What you saw this long holiday weekend. Survey says...
Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 1:38PM What did you see this weekend? I didn't hit theaters since I was travelling but I finished Jessica Jones (which really improved as it went along) and screeners gave me a second shot at Steve Jobs (Fassy & Kate are just as big a "wow" as they were the first time) and a first go at Straight Outta Compton. In the next 24 hours The Revenant and Joy hit my eyeballs. Here's hoping for the best.
BOX OFFICE
(Nov 27th-29th)
01 Hunger Games 4 (4,175 screens) $51.6 (cum. $198.3) Hunger Games & Oscar
02 The Good Dinosaur (3,749 screens) $39.1 new (cum. $55.5)
03 Creed (3,404 screens) $30.1 new (cum. $42.6) Review
04 Spectre (2,940 screens) $12.8 (cum $176) Review
05 The Peanuts Movie (3,089 screens) $9.7 (cum. $116.7)
06 The Night Before (2,960 screens) $8.2 (cum. $24.1)
07 The Secret in Their Eyes (2,392 screens) $4.5 (cum. $14)
08 Spotlight (897 screens) $4.4 (cum. $12.3) First Impression
09 Brooklyn (845 screens) $3.8 (cum. $7.2) Review, Saoirse & Best Actress
10 The Martian (1,420 screens) $3.3 (cum. $218.6) Podcast
11 Love the Coopers (1,867 screens) $3 (cum. $20.4)
12 Victor Frankenstein (2,797 screens) $2.3 new (cum. $3.4)
With the dismal opening of Victor Frankenstein (Fox) paired with the muted response to Crimson Peak (Universal) do you think Universal is getting worried about their classic movie monster multiverse plans? Today's audiences maybe don't have a yearning for the gothic flavors of more old school horror?
Apart from Frankenstein and his monster, it was a fairly happy weekend for distributors: Hunger Games 4 held stronger in its second weekend than Hunger Games 3 (I refuse to do this "part 1 and part 2" padding bullshit anymore); Creed, which was smartly produced on a non gargantuan budget, supposedly made back its budget in its first (holiday) weekend; Spectre is holding well for a Bond film (anyone expecting a repeat of Skyfall's anomalous numbers was insane); even The Good Dinosaur, which opened weak as Pixar films go, shows promise since the audience reaction was very positive and it has no direct competition in the next few weeks.
As for the suspected Oscar contenders things are continuing to look very golden for both Spotlight and Brooklyn which are expanding very well and should be peaking at just the right time for Oscar love. With Carol and The Danish Girl, though, it's probably too early to tell since they're only on four screens each and competition is fierce and will continue to be (as it always is in November/December) for their target demographic.
Reader Comments (30)
I too finished Jessica Jones and while I respect the show I don't fully love it in the same way I loved Daredevil. I also had the immense pleasure of seeing Carol. Never in my life can I remember having as emotional an experience as I had in viewing the film. It was practically perfect in every way and I can't wait to see it over and over again. All I can say is Todd Haynes the genius strikes again. I also saw Bridge of Spies which was good and the Good Dinosaur which was messy.
Good to see Brooklyn and Spotlight (sight unseen) are doing well. Carol also is doing extremely well and unlike Steve Jobs I see the film doing well in expansion because Weinstein's release strategy if unfair to those who have to wait is the right one so more people will see it as the build continues to build.
I loved Creed. It's the perfect example of an audience movie.
Are you preparing a piece on Straight Outta Compton?
I watched Jessica Jones too, but I'm not as enamored with it. It was fine, very dark, but I was more drawn to the world of Daredevil. I also saw Hunger Games 4. It was better than HG3, but how many endings did this movie have? The Alma Coin stuff felt like it came out of nowhere for me.
Thank God film festivals exist!
*Youth - loved it; absolutely extraordinary, in The Lobster fashion (Rachel Wise, not Weisz, since she's in both) it touches upon so many ideas and is impressively successful with each and everyone of them.
*Macbeth - was surprised by how much I liked it! So cinematic, so beautiful to look at! Absolutely mesmerizing performances from everybody. This will sound pretentious but I think, on average, actors and people deeply interested in acting, will enjoy it much more than the rest of the global population.
*Bridge of Spies - typical Spielberg, was truly moved and entertained and already don't care or think about it. It makes me feel sort of the same way The Martian made me feel after leaving the theater.
*Black Mass - Why is Cumberbatch in this?! It's a good film, probably a very good one, but really, what attracted a legitimately star power Benedict to this role? Loved Corey Stoll in his role. He showed up to bitchslap everyone and he did it beautifully.
*A Royal Night Out - Emily Watson playing a mom but at least it's THE QUEEN ;) good film, great charisma between the two lovebirds. Wonderful ending.
