Jake Gittes

You know a movie is fundamentally hopeful and optimistic when it casts Sean Bean as a guy responsible for keeping people alive.

Dialogue is the last thing I ever wanted from this movie, especially after Birdman.

After Hours rocks. An underrated, hilarious gem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIRN43cVMHI

Could be good, could be dumb and juvenile ("look at how much violence! and tits! and cynicism! we've got here"). And Hillcoat went from greatness to mediocrity pretty quickly in the span of three movies. On the other hand, that there is quite a cast. I'm intrigued by Winslet, never expected to see her in something like this.

Worldwide, yeah. Domestically it can easily fall short of The Bourne Ultimatum.

So Hollywood execs figured out they don't even need to give their tentpoles to directors with just one tiny indie movie behind them, they can just hire guys with no directorial experience whatsoever.

AKA Lucille Bluth: The Early Years.

For my money, this is Eastwood's best film. It takes the classic western premise - a mysterious stranger rides into a town and is asked to protect it - and brilliantly turns it on its head: the stranger may be the protagonist, but he's not at all a good guy, and the town is populated almost entirely by scumbags and cowards. A really nasty and misanthropic piece of work, fully committed to its worldview, and pretty unforgettable in the end.

1. The Big Lebowski 2. Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 3. Some Like It Hot 4. In the Loop 5. Black Dynamite 6. Batman: The Movie (1966) 7. This Is Spinal Tap 8. Election 9. The Wolf of Wall Street 10. A Serious Man 11. To Be or Not to Be 12. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 13. The Palm Beach Story 14. Burn After Reading 15. Modern Times 16. Libeled Lady 17. After Hours 18. Schizopolis 19. Hellzapoppin’ 20. Braindead 21. Flirting with Disaster 22. Scott Pilgrim vs the World 23. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 24. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story 25. Computer Chess 26. Ninotchka 27. Kind Hearts and Coronets 28. Pulp Fiction 29. In Bruges 30. Withnail & I 31. Back to the Future 32. Being John Malkovich 33. The Lego Movie 34. Fantastic Mr. Fox 35. The Incredibles 36. The Informant! 37. Raising Arizona 38. Hot Fuzz 39. The Major and the Minor 40. My Man Godfrey 41. There’s Something About Mary 42. Evil Dead II 43. Shaun of the Dead 44. Bruno 45. Design for Living 46. Ball of Fire 47. Our Hospitality 48. O Brother, Where Art Thou? 49. Attack the Block 50. This Is the End

Ahem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re4chLDlNLY

He said movies, not soundtracks

That still doesn't top a bunch of corpses being used for comic relief in Bad Boys II. Not that I ever want to see anything "top" that.

I'm thinking JW, SW and The Walk are the most likely to be here, even if the latter is a box-office flop. The other two spots are between Furious 7, Avengers, Ant-Man, Mad Max and In the Heart of the Sea. For now I'd pick F7 and Ant-Man.

Yeah but TLR had that incredibly showy finale.

It's a dark and cruel world we live in.

Speaking of space movies and IMAX 3D and long runs, it bothers me that Space Station 3D hasn't been tracked since December, when it was at $92,165,012. I was looking forward to seeing it hit $100m sometime in 2020.

I think if anything The Martian only proved all over again that Scott is only as good as his material. I can easily see him going back to mediocrity after this. I hope he doesn't, but I'm still gonna be cautious about anything he puts out.

Can't honestly think of a reason why The Martian should be here.

The 3D in The Martian really isn't worth it. At all.

1. Mad Max: Fury Road 2. The Duke of Burgundy 3. Inside Out 4. Amy 5. The End of the Tour 6. It Follows 7. The Martian 8. The Gift 9. Unfriended 10. The Boy Next Door

The re-entry scene in Gravity got me more emotional (and still does) than anything in The Martian. And I really liked The Martian.

No, but frankly, Scorsese should be.

I haven't forgotten

Hugely enjoyable stuff, and a reminder of how fun and engaging and intense it can be to watch people be professionals and actually use their brains to find creative ways around seemingly insurmountable obstacles; in that way, it's the most inspirational film of the year. Also, with all the smart people being smart, it almost feels like Scott's apology for all the morons in Prometheus, although I doubt that he really gives any fucks. Now, visually it's nothing incredible, a couple of the cast members have really little to do for someone of their talent (Chastain most notably), and some of it seems a bit cheesy upon reflection (Donald Glover's entire character, all the crowds in Times Square, the ending montage), but the movie drew me in and kept me invested with such skill that these are all minor complaints. And the song it used over the end credits sent me out of the theater with the biggest grin on my face.