Amadeus

Help! (The Beatles) -- Help! (1965) A Hard Day's Night (The Beatles) -- A Hard Day's Night (1964) The Long and Winding Road (The Beatles) -- Let it Be (1970) Belle (Little Town) -- The Beauty and the beast (1991) Gia Ena Tango -- Before Midnight (2013 -- end credits) Knock on Wood -- Casablanca (1942) Nobody Does it Better (Carly Simon) -- The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) Edelweiss -- Sound of music (1965) Do Re Mi -- Sound of Music (1965) America -- West Side Story (1961) I Feel Pretty -- West Side Story (1961) Starman (Bowie) -- The Martian -- pretty moving sequence of pop culturism (2015) Hopelessly Devoted -- Grease (1978) Cabaret -- Cabaret (1972) South American Getaway -- Butch Cassidy (1969) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John) -- American Hsutle (2013) Slow Boat to China -- The Master (2012) Let it Loose (Rolling Stones) -- The Departed (2006) Moritat (Mack the Knife) -- Quiz Show (end credits, 1994) Someday My Prince Will Come -- Snow White (1938)

I guess that is the story the screenwriter and the director wanted to tell. And unlike Crash and the Slumdog it's not kitsch. If you think it's bad, then too bad for you.

a good day to be #cannastop now, let's get this right: a good day to be @cannastop

Poor sound mixing. After 9/11 everything was all that jazz to the academy and this very false and Moulin-inspired piece of slapstick is not even worth half a night with megan fox.

Very good! A- The music is the key because it centers around four or five music videos all in all. The first act is a tad too slow maybe, but when they get to the waterfalls, and thereafter Bolivia, it's a work of amazing pop culture of the late 60's. The humor still stands strong when those poor gringos try to speak espanol. Much more inspired than the so so The Sting.

2001: a Space Odyssey Bambi Eyes Wide Shut Singing in the Rain Star Wars V -- The Empire Strikes Back Schindler's List The Mirror (1975) Seven Samurai Raging Bull The Deer Hunter Casablanca Life of Brian Pulp Fiction Citizen Kane Dr. Strangelove Alien Psycho Boyhood Amadeus GodfatherII Godfather I There Will Be Blood MacBeth (2015) The Sound of Music Beauty and the Beast Silence of the Lambs Terminator 2 North by Northwest The Right Stuff Before Midnight Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace Scenes From a Marriage Magnolia E.T. The New World (2005) Robocop Prometheus Lord of the Rings -- Fellowship of the Ring The Master West Side Story Sleepless in Seattle Four Weddings and a Funeral Let the Right One in (Låt Den Rätta Komma in) Titanic The Shining Snow White and The Seven Dwarves Young Frankenstein The Tree of Life Cabaret Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith The Platoon In Bruges Blade Runner Atonement One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest Gangs of New York All About My Mother War of the Worlds (2005) Zodiac A.I. Adaption Inside Out Mullholland Drive A Clockwork Orange Star Wars IV: A New Hope Y Tu Madre Tambien The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Robin Hood (1973) The Royal Tenenbaums 40 Year Old Virgin Sinister (2012) Nymphomaniac The Revenant Mad Max: Fury Road Last Temptation of the Christ Some Like It Hot! No Country for Old Men Volver 3 Women In Her Majesty's Secret Service The Fugitive Inside Out Full Metal Jacket Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Much Ado About Nothing (1993) Thor Top Secret Terms of Endearment When Harry Met Sally Munich (2005) From Russia With Love All the President's Men Annie Hall Moulin Rouge The Thing Being John Malkovic Lolita Kramer vs. Kramer American Graffitti Nashville

Rewatched it a fourth time. A "D" for the film making. An "F" for the Star Wars film making. Apart from the overall uninspired environments, it's rather the film making itself that bothers me. As for the story, this film really feels like three or four steps back after the eclectic The Phantom Menace where Lucas handled not only the force, but also politics, love, psychology. But a story doesn't make a film, it's the frames and rhythm that ultimately tells the story. And what I miss in this piece of crap is the scene. George Lucas always seemed to understand the importance of the scene in his movies. This does not.

Do you think this June and July will be even worser than June 2014/July 2015 ?

If you thought twas funny, good for you. just thought their intentions and motives were really this was written by a teenager who wants to be wise.

I think the plot of the movie is first world problems lol... - "No, I don't want us to be controlled by the UN, buhu"! - "Oh, yes you do you son of a B" - "no!"

