GeorgePedrosa

I wanted to hug Adam for giving such a thoughtful and passionate defense of this tremendously underrated movie. You expressed many of the same thoughts I had while watching Martyrs (I've actually told my girlfriend, after we both watched it and were stuck in existential dread for a few hours, that this is the 2001 - A Space Odyssey of horror movies), but you also described a metalinguistic subtext I never realized until listening to the podcast. Martyrs is everything a transcendental horror movie should aspire to be: beautifully filmed, bold, horrifying, disturbing, yet ultimately empathetic and human. 100% YES.

Boogie Nights. Not even a question. Its ensemble alone would give it the edge, and I happen to believe it's a serious contender for greatest American movie ever made.