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Title: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 25, 2014, 04:14 PM
Talk about movies! Whether it be the latest movies or some old classics, it's all allowed in here.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 25, 2014, 04:15 PM
Anyone seen X-Men yet? Really want to see it. It's getting great reviews and WOM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 25, 2014, 04:16 PM
What's the best superhero movie of the year so far? Quite a few already out, despite it only being the end of May.

(http://fast.swide.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/best-new-superhero-movies-2014-2015-a-list-of-must-sees.jpg)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 25, 2014, 05:01 PM
I've seen hardly any movies this year, even though there are lots of good ones.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 25, 2014, 05:26 PM
Just watched Thor: The Dark World yesterday. Decent, about as good as the first one I think. It had Iceland in it though (although the CGI'd it up a lot). I just feel like there's something missing in the Thor films compared to some other Marvel movies.

I heart great things about Captain America (which comes as a bit of a surprise, I must say)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 25, 2014, 07:51 PM
I've seen 47 ronin and the secret life of walter mitty which also had iceland in it. They we're both okay movies. 47 ronin had a hard time deciding what it wanted to be and the best thing about walter mitty was seeing iceland again.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DD_Bwest on May 25, 2014, 07:55 PM
im going to see godzilla in IMAX in a few hours,   rather excited
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 26, 2014, 01:40 AM
Just came back from Amazing Spider-Man 2. That's two superhero movies in 2 days.

It was good, almost great. I liked it slightly more than Thor. Still is not my favorite Spider-Man movie. I'm hoping the next one will be (it has potential!)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DD_Bwest on May 26, 2014, 01:47 AM
hory sheet was godzilla ever good
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 26, 2014, 01:57 AM

hory sheet was godzilla ever good

I was going to see either spidey 2, godzilla or X-Men tonight. Chose Spidey 2 because the time fit better.

I think I will need to see Godzilla before it leaves cinemas
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DD_Bwest on May 26, 2014, 02:04 AM

I was going to see either spidey 2, godzilla or X-Men tonight. Chose Spidey 2 because the time fit better.

I think I will need to see Godzilla before it leaves cinemas


That you will!  i saw it in 3d IMAX,  and i feel it must be scene that way lol   
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 26, 2014, 02:08 AM

That you will!  i saw it in 3d IMAX,  and i feel it must be scene that way lol   

Too bad I won't be able to do that lol. Hmm, unless they have IMAX in Sweden...
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DD_Bwest on May 26, 2014, 02:15 AM
they might,  not sure why they wouldnt lol
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 27, 2014, 12:12 AM

hory sheet was godzilla ever good

Just saw that today.

Disagree lol. Plus Godzilla just looked super dorky. Reminded me of the tv shows with a man in a suit.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DD_Bwest on May 27, 2014, 12:24 AM

Just saw that today.

Disagree lol. Plus Godzilla just looked super dorky. Reminded me of the tv shows with a man in a suit.


Thats what made it so great, they kept that look, he also had this arrogant cocky look to him that i just loved.  and the way he dealt the final blow was awesome.   I would have liked to see more monster vs monster action, but i got that is was teasing and building up.  It sets up well for later movies.

The thing that bugs me,  in all godzilla movies.  The shoot him with rockets, tank shells, .50 cal miniguns and they dont do shame. and everyone in the army should be aware of this.  Why is it that when there is like 4-5 soldiers alone and are faced with it, do they start shooting like its going to do something.  Like for fudge sake run lol
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Raven on May 27, 2014, 12:24 AM

Just saw that today.

Disagree lol. Plus Godzilla just looked super dorky. Reminded me of the tv shows with a man in a suit.


I think you should just stay drunk from now on. That way I won't feel compelled to hurt you for saying such rubbish.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 27, 2014, 12:53 AM

I think you should just stay drunk from now on. That way I won't feel compelled to hurt you for saying such rubbish.

The critics agree with me.

Thats what made it so great, they kept that look, he also had this arrogant cocky look to him that i just loved.  and the way he dealt the final blow was awesome.   I would have liked to see more monster vs monster action, but i got that is was teasing and building up.  It sets up well for later movies.

The thing that bugs me,  in all godzilla movies.  The shoot him with rockets, tank shells, .50 cal miniguns and they dont do shame. and everyone in the army should be aware of this.  Why is it that when there is like 4-5 soldiers alone and are faced with it, do they start shooting like its going to do something.  Like for fudge sake run lol

Agree to disagree then hahaha.

Do agree about the shooting thing though. However I was really impressed with the military in this movie. I am so tired of the "head military guy is cocky and arrogant" trope. He wasn't made out as a bad guy, yay!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Raven on May 27, 2014, 01:05 AM

The critics agree with me.


Lol fudge the critics. They said Avatar was an amazing movie.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 27, 2014, 01:30 AM

The critics agree with me.Agree to disagree then hahaha.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/godzilla_2014/

Pretty good scores if you ask me

Also, of course the military guy was good. It's Heisenberg!

Keep in mind that I haven't seen the movie, so I don't know if he actually plays that guy lol.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 27, 2014, 01:43 AM

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/godzilla_2014/

Pretty good scores if you ask me

Also, of course the military guy was good. It's Heisenberg!

Keep in mind that I haven't seen the movie, so I don't know if he actually plays that guy lol.


I bet you a month of sig control you'll be disappointed. Raven and Bwest know what I mean :9
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 27, 2014, 01:44 AM

I bet you a month of sig control you'll be disappointed. Raven and Bwest know what I mean :9

Nah, I already know what to expect by now. Spoilers, spoilers everywhere.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Raven on May 27, 2014, 01:45 AM
Go watch the movie, Pezus. I enjoyed it, Bwest enjoyed it, and my whole family enjoyed it.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 27, 2014, 01:46 AM

Go watch the movie, Pezus. I enjoyed it, Bwest enjoyed it, and my whole family enjoyed it.

My whole family laughed at it.

Hahaha
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 27, 2014, 01:48 AM

My whole family laughed at it.

Hahaha

Lol, must've been fun for the people with you in the hall
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 27, 2014, 01:48 AM

My whole family laughed at it.

Hahaha

They were laughing at you.  They just didn't have the heart to tell you.  :( 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 27, 2014, 01:49 AM
Or maybe they were laughing at me.  We'll never know.  :(
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 27, 2014, 01:54 AM
They were laughing at me...  :( 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 27, 2014, 01:57 AM

They were laughing at me...  :( 

I admit it, they were
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 27, 2014, 02:36 AM

I admit it, they were

Yup.

You know my family so well.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on May 29, 2014, 07:31 PM
the new x-men is awesome. Best super hero movie i ever seen.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 29, 2014, 08:32 PM

the new x-men is awesome. Best super hero movie i ever seen.

Nice. I really want to go see it.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on May 29, 2014, 09:16 PM

Nice. I really want to go see it.


You should its really awesome. Everyone should :D
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 02, 2014, 06:01 AM

You should its really awesome. Everyone should :D

I'll see it hopefully this week.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 02, 2014, 12:34 PM

I'll see it hopefully this week.

Me too. Hopefully tomorrow.

OT: Watched Catch me if you can for the first time yesterday. Great movie.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 02, 2014, 05:21 PM
http://starwars.com/star-wars-episode-vii-adds-academy-award-winner-lupita-nyongo-and-game-of-thrones-gwendoline-christie.html

(http://starwars1-a.akamaihd.net/img/news/lupita-nyongo-gwendoline-christie.jpg)

What do you think?!

Brienne no doubt chosen for her size. Will be interesting
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Jun 02, 2014, 06:48 PM
I do want to see the new xmen movie... maybe it'll start being good / decent again... I didn't like the last 2 -3 xmen movies...
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 02, 2014, 10:15 PM

I do want to see the new xmen movie... maybe it'll start being good / decent again... I didn't like the last 2 -3 xmen movies...

The critics and word of mouth say it's amazing and the best X-Men movie and one of the best superhero movies. So...I have a feeling it's at least good lol

I thought First Class was outstanding, but X-Men III: The Last Stand was mediocre. Have not seen the wolverine spin-offs. The director of X-Men 1-2 is back with this one.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 04, 2014, 01:54 AM
Edge of Tomorrow was very good, very exciting. - 8/10!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 06, 2014, 02:21 AM
"Banned" Eva Green Sin City 2 poster

(http:// width=570 height=844]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1824123/thumbs/o-EVA-GREEN-SIN-CITY-A-DAME-TO-KILL-FOR-570.jpg?6)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Raven on Jun 06, 2014, 02:27 AM

"Banned" Eva Green Sin City 2 poster

(http:// width=570 height=844]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1824123/thumbs/o-EVA-GREEN-SIN-CITY-A-DAME-TO-KILL-FOR-570.jpg?6)


(http://www.amk.to/images/discussion/original/81c3ef0285abc1487ad985de83d9d0ed66e7039d.jpg)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 06, 2014, 02:31 AM
She's been very bad, indeed
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Raven on Jun 06, 2014, 02:49 AM

She's been very bad, indeed


I like an IGN comment.

"So,yeahhh....her nipples were a danger to society"
(http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/1072/2409/original.jpg)

^ Perfectly acceptable public advertising.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 06, 2014, 02:54 AM
Yeah, and you can hardly even see her nipples. At least it leaves something for the imagination
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Jun 07, 2014, 08:47 AM
Watch Now You See Me and holy crud is this movie cheesy. Its almost like a Disney afternoon special.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Jun 08, 2014, 02:05 AM
I have so many movies I need to catch up on... still haven't seen the latest RE flick... watching The Legend of Hercules right now... :/
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 08, 2014, 08:55 PM
Go watch Edge of Tomorrow, people! Tom Cruise needs to fund his Scientology church.

Seriously though, great movie and it doesn't seem to be doing very well in the US!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Jun 08, 2014, 09:04 PM
I'll probably rent it... I don't go out to the movies but once a year... sometimes more but don't really feel like its worth the price of admission most of the time.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 08, 2014, 09:10 PM
It's an action movie that is meant to be seen in cinemas! Really exciting
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Jun 09, 2014, 05:12 AM
meh I don't really enjoy watching a film in a cinema any more than at home at all
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 11, 2014, 06:59 PM

meh I don't really enjoy watching a film in a cinema any more than at home at all

You're weird
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Jun 12, 2014, 03:35 AM

You're weird

last time I went to the cinema (spiderman 2 opening weekend) I fell asleep during the action parts... At home I can get comfy pause rewind use the bathroom and not miss anything... oh yeah and drink alcohol...
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 12, 2014, 07:37 AM
Movies and alcohol are a bad mix imo
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Jun 12, 2014, 03:12 PM

Movies and alcohol are a bad mix imo

hmm maybe you drink too much then? I drink enough to relax not get wasted...
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: manbearspurge on Jun 12, 2014, 11:11 PM

Go watch Edge of Tomorrow, people! Tom Cruise needs to fund his Scientology church.

Seriously though, great movie and it doesn't seem to be doing very well in the US!

Seen it last night. Some parts go too long, but does not ruin the movie.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Jul 11, 2014, 04:26 AM
hmm i want to see that movie... I need to make a list of all the movies I want to see, because I usually forget about them
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 11, 2014, 10:40 AM

hmm i want to see that movie... I need to make a list of all the movies I want to see, because I usually forget about them

IMDB has that feature (Watch List)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 11, 2014, 01:25 PM
Edge of tomorrow was incredibly good.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Jul 11, 2014, 03:35 PM

IMDB has that feature (Watch List)

TY I'll have to look into that!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Jul 22, 2014, 07:37 PM
Dawn of the planets of the apes was freaking epic. These apes would put the cast of expendables to shame. The only bad thing about the movie were the humans. Goosh they were so annoying and bland.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: u4gReservoirDogs on Jul 27, 2014, 08:58 PM
Tomorrow the Teaser Trailer for the movie The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies will be released.
Today Warner Brothers relerased a teaser to announce the coming of the teaser-trailer tomorrow ...
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2014/07/27/91603-warner-bros-announces-teaser-trailer-debut-for-the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies/ (http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2014/07/27/91603-warner-bros-announces-teaser-trailer-debut-for-the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies/)
(http://www-images.theonering.org/torwp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/10486522_703563929679215_3408851459597446711_o-688x1024.jpg)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 27, 2014, 09:00 PM
Teaser teaser
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: u4gReservoirDogs on Jul 27, 2014, 09:06 PM
Teasing teaser?  ???
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 27, 2014, 09:42 PM
No thank you Hobbit.

The first was bad and the second was really bad apart from sauron. I'll skip 3 at theaters unless the reviews are amazing.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 27, 2014, 09:50 PM

No thank you Hobbit.

The first was bad and the second was really bad apart from sauron. I'll skip 3 at theaters unless the reviews are amazing.

What did you dislike about them?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: u4gReservoirDogs on Jul 27, 2014, 09:58 PM

No thank you Hobbit.

The first was bad and the second was really bad apart from sauron. I'll skip 3 at theaters unless the reviews are amazing.

An army of dwarves, elves and men (+ giant birds and a shapeshifter) vs orcs and wargs.
+
The fight @ Dol Goldur with the White Council (The wizards + Galadriel + Elrond)
+
A Dragon
=
Epicawesomeness
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 27, 2014, 10:02 PM

What did you dislike about them?

Nothing really happened and the writing was poor. In the second it was building up to be really cool and then bam! Roll credits.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 27, 2014, 10:06 PM

Nothing really happened and the writing was poor. In the second it was building up to be really cool and then bam! Roll credits.

Yeah, I know what you mean. 
It's like a really long episode, and then it gets to the end and then they just cut you off and it's "to be continued."
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 27, 2014, 10:18 PM
I thought the second one was better than the first. Third one should be the best
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 27, 2014, 10:34 PM
Yeah third should be the best, but that doesn't mean much har har har.

I'm just a hobit hater I guess.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 31, 2014, 02:14 AM
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/boyhood

The perfect movie?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 31, 2014, 02:20 AM

http://www.metacritic.com/movie/boyhood

The perfect movie?

36 perfect reviews and 10 less than perfect = perfect metacritic score. 
2 of them even gave it a 75. 
Must be a fantastic movie though. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 31, 2014, 02:22 AM

36 perfect reviews and 10 less than perfect = perfect metacritic score. 
2 of them even gave it a 75. 
Must be a fantastic movie though. 

It was literally shot in 13 years, I believe. Also 9.0 on IMDB (and rising): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1065073/ . Might become one of, or THE #1 movie on IMDB's list.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 31, 2014, 02:25 AM

It was literally shot in 13 years, I believe. Also 9.0 on IMDB (and rising): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1065073/ . Might become one of, or THE #1 movie on IMDB's list.

Yep.  Fantastic.  Haven't heard of this movie, but my interest is piqued. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 31, 2014, 07:40 AM
I heard of that movie. Probably will see it when I get home.

Also I just learned of Under the Skin. Lol guess what it's about, and then use google to see if you're right. I doubt it.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 31, 2014, 11:50 AM

I heard of that movie. Probably will see it when I get home.

Also I just learned of Under the Skin. Lol guess what it's about, and then use google to see if you're right. I doubt it.

Scarlett Johansson being naked?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Jul 31, 2014, 12:34 PM
Brand new Interstellar trailer - http://downloads.paramount.com/kaltura/content/r71v1/entry/data/354/854/0_buycdmn8_0_ygksx8j3_2.mp4
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Jul 31, 2014, 12:36 PM
Are we allowed to post movie news? Or just talk about what movies we've seen/are interested in?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Jul 31, 2014, 01:05 PM

Are we allowed to post movie news? Or just talk about what movies we've seen/are interested in?
Yeah sure why not? I mean they kind of go hand in hand.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 31, 2014, 01:07 PM

Are we allowed to post movie news? Or just talk about what movies we've seen/are interested in?

Sure. I think @Legend would prefer if news go into new threads though ;o.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 31, 2014, 01:56 PM
News in this thread is fine.

Scarlett Johanson naked?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 31, 2014, 01:59 PM

News in this thread is fine.

Scarlett Johanson naked?

Yes. And not just a brief blurry moment. Walks around fully naked for a few minutes, I believe.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Jul 31, 2014, 02:10 PM

Yes. And not just a brief blurry moment. Walks around fully naked for a few minutes, I believe.
What movie is it?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 31, 2014, 02:16 PM

What movie is it?

Under The Skin
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Jul 31, 2014, 03:04 PM

Under The Skin
Sounds like a porno lol. Will check out.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: ethomaz on Jul 31, 2014, 03:11 PM
Yesterday I watched the second or third time Intouchables... the movie is so good.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 31, 2014, 03:12 PM

Yesterday I watched the second or third time Intouchables... the movie is so good.

Indeed. Only seen it once though. Great stuff.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: u4gReservoirDogs on Jul 31, 2014, 06:39 PM

Yesterday I watched the second or third time Intouchables... the movie is so good.

One of my favorite movies, the only movie I watched more often is Reservoir Dogs.  8)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 01, 2014, 10:15 PM
How many of these movies have you seen?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_worst
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 01, 2014, 10:27 PM
5.

I loved the master of disguise!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 01, 2014, 10:30 PM
I've only seen 1.  The Last Airbender.  It was awful. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Aug 02, 2014, 02:18 AM
I've seen all the films from 2010 lol...I went to see Last Airbender in theatres. This was before I found out about Rottentomatoes. Yeah I wasn't happy with the film...piece of shame.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 02, 2014, 02:27 AM
Oh, make it two.  I saw That's My Boy. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 02, 2014, 02:31 AM

I've seen all the films from 2010 lol...I went to see Last Airbender in theatres. This was before I found out about Rottentomatoes. Yeah I wasn't happy with the film...piece of shame.

Can't agree more.  I'm a HUGE fan of the series, but the movie was EASILY the worst movie I have ever seen.  Just awful awful awful. 
I'm pretty sure the writing process involved having someone watch the series and write a summary about it.  Then passing the summary to someone who has never seen the show and having them write a summary on that summary.  Then passing it a second time to M. who hasn't watched the series.  He writes a summary and gives it a twist ending and bam TLA. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Aug 02, 2014, 02:38 AM

Can't agree more.  I'm a HUGE fan of the series, but the movie was EASILY the worst movie I have ever seen.  Just awful awful awful. 
I'm pretty sure the writing process involved having someone watch the series and write a summary about it.  Then passing the summary to someone who has never seen the show and having them write a summary on that summary.  Then passing it a second time to M. who hasn't watched the series.  He writes a summary and gives it a twist ending and bam TLA. 

Yeah I remember the ending made it seem like it was going to have a sequel or something...Can't remember for sure cause to be honest that movie is all a blur to me lol. I doubt we will see a sequel. If they were to do another they will most likely reboot it.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 02, 2014, 03:10 AM

How many of these movies have you seen?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_worst


Batman and Robin, Freddy got Fingered, Master of Disguise, The Room (hi doggie), Catwoman
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Aug 02, 2014, 04:15 AM
I've seen a handful of them... I've seen reefer madness
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 02, 2014, 07:48 AM
Yeah I don't like most of the modern movies being on the list. Avatar was bad, but it's not horrible. Other movies within the same genre are way worse.

Same goes for catwoman.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 02, 2014, 02:38 PM

Yeah I don't like most of the modern movies being on the list. Avatar was bad, but it's not horrible. Other movies within the same genre are way worse.

Same goes for catwoman.

Avatar is not there?!

Catwoman was terrible though
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 02, 2014, 02:51 PM

Avatar is not there?!

Catwoman was terrible though

Avatar the last airbender.

Catwoman was ok. Not worse than electra or other ones.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 02, 2014, 03:20 PM

Avatar the last airbender.

Catwoman was ok. Not worse than electra or other ones.

It's only called The Last Airbender though ;).

Well Electra was bad too. Catwoman was just terrible all around imo. Daredevil was bad too
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Aug 06, 2014, 03:05 AM
Watched Guardians of the Galaxy and Lucy today.

GOTG is my favourite Marvel film ever. I've watched all the Captain America/Thor/IM/Hulk/Avenger movies and GOTG easily surpasses them all.

Funny, sad and awesome action scenes. My one gripe is the villain sucked balls. EVERY Marvel movie has had weak villains, and GOTG is no exception.

Dave Bautista was funny as hell too as Drax, I just wish he had more epic action scenes with him destroying people, I mean his name IS Drax the Destroyer...

Lucy on the other hand...meh, didn't really like it too much.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Raven on Aug 06, 2014, 04:17 AM

How many of these movies have you seen?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_worst



Howard the Duck
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
Troll 2
Showgirls
Striptease
Batman & Robin
Battlefield Earth
Freddy Got Fingered
The Master of Disguise
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Gigli
Alone in the Dark
Disaster Movie
Movie 43
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 06, 2014, 10:58 AM
Agree about GotG. Probably my favorite Marvel movie. Very reminiscent of Star Wars/KotoR/Mass Effect imo. It was a very eye-pleasing film.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: ethomaz on Aug 09, 2014, 02:42 AM
I want to watch some movie... recommendations please.

The new Robocop is good?
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 09, 2014, 02:46 AM

I want to watch some movie... recommendations please.

The new Robocop is good?

Guardians of the Galaxy
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Post by: Legend on Aug 09, 2014, 02:46 AM
Yeah it's good.

Also Noah, captain america, grand budapest, bad words is meh
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: ethomaz on Aug 09, 2014, 02:51 AM

Guardians of the Galaxy

I don't have it here... I have Robocop, Noah, Gangster Squad, The Last Stand, Oblivion, Olympus Has Fallen and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Aug 09, 2014, 02:55 AM

I want to watch some movie... recommendations please.

The new Robocop is good?

Naa it's not good...I wasn't a fan at all.

Try Dawn of Apes, X Men:Days of Future Past, Godzilla, Chef, 22 Jump street, Edge of Tomorrow and How to Train Your Dragon 2.

