Jake Gittes

No clearer proof than The Lion King in its 13th weekend playing in more theaters than Ad Astra in its 4th.

Well he got one thing right.

fuck yeah sorcerer

"I don't believe in anything. I just thought it'd be good for my act" is the movie describing itself to the audience. Still, I liked Joker ranting and shooting people in the most basic sense that he was finally fucking doing something instead of being kicked around by everybody.

Dog Day Afternoon excepted, Rocky Horror is the movie I'm most glad I caught up with for this countdown. Delightful.

> EXPANDING 10 9 The Lion King (2019) Buena Vista 1,687 +653 +63.2% 13 Oct 4–6 12 $685,089 -58.7% 1,034 -657 $663 $541,281,146 12

honestly Jack's best performance imo.

Wtf that's pretty damn low.

60

Saw this. The HFR provides a hyper smooth scrubbed-clean look that means there's basically no texture or atmosphere whatsoever to the world onscreen, the eyes get tired quickly having to follow the never-stopping motion, and for all the surface "immersion" there are barely any actual images here worth a damn. This ironically would probably be a bigger liability if the movie had a better script. As it stands it's extremely first-drafty and noncommittal about drama/conflict etc. which only reinforces the feeling that you're watching a tech demo. There's a really nice and clean motorcycle chase but also a scene of CG fire that's just heart-stoppingly atrocious to look at like it's from 1992 or something. If you're gonna see this at all - and it's totally skippable - HFR is probably the way to go just because of the novelty, you'll at least have a little more to pay attention to.

Green Book is about as cinematic as a magazine photoshoot. Virtually any individual shot in Beale Street has more care and craft put into it

How many lists did you end up getting?

my letterboxd sez 1026 from this decade out of 3310 total.

i think unless this outright bombs at the box office it should have no trouble building some momentum after it's released.

Saw this. Well what do you know, it turns out the real clown was Todd Phillips all along. A man who has nothing to offer here except '70s fetishism, being able to play music really fucking loud, and thinking that character drama = fakeouts and constant victimization (the worst offenders being asshole Wall Street bros who... know Sondheim lyrics by heart) - he even manages to take Phoenix down with him, given that he never seems interested in Arthur as a human being, only as a collection of crude surface tics to be paraded in front of the audience - and yet a man in a world (or should I say a society) where mass film culture has now been sufficiently infantilized that people can look at this rambling one-note Taxi Driver wannabe that pretends it has something to say and seriously take it on its word. Is it just me or is it getting crazier out there?

has to be in the screenplay race at least with these raves.

Her character is a maid named [checks] Marta Cabrera so watching the actual movie I imagine you'd have to be pretty dense not to pick up on ethnic/class differences being an important factor here.

Lionsgate be trash

1. Fernando Martinez

Gonna hit an HFR screening Thursday afternoon.

Liked this a lot. Narration didn't bother me at all, although I do think as a whole it's a little too derivative of Apocalypse Now and too heavy-handed at key moments for greatness. Loved the methodical direction/pacing and Pitt's performance, and it was the first new movie in I don't know how long to instill some well-earned peace in me, which I didn't know how much I needed.

Glad Russia picked Beanpole. Rooting for our submission to make it in for the first time since I don't know when. Think its chances are slim though.

It'd be particularly funny/pathetic if Sony took that money from its other holdovers, given that OUATIH, Angry Birds 2 and FFH all collapsed 55-65% this weekend.

Broadway Melody of 1938 is underseen/underrated. One of the better movies with Garland though she's not in a lot of it. Presenting Lily Mars is also fun.

the movie in which Renee sings that she should have won Best Actress for.