Jake Gittes

It's a 2009 American release, but it is a 2008 film.

Bronson and Brothers Bloom aren't eligible either I'm afraid.

Given the theater loss, the best case scenario is a weekend just over 5m and it'll still be under 195m total after that. It'll need extremely good late legs to get to 210+.

Part A: 1. Will Christopher Robin Open to more than $30M? 1000 Yes 2. Will Christopher Robin Open to more than $35M? 2000 No 3. Will The Spy who Dumped Me Open to more than $15M? 3000 No 4. Will THe Spy WHo Dumped Me Open to more than $20M? 4000 No 5. Will the 2 films combined OW be over $50M? 5000 No 6. Will Darkest Minds open to more than $8M? 1000 Yes 7. Will Death of a Nation make more than 8th Grade? 2000 No 8. Will Mission Impossible stay within $5M of Christopher Robin? 3000 Yes 9. Will Equaliser stay above Hotel Transylvania? 4000 Yes 10. Will Mamma Mia drop more than 53%? 5000 No 11. Will Jurassic World's PTA stay above $1,600? 1000 Yes 12. Will Ant Man drop more than 50%? 2000 No 13. Will Skyscraper stay in the top 12? 3000 No 14. Will Black Panther magic past $700M domestic this weekend? 4000 No 15. Will EeYore smile? 5000 Bonus: 9/15 5000 10/15 8000 11/15 12,000 12/15 16,000 13/15 20,000 14/15 24,000 15/15 30,000 Part B: The top 3 predictions will score points as follows: Closest: Within 1% - 15,000, Within 2,5% - 12000, Within 5% 9,000, Within 10% - 6000 Outside 10% - 3000 points 2nd Closest: Within 1% - 12,000, Within 2,5% - 10000, Within 5% 7,000, Within 10% - 4000 Outside 10% - 2000 points 3rd Closest: Within 1% - 10,000, Within 2,5% - 8000, Within 5% 5,000, Within 10% - 2000 Outside 10% - 1000 points 1. What will CHristopher Robin make for its 3 day? 33.750 2. What will Equaliser's percentage change be? 43.7% 3. What will Purge's PTA be for the Weekend? $1,266 Part 😄 There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 3. The Spy Who Dumped Me 5. The Darkest Minds 6. The Equalizer 2 7. Hotel Transylvania 3 10. Incredibles 2 12. Eighth Grade

week 15 yes

That looked likely since the trailer. A simple matter of looking entertaining rather than punishing.

It'll struggle with hitting 210.

I mean it depends on whether a work is supposed to have a narrative or not. Fury Road obviously does, it just tries to be as efficient with it as possible. An openly experimental, surreal etc. film doesn't need to have a narrative (certainly not one that's remotely conventional) but it needs to substitute something else for it in order to be meaningful/successful

Can we get a 10m OW?

Can we get an eyeroll emoji reaction.

I thought Revolutionary Road was impressive but then I started watching Mad Men. (Prompted, as I recall, by a negative RT blurb on the movie that mentioned the show. Proof that some good once came from RT after all!)

don't worry you're the only one here who remembers that movie.

If Fury Road had been divisive it wouldn't have spent the entirety of its wide release run without a single over 50% drop. IRL I know one guy who disliked it because "there was no story", which, I didn't even know what to say to that. Can some people not do action movies anymore unless they're 150-minute long endurance tests with lots of exposition and speechifying and twists shoved in between, y'know, the action? How can you not see story in everything there is on screen in FR? It's so strange to me.

Part of the reason Fury Road is so great is *because* it understands the value of simplicity. There's no mess of backstory, exposition, double-crosses and betrayals to choke on in between the action, it's all about clear goals and decisions and consequences. Would that more action movies followed that model.

Fallout was... fine. Spectacular set-pieces, yeah, but everything that's between them connects only intermittently (if at all) and for everything it throws at you I didn't feel there was anything here as visceral as Burj Khalifa or as beautifully staged as the opera scene in RN.

I marathoned them in three days! At least got paid for reviewing Jigsaw afterwards. Still was quite a what-am-I-doing-with-my-life experience. The low points for me were 4, 6 and 7, plus Jigsaw. 1-3 and 5 all had something to make them at least minimally interesting, even if I wouldn't call any of them good.

Anarchy really is a pretty shocking leap forward compared to Purge 1. Like the guy actually learned how screenplays work in the meantime. And Frank Grillo really owns this one, dude is like Jon Hamm's action hero brother.

I'd say yes, if only a little. They have different strengths and weaknesses. But it's a worthy remake in that it takes the original premise and gives it its own treatment, which in this case is very Friedkin and very '70s Hollywood.

The only really strong scene in the first Purge is when our rich white protagonists tie up and straight-up torture the poor black man who's ended up in their house while preparing to toss him outside in exchange for their safety. They walk back on this immediately, obviously, but the movie still gets a little darker than I expected and really it should have ended right there. No more actual points left to make after that.

It's pretty terrific. Still doesn't have the ending I would've preferred but it works better than the original's. Roy Scheider and Tangerine Dream's score are great. And the rope bridge scene has to be seen to be believed.

I felt about the same. It takes pretty long to get going but even more than that I thought the ending was a big misstep. The main part is great though. You seen Sorcerer?

This has truly become my brand

I watched The Purge. This movie's stupid.