Jake Gittes

I like how riczhang just calls him Marty like they're best buds. And by like I mean I could never understand why anyone who reviews any movie does that.

I just rewatched Elle the other day. That Christmas dinner might be the funniest prolonged comic set-piece since Wolf of Wall Street. By the time one of those guys put on Lust for Life I completely lost it. What a movie.

Too bad it didn't happen to another 2016 film that had a firm ground in faith and starred Andrew Garfield that actually asked the audience to do some mental work.

Yeah this forum doesn't deserve Huppert.

I voted for Coolio. My conscience is clear

Why would it hold better?

It's not gonna drop so softly on a post-holiday weekend. Should be happy if it gets to $20m.

Not to mention she herself won for playing a sexual abuse survivor. I do think it should be about the art but she's got every right to not be happy about this. Though if she really didn't want to be the one to hand Affleck the statue she had plenty of time to approach the organizers or whoever about it and talk to them about arranging something different this year I dunno.

Yeah Larson will be standing there dreading that she might have to read Casey Affleck's name/hoping that it's Denzel instead and she won't have to force herself to smile.

Let's just have Kate Mckinnon, Dwayne Johnson and SLJ present them all.

Yeah. TDK will be 10 a little more than a year from now. Somebody stop this

1. Will Lego Batman make more than $30M? Yes 2. Will Lego Batman make more than $35M? 3000 Yes 3. Will Lego Batman make more than $40M? No 4. Will John Wick make more than $16M? Yes 5. Will John Wick make more than $19M? 2000 No 6. Will John Wick make more than $22M? No 7. Will John Wick make at least 60% of what Lego Batman makes this weekend? No 8. Will 50 Shades make more than $22.5M? No 9. Will 50 Shades make more than $25M? 2000 No 10. Will 50 Shades make more than $27.5M? No 11. Will John Wick stay in the top 4? Yes 12. Will the top 3 New Entries combine to more than $42.5M? 3000 Yes 13. Will Everybody Loves Somebody have a PTA above $2,250? Yes 14. Will Irada have a PTA above $4,250? No 15. Will Rings stay in the top 11? No 16. Will The Eagle Huntress make more than $15k? 2000 Yes 17. Will The founder stay above Moana? No 18. Will 50 Shades' Saturday be over 25% less than its Valentines Day ? 3000 Yes 19. Will A Dog's Purpose drop less than 21% on Sunday? Yes 20. Will people freak out again this weekend if Fist Fight also misses out on a $75M OW? Yes Bonus: 14/20 2000 15/20 4000 16/20 6000 17/20 9000 18/20 12000 19/20 16000 20/20 20000 Part 2: Closest predictor wins 5000 points (Added bonus: If prediction is within 10% win 6000; 5% 7000; 2.5% 9000; 1% 12000) Nope, No part 2 for you Part 3: Predict the films that place in the following positions: 3. Fist Fight 5. Fifty Shades Darker 8. Hidden Figures 11. La La Land 14. I Am Not Your Negro 18. Rogue One

7. Trolls 8. XXX 9. Passengers 10. The Great Wall 11. Fifty Shades 12. Inferno

1. Will The Great Wall open to more than $15M? Yes 2. Will The Great Wall open to more than $18M? 3000 Yes 3. Will The Great Wall open to more than $21M? Yes 4. Will Fist Fight open to more than $15M? Yes 5. Will Fist Fight open to more than $18M? 2000 Yes 6. Will Fist Fight open to more than $21M? No 7. Will Great Wall open higher than Fist Fight? Yes 8. Will A Cure For Wellness open to more than $5M? Yes 9. Will A Cure For Wellness open to more than $7M? 2000 Yes 10. Will A Cure For Wellness open to more than $9M? Yes 11. Will fifty Shades remain in the top 2? No 12. Will Split stay above Hidden Figures? 3000 Yes 13. Will A Dog's Purpose cross $50M domestic? No 14. Will Lion have the best drop in the top 15 (only films that decrease count)? Yes 15. Will the Comedian have a PTA above $8,000? 16. Will Space Between us drop more than 64%? 2000 Yes 17. Will John Wick get within $500k of 50Shades on at least 1 day of the weekend? Yes 18. Will Sing Stay above Rogue One? 3000 No 19. Will Moana increase more than 125% on Saturday? No 20. Will people freak out again this weekend if Great Wall also misses out on a $75M OW? Yes Bonus: 14/20 2000 15/20 4000 16/20 6000 17/20 9000 18/20 12000 19/20 16000 20/20 20000 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 Fist Fight's 3 Day. 19.678 2. Predict the difference in 3 day gross between Split and Cure for Wellness 3.573 3. What will Resident Evil's percentage drop be? -71.7% Part 3: Predict the films that place in the following positions: 2. The Great Wall 4. John Wick 2 7. Split 10. Lion 12. Rings 15. Fences

I doubt there are many people among the GA who, even if they didn't much like the movie, are going around saying they wish it starred some people from Broadway or the reanimated corpses of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. I don't wanna obsess over this too much or say that people shouldn't express their opinion about the movie at this point, but that second quote reads like it's still December and there hasn't been two months of backlash and arguments that already served as fodder for an SNL sketch for chrissake.

Some real fresh opinions in there.

Gloriously entertaining. TIGHTLY plotted (I was shocked to find out this was an original screenplay and not an adaptation of some novel that they had to trim down) and emotionally complex. Verhoeven takes the aesthetics of your typical prestige WW2 melodrama and injects them with actual energy and character, playing around with the comfortable archetypes of both sides of the conflict (three years before Tarantino did the same thing in Inglourious Basterds) and pointing out all the bullshit it sees while treating every serious moment with the gravity it deserves. Very involving without being the least bit sentimental, and, in the end, a real kick in the balls to all the "respectable" airless European movies of the same vein. Don't understand how this isn't widely considered a bonafide modern classic.

Read the plot summary of the novel on Wiki. Woof. Between that, the cast and the director this has a pretty good chance of being unbearably manipulative so yeah I'm out for now.

Looks like death to me tbh.

Yeah if Weinstein actually bothered to promote Lion it could be making twice what it's doing now.

I'm so sorry.

200m for LB would require legs at least as good as The Lego Movie's and that is simply not happening.

I got no problem with them picking Hardy and Stewart.

Stone won the BAFTA.

the BAFTAs really spreading the love around in the technical categories so far. Original Score: La La Land Editing: Hacksaw Ridge Production Design: Fantastic Beasts Costumes: Jackie Sound Mixing: Arrival Makeup: FFJ if anyone's been suspecting that it won't be complete La La Land domination on Oscar night this adds a little more weight. I'd definitely been thinking that FB might pull an Alice in Wonderland and take production design or costumes or both.