All great movies.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Aug 09, 2014, 02:56 AM

I don't have it here... I have Robocop, Noah, Gangster Squad, The Last Stand, Oblivion, Olympus Has Fallen and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Out of this list I suggest Captain America. The other movies are meh...
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Post by: Legend on Aug 09, 2014, 03:02 AM
Oblivion!!!!!!!
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 09, 2014, 03:21 AM

I don't have it here... I have Robocop, Noah, Gangster Squad, The Last Stand, Oblivion, Olympus Has Fallen and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Both Noah and Oblivion were shot in Iceland...so that ;o. But honestly I would pick Captain America out of those. Oblivion second
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: ethomaz on Aug 09, 2014, 04:52 AM
Well all of did good hints for nothing :P

My girl made me watch Mamma Mia in a TV channel here :D

I will watch Oblivion first because after The Avengers I got bored with the Captain America guy.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Aug 09, 2014, 05:48 AM

Well all of did good hints for nothing :P

My girl made me watch Mamma Mia in a TV channel here :D

I will watch Oblivion first because after The Avengers I got bored with the Captain America guy.

Yeah he was shame in Avengers to be honest...Did nothing, but Winter Soldier is a decent movie. Lots more action scenes with Captain America kicking dog.
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Post by: BananaKing on Aug 09, 2014, 11:09 AM
from all the positive word of mouth its getting, i now want to watch guardians of the galaxy.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Aug 09, 2014, 02:18 PM

from all the positive word of mouth its getting, i now want to watch guardians of the galaxy.

You should. I've never been the biggest fan of Marvel films. Really the only one I enjoyed was Iron Man and I even thought Avengers was meh...

But GOTG is an excellent film.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: ClassicGamingWizz on Aug 09, 2014, 03:04 PM
Saw the other day transcendence and it was ok but i expected more from the movie :S
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Post by: Legend on Aug 09, 2014, 03:11 PM

Saw the other day transcendence and it was ok but i expected more from the movie :S

Did it make any scientific sense or was it pure movie magic science?
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Aug 10, 2014, 09:39 PM

Did it make any scientific sense or was it pure movie magic science?

No idea I just know it was shame.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 10, 2014, 09:40 PM

Yeah he was shame in Avengers to be honest...Did nothing, but Winter Soldier is a decent movie. Lots more action scenes with Captain America kicking dog.

Dude, I remember at least one slow mo scene that was pretty cool. Didn't he save Iron Man?
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Post by: Xevross on Aug 10, 2014, 09:47 PM

Yeah third should be the best, but that doesn't mean much har har har.

I'm just a hobit hater I guess.

How dare you! I've loved both hobbits so far. Plus the shire is based on an area near where I live.


Oblivion was such a weird film, not really to my tastes.

Ahhh avengers.... Cap was really good in the Winter Soldier, I hope he can be similar in the next Avengers
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Aug 10, 2014, 09:50 PM

Dude, I remember at least one slow mo scene that was pretty cool. Didn't he save Iron Man?

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Post by: Legend on Aug 10, 2014, 09:53 PM
Lol cap is just too nice to hit people.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 10, 2014, 09:59 PM
He hits so hard, the wind in front of his fist is usually enough to knock people out. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 10, 2014, 10:01 PM

He hits so hard, the wind in front of his fist is usually enough to knock people out.

Its the fear that people feel when he is about to punch them that causes their brain to implode
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 10, 2014, 10:21 PM

Oblivion was such a weird film, not really to my tastes.

At least it had Iceland, right?!
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 10, 2014, 10:21 PM

(http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m96r0r4gUZ1r0oz1go1_500.gif)
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8z6symQ131rpcea3o2_250.gif)

Was it cut like that in the movie?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 10, 2014, 10:22 PM

At least it had Iceland, right?!

Oh yeah, thats the best part of the movie
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Post by: Silverf0x on Aug 21, 2014, 11:18 AM
Cap prefers to kick, not punch.

Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 22, 2014, 02:57 PM
Oh yeah we have a movie thread. Tv show thread is off topic lol.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: ethomaz on Aug 22, 2014, 10:46 PM
I finally watched Oblivion... boring :P
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 22, 2014, 10:53 PM

I finally watched Oblivion... boring :P

I agree!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 22, 2014, 10:54 PM

I finally watched Oblivion... boring :P

I agree!

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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 23, 2014, 02:16 AM

(http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/boo_this_man_half_baked.gif)

Yup
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Aug 23, 2014, 02:52 AM
While movie I've been able to watch a whole bunch of movies with my internet and gaming not set up yet.

Had a two feature viewing in cinema back to back in one day.

First was Faults in our stars- really good romance/drama. Almost made me tear up a bit, really good performance by the actors. Great movie, although it felt weird watching it in cinema with anoth dude XD

Next, was Guardian of the Galaxy- wow this movie was dang funny. So many great gags and its the first movie to actually got me interested in the Marvel universr.

At home I watched a bunch of movies.

Monsters University- man was it bland. They really market this on pure nostalgia alone. Not even close to living up to the original.

Turbo- really surprised me. When I first saw the trailer for this movie i was so uninterested, but i got around watching it and it was a really decent animated movie.

Tintin- wow now this was a really great animated movie. Holy shame they got so many big names in this movie. Man it was fun, exciting and really creative. The extras on bluray is worth it. You can see everyone giving there all and respecting the source material.

The Purge was crud. Killing Season was a crime towards humanity with two great actors (Robert De Niro and John Travolta) and a great premise, but the movie was just crud.

The Place Beyond The Pine- just blew my mind. Really great movie.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: ethomaz on Aug 23, 2014, 02:53 AM
Tim Tim is great and funny.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 23, 2014, 02:54 AM
Definitely agree about Faults in our stars and Guardians of the galaxy! Enjoyed Tintin as well when it came out and I want to see The Place Beyond the Pine. Haven't seen the rest.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Aug 23, 2014, 03:26 PM

Tim Tim is great and funny.
I havn't watched Tim Tim yet so i'll check it out ;-)
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Aug 23, 2014, 03:33 PM
Place Beyond the Pines was meeeeh. Got a tad bit boring to be honest.

Monsters University was great. Loved the style the movie had, very colourful and pretty to look at. Also quite funny at times.

Guardians was excellent. Nothing else needs to be said.

Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 23, 2014, 07:12 PM


Monsters University- man was it bland. They really market this on pure nostalgia alone. Not even close to living up to the original.

Tintin- wow now this was a really great animated movie. Holy shame they got so many big names in this movie. Man it was fun, exciting and really creative. The extras on bluray is worth it. You can see everyone giving there all and respecting the source material.


Those are the only two I've seen and I fully agree with you.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Aug 23, 2014, 07:20 PM
Under the skin, if you want to be creeped out and put to sleep at the same time watch this movie. Also she gets full nude so that might be worth it for some.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 23, 2014, 07:22 PM

Under the skin, if you want to be creeped out and put to sleep at the same time watch this movie. Also she gets full nude so that might be worth it for some.


I hadn't even heard about this movie till I saw an add in Gent.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 23, 2014, 07:22 PM

Under the skin, if you want to be creeped out and put to sleep at the same time watch this movie. Also she gets full nude so that might be worth it for some.

I've already seen that scene ;o
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 24, 2014, 05:00 AM
I just watched one, two, three! Great movie.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 27, 2014, 12:20 AM
I watched sniper. It was good.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 27, 2014, 11:01 PM
I watched super 8 again. Better than I remember.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Aug 28, 2014, 04:24 AM
I watched a small indie film called Coherence - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/coherence_2013/

Complete mind fudge...But I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. Ended up having a long conversation about it with my cousin after watching it lol. Definitely recommend.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 28, 2014, 04:34 AM
I watched Anchorman 2 again. Great movie.


Wait. Someone else posted here? Party!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 31, 2014, 06:10 AM
I watched paranormal activity: the marked ones. Sucked but was fun.

I watched her. Pretty good. Loved the ai.
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Post by: 7H3 on Aug 31, 2014, 01:46 PM

I watched paranormal activity: the marked ones. Sucked but was fun.

I watched her. Pretty good. Loved the ai.

Yeah... Her was definitely different... Not sure how I felt about it, but that tech and the AI storyline was pretty dang cool. I'd say a tentative 8/10
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 31, 2014, 01:54 PM
Watched Dial M for Murder. I watched it from 1 to 3 AM so I was a bit tired and missed some info but what I saw was good!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Sep 20, 2014, 05:51 PM
After watching Tintin im excited by the new Popeye movie. Will definitely go watch this in cinema.

t=22
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Sep 20, 2014, 07:18 PM
Transformers Age of Extinction - Eww.

The Inbetweeners - Pretty good UK comedy movie. Went in with no expectations and enjoyed it.

I might watch a movie called Cold in July today. It has that guy from Dexter and the trailer looked very interesting.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Sep 21, 2014, 01:36 AM
about to watch we are the millers with my wife for an "in home date night" :P
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Raven on Sep 21, 2014, 04:17 PM

about to watch we are the millers with my wife for an "in home date night" :P


"wife"
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 05, 2014, 08:41 PM
I watched gone girl. Really really good!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 06, 2014, 12:06 AM
I want to watch it too! Also really looking forward to the Paul Thomas Anderson movie, Inherent Vice!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Oct 06, 2014, 01:35 AM
Gone Girl, Foxcatcher, Interstellar and The Hobbit The Battle of the Five Armies are the movies I'm looking forward to in the coming months. What about you guys?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Oct 06, 2014, 01:36 AM
Oh and MAYBE Exodus Gods and Kings, but thats only because Christian Bale is awesome.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 06, 2014, 02:37 AM

Gone Girl, Foxcatcher, Interstellar and The Hobbit The Battle of the Five Armies are the movies I'm looking forward to in the coming months. What about you guys?


Just interstellar since I already saw gone girl.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: NeverDies on Oct 06, 2014, 02:42 AM
I'm looking forward to the new Dracula movie. It looks really good!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 06, 2014, 02:44 AM
Oh Stephen Hawking looks amazing!!!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Oct 06, 2014, 08:12 PM
Im interested in watching Gone Girl since its the director who made fight club (classic movie). Also watched the Robocop Remake it was good, but i felt that it was missing something. It had a lot of good and interesting ideas played in social commentary but never fully expend on it.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 06, 2014, 08:15 PM
I watched Captain America: Winter Soldier and Blended. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Oct 06, 2014, 09:10 PM

I watched Captain America: Winter Soldier and Blended. 
Cool story bro, and since you didn't tell us much about them i'll just assumed you loved the Adam Sandler movie and hated Winter Soldier.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 06, 2014, 09:11 PM

Cool story bro, and since you didn't tell us much about them i'll just assumed you loved the Adam Sandler movie and hated Winter Soldier.

No, really liked them both, but Blended needed less Adam Sandler humor.  :P
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Oct 07, 2014, 03:02 AM

No, really liked them both, but Blended needed less Adam Sandler humor.  :P

"We are out of gas! What do we do now?!"

"Find a gas station"

I loled =P
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 07, 2014, 04:15 AM
Speaking of Adam Sandler, his kid in grown ups goes to the same school as my sister.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Oct 07, 2014, 03:03 PM

Speaking of Adam Sandler, his kid in grown ups goes to the same school as my sister.
What that means your sister must be under 10. I knew it your 16!!!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 07, 2014, 03:04 PM

What that means your sister must be under 10. I knew it your 16!!!


Nope, they're both freshmen in college.

But yes I'm 16 in spirit ;)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 10, 2014, 12:02 PM
Watched Hitch and School of Rock.
Its been a while
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Oct 11, 2014, 08:38 PM
Gone Girl was insane blow awy all my expectations. My movie of the year so far!!!!!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: NeverDies on Oct 11, 2014, 08:54 PM
I wanna go see Dracula.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 11, 2014, 09:10 PM

Gone Girl was insane blow awy all my expectations. My movie of the year so far!!!!!

Exactly!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 12, 2014, 02:41 PM
Indeed. dang, Gone Girl was great. So shocking!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Shinobi-san on Oct 12, 2014, 07:59 PM
I just watched Gone Girl as well. I though it was actually pretty predictable, except for half way in where shame just gets crazy.

Very tense though! I liked it.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 12, 2014, 08:22 PM
Predictable or not, it was very well made. Incredible music too that added to the atmosphere (Trent Reznor ftw!)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 12, 2014, 08:36 PM

I just watched Gone Girl as well. I though it was actually pretty predictable, except for half way in where shame just gets crazy.

Very tense though! I liked it.


Yeah I didn't predict that ending!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Shinobi-san on Oct 12, 2014, 08:44 PM
I dont think its movie of the year or anything like that :/ but i enjoyed it

I really want to see dracula!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 12, 2014, 08:54 PM

I dont think its movie of the year or anything like that :/ but i enjoyed it

I really want to see dracula!


Dracula is just not looking good to me.

Stardust or whatever is my next big movie.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 12, 2014, 08:55 PM
Didn't stardust already come out? Lulz

Yeah Dracula didn't get good reviews
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Shinobi-san on Oct 12, 2014, 08:59 PM

Didn't stardust already come out? Lulz

Yeah Dracula didn't get good reviews


When it comes to movies, i really dont put to much faith in reviews. People have completely different tastes when it comes to movies.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 12, 2014, 09:05 PM
That's true, but it's also not getting very good scores from IMDB users and:

Critics Consensus: Neither awful enough to suck nor sharp enough to bite, Dracula Untold misses the point of its iconic character's deathless appeal.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 29, 2014, 03:44 PM
Dumb and Dumber To is really good imo. Ya'll should go see it.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: NeverDies on Oct 29, 2014, 05:31 PM
I thought it was really... dumb.


Hur dur dur dur hur
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Shinobi-san on Oct 29, 2014, 06:20 PM
Guys Dracula was pretty good :)

I suggest watching it in the movies, the effects and sound is really good.
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Oct 29, 2014, 06:53 PM

Guys Dracula was pretty good :)

I suggest watching it in the movies, the effects and sound is really good.

Maybe I will, I am in the vampire mood.
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Post by: Shinobi-san on Oct 29, 2014, 08:52 PM

Maybe I will, I am in the vampire mood.


Do it!
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Post by: NeverDies on Oct 29, 2014, 10:22 PM
I really want to see it. Maybe tomorrow early morning when tickets are cheaper.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 09, 2014, 01:44 AM
Anyone heard about this movie?


Looks like ACIV!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 09, 2014, 01:52 AM
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is the movie of the year for me thus far...Incredible movie.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 09, 2014, 02:24 AM

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is the movie of the year for me thus far...Incredible movie.


Mine is dumb and dumber too.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 09, 2014, 03:09 AM
Mine is possibly Gone Girl
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Nov 09, 2014, 03:49 AM

Mine is possibly Gone Girl
^This
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Nov 09, 2014, 06:45 AM
Just watched money ball which I liked

Gone Girl sounds like the movie to see though!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Shinobi-san on Nov 09, 2014, 10:35 AM
Interstellar was pretty good guys :)

Christopher Nolan always brings amazing production values. The music was sooo good in this film!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 09, 2014, 12:34 PM
Yeah I'm going to see it soon
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 09, 2014, 09:12 PM
Saw intersteller. Great film. Pretty scientiffically legit too.
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Post by: NeverDies on Nov 09, 2014, 09:40 PM
I loved the robots in Interstellar. They were ridiculously cool.
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Post by: 7H3 on Nov 09, 2014, 11:30 PM
sounds like I have at least two movies too add to my watch list now :P
just finally watched the latest xmen movie and I really liked it and am hyped for the next one!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 22, 2014, 04:33 AM
Watching Godzilla for the first time.
Spoiler for Hidden:
Frankly I'm disappointed that Legend dies so quickly. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 22, 2014, 04:43 AM

Watching Godzilla for the first time.
Spoiler for Hidden:
Frankly I'm disappointed that Legend dies so quickly. 


I honestly thought Godzilla was pretty good on my first watch through...
Then I watched it again and I'm like wtf is this shame...
Then I watched it a third time with my little brother and I realized just how utter crud that movie is.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 22, 2014, 04:48 AM

I honestly thought Godzilla was pretty good on my first watch through...
Then I watched it again and I'm like wtf is this shame...
Then I watched it a third time with my little brother and I realized just how utter crud that movie is.

I've lost most of my interest.  About an hour in. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 22, 2014, 04:52 AM

I've lost most of my interest.  About an hour in. 

The parts where it makes it seem like there's about to be a big fight, and then the camera pans in a different direction or the scene just changes completely, it really frustrated me. For some reason I was expecting Pacific Rim style action scenes.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 22, 2014, 05:31 AM
It just feels empty to me.  I dont know what it is exactly. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 22, 2014, 05:57 AM

hory sheet was godzilla ever good

You lied to me!
I'm legitimately disappointed.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 22, 2014, 06:09 AM
EVERYONE WATCH DAWN OF APES
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 22, 2014, 06:09 AM
Add me to the disappointed camp.

Godzilla 2000 was much better.
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Post by: DD_Bwest on Nov 22, 2014, 07:31 AM

You lied to me!
I'm legitimately disappointed.

hey i enjoyd it! but it did need more monster vs monster action
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 22, 2014, 04:15 PM
Now that it's done and I've slept on it. 
My thoughts on Godzilla.
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br />My first problem with the movie is that the only character that I cared about died in the first half hour, before anything happened.&nbsp; Honestly, the movie would've been better if that didn't happen.&nbsp; A brilliant scientist who is deemed crazy by even his own family figures out some things about the monster that people who actually knew about it didn't know.&nbsp; I was expecting the movie to be so much better.&nbsp; <br />Now, even if they did kill him off.&nbsp; They should have capitalized on it.&nbsp; There are lots of emotional parts of the movie, but they are generally skipped over with maybe 30 seconds to think about them.&nbsp; These moments quickly get glossed over, and forgotten.&nbsp; <br />There wasn't really as much focus as the movie needed.&nbsp; Who was the main character?&nbsp; Godzilla?&nbsp; He was the hero, and it seemed like someone wanted him to be the main character, but that wasn't the case.&nbsp; <br />The crazy scientist?&nbsp; The intro seemed like that's how it wanted to go, until they killed him off.&nbsp; Minutes after choosing him to go along to help the other scientist.&nbsp; It felt very anticlimactic for me.&nbsp; <br />The first person who's listed in the credits?&nbsp; The problem is that he disappears so much of the movie.&nbsp; Even when he's on the screen, he's buried under all the other army guys.&nbsp; (metaphorically)&nbsp; <br />The movie had great human characters, but they don't capitalize on them.&nbsp; <br />The monsters were generally even more forgotten.&nbsp; <br /><br />It feels like the movie could've gone a lot of different, great ways.&nbsp; It didn't.&nbsp; There wasn't any Michael Bay appeal with big fights, and explosions.&nbsp; There wasn't any emotional appeal.&nbsp; There were some good moments, but the movie seemed to forget about them.&nbsp; <br />When she decided to leave her kid on the bus with her friends.&nbsp; I don't feel like that really built up at all, it just kind of happened.&nbsp; And then it was forgotten about until&nbsp; a little bit later when the bus is on the bridge.&nbsp; This could've been a great emotional poke, but instead at best we get some 30 seconds; if that.&nbsp; <br /><br />Quite honestly, I forgot all the characters names.&nbsp; Most of the time when the leading character was on the screen; I couldn't point him out.&nbsp; We didn't get to know him, before they put a few other army guys who we don't know at all. <br />
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 23, 2014, 02:04 PM
Nightcrawler was so good
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 26, 2014, 05:09 AM
I'm glad you guys agree with my write up about Godzilla. 

Also watched the new X-Men.  It was pretty good, not the best. 
And watched Mr Peabody and Sherman. That was pretty good too.  But it was a little bit more childish than I would've liked.   
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 26, 2014, 05:14 AM
I really want to watch Nightcrawler.

Some some large posters for the Hobbit movie on the Toronto subway, so hyped for that movie!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 26, 2014, 05:17 AM

Some some large posters for the Hobbit movie on the Toronto subway, so hyped for that movie!

This one will be the best.  No poorly executed anticlimactic ending (hopefully). 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 26, 2014, 05:25 AM
I feel like watching "Frozen" :(

Thats right women, Disney's Frozen.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 26, 2014, 05:37 AM

I feel like watching "Frozen" :(

Thats right women, Disney's Frozen.

I like that movie.  But I feel like it's missing something. 
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Post by: Legend on Nov 26, 2014, 05:54 AM

I feel like watching "Frozen" :(

Thats right women, Disney's Frozen.


I watched that movie again last night.

Such a classic.
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Post by: BasilZero on Nov 26, 2014, 06:53 AM

I watched that movie again last night.

Such a classic.



I like that movie.  But I feel like it's missing something.


Reason why I say I wanna watch it is cause I loved the last movie the team made plus all the mass hype this one has since its release!
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Post by: Legend on Nov 26, 2014, 06:57 AM

Reason why I say I wanna watch it is cause I loved the last movie the team made plus all the mass hype this one has since its release!


Yeah tangled was pretty good too!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 26, 2014, 07:02 AM

Yeah tangled was pretty good too!


I was worried at first when they announced few years ago that they were not gonna make anymore 2D animated movies anymore but after seeing Tangled and now getting hyped up about Frozen, I'm not worried but excited!

Man I love Disney *___*
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 26, 2014, 07:17 AM
Tangled is awesome!  :D
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 26, 2014, 07:57 AM
I'm not a fan of singing in movies to be honest...I can handle 1-2 scenes but it gets annoying if it keeps doing it after that.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 26, 2014, 08:03 AM

I'm not a fan of singing in movies to be honest...I can handle 1-2 scenes but it gets annoying if it keeps doing it after that.


For me it depends on the movie.

If it's a musical, then the singing is usually great. If it's just a bunch of "hey let's through in a song" moments then yeah.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 26, 2014, 05:43 PM

For me it depends on the movie.

If it's a musical, then the singing is usually great. If it's just a bunch of "hey let's through in a song" moments then yeah.
Songs in Frozen are mostly great though so it's okay.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Nov 27, 2014, 08:22 AM
Tangled was a huge 'meh' for me.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 02, 2014, 07:20 PM
Watched Gravity.  Meh.
Watching Sherlock Holmes with Downey atm. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Dec 04, 2014, 01:12 AM
Watched The Maze Runner. Pretty good but I wasn't expecting much so it surpassed my expectations =P
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Dec 04, 2014, 04:33 AM
So hyped for the Hobbit movie after watching this clip...Don't watch it if you don't want any part of the movie spoiled though

list=UUKy1dAqELo0zrOtPkf0eTMw
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Dec 04, 2014, 04:36 AM

I watched super 8 again. Better than I remember.


