Jake Gittes

Tideland is still great tho.

If it first premiered in 79 then it's from the 70s. Who cares when the rest of the world got it. Trashmerica, etc

I definitely thought IM2 would come close to TDK at least on OW. Retroactively it's clear Paramount (Marvel?) sorta just assumed people would come in droves and didn't really go all out with the marketing.

I feel like 115 would be a big accomplishment for that movie.

If we're talking about late '90s/early '00s Depp that's not too egregious

Legend Irvin Kershner

Watched Terminal for assignment. The VOD, Margot Robbie, neon lights, witless references to Alice in Wonderland one. Well, I'm glad Robbie is still in that stage of her career where the glint in her eye can survive even this amount of garbage surrounding her. Or she just has bad taste. Regardless, she's the only one who's alive in this thing and wow is the rest godawful.

They also both come from notoriously frontloaded franchises.

I think Panther could be a slamdunk winner in costumes and makeup (hard to imagine anything more impressive arriving this year as far as those categories go), and at least a nominee in score and production design, but anything bigger than that, count me as skeptical until I actually see critics' groups going there.

from the AV Club Cannes write-up on the movie Sounds like you're in luck!

I like a good deal of that movie's dialogue as it is written and delivered. Wouldn't wanna give up the "father to a murdered son" speech, for starters.

Gladiator owns.

Have to?

For week 2 I'd recommend The Man with the Movie Camera if you want breathless 1920s avant-garde fun, The Cranes Are Flying if you want a quality emotional mid-century drama (or, from the same director, Letter Never Sent if you want a raw survival movie that leaves Gravity and The Revenant in the dust), or, if you can track it down (I know it had a tiny theatrical release in the States, at least), 2016's The Student for a sharp look at today's Russia.

All of that can more or less be applied to Wonder Woman, and that was never a serious contender nor should it have been. I don't think Black Panther is on a higher enough level to suddenly go all the way.

Last year I saw A Summer at Grandpa's, the 1984 live-action Taiwanese film that was the main inspiration for Totoro, and actually liked it more, probably confirming that I'm ultimately more affected by flesh-and-blood people than animated characters. But Totoro is still pretty delightful.

Porco Rosso and Castle in the Sky still my favorite Miyazakis. Totoro too I guess.

The Bridge on the River Kwai Inglourious Basterds Oculus

So that his career derails for years afterwards like Di Caprio's did post-Titanic?

$200M Deadpool 2 $150M Deadpool 2 $100M Solo: A Star Wars Story $75M Avengers: Infinity War $50M Solo: A Star Wars Story $25M Solo: A Star Wars Story

Part A: 1. Will Deadpool 2 Open to more than $125M? 1000 Yes 2. Will Deadpool 2 Open to more than $140M? 2000 Yes 3. Will Deadpool 2 open to more than $132.5M? 3000 Yes 4. Will Book Club open to more than Showdogs? 4000 Yes 5. Will Book Club and Show Dogs' combined OW be more than 33.33% of Deadpool's Friday gross? 5000 No 6. Will Champion Will Avengers drop more than 52%? 1000 No 7. Will Life of the Party finish in the top 3? 2000 No 8. Will Breaking In finish in the top 5? 3000 Yes 9. Will I Feel Pretty have a bigger Percentage Drop than Rampage? 4000 Yes 10. Will Black Panther's PTA stay above $950? 5000 Yes 11. Will Overboard increase more than 100% on Friday? 1000 Yes 12. Will A Quiet Place have a weekend above $3.5M? 2000 Yes 13. Will Tully increase more than 55% on Saturday? 3000 Yes 14. Will Blockers decrease more than 31% on Friday? 4000 No 15. Will Ryan Reynolds cameo as Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool 2? 5000 Couldn't care less 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 Deadpool 2 make for its 3 day? 144.759 2. What will OVerboard's percentage change be? -47.8% 3. What will I Feel Pretty's PTA be for the Weekend? $1,032 Part C: There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 2. Avengers: Infinity War 4. Life of the Party 5. Breaking In 7. Overboard 9. Rampage 12. Black Panther

week 4 yes

It is!

For the most part they're short + beautiful to look at so already better than a lot of movies.