Jake Gittes

Everyone else needs to do the same

Gotta confess I left it out this time because there's not a whole lot to the score beyond that theme and one or two others. The movie's most memorable moments of music come with the songs. Fire Walk With Me and The Straight Story (both of which I had in the top half of my list) are greater works overall just by virtue of being more expansive.

I liked Oscar.

I had Angel Heart close to the top too. It's so good.

Cried tears of joy at the ending of Wild at Heart recently. Was also on the verge of tears throughout Cabaret when I saw it on the big screen a couple months back.

You mean The Bye Bye Man, right?

Hey I'm exploring though. Unlike some people, I know when interesting cinema began, and it wasn't the '70s

I know you were already the same age as those people's grandfathers when they were born but at least half of those names don't say anything to me

This is the first thing I've read about it that makes me want to see it

Between this, Apes, Dunkirk, Atomic Blonde and possibly/hopefully The Dark Tower, late July and early August looks more interesting than the rest of the summer combined.

I thought Looper was mostly a bore. Rian Johnson is really 1/3 for me so far (haven't seen his Breaking Bad work), and I only remain excited about him because Brick is a damn masterpiece.

Its PTA did drop almost 40%. The theater count increase is the only thing responsible for the increase in grosses.

What would it have been like if the internet had been around when The Greatest Show on Earth won over High Noon and The Quiet Man, while Singin' in the Rain wasn't even nominated.

Earthquake is a good reminder that the '70s too had their share of big dumb spectacles that were huge hits and then got thrown into the dustbin of history. It wasn't all New Hollywood gold.

ZDT is one of the very few 2012 movies that deserved all the praise lavished on it and more.

Unbreakable was great in large part because it had such clarity and a defined purpose to it. There's basically nothing extraneous there, and it all nicely comes together. Split is a lot more messy and unwieldy and I'm afraid smashing all the lead characters together will only make for a worse story and movie. Still cautiously curious about how it turns out.

Not completely inaccurately

This feels like those times when Borat and Hannah Montana pulled $30-40k PTAs from less than 1,000 theaters and out-opened everything else. Obviously smaller scale but still. This movie was not on my radar at all.

10 16 Get Out Universal 1,553 +588 +60.9% - - - - 10 Look at how much Universal doesn't want Get Out to make money. Disgraceful

All Eyez On Me, Rough Night, Girls Trip, 2017 Cloverfield Movie possibly. Pitch Perfect 3 for sure. If Geostorm somehow makes money I guess Dean Devlin? His mother is Filipino.

Feels better in retrospect than it was in the actual process of watching it, mostly because it relies on the passage of years and then decades for dramatic effect and you don't really start to feel that weight until the last third. Also can't disagree with people taking issue with making the lead characters so woke - I tried searching for complexity in blunt dialogue like "I'm an independent woman" and "We are so arrogant and contemptuous" (contrasted with laughably un-woke stuff like "You mean to say that those SAVAGES are the same as us?!?") but couldn't really find it. Disappointing because Gray has always been much more subtle than that, and The Immigrant in particular was a masterpiece of deeply nuanced characterization. Still, in terms of cinematography and overall production value it's currently the film to beat this year, the acting ranges from very good to great, and it gets genuinely poignant by the climax/ending.

Plus for the purposes of this countdown I just don't see how the US release date is an essential qualifier once we start going back decades. A lot of us weren't even alive back then. It makes sense to consider The Raid a 2012 movie because we couldn't have seen it before 2012, but if something let's say premiered in Cannes in 1987 (as Wings of Desire did) I think the weight needs to shift towards that original premiere date, not whenever American distributors finally showed it in the States. It's even more clear in case of something like Only Yesterday that according to IMDb wasn't distributed in the US at all until 2016.