Jake Gittes

Because it's... a movie?

Hitchcock and Ozu too. Why wouldn't you wanna be in that company

Did most think it'd open under ~19?

I thought it was making 163m total

If you enjoyed Unknown and Non-Stop it's another entertaining B-movie in that vein.

Laying the pathos on pretty thick

Deepwater Horizon was good. Managed to be both a spectacle and appropriately dark and intense, and I liked how it often would abandon the big names to focus on side characters played by unknowns. And just in terms of technical craft it was very very impressive.

Mean-spirited is a quality.

Technical elements were perfectly well accomplished in the classic era. They just weren't necessarily in service of realism, or naturalistic performances, which is just as well. And I don't think things like music and effects have any real effect on acting unless it's a heavily effects-driven film, which most old films weren't so it's a moot point. I'm also not sure there were many more stage actors crossing into film in that era than there are today. The medium was "new" early in the century. The switch to sound happened in the late '20s. No one was still adapting to anything 15-25 years after that. It sounds like for you today's actors just feel like they exist in a more natural environment onscreen, which, sure, but a) there's enough variety in classic movies to make room for plenty of performances that feel natural in their context too and b) if someone doesn't have it as their purpose to give a perfectly naturalistic performance that doesn't make them a bad actor. It's just a different approach. And there were a lot of approaches both then and now. More importantly to what started this talk, Casablanca, which you profess to love, isn't some unicorn among classic B&W movies. It's better than most, sure, but I mean Bogart doesn't act much more or less naturally in it than he does in anything else he's made. Nothing in it aims to do something radically different than what most Hollywood films were doing at the same time. So I'm sure if you explore some more you'll find others to like.

Watched Mamma Mia 2. Some legit fun scenes near the end there (Dancing Queen, Fernando, and Super Trouper) and it's no coincidence that these actually seem to be aware of the cultural history/significance of the songs rather than pretend that the characters are singing them for the first time ever. The thing about these movies is that deep down they really just want to be concerts, but feel forced to pad the screentime with bullshit story/drama that they then have to pretend to care about even though everyone would be better off if they didn't. But at least the sequel has some actual choreography + graceful editing that doesn't chop up every single number, so it's more watchable than the first one, sure.

What if it's actually too good to win best picture

Well that settles it then.

Do you think they mix in some chemicals into the black and white film stock that makes people act differently than they would in a color film?

Part A: 1. Will Crazy Rich Asians have a 3 Day more than $20M? 1000 Yes 2. Will The Mile 22 Open to more than $20M? 2000 No 3. Will Alpha Open to more than $8M? 3000 Yes 4. Will Crazy Rich Asian's 5 day Total be more than Mile 22 and Alpha's combined Weekend totals? 4000 Yes 5. Will Meg stay at number 1? 5000 No 6. Will MI6 drop more than 43%? 1000 No 7. Will SLenderman stay above Blakklansman? 2000 No 8. Will Spy Who Dumped Me stay above Mamma Mia? 3000 No 9. Will Christopher Robin enter the Summer Game domestic top 15 by the end of Sunday? 4000 No 10. Will Ant Man have a PTA more than $1,450? 5000 Yes 11. Will Equaliser's drop more than 45%? 1000 No 12. Will Hotel Transylvania drop more than have at least 2 days over $1M? 2000 Yes 13. Will Incredibles increase more than 70% on Saturday? 3000 No 14. Will Mamma Mia drop more than 25% on Sunday? 4000 Yes 15. Will Black Panther edge past $800M domestic this weekend? 5000 Bonus: 9/15 5000 10/15 8000 11/15 12,000 12/15 16,000 13/15 20,000 14/15 24,000 15/15 30,000 Part B: The top 3 predictions will score points as follows: Closest: Within 1% - 15,000, Within 2,5% - 12000, Within 5% 9,000, Within 10% - 6000 Outside 10% - 3000 points 2nd Closest: Within 1% - 12,000, Within 2,5% - 10000, Within 5% 7,000, Within 10% - 4000 Outside 10% - 2000 points 3rd Closest: Within 1% - 10,000, Within 2,5% - 8000, Within 5% 5,000, Within 10% - 2000 Outside 10% - 1000 points 1. What will Crazy Rich Asians make for its 3 day? 21.049 2. What will Slenderman's percentage change be? -62.5% 3. What will Hotel Transylvania's PTA be for the Weekend? $1,560 Part 😄 There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 1. Crazy Rich Asians 3. Mile 22 5. Christopher Robin 7. Alpha 9. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again 10. Hotel Transylvania 3

week 17 yes

Never thought I'd be so excited about a Steve McQueen movie.

So it's like every movie ever made then

8 MrPink 117,000 1,204,000 12 9 Jake Gittes 78,000 1,194,000 8

QT has said that it was in the script from the start.

That poster is darkly funny in retrospect given the circumstances of the actual wedding in the movie. It goes into some pretty raw and uncomfortable places I could definitely imagine people being put off by it, or liking it themselves but hesitating to recommend. Really an antithesis of Mamma Mia in more than a few ways. (And also a hell of a lot better ABBA tribute.)

37 is 90.243% of 41

watched Muriel's Wedding. did not expect this to be the most wildly unpredictable movie I've seen in ages. not everything works but I've got a ton of respect for a movie that swings so tirelessly for the fences and largely succeeds. Collette and Rachel Griffiths are great.

63% drop. 1% harsher than TMNT '14 on the second Monday in August.

Yeah I could tell that this one definitely didn't.

A cat just fell to its death right outside my window. From something like >12th floor. Few adults around so now there's small kids all around it making a pandemonium. Shouting "IS IT YOUR CAT THAT FELL" into the sky at the top of their lungs, "what if someone steps on her", "did she jump or did she fall", "let's put up a sign that says dead cat", etc. Pretty macabre. If you live high in an apartment complex, don't let your pets near open windows.