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Doesn't look like it in my area. My two local Regals have one showing each on the 24th super early in the day, and then are just gone completely once Christmas Day hits, with Encanto being the oldest film of the bunch in those locations.

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I've said it before and I'll say it again; what was the point of a Kingsman prequel? Golden Circle already made people lose a lot of goodwill to the franchise, so you were going to drop no matter what. Plus Vaughn was developing this movie during the Disney buyout process, so the franchise was on even shakier ground than it was when GC first came out. Why not just make one more movie with Egerton and Firth, tie up whatever loose ends or plot threads, and give a good closure for poor saps like me who like Golden Circle? Because now we aren't getting that. And if you want to do a prequel, just wait a while and have it be some splashy Hulu Original Movie, problem solved.

I'm very mad that I've been trying to make "Papa Feige" a thing for the past two years, and yet @RRA steals my thunder with his less enticing "King Kevin". 😔

That's what they get for not giving the people Sexy Eggsy.

Serious question here, from people who understand COVID better than I do, why exactly is Omicron causing all these shutdowns and restrictions and lockdowns? I know this happened with Delta to an extent, but here in the States they're closing down Broadway shows and sports and concerts and I'm just confused when folks are also saying it's a less deadly variant compared to Delta.

Scream Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-23 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 27 200 6254 3.20% Total Seats Sold Today: 19 I messed up and forgot to post yesterday, though I did track that day and got about 18 sales. So don't worry about me forgetting. Comps are coming tomorrow, but they won't really mean much of anything this far off. *shrug*

Sing 2 Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-1 and Counting (Final Count) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 1 102 3063 16804 18.23% Total Seats Sold Today: 441 Total Seats Sold WITHOUT EARLY ACCESS: 1,655 Comp (WITHOUT Early Access) 3.838x of Cruella Thu+Fri T-1 (29.58M) 9.786x of Jungle Cruise T-1 (26.42M) 9.913x of Encanto T-1 (14.87M) Ehh, that Encanto number honestly seems about right. The vaccine efficacy is about to kick in for a lot of kids by now, so it makes sense this could not be as affected by Omicron.

The Matrix: Resurrections Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-1 (Final Count) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 82 2,504 14430 17.35% Total Seats Sold Today: 343 Comp 0.646x of Godzilla vs. Kong (6.27M) 2.289x of The Suicide Squad T-1 (9.38M) 1.423x of Dune T-1 (7.25M) Y'all better be right that Philly's just a fluke.

The King's Man Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 1 41 436 6357 6.86% Total Seats Sold Today: 167 Comp 0.669x of Snake Eyes (936K) 0.214x of The Suicide Squad (879K) 0.150x of No Time to Die (944K) 0.187x of Dune (951K) Well everything points to the 900K range, so I guess that's where I'm going too.

I'm...honestly contemplating it, only because the Halsey wolf is making my "furry trash" levels go crazy. 😔

And now, I can finally close this. Again, I'm sorry this went on longer than expected, but I've been having issues at work and I didn't expect them to be as big of an issue as they would. Makes it hard to focus on these types of countdowns. Even so, I hope you guys loved what I wrote and I hope I got some of you to see an all-time master's finest works. Super-duper extra huge thanks to @Tower @lilmac @baumer @Joel M @Ronin46 @A Star is Orm @BestPicturePlutoNash @TheDude391 @aabattery @Fancyarcher @TalismanRing @WrathOfHan @filmlover @cannastop @Rorschach @Jake Gittes @von Kenni @Jamiem @Blankments @4815162342 @MOVIEGUY @DAR @lorddemaxus @titanic2187 and @The Panda Literally, without your contributions, this countdown would not happen, so I have my full gratitude. And a super-duper extra huge thank you to Martin Scorsese, for continuing to do what you do best, despite all the odds stacked against you in the ensuing decades. You've given us joy and wonder through your films and we can only hope Killers of the Flower Moon will continue your hit streak. And lastly, it's time to reveal what next year's countdown, December 2022, will be all about. And this time, it's actually going to be a request that was asked all the way back in 2020. So drumroll please... The Coen Brothers Countdown That's right folks. The duo who have given us the likes of Raising Arizona, No Country For Old Men, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, and more will get their time in the sun next year. Shout outs to the lovely and beautiful @Jake Gittes for requesting this topic, and I hope you'll like it in about 12 months. And once again, everybody who voted this year, please try and catch up and support my annual tradition. I love doing this stuff every year and I want to continue further. Thank you for taking the time to read, like, and discuss the list, have a wonderful holiday, and remember that Timothee loves you!

