Jake Gittes

That sounds sweet about Goggins.

From everything I've read about the movie (though granted not the script) it doesn't sound like that at all. It's not a revenge fantasy, or an epic, and it sounds much more like Reservoir Dogs (a bunch of people turning on each other in isolated setting) crossed with a mystery film and (at least visually) some classic westerns set during the winter like McCabe & Mrs. Miller and The Great Silence. To me that sounds like the only possible Oscar contender this year that could be as exciting as Fury Road. But of course it does because I'm a QT fan for life.

Minions opened with $15m in Russia so with exceptional legs it could make it to $40m, but even then it'll be the only movie this summer to do so. That's an absolute lock.

Do the Right Thing

Tele be old.

Goggins was in Django for about 5 minutes.

It better fucking be.

Spider-Man 2

1965 1. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 2. Pierrot le fou 3. The Saragossa Manuscript 4. For a Few Dollars More 5. Chimes at Midnight 6. The Collector 7. Happiness 8. Red Beard 9. Repulsion 10. Le vampire de Dusseldorf 1975 1. The Mirror 2. Jaws 3. The Passenger 4. Nashville 5. Picnic at Hanging Rock 6. Barry Lyndon 7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 8. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 9. Deep Red 10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1985 1. Back to the Future 2. To Live and Die in L.A. 3. A Zed and Two Noughts 4. Brazil 5. After Hours 6. Commando 7. The Goonies 8. The Sure Thing 9. Pee-wee's Big Adventure 1995 1. Heat 2. Underground 3. Before Sunrise 4. Dead Man 5. Seven 6. Toy Story 7. Twelve Monkeys 8. Casino 9. The Bridges of Madison County 10. The Usual Suspects 2005 1. Brick 2. The Proposition 3. A History of Violence 4. The New World 5. King Kong 6. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story 7. Tideland 8. Pusher 3 9. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance 10. Broken Flowers 2015 1. Mad Max: Fury Road 2. The Duke of Burgundy 3. Inside Out 4. It Follows 5. The Boy Next Door 6. The Gift 7. Spy 8. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation 9. Furious 7 10. Unfriended I'll probably be editing this after catching up with some more stuff.

This was a lot of fun. It's not very scary (though Val silently staring at the camera without moving did creep me the hell out), and the characters are hard to give a shit about, but it's endlessly inventive in the way it takes the basic slasher premise into the virtual world. The group chat is like the cabin in the woods, the default Skype icon is like the killer's mask, the "see friendship" section of FB is like flashbacks, the ominous forum is like the useless expert who shows up in the second half, etc. It was also hilarious how Laura's ghost was able to do literally everything she wanted both in reality and online (possess and stalk multiple people almost simultaneously, remove certain buttons in Skype and on Facebook, turn on the music on Spotify; she's like if Samantha from Her was also a demon in addition to everything she could do), while the teens literally had no choice but to sit on their asses and stay in the chat.

I also wouldn't call what the film does a "celebration", to me it's a bit more ambivalent. Sure, Cameron doesn't exactly make the queen a sympathetic character, but he doesn't shy away from the fact that yeah, Ripley can be seen as a straight up murderer, and the queen has every right to be pissed at her.

1) Will the Woman in Gold drop less than 18%? No 2) Will Entourage cross 32 million when actuals come out? Yes 3) Will Spy drop less than 25%? No 4) Will Avengers have a Saturday increase of more than 40%? No 5) Will JW finish second? Yes 6) Will IO finish second? No 7) Will Minions have an OD of more than 35 million? Yes 8) Will Self/Less make the top 5? No 9) Will any film increase more than 48% on Saturday? No 10) Will more than 2 films increase on this Saturday from last Saturday? Yes 11) Will Gallows make more than Self/Less? Yes 12) Will JW have a better Saturday gross than IO? Yes 13) Will Minions make more than 100 million opening weekend? Yes 14) Will any film in the top 10 drop less than 15%? No 12/14 4000 13/14 5000 14/15 8000 What films finish in spots: 2 Jurassic World 3 Inside Out 4 The Gallows 5 Terminator Genisys 8 Ted 2 Bonus 1: What does Minions, Gallows and Self Less combine to gross this weekend? 5000 149.999m Bonus 2: What does Avengers, Spy and Ted combine to gross this weekend? 5000 8.298m

And yeah, I remember this whole thing took us like five or six months to do. I personally wouldn't do it again until, I dunno, probably the next decade.

Heh. I'll still take Network over Birdman any day of the week though.

Why the fuck is Night at the Museum 3 still in release?

Bye bye SOTM 6 I guess.

1. Mulholland Drive 2. All his episodes of Twin Peaks 3. Lost Highway 4. Eraserhead 5. The Straight Story 6. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 7. Blue Velvet 8. The Elephant Man Left to see: Dune, Wild at Heart, Inland Empire

To add: Mike Leigh - Naked Michael Mann - Heat Spike Lee - 25th Hour Tim Burton - Ed Wood James Cameron - Aliens Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo Brad Bird - The Incredibles James Gray - The Immigrant Jason Reitman - Young Adult David Lynch - Mulholland Drive Rob Reiner - This Is Spinal Tap Abel Ferrara - King of New York Andrei Tarkovsky - The Mirror Hayao Miyazaki - Spirited Away Peter Jackson - Fellowship of the Ring Clint Eastwood - High Plains Drifter Kenneth Branagh - Much Ado About Nothing Terry Gilliam - Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas Michael Winterbottom - Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

Miller and maybe QT are like the only non-boring potential nominees at this point

Forget it Kayu, it's Shay

classic shay

Rewatched this the other day. Goddamn there's about a million great actors in this thing, and the script never short-changes any of them. It's almost too cool and self-assured for its own good, because there's little sense of danger in the climax, but it's still supremely entertaining. And easily Soderbergh's best studio movie.

He's really become a much better screenwriter than TV writer.

Same. It's outrageous that they locked the topic at deadline.

But not risky or unfamiliar in any way.