Jake Gittes

Yeah I guess. On that subject, I do love how he handed Michael Rooker a part in this, because who else would have? And he rocked it.

Frankly I don't understand why they needed Tyler Bates at all here.

Oh yeah that interrogation scene is just a flawless piece of filmmaking.

Watched it less than a year ago for the first time, knowing the ending beforehand, and it still worked on me. Obviously not quite as well as it would have if I'd watched it in the theater in 1999, but still. I'm not surprised TBWP seems to have aged relatively well - it's a rare movie that transcends its gimmick. Heather Donahue should have got an Oscar nomination.

By the halfway mark I wanted to scratch my own eyes out just so I wouldn't watch those characters anymore. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. So incredibly, unbelievably fucking dull. I'm not bullshitting - I thought this was worse than The Happening. Both movies take their silly premises utterly seriously, but Shyamalan's film at least managed to be accidentally entertaining as a B-movie. This was just a negative space of a film.

Besides Kill Bill Vol. 1 had obviously been shot months before Matrix Reloaded came out.

Space opera through and through.

Buncha jackasses, just standing in a circle.

Something like that. Anything over 13m (that's what Maleficent and HTTYD2 opened to) would mean the fourth biggest OW of the year, behind TF4, Noah and Viy (a local movie).

Gravity's visual effects were genuinely unprecedented and worked on literally for years. I don't doubt Interstellar will look great, but it won't be a match for Gravity in that regard. And it will need to have some truly amazing stuff up its sleeve in order to be more impressive than DOTPOTA.

Best tentpole I've seen this summer.

Who put sticks up their butts? That's cruel.

GOTG is not a superhero movie... like... at all.

1) Will GOTG make more than 75 mill? Yes 2) Will GOTG make more than 80 mill? Yes 3) Will GOTG make more than 175 mill WW? No 4) Will GOTG make more than 5 mill for Thurs previews? Yes 5) Will Get on Up make more than 7.5 mill OD? No 6) Will Get on Up make more than 20 mill OW? Yes 8) Will Lucy fall less than 58%? Yes 9) Will Hercules fall more than 58%? No 10) Will any film fall more than 20% on Thurs? Yes 11) Will any film fall less 1% on Thurs? No 12) Will any film increase more than 75% on Friday? Yes 13) Will Purge make more than Planes? No 14) Will Transformers increase more than 53% on Saturday? No 12/14 4000 13/14 6000 15/15 10,000 What finishes in spots 9 Boyhood 11 Transformers 4 12 And So It Goes 13 Tammy Bonus 1: What will GOTG gross on Friday? $32.122m Bonus 2: What will Sex Tape gross on Friday? $935k Bonus 3: What will the gross be for the films that finish in spots 6-10 $20.171m

Exorcist adjusted boggles the mind. Will there ever be another R-rated horror film that sells even 25% of its tickets?

I think both Chas and Tele's SOTMs are gonna leave me with negative points. It'd be pretty hilarious if Into the Storm opened to 30+ and reached 45m in 8 days or less.

So this was pretty great. I thought it was, first and foremost, an incredibly precise and effective study of what it is to be alien.

The highest prediction for Maleficent was 230m. The lowest prediction for Dragon was... 260m I think?

I'm very intrigued by this movie, as far as Reynolds' most recent work is concerned http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1567437/reference He was also in a Prisoners-like thriller that played Cannes this year, but apparently it was pretty shit.

Don't have much urge to rewatch it, but back when I saw it in the theater it hit every note just right. If I remember correctly Lionsgate wanted to roll it out like Open Water or Paranormal Activity, with the same late September release date, and it was pretty disappointing (if understandable) when people decided to stay away. The direction and Reynolds' performance are excellent in this.

My top 12 in the first year I played (2011) is still my best by far.

I'll send mine in a couple of days. It does look like there aren't nearly enough lists though. There were what, 30 or 40 last year?

Looks like Universal will push Neighbors over 150m in the end, although it probably won't reach 150.394.

1) Which film will gross more between Monday July 28th and LD Monday? Lucy, Herc or Apes? 2) Will Transformers make more than 1.05 billion by the end of the game? Yes 3) Will Expendables 3 open to more than 25 million? No 4) Will Expendables 3 make more than 250 mill by the end of the game (WW) No 6) Will GOTG open to more than 60 million? Yes 7) Will Tammy reach 90 million by the end of the game? No 8) Will Godzilla make it to 200 mill? Yes 9) Which film will gross more between Monday July 28th and LD Monday? 22JS or HTTYD2 10) Will The Purge make more than 62 mill by end of the game? Yes

Rush and Apollo 13 are the only ones I've seen that I've liked, and even the latter has a fair amount of dated, if charming, '90s cheese. Howard is one of my least favorite high-profile filmmakers around mostly because he's just so fucking bland and uninspired most of the time. It's his role in bringing Arrested Development to the screen that makes me respect him more than any of the movies he's directed.