Jake Gittes
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Never stopped him before unfortunately (only Nine excepted) -
14 21 Call Me by Your Name SPC $919,926 +75.8% 914 +239 $1,006 $17,045,988 - 15 Every half-decent weekend this movie gets now just makes me more mad at how mishandled it was overall.
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nvm *shakes fist at titanic2187*
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There's something fishy with last Saturday's numbers for certain movies on BOM. According to them Lady Bird jumped 270% on that day, while Phantom Thread went up 184% on Saturday AND 24% on Sunday. Darkest Hour also jumped 132% on Saturday.
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Best Picture nominees usually sink like rocks following the ceremony, the winner gets a good following weekend but then drops sharply too. I don't see Shape of Water reaching 65m nor Billboards coming close to 60 no matter what happens tonight. Lady Bird will fall just short of 50m too.
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At least you recognize this
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On the plus side he's got nowhere to go but up this year with Beirut, Tag and Bad Times at El Royale
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I think his greatest single *piece* of filmmaking is the first hour of Psycho, but that movie loses enough luster for me in the final third that overall I prefer Rear Window, Vertigo, and Shadow over it. Maybe North by Northwest too. Strangers on a Train is a big blind spot, still need to see it.
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They're about even I think. Lady Bird's mother-daughter relationship elevates it for me, by far the most interesting thing in both movies (and in EoS the same element is comparatively banal). As for the Academy love, probably helped that LB is less overtly comedic and more melancholy, and has more to chew on thematically (search for self-identity, trying and failing to escape your roots, etc.) Besides, y'know, campaigning.
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Shadow of a Doubt is top 3 Hitchcock for me.
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Don't miss out on this when it shows up It's a reconstruction of/riff on Vertigo using shots from other movies and TV shows set in San Francisco. Are you full-on marathoning Hitchcock now?
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He was good in Mud and Joe, too bad the blockbusters aren't working out
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They've each been in about 20 movies so far.
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2017 Critics/Alternate Awards Discussion
Jake Gittes replied to Ezen Baklattan's topic in And The Winner Is...
On the contrary I wish they went back to the fixed 10-nominee system of 2009 and 2010. That was closest to ideal (I'll accept Best Picture nominee The Blind Side if it also means Best Picture nominee A Serious Man). And casual viewers having trouble catching up with the nominees is a problem for multiplexes and distributors to solve (provided the movie isn't already out on streaming), not for the Academy by not nominating stuff like the three movies you named which at least secure their place on the general cultural radar this way. -
Yeah I'm neither here nor there on it. Like, I understand and don't disagree with the intention, but I think I would have liked the movie just as much if it had ended two minutes earlier. Maybe a second viewing will shift me one way or the other.
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The material lets pretty much everyone down in that movie. Harrelson fares the best probably, because he just does his usual entertaining Harrelson thing and then goes out early, and with the most emotional scene in the movie to boot (that first letter).
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I've come to realize recently that one of my absolute favorite things for any actor to do is portray virtue/kindness/decency while avoiding saintliness and artificiality, and Dafoe absolutely nails that here. Might be the most low-key inspiring movie character of 2017.
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They're encouraging the fuck out of certain internet artists with that Shape of Water one
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2017 Critics/Alternate Awards Discussion
Jake Gittes replied to Ezen Baklattan's topic in And The Winner Is...
Even McDormand while the least embarrassing of the four isn't exactly about to win for her finest hour. She's not gonna take it away from someone as great as Dafoe or Metcalf (Ronan would be my pick but I don't feel that strongly about her) and it's a nice bit of history-making since it's even more rare for an actress to win two leading Oscars decades apart than it is for an actor (has this even happened beyond Streep and Hepburn?) but still. Disappointing that we're about to have so many talented people win for subpar work. -
Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Jake Gittes replied to baumer's topic in Review That Movie! (Spoilers Allowed)
Don't we all. -
2017 Critics/Alternate Awards Discussion
Jake Gittes replied to Ezen Baklattan's topic in And The Winner Is...
Definitely up there but I was talking about two such performances in the same year. -
lmao
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It's gonna really hit in July/August, I expect.
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a 39% drop off a $17m OW is fine but nothing remarkable, and doesn't even promise a 3.5x multiplier in the end. Just in terms of R-rated comedies, "great" applies to something like The Hangover's 27% drop off a $45m OW in summer, or Bridesmaids' 20% drop after a $26m OW. This is middle-of-the-road at best.
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I'd argue our best actor is still preferable to supporting actor, where there's only one real great performance (Dafoe) as opposed to at least Chalamet and Kaluuya in the former. Gosling is the only one who's a real head-scratcher to me.