Super 8 is awesome.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Dec 04, 2014, 05:03 AM
Super 8 was decent. The child actor were pretty good from what I remember.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Dec 06, 2014, 10:49 PM
Not sure if I posted here but I did see Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

Pretty good but I still think the 1st one was better due to its story and characters.

This one felt a bit like a try hard style but the action and the plot is quite a twist to the original so its still OK ;o.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 09, 2014, 09:52 PM
I actually liked Godzilla more than Planet of the Apes.  Though, that's not saying I don't think Planet of the Apes isn't a better movie.  Though Godzilla was a good starting point.  I think with a better director they can actually make something super awesome.  It just needed more Godzilla killing things like a boss.  Haven't watching Frozen yet.  I agree with "insert user's name here who I can't be bothered to check" that Tangled was meh.  I was hoping for more out of that film. 
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 09, 2014, 10:11 PM

I actually liked Godzilla more than Planet of the Apes.  Though, that's not saying I don't think Planet of the Apes isn't a better movie.  Though Godzilla was a good starting point.  I think with a better director they can actually make something super awesome.  It just needed more Godzilla killing things like a boss.  Haven't watching Frozen yet.  I agree with "insert user's name here who I can't be bothered to check" that Tangled was meh.  I was hoping for more out of that film. 

Tangled was good. 
Godzilla was terrible, it needed more of anything and everything. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 09, 2014, 10:31 PM

Tangled was good. 
Godzilla was terrible, it needed more of anything and everything. 

It was a good start.  Like, when Godzilla killed the monsters, it was amazing.  It needs moar of that.
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Post by: Legend on Dec 10, 2014, 11:13 PM

It was a good start.  Like, when Godzilla killed the monsters, it was amazing.  It needs moar of that.


Yeah it needed more of the camera actually showing him fighting the monsters too.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 11, 2014, 12:03 AM

Yeah it needed more of the camera actually showing him fighting the monsters too.

Computers?
Title: Spider man
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 14, 2014, 04:31 AM
Guys, why does everyone on the internet make it sound like Amazing Spider-man 2 was worse than Spidey 2 and 3?  I mean Garfield is a great Spider-man. Stone is a great Gwen. Thee was plenty of amazing Gwen and Pete moments (Thanks in part to their great chemistry).  The plot itself was pretty good.  I don't mean ro say the movie is perfect, but it's pretty dang good.  Also, why do people think Marvel can do a better job than Sony? it's not like the jobs are Daredevil or FF bad.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 14, 2014, 06:31 AM
I bought like 15 movies from the Black Friday sale.  Gotta watch 'em all.
Title: Re: Spider man
Post by: Legend on Dec 14, 2014, 07:08 AM

Guys, why does everyone on the internet make it sound like Amazing Spider-man 2 was worse than Spidey 2 and 3?  I mean Garfield is a great Spider-man. Stone is a great Gwen. Thee was plenty of amazing Gwen and Pete moments (Thanks in part to their great chemistry).  The plot itself was pretty good.  I don't mean ro say the movie is perfect, but it's pretty dang good.  Also, why do people think Marvel can do a better job than Sony? it's not like the jobs are Daredevil or FF bad.


I loved so many parts in as2, but it also had so much shame that brought it down. Like the trailers made you think he was up against the sinister six so the whole movie you kept expecting them to show up. Nope! Made the ending so dissapointing.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 15, 2014, 01:36 AM

I loved so many parts in as2, but it also had so much shame that brought it down. Like the trailers made you think he was up against the sinister six so the whole movie you kept expecting them to show up. Nope! Made the ending so dissapointing.

But the trailers didn't though. They only really showed off Electro and Rhino. But what was bad that dragged it down though? I keep hearing bad but no one is pointing anything out.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 26, 2014, 02:03 AM
Watching the Interview. 
As a comedy, meh.
As a movie, its pretty good I think. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 26, 2014, 02:59 AM

Watching the Interview. 
As a comedy, meh.
As a movie, its pretty good I think. 
I watched it yesterday. Decent movie. Nothing too special though. It was fun seeing Kim Jong-un being made fun of
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Dec 27, 2014, 08:49 AM
Just watched Captain America the winter solider. It was really good, but it wasn't the awesome sauce everyone made it out to be guess that made my expectations too high, but i enjoyed it non-the-less.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 27, 2014, 04:08 PM

Just watched Captain America the winter solider. It was really good, but it wasn't the awesome sauce everyone made it out to be guess that made my expectations too high, but i enjoyed it non-the-less.

It was a lot more visceral than the other movies they've made.  The overall Bucky and Fury plots in the film were pretty intense.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Dec 27, 2014, 07:54 PM

It was a lot more visceral than the other movies they've made.  The overall Bucky and Fury plots in the film were pretty intense.
Nah i saw Bucky coming a mile away although he looked badass as The Winter Solider. Anyways never a fan of CA how many people gave his first movie a pass is beyond me as it was one of de worse superhero film i ever seen. This movie made me a fan of him.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Dec 27, 2014, 08:01 PM
Also just watched Godzilla!!! I can see how people can be disappointed by it, but not hate it. Remember when that Japanese guy said let "them fight" my exact response was "let us see them fight" although they did give us that in the final climax. Also i really lol at the end when they made Godzilla out to be the hero.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 27, 2014, 10:53 PM

Nah i saw Bucky coming a mile away although he looked badass as The Winter Solider. Anyways never a fan of CA how many people gave his first movie a pass is beyond me as it was one of de worse superhero film i ever seen. This movie made me a fan of him.

We knew it was Bucky, I'm talking about the brain washing. I actually really liked the first, it was the best commando movie I've seen in a long while.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Dec 28, 2014, 06:13 AM

We knew it was Bucky, I'm talking about the brain washing. I actually really liked the first, it was the best commando movie I've seen in a long while.

The first CA movie was a snorefest...
As was Iron Man 2/3 and Thor 1/2

The Marvel movies I have enjoyed are Iron Man 1, Winter Soldier (To an extent), Avengers (Overrated but good) and GOTG (Best one)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 28, 2014, 03:56 PM
I actually only watched CA: TWS a few weeks ago and I almost forgot what it's about lol. It wasn't totally awesome but it was slightly better than the first one.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 28, 2014, 05:45 PM

The first CA movie was a snorefest...
As was Iron Man 2/3 and Thor 1/2

The Marvel movies I have enjoyed are Iron Man 1, Winter Soldier (To an extent), Avengers (Overrated but good) and GOTG (Best one)

What was boring about it?  They went on a Commando style montage killing spree.  It was glorious.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Dec 29, 2014, 12:53 AM
It seems the interview made 15 million in 2 days, not bad. Probably did just as well or even better than it would have done at the box office.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Dec 29, 2014, 05:23 AM
I just watched the interview.it was funny as hell. Had my wife cracking up.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Dec 30, 2014, 06:39 AM
I am going to have to rent the interview here soon... I did watch lucy just now and I really liked that movie 4/5
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Post by: DD_Bwest on Dec 30, 2014, 06:47 AM
i loved the interview,  but i was also blazing the entire way lol   im pretty sure it was meant to be seen that way.   

saw the hobbit 5armies tonight,  pretty good id say.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DD_Bwest on Jan 09, 2015, 08:50 PM



they really need to stop going after this guys family.. lol
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 10, 2015, 03:42 AM




they really need to stop going after this guys family.. lol
Doesn't look half bad.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jan 10, 2015, 02:59 PM




they really need to stop going after this guys family.. lol

Wow, they made Taken 3 AND 4!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 11, 2015, 02:58 AM


How had I never heard of this?? District 9 director
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Jan 11, 2015, 01:45 PM



How had I never heard of this?? District 9 director
Good god i felt like i just watched the whole movie, anyways i love this director de dose sifi and makes them looks cool and realistic.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 12, 2015, 06:26 PM
Anyone watch the Golden Globes?

Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Jan 12, 2015, 06:30 PM
wouldn't it just suck to be related to liam? his family is always having horrible luck lol
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 17, 2015, 05:39 AM
Watching Indie Game: The Movie
Awesome. 
Phil Fish seems like a decent guy, though he gets mad over little. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 18, 2015, 06:12 AM
Watching Dawn of the Planet of Apes. 
All the stupid characters are pissing me off. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 18, 2015, 07:25 AM

Watching Dawn of the Planet of Apes. 
All the stupid characters are pissing me off. 

Movie was really good though.  I'm quite pleased with the direction they took. 
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Post by: Legend on Jan 18, 2015, 03:48 PM



How had I never heard of this?? District 9 director


Yeah I've been super excited for this! Plus it has Die Atwood lol.

Kinda like this, I just saw The Machine on Netflix. It was a pretty good movie about ai and stuff.


Watching Indie Game: The Movie
Awesome. 
Phil Fish seems like a decent guy, though he gets mad over little. 


Yeah I like Phil Fish. Also really liked the movie.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 18, 2015, 06:22 PM
Went to see American Sniper yesterday. dang good tbh. Only thing I want to criticize is maybe a tad too much patriotism but that's not really the film's fault lol.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jan 22, 2015, 11:52 PM

Went to see American Sniper yesterday. dang good tbh. Only thing I want to criticize is maybe a tad too much patriotism but that's not really the film's fault lol.

Seen a few trailers for that but it never really interested me.

I watched taken 3 recently, its actually really good. Lots of action, pretty good plot.

I want to watch the Theory of Everything too
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 23, 2015, 12:47 AM
I finally learned they were making a new terminator.

The trailer I saw made it look pretty good!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 30, 2015, 05:59 PM
Would like to see
The Imitation Game
The Theory of Everything
Gone Girl
Maybe see The Judge. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 30, 2015, 06:03 PM

Would like to see
The Imitation Game
The Theory of Everything
Gone Girl
Maybe see The Judge. 

Great
Long, boring, and fantastic
Good
Haven't seen it.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Jan 30, 2015, 07:31 PM
American Sniper - meh
Taken 3 - eww
Whiplash - fudgy amazing.
Horrible Bosses 2 - sucks
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - Went in with no expectations and it was decent
Dracula Untold - sucks
Fury - pretty good
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 30, 2015, 11:58 PM

Would like to see
The Imitation Game
The Theory of Everything
Gone Girl
Maybe see The Judge. 

Very, very good!
Haven't seen it.
Awesome, shockingly good.
Haven't seen it
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 31, 2015, 12:40 AM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 31, 2015, 01:47 AM
Tomorrowland looks promissing. Plus it has the actress from Under the Dome so I'm even more interested in it.




Also Avatar 2 was delayed to 2017 :(
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Jan 31, 2015, 04:19 PM

Tomorrowland looks promissing. Plus it has the actress from Under the Dome so I'm even more interested in it.




Also Avatar 2 was delayed to 2017 :(
:)
I found the first movie really dull maybe its because i find the actor who played the main avatar really dull.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 06, 2015, 06:37 AM
Watched The Judge - good movie, but could've been better.
Watching boyhood really good, it's different. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Feb 06, 2015, 06:54 AM
I really disliked boyhood...

It just had no plot and was just different stages of his life. Was very bored by it personally.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 06, 2015, 07:10 AM

I really disliked boyhood...

It just had no plot and was just different stages of his life. Was very bored by it personally.

Its weird. 
Not my type of guy tbh. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 06, 2015, 08:08 AM

I really disliked boyhood...

It just had no plot and was just different stages of his life. Was very bored by it personally.
boo!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Feb 06, 2015, 08:27 AM

boo!

YOU BOO

(http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2012/12/BooThisMan.gif)

Whiplash was way better.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 06, 2015, 10:14 AM

YOU BOO

Spoiler for Image:
(http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2012/12/BooThisMan.gif)


Whiplash was way better.
Haven't seen it. It was pretty mindblowing though that it was filmed over several years (Boyhood)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Feb 06, 2015, 05:31 PM

Haven't seen it. It was pretty mindblowing though that it was filmed over several years (Boyhood)

I know but that doesn't automatically make the movie good for me. I just didn't enjoy it.

Watch Whiplash though, my god the acting in that film is incredible. JK Simmons is a god.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 06, 2015, 09:04 PM
It's on my list
Title: Re: [color=yellow]The Movie Thread[/color]
Post by: Xevross on Feb 07, 2015, 05:21 PM
I'm about to go and watch Kingsman. Excited
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 07, 2015, 05:26 PM

I'm about to go and watch Kingsman. Excited


Looks good.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 07, 2015, 05:27 PM

Looks good.

It does, I'll tell ya what I think of it later.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 07, 2015, 05:50 PM
Sweet
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 07, 2015, 05:54 PM
Anyone seen Birdman?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Feb 07, 2015, 05:58 PM

Anyone seen Birdman?

Not yet but I'll watch it sometime next week
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 07, 2015, 06:14 PM
Same here
Title: Re: [color=yellow]The Movie Thread[/color]
Post by: Xevross on Feb 07, 2015, 08:04 PM
Turns out we're watching Jupiter Ascending instead. Oops
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 07, 2015, 08:05 PM

Turns out we're watching Jupiter Ascending instead. Oops
Oops. Worse reception but tell me how it is
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 07, 2015, 08:06 PM

Oops. Worse reception but tell me how it is

Yeah, we can't watch Kingsmen because my half bro ain't 15 :(
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Feb 07, 2015, 08:11 PM

Turns out we're watching Jupiter Ascending instead. Oops

You iced up.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 07, 2015, 08:18 PM

Yeah, we can't watch Kingsmen because my half bro ain't 15 :(
dang son. Is Jupiter Ascending for all ages lol?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 07, 2015, 11:01 PM

dang son. Is Jupiter Ascending for all ages lol?

Yeah its a 12A. Was pretty good actually, could've been better but still a great film. I'm gonna have to watch Kingsman another time ;D
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 10, 2015, 07:38 AM
Spiderman is going marvel

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/spider-man-marvel-sony-movies-1201429508/
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 10, 2015, 06:10 PM

Spiderman is going marvel

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/spider-man-marvel-sony-movies-1201429508/

I saw.  I'm a bit disappointed cause Garfield is leaving.  I can say no one played him better.  That includes cartoons.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 10, 2015, 06:28 PM

I saw.  I'm a bit disappointed cause Garfield is leaving.  I can say no one played him better.  That includes cartoons.

No one played him hotter either
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DD_Bwest on Feb 12, 2015, 02:16 AM


not sure what to think.. looks kinda bad dog, but its supposed to be stealth not action :P lol
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Post by: DrakeSnake on Feb 12, 2015, 03:20 PM



not sure what to think.. looks kinda bad dog, but its supposed to be stealth not action :P lol
Already looks better then the first hitman movie. Looks bad enough to enjoy thou :-)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 12, 2015, 04:20 PM
ANOTHER poorly executed Hitman film? Just why?? Also, they stole that "you're locked in here with me" line from Watchmen >_>
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 13, 2015, 05:36 PM
I went through and watched all the staw wars movies. Super excited for the 7th!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Feb 14, 2015, 03:50 PM

I went through and watched all the staw wars movies. Super excited for the 7th!
Me and my friends tried watching the blu ray box set collection with all 6 movie. We gave up half way though the 2nd movie. lol
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 14, 2015, 05:45 PM
Birdman is genius
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 14, 2015, 06:38 PM

Me and my friends tried watching the blu ray box set collection with all 6 movie. We gave up half way though the 2nd movie. lol


We spread it out to one movie a night. Didn't attampt a marathon!
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 14, 2015, 09:42 PM

We spread it out to one movie a night. Didn't attampt a marathon!

I always joke with my friend that we should do a 24 hour Star Wars/Lord of the Rings marathon.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 14, 2015, 09:46 PM

I always joke with my friend that we should do a 24 hour Star Wars/Lord of the Rings marathon.

"Joke"
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 14, 2015, 09:47 PM

I always joke with my friend that we should do a 24 hour Star Wars/Lord of the Rings marathon.

I've always wanted to do that. I think it would be really fun
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 14, 2015, 10:15 PM
Lord of the rings is a bore. Star wars+harry potter would be better.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Feb 14, 2015, 10:28 PM

Lord of the rings is a bore. Star wars+harry potter would be better.
Reported for insanity.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 14, 2015, 11:01 PM

Reported for insanity.


What you like movies about walking?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 14, 2015, 11:08 PM

What you like movies about walking?

Its about the journey, not the end.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Feb 14, 2015, 11:34 PM

Lord of the rings is a bore. Star wars+harry potter would be better.


Lord of the Rings is great!

But I do agree that Star Wars and Harry Potter are better/awesome :O!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 14, 2015, 11:43 PM
The world of lord of the rings is great, true. Take the six films and cut them down to two films, then it's a great movie duo as well.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Feb 15, 2015, 12:37 AM

What you like movies about walking?
And you like movies about kids playing dress up?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 15, 2015, 01:06 AM

And you like movies about kids playing dress up?


You mean harry potter? I don't really like it. It's just much better than lotr.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Feb 15, 2015, 03:35 AM

Lord of the rings is a bore. Star wars+harry potter would be better.

(http://i.imgur.com/vmJykir.gif)
(http://38.media.tumblr.com/3cfc21e69b11d88ec332d7e7d008f24a/tumblr_mg4e0bdrNn1qdelmgo6_r1_500.gif)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Feb 15, 2015, 03:37 AM
Watched Hard Boiled...90's action movie and it's really good. I would love to see a game that has similar shootout sequences as the movie did. Literally everything was breaking to pieces because of all the gunfire. Wolfenstein almost did this but I think they could do even better in terms of destruction during shootout sequences in games.\

Also why the hell is the dude playing Agent 47 not bald? That is actually really bothering me lol...
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 15, 2015, 12:53 PM

Lord of the rings is a bore. Star wars+harry potter would be better.
LOL
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 15, 2015, 01:46 PM


zomg!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Feb 18, 2015, 09:25 PM
Watched the new Hunger Games movie...Decent I guess. I was never a big fan of the previous Hunger Games though.

Sucks that they made it into two parts though. Gonna have to wait till holiday this year to see the last one.

6/10
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 18, 2015, 09:30 PM
I watched Night crawler. It was pretty great.
Title: Re: [color=yellow]The Movie Thread[/color]
Post by: FLGibsonIII on Feb 19, 2015, 05:34 AM
Lego movie got ripped off at the oscars.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 19, 2015, 05:36 AM

Lego movie got ripped off at the oscars.


Too true. I mean the box trolls got nominated even wtf!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 19, 2015, 07:28 AM
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/new-alien-movie-confirmed-at-fox-with-director-neill-blomkamp-1201436551/

New 'Alien' Movie Confirmed with Director Neill Blomkamp

Sweet!!!!!!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 19, 2015, 05:16 PM

I watched Night crawler. It was pretty great.
Yup
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 19, 2015, 05:17 PM

Too true. I mean the box trolls got nominated even wtf!
Yeah seems very strange

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/new-alien-movie-confirmed-at-fox-with-director-neill-blomkamp-1201436551/

New 'Alien' Movie Confirmed with Director Neill Blomkamp

Sweet!!!!!!
OMGGGGGGG
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: DrakeSnake on Feb 20, 2015, 08:07 AM

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/new-alien-movie-confirmed-at-fox-with-director-neill-blomkamp-1201436551/

New 'Alien' Movie Confirmed with Director Neill Blomkamp

Sweet!!!!!!
Hell Yeah!!!!
Title: Re: [color=yellow]The Movie Thread[/color]
Post by: FLGibsonIII on Feb 21, 2015, 02:19 AM
I feel like the Oscars don't choose the best movies, but choose unique ones.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 21, 2015, 05:35 AM

I feel like the Oscars don't choose the best movies, but choose unique ones.


Usually the unique ones are the best :)

I watched Thorns. Was really good!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 21, 2015, 05:38 AM

Usually the unique ones are the best :)

I watched Thorns. Was really good!

Thorns? 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Feb 21, 2015, 07:14 AM
I think he means horns?? One with harry potter
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 21, 2015, 07:21 AM

I think he means horns?? One with harry potter


Haha yeah.

Also watched heaven is for real and mr peabody and sherman. Both were good but hifr was kinda boring and mpas had annoying characters.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 21, 2015, 07:28 AM

Haha yeah.

Also watched heaven is for real and mr peabody and sherman. Both were good but hifr was kinda boring and mpas had annoying characters.

That's what I thought.  It seems like a weird movie. 
MPAS was interesting, a little kiddish if I remember right. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 21, 2015, 07:31 AM

That's what I thought.  It seems like a weird movie. 
MPAS was interesting, a little kiddish if I remember right. 


Nah it's a great movie. Sweet camera work and intense plot. I'd recomend it if you're in the mood for a unique experience.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 07, 2015, 08:12 PM
Saw chapie.

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also probably the best product placement Sony has ever managed to pull off.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 07, 2015, 09:39 PM

Saw chapie.

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also probably the best product placement Sony has ever managed to pull off.
Really? o.O
It's getting mediocre/bad reviews
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 07, 2015, 10:04 PM

Really? o.O
It's getting mediocre/bad reviews


That's because people don't appreciate AI.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 07, 2015, 10:10 PM

That's because people don't appreciate AI.
O.o. What u mean?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 07, 2015, 10:50 PM

O.o. What u mean?


When they think of AI, they think of bad AI taking over the world. Terminator, 2001 Space Odessy, Her, I.Robot, Avengers, The Matrix, Portal, Eagle Eye, etc. all paint the emergence of AI in a bad picture. There are lots of good AIs within stories too, but most of those focus on post creation. Cortana from Halo is nice and the game makes you feel for her, but she's always been fully developed. Her creation isn't covered.


So to me, I'm fascinated by the birth of artificial consciousness. It's incredible in all meanings of the word. To someone who appreciates AI and thinks of its creation as a wonderful step forward both for science and society, they're way more likely to love the film. If you think of creating AI as a foolish act that will lead to our doom, then you're starting the film with the wrong mindset and will most likely not appreciate the beauty of Chappie's "birth."

Then on top of it of course you just have personal preferences about how the movie deals with it. Only part I didn't love was the last two seconds.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 07, 2015, 11:10 PM
Just watched Gone Girl. 
I feel like my insides have been touched inappropriately. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 08, 2015, 12:01 AM

Just watched Gone Girl. 
I feel like my insides have been touched inappropriately. 
such a disturbing film

@legend: cool, I like the idea of AI
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 08, 2015, 12:08 AM

such a disturbing film

@legend: cool, I like the idea of AI

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br />Started out great and romantical.&nbsp; Then started to get really intense.&nbsp; Then by the time the ending came along, I wanted to roll myself in a ball.&nbsp; <br />

Overall great film, but I feel disturbed.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 08, 2015, 05:26 AM
Watched the first mad max. Sucked!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 09, 2015, 08:47 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 09, 2015, 10:19 PM


That looks good! Haven't heard about it before
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 10, 2015, 01:15 AM

Would like to see
The Imitation Game
The Theory of Everything
Gone Girl
Maybe see The Judge. 

