Jake Gittes

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Following#tab=box-office

Thought we all recognized Bay's magnum opus by now.

India didn't submit RRR so it's not contending there

In the film's thread and the under $573m club.

Bring Harry Tasker to Pandora.

When I think of asses, a Na'vi ass..,, somethin comes outta me.

Have you considered that maybe he wants to do normal shit like this with real directors instead

This isn't even a Kurosawa movie.

True Lies is not the best Cameron but in a way, it kind of is though

@Brainbug Christmas came early for you this year

Curious you focus on that given that the movie is a lot more ambivalent and ironic I feel. The Hollywood people may be unscrupulous capitalists but at least e.g. Shalhoub's character is honest about it where Barton is arrogant and delusional, never caring to listen to the "common man" he's supposedly the voice of - he doesn't back up his High Culture cred with any actual substance (that we get to see, IIRC), so how much is it worth in his case really? He's not a totally unsympathetic character but he definitely gets taken down a peg, and he has it coming.

Rain Man.

The first Fantastic Beasts is a better comparison. Exact same calendar configuration (except that it opened a week later), both it and BP2 made 45m on the Thanksgiving weekend, now they're looking at about the same drop afterwards. FB made 18m on this weekend and added another 51m, which would mean 445m for BP if it followed suit. 450+ is within reach, 460+ seems unlikely.

The critics' groups are free to ignore the campaigning and decide for themselves which category an actor belongs in, though, no?

Intolerable Cruelty being saved from this by the power of @MrPink's thirst

Look up November blockbusters' drops on the post-Thanksgiving weekend over the years. They're always brutal.

We can also tell who would've played the mom. (Not 30 years ago, though, but 10-15)

Finally we can all sleep peacefully at night now that this is settled.