Jake Gittes

John Wick will be a million higher with that Friday.

Whoa.

The last two of those were both... not very good I thought. Demon isn't much of a horror and Eyes of My Mother is just torture porn in B&W. At least they're distinctive I suppose. Did you see I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House? It's unsurprisingly divisive but I adored every minute of it. Great take on The Innocents-esque dread-building kind of horror.

Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench is the same. Much smaller scale but still an ending that elevates the whole movie.

Yeah that has me torn. On the one hand I think he's definitely a better director than writer, on the other hand all three of his movies have had enough personality that I would've liked to see him further develop his own voice through writing. Hopefully First Man doesn't suddenly turn him into a Ron Howard type or something.

At least @WrathOfHan didn't get that one exactly right.

Wick could actually get ahead of Madea. All it needs is an 8m weekend.

1. Will The Get Out open to more than $22M? Yes 2. Will The Get Out open to more than $25M? 3000 Yes 3. Will The Get Out open to more than $28M? Yes 4. Will Collide open to more than $2M? Yes 5. Will Collide open to more than $3.5M? 2000 No 6. Will Collide open to more than $5M? No 7. Will Rock Dog open to more than $2M? Yes 8. Will Rock Dog open to more than $3.5M? Yes 9. Will Rock Dog open to more than $5M? 2000 No 10. Will Get out make more on Friday than Rock Dog and Collide's combined weekend total? Yes 11. Will Collide make more than Rock Dog? No 12. Will either of Collide or Rock Dog (or both) enter in the top 8? 3000 No 13. Will Lego Batman finish within $2m of first place? No 14. Will my Life as a Zucchini have a PTA above $8000? Yes 15. Will my Life as a Zucchini have a PTA above $12000? Yes 16. Will Fifty Shades stay above John Wick? 2000 No 17. Will Great Wall stay above John Wick? Yes 18. Will Fifty Shades cross $100M by Friday? 3000 No 19. Will Hidden Figures reenter the top 5? No 20. Will Fist Fight drop more than 55%? 2000 No 21. Will a Cure for Wellness have a PTA below $750? Yes 22. Will A DOg's purpose stay above La La Land? No 23. Will The Eagle Huntress stay above $12,500? 3000 Yes 24. Will Lion cross $40M by Saturday? Yes 25. Will I am not your Negro increase? No 26. Will Rings drop below Moana? No 27. Will Lego Movie increase more than 125% on Saturday? No 28. Will Star Wars stay above Sing? Yes 29. Are you fed up answering all these questions each week? 2000 Maybe. Maybe not. 30. How about now? 3000 Maybe fuck yourself. Bonus: 20/30 2000 21/30 3000 22/30 4000 23/30 6000 24/30 9000 25/30 12000 26/30 16000 27/30 20000 28/30 25000 29/30 30000 30/30 40000 Part 2: Closest predictor wins 5000 points (Added bonus: If prediction is within 10% win 6000; 5% 7000; 2.5% 9000; 1% 12000) 1. Predict Get Out's 3 Day. 36.312 2. Predict Rock Dog's Saturday Gross 1.882 3. What will Cure for Wellness's percentage drop be? 60% 4. Predict the total Domestic Gross of John Wick. 75.059 5. Predict Lego Batman's Sunday drop 34.1% Part 3: Predict the films that place in the following positions: 2. The Lego Batman Movie 5. Fifty Shades Darker 7. Hidden Figures 9. Split 12. Rock Dog 14. A Cure for Wellness 16. Fences 20. The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2017

Where do you get "coupling" from? The movie is already being billed as a "dark" comedy, not a romantic one. From the sound of everything it'll center on Rogen's character's "self-destructive ways" and how deluded his "pursuit" of Theron is.

I've been hearing about this fucking thing since at least 2010 when DOR and Wahlberg were totally going to do it. I don't know whether to laugh or be irrationally angry at the fact that they still haven't put it together.

Yeah this sounds like it has potential. Hopefully they deliver on the "dark" part of it.

These are the times when I really wish Hitchcock were alive today so he could keep showing the kids how this shit's done.

I knew Goffe could never be the super mother bug.

Gonna be my number 1 probably.

Depends on how set they are and how willing they are to engage. Age too. I don't think a movie can cause someone to have an instant epiphany but it can get some thoughts going which might develop into something later. I definitely credit some movies and TV shows I saw over the years with helping me get out of my teenage misanthrope phase and making me less judgmental towards people in general.

Not a Wilderpeople gif

This has become a Debbie Harry biopic?

Early preparation/rehearsal of the opening Chazelle shot on his phone

As long as the payoff is the best it can be

Maybe the most powerful scene/score combo in any film I saw in the past year.

Diesel really is out of control if that shit is true. I've been enjoying the hell out of these movies but they need to shut that nonsense down if they don't want them to become unbearable.

To click or not to click...

I remember Into the Wild being pretty myopic. If I were feeling charitable I'd say it's trying to do that Scorsese thing of placing you inside the protagonist's headspace to make you understand how he sees himself, but in the end it just romanticizes him and nothing more. I haven't seen it since 2008 or 2009 though.

I didn't like it which means you probably will