Jake Gittes

Exhibit #3657 in everything wrong with current studio movies.

I'm gonna ask people to submit top 100s if they can. I mean if you want your vote to count surely you gotta have 10 movies on average per year that you think are good enough for a decade list. (That said, top 50 will also be an option.) Our top 3s are 2/3 the same btw.

Mediocre. 10+ years they had this in development and now after the spectacular dipshit orgy of death and destruction that was Bad Boys II we get this anonymously directed sentimental old man fantasy in which 50-something bad boys prove their worth to millennials. Doesn't even have any real fun with the ridiculous melodrama.

Reynolds is still rationalizing the premise to people halfway into the movie and the more he does it the less sense it makes. Amazing.

6 Underground and Bad Boys for Life should have had each other's distribution.

Someone's still bitter about that time The Master won

FYC Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress (Cecile de France), Best Supporting Actor (Edouard Baer), Best Cinematography, Production & Costume Design (if you dig perverse period pieces like Dangerous Liaisons and The Favourite I highly recommend this one. Was released as Lady J on Netflix) Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress (Anna Pniowski, who would also have been locked for the best breakout shortlist if anywhere near as many people had seen this as, say, Leave No Trace) Best Picture, Best Actor (Andre Holland), Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing Best Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actress (Agyness Deyn), Original Screenplay, Ensemble, Cinematography, Editing, Sound, Production Design Best Supporting Actor

Recommend reading The Unwomanly Face of War if you haven't, although it will completely gut you. Was a semi-official inspiration for Beanpole (most notably Perelygina's big climactic monologue in the house) and gives you a good idea of what these characters would have gone through during the war.

I liked it quite a bit, although I thought the dude went overboard with the red/green color-coding and it finally lost steam for me about 20 mins before the end. But great performances (is Vasilisa Perelygina / Masha the one you were referring to?) and the frank handling of the subject matter gives me hope for Russian cinema going forward. A rare festival darling of ours that I was on board with.

Are your planned dates otherwise the same?

1. The Young Girls of Rochefort 2. A Star Is Born (1954) 3. Cabaret 4. The Pirate 5. Gold Diggers of 1933 6. Top Hat 7. Nashville 8. Topsy-Turvy 9. This Is Spinal Tap 10. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 11. West Side Story 12. The Band Wagon 13. Singin’ in the Rain 14. Meet Me in St. Louis 15. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 16. La La Land 17. All That Jazz 18. On the Town 19. New York, New York 20. It’s Always Fair Weather 21. The Wizard of Oz 22. Inside Llewyn Davis 23. Hedwig and the Angry Inch 24. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 25. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut 26. Hellzapoppin’ 27. For Me and My Gal 28. Broadway Melody of 1938 29. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 30. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 31. The Music Man 32. A Hard Day’s Night 33. The Girl Can’t Help It 34. The Nightmare Before Christmas 35. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 36. Aladdin 37. Tangled 38. Girl Crazy 39. Easter Parade 40. Meet the Feebles 41. Cover Girl 42. 42nd Street 43. Good News 44. I Love Melvin 45. Cabin in the Sky 46. Beauty and the Beast 47. The Greatest Showman 48. In the Good Old Summertime 49. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench 50. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life

Marriage Story would have probably swept if James L. Brooks made it 30 years ago but it doesn't seem Important enough to win big today. I would also say Shape of Water was absolutely broad and clumsy so a Jojo win would be par for the course at this moment. That Taika is, like GDT, a much more Internet-friendly director than Peter Farrelly will help, sure.

Fully ready for Jojo to win best picture and Mendes best director tbh. Y'all feel free to expect the Oscars to do better but after the last couple years especially I can't. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised. Likewise with Phoenix in best actor. (Still am on the Pacino train, at least, and original screenplay will be hard to mess up.)

Wouldn't expect Honey Boy to gross more than 6-8m that Beautiful Boy Erased made.

What editing

addams family and maleficent didn't give it any chance at legs.

Outstanding hold. 20m pre-nominations back on the table.

on Well Go USA's website there's a full list of theaters where this is opening. There's 64 of them (47 in the States, 17 in Canada). https://www.wellgousa.com/films/better-days

... Better Days?

obligatory please watch Elisabeth Moss in Her Smell it's the best performance of the year post.

Wait, porn movies aren't movies now?

Tentatively in, wanna hear more details. And this probably isn't gonna work on my end heh.

I suspect the only real motivation for that post was that an Ansel Elgort movie is coming out the same day as this.