Jake Gittes

Yeah I think 100m is on the table if it delivers the goods.

Fuck yeah Suspiria and Cook/Thief/Wife/Lover. The latter's ending is one of the very few (can count them on one hand) movie moments where I actually started involuntarily shaking from excitement because it was so glorious.

Trek.

I guess I gotta give it credit for at least looking bad an interesting way. Cause it looks fucking bizarre.

I guess now I know what a bad version of The Babadook would look like. The monster is not just a physical manifestation of depression but also a ghost of an actual person with a clichéd and needless backstory, there's little compelling about any of the characters (Palmer does her best though), and no real style to speak of - technically it's pretty bland and unimaginative. As drama, it fails completely, and as horror, it just takes the single creepy image of a figure standing in the dark and milks it for all it's worth, which makes the movie feel monotonous and overlong despite actually being just 80 minutes. And then there's the seriously wrongheaded, cheap ending which basically suggests that people suffering from depression should kill themselves so as to not bother their loved ones.

Stewart is so great in this precisely because she never makes an impression that she's doing any heavy lifting. It's a completely effortless and natural performance.

1. What will Lights Out gross Opening Weekend? 38.270m 2. What will Sausage Party's Opening Day be? 7.485m 3. How close to $100M will Bad Moms get by the end of the game? ABSTAIN 4. What will Nine Lives' 3rd weekend percentage drop be? 52.2% 5. What will be the difference between Suicide Squad and Batman Vs Superman's total gross by the end of the game? 35.300m 6. What will Dory's Total be by the end of July? 467.351m 7. What will Ben Hur's Midnights total be? 1.1m 8. What will Jason Bourne's Opening Saturday gross be? 27.738m

1. What will Star Trek Make for the 3 Day weekend? 68.485m 2. What will Lights out make on Friday? 15.503m 3. What will Ice Age gross on Saturday? 14.852m 4. What will the three main openers' combined weekend gross be? 147.576m 5. What will Pets' percentage drop be this weekend? 47.545% 6. What will Absolutely Fabulous' PTA be this weekend? $3,195 7. What will Ghostbusters' total gross be by the end of Sunday? 86.118m 8. What will be the difference between Finding Dory and Tarzan's weekend gross? 69k 9. What will The Purge gross on Sunday? 770k 10. What will BFG's Sunday percentage drop be? 26.4% 11. What will Central Intelligence gross over the weekend? 2.892m 12. What will Independence day gross on Friday? 241k 13. What will Xmen Apocalypse's weekend be? 197k 14. How close to $40M will Mike and Dave be after the end of this weekend? 153k 15. How many people will sleep with the lights on, listening to Beastie Boys and rummaging around for their nuts this weekend? EVERYONE Closest prediction for each question: 5000 points 2+3rd Closest prediction for each question: 3000 points 4+5th Closest prediction for each question: 2000 points 6-8th Closest prediction for each question: 1000 points Part thr...umm two: 2. Ice Age 4. The Secret Life of Pets 7. Finding Dory 10. Central Intelligence 12. The Infiltrator 15. The BFG

I read that the novel The Spectacular Now is based on ends with , and I would have respected the film much more if it had the balls to keep that ending instead of pulling a half-assed Good Will Hunting.

a bit too airy and distant for me overall, but Stewart's performance is one of my favorites of the last few years.

The kid having so little personality is the one major drawback, but it's beautifully directed and Shannon, Dunst, Edgerton and Driver bring a lot of humanity and warmth to the characters who may not be much on paper.

http://letterboxd.com/n_komarov/ Hopefully I'll update it some time.

I doubt I'll see this, but I gotta love Diesel's earnest enthusiasm towards everything he does, in this case trying to bring us all back into 2003. This looks incredibly dumb, but it could end up being incredibly dumb fun.

I don't care who you are back in the world, you diss my favorite movies sight unseen one more time, I'll bleed ya, real quiet. Leave ya here. Got that?

Heh, I'd rank it #3 after The Dead and Withnail & I. All three are brilliant.

Angel Heart is goddamn amazing.

Yeah, same. I feel like a total old guy saying this, but for a Western it just looks so... toothless and polished. The extent to which it feels like flashy corporate product is off-putting to me, even though I'll probably end up seeing it anyway, if only for the scenery and some of the actors.

"Does it have to be an old mill?" I need to see State and Main again.

1. Irreversible 2. Punch-Drunk Love 3. Far from Heaven 4. 25th Hour 5. LOTR: The Two Towers 6. Bus 174 7. The Bourne Identity 8. Bloody Sunday 9. Narc 10. Catch Me If You Can

The Sure Thing is a charming little movie. Glengarry is the fucking best. Now, will you go to lunch? GO TO LUNCH! WILLYOU GO TO LUNCH

You should write a script based on this and sell it to Blumhouse or something.

I think you're forgetting something...

Counting down the days till I can rewatch it in its Criterion blu-ray glory.

How I miss the glorious couple of days in January when it looked like this.