Jake Gittes

Doesn't he have like 20? Shyamalan & McAvoy still gonna show us just the select few?

battery it's ok it's not like Denzel wrote this.

AV Club video review makes this look both really dull and hilarious. Denzel reading In Search of Lost Time in between breaking bones! Two different painting subplots! The graffiti wall that just says GANG in huge letters! Amazing. https://film.avclub.com/not-even-denzel-can-save-the-bland-equalizer-2-from-its-1827752810

I also feel like it's already a misstep having Sarah Paulson not believe that these three have superpowers when we know for a fact that they do. Every moment she's gonna spend doubting it will just be narrative dead air. Hopefully that all gets resolved as early in the movie as possible.

It's almost as if Unbreakable and Split weren't a great fit for a single universe from the start. One's a quiet, intimate character story, the other is James McAvoy doing funny voices and jumping around.

Eh. Unbreakable is Shyamalan's best film but I'm not seeing a lot of traces of it here. And if that trailer was so intent on selling something more basic at least it could have gotten to the damn fireworks factory instead of being three minutes of set-up.

I'd actually accept Daldry doing the Obi-Wan movie if it meant McGregor for best actor

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Denzel for Mamma Mia 3

It came out in May and had its widest release in June. At this point you gotta wait for home video.

Have the standings been updated at all in the past month?

Who allowed this

Part A: 1. Will Mamma Mia Open to more than $35M? 1000 Yes 2. Will Mamma Mia Open to more than $40M? 2000 Yes 3. Will The Equalizer Open to more than $25M 3 Day? 3000 Yes 4. Will The Equalizer Open to more than $30M 3 Day? 4000 Yes 5. Will the 2 films combine to more than $65? 5000 Yes 6. Will Unfriended open above $7.5M? 1000 No 7. Will Hotel Transylvania stay above $25M? 2000 No 8. Will Incredibles finish above Unfriended? 3000 Yes 9. Will Uncle Drew stay above Ocean's 8? 4000 Yes 10. Will Skyscraper have a bigger percentage drop than The First Purge? 5000 Yes 11. Will Sicario's PTA stay above $1,400? 1000 Yes 12. Will Ant Man drop more than 50%? 2000 Yes 13. Will Three Identical Strangers enter the top 12? 3000 No 14. Will Jurassic World stay above $10M? 4000 Yes 15. Will Piers Brosnan singing be more painful than anything done by Denzel? 5000 Yes 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 Mamma Mia make for its 3 day? 44.540 2. What will Skyscraper's percentage change be? 54.5% 3. What will Sorry to Bother You's PTA be for the Weekend? $2,484 Part 😄 There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 1. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again 3. Hotel Transylvania 3 5. Skyscraper 8. Unfriended: Dark Web 10. Sorry to Bother You 11. Sicario: Day of the Soldado

week 13 yes

And Jean Arthur. Goddamn. One of those performances that just makes you want to see everything else the actor ever did. This movie is my comfort food. The first 40 minutes alone are a more complete and satisfying emotional ride than 99% of movies are in their entirety.

And even the TLADILA credit is misleading cause he only worked on the car chase, when Robby Muller refused to do it. And he shot the video for the titular song.

That seems to be typical for Yeoman; he also did total paycheck work on Bridesmaids, Spy, Ghostbusters, Get Him to the Greek, etc

My man Ignatiy V. tho https://film.avclub.com/mamma-mia-here-we-go-again-with-more-brain-dead-abba-k-1827676543

Yeah, I guess it's a different case too when no one is aiming for authenticity from the start.

Whether it's "okay" is probably not for me to have the final word on, nor is it whether it's categorically wrong to play a different gender. It just doesn't strike me as the same. (1), because it's just easier, less distracting and acting exercise-y: in my experience, you don't watch a good straight actor's performance of a gay character and get constantly reminded that they're in fact straight, whereas you watch e.g. Jared Leto in DBC and all you can think of is that it's Jared Leto in drag. You don't need to transform your (often recognizable) appearance to convincingly act an attraction to someone of your own gender. (2), which ties in with (1): sexuality doesn't define people, or at least their appearance, to the same extent that gender does. Even in movies that commit to being love stories, gay characters aren't being outwardly gay every second they're on screen. Sometimes we're talking about a few minutes in a leading role's worth of screentime, like say Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde. On the other hand, gender - like skin color - is something that other people are just gonna *see* every moment they spend with you. (In the middle of typing this I realized that there can be exceptions to this in gay characters who act in a way that has calcified into stereotype; from what I've seen, they're rare, but I guess they throw a wrench into this). (3) Plenty of gay and lesbian actors have portrayed straight characters (maybe even more than the other way around, considering how many did it while still in the closet), whereas trans actors barely get a chance to play even trans characters, much less cisgender ones. (4) Gender can be fluid but sexuality seems to be more so, and if the character is, say, bisexual (like both lead characters are in Call Me by Your Name, to cite a recent high-profile example), it makes sense to just open it up for all candidates rather than limit your options to bisexual actors; furthermore, (5) if you wanted the latter system to work, all actors would need to disclose their sexuality practically as soon as they start working, and the world is not anywhere near that stage yet, and besides life and sexuality are messier than that anyway. If any of the gay folks on the forum feel like I'm talking out of my ass re: any of this, please feel free to say so.

No.

Ha, building up interest in something racist by withholding it and then selling it for an inflated price would be an achievement in capitalism for sure.

Portraying a sexuality other than your own isn't the same as portraying a different gender.

All this Song of the South talk just makes me want to see it more. Total Streisand effect.