I haven't seen Another Round yet - it's not got a UK release - but Mikkelsen deserved a nomination for The Hunt. Its good to see his and Vinterberg's reunion doing so well. 

At least Klaus got a nomination. I'm still bitter about The Lego Movie being snubbed. 

Exactly. I don't think they watch the films they nominate. At least not these days. They just go with the general consensus and the most obvious choices. 

I misunderstood your original point, so apologies. But still, the voters have had access to it and probably watched it because it’s the sort of thing that appeals to them. And the reviews have been very good for it, especially for the performances. Just because hardly any of us have seen it (it’s been on limited…

Given that it’s a weighty drama starring Awards-favourites Hopkins and Coleman I’d give voters the benefit of the doubt that it’s one of the screeners they actually did watch.

Starred for Ending Things. It's should have been a shoo-in for Buckley and Screenplay. 

I wouldn't begrudge a Soul win - it may be the most obvious choice but it's a very good film - but I'd love it if Wolfwalkers got it. It's such a beautiful film. 

It is sometimes about the role. Exhibit A: Coleman winning over Close a couple of years back (when Close was tipped to get it for the reasons you say) 

Do you really think the Razzies (and, likely, most of the people attacking the role/film) actually watched it?

It's my fault - I wasn't looking at the one The AV Club linked to. I was looking at a later one (not "Avatar poised to retake the crown" but the more up to date "Avatar has retaken the crown" one). Not sure why there's such a disparity between the figures though -…

I know it's a typo but what's the betting that, somehow, it's a James Cameron film that manages to break the trillion dollar mark. 

Ate you sure? This is what their post says at the moment (from their early Saturday morning update) - “This is thanks to a China reissue which began on Friday and which through its first two days has added an estimated RMB 80M ($12.3M) to the total haul for the Na’vi.”.

3D films still ay everywhere even if the 2D/3D split has gone way into favour of the former. And projectors don't get replaced *that* often - they're not cheap (and the newer ones will still likely be 3D - even if 4K is the new selling point). So yeah, Read3D and IMAX 3D and all the other formats are still going. 

To be fair, despite the reporting above, its not $5.8m for the weekend. I’m guessing that was its first day but it’s first two day take was $12.3M. So probably a weekend close to $20m after Sunday. It's not a bad take for a re-release - it's about what Tenet took in five days when it opened in the US. 

Well that's the perfect response to Captain Splendid's point. 

Agree - I called it the same.

Is time travel an option? Because I’d definitely choose an opening weekend screening of Endgame and the atmosphere they had over Avatar. (Hell, I’d probably choose Endgame anyway. Avatar is great big screen spectacle and I look forward to the eventual IMAX re-release next year in the run up to Avatar 2 but I just…

“the most successful movie ever, not just once, but twice, and across three different decades”

Normally I’d agree - there is a whole bunch of lazy writing on the site these days which often skewers close to personal blogs rather than pop culture news, reviews or analysis - but Caroline Siede’s columns are one of the highlights and, to me, feel like old-school AV Club.

In terms of teen comedies aimed at teens - PG-13 teen comedies (like Bill and Ted) not adult-skewing R rated films. That kind of ‘adult’ (rather than rating how mature a film is which is a different argument).