Jake Gittes

The actual cool thing to do would be to add a Best Film That Made Under $10m category. That would cause them to actually watch/recognize/promote some good under-the-radar stuff.

That's a weird example given that a lightweight romantic comedy that happens to be about Shakespeare would seem much less likely to win BP than a gritty Spielberg WW2 drama. Also they both made lots of money. And popular movies still get nominated. The number of big hits that get snubbed is much lower than of those that get recognition (Get Out, Dunkirk, Mad Max, The Martian, Gravity, The Help, Inception, half of the 2012 nominees, etc)

Bad dumb condescending hope it backfires and doesn't last.

I feel like they're playing right into the hands of those who accuse them of being snobby and elitist. And capitulating (even more) before mediocrity for the sake of ratings.

Just kill it at this point if that's true.

fuck you TOG

At least people still care enough to part with one of their 25 daily reactions I guess. Unless they have a gold account

Good lord who wrote that

And? From everything I've heard Travolta is essentially forced to remain in the cult, while Cruise is best friends with Miscavige and actively exercises the power given to him. There is a difference.

what if it drops over 45%

Is it? Is Reddit is a more appropriate forum to discuss anything?

Even more impressive for Fallout considering how many tentpoles/sequels this summer - well-received, too - had to drop in the vicinity of 60% before course-correcting.

Bautista reacts how I wish they all felt the freedom to react.

The Martian is the last really strong movie with Chastain in it I can recall. And performance-wise I think she's still never topped her work in Take Shelter.

Except for The Mendelsohn I remember Lily James in Darkest Hour cause it pretty much begins with the obligatory biopic scene where we learn that the Important Historical Figure in question sometimes didn't have his pants on, and she's there as an audience surrogate being all shocked about it. Oh, and she also teaches him about the V sign. I think.

I was just taking the piss out of Scholar's quoted comment above. Quaritch is the best character in Avatar tbf, but for me still not top 100 material

Does Won't You Be My Neighbor count as a breakout? Being outside of America I never got too deep into the entire MoviePass situation but I get the impression it's demonstrated that people are willing to go out and watch more movies in theaters, but something needs to be done about the cost esp. when it comes to smaller films.

Xenophobic military asshole who goes to another planet and starts a war with its peaceful inhabitants Great character. Can really relate

Between the two I just have a preference for Cox, y'know? And that movie does everything right when it comes to Cox; the thing about Cox is that you shouldn't get more than you can handle, and Mann, being Mann, of course understands how to give you just enough of a taste of Cox to leave you satisfied but still wanting more. (Serious answer: Cox's Lecter feels closer to someone who could exist in real life, and for that I find him more dusturbing, plus I enjoy his brusque energy more than Hopkins' cultured-monster routine. Also for the purposes of this list Hopkins' Lecter would presumably count as a franchise character, and while I like him in SOTL, he becomes a cartoon after that movie. Cox really does benefit from appearing for just a few minutes and then haunting the rest of the movie.)

I saw Sunshine Cleaning way back when. Great coup on getting Adams and Blunt at that exact stage of their careers but it's a pretty basic Sundance dramedy otherwise

The best Ewan McGregor? Down with Love.

