Jake Gittes

Someone needs to see more movies.

Star Spangled Man should have won Best Original Song, goddammit. One of the most inspired moments in the whole MCU.

1930: 1931: M 1932: 1933: 42nd Street 1934: 1935 1936: Modern Times 1937: 1938: 1939: 1940: The Shop Around the Corner 1941: Citizen Kane 1942: Casablanca 1943: 1944: Double Indemnity 1945: Brief Encounter 1946: 1947: 1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1949: The Third Man 1950: Rashomon 1951: A Streetcar Named Desire 1952: 1953: 1954: Rear Window 1955: Lola Montes 1956: The Killing 1957: Paths of Glory 1958: Vertigo 1959: Some Like It Hot 1960: The Apartment 1961: La notte (The Night) 1962: Lawrence of Arabia 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1967: 1968: Once Upon a Time in the West 1969: 1970: Five Easy Pieces 1971: A Clockwork Orange 1972: Cabaret 1973: The Sting 1974: Chinatown 1975: Jaws 1976: Taxi Driver 1977: Star Wars 1978: Days of Heaven 1979: Apocalypse Now 1980: The Shining 1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark 1982: The Draughtsman's Contract 1983: Videodrome 1984: Once Upon a Time in America 1985: Back to the Future 1986: Stand by Me 1987: Withnail & I 1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1989: Monsieur Hire 1990: Goodfellas 1991: Naked Lunch 1992: Reservoir Dogs 1993: Schindler's List 1994: Pulp Fiction 1995: Heat 1996: Trainspotting 1997: Lost Highway 1998: The Big Lebowski 1999: Fight Club 2000: Memento 2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2004: The Incredibles 2005: The Proposition 2006: The Departed 2007: There Will Be Blood 2008: The Hurt Locker 2009: Inglourious Basterds 2010: The Social Network 2011: The Turin Horse 2012: Zero Dark Thirty

Likely not. This October is trailing 2004, 2010 and 2012 by over $25m right now, and 2009 by almost $50m http://boxofficemojo.com/monthly/?chart=mtd&view=calendargross

It's definitely one of the most hypnotic movies I've ever seen. Soviet montage will do that to you. Also, Michael Nyman's score (which is on my DVD of the movie) is absolutely beautiful and complements the film perfectly.

There's no guarantee it would have done better in the summer. First of all, it wouldn't have been built up for an entire month as basically the must see movie of the season; second of all, it wouldn't have been able to own the first several weeks of its release due to all the competition. Like THG last year, Gravity is a huge off-season blockbuster that was able to become a huge blockbuster precisely because it opened off-season.

Stamp was great. So were Reeve (that has to be the most perfect superhero casting in history), Kidder, Brando... I actually only just remembered how I couldn't stand Hackman, but then the issue has to be less with his performance and more with the way Luthor was originally written. Also, I've come to the point where I rarely have crushes on actresses based on a performance or two of theirs, but Sarah Douglas was stunningly sexy as Ursa, moreso than any other comic book movie heroine or villainness I can think of.

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Friedkin's SORCERER. Apparently one of the reasons it flopped back in the day was actually because people assumed it had fantasy elements in it, when it was in fact a gritty thriller. (although the release of Star Wars a month earlier was a bigger reason).

I saw the first two Superman films with Reeve for the first time this year and enjoyed them just fine - hell, more than most comic book movies of the past few years. I wouldn't say they've aged any worse than Jaws or Star Wars or Close Encounters.

I remember thinking that it felt like three great short films clumsily stitched together into an average feature film.

20. So yeah, unless my mom took me to the movies when I was a baby and I totally forgot about it, I definitely hadn't been to a movie theater until I was 9.

It can also be compared to first Pirates methinks. A somewhat unconventional big-budget film that overperforms in its first weekend, gets embraced by audiences and subsequently legs its way to over $300m becoming the BO story of the year.

Since then: The Company of Wolves (George Fenton) Interview with the Vampire (Elliot Goldenthal) The Butcher Boy (Elliot Goldenthal) Deep Red (Goblin) Suspiria (Goblin) And all the Michael Nyman / Peter Greenaway collaborations in 1982-1989, although they're not, strictly speaking, original scores: The Draughtsman's Contract A Zed & Two Noughts Drowning by Numbers The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYmKocMp0Gs

Added since then: Brief Encounter - David Lean, 1945 The Apartment - Billy Wilder, 1960 Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux - Jean-Luc Godard, 1962 The Draughtsman's Contract - Peter Greenaway, 1982 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover - Peter Greenaway, 1989 Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight - Richard Linklater, 1995-2013 The Butcher Boy - Neil Jordan, 1997 Y tu mamá también - Alfonso Cuarón, 2001 Antichrist - Lars von Trier, 2009 The Place Beyond the Pines - Derek Cianfrance, 2012

Only seen Vivre sa vie. Amazing film.

Well I guess I can see it being in contention now. The reactions seem positively glowing.

The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D (yeah I know, fuck off, I was 11 and I hated it even then) Monsters vs Aliens Coraline Up Toy Story 3D Double Feature A Christmas Carol Avatar Alice in Wonderland HTTYD Toy Story 3 Despicable Me Piranha 3D Legend of the Guardians Tangled Tron Legacy Hubble 3D Transformers 3 Cave of Forgotten Dreams Hugo Brave Dredd Wreck-It Ralph The Hobbit Life of Pi Gravity I might be forgetting a few since I don't remember if I saw them in 3D or not.

Jonze's first two films were successful with the Academy so Her might definitely appeal to them if it's good. We just need to have some reactions.

Not gonna list them all here, but yeah, I keep a count of them (as well as all movies I've watched at home since Jan. 1, 2010) and I've got 377 so far. First movie I've watched in the theater was Treasure Planet in November 2002, the most recent was Rush two days ago. Among those 377 there are 15-20 classic films - at different points I managed to catch Taxi Driver, 42nd Street, Metropolis, a few Miyazaki films and 5 Star Wars films (among others) on the big screen. I saw 46 movies in theaters in 2009, 58 in 2010, 49 in 2011, 57 in 2012 and 45 (so far) in 2013.

Haven't seen MWWM, but The Artist at least had more laughs and was clearly lighter in tone than Before Midnight

Apparently Before Midnight is a comedy and Blue Jasmine is a drama, which means the former might actually get itself some award nominations in a few months, and Blanchett might as well be already preparing her acceptance speech.

Double Indemnity and The Apartment are two of my all-time favorites. I have some small issues with Sunset Boulevard, but it's still a hell of a film. I found Some Like It Hot pretty hilarious the last time I watched it, which was a few years ago. I remember how all it took me to become a fan of Jack Lemmon was seeing Some Like It Hot and Glengarry Glen Ross within a few days from one another.

LOTR, Heavenly Creatures and Braindead are his best. Hobbit AUJ is the only mediocre movie of his I've seen, but that might be because I avoided The Lovely Bones altogether.

I definitely subscribe to the opinion that every even film in Fincher's filmography is close to or simply a masterpiece (Zodiac being the best, IMO, but TSN and Fight Club are extremely close), while every odd film is decent-to-mediocre. I wonder if he'll finally break that streak with Gone Girl - on the one hand, I'm doubting the source material, on the other hand, Fincher can elevate his source material like no other director.