Jake Gittes

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I think the casting was great but the script needed another draft or two. I never saw why I should be interested in the mystery.

I felt the same about Nice Guys. Still QT movies regularly have more going on than they let appear at first glance, hopefully this is one of those cases. I doubt he would have worked on the script for five years if it was something he could write in his sleep.

Increasingly into this. Every new cast member is better than the last

Only someone like Futurist could watch a movie that's even NAMED Good Time and still not have a good time smh. Rethink your life choices.

JDW is the weakest link in BlacKkKlansman. Which doesn't mean he's bad exactly but it's basically a functional performance without anything special to it imo.

Joaquin Phoenix's last movie that opened immediately wide was We Own the Night in 2007. There'll probably be people who see the Joker trailer and get genuinely weirded out like "where the hell has this guy been the last ten years"

And this is a revenge story set in an alternate universe... in what way, exactly?

literally every time I un-ignore a futurist post

It would be cool (tho not great for its box office prospects but whatever) if this continued in the vein of Hateful Eight and went bleaker than everyone expects, behaving as a fun romp for a while then pulling the rug out. Obviously the Manson murders are already part of the movie and I can't imagine Tarantino treating them lightly, so the seeds are there.

For over 10 years, The Walt Disney Studios has just been buying shit

Pitt looks like he's more or less back in Aldo Raine mode. Di Caprio's final bit is pretty great. Nothing revelatory otherwise really. Gonna wait for the Cannes reactions.

Nolan doesn't, I agree

Nice to see Nolan going with unexpected faces although I presume both will still play typical Stoic Determined Nolan Men, which they make sense for. Would be happy to be surprised though.

I often think of this piece of trivia about The Elephant Man This is how it should be on all films. Give filmmakers the resources they need and fuck off.

Check out Picnic at Hanging Rock if you haven't. What a movie.

Pretty sure no one has seriously turned on it.

Thinking something like 105/330.

Marvel isn't doing itself any favors by bringing Skrulls and their abilities to the forefront in something that itself behaves even more like a simulation of a movie than usual. Certainly it's very Skrull-like to e.g. lay "Just a Girl" on top of yet another hopelessly generic second-unit-directed action scene and apparently believe you made it this cool and fun set-piece (even though the scene and the song don't actually meaningfully connect for a second), or go back to the '90s with a distinctly 2019 smart-alecky attitude, or go so far as to fuck up a simple soulful conversation by doing it in choppy shot-reverse shot instead of a single shot that would actually let it breathe, which it's all but screaming for. Exactly how much direct work did Boden and Fleck manage to do on this thing at all? There are engaging performances, some right-on messaging, and pleasant stray bits of space opera, but people like Larson and Mendelsohn deserve a movie where they aren't the only sources of life. And watching the first post-credits scene, I was outright embarrassed for Johansson, Evans, Ruffalo having to get together and be reduced to saying shit like "The thing doesn't glow anymore" "What thing" "You know that thing we have in that room" when everything that had to be conveyed here could have so clearly been conveyed - and far more effectively, too - with no dialogue and even no actors. How can you understand and translate comics to film well enough to have such unprecedentedly consistent success, yet so callously disregard their larger-than-life aspect even at its simplest?

I'll stick with this.

how many lists you end up getting

oh wow. a blonde girl.

Even if it were intentionally a bad poster, which it isn't, what's the fucking point? What's interesting about its badness? How does its badness reflect anything about e.g. the premise, setting, subject matter? It's not a parody or a copy of anything famously bad. It just looks like something you'd see on a direct-to-DVD movie in a supermarket bargain bin. "Oh but it's intentionally bad". And? Well congratulations it's a bad poster. What joy that brings us.