1. Tuco (Eli Wallach) – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 2. Clive Candy (Roger Livesey) – The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 3. Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) – Chinatown 4. Esther Blodgett (Judy Garland) – A Star Is Born 5. Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) – Taxi Driver 6. Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) – Cabaret 7. Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas) – Ace in the Hole 8. Johnny (David Thewlis) – Naked 9. Hanshiro Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) – Harakiri 10. Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) – Pulp Fiction 11. Celine (Julie Delpy) – Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight 12. Jesse (Ethan Hawke) – Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight 13. Albert Spica (Michael Gambon) – The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 14. Bobby Dupea (Jack Nicholson) – Five Easy Pieces 15. Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) – Chinatown 16. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) – Psycho 17. Nicole Hornet (Simone Signoret) – Diabolique 18. Linda (Linda Manz) – Days of Heaven 19. Noah Cross (John Huston) – Chinatown 20. H.A.L. – 2001: A Space Odyssey 21. Natalie Ravenna (Shirley Knight) – The Rain People 22. The Dude (Jeff Bridges) – The Big Lebowski 23. Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) – Carrie 24. Withnail (Richard E. Grant) – Withnail & I 25. Shelley Levene (Jack Lemmon) – Glengarry Glen Ross 26. Priest of Ambricourt (Claude Laydu) – Diary of a Country Priest 27. Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) – Fargo 28. Johnny Boy (Robert De Niro) – Mean Streets 29. Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) – The Godfather I & II 30. Margaret White (Piper Laurie) – Carrie 31. Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) – Casablanca 32. Dignam (Mark Wahlberg) – The Departed 33. Fredo Corleone (John Cazale) – The Godfather I & II 34. Norman Maine (James Mason) – A Star Is Born 35. Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson) – Jackie Brown 36. Black Dynamite (Michael J. White) – Black Dynamite 37. Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) – Carol 38. Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) – Citizen Kane 39. Jerry/Daphne (Jack Lemmon) – Some Like It Hot 40. Max Cherry (Robert Forster) – Jackie Brown 41. Irene (Jodie Foster) – Taxi Driver 42. Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff (Anton Walbrook) – The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 43. The Joker (Heath Ledger) – The Dark Knight 44. Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington) – Training Day 45. Cheyenne (Jason Robards) – Once Upon a Time in the West 46. Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall) – The Shining 47. Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) – Jackie Brown 48. Col. Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) – Inglourious Basterds 49. Quint (Robert Shaw) – Jaws 50. Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly) – Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 51. Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) – The Shining 52. Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) – the Indiana Jones movies 53. Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness/Ewan McGregor) – Star Wars 54. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) – Star Wars 55. Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) – A Streetcar Named Desire 56. Alec Leamas (Richard Burton) – The Spy Who Came In from the Cold 57. Jill (Claudia Cardinale) – Once Upon a Time in the West 58. Frances Ha (Greta Gerwig) – Frances Ha 59. Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine) – The Apartment 60. Tootie (Margaret O’Brien) – Meet Me in St. Louis 61. Mr. Scratch (Walter Huston) – The Devil and Daniel Webster 62. Barry Lyndon (Ryan O’Neal) – Barry Lyndon 63. Gollum (Andy Serkis) – The Lord of the Rings 64. Leia (Carrie Fisher) – Star Wars 65. Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) – Mad Max: Fury Road 66. Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) – True Grit 67. Tony Manero (John Travolta) – Saturday Night Fever 68. Harmonica (Charles Bronson) – Once Upon a Time in the West 69. Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 70. Midge (Barbara Bel Geddes) – Vertigo 71. Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains) – Casablanca 72. Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe) – Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 73. Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) – Double Indemnity 74. Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) – The Maltese Falcon 75. Somerset (Morgan Freeman) – Seven 76. Mr. Orange (Tim Roth) – Reservoir Dogs 77. Mr. White (Harvey Keitel) – Reservoir Dogs 78. Chief Gillespie (Rod Steiger) – In the Heat of the Night 79. Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) – Die Hard 80. Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro) – The King of Comedy 81. Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) – Heat 82. Geoff Carter (Cary Grant) – Only Angels Have Wings 83. Frank (Henry Fonda) – Once Upon a Time in the West 84. Maximus (Russell Crowe) – Gladiator 85. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) – Inside Llewyn Davis 86. Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) – The Fly 87. Kid Dabb (Thomas Mitchell) – Only Angels Have Wings 88. Clark Kent/Superman (Christopher Reeve) – Superman 89. Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) – Superman 90. Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer) – Batman Returns 91. Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) – The Silence of the Lambs 92. Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) – In the Heat of the Night 93. Scotty (James Stewart) – Vertigo 94. Bat McPherson (Richard Barthelmese) – Only Angels Have Wings 95. Lisa Carol Fremont (Grace Kelly) – Rear Window 96. Blake (Alec Baldwin) – Glengarry Glen Ross 97. Bonnie Lee (Jean Arthur) – Only Angels Have Wings 98. ffolliott (George Sanders) – Foreign Correspondent 99. Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) – M 100. Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox) – Manhunter

He'll probably get around to it by next spring.

Oh for the time when it still looked like Sony Classics wouldn't screw up CMBYN's run