This is how the happy index for each weekend on this forum has been so far this year: 1-3 January -- Great! (Great hold for Star Wars!) 8-10 Jan -- Great! (Star Wars passing 800m!) 15-17 Jan -- Nice! (revenant, Star Wars) 21-24 Jan -- Nice! (Star Wars still going strong. Revenant making nice numbers) 29-31 Jan -- Nice! (Star Wars dropping 21%, close to 900m; KFP3 decent numbers) 5-7 Feb -- OK! (KFP3 is a failure, but SW is over 900m now) 12-14 Feb -- Wow! (Deadpool!) 19-21 Feb -- Great! (Deadpool) 26-28 Feb -- Nice! (Deadpool, Gods of Egypt failure!) 4-6 March -- Nice! (Zootopia, Gods of Egypt dropping 63%) 11-13 Mar -- Great! (Zoo dropping 31%) 18-21 Mar -- Great (Zoo Dropping less than 30%) 25-28 Mar -- OK! (BvS opens with over 160m) 1-3 April -- LOL! (BvS sinking like a rock) 8-10 April -- OK! (BvS still sinking) 15-17 April -- Great! (Jungle Book) 22-24 April -- Nice! (Jungle Book still good) 29-1 May -- OK! 6-8 May -- Meh...... (180m for CW, BvS's drop)

So, this is the first so called disappointment of the year? The happy-index on this forum really plummeted this weekend; first star wars, then deadpool, then zootopia, then the OW of Jungle book, then the schadefreude as a result of the BvS-failure. 2016 has really been a joy to follow because of its successes and failures. but now this, this is just mediocre. mediocre from the perspective of what makes the box office so thrilling and enchanting.

Another league? I would not be too surprised if Episode VIII's OW is on par with AoU and Episode IX's OW is on par with BvS.

I'm writing an essay about why I found The Force Awakens so extremely boring and unsatisfying. Thus I started to make a list of scenes and moments that made the PT and the OT so extraordinary. It would be nice to know what your favorite moments and scenes in the saga are. Top 20 best Star Wars scenes and moments: 1. "They're still comin' through!" -- Qui Gon and Obi Wan fighting the battle droids (Episode I) 2. "But You're Not a Jedi Yet..." -- Father Darth vs. Luke (Episode V) 3. "Did He Crash it?" -- Podracing (Episode I) 4. "In our moment of triumph?" -- Attacking the Death Star (Episode IV) 5. "There is another..." -- Luke Departs Dagobah (Episode V) 6. The Tragedy About Darth Plagueius the Wise (Episode III) 7. "The we'll see each other again" -- Anakin Leaves his Mother (Episode I) 8. "We'll Handle this..." -- Qui Gon and Obi Wan vs Darth Maul (Episode I) 9. "You are the Sith Lord" -- Palpatine reveals himself (Episode III) 10. "Artoo, we need to be going up, not down!" -- Battle of Coruscant (Episode III) 11. The music played during the End credits (Episode V) 12. "Master Sifo-Dyas was killed almost ten years ago..." -- Obi Wan on Kamino (Episode II) 13. "I've been trained in your Jedi Arts" -- General Grievous vs Obi Wan (Episode III) 14. "So be it... Jedi" -- Darth Vader vs Luke (Episode VI) 15. "That armor's too strong for our blasters!" -- Battle of Hoth (Episode V) 16. "A more civilized age" -- Obi Wan and Luke (Episode IV) 17. "We Meet Again..." -- Obi Wan vs Darth Vader (Episode IV) 18. "Fear leads to anger..." -- Anakin at the Jedi Council (Episode I) 19. "Execute Order 66" -- Order 66 (Episode III) 20. "I'm not Afraid" -- Luke having dinner with Yoda (Episode V) Honorable mentions: Obi Wan chasing Jango Fett through the Asteroid Field in Episode II; Darth Vader talking with the emperor in Episode V; Speeder Bike Chase in Episode VI

ok, now when we're all here I think it would be nice, while we're waiting, to hear you all tell us what your favorite moments/memories (scenes, lines whatever) at the movies are.

we could talk about something else while we're waiting, or make something creative. how's the weather in the states?

It'll also be interesting to see how many theaters #cannastop Ratchet and Hatchet will lose.

How much will BvS drop this weekend? Let's say it loses 1000 screens.

So you're saying CW is off to a bad start?

wow! you took this pretty well!

Even if this doesn't hit the billion we all should be happy bout one thing at least: it's the first movie since Hobbit 3 that makes between 900$ and 1B$. 900m<x>1 Billion-movies are rare these days. In 2015 we got none. In 2014 we got one. In 2013 we got two. And in 2012 we got none.

How big are the chances of this hitting 1B now? Japan and SK still to go. >50m from those two markets?

Oh, sorry. I didn't really make my point clear, did I? I see that now. I'm glad you liked my words!

eh... seems like it added another 29m or so overseas this weekend according to BOM. That is 1m down from last weekend... Foreign stands at 556m now. That's a nice number.

Don't think we should put too much hope on the Japanese. I think Zootopia, just like Avatar, is a sensational film which shows us a sensational world in many countries. A world where no racism or fascism exists. I think the more genderly and/or racily a country's government is the more popular zootopia is in that particular country, just because it shows a different kind of world. I don't know. But many of my friends liked "tomorrowland" because of this reason. It made them up hopeful rather than angsty.