Box Office As Told By Animal Emojis
Sunday, February 21, 2016 at 8:40PM 
01. $55 million (cumulative $235.3)
02. $12.5 million (cumulative $117.1)
03. $11.8 million (new!)
04. $8.6 million (new)
05. $8.2 million (cumulative $31.7)
06. $7.2 million (new)
08. $3.8 million (cumulative $921.6)
09. $3.8 million (cumulative $165.1)
10. $2.6 million (cumulative $26.1)
What did you see this weekend? I went to The Witch again and it was just as good as I remembered from TIFF.
But let's go from the great to the terrible. When was the last time you chanced upon something truly awful? I ask this because last night, bone tired, and flipping channels I came across The Crow: City of Angels (1996) in its opening scene. I had never seen it and for a minute I mistook it for The Crow: Salvation (2000) which I have also never seen and thought to myself 'Self, hey, watch a few minutes since Kiki Dunst is in this' About 20 minutes later, I turned it off, jaw long since acclimated to floor. Every single scene was worst than the last. It was truly incompetent and absurd and mine eyes had witnessed some of the most atrocious acting ever committed to celluloid.
Reader Comments (24)
I saw The Danish Girl on Friday. Terrific lead performance from Vikander (this is not quite at Steinfeld levels of category fraud, but it's on the rung below), the rest is meh. I like Tom Hooper's films a lot more than people here tend to, but this is not near his best work, and the story never really gets at Lili's inner life.
I watched my Criterion edition of Moonrise Kingdom on Saturday (probably my sixth viewing overall). I consider this movie to be essentially perfect; there's nothing about it I would change. "Was he a good dog?"/"Who's to say?" is the funniest dialogue exchange in our current decade.
Man, I hope none of those emojis were spoilers! (Given i don't understand #s 5, 6, 7 and 10, I am fearful..........)
I saw:
Bell Book and Candle: I spent most of it wishing I was watching Beeitched.
Bloodbrothers: Terrible, terrible acting.
The War Against Mrs. hadley: a surprisingly strong performance from Fay Bainter in a weirdly propaganda like movie.
Mrs Soffel: Mel Gibson was beautiful before he was insane.
I saw The Witch. Loved the direction and it was certainly creepy/scary/weird, but I don't know that I'll remember it that fondly at the end of the year. It bordered on silly throughout.
John T: He WAS beautiful. Seeing him at the Globes was a reminder of the very real and inescapable ravages of age that await us all but in the 80s he was a beautiful man.
Any oscar chamce for The Witch?
I saw Brooklyn and caught me wondering if Elis, Therese Belivet, Carol Aird and Peggy Olson would be friends.
I saw The Life of Emile Zola with a great Paul Muni and The Sandpiper which was a mostly boring Liz/Richard movie with only Eva Marie Saint giving it any excitement. Hope to see The Witch and The Revenent soon.
Friday I did a double feature of Andrej Zulawski's first and last films - "The Third Part of the NIght" and "Cosmos." Last night I saw "When Marnie Was There." Today I double featured "Boy and the World" and "The Revenant." I really liked the first hour of "The Revenant," but it really loses momentum in the second half, and the ending was pretty trite.
James White, Tangerine, Three (1965 Yugoslav film nominated for the foreign language oscar) and The Lady Without a Passport (1950s noir)
I saw 'The Internets Own Boy'. Great doco.
Saw Grandma, Tangerine and Bessie.
I now want to see movies about Grandma+Ex-husband, Grandma+Daughter, Grandma+Violet.
I can't remember the last time I saw a truly horrible movie. Fortunately, I'm spoiled.
Still catching up on TV this weekend--Agent Carter, American Crime (Story), The X-Files etc.
I watched Ex-Machina for the 4th time, and made friends watch it with me, they loved it. It's now overtaken Carol and Mad Max as my favourite of the year. I really think It's a future classic.
Started watching the Badabook last night but it was too scary, so turned it off, saw that Dirty Dancing was on TV so sat and watched that for the 1,000,000th time. My God, it's fantastic!!! And Swayze, pure sex.
I saw "Zoolander 2", which was stoopid but silly fun for a Sunday Matinee, and chock full of celebrity cameos.
I also saw "Brooklyn" which was quite a wonderful little film. As I'm researching the Family Tree, I realized that some of my ancestors did the exact same thing (earlier than Ellis by about 80 years, but still the same thing.)
And I watched "Pretty Woman", which I can still quote despite not having seen it in at least 15 years.
Let's host the Oscar party at Reg Bev Wil!!!
Love that you consider a human baby an "animal" emoji haha
Rented Bridge of Spies on Sat night: good solid Spielberg. Amy Ryan gives the thankless wife role a nice little bite, and Tom Hanks is fab, as ever. Mark Rylance gives a fine performance, I think he earned his nomination, hands down. Fine middlebrow entertainment, and nothing wrong with that.
Sunday saw The Witch in theaters. Great Hardy/Bierce-like fable. Fantastic acting & atmosphere. There's a little indie-art horror renaissance happening of late and I'm so glad.
Still catching up on the Oscar flicks so Sunday night rented Steve Jobs from iTunes. The constant yackety yack of Sorkinese wore me down pretty quickly; my spouse is actually quite the Mac guy but didn't like it either. Nothing to make you care about any of what was happening on screen, no emotional arc to carry you through–the relationship stuff w/ Jobs' daughter felt contrived and by-the-numbers. Fassbender & Winslet performed well but I can see why the movie tanked.
On my (Impossible) quest to see most of the movie nominated for Oscar, I saw "The Danish Girl" (meeww) & "The Hateful Eight" (Surprised at how much I enjoined it). Having seen all of the Sup. Actress, here's how I would ranked them:
Jennifer Jason Lee
Kate Winslet
Rachel Mc Adam
Alicia Vikanter
Roony Mara
Hail, Caesar!
- why is Jonah Hill's face on the poster? Does he even have 60 seconds of screentime? And it's not like it's 60 seconds of the Galadriel type of screentime.
- the film was fun, kinda undercooked / we've seen it before territory
I saw "Deadpool" which had it's amusing moment- it's perfectly suited for Reynolds' persona. I was impressed by the guy playing the villain Ed Skrein- would like to see more of him.
American sniper - same, same but some good action
Spotlight - a good movie which I found way more engaging than many of the other best pic contenders
Unfriended - the style/form is intriguing but the film itself gets sillier as it goes along
Saw Bridge of Spies - perfectly fine, Hanks and Rylance are great, glad the script added humor or it would've felt even more like a basic history lesson
Deadpool - fun, funny, exactly what you think it will be, disappointed that he and the film are made out to be such unconventional, supposedly pansexual, surprises and yet in the sex position montage he has the totally obvious rejection of getting pegged by his girlfriend - gotta reassure his straight male friends that he really, really is straight after all! But Ed Skrein is hella sexy - more of him, please
Son of Saul - oof, this was intense, but so powerful and well done. Geza Rohrig was just fantastic. I have no idea how it was directed and shot so well - the takes were so long and fluid and yet everything was composed perfectly. That last shot of his face - so mysterious and fascinating. We discussed what the ending meant for forever afterward.
Also finally finished "London Spy." Did anyone else here watch it? I mean, it has Charlotte Rampling! Hello!
Potter: I had VERY similar thoughts when watching those films as well. I feel everyone would be friends maybe besides Carol.... she lives in Long Island for goodness sakes. At least Therese would be there for her.
99 Homes, again.