2 down, 2 yet to go. 
Title: Re: [color=yellow]The Movie Thread[/color]
Post by: FLGibsonIII on Mar 10, 2015, 01:57 AM
My favorite movies of the year are
Interstellar
Cap 2
Xmen DOFP
Imitation game
Grand Budapest
and The Lego movie
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 10, 2015, 03:12 AM

My favorite movies of the year are
Interstellar
Cap 2
Xmen DOFP
Imitation game
Grand Budapest
and The Lego movie


I really loved interstellar, but a few parts frustrated me.

Really agree with all your list except Cap 2. Didn't think it was too good.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: FLGibsonIII on Mar 10, 2015, 03:17 AM

I really loved interstellar, but a few parts frustrated me.

Really agree with all your list except Cap 2. Didn't think it was too good.

lol it's like my favorite MCU movie. Interstellar did have flaws but I really loved it as well.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 10, 2015, 03:35 PM
Interstellar is my MOTY 2014. Amazing experience.

Gone Girl, Imitation Game, NightCrawler and more were also great. Have yet to see X-Men and Grand Budapest
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 26, 2015, 11:00 PM
Kingsmen was great!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 26, 2015, 11:58 PM

Kingsmen was great!
I was surprised by its mediocre metascore vs. great imdb score.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 28, 2015, 12:27 AM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 28, 2015, 05:03 PM


hot
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 28, 2015, 05:05 PM
Christoph Waltz is the villain!?!? Awesome
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 28, 2015, 05:06 PM

Christoph Waltz is the villain!?!? Awesome


Yay!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 02, 2015, 12:21 AM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 13, 2015, 07:12 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 13, 2015, 07:55 PM
Watching Theory of Everything.  It is pretty good thus far. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 13, 2015, 10:43 PM

Watching Theory of Everything.  It is pretty good thus far. 

Good movie, full of tragedy and success.
Next up, Interstellar. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 13, 2015, 10:44 PM

Next up, Interstellar. 
omg
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 13, 2015, 10:57 PM

omg

What? 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 13, 2015, 11:12 PM

What? 
so good
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 14, 2015, 03:22 AM
I'm biased but
Theory of everything - 7.8
Interstellar - 9.4
Imitation Game - 9.2
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 14, 2015, 06:28 AM




Wait was the other trailer not a trailer? I already saw most of these shots.




Also I saw furious 7. Didn't really like it, but was very impressed with the ending and how they managed Paul Walker's death.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 14, 2015, 11:56 AM

I'm biased but
Theory of everything - 7.8
Interstellar - 9.4
Imitation Game - 9.2
nice.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 16, 2015, 05:59 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 16, 2015, 06:02 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars, BatmanVsuperman hype!
Post by: Legend on Apr 16, 2015, 07:47 PM



A trailer for a trailer :(
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars, BatmanVsuperman hype!
Post by: Legend on Apr 16, 2015, 07:53 PM


Looks pretty good and got good reviews!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars, BatmanVsuperman hype!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 16, 2015, 11:12 PM



Looks pretty good and got good reviews!
Yeah I want to see it
Title: Re: [color=yellow]The Movie Thread[/color] - Star Wars, BatmanVsuperman hype!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 16, 2015, 11:47 PM
(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjM1NjUyNTE5OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjk0ODUzNTE@._V1__SX1617_SY873_.jpg)

(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTYxOTk4MDkxMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNzU0ODUzNTE@._V1__SX1617_SY873_.jpg)

(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ2MjA0NjIyN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMzU0ODUzNTE@._V1__SX1617_SY873_.jpg)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars, BatmanVsuperman hype!
Post by: Legend on Apr 18, 2015, 05:12 AM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars, BatmanVsuperman hype!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 18, 2015, 11:40 AM


OMG HYYYYPE
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars, BatmanVsuperman hype!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 18, 2015, 03:20 PM
Fast and Furious 7 becomes the fastest movie to the 1B milestone worldwide (in just 17 days) o.O.

I guess everyone likes cars.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-milestone-furious-7-789662
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 shatters records
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 18, 2015, 03:25 PM
Sweet I'm going to see that after work.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 shatters records
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Apr 18, 2015, 07:31 PM
Holy Shitzu thats amazing
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 shatters records
Post by: Legend on Apr 18, 2015, 09:33 PM

Fast and Furious 7 becomes the fastest movie to the 1B milestone worldwide (in just 17 days) o.O.

I guess everyone likes cars.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-milestone-furious-7-789662


Doubt it will beat Titanic when the dust settles, but man that's a huge first few weeks!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 shatters records
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Apr 19, 2015, 01:44 AM
We gonna see avengers 2 break that right
or is it official that cars are more popular than superheroes?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 shatters records
Post by: Legend on Apr 19, 2015, 02:54 AM

We gonna see avengers 2 break that right
or is it official that cars are more popular than superheroes?



I heard some random guy online say Avengers 2 was good, but not as great as the first. Don't know.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 shatters records
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 19, 2015, 02:57 AM

I heard some random guy online say Avengers 2 was good, but not as great as the first. Don't know.

Did this random guy sound trustworthy?
I hope it's at least half as good as the first trailer.  That'd be spectacular.   
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 shatters records
Post by: Legend on Apr 19, 2015, 03:05 AM

Did this random guy sound trustworthy?
I hope it's at least half as good as the first trailer.  That'd be spectacular.   

Yeah.
He went into a lot of details.

Tldr was that there was too much senseless action. Felt like the stakes were low and the battles hard to follow.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 shatters records
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 19, 2015, 09:18 AM

OMG HYYYYPE


you know me, i hate batman, but fudge that is a good trailer. i actually want to watch this now, if it is as good as the trailer.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 shatters records
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 19, 2015, 09:19 AM

Fast and Furious 7 becomes the fastest movie to the 1B milestone worldwide (in just 17 days) o.O.

I guess everyone likes cars.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-milestone-furious-7-789662


its paul walkers death. if you want a movie to reach enormous success have an actor die after he filmed the movie. not the first time this happened.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 shatters records
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 19, 2015, 02:05 PM

its paul walkers death. if you want a movie to reach enormous success have an actor die after he filmed the movie. not the first time this happened.
Yeah TDK comes to mind, although that was an amazing movie too. Don't think Furious 7 is as good
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 shatters records
Post by: Legend on Apr 19, 2015, 04:05 PM

Yeah TDK comes to mind, although that was an amazing movie too. Don't think Furious 7 is as good


Nah F7 is much worse, but they did an amazing job handling Walker's death.


its paul walkers death. if you want a movie to reach enormous success have an actor die after he filmed the movie. not the first time this happened.


Very true. However with F7, Paul Walker died during the middle of filming. They changed a ton of the plot around and used his brothers plus CGI to fill in as needed. Basically made the whole movie into a tribute to him. His death rocketed the film to success, but nothing felt exploitative about it unlike other movies.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 shatters records
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 19, 2015, 06:10 PM

Nah F7 is much worse, but they did an amazing job handling Walker's death.

Very true. However with F7, Paul Walker died during the middle of filming. They changed a ton of the plot around and used his brothers plus CGI to fill in as needed. Basically made the whole movie into a tribute to him. His death rocketed the film to success, but nothing felt exploitative about it unlike other movies.


come on, they been riding the paul walker death since it happened. since when does a Fast and Furious movie shatter records? they been using his death and its obvious. instead of replacing the actor with another they used his death and changed the plot.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 shatters records
Post by: Legend on Apr 19, 2015, 06:12 PM

come on, they been riding the paul walker death since it happened. since when does a Fast and Furious movie shatter records? they been using his death and its obvious. instead of replacing the actor with another they used his death and changed the plot.


Just watch the movie!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 shatters records
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 19, 2015, 06:14 PM

Just watch the movie!


not really a fast and furious fan. watched 4, it was bellow average. and ya ya i know it doesnt have the main cast in it or anything, but its still a F&F movie.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 shatters records
Post by: Legend on Apr 19, 2015, 06:25 PM

not really a fast and furious fan. watched 4, it was bellow average. and ya ya i know it doesnt have the main cast in it or anything, but its still a F&F movie.


I'm not a fan either. Movies are ok but as of late they've become kinda stupid.

Spoiler for F7:
Paul Walker's character was going to be killed off in the film. They had already filmed a lot of the film with that as the plan. They switched it so that he doesn't die in the film and instead goes off to be a father. I thought most of the movie was pretty bad but they really deserve props for how they handled it. Most movies market the death of their actor and then try to hide it in the film itself, but this one did the opposite. Plus that wiz song was great.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 shatters records
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 19, 2015, 09:27 PM


What is this, trailer city?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Fantastic Four first trailer
Post by: Legend on Apr 19, 2015, 09:50 PM



What is this, trailer city?


How is this the first trailer? I've been seeing it in theaters for weeks.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Fantastic Four first trailer
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 19, 2015, 11:40 PM

How is this the first trailer? I've been seeing it in theaters for weeks.
Wut? There was a teaser before but not a full blown trailer I think
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Fantastic Four first trailer
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 19, 2015, 11:41 PM
I was just thinking how awesome the movie schedule is in the next few years.

Avengers 2 coming up
Then Jurassic Park, then Star Wars 7, then BvSuperman, then SW Rogue One, then SW ep 8 and lots of Marvel movies too in between
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Fantastic Four first trailer
Post by: Legend on Apr 19, 2015, 11:47 PM

Wut? There was a teaser before but not a full blown trailer I think


Yeah this one is longer.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Fantastic Four first trailer
Post by: Legend on Apr 19, 2015, 11:48 PM

I was just thinking how awesome the movie schedule is in the next few years.

Avengers 2 coming up
Then Jurassic Park, then Star Wars 7, then BvSuperman, then SW Rogue One, then SW ep 8 and lots of Marvel movies too in between


Don't forget Avatar 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Fantastic Four first trailer
Post by: DD_Bwest on Apr 20, 2015, 03:09 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Fantastic Four first trailer
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 20, 2015, 05:00 PM

Don't forget Avatar 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
shii and Spectre
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Fantastic Four first trailer
Post by: Legend on Apr 20, 2015, 05:34 PM

shii and Spectre


Here's some food for thought about how big Avatar 2 will be.

It's the reason Star Wars 8 is coming out in the first half of 2017, not the hollidays.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Fantastic Four first trailer
Post by: Legend on Apr 21, 2015, 03:47 AM
I wanna see Predestination. Looks good and got good reviews.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Fantastic Four first trailer
Post by: darkknightkryta on Apr 21, 2015, 11:53 PM

Yeah.
He went into a lot of details.

Tldr was that there was too much senseless action. Felt like the stakes were low and the battles hard to follow.

Does Stark go off the handle in this film?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Fantastic Four first trailer
Post by: Legend on Apr 21, 2015, 11:59 PM

Does Stark go off the handle in this film?


Going off the comics, this is the one that gets things set up for civil war so yeah.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Fantastic Four first trailer
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 22, 2015, 10:23 AM

I heard some random guy online say Avengers 2 was good, but not as great as the first. Don't know.
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=201760

More evidence
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Avengers 2 REVIEWS!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 22, 2015, 05:42 PM
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/avengers_age_of_ultron/

Avengers getting good reviews! Certainly not as great ones as the first got but good nonetheless.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Avengers 2 REVIEWS!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 22, 2015, 05:47 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Avengers 2 REVIEWS!!
Post by: Legend on Apr 23, 2015, 06:32 AM

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/avengers_age_of_ultron/

Avengers getting good reviews! Certainly not as great ones as the first got but good nonetheless.


Guess random internet guy didn't lie. Woohoo!





So hyped!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Avengers 2 REVIEWS!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 24, 2015, 05:41 PM


Johnny Depp actually got a good role??
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Johnny Depp lives!
Post by: Legend on Apr 24, 2015, 10:01 PM
Saw ex machina. Really good!
Title: Re: [color=yellow]The Movie Thread[/color] - Johnny Depp lives!
Post by: BasilZero on Apr 24, 2015, 10:41 PM
Just watched Interstellar and The Man of Steel.

Enjoyed both!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Johnny Depp lives!
Post by: Legend on Apr 24, 2015, 10:45 PM

Just watched Interstellar and The Man of Steel.

Enjoyed both!


Wait was this your first time seeing Interstellar?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Johnny Depp lives!
Post by: BasilZero on Apr 25, 2015, 12:06 AM

Wait was this your first time seeing Interstellar?


Yes. I wish they made more movies like dis.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Johnny Depp lives!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 25, 2015, 01:15 AM

Yes. I wish they made more movies like dis.
Exactly. Amazing movie.

OT: Avengers 2 might be the greatest comedy of the year
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Johnny Depp lives!
Post by: BasilZero on Apr 25, 2015, 02:19 AM

Exactly. Amazing movie.

OT: Avengers 2 might be the greatest comedy of the year


I hear Nolan's already making his next movie. Cant wait on what he is working on!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Johnny Depp lives!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 25, 2015, 12:07 PM
I give Avengers 2 8/10. I was honestly not expecting a very good film due to what I've heard. I enjoyed it just as much as the first (which I admittedly didn't enjoy quite as much as most people seem to have done lol).

There was like 1 joke every 1.5 minutes in the movie.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Johnny Depp lives!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 25, 2015, 12:07 PM

I hear Nolan's already making his next movie. Cant wait on what he is working on!
Yeah I always get hyped for his movies.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Johnny Depp lives!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 25, 2015, 01:26 PM

Saw ex machina. Really good!

Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Johnny Depp lives!
Post by: Legend on Apr 25, 2015, 03:19 PM



Yeah agreed
Title: Re: [color=yellow]The Movie Thread[/color] - Johnny Depp lives!
Post by: Xevross on Apr 26, 2015, 12:47 PM
Avengers Age of Ultron is a fantastic film! Enjoyed it as much as the first, maybe more
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Johnny Depp lives!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 26, 2015, 12:49 PM
What I didn't really like is that I never felt much danger. The villain was too weak. Let's hope the next villain fixes that ;) (I'm sure he will)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Johnny Depp lives!
Post by: Legend on Apr 27, 2015, 03:42 AM
The Grey is probably the worst movie I have ever seen as far as presenting wilderness survival in a realistic way. Absolutely horrible movie. Just fyi
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Johnny Depp lives!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 27, 2015, 09:36 AM
I hate how Liam Neeson has been typecast since taken 1
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Johnny Depp lives!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 27, 2015, 10:20 PM
Avengers 2 opens to $201m overseas, way ahead of Avengers 1.

Furious 7 is the third movie to reach $1b overseas (only Titanic and Avatar did it before). Total WW is over $1.32B, fifth of all-time. HP7-2 is next with 1.34B and then Avengers with 1.54B. Can it outdo that?

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4057&p=.htm
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: Legend on Apr 27, 2015, 10:25 PM

Avengers 2 opens to $201m overseas, way ahead of Avengers 1.

Furious 7 is the third movie to reach $1b overseas (only Titanic and Avatar did it before). Total WW is over $1.32B, fifth of all-time. HP7-2 is next with 1.34B and then Avengers with 1.54B. Can it outdo that?

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4057&p=.htm


Domestic F7 isn't even in the top 30. It's done in America, but overseas might do another 200 mil total. Aven is 1.52B so yeah I think it'll pass it.
Title: Re: [color=yellow]The Movie Thread[/color] - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: Xevross on Apr 27, 2015, 10:28 PM
Age of Ultron is doing amazingly, can't wait to see opening in China and US
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 27, 2015, 10:42 PM

Domestic F7 isn't even in the top 30. It's done in America, but overseas might do another 200 mil total. Aven is 1.52B so yeah I think it'll pass it.
It's a monster in China. By far the highest grossing film there ever. Already at $323m, which is more than in the US, in just two weeks
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 28, 2015, 08:46 AM



Johnny Depp actually got a good role??


pirates of the Caribbean? rango? sweeney todd? all amazing movies.

as far as this goes, it looks promising, will watch.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 28, 2015, 08:48 AM

Domestic F7 isn't even in the top 30. It's done in America, but overseas might do another 200 mil total. Aven is 1.52B so yeah I think it'll pass it.


such a shame that a movie like this is making so much money because people act hipster and act like they cared about that actor who passed away, while other movies that are so much better get way way much less money, interstellar for example.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 28, 2015, 08:53 AM
looking back, i still cant understand what happened with avatar, how did it make 2.7 billion? how the hell did it make 700+ million in the USA? this baffles me so much.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 28, 2015, 04:19 PM

pirates of the Caribbean? rango? sweeney todd? all amazing movies.

as far as this goes, it looks promising, will watch.
Yeah and how long since he played in those? I didn't mean JD never gets good roles, just that he hasn't had one in many years now. Playing in crud movies after crud movies.

looking back, i still cant understand what happened with avatar, how did it make 2.7 billion? how the hell did it make 700+ million in the USA? this baffles me so much.
First real 3D movie
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: Legend on Apr 28, 2015, 05:02 PM

Yeah and how long since he played in those? I didn't mean JD never gets good roles, just that he hasn't had one in many years now. Playing in crud movies after crud movies. First real 3D movie


He's had many great movies, they're just less known.


looking back, i still cant understand what happened with avatar, how did it make 2.7 billion? how the heck did it make 700+ million in the USA? this baffles me so much.


It was an amazing movie to experience. People wanted to see it multiple times in theater quality.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 28, 2015, 06:05 PM

He's had many great movies, they're just less known.
Of course, but that's not what I'm saying. His track record lately is crud. He has been typecast for several years now.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: Legend on Apr 28, 2015, 06:17 PM

Of course, but that's not what I'm saying. His track record lately is crud. He has been typecast for several years now.


He's had many great movies "recently," they're just less known. ;)

Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 28, 2015, 06:30 PM

He's had many great movies "recently," they're just less known. ;)


Yeah if recently is 8-10+ years ago
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 28, 2015, 06:56 PM

Yeah if recently is 8-10+ years ago

Rango came out 4 years ago. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 28, 2015, 06:57 PM

Rango came out 4 years ago. 
Voice overs don't count
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 28, 2015, 06:59 PM

Voice overs don't count

Making up rules now.   :P
Pirates of the Caribbean 4 came out the same year. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 28, 2015, 07:26 PM

Pirates of the Caribbean 4 came out the same year. 
LOL
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: Legend on Apr 28, 2015, 07:49 PM
The tourist came out in 2012 if I recall.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 28, 2015, 07:52 PM

The tourist came out in 2012 if I recall.
*vomits* Kidding, haven't seen it but it got ripped apart by reviewers. Also, it came out in 2010 in any case
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 28, 2015, 07:54 PM

*vomits* Kidding, haven't seen it but it got ripped apart by reviewers. Also, it came out in 2010 in any case

Dark Shadows was an interesting movie. Could've been better, but wasn't awful. 
Also, 4.5 years is very different from 8-10. 
That's like a 44% error, way beyond acceptable margins of error.  You'd make a terrible scientist. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 28, 2015, 07:57 PM

Dark Shadows was an interesting movie. Could've been better, but wasn't awful. 
Also, 4.5 years is very different from 8-10. 
That's like a 44% error, way beyond acceptable margins of error.  You'd make a terrible scientist. 
It was ripped apart by critics though, which is my point.
And like I said, Dark Shadows is yet another typecast for him. This new movie feels like a complete departure for him since Pirates of the Caribbean or something
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 29, 2015, 12:08 AM


This actually looks amazing!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Furious 7 and Avengers 2 beasting
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 29, 2015, 08:33 AM

Yeah and how long since he played in those? I didn't mean JD never gets good roles, just that he hasn't had one in many years now. Playing in crud movies after crud movies. First real 3D movie


yeah on that i agree, its been a long time since he was in a good movie (other than his appearance in 21st jump street)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Attack on Titan live action!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 29, 2015, 11:41 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Attack on Titan live action!
Post by: Legend on Apr 30, 2015, 12:01 AM
SOOOOOOO HYYYYYYPPPPPEEED!!!!!!!! for Mad Max. Looks great!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Attack on Titan live action!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 30, 2015, 12:11 AM

SOOOOOOO HYYYYYYPPPPPEEED!!!!!!!! for Mad Max. Looks great!
Yeah me too! Tom Hardy, yo
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Attack on Titan live action!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 30, 2015, 12:15 AM
What a lovely day!
That guy is the same actor that plays Beast in X-Men and the zombie in Warm Bodies lol. Looks and acts 100% different
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Attack on Titan live action!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 30, 2015, 12:18 AM
Predictions for Avengers 2 opening in the US?
#1 opened to $207m in 2012. It's worth noting that #2 is way up on #1 overseas on opening weekend
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Attack on Titan live action!
Post by: Legend on Apr 30, 2015, 12:27 AM

Predictions for Avengers 2 opening in the US?
#1 opened to $207m in 2012. It's worth noting that #2 is way up on #1 overseas on opening weekend


$187m

Sure it's up oversees, but the first one didn't have that great of an opening over there. It's only ranked 14 on that chart. Meanwhile in America it DOMINATED its first weekend and is still number one by a very large margin. I just doubt it'll crush records that well.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Attack on Titan live action!
Post by: darkknightkryta on Apr 30, 2015, 12:01 PM
Avengers tonight.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Attack on Titan live action!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 30, 2015, 01:13 PM

$187m

Sure it's up oversees, but the first one didn't have that great of an opening over there. It's only ranked 14 on that chart. Meanwhile in America it DOMINATED its first weekend and is still number one by a very large margin. I just doubt it'll crush records that well.
It's demolishing the first one in pre-sales. I'm thinking $220m or so perhaps. Not sure if it'll have the same legs in America though. Will definitely beat the first one overseas and probably make more than the 1st one worldwide overall
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Attack on Titan live action!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 30, 2015, 04:42 PM
Title: Re: [color=yellow]The Movie Thread[/color] - Attack on Titan live action!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 30, 2015, 05:30 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/duDyP2z.jpg)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Vin Diesel is back for more!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 01, 2015, 11:52 AM


Tom Hardy plays @Legend
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Legend gets own film!
Post by: Legend on May 01, 2015, 04:20 PM



Tom Hardy plays @Legend


Eh not really interested
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Legend gets own film!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 01, 2015, 05:12 PM
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Watch-James-Bond-High-Speed-Car-Chase-Newest-Spectre-Footage-71186.html
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Spectre footage!
Post by: darkknightkryta on May 01, 2015, 11:11 PM
So I watched Avengers 2 last night.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Spectre footage!
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 01, 2015, 11:16 PM

So I watched Avengers 2 last night.

