Jake Gittes

Why improve on perfection?

He's done another one already? I'm one of the apparently few people here who thought Gifted was lazy and dumb as a bag of rocks, so if this is similarly sucky that'll surely be the time to write Webb off once and for all. [Edit] *checks IMDb* and it's written by Allan Loeb? Yeah the odds are NOT looking good for this one.

Forget it TOG, it's baumer.

I still haven't caught up with anything I'd never seen before. Hopefully will find time for Maurice, Empire of the Sun, The Hidden, House of Games and and Broadcast News at least.

Cimino's visual grandeur and sense of romanticism + Eastwood's no-nonsense attitude both in front and behind the camera (I don't think he ever agreed to shoot more than three takes) equals wonders. I think The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate have higher individual highs but T&L is easily Cimino's most consistent movie, and at this point probably my favorite. Bridges' performance is also the best I've seen from him, just heartbreaking.

Every time I glance at the title on the front page I read it as "Goodbye Christopher Nolan" for a split second.

Props for remembering Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. After three viewings it's become a low-key favorite of mine. One of the most undersung movies of the '70s, every fan of Eastwood and Bridges needs to see it.

Lynch with the Twin Peaks revival qualifies too I think.

I don't think It Follows was even supposed to go wide until it overperformed in limited release.

RDJ was riding the comeback wave with a commercially successful Hollywood satire and had no serious non-Ledger competition. Craig is playing a wacky character in a small Soderbergh heist flick. Even if he actually deserves the nom (wouldn't shock me) I don't think AMPAS will care.

If it's not good enough for awards attention it's gonna die in December. During the summer even his weaker stuff at least serves as an alternative to blockbusters.

So weird having a Woody movie in the winter. Last one was what, Cassandra's Dream? Anyway, even though his legitimately good movies are getting progressively rarer I'll see this in the theater for Vittorio Storaro alone. Winslet and Timberlake don't hurt.

The Blue Fish Comes at Night.

Someone from Last Flag Flying maybe.

Salt and Lucy numbers are practically the same. They finished within 10m of each other. Anyway I just hope this can pull a $20m opening.

I thought Nightcrawler was heavy-handed and too enamored with its own supposed edginess, so this isn't a highly anticipated movie for me but I hope it becomes a pleasant surprise.

lmao I completely forgot that I made a topic for this or that this movie was even being made.

None of her underperformers or bombs are on her shoulders either. Snow White and Fury Road performed fine relative to expectations and the latter's marketing sold it on action and visuals, not actors. Huntsman was a movie nobody wanted, Prometheus opened well but had lukewarm reception, Million Ways to Die looked unfunny and no one cared for its mix of genres, The Road was fucked over by Weinsteins. And in all of those movies Theron was either part of an ensemble cast or a second lead at best, never the main focus. She was in The Road for all of five minutes ffs. I don't get why we waste time arguing about this.

Young Adult was a squirm-inducing dark comedy about a character most audiences would find unlikable. It was never gonna be a breakout with the GA.

Theron is neither poison nor a box office-boosting star on her own. Her movies live and die by how well they are promoted and received. Atomic Blonde is really the first movie in years where her character is basically marketed as the main attraction.

Yeah I'm tired of that FMJ criticism. It's great all the way through.

I really do want a Hollywood studio to do that full-on faithful remake of and send it straight into wide release after marketing it purely as a romantic drama. Audience riots would be legendary.

I had that with Let Me In back when it came out. 9 AM showing too, I thought I'd be safe but there were like three rows of jackasses in the back. I never wanted to Inglourious Basterds a movie theater so much.

Hearing shit like this actually makes me glad I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House went straight to Netflix. Never thought I'd say those words but it sounds like there's no way to enjoy a slow-burn horror/thriller in the theater these days when there are more than three people in the room.