Jake Gittes

April 1 was last week B.

You seen every single one?

Don't remind me.

For you.

It's gonna be worse.

2013 release in the U.S. I'll add it to my post.

To prevent confusion and questions, just in case: Notable/acclaimed films that are listed as 2010/2011 on IMDb and elsewhere but weren't commercially released in the U.S. until 2012 (which makes them ELIGIBLE here) Damsels in Distress The Grey Haywire The Intouchables Jeff Who Lives at Home Killer Joe Oslo, August 31 The Raid Samsara The Secret World of Arrietty The Turin Horse Wuthering Heights Films that premiered at festivals in 2012 but weren't released in the U.S. until 2013 (INELIGIBLE) The Act of Killing Berberian Sound Studio Byzantium Frances Ha A Hijacking The Hunt In the House (Dans la maison) Leviathan (fishing documentary) Maniac Much Ado About Nothing Mud Museum Hours Paradise: Love Paradise: Faith The Place Beyond the Pines Post Tenebras Lux Something in the Air Spring Breakers Stories We Tell To the Wonder Wadjda Wolf Children Corrections/suggestions welcome.

It's too unambitious for that. Your usual lazy broad forgettable studio comedy, only occasionally funny and too distracted by random gags and subplots and stock comic relief supporting characters to really use the actors' (and characters') advanced age for anything meaningful. But it's under 100 minutes and Caine, Freeman and Arkin are pros so you might enjoy it at least somewhat.

Saw this. Yep. The most whatever movie I've come across in a while. Nothing worth going to the theater for.

Gone with the Wind and/or Lawrence of Arabia incoming probably. One might be The Third Man but I hope it's higher.

Love seeing Laura here. One of the very few classic Hollywood/film noir scores I've heard that really stands on its own (and arguably outshines its own movie). I never get tired of it.

Yeah that's one of my lingering problems with the movie. At first I actually didn't believe the flashbacks implied what they very obviously implied because it was so tonally jarring. I was like, "It can't be going there, can it?" Certainly not opposed to mainstream movies bringing up things like that but I don't think Split ever bridged the gap between that and McAvoy as a child doing Kanye.

And among the biggest grossers there was always stuff like Earthquake, Billy Jack, Hooper, The Towering Inferno that hardly anyone watches or even remembers these days.

I think There Will Be Blood did about as well as could have been expected from it. If we're making New Hollywood comparisons it's much more of a Raging Bull (also not a big commercial success) than a Taxi Driver.

Pulp Fiction adjusts to only slightly more than what movies like Lincoln, True Grit, Gone Girl, Django Unchained and Get Out have made recently. And correct me if I'm wrong but it was instantly a bigger cultural phenomenon than any of those recent ones. Get Out comes close and it has successfully captured the zeitgeist in a way films aimed at adults did in earlier eras.

Well, most if not all of them will probably follow

And that's one big if.

Being saved for the sequel, The Ancient Man and the Gun.

Hell or High Water could have done more if they'd emphasized the glowing reviews and "from the creators of Sicario" and immediately opened it in 2000+ theaters and let the WOM do the rest. But even then they would have needed to spend more on advertising, and I don't think in the end it would have done better than Sicario anyway.

Wait TDK wasn't on the list the last time? How did all the Nolanites allow that to happen?

Still the biggest gulf I know between the quality of the movie and that of the music.

I looked this up on Letterboxd a few days ago and it was nothing but 3-star reviews that all boiled down to, "This sure is a movie that exists".

It's been a while since I've seen a Goffe opinion I couldn't wrap my head around, I was almost starting to worry. Not anymore.

Spot on. I thought it was one of the least remarkable elements of the movie on first viewing (aside from the immediately obvious ownage of Brothers in Arms and another couple of tracks) but it totally grew on me as a whole. Hopefully it gets even higher next time.