#1 Taxi Driver (1990) 195 pts, 24 lists "Are you talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here." #1 placements: 5 #2 placements: 6 #3 placements: 3 Top 5 placements: 17 Top 10 placements: 6 Box Office: $28.4 million Rotten Tomatoes: 96% Metacritic: 94 Awards: Palme D'Or at Cannes Film Festival, 4 Academy Award nominations, 1 Blue Ribbon Award, 3 BAFTAs and 4 nominations, 2 Golden Globe Award nominations, 1 Grammy Award nomination, 3 National Society of Film Critics Awards and 3 Runner-Ups Roger Ebert’s Review: "This utter aloneness is at the center of "Taxi Driver," one of the best and most powerful of all films, and perhaps it is why so many people connect with it even though Travis Bickle would seem to be the most alienating of movie heroes. We have all felt as alone as Travis. Most of us are better at dealing with it." BOT User Review: "FWIW the best performance of all time is in this movie..." - @CoolioD1 Its Legacy: Scorsese's first major hit. Made Robert De Niro a movie star. Earned controversy for violence and Jodie Foster's casting. Jodie Foster's major breakthrough. Inspired John Hinckley Jr. (unfortunately). Almost caused Martin Scorsese to quit moviemaking entirely. #47 on AFI's Top 100, #52 on 2007 edition. Joined the National Film Registry in 1994. 19th on BBC's Top 100 American Movies. Kickstarted Paul Schrader's career. "You talkin' to me?" was parodied to death, including by De Niro in Rocky and Bullwinkle. Bernard Herrmann's final score. 31st best film ever by Sight & Sound's 2012 critic's list, #5 on director's list. Gave Albert Brooks a paycheck. Commentary: The battle between this and Goodfellas for #1 was insane. Every time a new list came in, the two would flip-flop from one another. And yet, just by one single point, Taxi Driver won it all. Frankly, one list could have changed everything when it came to these rankings. But that’s not a slight against Taxi Driver. It got to #1 for a good reason, and a good chunk of it comes from Robert De Niro’s performance as Travis Bickle. I know I’ve been saying “Robert De Niro’s career best” a lot in this countdown (God forbid he be such a good actor), but I really mean this here. Depicting a Vietnam veteran struggling to keep it all together, the film details a guy stuck on the edge. Unable to truly feel compassion and a connection with others, as he drives through New York in the dead of night. The deterioration of his mental state is fascinating, helped further by the world around him. This New York concocted by Martin is surreal, strange, and full of odd characters and destinations, as Martin creates a film that feels almost like a wild and crazy dream, with strange, yet still understandable logic to it. This only leads to a memorable storyline that tows the line between dream and reality, with an ending that people still discuss and analyze to this day. If anything, the film’s final message, promoting mental illnesses while the world does nothing to truly fix it, is just as big, if not a bigger issue today. This has always been a constant in Scorsese’s filmography, his films still focusing on always relevant issues. And Taxi Driver, simply put, does it the best. Again, like Goodfellas, I can’t really add anything else that everybody and their grandma has already said about the movie. So I think it’s fair to say that despite our own personal preferences, I think Taxi Driver is a very solid #1 that truly encapsulates what Martin has done since 1967.

#2 Goodfellas (1990) 194 pts, 24 lists "As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster." #1 placements: 7 #2 placements: 6 #3 placements: 2 Top 5 placements: 18 Top 10 placements: 2 Box Office: $47.1 million Rotten Tomatoes: 96% Metacritic: 90 Awards: 1 Academy Award and 6 nominations, 5 Golden Globe nominations, 4 BAFTAs and 2 nominations, Silver Lion for Best Director, Audience Award, and Bastone Bianco Award at Venice Film Festival, 1 National Board of Review Award Roger Ebert’s Review: "What Scorsese does above all else is share his enthusiasm for the material. The film has the headlong momentum of a storyteller who knows he has a good one to share." BOT User Review: "The best movie of the '90s after Pulp Fiction." - @The Stingray Its Legacy: The arguable high point of Scorsese's career. The most famous film of his 1990s tenure. Redefined the mob/gangster movie. Hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. Joined the National Film Registry in 2000. Influenced The Sopranos. Ranked #94 on AFI's Top 100 Films, #92 in the 2007 edition. #6 on Empire Magazine's Top 500 Films of All Time. Saw a scrapped television series in development. Namedropped in Bee Movie. Gave Ray Liotta a paycheck. Commentary: The ultimate mob movie. Essentially the spiritual successor to Coppola’s Godfather duology (sorry Part III), Goodfellas is an exhilarating, unfiltered look into the life of Henry Hill and his associates in a film that is full of twists, turns, and surprises. The 2.5 hours just fly by as we follow the immense rise of the mob, only for a tough, wild descent into paranoia. Detailing the changing times from 1955 to 1980 with violence, comedy, and a whole lot of style, it’s a film that feels jam-packed with goodies, with nothing else that needed to be added or removed. Honestly, I don’t know what else to say about this movie. You’ve all seen it and you already know it’s good. I can’t bring anything else that every other critic (and also David Chase) has said about the film. I guess the only big surprise is that despite many citing this as Scorsese’s best, it’s only at #2. You probably know what #1 is by now, and I think, even if you prefer the other film, that this is a worthy silver medal.