1. “Llorando”, Mulholland Drive 2. “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”, Cabaret 3. “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”, Life of Brian 4. “Over the Rainbow”, The Wizard of Oz 5. “The Man That Got Away”, A Star Is Born (1954) 6. “Cabaret”, Cabaret 7. “Just in Time”, Before Sunset 8. “Money, Money”, Cabaret 9. “We’ll Meet Again”, Dr. Strangelove 10. “A Beautiful Ride”, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 11. “I’m Easy”, Nashville 12. “My Idaho Home”, Nashville 13. “Non Nobis Domine”, Henry V 14. “Every Sperm Is Sacred”, Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life 15. “Questions in a World of Blue”, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 16. “As Time Goes By”, Casablanca 17. “Fight the Power”, Do the Right Thing 18. “Midnight, the Stars, and You”, The Shining 19. “Lose That Long Face”, A Star Is Born (1954) 20. “Come Here”, Before Sunrise 21. “Then He Kissed Me”, Goodfellas 22. “Slow Ride”, Dazed and Confused 23. “Be a Clown”, The Pirate 24. “Gotta Have Me Go With You”, A Star Is Born (1954) 25. “Living Life”, Before Sunrise 26. “Mack the Black”, The Pirate 27. “Jump Into the Fire”, Goodfellas 28. “Love My Way”, Call Me by Your Name 29. “Someone at Last”, A Star Is Born (1954) 30. “Les rencontres”, The Young Girls of Rochefort 31. “For Me and My Gal”, For Me and My Gal 32. “I’m Through With Love”, Some Like It Hot 33. “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, Meet Me in St. Louis 34. “Chanson des jumelles” (“A Pair of Twins”), The Young Girls of Rochefort 35. “I Never Dreamed Someone Like You Could Love Someone Like Me”, Carrie 36. “Rags to Riches”, Goodfellas 37. “If You Could See Her”, Cabaret 38. “Stonehenge”, This Is Spinal Tap 39. “Here’s to Love”, Down with Love 40. “Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young”, Streets of Fire 41. “Hurdy Gurdy Man”, Zodiac 42. “Another Day of Sun”, La La Land 43. “Wig in a Box”, Hedwig and the Angry Inch 44. “Star Spangled Man”, Captain America: The First Avenger 45. “Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight”, This Is Spinal Tap 46. “Lust for Life”, Trainspotting 47. “Heavy Duty”, This Is Spinal Tap 48. “Stayin’ Alive”, Saturday Night Fever 49. “Origin of Love”, Hedwig and the Angry Inch 50. “Stuck in the Middle with You”, Reservoir Dogs 51. “Falling Slowly”, Once 52. “Nowhere Fast”, Streets of Fire 53. “It Don’t Worry Me”, Nashville 54. “Everything Is Awesome”, The Lego Movie 55. “Please Mr. Kennedy”, Inside Llewyn Davis 56. “Rock and Roll Creation”, This Is Spinal Tap 57. “Let’s Duet”, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 58. “Walk Hard”, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 59. “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”, Kill Bill Vol. 1 60. “Mein Herr”, Cabaret 61. “Ooh La La”, Rushmore 62. “Cheek to Cheek”, Top Hat 63. “Bye Bye Love”, All That Jazz 64. “La Mer”, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 65. “The Way It Always Starts”, Local Hero 66. “The Long Goodbye”, The Long Goodbye 67. “Singin’ in the Rain”, Singin’ in the Rain 68. “I Wanna Be Loved by You”, Some Like It Hot 69. “Cat People (Putting Out the Fire)”, Inglourious Basterds 70. “Into the West”, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 71. “Nightcall”, Drive 72. “I See the Light”, Tangled 73. “Natural High”, Jackie Brown 74. “Waterloo”, Muriel’s Wedding 75. “I’m Deranged”, Lost Highway 76. “Love Train”, The Last Days of Disco 77. “The Trolley Song”, Meet Me in St. Louis 78. “Angry Inch”, Hedwig and the Angry Inch 79. “More Than a Woman”, Saturday Night Fever 80. “There Won’t Be Many Coming Home”, The Hateful Eight 81. “Call Me”, American Gigolo 82. “Maybe This Time”, Cabaret 83. “Be My Baby”, Mean Streets 84. “Changing Partners”, The Master 85. “Les amants”, Lovers on the Bridge 86. “Rhythm of the Night”, Beau Travail 87. “Baby You’re a Rich Man”, The Social Network 88. “Man of Constant Sorrow”, O Brother, Where Art Thou? 89. “There’s No Business Like Show Business”, All That Jazz 90. “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)”, The Big Lebowski 91. “A Real Hero”, Drive 92. “Anthonio”, The Guest 93. “City of Stars”, La La Land 94. “This Big Hush”, Manhunter 95. “On Broadway”, All That Jazz 96. “You Know My Name”, Casino Royale 97. “Red Red Wine”, Bringing Out the Dead 98. “The Pure and the Damned”, Good Time 99. “Extreme Ways”, The Bourne Ultimatum 100. “May It Be”, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring