anything, but boy was I wrong.

    She was watching Kubrick's The Shining and I've never heard about it or what it was. I was so terrified of bushes and long hallways after seeing that movie, but I wasn't as scared of them as I was with showers because of the scene with that hideous woman. I was so afraid to take showers, or even open the curtain because I feared that the woman would be there. I was so afraid that I didn't even use the toilet in my bathroom because it was right next to the shower, so I went into my backyard to do my business.

    I didn't take a shower for almost two weeks and when I did, it was at my cousin's house. I've become accustomed to taking showers regularly now, but every time to this day I'm still a little weary when I open the curtain so I clench my fist, preparing to knock out whoever is in the shower.

    I still haven't seen the film since then, but I've bought the movie on Blu-Ray about a month ago so I could take a second look at what formed my hygiene habits throughout my childhood and teenage years but I've never gotten around to it, but honestly I think I'm just scared to watch it again.
  • Jay
    witches by Roald Dahl messed me up as a kid, I was scared of any old lady wearing gloves
  • Daniel
    what about Indigo Prophecy//Fahrenheit?

    I was definitely attached to Lucas Kane (and the other characters as well).
  • freemachine
    The scene in "Poltergeist" where the doll attacks the kid while he's sitting on his bed scared the crap out of me. I shared a room with my little sister at the time and she had a bunch of dolls. I made her put them in the closet before I went to bed, insuring that the closet was securely closed. Even then, I made sure to keep my hands and feet away from the edges of the bed before I fell asleep in order to prevent the dolls from biting my fingers and toes off.
  • Weyland_Yutani
    What the email writer forgot to include in his story, was that they watched Fire in the Sky together, but , key point - she was sitting next to him naked. It's a simple transference and proves once again that, given two choices, boobage will always win out.

    Cage was great in Face/Off. Castor Troy had to be a distinguished character for the conceit to even have a chance and Cage made a great bad guy out of the opportunity. I would have paid to see the further exploits of Castor and Pollux Troy. Even in The Rock, he managed to be quirky enough to make the character interesting. Cage should have harnessed some of that Peggy Sue / FaceOff crazy for later in his career. I happen to think he just mellowed out as he got older and lost a little of that.
  • Taxi Driver changed my life. For the worse or better who knows?
  • hard target, awesome
    HARD TARGET is an absolutely incredible underrated movie, one of Van Damme's best film. damme will shoot someone in the head and finish it off with kick to the face, absolute class.
  • The "someone else in the mirror" fear seems rather easy to solve, especially for a movie director. Just point a video camera at the mirror.
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