Jake Gittes

Also overtook Chicago to become the biggest live-action musical of the modern era domestically (fuck BATB)

I don't wanna be sane in that case.

I had that for about 7-10 days over New Year's. Felt like my body shut down immediately after a full year of work in a way that demanded sleep for about 5-6 hours twice a day, once in the evening and then in the early morning. Anyway, binge a show or something. Stick it out till Saturday evening, then get a good night's sleep.

Just pulled an all-nighter writing two reviews I was assigned this week. I'm way too much of a night owl but I still can't help it years and years later. You'd think I'd wanna be less like Tommy Wiseau after reading that he would go to bed at 7 am and get up at 3 or 4 pm, but even that isn't stopping me.

The Informant is better than all three of those imo.

lowkey rooting for Early Man to get in.

Get Shyamalan to make The Visit 2 about this.

Actually watched all three original W&G shorts for the first time yesterday. (Saw Were-Rabbit in theaters back in the day.) This is indeed in contention for the best thing ever. Gromit is my personal hero.

Thanks for confirming that I'm right TOG.

Early Man is good fun. It's admittedly easy to root for as a handcrafted underdog in the world of Disney domination but it hits all the beats well and has a lot of heart balanced out by enough irreverence. Puns upon puns and Tyrannosaurus Duck ftw.

Certainly not, and I'm not so mad either, but I'm also itching for more variety than I have right now. I got spaghetti, eggs, potatoes, pelmeni always lying around as one-time meal material (I've never really done leftovers, it's a hangup) but I'm not a fan of eating any of those every day or even every other day. I can cook a pot of borscht or plov (pilaf) or chicken and potatoes - each of which will last me a few days - but I feel like I need to branch out into fish and salads and other soups.

Not gonna deny, now that I live alone *and* work from home I've started to actively look for excuses to go downtown (I live on the edge of the city too) just so I can eat while I'm there and avoid thinking about making my own food 2-3 times a day every day. And I even enjoy cooking, but damn. I've become much more appreciative of when someone just puts a meal in front of you, no matter if it's a fast food joint or a restaurant.

Not that there's a point to it.

1 3 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Par. $317,101,119 4,264 $100,137,835 4,260 5/22/08 2 7 The Lost World: Jurassic Park Uni. $229,086,679 3,565 $72,132,785 3,281 5/23/97 3 6 War of the Worlds Par. $234,280,354 3,910 $64,878,725 3,908 6/29/05 4 2 Jurassic Park Uni. $402,453,882 2,566 $47,026,828 2,404 6/11/93 5 15 Minority Report Fox $132,072,926 3,001 $35,677,125 3,001 6/21/02 It'll be lucky to make the top 5. (edit: unless you mean his highest OW in a decade, in which case sorry, disregard.)

Took her just four years!

Not gonna be impressed until your entire list is made up of silent films.

I feel like it snowed more here over the past few days than it did over the preceding four months combined. The fuck is this. Where is spring?

Still processing, didn't love everything - it gets too heavy-handed/portentous on occasion and feels a little at war with itself, or more specifically with the "lonely violent man rescuing underage girl"-related tropes - but it's quite something all the same. Technically nearly as formidable as We Need to Talk About Kevin (great use of jagged editing and sound effects), a welcome injection of absurdity here and there, an inspired ending, Phoenix reliably great. Not nearly as explicitly brutal as I expected but effective when it needs to be, and surprisingly rich for something that initially seems so bare-bones. Don't be missing out on this.

Not to mention owning Inarritu with the whole single take thing. And yeah, older movies fucking knew narrative economy. Not a minute longer than necessary.

He can pull a Spielberg and do the nazi rabbit thing while this is in post-production. Make this the highest grossing movie of all time, then win Best Picture for that one.

The movie would have to be R-rated first.

Real talk though Taika would be perfect for this. Ditch that nazi rabbit nonsense.

You and I have a different understanding of bland and also she was terrific in Creed and Annihilation, that's three solid performances in very different roles.