Jake Gittes

Still one of his best, maybe even top 5.

So weird that JJL's starring in this, even if she signed up for it before her big prestige comeback. I wonder if she simply sleepwalked through this or actually does something interesting.

David Ehrlich on Letterboxd: Granted, he likes pretty much everything, but it's still exciting.

If Damien Chazelle wasn't in the conversation before he surely needs to be now.

Amy Adams - Story of Your Life Emily Blunt - Girl on the Train Rebecca Hall - Christine Ruth Negga - Loving Emma Stone - La La Land

It also opened with just 40% of what Zoo made and didn't have a likely $150m+ opener waiting for it in its fourth week.

Just being cautious. It's possible to be a very well-received animated movie and not go above 3.5x.

Should be good for a 255-275 finish or thereabouts. (Lego's legs would give it 275, I'm wary of going higher than that now).

It would require a 3x to get to 345.5m, since the cume before the weekend was 294.8m. I think it might just miss 350m the way TDKR missed 450, but it's more likely that it crawls over it. There's no way it touches Passion of the Christ at this point though.

I like how Spectre's PTA jumped almost 100% compared to last Friday, Sony's getting ready for that Grimsby fudge next week

I'm sure I saw him in silhouette, he just doesn't have any lines or even show his face. That chin though is a great comic actor all on its own.

Many of the individual scenes are smart and funny, and I like both the take on Hollywood/movies as religion that can bring people comfort regardless of the films' artistic worth (with Mannix as a suffering Christ figure) and the way some of the movie stars within the film "become" what they play (Hobie gets to be a hero by bringing Whitlock back, and Tatum gets to go out to sea in the most absurdly hilarious sequence). My problem is that the whole feels less than the sum of its parts - as clever as it all is, I wasn't invested in it nearly as much as in the Coens' earlier lighter comedies, and the only reason I'd revisit it would be to see it in English. Good but very much a lower-tier Coen. Also, Alden Ehrenreich handily out-shined all the veterans around him in this one. Dude should be a star.

Only just watched this. I'd say it's one of their funniest, most visually captivating and overall best films. And Jennifer Jason Leigh, oh my God.

And yeah let's get Emily Blunt and Rebecca Hall those nominations already.

I think Jared Leto wouldn't get nominated for SS even if he died this year.

Zootopia would be a fine winner, though it's obviously not guaranteed this far out.

Let's get Amy Adams that Oscar already.

Lonergan, Parker, Scorsese, Villeneuve all look good to me (the first two's films have been seen and widely praised, Scorsese is Scorsese, and it feels like Sicario brought Villeneuve a ton of goodwill that could translate into a nom this time if he does justice to the supposedly incredible source material), which probably means that only one or two of them will get nominated in the end. But I'll go with them for now. Not sure about the fifth guy. Eastwood and Hancock seem too safe/bland, Zemeckis hasn't made anything above-average since Cast Away, and did I miss the memo that Rob Reiner is suddenly a good director again after 20 years? Ang Lee's movie sounds fascinating but it also seems like something that could go off the rails pretty easily. I think I'll just go with James Gray because I'm a big fan and it's about time he got recognized already.

And Best Picture goes to... Now You See Me 2!

IDK, if the last year has taught me anything it's that Inarritu will find some way to win this one.

Inarritu looks like the only guy in there who's being pissy. Robert Richardson and Tom McCarthy look like they're really digging her jacket, the others' expressions are more neutral than anything, and they all applauded once she got on the stage. There's zero reason entire articles should be written about this but that's the internet in 2016 I guess.

You mean that movie that made like $1m? Wtf nobody cares about that one lol

Summit won with The Hurt Locker. They were still sold to Lionsgate after what, three years?

I'm happy a performance as subtle as Rylance's got rewarded but still bummed about Sly. Fuck yes MMFR and the Ex Machina win was a pleasant shock.

Gun Crazy (1950) Zootopia (2016)