Jake Gittes

Keaton is the only one who deserved to win anything for Birdman. And he wasn't even all that amazing himself. (In an ideal world Timothy Spall would have dominated the Best Actor race that year).

Inarritu just poisoned everything in Birdman including Stone's performance. She's so much better in this.

1. 191 2. Elm Street 5 3. 69m

1. Will Monster Trucks make less than $16m? Yes 2. Will Monster Trucks make less than $12m? 3000 Yes 3. Will Monster Trucks make less than $8m? No 4. Will Bye Bye Man make more than $6M? No 5. Will Bye Bye Man make more than $8M? 2000 No 6. Will Sleepless make more than $7.5M? No 7. Will Sleepless make more than $10M? No 8. Which New Opener (not expander) will have the highest grossing 3 day weekend? Monster Trucks 9. Will Patriots Day open at number 1? 2000 No 10. Will any new opener open in the top 3? No 11. Will Silence make more than $2.2M? Yes 12. Will Live by night enter the top 2? 3000 No 13. Will Hidden Figures stay above Rogue 1? Yes 14. Will Sing remain in the top 5? Yes 15. Will La La Land make more than $8.5M? Yes 16. Will any film in the top 20 drop less than 15% without increasing by more than 75 theatres? 2000 Yes 17. Will Some Like It Hot have a PTA above $2,700? Yes 18. Will Underworld drop more than 57%? Yes 19. Will Rogue One cross $500M? No 20. Will this weekend bring glory monstering back to the box office? 2000 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 Monster Truck's 3 day gross. 8.594 2. Predict Patriot's Day's Percentage increase from last weekend. 15500% 3. What will Silence's PTA be? $3,308 Part 3: Predict the films that place in the following positions: 1. Hidden Figures 4. Rogue One 6. Live by Night 9. Underworld 12. Moana 15. Lion

Most times, I'm pretty sure. We aren't Gopher and Baumer

He has survived Birdman AND The Revenant dominating two awards seasons in a row. He'll be OK. And oh wow it took me a minute to realize where that gif is from. If I'd seen that in the theater... yikes.

Well, uh, this is a great, very entertaining little movie and if you haven't seen it yet you really should.

Then me and Tele will fight on the same side again.

All I have to say is, no, Tele... you be trippin'.

Gyllenhaal had a showier part in Nightcrawler and that also gave him a BAFTA nod but nothing at the Oscars. And man oh man Huppert better not get a snub after how far she's managed to go this season.

My favorite character detail in this is that Rachel House's character really wants to see herself as the action hero of the story because it's a temporary escape from her boring life, it's exactly the same deal as with Ricky and his "this was just like The Lord of the Rings" moment (and btw when he sees the teenage girl on the horse it's such a perfect affectionate parody of Arwen) and being overjoyed when he gets to be a part of a car chase. But as many laughs as the movie gets out of this, it doesn't turn her into a walking joke - when everything's over and her deputy flat-out states something to the effect of "this isn't a movie anymore", she has that disappointed, sad look on her face that's legitimately affecting.

For fuck's sake

Yeah, I like that he's an actual character, not a simple bland romantic hero.

I thought Robert Eggers could at least score here. Too bad he didn't. Happy for Trachtenberg though.

No matter how much La La Land expands I can't see it doing more than 15m over the 3-day and Hidden Figures should beat that pretty easily. Especially since it'll be adding a few hundred theaters too.

On a much, much, much smaller scale I've had to make a living doing something I was good at but didn't much enjoy, so I could sympathize. And it's not like he's constantly in some woe-is-me state or something.

I didn't feel that attitude coming from the movie at all.

Did we watch the same movie?

I actually did oversleep.

Well that was uh pretty damn good. Never more enjoyable than in its first hour, but never more interesting than in its second, when it gets more and more self-reflexive and self-referential and has a more and more active dialogue with itself. It's a film fundamentally built on contrast - between the reality and fantasy of relationships, the reality and fantasy of Hollywood, success and failure, the artificially created "movie magic" and the very real effect it has on people... with everyone involved here deliberately using mundane reality as fodder for their own moments of movie magic, only to have that reality undercut everything again. Yet the movie retains its own kind of magic through all of it.

Goddamn shame everyone ignored Vittorio Storaro.

Persona is good and all, but imagine how much better it would be if it starred JLaw and Anna Kendrick

14 hours and 25 minutes from now... unless I oversleep.

120+ will happen I'm sure, 150 is possible but still so far away at this point that I don't wanna get my hopes up too much.

It'll take much less time to name the extraordinary movies that did.