Jake Gittes

Yeah, I wasn't sure whether to include The Apartment myself, but I've always thought of it as a comedy with dramatic elements. It combines serious moments with jokes and satire, and the overall tone is pretty light, I think. Then there's the ending.

Design for Living (1933) To Be or Not to Be (1942) The Apartment (1960) Dr. Strangelove (1964) Batman (1966) The Sting (1973) This Is Spinal Tap (1984) Stranger Than Paradise (1984) Withnail & I (1987) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) When Harry Met Sally... (1989) Braindead (1992) Schizopolis (1996) Flirting with Disaster (1996) The Big Lebowski (1998) There's Something About Mary (1998) Rushmore (1998) Election (1999) O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) Walk Hard (2007) In the Loop (2009) Black Dynamite (2009) A Serious Man (2009)

Happens all the time when more competition arrives on third weekend then on the second. TF3, Thor, Thor 2, Star Trek, Toy Story 3, ROTS, MU, Hancock, TASM all dropped harder on their third weekends.

Blanchett and Mara are both out as CAROL will apparently be a 2015 release

So Berlin or Cannes next year I guess

The AV Club's review of this made me go from completely uninterested in this movie (I ignored all the trailers) to anticipating it almost with a passion. Really sucks that it'll only arrive here in September. It sounds like Besson just went batshit crazy with the premise, because why the fuck not, and I love me some inspired crazy in my action movies.

It's pretty good. Striking for sure, but pacing is all over the place, and the more it went on, the less I cared. I don't think Jodorowsky has ever really been a great filmmaker, he's just able to come up with extremely memorable and powerful images and visual ideas, and generally, the more of them he packs into a film, the better the film. Which is largely why The Dance of Reality is his best work, while El Topo just becomes exhausting to watch in the last third.

1) Will any film make more than 25 mill? Yes 2) Will Hercules make more than RIPD (OW)? Yes 3) Will Fluffy movie break into the top 15? No 4) What will have the best per theater average out of these four films: Happy Christmas, Magic in The Moonlight, A Most Wanted Man, Very Good Girls. 5) Will And So It goes make more opening weekend than Lucy does OD? No 6) Will Hercules drop on Saturday? No 7) Will Transformers fall more than 40%? Yes 8) Will Apes make more than 20 mill? No 9) Will Sex Tape drop more than 53%? No 10) Will Planes have a Saturday increase of more than 57%? No 11) Will Purge fall more than 63%? Yes 12) Will Maleficent make more than HTTYD2? No 10/12 3000 11/12 5000 12/12 7000 What finishes in spots 4 The Purge: Anarchy 9 Tammy 12 How to Train Your Dragon 2 14 A Most Wanted Man 16 Wish I Was Here 2000 each bonus of 4000 if all correct Bonus 1: What will Transformers be at WW? $965m Bonus 2: What will Apes be at WW? $350m Bonus 3: What will the combined weekend gross be for 22JS, HTTYD2 and Tammy? $8.617m

Why would Step Up make over 80m?

1. Memento 2. The Dark Knight 3. Inception 4. The Prestige 5. Batman Begins 6. Insomnia 7. Following 8. The Dark Knight Rises

If Godzilla is at $199m already after a $515k weekend, it should reach 200 within the next two weeks.

Great numbers for Apes, Jump Street and Boyhood.

"Fuck YOU, that's my name!" One of my absolute favorites. Everyone is amazing in this, Pacino and Baldwin are obvious, but Jack Lemmon is utterly heartbreaking giving, in my opinion, the best performance of the lot, and the more understated guys like Alan Arkin and Jonathan Pryce are also invaluable if easy to overlook. The atmosphere of a never-sleeping, depression-filled city surrounding these people is beautifully conveyed in just a few touches (the lights, the constant rain, the noise of the night train, the overwhelmingly dark/gray visual palette) and makes the film cinematic enough and not just a piece of filmed theater. It's strange that James Foley seemingly never even came close to making another movie this good. True, you can't really go wrong with this script and these actors, but Foley made not merely a good, but the best possible film out of this.

Terrible script and acting (I was actually surprised when Scoot McNairy became a fine character actor, although he WAS better in this than whoever the female lead was), very little actual suspense, eye-rollingly blunt metaphor (humans are the actual monsters... geddit?). It's not often that I spend any energy on actively hating movies - mostly I just try to get the bad ones out of my mind quickly - but I really despised this one. I should have remembered it more as I allowed myself to get more and more hyped for Godzilla. Edwards got better when he was actually given a budget, but his handling of actors and drama hasn't improved one bit since this movie.

Really silly in some spots, genuinely chilling (pun unintended) in others. Seeing it on the big screen with practically no one else in the theater helped a lot, I was a lot more invested than I would ever be otherwise. (Being 16 and impressionable didn't hurt).

I remember everything except the fights boring the shit out of me.

HTTYD is based on a book series

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIjRX0K0pFM

With Lord and Miller back, I honestly wasn't surprised... at all.

Probably the best thing to come out of the whole Apatow comedy wave, and one of the best studio comedies of the 2000s. It actually looks like they spent a good amount of money on it, it (mostly) feels thoughtfully written without endless improv scenes of people riffing/shouting at each other, Reilly owns the title role, and the songs are just fantastic. Its humor doesn't have the surgical precision of, say, This Is Spinal Tap, sometimes it's too clever for its own good, and I could have done without a couple distractingly recognizable faces (and yet, it's a shame they didn't think of having Tilda Swinton play Bowie), but as an epic parody that it sets out to be, it works better than most people, including me, would expect it to. Not sure I'll be able to watch Walk the Line with a straight face after this.

July 18 - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes July 25 - Lucy August 1 - Guardians of the Galaxy August 8 - TMNT August 15 - Expendables 3 August 22 - Sin City 2 August 29 - As Above So Below

McQueen's best. Definitely self-consciously arty in spots, but nevertheless powerful. Striking cinematography and a great Fassbender performance from before he broke out in Inglourious Basterds. The 17-minute dialogue scene with him and Liam Cunningham is just a beautiful piece of acting and filmmaking.

DOTPOTA, Interstellar, Guardians, Hobbit, Godzilla

Perry is the only one who still seems strange to me. I couldn't help but imagine McConaughey while reading.

I'm currently 75% into Gone Girl and if Pike does the character justice I think she needs to be considered a shoe-in for a nom.