"It is hell sat on the sideline but at the same time it is massively important.
"A Serious Man," like "Burn After Reading," is in their bleak, black, belittling mode, and it's hell to sit through.
Before an audience of around 1,000 in San Francisco, nervous as hell, he sat in headphones before a console, with his face projected onto a giant screen behind him.
The scenes of suffering and humiliation — the prisoners hammered by their American guards and interrogators — are hell to sit through, and completely convincing.
The binding political symbol is brilliant: the Iron Throne, a chair of metal spikes that looks like hell to sit on.
"Redacted" is hell to sit through, but I think De Palma is bravely trying to imagine his way inside an atrocity, and that he's onto something powerful with his multisided approach.
"Batman Begins" and "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" may appeal to the target audience, but, for the over-twenty-fours, these movies are so overdone and underfelt that they're hell to sit through.
When everything looks like it's going to hell, they sit down and write down what they are grateful for in their lives.
These little girls, who are normally hell-raisers, sat here so properly with their little pinkies sticking out, sipping their tea, having quiet conversation.
