Jake Gittes

Oh hell yeah

I'm sure it'll happen someday with ticket prices going up but not any time soon. For now I'm just interested in what movie is gonna beat Grand Budapest's 203k PTA. La La Land had absolutely everything going in its favor (except I guess being 30 minutes longer than GBH) and still fell short.

I don't know what you're talking about, Lancelot du Lac was totally the original LOTR

@WrathOfHan

Why the fuck is there action in this? Are there foot chases around the train or something?

Pitch Perfect 2 says hi.

About two months.

Part A: 1. Will Transformers' 5 day opening (Wed-Sun) be higher than Pirates 3 day OW ($62.9M) gross? 1000 No 2. Will Transformers Open to more than $50M for its 3 Day? 2000 No 3. Will Transformers' Wed+Thursday total be more than 27.5% of the total gross by end of Sunday? 3000 Yes 4. Will Transformers gross more on Friday or Saturday? 4000 Saturday 5. Will Transformers have a daily PTA above $4000 for every day of the weekend? 5000 No 6. Will Cars drop less than 50% 1000 Yes 7. Will Guardians drop less than 45% 2000 Yes 8. Will Cars stay in the top 2? 3000 No 9. Will The Mummy drop more than 62% 4000 No 10. Will all Eyes on me drop more than 64%? 5000 Yes 11. Will 47 Metres Down have a PTA above $2,250? 1000 Yes 12. Will Rough Night drop more than 55%? 2000 No 13. Will anything in its 2nd weekend drop less than 42%? 3000 No 14. Will All Eyes on me cross $50M by the end of the weekend? 4000 No 15. Will Baywatch stay above Book of Henry? 5000 No 16. Will The Mummy stay above 47 Metres Down 1000 Yes 17. Will Captain Underpants have a higher weekend percentage drop than Megan Leavey? 2000 No 18. Will The Big Sick have a PTA above $8,000? 3000 Yes 19. Will The Beguiled have a PTA above $11,000? 4000 Yes 20. How many sets of dangling robot testicles will it take for both Ethan and Baumer to hate this film? 5000 Not enough apparently Bonus: 12/20 2000 13/20 4000 14/20 7000 15/20 12000 16/20 16,000 17/20 21,000 18/20 26,000 19/20 32,000 20/20 40,000 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 Transformers make for its 5 day OW? 52.200 2. What percentage of Transformers' 5 day gross will be made on Wed and Thurs? 44.76% 3. What will be the difference in percentage between Wonder Woman's percentage drop and The Mummy's (so if WW drops 75% and Mummy 50% the answer is 25%, order doesn't matter)? 23.6% Part C: There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 2. Wonder Woman 5. The Mummy 7. Pirates of the Caribbean 10. Guardians of the Galaxy 12. Megan Leavey 15. Baywatch

TF2 opened four times bigger and its Wednesday release date was well known in advance.

I've made some bad summer game predictions in my time but I have to say I'm proud of this one

Sure when Wes Anderson does it he gets nominated for Oscars but when Michael Bay does it no one understands his genius amirite Futurist

http://www.avclub.com/review/even-michael-bay-gets-sick-transformers-last-knigh-257038

Holy shit. I gotta see this.

alright 1. The Dead 2. Withnail & I 3. Angel Heart 4. Full Metal Jacket 5. RoboCop 6. Radio Days 7. Near Dark 8. Evil Dead II 9. Raising Arizona 10. And Then There Were None 11. Predator 12. The Princess Bride 13. Maurice 14. Wings of Desire 15. Lethal Weapon 16. Prince of Darkness 17. The Hidden 18. Bad Taste 19. Wall Street 20. A Better Tomorrow II

Somehow I doubt that was ever going to happen so you didn't exactly lose anything there.

I always thought we'd eventually reach a point where we'd just play this thing all year round.

Maurice was quite good. My first Merchant-Ivory film and I was happy to see that its classical style never crossed over into tedium, it easily held my attention for the entire 140 minutes. A little thrown off by the climactic development appearing so late in the story - The final minutes were still very affecting though. And cool HBC cameo outta nowhere.

http://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/21568-the-classic-conversation-thread-the-sequel/?do=findComment&comment=3063242

That's the thing, just generally I'd expect them to hit the not-that-banal, not-that-cool middle ground between "Spielberg and Meryl Streep win for an Important Drama based on a true story" and "Daniel Craig wins for playing a character named Joe Bang in a heist comedy". Dafoe and Pfeiffer would fall there I suppose. Oldman too but Joe Wright has had a pretty iffy track record recently. BTW, has anyone picked up You Were Never Really Here yet? Given the raves from Cannes you'd expect Phoenix to be in the mix, possibly the movie itself too.

1. Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Wonder Woman 3. Pirates

The hangout-movie part of Near Dark is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. Was grinning like a happy idiot the entire time. Shame it loses some steam near the end by taking the safe dramatic route, but on the whole it's still terrific. I love Henriksen and Paxton even more than I did before, and that score is gonna be listened to.

I can't decide if those would be simply the most boring Oscars in ages, or the most interesting in how boring they are.

Have you watched The Dead?

Not even touching The Last Emperor for this. Anything under 2 hours has the automatic advantage. Except for Maurice, which I've seen pretty high up on a few people's lists and which I've been interested in for a while, especially with James Ivory having just co-written Call Me by Your Name which is one of the major movies set to come this year.