This has been a weird year for my moviegoing. I have liked/appreciated/admired/etc. a lot of films and disliked/was left cold by/mehed a lot of others, but there are no films that I actively, rabidly love or hate this year. And that includes titles like Mad Max, Carol, Suffragette, Room, The Martian, Black Mass, The Danish Girl, Mr Holmes, 99 Homes, Irrational Man, Sicario, Anomalisa, Age of Ultron, Straight Outta Compton, Pawn Sacrifice, Truth, Spotlight, The Big Short, Inside Out, Southpaw, Everest, Spectre, Concussion and Far From the Madding Crowd.
I guess I need to see Ex Machina, Diary of a Teenage Girl, Brooklyn, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, The Assassin, Bridge of Spies, Youth, Macbeth, London Road, Legend, Steve Jobs, The Lobster, Mustang, Joy, The Revenant, Beasts of No Nation, Tangerine, 45 Years and Star Wars stat.
Or maybe I've become dead inside.
Okay, Son of Saul was amazing. And Spy.
(I watched the mid-season finale of How to Get Away With Murder last night and was more thrilled by it than by any movie I've seen this year...)
I watched Mustang, which was beautiful, even with its many flaws. I was really, really touched by the very last scene. It just hit me so unexpectedly and in a matter of seconds I had teary eyes.
Also saw Nasty Baby, which is another movie that proves that hipsters are the worst dramatically group to create a story around (don't get me started on the insufferable characters in Mistress America). Even though I didn't care about the way the characters in Nasty Baby had interactions among themselves and their issues, I was somewhat into the plot. I wanted to see how it would be resolved, until all hell breaks loose. For those who have seen the movie, you know how disastrous the last twenty minutes get. What a desperate attempt to elevate the material to something with higher stakes. Wiig's character might as well have been abducted and knocked up by aliens and it wouldn't be as stupid and absurd as it actually gets.
Let it go, /3rtful!
I saw By The Sea , Ex Machina and Spectre .
At the beginning of By The Sea , the manager of the Landmark Theater I saw it at said that if we get too bored we can move next door where Room was playing ... but it wasn't as bad as the reviews made it except for the ending that almost ruins the whole build up. There were no walk-outs though. It helped that the theater has a liqour license :-)
I didn't like Spectre at all - not even Léa Seydoux and Monica Bellucci could make up for a god awful plot.
I liked Ex Machina - but I always liked intelligent sci-fi.
I saw and was thoroughly bored by The Good Dinosaur.
I saw Carol and Spotlight in the theaters. I was impressed with both. Carol was chilly, but in a good way. I wasn't as emotionally moved as some people seem to be, but the movie is beautiful, and those few beats are incredible. Same with Spotlight actually, obviously not as beautiful, but I enjoyed the choice to tell the story through the journalists, rather than the victims, it gave it a more calculated feel, that didn't seem to pander.
At home I watched Taken 3, which was pretty awful. And Very Bad Things, which I was really impressed with.
Meant to say the "last" few beats of Carol.
Went to see Bridge of Spies but due to a theater error ended up seeing Hunger Games instead. It was pretty good, though I'm somewhat sad to say that JLaw acted rings around Julianne. Can't say that often in a film.
@ Bruno, I can't shut up about how much I love Jennifer Lawrence's work in the Hunger Games films, especially parts 3 and 4. Julianne's really good as the president in part 3.
I saw "Spectre"which is way to long they could have removed all the scenes with Monica Bellucci and no one would notice. Nice retro moments- the fight on the train- Craig is too humorless as Bond and the villain was bland- it felts as if everyone was going through the motions- "Skyfall" was much better and let's not mention the instantly forgettable song. I liked that Miss Moneypenny and Q had more to do- and if we are going to update the series why not just make Q gay?
I had a Carole Lombard weekend and watched 20th Century and Hands Across the Table. And to my surprise, I didn't much care for the "classic" 20th Century, mainly because the actors are a bit too shrill and shouty for my taste. It has some terrific dialogue though and I understand why it's a screwball titan. I LOVED Hands Across the Table. I thought Lombard and Fred MacMurray had terrific chemistry, and they both were effortlessly charming and funny without ever being forced. I also think Mitchell Leisen may have been the best actors' director of the '30s and '40s. Midnight, Easy Living, and Remember the Night feature some of the best work of their stars' careers.
Raul: I actually liked Jessica Jones Season One more, but I also understand that the probable season 2 for Jessica Jones looks a lot weaker than the probable season 2 for Daredevil.
Daredevil Season 2: A more episodic structure with a series of battles with Nuke, Stilt Man, Gladiator, Stick, Elektra, Bullseye and, maybe, the classic Typhoid Mary (short version: Dangerous Irish-American with Non-Dissociative Identity Disorder named Mary Walker, though I also honestly hope they save her for The Movie), structured with a growing conflict with The Punisher AND a couple pure lawyer episodes. So, yeah, an orgy of comic book fights and a couple episodes that show the man at his day job that will hopefully feel like reading thirteen classic issues instead of the couple modern trades that Season One did. Sign me up.
Jessica Jones Season 2: Based on the ending, it's going to be The Constant Gardener with superheroes. Could still be pretty good, but I'm not reacting "sign me up" as much.
