Jake Gittes
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1 hour ago, Johnny Tran said:
The numbers say otherwise. The audience scores say otherwise. Sometimes critics miss and that's okay. Again, they are human beings with opinions and for whatever reason they didn't get this movie. Every other metric out there says that they are the outliers.
People thinking and writing about cinema for a living have different perspectives and priorities from 8-year-olds and their tired parents who go see six movies a year. That's a normal thing.
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2 hours ago, Eric is Gay for Bowser said:
I just watched Space Jam 2 for the first time and it made me realize something...
Warner Bros. actually SUCKS
This whole thing is canceled now good night 😠
You've seen Space Jam 2 but not Heat.
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4 hours ago, Eric is Gay for Bowser said:
-If you are unsure about any movie’s qualifications, feel free to ask in this thread, and I’ll try and answer that for you. Below I have a master list of every movie that I believe qualifies, which took me more than two years to compile and had to be checked several times. But if you think there are some movies that you believe qualify that aren’t on there, please write them below, state your case, and I’ll try and determine that for you.
I'm gonna ask about Welles' Mr. Arkadin, which WB distributed in at least the U.K. and France. Don't know if that's enough.
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14 hours ago, CoolioD1 said:
Yes I was just thinking this the other day. I believe the only other ones to pull that off so far are toms cruise and hanks and willem dafoe. harrison ford will best them when Indy 5 comes out with $100mil grossers every decade going back to the 70s and i don't even think there's another actor who's eligible to match that.
Edit: Michael Douglas since the 80s as well.
If Dustin Hoffman has one more $100m grosser (Megalopolis? another Kung Fu Panda?) he'll have had them every decade going back to the '60s and The Graduate.
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9 minutes ago, Ipickthiswhiterose said:
in the way that Under the Skin wasn't on the 2013 list when it was first made
The main reason Under the Skin wasn't on the 2013 list is because it wasn't released until 2014.
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With luck, The Irishman maybe makes Hugo/Gangs of New York money. The Power of the Dog makes The Favourite/There Will Be Blood money. 20m would have been a win for Roma (and Mank, if covid never happened).
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14 minutes ago, Cap Says Roll A WIS Check said:
I love how Wes Anderson has done like the same movie four times in a row
But he hasn't.
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I feel like this might've done solid if took over mid-to-late August à la Inglourious Basterds, but it seems studios are too set in their "prestige pictures = fall" ways to take greater advantage of that part of the year.
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9 hours ago, Cmasterclay said:
It has the political angle but if it follows the book is going to be quite complicated and sad, so it better generate Parasite levels of lovable campaigning.
All I know is if a cuddly comedy-drama about a struggling family turns up in release at any point this year we need to shoot it on sight.
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The Killer seems to be more of a solo Fassbender show than an ensemble thing (as practically all winners going back decades have been) and like Clay said on the last page, unsentimental violent thrillers without a sociopolitical angle have even less of a shot today than they used to. The Departed itself would 100% lose to Little Miss Sunshine if that Oscar race happened a decade-plus later.
And on that note, perhaps Flower Moon being a story and a production that involves Native Americans to the extent it does will give it better odds of winning than The Irishman had.
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You do gotta have both park and field.
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Thank you Tang Wei hive
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All y'all slept on Confess Fletch
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10 hours ago, 35MM-18 said:
The bit about the film screening out of competition at Cannes does sound believable though; outside of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood I can't recall any other big-budget/Hollywood films that were in competition at Cannes.
Shrek and Shrek 2. More along the lines of Flower Moon, while not big-budget, major studio films like L.A. Confidential, Zodiac, Changeling and Moulin Rouge played in competition. It happened more often in the '70s. Apocalypse Now must be the last truly mammoth Hollywood thing to have done it.
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4 minutes ago, MrFanaticGuy34 said:
With decent grosses from the re-releases of Avatar 1 (back in September) & potentially Titanic (this February), what next old blockbuster movie from the past, do you wish would get a special re-release in theaters?
True Lies
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FYC in multiple categories
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Don’t miss ‘To Leslie’ a small film with a giant heart. Andrea Riseborough gives the performance of the year, and Allison Janney, Marc Maron, Owen Teague, Andre Royo and Stephen Root are all incredible. Please go find this gem!
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5 minutes ago, Brainbug said:
So what is everyones Number 1 most anticipated movie of next year? Mine is actually not 65, but Indy 5 since i have the feeling (and pure hope) that it will be a banger.
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57 minutes ago, Halba said:
hmm i meant live action film.
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I'm also gonna question your inclusion of Before Midnight, which wasn't distributed by WB anywhere in the world and whose only tie to it seems to be that it was produced "in association with" Castle Rock (whose logo isn't even in the movie). Seems like a stretch.