Ok.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Spectre footage!
Post by: Legend on May 01, 2015, 11:24 PM

So I watched Avengers 2 last night.


All right.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Spectre footage!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 01, 2015, 11:43 PM

So I watched Avengers 2 last night.
aha
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Spectre footage!
Post by: darkknightkryta on May 02, 2015, 01:17 PM
(http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/61828876.jpg)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Spectre footage!
Post by: Legend on May 03, 2015, 07:01 PM

$187m

Sure it's up oversees, but the first one didn't have that great of an opening over there. It's only ranked 14 on that chart. Meanwhile in America it DOMINATED its first weekend and is still number one by a very large margin. I just doubt it'll crush records that well.


Um I'm a prophet lol.

$187,656,000

Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Spectre footage!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 03, 2015, 07:34 PM
Lol dang. First day was up on #1 tho
Title: Re: [color=yellow]The Movie Thread[/color] - Avengers 2 $188m opening in US
Post by: Xevross on May 03, 2015, 08:21 PM
How did first one do?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Avengers 2 $188m opening in US
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 03, 2015, 08:25 PM

How did first one do?
207m
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Avengers 2 $188m opening in US
Post by: Legend on May 04, 2015, 06:04 AM
I thought Avengers 2 was really good. Much better than the first one imo.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Avengers 2 $188m opening in US
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 04, 2015, 09:10 AM

I thought Avengers 2 was really good. Much better than the first one imo.
I thought they were about as good but I wasn't the biggest fan
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Avengers 2 $188m opening in US
Post by: darkknightkryta on May 04, 2015, 12:33 PM
My grumpy cat has half my opinion on Age of Ultron.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Avengers 2 $188m opening in US
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 04, 2015, 05:43 PM
Furious 7 is at almost $1.45B. Only $100m until it tops Avengers 1 to become the third highest grossing movie ever. It's even more impressive that it's 2D-only (lower prices)!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Avengers 2 $188m opening in US
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 04, 2015, 05:43 PM

My grumpy cat has half my opinion on Age of Ultron.
And the other half?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Avengers 2 $188m opening in US
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 04, 2015, 07:01 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Avengers 2 $191m opening in US
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 05, 2015, 04:44 PM
A2 adjusted up to $191m first weekend!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Avengers 2 $191m opening in US
Post by: darkknightkryta on May 05, 2015, 08:55 PM

And the other half?

Good =D.  I felt the second half was far weaker than the first.  Still overall "good". 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Avengers 2 $191m opening in US
Post by: Cute Pikachu on May 06, 2015, 12:41 AM
So Star Wars will be no. 1 all time first weekends right?!?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Avengers 2 $191m opening in US
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 06, 2015, 08:21 AM

So Star Wars will be no. 1 all time first weekends right?!?
think so
Title: Re: [color=yellow]The Movie Thread[/color] - Avengers 2 $191m opening in US
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 06, 2015, 05:47 PM
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/19090_901351633256177_8787074760599944165_n.jpg?oh=65c1581cd314a77ea02adb5ea730bcc2&oe=560CD48A&__gda__=1439986919_81dce19a993551ac05842d8039368651)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Avengers 2 $191m opening in US
Post by: Legend on May 06, 2015, 05:50 PM

So Star Wars will be no. 1 all time first weekends right?!?


You betcha!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Avengers 2 $191m opening in US
Post by: darkknightkryta on May 07, 2015, 01:23 AM

Spoiler for Image:
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/19090_901351633256177_8787074760599944165_n.jpg?oh=65c1581cd314a77ea02adb5ea730bcc2&amp;oe=560CD48A&amp;__gda__=1439986919_81dce19a993551ac05842d8039368651)


Apparently Guardians of the Galaxy is more marketable than Avengers.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Avengers 2 $191m opening in US
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 07, 2015, 07:03 AM

Apparently Guardians of the Galaxy is more marketable than Avengers.
woot?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Avengers 2 $191m opening in US
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 07, 2015, 06:04 PM
Avengers Infinity War 1 and 2 will be shot entirely with IMAX cameras! First films to do that

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/avengers-infinity-war-to-be-shot-entirely-with-imax-cameras-1201489782/
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Next 2 Avengers being shot in IMAX!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 10, 2015, 09:23 PM
Avengers 2 is already at $875m and still hasn't launched in China or Japan. Might end up a bit down on the first film but I don't think by much. Maybe 1.4B worldwide.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Next 2 Avengers being shot in IMAX!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 10, 2015, 11:08 PM
feature=youtu.be
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Next 2 Avengers being shot in IMAX!
Post by: Legend on May 10, 2015, 11:13 PM

Avengers Infinity War 1 and 2 will be shot entirely with IMAX cameras! First films to do that

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/avengers-infinity-war-to-be-shot-entirely-with-imax-cameras-1201489782/


About darn time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's so flipping distracting watching these movies in IMAX. The aspect ratio just keeps jumping around as they switch back and fourth.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Next 2 Avengers being shot in IMAX!
Post by: Riderz1337 on May 11, 2015, 02:53 AM
I've seen Furious 7 and Avengers Age of Ultron in theatres recently.

Furious 7 - Very good! I really enjoyd the majority of the action sequences. The story is pretty meh but to be honest I never go into Fast & Furious movie expecting an amazing story. I turn my brain off as soon as I sit down and just enjoy the ride.

Avengers - Disappointed to be honest. Ultron was another lame Marvel villain. When he was first introduced in the party room scene I was like hell yes time for a proper villain in the Marvel movies, and then couple minutes later in his next scene he's cracking jokes...Seriously like 95% of the jokes in this movie fell through and it really made me cringe at most of the scenes. Also very similar to the first avengers.

In the first one Loki had those alien dudes fighting the avengers for him...cannon fodder enemies and now in Age of Ultron instead of aliens you have Ultrons robots which are...you guessed it...Cannon fodder enemies. There's just never any real tension in the movies. Ultron pretty much got owned by Captain America in a 1v1 fight...I mean come on now...This dude's supposed to be a super powerful bad dog villain and yet he gets his dog handed to him by one Avenger? I really hope for Infinity War they make Thanos as evil and bad dog as possible. Please lessen the jokes because they just don't work. I wanna see Thanos kicking the Avengers dog.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Next 2 Avengers being shot in IMAX!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 11, 2015, 09:10 AM
Yeah don't make thanos a joker
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Next 2 Avengers being shot in IMAX!
Post by: darkknightkryta on May 11, 2015, 07:48 PM

Yeah don't make thanos a joker

They already did.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Mad Max reviews are insane!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 12, 2015, 09:04 AM
Mad Max reviews... Just wow
Title: First look at Warcraft!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 18, 2015, 08:08 PM
(http://nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/World-of-Warcraft-Orgrim-1.jpg)
Title: Re: First look at Warcraft!
Post by: Xevross on May 18, 2015, 08:12 PM

snip

He certainly has spikes! I'm expecting the best CGI of all time, as is Blizzard standard
Title: Re: [color=yellow]The Movie Thread[/color] - Mad Max reviews are insane!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 18, 2015, 08:14 PM
Looks like Pixar is back to greatness with their new movie, Inside Out!

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inside_out_2015/?search=inside%20out

Amazing reviews so far.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Mad Max reviews are insane!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 18, 2015, 08:15 PM
"Pixar's 15th feature proves to be the greatest idea the toon studio has ever had ... promises to forever change the way people think about the way people think, delivering creative fireworks grounded by a wonderfully relatable family story."
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Mad Max reviews are insane!
Post by: Xevross on May 18, 2015, 08:27 PM

"Pixar's 15th feature proves to be the greatest idea the toon studio has ever had ... promises to forever change the way people think about the way people think, delivering creative fireworks grounded by a wonderfully relatable family story."

I saw a trailer when watching avengers. It does look like a really fun family film. I probably won't watch it though...
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - WoW first look; Pixar is back!!!
Post by: Legend on May 18, 2015, 08:50 PM

"Pixar's 15th feature proves to be the greatest idea the toon studio has ever had ... promises to forever change the way people think about the way people think, delivering creative fireworks grounded by a wonderfully relatable family story."


No it's a stupid and overused idea.

(http://www.yesterland.com/images-epcot/cranium2_girl2006bh.jpg)

(http://www.superiorpics.com/wallpaper/file/Eddie_Murphy_in_Meet_Dave_Wallpaper_2_800.jpg)

(http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121025171723/spongebob/images/9/9b/Brainchaos.jpg)

(https://tanjajensen.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/left-right.jpg)

(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTMyMjk0MDI3N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMzEwMDg2._V1_SX640_SY720_.jpg)


Movie is probably good, but come on! Why does everyone think the movie's concept is so incredible?!?! Add my to the haiter train.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - WoW first look; Pixar is back!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 18, 2015, 10:15 PM
Yeah I didn't think the concept was that original but the movie can still be awesome lol
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - WoW first look; Pixar is back!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 20, 2015, 10:45 AM
Looks like Tomorrowland could be a decent movie, but maybe not a great one
Title: Re: [color=yellow]The Movie Thread[/color] - WoW first look; Pixar is back!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 04, 2015, 05:40 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World is monstrous
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 13, 2015, 10:49 PM
So Jurassic World is huge
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World is monstrous
Post by: Xevross on Jun 14, 2015, 10:32 PM
So Jurassic World is huge
Extremely huge!
Jurassic World takes $511m in record opening weekend - BBC News (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33129583)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World is monstrous
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 15, 2015, 02:13 AM
Extremely huge!
Jurassic World takes $511m in record opening weekend - BBC News (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33129583)
Holy shiiiiiit
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World is monstrous
Post by: Legend on Jun 15, 2015, 04:03 AM
Great film
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World is gigantic, biggest of all time
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 15, 2015, 10:07 AM
I just can't get over the $500m+ in one weekend. Holy shiznits, that's just insane. It's popular everywhere
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World is gigantic, biggest of all time
Post by: Xevross on Jun 15, 2015, 12:15 PM
I just can't get over the $500m+ in one weekend. Holy shiznits, that's just insane. It's popular everywhere
I know, it's ridiculous. I need to work out when I'm watching it. It doesn't sound as bad as the trailers made it look to me
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World is gigantic, biggest of all time
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 21, 2015, 02:32 AM
Saw the movie Inside Out.  
So good.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World is gigantic, biggest of all time
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 21, 2015, 03:34 PM
Inside out has the biggest opening weekend ever in the US for a new IP ($91m). Second biggest Pixar weekend ever.

Jurassic Park drops only 51% and makes $102m in its second weekend in the US...that's more than the vast majority of movies make in their lifetime in the US, let alone in one weekend.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World is still huge, Inside Out surprises
Post by: Xevross on Jun 21, 2015, 03:42 PM
Inside out has the biggest opening weekend ever in the US for a new IP ($91m). Second biggest Pixar weekend ever.

Jurassic Park drops only 51% and makes $102m in its second weekend in the US...that's more than the vast majority of movies make in their lifetime in the US, let alone in one weekend.
Nice and nice! Any more worldwide numbers for Jurassic World?

I watched it yesterday, it was great!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World is still huge, Inside Out surprises
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 21, 2015, 03:47 PM
Nice and nice! Any more worldwide numbers for Jurassic World?

I watched it yesterday, it was great!
not yet. Probably will be here later today or tomorrow. I expect it to be around 900m globally by the time we get updated numbers for this weekend
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World is still huge, Inside Out surprises
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 22, 2015, 10:05 PM
Jurassic World is at $985m already lol. Holy hell. $2B+ here we come
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World is still huge, Inside Out surprises
Post by: Xevross on Jun 22, 2015, 10:16 PM
Jurassic World is at $985m already lol. Holy hell. $2B+ here we come
That is madness. I contributed to that second week ;D
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World is still huge, Inside Out surprises
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 23, 2015, 09:49 PM
'Jurassic' Rex Records - Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4073&p=.htm)

"Jurassic World will also perform the stunning feat of crossing $1B at the worldwide box office today after just 13 days, beating the previous record holder, Universal'sFurious 7 (http://"http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=fast7.htm"), and its record of 17 days just two months ago."
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World is still huge, Inside Out surprises
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 27, 2015, 02:41 PM
Jurassic has crossed 1B easily with no weekend numbers in and the overseas numbers haven't been updated in almost a week.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World is still huge, Inside Out surprises
Post by: Legend on Jun 27, 2015, 02:45 PM
Jurassic has crossed 1B easily with no weekend numbers in and the overseas numbers haven't been updated in almost a week.
Could end up being the 3rd highest grossing film of all time.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World is still huge, Inside Out surprises
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 27, 2015, 02:48 PM
Could end up being the 3rd highest grossing film of all time.
That's certain. The only question is if it can cross Titanic, which I think it won't but will be close to.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1B
Post by: Legend on Jun 27, 2015, 03:17 PM
That's certain. The only question is if it can cross Titanic, which I think it won't but will be close to.
Nah. It's not tracking that much better than the Avengers domestically. Too soon to know if it'll have better or worse legs.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1B
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 27, 2015, 04:43 PM
Nah. It's not tracking that much better than the Avengers domestically. Too soon to know if it'll have better or worse legs.
It completely destroyed all records globally in its first two weeks.
Over $500m in a weekend (and well over at that), the only movie to do so ever. Biggest opening weekend globally and individually in America and "overseas"

Domestically it is easily above The Avengers but even if it falls a bit behind it will still destroy it overseas.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1B
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 28, 2015, 02:30 AM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1B
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 28, 2015, 03:57 PM
Jurassic World is now the #1 2015 movie in the US. Made $54m in its third weekend. The fastest movie to cross $500m in the US. 17 days vs. 23 days for Avengers 1 (the previous record holder)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1B
Post by: Legend on Jun 28, 2015, 05:06 PM
Jurassic World is now the #1 2015 movie in the US. Made $54m in its third weekend. The fastest movie to cross $500m in the US. 17 days vs. 23 days for Avengers 1 (the previous record holder)
Third weekend is slightly worse than Avengers's third weekend domestically. Guess next week is when we'll see if JW has shorter legs or not.

I bet it'll end at 650 mil in America and 850 foreign. 1.5 billion total. What's your guess?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1B
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jun 28, 2015, 05:08 PM
I still have to go see it, My wife hasn't been feeling that great, I can't go with out her. I just offered to take her shopping and she turned it down..  :o
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.24B
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 28, 2015, 11:15 PM
Third weekend is slightly worse than Avengers's third weekend domestically. Guess next week is when we'll see if JW has shorter legs or not.

I bet it'll end at 650 mil in America and 850 foreign. 1.5 billion total. What's your guess?
~640-650m in America and 1.2B+ foreign.
Furious 7 made almost 1.2B foreign and Jurassic World utterly destroyed it in its first two weeks

It's at 740m already foreign

Btw, Inside out was really brilliant!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.24B
Post by: Legend on Jun 28, 2015, 11:36 PM
~640-650m in America and 1.2B+ foreign.
Furious 7 made almost 1.2B foreign and Jurassic World utterly destroyed it in its first two weeks

It's at 740m already foreign

Btw, Inside out was really brilliant!
JW didn't utterly destroy F7 in foreign. F7 after two weekends was $550 mil. JW after two weekends was $584 mil. Plus F7 didn't launch in China until its second week.

Even more darning is we have third week data now. JW is at $740 mil, while F7 was at $857 mil at this comparable moment in time. I really doubt JW is going to pass $1.2 bil foreign. Want to make a $1,000 forum bet on it?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.24B
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 28, 2015, 11:45 PM
JW didn't utterly destroy F7 in foreign. F7 after two weekends was $550 mil. JW after two weekends was $584 mil. Plus F7 didn't launch in China until its second week.

Even more darning is we have third week data now. JW is at $740 mil, while F7 was at $857 mil at this comparable moment in time. I really doubt JW is going to pass $1.2 bil foreign. Want to make a $1,000 forum bet on it?
Oh, it seems that F7 got some huge China numbers in its third week. Well, what about Japan for Jurassic World?

I wish we could look at "global" charts for movies to compare them instead of having to look at foreign and domestic individually.
Well I do believe Jurassic World has a lot still in it and might still make it to 1.2B but maybe 1.1B is a safer bet

At least it should make $1.8B+ globally. Wanna make that our bet?? ;o
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.24B
Post by: Legend on Jun 28, 2015, 11:49 PM
Oh, it seems that F7 got some huge China numbers in its third week. Well, what about Japan for Jurassic World?

I wish we could look at "global" charts for movies to compare them instead of having to look at foreign and domestic individually.
Well I do believe Jurassic World has a lot still in it and might still make it to 1.2B but maybe 1.1B is a safer bet

At least it should make $1.8B+ globally. Wanna make that our bet?? ;o
1.8B+ globally? Heck I'll take that bet! No way will it go that high.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.24B. Bets are on, stakes are HIGH!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 28, 2015, 11:55 PM
1.8B+ globally? Heck I'll take that bet! No way will it go that high.
It will if it only makes about 1.15B in foreign

LOCK IT DOWN!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.24B. Bets are on, stakes are HIGH!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 29, 2015, 08:44 PM
Btw, Inside out was really brilliant!
Woot! Woot!
I really liked it.  :D
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.38B. Bets are on, stakes are HIGH!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 05, 2015, 08:58 PM
"Universal is also reporting that Jurassic World (http://"http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=jurassicpark4.htm") will pass $550M in domestic grosses this weekend. Adding another milestone to its marble bag of records that's the fastest--in 24 days--any film has reached the $550M mark. World added $42M in overseas coin, raising its international total to $826.9M. Combined with domestic that total makes Jurassic World the fifth highest grossing film worldwide of all time with $1.385B in global grosses (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/), just passing Avengers: Age of Ultron (http://"http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avengers2.htm") at $1.37B."


1.8B+ globally? Heck I'll take that bet! No way will it go that high.
Only $415m to go!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.38B. Bets are on, stakes are HIGH!
Post by: Legend on Jul 05, 2015, 09:17 PM
"Universal is also reporting that Jurassic World (http://"http://\"http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=jurassicpark4.htm") will pass $550M in domestic grosses this weekend. Adding another milestone to its marble bag of records that's the fastest--in 24 days--any film has reached the $550M mark. World added $42M in overseas coin, raising its international total to $826.9M. Combined with domestic that total makes Jurassic World the fifth highest grossing film worldwide of all time with $1.385B in global grosses (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/), just passing Avengers: Age of Ultron (http://"http://\"http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avengers2.htm") at $1.37B."

Only $415m to go!
JW is estimated 31k for the weekend. Meanwhile The Avengers did 37k for its 4th weekend.
I bet it'll end at 650 mil in America and 850 foreign. 1.5 billion total. What's your guess?
Seems $650 million will be practically spot on for my prediction domestically.

Foreign the film is at $826 million. It's going to pass my 850 prediction and probably stop around 900-950. I'm feeling pretty confident for the bet!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.38B. Bets are on, stakes are HIGH!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 05, 2015, 09:23 PM
JW is estimated 31k for the weekend. Meanwhile The Avengers did 37k for its 4th weekend.Seems $650 million will be practically spot on for my prediction domestically.

Foreign the film is at $826 million. It's going to pass my 850 prediction and probably stop around 900-950. I'm feeling pretty confident for the bet!
Yeah it's slowing down faster than The Avengers but then again it's like $40m ahead in the US. I can see $650m too.
I'm hoping for $1B overseas now. $1.15 is probably too much
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.38B. Bets are on, stakes are HIGH!
Post by: Legend on Jul 05, 2015, 09:43 PM
Yeah it's slowing down faster than The Avengers but then again it's like $40m ahead in the US. I can see $650m too.
I'm hoping for $1B overseas now. $1.15 is probably too much
I could see it passing $1 billion. All it takes is a couple big markets to love it and then it has crazy legs. Kinda like Frozen which did $250 million in just Japan.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.38B. Bets are on, stakes are HIGH!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 05, 2015, 10:26 PM
I could see it passing $1 billion. All it takes is a couple big markets to love it and then it has crazy legs. Kinda like Frozen which did $250 million in just Japan.
But does it have any markets left to launch in?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.38B. Bets are on, stakes are HIGH!
Post by: Legend on Jul 05, 2015, 10:31 PM
But does it have any markets left to launch in?
Yeah I think it still has some.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.38B. Bets are on, stakes are HIGH!
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 06, 2015, 02:23 AM
Jurassic World was stupid. Fun to watch but stupid
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.38B. Bets are on, stakes are HIGH!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 11, 2015, 02:03 AM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.38B. Bets are on, stakes are HIGH!
Post by: Legend on Jul 11, 2015, 02:19 AM

Looks great.


