Jake Gittes
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Would be nice to see Piper Laurie again after Lynch couldn't find a place for her in Twin Peaks S3. What a strange poster though. Why is this a wall of text when it could be a punchy tagline (like "Street Hustler, FBI Informant, Drug Kingpin - all before he turned 16"). Why is the primary image that of McConaughey's profile kissing the guy. Why does the whole thing look like a page from some old magazine. Who are those people in the background. -
for chrissake relax you aren't battling for cinema's eternal soul here.
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Both an all-time great death scene and a great moment of ownage when he manages to set Dudley up and chuckle about it one last time.
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Titanic was never nominated for best screenplay.
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This is gonna be a big-ass cast.
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You mean voted for the money it made.
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More like some guy submitted a box-office chart as his list. It would have been safely out of the top 100 otherwise, as usual.
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People realized their mistake following 2012.
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The Witch also had a 42% second weekend hold and nearly reached a 3x multi, so it already found an audience while in theaters.
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His range is limited and all but he works well in two modes, guy who doesn't understand what's going on and stoic badass, and the movie utilizes both of them. (Just try to picture Will Smith pulling off Neo. Neither can I.) And I hope I don't have to defend what Fishburne, Moss, Weaving and everyone else right on down to the "Not Like This" woman bring to their characters.
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Even beyond the precise technical craft the writing and acting in The Matrix are extremely on-point. The tons of exposition are delivered organically, the storytelling intergrates Neo's character arc with the forward momentum of bigger obstacles arriving one on top of another, and still the whole thing would have collapsed if any one major performance had been even slightly off, which they aren't.
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The best part is Theoden's speech beforehand
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Both of those grossed over 10x their production budgets.
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Best Picture Predictions - 2018
Jake Gittes replied to Ezen Baklattan's topic in And The Winner Is...
Even beyond the additional editing I think Basterds initially did throw people off with... all the things it was doing. A little sinking in did it good. -
It's too bad no one ever wrote anything about what they love about it.
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It's been three years and I still can't help but think of Fury Road as a miracle tbh. We don't deserve that movie.
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Can we use this to persuade Tele to come back
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Best Picture Predictions - 2018
Jake Gittes replied to Ezen Baklattan's topic in And The Winner Is...
Inglourious Basterds was barely fresh on RT out of Cannes and then became one of the most celebrated movies of the year. Festival reactions and subsequent overall critical reception can be pretty different. -
Grand Prix is second prize basically.
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Truly takes you to another world, too
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1. Cool 2. Cool! Teach Han your ways. 3. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one
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I guess the only unexpected part is that there's nothing for Burning considering that with the critics it became the highest-rated film since they started keeping track of that. (So in 16 years or something.) Look forward to most of these movies, anyway.
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I need help reacting to this.
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The coup de grâce is gonna be you hailing Ant-Man and the Wasp as the movie of the year.
