Jake Gittes

Breakdown is good shit. The way it turns into Mad Max: Deliverance Edition in the end is kinda goofy, but earned because up to that point it's just such a tight, exposition-free, well-constructed thriller. JT Walsh is fantastic in it.

If IT is scary, it's definitely in a fun, goosebumps-inducing way rather than a terrifying, under your skin, leave-the-lights-on-at-night way. That may be why serious horror fans are disappointed while the GA is rolling with it.

Just came out of it. Casting is on point but otherwise it's just about the least interesting adaptation I could imagine. It's horror as theme park ride, with constantly flying camera, fast cutting and LOUD NOISES substituting for atmosphere and sense of place, and all rough edges from the novel sanded off. Basically competent but utterly predictable, and rushed as hell, like a Harry Potter movie (I don't mean that as a compliment) with scares.

Just google "worst films of 1997" I'm sure you'll find something there that you'll like

The Butcher Boy is my favorite way underseen movie of '97. Neil Jordan's best work, and it constantly transitions between comedy and tragedy amazingly well. It's in my top 3 right now.

Air Bud. All the tears I cried over it as a little kid don't lie.

I hope she works with Malick, Lars von Trier and Gaspar Noe after this.

thread title reads like a parody.

If anyone wants to see a really terrific movie called Breathe seek out the 2014 one directed by Melanie Laurent.

I don't. B you are not treating Megan Leavey the same as all the other films there because you didn't subtract its final gross (13m) from its current gross listed (3.8m), you simply divided the former by the latter. using the same for Megan Leavey: ML final gross: 13.1m ML current gross listed: 3.8m Final additional gross is 9.3m Divide that by weekend gross listed as 3.8m And you have a multiplier of 2.45 By your own rules POTC is the correct third answer. (Edit: I see Matrix pointed this out too, sorry for cluttering the page with this.)

Ain't nobody got time for that. This kinda thing is useful when we rank, say, best movies of 2014 and make sure to include Under the Skin, but when it's been decades it's just added headache.

Tele proposed 2000 as a cutoff point for this earlier, I think it's as good a one as any. So yeah with years prior to 2000 let's just go by IMDb.

Good Will Hunting is nice. Hating it is the same as hating Shawshank Redemption. I understand at some point there comes the need to rail against middlebrow cinema but claiming it's an abomination is even sillier to me than claiming it's some major artistic masterpiece. It's a well-made little movie. Better than most of its kind.

Lost Highway is the one. Surrender to The Lynch.

The year's ending soon enough that we only got two, at the most three lists we can do of years that end with either 2 or 7. 1992 and 2002 would seem logical to hit after 1997, and we'd fully cover the past three decades that way, but if we go older I agree that 1967 would be a fine pick. 1972, 1977 and 1982 strike me as much less interesting, in the first two cases #1 couldn't be more obvious and '77 and '82 were comparatively boring movie years on the whole.

Adams was snubbed in favor of Ruth Negga, not Streep (the latter hit all the major precursors, the former only had a Globe nom), and Bening's movie appeared too late and didn't seem to get a substantial push from A24. Streep wasn't nominated for Hope Springs or Ricki and the Flash though, so with The Post still unseen I was just saying that the same could happen this year. But if we trust Coolio it looks like it won't.

Streep is not a sure bet. Contrary to popular belief she doesn't get nominated for literally every role and we don't know how much this one gives her to do, and whether or not more competition will pop up that'll push her out.

Good Time just sank completely. Will barely make 2m in total despite two weeks in wide release and a holiday. Shame.

Incredible. Thank you

It doesn't have a release date or an American trailer and is not even playing in Toronto for some reason. Even if it did get released this year I suspect it'd be too brutal for the Academy.

lmao expand on this

Hawkins would be a really exciting winner, more so than almost anybody in recent memory in this category.

Currently me and JJ-8 are looking to win the most out of SOTM 17 with 75k each. However we don't know whether Captain Underpants increased, which will boost some people if it did. Maudie only dropped 4% but even if it increases with actuals it almost certainly won't rise from 82k to the required 100k, so folks who predicted it are getting 30k less than they could have.

They eventually overdo every brand. Should enjoy this while it lasts.