Also I saw terminator today. Really liked it. If all you're looking for is a summer action flick, it delivers.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.38B. Bets are on, stakes are HIGH!
Post by: Legend on Jul 11, 2015, 05:01 AM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.38B. Bets are on, stakes are HIGH!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 11, 2015, 11:14 AM
No new movie trailers from comic con??
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.38B. Bets are on, stakes are HIGH!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 11, 2015, 06:15 PM
So it seems like Minions will be huge. Estimate is $120m for the weekend in the US
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.38B. Bets are on, stakes are HIGH!
Post by: Legend on Jul 11, 2015, 06:18 PM
So it seems like Minions will be huge. Estimate is $120m for the weekend in the US
I was expecting better just since minions seem to be the biggest craze right now.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.38B. Bets are on, stakes are HIGH!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 11, 2015, 06:37 PM
I was expecting better just since minions seem to be the biggest craze right now.
Could be the biggest opening for an animated movie ever in the US
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.38B. Bets are on, stakes are HIGH!
Post by: Legend on Jul 11, 2015, 07:20 PM
Could be the biggest opening for an animated movie ever in the US
Probably not going to pass Shrek the third.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.38B. Bets are on, stakes are HIGH!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 11, 2015, 07:24 PM
Probably not going to pass Shrek the third.
We'll see. Should be close.
Its Friday estimate is quite a bit bigger than Shrek the third got on its first Friday
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Minions is huge! Will Jurassic World cross $1.8B? Watch this space.
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 11, 2015, 08:16 PM
I want to see the minions.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Minions is huge! Will Jurassic World cross $1.8B? Watch this space.
Post by: Legend on Jul 11, 2015, 08:21 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Minions is huge! Will Jurassic World cross $1.8B? Watch this space.
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 11, 2015, 08:21 PM

Finally!! Was waiting for this
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Post by: Legend on Jul 11, 2015, 08:24 PM
Finally!! Was waiting for this
I'm really starting to get hyped!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - BvsS new trailer!! Minions is huge! Will Jurassic World cross $1.8B? Watch this space.
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 11, 2015, 08:29 PM
I'm really starting to get hyped!
EPIC trailer. I'm a bit worried that there's TOO MUCH stuff going on in the movie. I mean, we have Batman v Superman, Wonderwoman, Lex Luthor and maybe Robin (and the Joker?? - see the graffiti on the Robin suit)
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Post by: Legend on Jul 11, 2015, 08:32 PM
EPIC trailer. I'm a bit worried that there's TOO MUCH stuff going on in the movie. I mean, we have Batman v Superman, Wonderwoman, Lex Luthor and maybe Robin (and the Joker?? - see the graffiti on the Robin suit)
Batman
Superman
Lex
Joker
Robin
Wonderwoman
Harley
Red Hoods
Nightwing


It's just the whole shabang.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - BvsS new trailer!! Minions is huge! Will Jurassic World cross $1.8B? Watch this space.
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 11, 2015, 08:35 PM
Batman
Superman
Lex
Joker
Robin
Wonderwoman
Harley
Red Hoods
Nightwing


It's just the whole shabang.  
Wait, they aren't all confirmed are they?

Maybe it will end with a Joker tease or something
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - BvsS new trailer!! Minions is huge! Will Jurassic World cross $1.8B? Watch this space.
Post by: Legend on Jul 11, 2015, 08:37 PM
Wait, they aren't all confirmed are they?

Maybe it will end with a Joker tease or something
Not officially confirmed, but hinted/leaked.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - BvsS new trailer!! Minions is huge! Will Jurassic World cross $1.8B? Watch this space.
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 11, 2015, 09:00 PM
Wrong thread
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - BvsS new trailer!! Minions is huge! Will Jurassic World cross $1.8B? Watch this space.
Post by: Legend on Jul 11, 2015, 09:05 PM
Warcraft trailer coming soon! possibly.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - BvsS new trailer!! Minions is huge! Will Jurassic World cross $1.8B? Watch this space.
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 11, 2015, 09:05 PM
Warcraft trailer coming soon! possibly.
hype!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - BvsS new trailer!! Minions is huge! Will Jurassic World cross $1.8B? Watch this space.
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 12, 2015, 12:59 AM
Suicide Squad Trailer (San Diego Comic-Con) - vidme (https://vid.me/NHC9)
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Post by: Cute Pikachu on Jul 12, 2015, 01:09 AM
That Joker looks amazing
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Jul 12, 2015, 02:00 AM
Joker looks amazing
He does:
(http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/batman/images/3/3b/Joker-batman-arkham-asylum-8528921-1280-720.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111028185420)

His look is terrible in the movie though.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 12, 2015, 02:03 AM
He does:
(http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/batman/images/3/3b/Joker-batman-arkham-asylum-8528921-1280-720.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111028185420)

His look is terrible in the movie though.
No it's good and fits the movie
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Jul 12, 2015, 02:05 AM
No it's good and fits the movie
It's not good and it does fit the movie XD
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 12, 2015, 02:08 AM
It's not good and it does fit the movie XD
(http://i.imgur.com/eCnGVjV.png)
Looks great to me
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Post by: Legend on Jul 12, 2015, 02:38 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/eCnGVjV.png)
Looks great to me
Who is that?
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 12, 2015, 02:47 AM
Who is that?
Joker
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Post by: Legend on Jul 12, 2015, 02:49 AM
Joker
*actor?...
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 12, 2015, 02:55 AM
*actor?...
Uhm Jared Leto obviously!
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Post by: Legend on Jul 12, 2015, 03:05 AM
Uhm Jared Leto obviously!
It's even more obvious than the fact he's the joker!

Never heard of him before, but I've seen fight club.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 12, 2015, 03:09 AM
It's even more obvious than the fact he's the joker!

Never heard of him before, but I've seen fight club.
Requiem for a Dream, Dallas Buyers Club??
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 12, 2015, 06:05 AM
Requiem for a Dream, Dallas Buyers Club??
American psycho.

dang batman vs Superman looks horrid
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 12, 2015, 12:17 PM

American psycho.

dang batman vs Superman looks horrid
Lol I forgot about his role in American Psycho. It was good

Horrifically good, you mean?
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Post by: Legend on Jul 12, 2015, 02:44 PM
Requiem for a Dream, Dallas Buyers Club??
Yes but who did he play in those?
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 12, 2015, 02:49 PM
Yes but who did he play in those?
The main role in Requiem and the Oscar winning supporting role in Dallas
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Post by: Legend on Jul 12, 2015, 02:53 PM
The main role in Requiem and the Oscar winning supporting role in Dallas
gotcha
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 12, 2015, 02:55 PM
gotcha
(https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/jared-leto-dallas-buyers-club-transgender.jpg?quality=65&strip=color&w=1012)
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Post by: Legend on Jul 12, 2015, 03:06 PM
(https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/jared-leto-dallas-buyers-club-transgender.jpg?quality=65&strip=color&w=1012)
Haha no I was serious with the gotcha. I knew who you meant.
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 12, 2015, 04:06 PM
Haha no I was serious with the gotcha. I knew who you meant.
He's also in 30 seconds to mars
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Jul 12, 2015, 04:30 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/eCnGVjV.png)
Looks great to me
Face wise yes.  The tats?  You'd figure after the backlash they'd have gotten rid of them.  I mean they had to PR their asses and say it was just art for the 75th when they revealed the look.  They didn't even officially release the Harley backside of the drawing because of it.  It's not like they were filming when the internet took them to court on the matter.  But sounds like he's acting right, so I have no complaints there.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 12, 2015, 05:54 PM
Face wise yes.  The tats?  You'd figure after the backlash they'd have gotten rid of them.  I mean they had to PR their asses and say it was just art for the 75th when they revealed the look.  They didn't even officially release the Harley backside of the drawing because of it.  It's not like they were filming when the internet took them to court on the matter.  But sounds like he's acting right, so I have no complaints there.
I don't see what's wrong with him having tattoos. They can put their own spin on him, just like Nolan and Ledger did
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 12, 2015, 05:57 PM
Estimates now put Minions at $115m for the weekend, so it won't beat Shrek 3.
Jurassic is also ahead of Inside Out again. Surprising. Didn't expect it to outleg a Pixar movie.
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Post by: Legend on Jul 12, 2015, 06:03 PM
Estimates now put Minions at $115m for the weekend, so it won't beat Shrek 3.
Jurassic is also ahead of Inside Out again. Surprising. Didn't expect it to outleg a Pixar movie.
Inside out doesn't have dem legs!
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Jul 12, 2015, 06:35 PM
I don't see what's wrong with him having tattoos. They can put their own spin on him, just like Nolan and Ledger did
Why would Joker have tatooes?  Why not put some on Bruce while we're at it?  Taking variations are one thing.  Doing stuff characters wouldn't do are another.  Would Joker cut smiles into people?  If he can't make his laughing gas he will.  Would Joker randomly let Harley put tatooes on him? fudge no, he doesn't love her that much.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 12, 2015, 06:46 PM
Inside out doesn't have dem legs!
It got ahead last weekend though. Thought it would remain there.

Why would Joker have tatooes?  Why not put some on Bruce while we're at it?  Taking variations are one thing.  Doing stuff characters wouldn't do are another.  Would Joker cut smiles into people?  If he can't make his laughing gas he will.  Would Joker randomly let Harley put tatooes on him? fudge no, he doesn't love her that much.
Joker loves pain, so why not? He decorates his body with paint and blood and he somehow wouldn't want to put tattoos on himself too?? There's nothing in his character that forbids that. Plus, this Joker is not the same Joker as every other Joker
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 12, 2015, 07:12 PM
Why wouldn't joker have tattoos?
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Jul 12, 2015, 07:54 PM
It got ahead last weekend though. Thought it would remain there.
Joker loves pain, so why not? He decorates his body with paint and blood and he somehow wouldn't want to put tattoos on himself too?? There's nothing in his character that forbids that. Plus, this Joker is not the same Joker as every other Joker
He doesn't decorate his body, his body colour came about when Batman knocked him into a vat of chemicals in Detective Comics 27.  I also said he wouldn't let Harley put tatoos on him.  Though, I still don't see why he would want tatoos.  What's the punchline for it?
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 13, 2015, 04:22 PM
He doesn't decorate his body, his body colour came about when Batman knocked him into a vat of chemicals in Detective Comics 27.  I also said he wouldn't let Harley put tatoos on him.  Though, I still don't see why he would want tatoos.  What's the punchline for it?
None of that explains why he wouldn't get tattoos.
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Jul 13, 2015, 04:58 PM
None of that explains why he wouldn't get tattoos.
What's the punchline for it?  Joker doesn't do anything unless there's a punchline.  Though it was mostly he would never let Harley put them on him.
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 13, 2015, 06:17 PM
What's the punchline for it?  Joker doesn't do anything unless there's a punchline.  Though it was mostly he would never let Harley put them on him.
He must have a sad boring life if he can only think of doing things for a punchline... What's the punchline for eating this food... What's the punchline for going to sleep... What's the punchline for taking a shower...
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Jul 13, 2015, 06:35 PM
He must have a sad boring life if he can only think of doing things for a punchline... What's the punchline for eating this food... What's the punchline for going to sleep... What's the punchline for taking a shower...
You're saying tatooes are as important as living?  You're also not understanding that Joker's life are for his punchlines?  Cause setting bombs over the city, robbing banks to fund his escapades, kidnapping people and putting makeup on them to look like him and to make sure they're always smiling, gassing people with laughing gas so they die of laughter, killing people with oversize "bang" guns, aren't for his own amusement?
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 13, 2015, 09:24 PM
You're saying tatooes are as important as living?  You're also not understanding that Joker's life are for his punchlines?  Cause setting bombs over the city, robbing banks to fund his escapades, kidnapping people and putting makeup on them to look like him and to make sure they're always smiling, gassing people with laughing gas so they die of laughter, killing people with oversize "bang" guns, aren't for his own amusement?
Aren't tattoos for people's amusement?
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 13, 2015, 09:25 PM
The Jurassic World dream is dead. It should just barely pass Avengers worldwide
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Post by: Xevross on Jul 13, 2015, 09:26 PM
The Jurassic World dream is dead. It should just barely pass Avengers worldwide
What does Legend win?
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Post by: Legend on Jul 13, 2015, 09:32 PM
The Jurassic World dream is dead. It should just barely pass Avengers worldwide
Third weekend is slightly worse than Avengers's third weekend domestically. Guess next week is when we'll see if JW has shorter legs or not.

I bet it'll end at 650 mil in America and 850 foreign. 1.5 billion total. What's your guess?
Domestic: $590,638,000   40.3%
+ Foreign: (http://"http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=jurassicpark4.htm") $875,200,000   59.7%


= Worldwide: $1,465,838,000


Haha I suck at game sales predictions, but I'm not that bad with movies.

Are you ready to concede our $1.8 billion bet? The stakes were $1,000 if I'm remembering correctly.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 13, 2015, 10:03 PM
Not quite yet.

It'll end close to $650m in US though and 900m+ overseas
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Jul 13, 2015, 10:51 PM
Aren't tattoos for people's amusement?
Yes, but what's the punchline for it?  I don't see how having "Damaged" tattooed to his forehead would make him laugh.  He'd need a mirror for that.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 13, 2015, 11:02 PM
Yes, but what's the punchline for it?  I don't see how having "Damaged" tattooed to his forehead would make him laugh.  He'd need a mirror for that.
Or sharp blades
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Jul 13, 2015, 11:19 PM
Or sharp blades
I guess he can look at his face with knives.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 13, 2015, 11:47 PM
And here it is!

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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 14, 2015, 06:27 PM
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Post by: Legend on Jul 14, 2015, 06:32 PM

It's green now...

Plus the 3D version was scrapped. I'm getting bad vibes. I feel a flop is inbound.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 16, 2015, 10:13 AM
About Ant-Man on boxofficemojo:

"While it's unlikely that that base will shun the new film they might be quick to turn on it if they feel it's not up to par with their imagined Wright film.
Given Ant-Man's decidedly mixed reviews it may be in danger of those fans doing just that. The film has a 74% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a healthy (but likely fanboy) 8.0 rating on IMDb from 3,168 users and a Metascore of 66/100.
Middling to negative reviews are an external nuisance but Ant-Man also has to deal with some internal, logistical reluctance as well."

Does nobody else find this funny/weird? Lol
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Post by: Legend on Jul 16, 2015, 03:14 PM
About Ant-Man on boxofficemojo:

"While it's unlikely that that base will shun the new film they might be quick to turn on it if they feel it's not up to par with their imagined Wright film.
Given Ant-Man's decidedly mixed reviews it may be in danger of those fans doing just that. The film has a 74% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a healthy (but likely fanboy) 8.0 rating on IMDb from 3,168 users and a Metascore of 66/100.
Middling to negative reviews are an external nuisance but Ant-Man also has to deal with some internal, logistical reluctance as well."

Does nobody else find this funny/weird? Lol

Nah those are poor scores.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - BvsS new trailer!! Minions is huge! Will Jurassic World cross $1.8B? Watch this space.
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 16, 2015, 04:32 PM
Nah those are poor scores.
Not really. Movies score much lower than games on average because their review system isn't as broken.
66 on Meta is good, almost very good. 8 on IMDB is great. 74% on RT is good.
That's nowhere close to "middling to negative reviews". Also, it's funny that he claimed the IMDB score "likely fanboy" lol
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - BvsS new trailer!! Minions is huge! Will Jurassic World cross $1.8B? Watch this space.
Post by: Legend on Jul 16, 2015, 04:37 PM
Not really. Movies score much lower than games on average because their review system isn't as broken.
66 on Meta is good, almost very good. 8 on IMDB is great. 74% on RT is good.
That's nowhere close to "middling to negative reviews". Also, it's funny that he claimed the IMDB score "likely fanboy" lol
We shall see come tomorrow!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - BvsS new trailer!! Minions is huge! Will Jurassic World cross $1.8B? Watch this space.
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 16, 2015, 04:40 PM
We shall see come tomorrow!
I'm sure you'll enjoy it, for some reason
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - BvsS new trailer!! Minions is huge! Will Jurassic World cross $1.8B? Watch this space.
Post by: Legend on Jul 16, 2015, 04:50 PM
I'm sure you'll enjoy it, for some reason
I enjoy practically every movie lol.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.51B, becomes 4th highest grossing movie ever
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 19, 2015, 04:52 PM
JW becomes 4th highest grossing movie ever. Just overtook F7! Also over $900m in "foreign" gross and over $600m domestic.

This weekend it made about the same domestic as Avengers 1 did in the same weekend and is still $40m ahead. Looks like $650m+ should be easy.
I think it also has yet to open in Japan so I will not admit defeat yet!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.51B, becomes 4th highest grossing movie ever
Post by: Legend on Jul 19, 2015, 05:12 PM
JW becomes 4th highest grossing movie ever. Just overtook F7! Also over $900m in "foreign" gross and over $600m domestic.

This weekend it made about the same domestic as Avengers 1 did in the same weekend and is still $40m ahead. Looks like $650m+ should be easy.
I think it also has yet to open in Japan so I will not admit defeat yet!
Haha $650m+ isn't easy, it's expected. $645m-$675m is what we're looking at domestically. Right in line with my $650m prediction.

Foreign is where Jurassic World is laughing at me. It's doing much better than I thought it would.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.51B, becomes 4th highest grossing movie ever
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 19, 2015, 06:13 PM
Haha $650m+ isn't easy, it's expected. $645m-$675m is what we're looking at domestically. Right in line with my $650m prediction.

Foreign is where Jurassic World is laughing at me. It's doing much better than I thought it would.
I don't think it has a chance to go as low as $645m. Avengers did $621m iirc and JW is tracking similarly right now but is still $40m ahead. The minimum is $650m and it will likely get to around $660m based on that.

I think JW can be quite big in Japan. Wonder how high it can go.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.51B, becomes 4th highest grossing movie ever
Post by: Legend on Jul 19, 2015, 07:46 PM
I don't think it has a chance to go as low as $645m. Avengers did $621m iirc and JW is tracking similarly right now but is still $40m ahead. The minimum is $650m and it will likely get to around $660m based on that.

I think JW can be quite big in Japan. Wonder how high it can go.
It's tracking similarly but that's not guaranteed to hold up. JW released a month later, and 2015 is different than 2012. 645 is just a worse case scenario.

Hmm I doubt Japan will care for it. The dinosaurs aren't as cool as Godzilla. /s
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.51B, becomes 4th highest grossing movie ever
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Jul 19, 2015, 08:45 PM
Everyone go pay to see Ant Man;
it was better than that Ultron crud.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.51B, becomes 4th highest grossing movie ever
Post by: Legend on Jul 20, 2015, 04:33 AM
I guess he can look at his face with knives.
Spoiler for Hidden:
(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/arkhamcity/images/a/a0/Arkhamknightjasontodd.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150627123728)


What if it's not just a tattoo?

(http://i.imgur.com/A46JK.gif)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.51B, becomes 4th highest grossing movie ever
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jul 20, 2015, 05:22 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:
(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/arkhamcity/images/a/a0/Arkhamknightjasontodd.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150627123728)


What if it's not just a tattoo?

(http://i.imgur.com/A46JK.gif)
You're saying he grafted skin from Jason to his body and then coloured it?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.51B, becomes 4th highest grossing movie ever
Post by: Legend on Jul 20, 2015, 05:52 PM
You're saying he grafted skin from Jason to his body and then coloured it?
Spoiler for Hidden:
He is Jason.<br><br>The REAL joker tortured and manipulated Jason, corrupting him into a fake Joker. It&#39;s all a fan theory but it seems believable.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.51B, becomes 4th highest grossing movie ever
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jul 20, 2015, 05:58 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:
He is Jason.

The REAL joker tortured and manipulated Jason, corrupting him into a fake Joker. It's all a fan theory but it seems believable.

I'd agree if Harley wasn't in the movie.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.51B, becomes 4th highest grossing movie ever
Post by: Legend on Jul 20, 2015, 06:01 PM
I'd agree if Harley wasn't in the movie.
This Fan Theory About Jared Leto's Joker is Kind of Brilliant - Dorkly Post (http://www.dorkly.com/post/75333/this-fan-theory-about-jared-letos-joker-is-kind-of-brilliant)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Jurassic World crosses $1.51B, becomes 4th highest grossing movie ever
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 22, 2015, 05:10 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 22, 2015, 05:37 PM


Another hit so soon from Pixar?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre
Post by: Legend on Jul 22, 2015, 06:06 PM


Another hit so soon from Pixar?
Looks better than Inside out at least

hehehe
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 22, 2015, 07:04 PM
Looks better than Inside out at least

hehehe
I laughed.  
Inside Out is amazing, nothing will ever beat it.
Hehehe
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre
Post by: Rain on Jul 23, 2015, 11:32 AM
Looks better than Inside out at least

hehehe
I liked Inside Out tho. It wasn't as good as some others such as Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc, or Wall-E but it was still pretty good. The middle killed it a bit and dragged on I'll admit tho.

Have high hopes for The Good Dinosaur & Finding Dory to be better!

I expected it to be bad & was not shocked when I saw the reviews finally put up but still. Adam never fails to fail  :P

Pixels (2015) - Rotten Tomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pixels/)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 23, 2015, 02:00 PM
Inside Out had some parts yeah, but overall it's probably my favorite Pixar movie.  
Just felt a lot more relatable than most of the movies.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre
Post by: Legend on Jul 23, 2015, 02:20 PM
I liked Inside Out tho. It wasn't as good as some others such as Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc, or Wall-E but it was still pretty good. The middle killed it a bit and dragged on I'll admit tho.

Have high hopes for The Good Dinosaur & Finding Dory to be better!

I expected it to be bad & was not shocked when I saw the reviews finally put up but still. Adam never fails to fail  :P

Pixels (2015) - Rotten Tomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pixels/)

Yeah I'll probably see IO and love it lol.

@Pixels

Not too bad haha. I want to see it even more now!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre
Post by: Rain on Jul 23, 2015, 02:43 PM
Inside Out had some parts yeah, but overall it's probably my favorite Pixar movie.  
Just felt a lot more relatable than most of the movies.  
That's true, it was more relatable than say, Finding Nemo  :P

It made me think about emotions as people for like a week straight after seeing it...

I thought the movie met my expectations but never exceeded it like the best of Pixar for me but was still good

Yeah I'll probably see IO and love it lol.

@Pixels

Not too bad haha. I want to see it even more now!
Is it bad that I feel sorry for you for wanting to see it? Ha!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre
Post by: Legend on Jul 23, 2015, 02:50 PM
Is it bad that I feel sorry for you for wanting to see it? Ha!
I love video games. I'm not going to be watching it for the jokes  ;D
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre
Post by: Rain on Jul 23, 2015, 02:56 PM
I love video games. I'm not going to be watching it for the jokes  ;D
I guess that's true. At least you know what you're getting into
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 23, 2015, 08:40 PM
'Jurassic World' Passes 'Avengers' for All-Time Worldwide Box Office - Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4087&p=.htm)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 27, 2015, 06:50 PM
JW just passed Avengers in the US
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Legend on Jul 27, 2015, 06:55 PM
JW just passed Avengers in the US
3rd biggest movie ever!

I didn't really care for Avengers, so I'm glad to see JW crush it!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Xevross on Jul 27, 2015, 10:28 PM
3rd biggest movie ever!

