the 180 degree rule and consistent blocking just down matter when you're introducing the worst character ever. #mandy minute 23

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but, hey, at least after the stupid freeze frame, we have left "mandy" and "andy" behind. good riddance! #mandy minute 22

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in a poorly lit van in a oddly tinted fog, there will be people you don't know, and they will be doing nothing, and you will be bored, in #mandy minute 21

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walking on a road and a van approaches IS NOT the most dramatic thing ever. it just isn't. #Mandy minute 20

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turns out, reading the crappy fantasy novel prop text with a little inflection--unlike Mandy--doesn't help; it still sucks. #Mandy minute 19

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filmmakers, don't include text on screen that we would be better off not reading. or characters we would be better off not knowing. or plots we would be better off not watching. just do better. #mandy minute 18

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and it takes the cheap way out, but it's not like we're seeing it in flashback anyway, so who cares? and, there's no way she hasn't told andy this story before; they didn't just meet yesterday. #mandy minute 17

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of course this story was going to be violent; you could tell by the lack of excitement in her voice. #mandy minute 16

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#mandy minute 15, in which our unnamed heroine starts to tell her unnamed roommate a story, boringly

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seriously, when there is no distinction between reality and dreams, and anything surreal seems entirely accidental, and your characters don't even have names yet...

where was i going with this? #mandy minute 14

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