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#4 The Departed (2006) 157 pts, 23 lists "Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe fuck yourself." #1 placements: 1 #2 placements: 1 #3 placements: 4 Top 5 placements: 11 Top 10 placements: 6 Box Office: $291.5 million Rotten Tomatoes: 90% Metacritic: 85 Awards: 4 Academy Awards and 1 nomination, 6 BAFTA nominations, 2 National Board of Review Awards and #4 for Top 10 Films of the Year, 1 DGA Award, 1 WGA Award, 1 Golden Globe Award and 5 nominations, 1 Grammy Award nomination, 1 MTV Movie Award Roger Ebert’s Review: "It is intriguing to wonder what Scorsese saw in the Hong Kong movie that inspired him to make the second remake of his career (after "Cape Fear"). I think he instantly recognized that this story, at a buried level, brought two sides of his art and psyche into equal focus. We know that he, too, was fascinated by gangsters. In making so many films about them, about what he saw and knew growing up in Little Italy, about his insights into their natures, he became, in a way, an informant." BOT User Review: "A fucking goddamn modern classic." - @Deep Wang Its Legacy: Brought Infernal Affairs more recognition to Western waters. Earned him the Best Director Oscar he deserved ages ago. Was Scorsese's highest-grossing film until Shutter Island. Brought the story of Whitey Bulger to light before Johnny Depp had the chance. Had a sequel in development that never got made. Gave Anthony Anderson a paycheck. Commentary: The Departed is one of the rare Hollywood remakes of a foreign-language title that’s actually good. Scratch that, some may say it’s better than its source, Infernal Affairs. With an undercover cop going into the Irish Mob and a mafia member serving as a mole in the police department, it’s one of the most fascinating crime stories one could think up. And this leads into a wild, high-octane thrill ride with twists and intrigue that keeps you guessing, as well as an ensemble cast so good you almost forget that charisma vacuum and hate crime committing asswipe Mark Wahlberg is in here...almost. It was Scorsese’s biggest hit until Shutter Island four years later and is largely regarded as Scorsese’s best film in his 2000s tenure. For many of the 20 and 30somethings here on the forums, this was probably one of the first films that introduced them to the world of Scorsese. And The Departed, which is also famous for giving Martin the Best Director Oscar he arguably should have gotten decades ago, is a wonderful introductory point. It’s no wonder it ranked this high.

#5 Raging Bull (1980) 142 pts, 20 lists "Go get 'em, champ." #1 placements: 1 #2 placements: 1 #3 placements: 1 Top 5 placements: 7 Top 10 placements: 8 Box Office: $23.4 million Rotten Tomatoes: 94% Metacritic: 89 Awards: 2 Academy Awards and 6 nominations, 2 BAFTAs and 2 nominations, 1 Golden Globe and nomination, 2 National Board of Review Awards and 2nd Place for Top 10 Films, #24 in AFI's Top 100 Movies, #4 in 2007 list Roger Ebert’s Review: "“Raging Bull” is the most painful and heartrending portrait of jealousy in the cinema--an “Othello” for our times. It's the best film I've seen about the low self-esteem, sexual inadequacy and fear that lead some men to abuse women. Boxing is the arena, not the subject. LaMotta was famous for refusing to be knocked down in the ring. There are scenes where he stands passively, his hands at his side, allowing himself to be hammered. We sense why he didn't go down. He hurt too much to allow the pain to stop." BOT User Review: "DeNiro's performance is undoubtedly the movie, but I also love Joe Pesci lot in this.I think it's a great movie, one of Scorsese's bests. Gripping and honest, with great acting performances all around." - @Sam Its Legacy: Hailed as the best film of the 1980s. Oft considered one of the greatest movies ever and Scorsese's magnum opus. Kickstarted the careers of Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty. Became the first film to be selected in its first year of eligibility in the National Film Registry. Earned an unauthorized sequel, The Bronx Bull, in 2006. Gave Joe Pesci a paycheck. Commentary: Essentially the more intense, more violent sibling to Rocky, Raging Bull is a film that kind of snuck up on people, despite the awards success it received. Its violent content and starring a character full of rage, anger, and destruction was not a lot of people’s cup of tea when it first debuted. But in just a couple short years, Raging Bull remained victorious, with many, including critics like Roger Ebert, citing the film as one of, if not the best film of the 1980s. And who can blame them? With a stellar cast, including future stars like Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty, Raging Bull serves as both a pulsating, invigorating sports title and a fascinating character study of a man consumed with rage and jealousy and how it destroys his relationships with his wife and family. It’s a rare sports film that people interested in the sport can get a lot out of, if not more than sports fans. Martin Scorsese has never been a sports fan, let alone a boxing fan, yet his understanding on Jake Lamotta still rings true and appeals to anybody, regardless of interest in the subject matter or not.

Sorry for the long delay, but I'm hoping to get this done today. So let's begin.