I went to see The Good Dinosaur yesterday - it was okay. I thought it was trying to copy Brother Bear and that Brother Bear was way better.
Today I saw Steve Jobs for the fourth time...
I saw 'Spotlight'. I liked it a lot, especially the parts toward the end that pointed out the journalists dropping the ball on the scandal years before. Myself and the friend I saw it with both remarked that we thought it was going to turn out that John Slattery's character had intentionally buried the story, I thought it was an interesting grey area in a movie with very little of such (deservedly so) that it didn't turn out that way.
Also, if you played the drinking game where you take a shot every time they say the movie's title, you would die.
Just The Good Dinosaur, which for awhile I thought was brilliant but it lost its way somewhere a bit. Boyfriend asked where it ranked among Pixar movies and I said... "above Monsters University!" Need to have a think on it but I think both it and Inside Out were a bit below par this year.
Cinematography and score were both A+ though, I thought.
*Mockingjay Part 2 - thanks to a pack of atrociously behaved middle schoolers, my screening experience was so bad that I honestly can't separate the movie from the experience. I *think* the movie is a tiny little bit of a let down relative to the other installments, and I think that has something to do with how they had to scramble to rewrite the third act after Hoffman passed away. There's definitely something missing from those final moments leading up to Katniss' final arrow shot. But I'd honestly need to see it again to get a clearer picture. Lawrence is, as always, fantastic.
*The Gunman - Sean Penn takes his turn at the "middle aged bad ass killing people" genre, and does a credible job. Pierre Morel, who directed Taken, is a steady hand with this type of material, and Mark Rylance gives a very fun supporting turn. The effort to bring an anti-colonialist social conscience to the proceedings feels a bit misguided, but I sort of appreciated the effort.
*Spectre - 90 minutes of glorious costume, cinematography and location porn eventually crumbles under the weight of a shitty, shitty script. Whoever decided that Blofeld needed to be James Bond's fucking foster brother should never be allowed to work in show business again. So, so, so, so epically stupid.
Meanwhile, I fully planned on seeing Room today, but it apparently vacated all the local suburban theaters while I was out of town for Thanksgiving, so now I'll have to schlep into NYC to see it sometime.
Spotlight. Well made film although very rough in the beginning. It took me a long time to get used to some of the actors' characterizations. By the end, I loved it. Room, frankly underwhelming. Well acted (particularly by the boy) but very strange in tone and use of music. If this is what it takes to make Millenials to have or feel empathy, I worry for their long-term survival.
Oh, and Bridge of Spies. Very well made film for adults. Tom Hanks very good, along with the entire supporting cast.
Nathaniel - did you reconsider on Kate's accent at all? If you listen to the real Joanna Hoffman, it's spot on, so I'd have to disagree with your previous assessment of it!
I saw Brooklyn, which was very well-made. Julie Walters and the costumes were the best part.
Joe -- i wasn't all that critical of her accent in the first place so there wasn't much to reconsider. loved her performance.
Tom -- wondering why you pinpoint Room as being for millenials?
Rebecca -- LMAO
Saw both Room and Spotlight on the same day. Kind of wish I had just let Room sink in, as I found it to be so powerful. The acting in the entire film is amazing and the direction is particularly effective during the first half of the movie while in Room. I have read the book and was still very tense at times, even knowing what would happen. Spotlight was perfectly fine in my opinion, but just a little too long. Some of the acting fell a little flat for me, but maybe that's because reporters are supposed to be unemotional at times. All the Oscar buzz has me feeling a little perplexed to be honest.
Brooklyn -- expected to love it, but only liked it. It's just too slight. Good thing she goes back to Ireland or the movie really would have barely registered. But the part where you-know-who finds out about you-know-what was kind of ridiculous. Maybe if it wasn't being so over-hyped its very real charms could just play themselves out.
Trumbo -- a very happy surprise. Especially since I have little use for the real-life hack scenarist. Winning an award for The Brave One? Over Umberto D and Jean-Paul Sartre? I'm laughing already! I was fearing one of these 20/20 hindsight black vs. white jobs, but the film, anchored by an excellent performance is a lively, funny, scary and, most surprisingly of all, nuanced look the blacklist. Only the final speech is tedious. Also, it almost makes it look like Hedda Hopper and John Wayne were exclusively responsible for the blacklist. But that's minor, and the film is highly recommendable
The Peanuts Movie -- On the good side, it never tries to be more than a kids' movie. No coy double entendres or annoying pop-culture references. On the other hand, it isn't much of anything else, either. Zzzzzzzzzz
Finally caught up with Ex Machina and really liked it, almost maybe loved it? The script is fantastic - it moves thing along from the very beginning and doesn't let up, creating suspense while still taking its time to build character and setting. The actors are great. The visuals are fantastic. And the ending was more powerful than I would have thought. Those last few scenes really haunted me the rest of the night.
My movie club hit Brooklyn. I can't remember the last time I bawled so hard at the movies. Utterly lovely and Saoirse is spellbinding. One of the best of the year.
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