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Oh, not the "there was enough room for Jack" argument. The whole point of the story is that Rose only had 2-3 days with this guy but it changed her whole life anyway, he was always supposed to die, Cameron would've had told the story an entirely different way if Jack had lived.

Yeah, there was the week where it was up in the air whether Leo was going to replace himself at #1 with Man in the Iron Mask, Titanic won by just 300K. With Titanic, it had ten $20 million weekends and even after it had passed Star Wars unadjusted it was still #1, so that kept it fun to follow.

Her seems like something that should have expanded slowly to a few hundred theaters unless it really broke out. It's not that word of mouth is bad, it just looks too different for mainstream audiences to embrace.

Watched part of this on AMC last night, it's ridiculous how much of the dialogue I have memorized. There are parts I have quibbles with but still love it. The treatment was interesting to read, to see the differences between that and the final movie. Before I hadn't really considered the idea that Rose and Cal were already sleeping together ahead of being married (a huge deal in 1912) but there are lines and actions in the movie that go along with that interpretation.

They announced it after The Sound of Music thing got such huge ratings. They can't show The Voice, The Blacklist and football all the time. At least it's not a musical? The People's Choice Awards are tonight, totally meaningless but I love award shows!

Michelle Monaghan and Bridget Moynahan are both tall and brunette but are totally different people. Ellen Pompeo used to get the blah love interest roles in movies before she landed Grey's Anatomy and turned that into a 10 season gig, maybe there's hope for Michelle M's career yet.

Michelle Monaghan is such a...non-entity? I'm not going to argue that she's an amazing actress or anything, but she's just so mediocre to get worked up over. She's just...there, the interchangeably blah love interest when they couldn't get Olivia Wilde or Jessica Biel or something.

Ten years ago there were way more Blockbusters and places like that, and there were physical bootlegs of stuff still playing. The Passion of the Christ came out in 2004, and my granddad in his nineties had a copy of that in his house like three weeks after it had been released.

It was to show a bit of hypocrisy on Jordan's part, because his whole job was stealing people's money and living it up with orgies. But when someone takes his money (an amount that isn't very much to him, relatively) and has an orgy, he's livid and threatens to kill the dude. I'm not condoning violence, it's not the answer, etc., but IRL Belfort is very lucky the people he ripped off haven't come after him physically.

Yes, people saying JLaw could win Supporting Actress aren't just being Lawsbians--she's getting good reviews, critics' wins, nominations, reports that AMPAS members like her in AH. What more do people need to believe she's a player here?

What was DDL impersonating, the Lincoln Memorial? The man was president in the 1860s, it's not like he could just Youtube how Abe really sounded/stood/etc. when he made his speeches. I guess what other actors who'd played Abe Lincoln were like? But for him, it was a restrained performance.

There's not a 1-to-1 correlation but there's an overlap. Some performances you can tell will go over big with critics but not the Academy, others hit the sweet spot for both. Jennifer's actually won some critics' prizes for American Hustle, IMO it's a performance that will play even better to AMPAS than critics, the Academy likes nominating actors in David O. Russell movies, the reports from screenings for AMPAS members have her getting the best response out of the cast...I'm not saying this because I think she should win, but in reading the tea leaves, all the signs show that she's a major player in the Supporting Actress race. People don't have to like it, but she is. The Butler is expanding by 99 theaters this weekend.

But some critics' circles do actually name runners-ups, and aside from that, in many races, many years, you can sort of tell by how the wins shake out throughout the season. Like, when Meryl Streep won the Oscar for Iron Lady, Viola Davis won the SAG and Critics' Choice Award and some other things, so among awards watchers, she's thought of as the runner up that year. Was she in actuality? We'll never know, unless all the different groups release all the numbers. But it's a game Oscar watchers play for sure, ranking who's ahead, who's on the bubble, numerically, from most to least likely to be nominated/win. They even go back in time and rank old awards lineups from decades ago, it's like what random box office stats are to people here. Right now I do see Best Supporting Actress coming down to Lupita vs. JLaw.

Pretty sure the Curious George soundtrack hit #1 since then, but it's still an impressive achievement and Frozen will probably be the most successful movie soundtrack since Pitch Perfect at least.

Harvey has too many contenders this year (Butler, Fruitvale, August: Osage County, Philomena) but none of them can really get traction from place to place.

I don't really agree. Huge fan of the series myself, but basically I think Potter in 2001 had a massive fanbase and you either went into the first movie a fan already or became one, or it just wasn't your thing. After the first one, the people who weren't really into it didn't come back, nor did the book fans who didn't like the first adaptation. There were seven books, eight movies, that weren't really standalone stories, with tween protagonists who grow up, but at most it becomes young adult-ish. The Hunger Games is kids killing each other but Katniss is practically an adult starting out, so it gets people who wouldn't have given the first couple of Potter movies the time of day. And it's only three books, a less complex world compared to Potter, so it's easier to adapt to movies. LotR, I guess appealed to the GA more, explaining why it grew from movie to movie. Also, I really don't mind Gambon as Dumbledore, I did at first but as the books go on the revelations about the character and his actions suit a colder, less grandfatherly take on him.

Where I live in Virginia, some schools go back today, some don't. My sister and her husband are teachers in different cities with two kids, one in preschool, so the four of them are all in different school districts. One parent and kid had to go back today, the other two start back on Monday. The numbers today will be a lot better than next Thursday's numbers. Possibly, though not to the same scale, more likely theaters will keep it a few more weeks while they move on from the Christmas dead weight really fast.

Yes and no, I mean, there's a certain amount of theatrics, but it has to be pretty easy for the line to blur, that's why you get stars who won't do certain things anymore because they feel like it would be cheating, even though it's just part of the job. How if Wolf of Wall Street rated PG anywhere? Coke and orgies for the whole family!

Some is simulated (the stuff that comes on movie channels late at night) but for hardcore it's the real deal. Sometimes for movies that get released in theaters, for the graphic scenes, they use prosthetics so it's not technically hardcore but looks realistic.

Spike TV has been running The Departed recently. The TV edits are kind of amusing. The mouths and words don't remotely match at times.

The same way people listen to songs more than once...

Not thrilled about the SEC in the title game yet again, but seeing Urban Meyer all sad-faced on the sidelines...

College football is huge in places that don't have a pro team in the state or nearby, like Alabama.

I don't have a problem with Hutcherson, I'm just surprised that a studio that picked Liam would also go for Josh, because they could've gone in the Alex Pettyfer direction.

So I see I missed video game, Potter and Hunger Games discussions (and now 90s music, SWV represent!)... I kind of write off the chemistry issues with Peeta and Gale in the movies as Katniss being very reserved and tomboyish and them being stuck in a dystopian killing game, so maybe it's undrealistic to expect Notebook or Titanic-level fireworks. In some ways, I'm kind of surprised/impressed with the studio that they did go ahead and cast Hutcherson for Peeta. I think Liam got cast because some studio exec figured teen girls would think he was hot. Josh has his admirers, but he's not the traditional "leading man" type (neither is Peeta the book character but that's never stopped Hollywood from wanting to upgrade the characters' looks). It's not like THG started out when they were little kids and they didn't know how he'd grow up, no, they picked Josh, anyway, when way "prettier" guys tried out.