It is actually nice to see Encanto as the one film benefiting from NWH spillover, because it's a really lovely, fun movie. A pity that the Disney+ release will kill its legs, but I guess Disney doesn't care too much about it.

There's no IMAX/PLF anymore. Theater chains really need to have 2+ IMAX theaters at this point, because they're the only places people are going out to see movies these days.

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Honey go to bed. It's just a movie.

To distract from the Charlie/RTH calls... Daily Domestic Chart for Thursday December 16, 2021 Movie Distr Gross %YD %LW Thr Per Thr Total Gross D - P Spider-Man: No Way Home Sony Pictures $50,000,000 3,767 $13,273 $50,000,000 1 (2) Encanto Walt Disney $734,586 -6% -9% 3,750 $196 $75,016,607 23 2 (1) West Side Story 20th Century… $705,047 -27% 2,820 $250 $14,566,021 7 3 (3) House of Gucci United Artists $391,840 -21% -43% 3,407 $115 $43,031,865 23 4 (4) Ghostbusters: Afterlife Sony Pictures $331,530 -30% -44% 3,815 $87 $113,849,884 28 5 (5) Eternals Walt Disney $195,053 -37% -44% 3,030 $64 $162,406,293 42 6 (7) Clifford the Big Red Dog Paramount Pi… $96,325 -24% -26% 2,840 $34 $48,186,025 37 7 (8) Dune Warner Bros. $56,753 -53% 948 $60 $106,628,486 56 8 (6) Resident Evil: Welcome to… Sony Pictures $52,176 -69% -76% 2,572 $20 $16,452,990 23 9 (11) Belfast Focus Features $35,785 -24% -53% 819 $44 $6,672,260 35 10 (9) No Time to Die United Artists $34,643 -50% -67% 777 $45 $160,772,007 70 11 (-) The French Dispatch Searchlight … $26,792 -26% -51% 310 $86 $15,693,160 56 12 (-) Licorice Pizza United Artists $23,166 -14% -33% 4 $5,792 $1,201,007 21 - (12) King Richard Warner Bros. $21,015 -55% 1,402 $15 $14,606,901 28 - (10) Venom: Let There be Carnage Sony Pictures $20,854 -68% -72% 1,003 $21 $212,193,049 77 - (-) National Champions STX Entertai… $12,648 -58% 1,197 $11 $420,674 7 - (-) Spencer Neon $7,408 -37% -59% 228 $32 $7,064,193 42 - (-) Benedetta IFC Films $6,809 -31% -61% 123 $55 $306,392 14 - (-) Ron’s Gone Wrong 20th Century… $3,431 -9% -53% 210 $16 $22,979,592 56 - (-) Tadap 20th Century… $1,353 -68% -75% 50 $27 $130,934 14 - (-) Wolf Focus Features $1,045 -65% -86% 206 $5 $147,595 14 - (-) Flee Neon $977 -16% -23% 4 $244 $42,887 14 - (-) Antlers Searchlight … $735 -59% -85% 145 $5 $10,619,670 49 - (-) For the Love of Money Freestyle Re… $660 -65% -83% 79 $8 $472,094 23 - (-) The Addams Family 2 United Artists $619 +1% -51% 46 $13 $56,489,153 77 - (-) Halloween Kills Universal $540 -31% -49% 120 $5 $92,002,155 63 26 $52,761,790 LOL at Encanto with the one great hold of the bunch. Good for that film I suppose.

Guys let Charlie live his life Jeez Louise

I'm slowly starting to come to the realization that Downey and Evans will probably get the Cushing Rogue One treatment in a few decades with these movies and I am utterly terrified of that idea.

This reminds me of when I was in grade school, whenever it was Halloween and the kids all dressed up in their costumes, there was always like three or four kids dressed up as Ghostface. And I still have no idea why we as kids latched onto the guy, nor why these kids' parents would allow them to dress as him.

...does it matter?

The-Numbers have them available. Kind of annoying that 20th Century is listed separately than Disney, but it is there. https://www.the-numbers.com/market/2021/distributors Disregarding the Omnicron stuff, I'm not sure why people are so down on Morbius. Even with it having Leto and a Z-List character, it's still a part of Marvel and delivers the corny 2000s blockbuster aesthetic that made Venom so popular. I would think 40M would be the minimum here (again, disregarding Omnicron)

GIVE THEM SPIELBERG YOU COWARDS

But I mean still, we need @The Panda to deliver the goods.

https://deadline.com/2021/12/spider-man-no-way-home-opening-weekend-international-box-office-1234891616/

@The Panda You need to give us the goods.

For the record, this is very grain of salt and based on my own weird extrapolations: Tron Legacy's 25th was a 36% jump from the 22nd. Using that would mean 10M to 13.6M. Matrix will have a huge fan rush and likely have mixed WOM/repeat viewing on Max, so I feel that sounds about right? Maybe a little higher near 14M? Could also just be that Matrix is just frontloaded due to reception and HBO Max and it has a poor Christmas Day number. Sing 2 though could probably go from 10M to 15-17M or something