I didn't really care for Avengers, so I'm glad to see JW crush it!
Avengers was a much better film imo. Just as fun to watch yet much better quality
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Legend on Jul 27, 2015, 10:31 PM
Avengers was a much better film imo. Just as fun to watch yet much better quality
What was low quality about JW?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Xevross on Jul 27, 2015, 10:33 PM
What was low quality about JW?
It wasn't low quality, it's just avengers was very good quality. I didn't really like the writing in JW, it was so cheesy and cliché. Made me cringe too much.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 27, 2015, 11:40 PM
Weird voice acting, is probably the most common thing that ruins a moment for me.  

It seems like whenever there's like a play, they just talk weird.  They don't talk naturally usually and it bugs me.  Sometimes they do that in TV shows and stuff.  Like they sound airy I think.  I'm not exactly sure how to describe it.  

Weird lines, is next.  Like stuff that makes you think who says that?  
Like I see stuff on Disney channel, and they seem to have a lot of problems with these two.  

Weird story is least common, but I think it's the worst.  
Like Avatar The Last Airbender the movie. That was awful, may it be forgiven for the tragedy it was.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Xbro on Jul 28, 2015, 03:29 AM
Just saw Mission Impossible, it was quite good.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 28, 2015, 04:48 AM
Just saw Mission Impossible, it was quite good.
That's Impossible.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 28, 2015, 11:34 AM
That's Impossible.  
Let's make it a mission!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: BananaKing on Jul 28, 2015, 01:06 PM
What was low quality about JW?
it was stupid. its a fun movie, but at times it was just so fudgy stupid.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Legend on Jul 28, 2015, 02:34 PM
it was stupid. its a fun movie, but at times it was just so fudgy stupid.
Sure, but that's no different than the Avengers. Both are just big summer action flicks.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Xevross on Jul 28, 2015, 02:37 PM
Sure, but that's no different than the Avengers. Both are just big summer action flicks.
Avengers was not stupid! I thought it was well written. Nothing made me cringe which is always good.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Legend on Jul 28, 2015, 02:44 PM
Avengers was not stupid! I thought it was well written. Nothing made me cringe which is always good.
Oh my gosh the whole Loki in the glass box thing was really cringeworthy to me haha.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: BananaKing on Jul 28, 2015, 07:28 PM
Sure, but that's no different than the Avengers. Both are just big summer action flicks.
Avengers wasnt nearly as stupid as Jurassic World though. both dont deserve the success they had IMO, but Avengers was a considerably better movie though.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Riderz1337 on Jul 30, 2015, 06:24 AM
WOAH! This came out of nowhere...

The Gift (2015) - Rotten Tomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_gift_2015/)

Early reviews are excellent. The trailer really did intrigue me but never thought it would get such high ratings. Also Joel Edgerton is a great actor, cool to see him directing his first film. He was amazing in Warrior with Tom Hardy.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Legend on Jul 30, 2015, 02:59 PM
WOAH! This came out of nowhere...

The Gift (2015) - Rotten Tomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_gift_2015/)

Early reviews are excellent. The trailer really did intrigue me but never thought it would get such high ratings. Also Joel Edgerton is a great actor, cool to see him directing his first film. He was amazing in Warrior with Tom Hardy.
I'm more interested in seeing Vacation!

Vacation (2015) - Rotten Tomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/vacation_2013/)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Xevross on Aug 02, 2015, 04:53 AM
Mission impossible is absolutely amazing. Everyone go and watch it. Fantastic writing, tense and suspenseful action, full of twists. One of the best films I've ever watched.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 02, 2015, 01:09 PM
Yeah it was very good. Not amazing imo though
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Aug 02, 2015, 04:57 PM
Jurassic World was garbage.

"you're going after it with nonlethals?"

"we have millions invested in it"

"that's why you let insurance be insurance."

The end.

Inside Out was good. I liked it. The abstract thought... LoL
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 02, 2015, 09:22 PM
JW at $1.56B and still going! I can see it finishing up with almost $1.7B now
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 02, 2015, 10:55 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: DD_Bwest on Aug 03, 2015, 03:38 AM



saw this on gaf,  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 03, 2015, 04:47 AM



saw this on gaf,  
I'm not good with this stuff.  
Got scared in like 30 seconds.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Xevross on Aug 03, 2015, 02:26 PM
I'm not good with this stuff.  
Got scared in like 30 seconds.  
I don't think it was scary. More just a bit creepy.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Legend on Aug 03, 2015, 02:32 PM
I don't think it was scary. More just a bit creepy.
More just weird.

Also

Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 03, 2015, 05:22 PM
I'm terrified of masks, to be honest.  :P
Usually, but not all masks.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 03, 2015, 07:38 PM
what happened to YT?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 03, 2015, 07:39 PM
what happened to YT?
They updated to the future.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Spectre. Jurassic Park becomes 3rd biggest movie ever!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 03, 2015, 08:32 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool trailer trailer
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 03, 2015, 10:46 PM
Whiplash was brilliant. Just watched it
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool trailer trailer
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Aug 03, 2015, 11:06 PM
I'm already loving Deadpool lol
Ryan Reynolds nailed it in that teased alone.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool trailer trailer
Post by: 7H3 on Aug 04, 2015, 01:11 AM
that was great trailer trailer
I've been reading deadpools secret secret wars lately too
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool trailer trailer
Post by: Legend on Aug 04, 2015, 04:25 AM
what happened to YT?
Looks normal to me.

EDT

oh shiz! FUTURE!!!!!!!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool trailer trailer
Post by: Legend on Aug 04, 2015, 05:21 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool trailer trailer
Post by: Legend on Aug 05, 2015, 05:57 AM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool trailer!
Post by: Xevross on Aug 06, 2015, 07:31 PM
Fantastic Four is 9% on rotten tomatoes. That is atrocious! Definitely won't be watching that film now.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool trailer!
Post by: BananaKing on Aug 06, 2015, 09:47 PM
Fantastic Four is 9% on rotten tomatoes. That is atrocious! Definitely won't be watching that film now.
well the trailers honestly looked like shame.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool trailer!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 06, 2015, 10:45 PM
Fantastic Four is 9% on rotten tomatoes. That is atrocious! Definitely won't be watching that film now.
Sounds like its worse than the other one.  I didn't mind the first one, but it wasn't great.  


Spoiler for http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/6/9112493/fantastic-four-review:
There's a moment in 2005's Fantastic Four that, in hindsight, exemplifies this reboot's core problem. There's a scene where a pre-Captain America Chris Evans rides his motorcycle over a ramp for a live crowd. He transforms into the Human Torch mid-jump, melting his gear in the process. But when he reveals his Fantastic Four outfit, the crowd goes wild. It's a fun scene, and that kind of fun is completely missing in this year's version. That first film is still a bad movie, but 2015's Fantastic Four is lifeless, and that somehow hurts more. Trank had an interesting conceit, but that conceit would have worked much better in a different movie. Here, it falls completely flat. Marvel's First Family deserves better.<br>
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool trailer!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 07, 2015, 12:44 AM
Lol that's two flops out of two for F4
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool trailer!
Post by: BananaKing on Aug 07, 2015, 08:45 AM
Lol that's two flops out of two for F4
good. the more comic book/super hero movie flops the better. maybe hollywood can try coming up with new ideas for movies now.

no hollywood, no, new movie ideas doesnt mean reboots! dang it! bad hollywood! bad !!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool trailer!
Post by: Legend on Aug 07, 2015, 03:37 PM
good. the more comic book/super hero movie flops the better. maybe hollywood can try coming up with new ideas for movies now.

no hollywood, no, new movie ideas doesnt mean reboots! dang it! bad hollywood! bad !!
Pff I like super hero movies.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool trailer!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 13, 2015, 03:06 PM


God, yes
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 13, 2015, 03:25 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Legend on Aug 13, 2015, 03:32 PM

Hype
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Riderz1337 on Aug 14, 2015, 05:20 AM



saw this on gaf,  
(http://i.imgur.com/2krYJWS.gif)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Legend on Aug 15, 2015, 02:42 PM
Finding Dory

(http://i.imgur.com/ztFQppl.jpg)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Aug 15, 2015, 09:55 PM
Apparently Civil War had a trailer
HYPE



Finding Dory

(http://i.imgur.com/ztFQppl.jpg)
HOLY crud I FOUND DORY ON THE LEFT AND DARLA IS BEHIND HER!!!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 15, 2015, 10:04 PM
Apparently Civil War had a trailer
HYPE


HOLY crud I FOUND DORY ON THE LEFT AND DARLA IS BEHIND HER!!!
Dang it!  Spoiler alerts!!!  
You just ruined the whole freaking movie!  Now we know what happens. :P
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Legend on Aug 15, 2015, 10:25 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/ejFVN7n.jpg)
Star Wars: Rogue One
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Legend on Aug 19, 2015, 04:02 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Kerotan on Aug 21, 2015, 12:19 AM
Just watched 3 days to kill and John wick.  

3 days to kill was a solid 3/10. Utter tripe.  

John wick 7/10. Very enjoyable and anyone who's into shooting games will probably enjoy this.  Well worth a watch.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Legend on Aug 21, 2015, 09:03 PM
Just watched 3 days to kill and John wick.  

3 days to kill was a solid 3/10. Utter tripe.  

John wick 7/10. Very enjoyable and anyone who's into shooting games will probably enjoy this.  Well worth a watch.  
Agree on wick. Nice to see they're making a sequel.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Kerotan on Aug 21, 2015, 09:07 PM
Agree on wick. Nice to see they're making a sequel.
Any news on it regarding actors,  directors or a release date?  

Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Legend on Aug 21, 2015, 09:36 PM
Any news on it regarding actors,  directors or a release date?  


John Wick 2: Keanu Reeves Returning for Sequel to Hitman Thriller | Variety (http://variety.com/2015/film/news/john-wick-2-sequel-keanu-reeves-returning-1201486842/)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Legend on Aug 22, 2015, 08:21 PM
app=desktop
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 23, 2015, 01:01 AM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Legend on Aug 23, 2015, 01:23 AM

Haha these are great.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 23, 2015, 08:48 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 23, 2015, 08:52 PM


98 on meta...
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Kerotan on Aug 24, 2015, 03:23 AM
Hitman: Agent 47 Reviews - Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/movie/hitman-agent-47)

So hitman is a bomba.  The advert I seen on TV today looked absolute shame so I'm not surprised.  The actor doesn't suit 47 at all. Low quality cash grab. What a shame.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 24, 2015, 09:39 AM
Hitman: Agent 47 Reviews - Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/movie/hitman-agent-47)

So hitman is a bomba.  The advert I seen on TV today looked absolute shame so I'm not surprised.  The actor doesn't suit 47 at all. Low quality cash grab. What a shame.
Makes you wonder why they are even making the second "Hitman" movie this time around with a completely new crew, when the first was mediocre at best.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Kerotan on Aug 24, 2015, 01:53 PM
Makes you wonder why they are even making the second "Hitman" movie this time around with a completely new crew, when the first was mediocre at best.
Didn't see the first but if it's mediocre it sounds a hell of a lot better than this.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 24, 2015, 04:52 PM
Didn't see the first but if it's mediocre it sounds a hell of a lot better than this.
Yeah it wasn't exactly bad. Just very run-of-the-mill
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Legend on Aug 24, 2015, 06:06 PM

Space!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Legend on Aug 24, 2015, 11:10 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/epyGGAo.jpg)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 24, 2015, 11:19 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/epyGGAo.jpg)
OMG! Hype!!
Time for a new trailer??
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Legend on Aug 24, 2015, 11:49 PM
OMG! Hype!!
Time for a new trailer??
New trailer is on 9/4 or so I've heard.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - The Hateful Eight trailer!!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 25, 2015, 02:54 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 26, 2015, 04:14 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 26, 2015, 04:44 PM

It's funny at the beginning, because Mad Max actually had a ton of CGI. It was just good.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 28, 2015, 02:28 PM


Omg the hype is killing me
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Legend on Aug 28, 2015, 06:02 PM


Omg the hype is killing me
Spoiler Alert!!!!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Aug 29, 2015, 08:48 PM
Was that blue lightsaber
Spoiler for Hidden:
anakin&#39;s?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Legend on Aug 29, 2015, 09:47 PM
Was that blue lightsaber
Spoiler for Hidden:
anakin's?

Has the same handlebar, but the rest looks different. Plus the lightsaber
Spoiler for Hidden:
fell into the depths of cloud city along with Luke&#39;s hand.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Aug 29, 2015, 10:10 PM
Has the same handlebar, but the rest looks different. Plus the lightsaber
Spoiler for Hidden:
fell into the depths of cloud city along with Luke's hand.

They could have
Spoiler for Hidden:
retrieved it
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Legend on Aug 29, 2015, 10:34 PM
They could have
Spoiler for Hidden:
retrieved it

Well in the stupid expanded universe...

Spoiler for Hidden:
The emperor used his hand to make a clone of luke and the lightsaber was given to the clone. Then Luke had to fight his clone. However some other Jedi wannabe kills the clone so Luke gives her the lightsaber as a gift...
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: DD_Bwest on Aug 30, 2015, 10:27 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 31, 2015, 02:43 PM
(http://kvikmyndir.is/frettir/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/09e65040c3fd16923aab811d4da2522ff4dc3a71.jpg)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 10, 2015, 12:11 AM
Jurassic World has passed $1B at the international box office and is very close to topping Titanic in the US. Global: ~$1.65B. I'm guessing it'll end with almost 1.7B, so close to my prediction :'(
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Legend on Sep 10, 2015, 04:12 AM
Jurassic World has passed $1B at the international box office and is very close to topping Titanic in the US. Global: ~$1.65B. I'm guessing it'll end with almost 1.7B, so close to my prediction :'(
Might just do that!

Haha seems I underestimated foreign and you overestimated it.


A bit late to the party, but this looks soooooooooooooo goooooooood!

Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: BananaKing on Sep 10, 2015, 11:18 AM
(http://kvikmyndir.is/frettir/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/09e65040c3fd16923aab811d4da2522ff4dc3a71.jpg)
im actually hyped for this movie. if they stay true to what made AC1 and AC2 so great then the movie might be awesome.


wtf is this shame?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 10, 2015, 12:04 PM
wtf is this shame?
I think it's a new TV movie
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: BananaKing on Sep 10, 2015, 01:29 PM
I think it's a new TV movie
are they trying to piss all over the legacy of lion king.... because they seem to be trying.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 10, 2015, 02:20 PM
I think it's a new TV movie
I don't know if I'd call it a TV movie.
It is a TV show, but yeah....

This reminds me of the Kung Fu Panda TV show.
Let's take a good movie and turn it into a bad TV show with cheap actors!  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 16, 2015, 10:54 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Legend on Sep 16, 2015, 10:55 PM

Looks, odd.

Hyper realistic cgi seems like a poor choice for this type of movie.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 16, 2015, 11:00 PM
Looks, odd.

Hyper realistic cgi seems like a poor choice for this type of movie.
Dat lineup tho.

It's not all CGI
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Legend on Sep 16, 2015, 11:06 PM
Dat lineup tho.

It's not all CGI
The boy is real lol.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 16, 2015, 11:11 PM

Actually blown away by how good it looks.  

Most of the time when I see cartoon-> anything that even resembles real life, it just looks awful, and cringeworthy.  

The boy is real lol.
The plot twist is that the boy is the only thing that is CGI.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Legend on Sep 17, 2015, 08:59 PM


Recognise sessler on the bus?

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMIvniZUMAA1s9d.jpg)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 17, 2015, 09:07 PM


Recognise sessler on the bus?

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMIvniZUMAA1s9d.jpg)
the hell lol!!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Legend on Sep 23, 2015, 03:49 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 23, 2015, 05:53 PM

dang, Sony is going to make bank on this
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 23, 2015, 05:58 PM

I had absolutely no hopes for this....


But now, it doesn't look bad.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 01, 2015, 12:34 AM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: darkknightkryta on Oct 01, 2015, 01:11 AM
So I was walking by the family room while my sister was watching T.V.  she was watching what was once a bad dog TV station.  Unfortunately it's so bad that it's not even a shell of itself.  Anyways, so this station used to show movies often and uncut.  I remember back in the day how awesome that was.  Every swear word intact.  Every nude scene in.  It was glorious.  So as I walked by they were showing some poorly executed teeny bop rap movie.  I got to think, was this station amazing cause everything was uncut or was it because movies were just bad dog then?  Is the "R" rated action movie genre dead?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Legend on Oct 01, 2015, 01:29 AM
So I was walking by the family room while my sister was watching T.V.  she was watching what was once a bad dog TV station.  Unfortunately it's so bad that it's not even a shell of itself.  Anyways, so this station used to show movies often and uncut.  I remember back in the day how awesome that was.  Every swear word intact.  Every nude scene in.  It was glorious.  So as I walked by they were showing some poorly executed teeny bop rap movie.  I got to think, was this station amazing cause everything was uncut or was it because movies were just bad dog then?  Is the "R" rated action movie genre dead?
What type of old r rated action movies do you like?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: darkknightkryta on Oct 01, 2015, 11:26 AM
What type of old r rated action movies do you like?

The ones where the main character swears every sentence and bangs the only other girl in the middle of enemy territory just cause he's that bad dog.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 01, 2015, 12:42 PM
The ones where the main character swears every sentence and bangs the only other girl in the middle of enemy territory just cause he's that bad dog.
James Bond?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Raven on Oct 01, 2015, 12:44 PM
James Bond?
Sounds more like Van Damme or Seagal movies.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: darkknightkryta on Oct 01, 2015, 11:32 PM
Sounds more like Van Damme or Seagal movies.
Exactly those ones!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars VII teaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 15, 2015, 08:59 PM
Ratchet & Clank - Movie Trailers - iTunes (http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/ratchetclank/)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet AAAAAAAND CLANK
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Oct 15, 2015, 09:04 PM
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/1593ab9bbb93510081d771e80b24a9b1/tumblr_mlrfsx5lAI1qcakl4o1_500.gif)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet AAAAAAAND CLANK
Post by: Legend on Oct 16, 2015, 10:01 PM
We Know When the New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer Is Hitting and Tickets Go on Sale (http://io9.com/you-could-soon-buy-tickets-for-star-wars-the-force-awa-1736560695)

Trailer comes Monday at 8:30 pm EST, tickets on sale directly afterwards.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 17, 2015, 06:20 PM
We Know When the New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer Is Hitting and Tickets Go on Sale (http://io9.com/you-could-soon-buy-tickets-for-star-wars-the-force-awa-1736560695)

Trailer comes Monday at 8:30 pm EST, tickets on sale directly afterwards.
*dies of hype*
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Oct 17, 2015, 09:01 PM
Someone said new Star Wars Trailer?  :o
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer
Post by: Raven on Oct 17, 2015, 09:10 PM

(http://images5.alphacoders.com/640/640375.jpg)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer
Post by: Legend on Oct 18, 2015, 06:18 PM
(http://a.dilcdn.com/bl/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2015/10/star-wars-force-awakens-official-poster.jpg)

DEATH STAR 3.0!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 18, 2015, 11:13 PM
dang, star wars screens and art are always so on point
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer
Post by: Legend on Oct 19, 2015, 12:31 AM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 20, 2015, 12:29 AM
Here yet?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer
Post by: Legend on Oct 20, 2015, 12:46 AM
Here yet?
It'll air at half time during the game.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 20, 2015, 12:51 AM
It'll air at half time during the game.
When is that?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer
Post by: Legend on Oct 20, 2015, 01:08 AM
When is that?
Soon.

Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 20, 2015, 01:09 AM
Soon.


Not soon enough
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer
Post by: Legend on Oct 20, 2015, 01:19 AM
Not soon enough
Like 20 minutes depending on time outs.

5 minutes!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer
Post by: Raven on Oct 20, 2015, 01:46 AM
Like 20 minutes depending on time outs.

5 minutes!
HYPE!

(http://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/funny-gif-Colbert-screaming.gif)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer
Post by: Legend on Oct 20, 2015, 01:56 AM
Am I the only one watching live?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer
Post by: Raven on Oct 20, 2015, 02:05 AM
Am I the only one watching live?
I don't watch TV.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer
Post by: Legend on Oct 20, 2015, 02:13 AM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Raven on Oct 20, 2015, 02:17 AM
Hold me.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Riderz1337 on Oct 20, 2015, 02:45 AM
Anyone know if I have to watch the previous Star Wars movies in order to understand what's happening in this one? I really don't feel like watching them lol
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Raven on Oct 20, 2015, 02:49 AM
Anyone know if I have to watch the previous Star Wars movies in order to understand what's happening in this one? I really don't feel like watching them lol
Get the fudge off of here and watch them all. Right now. GO!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Legend on Oct 20, 2015, 03:09 AM
Anyone know if I have to watch the previous Star Wars movies in order to understand what's happening in this one? I really don't feel like watching them lol
What.

The.

Fudge.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Oct 20, 2015, 03:17 AM
Anyone know if I have to watch the previous Star Wars movies in order to understand what's happening in this one? I really don't feel like watching them lol
Actually just watch the old ones.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Xevross on Oct 20, 2015, 07:52 AM
Hype level well and truly over 9000! Amazing trailer!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 20, 2015, 04:45 PM
OMG. who is the bad guy? He has hair in that last scene
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Legend on Oct 20, 2015, 04:50 PM
OMG. who is the bad guy? He has hair in that last scene
Kylo Ren is the guy in your sig.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 20, 2015, 05:43 PM
Kylo Ren is the guy in your sig.
I know, but who is he really?? Is he the one in the last scene with the magnificent hair? Or is that Oscar Isaac?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Legend on Oct 20, 2015, 05:55 PM
I know, but who is he really?? Is he the one in the last scene with the magnificent hair? Or is that Oscar Isaac?
Isn't he the one touching the guy with hair?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 20, 2015, 05:56 PM
Isn't he the one touching the guy with hair?
Oh yeah. I think I know now who the actor is that is playing Ren

I wonder where Luke is though
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Oct 20, 2015, 09:54 PM
Good trailer!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Kerotan on Oct 20, 2015, 10:31 PM
You know the guy who plays the head of nasa in the Martian?  

