Jake Gittes

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Shamelessly manipulative melodramatic bullshit trying to pass itself off as tragedy. Nice music though.

The one decent Inarritu movie. Melodramatic but not as self-serious and stupid as his later films, and the pacing is pretty exhilarating.

Ejiofor would be good but realistically we aren't going to see the first post-Craig movie before 2020 and even Ejiofor will be 42 by then. Elba will be 47.

One of my favorite scenes of 2000s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8XvfehejO4

I'm just glad It Follows went wide at all.

Yeah, but does Bond hang off a plane thousands of feet in the air?

1. Mulholland Drive 2. Before Sunset 3. There Will Be Blood 4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 5. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 6. The Turin Horse 7. Zodiac 8. Memories of Murder 9. Boyhood 10. The Social Network 11. Memento 12. Inglourious Basterds 13. A Serious Man 14. Punch-Drunk Love 15. Dog Days 16. Artificial Intelligence: AI 17. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 18. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 19. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 20. Kill Bill Vol. 2 21. Kill Bill Vol. 1 22. Before Midnight 23. The Incredibles 24. In the Loop 25. Valhalla Rising 26. Irreversible 27. Drive 28. Brick 29. The Proposition 30. We Need to Talk About Kevin 31. Speed Racer 32. Exit Through the Gift Shop 33. Enemy 34. Antichrist 35. Black Dynamite 36. Fantastic Mr. Fox 37. Shutter Island 38. Zero Dark Thirty 39. The Act of Killing 40. Spring Breakers 41. George Washington 42. The Heart of the World 43. Gravity 44. Leviathan (2012) 45. The Immigrant 46. The Bourne Ultimatum 47. No Country for Old Men 48. 25th Hour 49. Bus 174 50. A History of Violence 51. In the Mood for Love 52. O Brother, Where Art Thou? 53. The Illusionist (2010) 54. The New World 55. Children of Men 56. The Dark Knight 57. Tideland 58. Spirited Away 59. Bloody Sunday 60. United 93 61. Let the Right One In 62. Attack the Block 63. Killing Them Softly 64. Y tu mama también 65. 127 Hours 66. Inside Llewyn Davis 67. Mary and Max 68. Bug 69. Under the Skin 70. Moulin Rouge! 71. Frances Ha 72. Cloud Atlas 73. The Hurt Locker 74. Pusher 3 75. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith 76. Shattered Glass 77. Moonrise Kingdom 78. All the Real Girls 79. Two Lovers 80. A Separation 81. The Bourne Supremacy 82. The Bourne Identity 83. Burn After Reading 84. Hanna 85. V for Vendetta 86. Spider-Man 2 87. Toy Story 3 88. The Dance of Reality 89. Young Adult 90. In Bruges 91. Inception 92. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 93. The Departed 94. Kingdom of Heaven (Director’s Cut) 95. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 96. The Prestige 97. Letters from Iwo Jima 98. The Grey 99. Big Fish 100. Somewhere

S'alright. It will pass.

Damn, it looks like Hoyte van Hoytema shot the fuck out of this.

Well, IM3 opened to 723m rubles which is 26m away from the OW record and would be about $11.5m with current exchange rate. So if TA2 beats the OW record with say 800m rubles that would mean $12.5-13m.

There is still like 24 hours left, right?

Dying to see this.

Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive. I accept no one else.

TOP 15 1) Avengers: Age of Ultron - $544m 2) Jurassic World - $295m 3) Minions - $278m 4) Inside Out - $247m 5) Ant-Man - $207m 6) Ted 2 - $205m 7) Mad Max: Fury Road - $176m 8) Spy - $167m 9) Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation - $165m 10) Pitch Perfect 2 - $158m 11) San Andreas - $150m 12) Fantastic Four - $145m 13) Trainwreck - $126m 14) Pixels - $125m 15) Tomorrowland - $124m TOP 5 OPENING WEEKENDS: 1) Avengers: Age of Ultron - $222.4m 2) Jurassic World - $97.3m 3) Minions - $81.1m 4) Ant-Man - $67.4m 5) Inside Out - $66.3m TOP 10 WW 1) Avengers: Age of Ultron - $1.683 billion 2) Jurassic World - $918m 3) Minions - $897m 4) Inside Out - $575m 5) Ted 2 - $516m 6) Ant-Man - $503m 7) Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - $494m 8) San Andreas - $480m 9) Mad Max: Fury Road - $450m 10) Tomorrowland - $385m TOP 5 WW WEEKENDS 1) Avengers: Age of Ultron 2) Minions 3) Jurassic World 4) Mission Impossible 5) Ant-Man TOP 5 LOWEST GROSSING WIDE RELEASES 1) The Outskirts 2) Dope 3) The Gift 4) The Gallows 5) Underdogs HERE ARE YOUR FIRST PRE SEASON BONUS QUESTIONS THAT MUST BE ANSWERED BEFORE THURSDAY APRIL 30TH AT 6PM. 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NO 8) Will Tele love Mad Max and will baumer love Jurassic World? You must answer both. This is an honour system question. I will tell you right now that I think i will love Jurassic World. YES and YES 9) Will any film released in August gross 100 mill before the end of the game? YES 10) Will Self/Less make more than 40 million? YES 11) How many films will make at least 750 million WW? 1 cushion Three 12) How many films will make at least 30 million OD? 1 cushion Three 13) Will Magic Mike XXL have a bigger opening day than Terminator genisys? NO 14) Will Pan be one of the top 7 grossing films of the summer domestically? NO 15) Will Ant Man gross at least 500 mill WW? NO 16) Will any film gross 250 million in China? YES 17) Will any film have a WW weekend of more than 300 million (Avengers will only count from the time the game starts) YES 18) Will Mission Impossible gross more than 200 million? NO 19) Will Vacation gross more than 70 million? YES 20) How many films will gross at least 305 million this summer? One 21) Will Avengers gross more than the first one? NO 22) Will any film besides Avengers make 25 million in Spain? NO 23) Will any film besides Avengers make 65 million in the UK? YES 24) Will Entourage make 100 mill or more? NO 25) Will Avengers drop less than 55% second weekend? NO

Ruin it? What, can't you sleep at night because someone somewhere didn't laugh at the joke you thought was funny?

That final scene is curious because as opposed to being a teenager's fantasy of simply having anal sex with a woman (a princess, no less) it's more specifically a teenager's fantasy of a woman offering him sex. If she doesn't do it, he doesn't get it, and who's to say she doesn't want it? So basically you can view the scene as a sexist teenage fantasy anyway or you can see it as Vaughn subverting the "I just saved the world, time to fuck!" trope by giving the female character agency and control of the situation. I think neither view is 100% right or wrong because I see how the scene could still come off as sexist even if Vaughn had the best intentions. I thought it was fine; the bigger problem was that I didn't find it funny anyway.

Awful.

Erin Brockovich isn't even in Soderbergh's top 5 since 2000. On a side note, I watched Moulin Rouge yesterday for the first time in years and it was very good but certainly not as flawless as I'd remembered. It'll probably miss my top 50.

As usual I'll send mine just before the deadline

Cinderella will end up doing little more than half of what Maleficent and Alice did (in rubles). Underwhelming.

Top 30 most overrated films of the century? Sure.

There are at least 6 films in Tele's top 10 that will be in mine too. Great minds, etc.

Williams is 83. We are lucky he's even doing SW.