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"The 8/9/10 films from Friday hit landmarks and are looking to hit the next landmark by the end of the weekend."

I see the landmarks they hit on Friday, but beyond that, Julie & Julia's next real landmark would be at $100 million, which isn't even happening for it next weekend; GI Joe would be $150 million, which could happen next weekend, who knows; and The Time Traveller's Wife would be $75 mil, and that's just not going to happen at all.

On the other hand, District 9 is going to cross the $100 million mark this weekend, while The Final Destination has a longshot-squared chance at the $50 million point.

When you are down to $1 million weekend days, every $5 million is a landmark, Hallick.

"When you are down to $1 million weekend days, every $5 million is a landmark, Hallick."

No. It's a little like me saying that when my bank account hits the $2000 mark, it's a landmark in banking.

Great for me? Oh god yes. A landmark to the financial world? No.

Yeah, what's the point of a landmark if you have one on a weekly basis?

Oy.

Hey, every day I pick up the newspaper and look at the obituary page and don't see my name on it -- that's a landmark for me.

"Oy."

Aw come on, Dave. I'm just trying to uphold a minor standard here. Does "G.I. Joe" possibly progressing from 135 to $140 million this weekend really represent a landmark to you?

"Hey, every day I pick up the newspaper and look at the obituary page and don't see my name on it -- that's a landmark for me."

It'd be a bigger one if you did see your name on it, wouldn't it?

Wasn't that the plot of a Twilight Zone episode?

Actually, it was a plot point in your favorite film, Joe...THE DARK KNIGHT!

Just to make it clear: I enjoyed The Dark Knight. But if you told me that I had a choice between seeing it or seeing any one of a dozen or so other movies I enjoyed during the past year, I doubt that it would be my final choice. Now, if it was a choice between Dark Knight or Wicked Lake, well...

If you like the Indian influences, Mad Cowgirl is the movie of mine you should be watching, not Wicked Lake.

Though I'd strongly recommend the latter to LexG.

I can't believe LexG doesn't own Wicked Lake: The Deluxe Edition.

BTW: I think it's reasonably safe to say you're a better actor than I am. Check out the video clip from After Twilight on my Facebook site, and you'll see what I mean.

I may be wrong, but I think the line about Rachel (or Alfred) checking obituaries for Bruce's death notice was in Batman Begins...? Correct me if I'm wrong.

I think LYT's referring to the mayor of Gotham City getting his obituary printed by the Joker in The Dark Knight.

Saw Extract today. How does a picture like that get an R in the US and a PG in Canada? It could have so easily been a PG-13 with just a few seconds gone.
I'm starting to become a real fan of 14A for those soft R pictures.

Thanks Hallick. That works too.

"I can't believe LexG doesn't own Wicked Lake: The Deluxe Edition."

Well, it doesn't exist quite yet. But it will. There were tons of extra things shot that didn't make it onto version one!

And Hallick - yes.

GAMER uses BLOODHOUND GANG on the soundtrack. That was AWESOME and I can't BELIEVE no one (let alone David Poland or the neutered dudes on THB) want to see ALLISON LOHMAN IN DREDS and AMBER VALETTA IN TUBE SOCKS while GERARD BUTLER caps fucking JOHNNY WHITWORTH FROM EMPIRE RECORDS and TERRY CREWS runs around being INSANE and Dexter tosses off LEXIAN lines like "I wanna breach YOUR firewall."

That coupled with a MILA GOD KUNIS BOW movie tanking and H2 dropping means American moviegoers are GIANT PUSSIES who can't handle anything that shakes their backyards and BBQs worldview.

Anyone who doesn't see GAMER just unofficially cast their vote for President Palin in 2012.

Not like she isn't going to win in a landslide anyway, she'd beat Obama 99% to 1% if the election were held TOMORROW.

As if it wasn't already true, now you're officially just saying stupid things in order to get attention.

And it worked! But not for much longer.

I like Neveldine and Taylor. Loved Crank, liked Crank 2, and appreciated their screenplay for "Pathology," though the execution was a little off.

"Gamer" is eh. It's like there's 3 seperate movies. One is about the high concept idea of mind control on death row inmates...the sequence of Michael Hall puppeteering to Under My Skin by Frank Sinatra is one of the creepiest/most awesome this year. But there's another movie, that is just a generic actioner. And ANOTHER movie, about another alternate world, called Society, in which players control female inmates to be used as their sex toys which takes up almost half an hour, and could have been interesting...but for me left "Gamer" feeling as disjointed as Hall's puppeteering of the death row inmates.

EthanG, I agree, the SOCIETY game would've RULED and made for a much better movie; The MOST DANGEROUS GAME "Slayers" stuff is pretty straightforward grunge-vision B-action shit, and way too close to last year's Death Race remake, to really stand out.

And the movie comes to a screeching halt almost every time N/T work up a good head of steam; Just tons of tech explanations and all those groggy scenes with Ludacris and the douche gamer kid, when I wanted more Butler and more VALETTA IN TUBE SOCKS running through NEON RAVES and Terry Crews going insane and more BRIGHT COLORS and LESBIAN KISSING and more BLOODHOUND GANG.

It's frustrating because it's like they hedged their bets or combined two screenplay ideas; Because SOCIETY was where it's at. (It also appears SOCIETY is the same basic plot as the upcoming SURROGATES.)

Any way, a lot of GOOD IDEAS there because it would BE AWESOME if you could CONTROL WOMEN and dress them in sexy outfits and have them LIKE YOU instead of being so scary and mean like women usually are.

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