I really hope we can afford not to care about that. I can understand this thing with recent years but Wings of Desire is not a 1988 movie ffs. Would be less headache for everyone to just go with the original year that's on IMDb.
I'm gonna keep doing the preseason till next week too. And screw this whole week 0 thing anyway. It's a summer game, it shouldn't begin until summer does
Full Metal Jacket, RoboCop and Predator are essential.
Out of films you haven't mentioned I'd say the same for The Dead, Angel Heart, Withnail & I, Radio Days, Prince of Darkness, Evil Dead II, and Wings of Desire.
1. The Turin Horse
2. Moonrise Kingdom
3. Barbara
4. Killing Them Softly
5. Zero Dark Thirty
6. Cloud Atlas
7. Wuthering Heights
8. Oslo, August 31
9. The Grey
10. Cosmopolis
11. Killer Joe
12. Dredd
13. The Raid
14. Compliance
15. The Imposter
16. The Master
17. Damsels in Distress
18. Searching for Sugar Man
19. Lincoln
20. Django Unchained
21. ParaNorman
22. Skyfall
23. Holy Motors
24. The Cabin in the Woods
25. The Avengers
Probably too late now but we should have done what we did a few years back and added a 16th film at the bottom in case something from our top 15 got delayed.
Lincoln goes on for 15 minutes longer than it should and is further dragged down a little by Spielberg's typical shoved-in father-son drama with DDL and JGL, but all in all it's still one of his better works. Engaging and alive instead of stuffy and actually funny whenever it wants to be. Should have won Picture and Director if ZDT wasn't going to, and needless to say adapted screenplay. Tony Kushner is really the best thing that happened to Spielberg this century.
All artists worth their salt do their work for themselves first. Spielberg made Jaws and Indiana Jones because he was interested in doing them, not because he thought "I don't give a shit about this, but I guess audiences want this, so sure, whatever." Same with other stuff from Schindler to War of the Worlds to Bridge of Spies.
Cloud Atlas
Barbara
The Imposter
Dredd
ParaNorman
Damsels in Distress
The Grey
Killer Joe
Killing Them Softly
Oslo, August 31
Holy Motors
Also Mud is ineligible, wasn't released till April 2013.
The Witch also opened with a $4k PTA. Them dropping the ball on Free Fire is even more inexplicable considering they proved with that movie that they can get strong results with limited but focused advertising. And FF surely has to be a more accessible movie.
Lincoln and Bridge of Spies were both far better than it seemed they would be, yet I'm still finding it hard to muster up excitement for this. Just sounds so predictable even if Spielberg is as technically proficient and strong with actors as he's ever been.
Hopefully it'll be another pleasant surprise.