It was Nightwatch with Patricia Arquette that I was thinking of. Great flick. Suspense and thrills with a touch of gore.

I think what I loved most about that movie was how at the end the main character and his girl just let it all out with the horror and the fear. I like scary/creepy/gory movies where it isn't a Given that 99.7% of the characters will die. This one had a nice balance of the creeps and the actors belting out the fear (where I feel other top-billed actors are afraid to scream too much lest they scratch their vocal chords and make frown/laugh lines).

Nothing freaked me out more than the two trees outside the hospital wrapped in black plastic. I've always wondered if that was a happy accident (they were working with what was on site) or if that was set design.

watching Bad Boys II

Henry Rollins. My favorite stealth cameo. Always the SWAT commander, never the romantic lead.

I didn't even notice him.

I also watched Mulholland Drive today. Bleh.

I love Henry Rollins in the Jackass movie too.

I thought it was going to be a comedy

::eyebrows rocket to the top of forehead::

The Fassbinder miniseries?

yes... there are big gaps in my movie knowledge. I knew Fassbinder was a fmaous director but that was it. I barely recall watching some series DVD with the commentary on and someone saying they modeled something after Berlin Alexanderplatz and thinking, "hmm, I've heard of that but know nothing about it. I should add it to my queue."

So... do they continue to treat the murdering rapist like he has some redeeming value?

So... do they continue to treat the murdering rapist like he has some redeeming value?

Well, that's not really the point. Berlin Alexnderplatz is a high modernist novel, generally considered to be the Ulysses of German literature. Fassbinder was one of the three great directors of the 70s German cinema, along with Herzog and Wim Wenders. Fassbinder was very formalist, indebted to Douglas Sirk's melodramas, but in a very ironic way.

So. It's not a straightforward tale. It's a portrait of an entire city in high modernist style, compounded by a rather arch, ironic director.

It's a portrait of an entire city

so are we done with Franz after part 1 or will the camera continue to follow him around? The way he treats women is especially unpleasant for me at this point in my life.

so are we done with Franz after part 1 or will the camera continue to follow him around? The way he treats women is especially unpleasant for me at this point in my life.

I think he's the sick soul of Berlin, so he'll be around.

OK, thanks for the info. I'll shove that back to the bottom of the queue for future watching when it doesn't hit so close to home. I can't see that kind of behavior as anything but literal at the moment.