Where do I know him from.. It could be a film but I've a feeling it's a game.  He reminds me of captain quark from ratchet or Kevin butler from the old ps3 ads
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Legend on Oct 20, 2015, 11:19 PM
You know the guy who plays the head of nasa in the Martian?  

Where do I know him from.. It could be a film but I've a feeling it's a game.  He reminds me of captain quark from ratchet or Kevin butler from the old ps3 ads
Dumb and dumber?

His name is Jeff Daniels.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Riderz1337 on Oct 21, 2015, 04:29 AM
So if I was going to watch the Star Wars films, what order do I watch them in?

Also I just heard Yoda's voice for the first time in a video...Yeah I was not expecting him to sound like that lmao
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Xevross on Oct 21, 2015, 06:56 AM
So if I was going to watch the Star Wars films, what order do I watch them in?

Also I just heard Yoda's voice for the first time in a video...Yeah I was not expecting him to sound like that lmao
I'd watch them in episode order, it makes most sense.

Then again if you're watching it for the first time watching 4, 5 and 6 first might be better.

Actually scrap that, definitely watch 4, 5 and 6 first! You don't even need to watch 1 2 or 3
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: BananaKing on Oct 21, 2015, 07:20 AM
yeah that star wars trailer looked good. to bad the movie is trying to destroy white people.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 21, 2015, 11:16 AM
So if I was going to watch the Star Wars films, what order do I watch them in?

Also I just heard Yoda's voice for the first time in a video...Yeah I was not expecting him to sound like that lmao
4->5->6. 1 and 2 are mediocre, read or watch a summary unless you're really hardcore. Episode 3 is very good though.

Also, how have you not heard yoda's voice before? You're just full of surprises!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Raven on Oct 21, 2015, 03:05 PM
So if I was going to watch the Star Wars films, what order do I watch them in?

Also I just heard Yoda's voice for the first time in a video...Yeah I was not expecting him to sound like that lmao
Honestly, contrary to what everyone else recommends I'd watch them all. In order. That way you get the whole story and understand why a lot of people, myself included, think Disney buying Star Wars away from George Lucas was a godsend. Episodes 1 and 2 were.... ugh. Lucas was on something when he made those. Episode 3 was good but it still had the stink of whatever he was smoking left over.

Hayden Christiansen's career is probably ruined after his performance as Anakin Skywalker. Seriously. By episode 3 he should have been a man with a crisis on his mind and the resolve to stop it. Not some sniveling child who would probably run back to mommy and cry in her arms because the Jedi Council is "just a bunch of poopy jerks!".
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Legend on Oct 21, 2015, 05:16 PM
So if I was going to watch the Star Wars films, what order do I watch them in?

Also I just heard Yoda's voice for the first time in a video...Yeah I was not expecting him to sound like that lmao
4,5,6,1,2,3

Next you're going to say you never heard Darth Vador's voice either.

And at everyone else, don't spoil the movies for him!!! He might not know thebig shockers.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Xevross on Oct 21, 2015, 05:23 PM
4,5,6,1,2,3

Next you're going to say you never heard Darth Vador's voice either.

And at everyone else, don't spoil the movies for him!!! He might not know thebig shockers.
Yeah that is the best order. I was just thinking that if you watch 1, 2 and 3 first then it would ruin all of the shocks of 4, 5 and 6. Defo watch 4, 5 and 6 first :D
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Oct 21, 2015, 09:20 PM
Im jumping on the hype train!
CHOO CHOO!!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Oct 21, 2015, 09:37 PM
4,5,6,1,2,3

Next you're going to say you never heard Darth Vador's voice either.

And at everyone else, don't spoil the movies for him!!! He might not know thebig shockers.
You mean this one

Spoiler for Hidden:
(http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k11/Dorifto12/Shocker-350.gif)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Oct 21, 2015, 10:10 PM
yeah that star wars trailer looked good. to bad the movie is trying to destroy white people.
:o
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Xevross on Oct 21, 2015, 10:11 PM
yeah that star wars trailer looked good. to bad the movie is trying to destroy white people.
They're just compensating for the severe lack of black people in the other films
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: BananaKing on Oct 22, 2015, 07:52 AM
:o
havent you heard? the starwars film is trying to create a white genocide.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 22, 2015, 12:28 PM
They're just compensating for the severe lack of black people in the other films
Darth Vader is black tho
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Raven on Oct 22, 2015, 01:19 PM
Darth Vader is black tho
Darth Vader's voice is black.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 22, 2015, 01:46 PM
Darth Vader's voice is black.
Black voice, white body. The perfect human
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Riderz1337 on Oct 22, 2015, 02:30 PM
4,5,6,1,2,3

Next you're going to say you never heard Darth Vador's voice either.

And at everyone else, don't spoil the movies for him!!! He might not know thebig shockers.
Hmm let me see. Luke I am your father, Boba fett dude dies(???), Vader dies, Death star is destroyed, Something about luke and this girl being siblings but they've kissed before or something and that's all I really know about Star wars.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 22, 2015, 03:32 PM
Hmm let me see. Luke I am your father, Boba fett dude dies(???), Vader dies, Death star is destroyed, Something about luke and this girl being siblings but they've kissed before or something and that's all I really know about Star wars.
You got the gist of it
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Raven on Oct 22, 2015, 04:13 PM
You got the gist of it
Except the part about the implications of Luke's sister becoming a naughtiness slave for a short time.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Kerotan on Oct 23, 2015, 04:57 PM
Anyone see the last witch hunter?  Any good.?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Raven on Oct 23, 2015, 04:59 PM
Anyone see the last witch hunter?  Any good.?
It's a Vin Diesel movie. He's one of those actors that makes me WANT to like his work but I always end up disappointed.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Oct 23, 2015, 05:29 PM
It's a Vin Diesel movie. He's one of those actors that makes me WANT to like his work but I always end up disappointed.
So you have a man crush on vin diesel.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Raven on Oct 23, 2015, 06:23 PM
So you have a man crush on vin diesel.
Just like you have one on your dad.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Kerotan on Oct 23, 2015, 07:36 PM
Just like you have one on your dad.
So you're vin diesels son?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Raven on Oct 23, 2015, 08:34 PM
So you're vin diesels son?
Jealous?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: DD_Bwest on Oct 25, 2015, 08:31 PM
(https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/12063555_922933411089255_1053666118155972527_n.jpg?oh=5f6170ec92c3aff0e291db41ca64f623&oe=56B44D8C)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Riderz1337 on Oct 25, 2015, 08:55 PM
OMG STAR WARS TRAILER WAS SO INTEREST-

(http://i48.tinypic.com/2wr1340.png)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Legend on Oct 25, 2015, 09:06 PM
(https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/12063555_922933411089255_1053666118155972527_n.jpg?oh=5f6170ec92c3aff0e291db41ca64f623&oe=56B44D8C)
My gosh if that ends up being cannon....
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Raven on Oct 25, 2015, 09:54 PM
My gosh if that ends up being cannon....
Lol sure. If you wanted to avoid the problem with why John Boyega is highly unlikely, from a genetic reasoning, to be the child of Billy Dee Williams and Carrie Fisher. Though it's not like we should expect fiction to make sense, so....
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Raven on Oct 27, 2015, 02:45 AM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Kerotan on Oct 27, 2015, 02:47 AM
Jealous?
I'm more of a petrol man myself
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Raven on Oct 27, 2015, 02:48 AM
Lol "Witness the beginning of a happy ending"
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Legend on Oct 27, 2015, 02:51 AM

So old!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Raven on Oct 27, 2015, 02:51 AM
So old!
I honestly did not see this until recently.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Oct 27, 2015, 02:53 AM
hmm. image didn't work,  :(
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 27, 2015, 03:06 PM
(http://img.visir.is/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/XZ/20151027/LIFID03/151028977/V2/0/V2-151028977.jpg?MaxW=649&NoBorder=1)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Xevross on Oct 31, 2015, 08:59 PM
Just watched Spectre - fantastic film! Cinema was absolutely packed, this is gonna be a big one!

Nice PS4 ad before it too :D
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Legend on Oct 31, 2015, 09:02 PM
Just watched Spectre - fantastic film! Cinema was absolutely packed, this is gonna be a big one!

Nice PS4 ad before it too :D
Glad that Sony Pictures still have one good IP.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 04, 2015, 03:08 AM
I really like Hotel Transylvania.  
But I just feel like the endings of both movies, they don't feel right.
I guess it feels rushed.  Like okay, we gotta finish the movie in the next 10 min.  Scrap the ending, find something we can throw on and call it a day.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Kerotan on Nov 04, 2015, 10:32 AM
Seen spectre the other day.  Missed the first 2 minutes but apart from that an enjoyable send off.  Not as good as skyfall but good enough.  

So who will be the next bond?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 04, 2015, 02:31 PM
THE GIFT WAS A GREAT MOVIE. WATCH IT.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 04, 2015, 07:45 PM
THE GIFT WAS A GREAT MOVIE. WATCH IT.
Want
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Nov 04, 2015, 11:32 PM
The Gift was an excellent movie.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Xevross on Nov 04, 2015, 11:34 PM
I hear so much about Pulp Fiction from people in College... I feel like I need to watch it.
Seen spectre the other day.  Missed the first 2 minutes but apart from that an enjoyable send off.  Not as good as skyfall but good enough.  

So who will be the next bond?
Me
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Nov 04, 2015, 11:40 PM
Pulp Fiction is like Obama.
It's/he's so cool you can't forget him.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - New Star Wars Trailer Released!
Post by: Legend on Nov 06, 2015, 07:41 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Warcraft trailer
Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 06, 2015, 08:07 PM
Hmmm...

Hmmmmmm...

IDK what to feel regarding that Warcraft trailer. The teaser trailer they had made me super hyped but now looking at this is just looks a little weird in certain parts, mainly the CGI.

But nonetheless I love big battle sequences between armies similar to that of LOTR and the Hobbit, so I will keep my eye on this. Plus they have a great director who seems very confident in his movie.

Cautiously optimistic.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Warcraft trailer
Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 25, 2015, 06:00 AM
Captain America: Civil War first trailer

Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Warcraft trailer
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Nov 25, 2015, 05:55 PM
Holy shame at captain America.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Legend on Nov 25, 2015, 08:44 PM
Ace!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Legend on Nov 28, 2015, 08:41 PM
Title: *SPOILERS*
Post by: Xevross on Nov 29, 2015, 05:14 PM
*Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 Spoilers Lie Ahead!



I went to watch the new Hunger Games yesterday. I must say, I was slightly disappointed. Having not read the books I didn't know what was going to happen and I didn't really like the plot. I think they focussed on the wrong points and they could have made the deaths more meaningful, for example
Spoiler for Hidden:
I feel like I should have been so sad when Prim died but I didn&#39;t feel sad in the slightest... and when Finnick did it was as if he was just a random extra


I didn't really like how the film played out really,it was a revolution yet they just sort of worked their way through a city, avoided a few traps had some bombs dropped on them and then Katniss was told that they won, it was way too easy for the rebels. There was a few moments which I guess were supposed to be surprising twists but they were so goddam obvious
Spoiler for Hidden:
(like when she shot coin)
And of course, all along, it was just a love story.

It was better than the bore-fest that was part 1 but nowhere near as good as the original or catching fire. 6/10 for me.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Nov 29, 2015, 05:30 PM
*Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 Spoilers Lie Ahead!



I went to watch the new Hunger Games yesterday. I must say, I was slightly disappointed. Having not read the books I didn't know what was going to happen and I didn't really like the plot. I think they focussed on the wrong points and they could have made the deaths more meaningful, for example
Spoiler for Hidden:
I feel like I should have been so sad when Prim died but I didn't feel sad in the slightest... and when Finnick did it was as if he was just a random extra


I didn't really like how the film played out really,it was a revolution yet they just sort of worked their way through a city, avoided a few traps had some bombs dropped on them and then Katniss was told that they won, it was way too easy for the rebels. There was a few moments which I guess were supposed to be surprising twists but they were so goddam obvious
Spoiler for Hidden:
(like when she shot coin)
And of course, all along, it was just a love story.

It was better than the bore-fest that was part 1 but nowhere near as good as the original or catching fire. 6/10 for me.
The last book was the best one.  If they stayed close to the book it would be alright.  I did wonder how they would handle
Spoiler for Hidden:
prims death, as in the book it&#39;s pretty horrific


The money grab is what killed part one, there was no reason to split the last book into two movies and it just made part one long and uneventful.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Xevross on Nov 29, 2015, 05:33 PM
The last book was the best one.  If they stayed close to the book it would be alright.  I did wonder how they would handle
Spoiler for Hidden:
prims death, as in the book it's pretty horrific


The money grab is what killed part one, there was no reason to split the last book into two movies and it just made part one long and uneventful.
Spoiler for Hidden:
It wasn&#39;t horrific in the slightest in the movie, in fact it wasn&#39;t anything. She just disappeared behind some fire and then the only emotion shown was much later when Katniss chucked mugs and yelled at Prim&#39;s cat. I think they did that really poorly.


Agreed, that really needed to be one movie. Both were below average as a result.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Nov 29, 2015, 05:48 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:
It wasn't horrific in the slightest in the movie, in fact it wasn't anything. She just disappeared behind some fire and then the only emotion shown was much later when Katniss chucked mugs and yelled at Prim's cat. I think they did that really poorly.


Agreed, that really needed to be one movie. Both were below average as a result.
I knew they didn't have the ball's to follow the book there.

Spoiler for Hidden:
In the book prim is helping as a nurse tend to the sick and wounded kids . President snow decides to show his mercy by sending in car packages. Hundreds of these care packages floated down from the sky. The kids got excited and started to pick them up. Katniss knew something was wrong and started to run towards prim. Prim notices her and smiles (maybe can&#39;t remember exactly) and all the &quot;care&quot; packages started to blow up. <span style="font-size: 1em;" class="bbc_size">Katniss</span><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="bbc_size"> watches he sister blow the fudge up. </span><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="bbc_size"></span>
[/size]

So they really pussed out on that.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Xevross on Nov 29, 2015, 05:51 PM
I knew they didn't have the ball's to follow the book there.

Spoiler for Hidden:
In the book prim is helping as a nurse tend to the sick and wounded kids . President snow decides to show his mercy by sending in car packages. Hundreds of these care packages floated down from the sky. The kids got excited and started to pick them up. Katniss knew something was wrong and started to run towards prim. Prim notices her and smiles (maybe can't remember exactly) and all the "care" packages started to blow up. Katniss watches he sister blow the fudge up.
[/size]

So they really pussed out on that.
Spoiler for Hidden:
Yeah, I guess they almost did that but they changed it a lot. The care package bombs were dropped beforehand, Katniss did see Prim and called her name but there was no real danger... then out of nowhere a random fire explosion, we don&#39;t see anything then Katniss wakes up in a Hospital. So weird, they should have made that more dramatic! Its a movie for fudges sake! ;D
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 29, 2015, 06:37 PM
The Hunger Games movie being split into two was such an obvious cash grab...Barely anything happened in the first part...except for them capturing Peta and finding out he's gone crazy/insane. Did they really need to make an entire movie on just that? Borefest.

I'll still watch the final film just because I've already come this far so why not. Not seeing it in theatres though.

arr
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 29, 2015, 06:57 PM
Well obviously.
Have to pull a Harry Potter and make two parts for the last one.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Xevross on Nov 29, 2015, 07:04 PM
Well obviously.
Have to pull a Harry Potter and make two parts for the last one.  
Harry Potter did it amazingly. Both films are fantastic
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 29, 2015, 07:20 PM
Harry Potter did it amazingly. Both films are fantastic
Deathly Hallows Part 1 dragged on way too long...They were stuck in that forest for like an hour of the film lol.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Xevross on Nov 29, 2015, 07:25 PM
Deathly Hallows Part 1 dragged on way too long...They were stuck in that forest for like an hour of the film lol.
Its Harry Potter I don't care I didn't want it to end I loved every second shut up
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 29, 2015, 07:27 PM
Harry Potter did it amazingly. Both films are fantastic
It did, but it gave someone a bad idea*.  ;)

*in the wrong hands
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 29, 2015, 09:35 PM
Deathly Hallows Part 1 dragged on way too long...They were stuck in that forest for like an hour of the film lol.
The last HP book actually has tons of content though. It makes sense in that case. People had complained about the earlier movies skipping too much
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Legend on Nov 29, 2015, 09:45 PM
Mocking Jay part 1 was much better imo.

That movie at least felt important. Katniss directly helped the revolution. Liked the dam scene a lot.

Part 2 was just her on the sidelines being insignificant.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Xevross on Nov 29, 2015, 09:58 PM
Mocking Jay part 1 was much better imo.

That movie at least felt important. Katniss directly helped the revolution. Liked the dam scene a lot.

Part 2 was just her on the sidelines being insignificant.
Yeah, she really needed to be more important.
Spoiler for Hidden:
I guess though it was Coin who was making her insignificant and Katniss killing Coin at the end was her making sure she was actually centre stage for the revolution.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 30, 2015, 05:24 PM
Forgot to post here but while I was away in my vacation I watched the following movies (some of which on the airplane)

-Terminator Genisys
-Jurassic World
-The Avengers
-The Avengers Age of Ultron
-The Amazing Spiderman 2
-Toy Story 3
-Resident Evil Damnation (Animated)

Soo good ^_^
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Nov 30, 2015, 10:47 PM
This weekend I saw Good Dinosaur, Spector, and Creed. Creed was probably the best one.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Legend on Dec 03, 2015, 03:15 PM
If you're hyped for the movie, I recommend skipping this trailer.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaay too many spoilers.

Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 03, 2015, 03:29 PM
Or.... If you're hyped then watch it so you can put your expectations in check. Ugh affleck
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Legend on Dec 03, 2015, 07:26 PM
Non spoiler fan made cut, much better

Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Riderz1337 on Dec 03, 2015, 08:20 PM
That BvS trailer is hype.

WAY better than Civil War. Is it just me or does Civil War have no style to it? It just looks so bland, grey and dull. BvS has some unique artistic look to it which I'm digging. Zack Snyder might now know how to direct a great film, but he sure does know how to make it looks visually appealing, something that the majority of Marvel films lack IMO.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Legend on Dec 03, 2015, 08:30 PM
That BvS trailer is hype.

WAY better than Civil War. Is it just me or does Civil War have no style to it? It just looks so bland, grey and dull. BvS has some unique artistic look to it which I'm digging. Zack Snyder might now know how to direct a great film, but he sure does know how to make it looks visually appealing, something that the majority of Marvel films lack IMO.
Aw hell no Civil war looks so much better!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Xevross on Dec 03, 2015, 08:42 PM
Aw hell no Civil war looks so much better!
Agree with this. I have 10x more hype for civil war
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 03, 2015, 08:46 PM
Civil War >>>>>>>>>> BvS.

Ben affleck is so cringe worthy. "I thought she was with you." and his posture is off putting to me.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Cap America trailer
Post by: Riderz1337 on Dec 03, 2015, 08:53 PM
Ya'll are crazy. Marvel movies are so formulaic. I mean shame Avengers 1 and 2 are basically the same god dang movie. They even have cannon fodder enemies. Avengers 1 had aliens Avengers 2 had the robots.

And Marvel villains are cringeworthy. They haven't had a memorable villain yet. Don't even tell me Loki, that guy is so overused that he's become a joke...They had the chance to use Ultron as a proper villain but they go and ruin him by having one liners about...omelettes? Ok... Marvel.

I can watch DC movies multiple times because their FUN, but try watching a Marvel movie twice (Other than GOTG and Iron Man 1) and you'll see how quickly you get bored.

Maybe it's just me, but Marvel films have become so dull and repetitive that I check out an hour into them.

Civil War >>>>>>>>>> BvS.

Ben affleck is so cringe worthy. "I thought she was with you." and his posture is off putting to me.
Majority of people have turned around on him. They thought he wouldn't be fit for the role but he looks to be the best Bruce Wayne on screen as of yet. Whether he'll work as Batman we have yet to see, but god dang does that suit look great on him.

Oh also...
Greatest reaction to the BvS trailer EVER

Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Legend on Dec 10, 2015, 07:30 AM


Much better than the Jungle Book trailer!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 10, 2015, 12:46 PM
Seriously, you can say any superhero movie is basically the same. Bad stuff happens. Superhero emerges under some Nobel cause. Super villain emerges that gives hero hard time and conflict. Hero emerges as winner.

And marvel hasn't had doc Oct, magneto, thanos? Seriously, lex Luther looks to  be a baby.

And no, affleck is far from looking like the best Bruce. Are we forgetting Keaton? Then bale. Then Affleck can fight with crooner and Kilmer for the third spot.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Riderz1337 on Dec 10, 2015, 03:00 PM
Seriously, you can say any superhero movie is basically the same. Bad stuff happens. Superhero emerges under some Nobel cause. Super villain emerges that gives hero hard time and conflict. Hero emerges as winner.

And marvel hasn't had doc Oct, magneto, thanos? Seriously, lex Luther looks to  be a baby.

And no, affleck is far from looking like the best Bruce. Are we forgetting Keaton? Then bale. Then Affleck can fight with crooner and Kilmer for the third spot.
Doc Oc was Sony and Magneto is Fox. I'm talking about Disney Marvel.

And Thanos??? Really? What the fudge has he done? fudge all is what he's done. He's been the villains little baby in all the movies thus far. I mean even Ronan the accuser from GOTG basically talks back to him and Thanos does nothing but sit back in his chair. I hope they do him justice in Infinity war, but seeing their track record so far I highly doubt it.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 10, 2015, 03:36 PM
Predictions for SW records?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Riderz1337 on Dec 10, 2015, 04:55 PM
Predictions for SW records?
The only prediction I'm making is it's going to break records.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Legend on Dec 10, 2015, 04:59 PM
Predictions for SW records?
3rd highest movie of all time!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 10, 2015, 05:39 PM
OMFG!!!! BEBOP AND ROCKSTEADY!!!!!!!  Seeing it
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 10, 2015, 07:24 PM
OMFG!!!! BEBOP AND ROCKSTEADY!!!!!!!  Seeing it
huh?

The only prediction I'm making is it's going to break records.
3rd highest movie of all time!
It will certainly break all "fastest" records but will it top Titanic/Avatar? I think it can, as long as it's good and people want to see it twice
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: MasterbaMason on Dec 10, 2015, 07:26 PM
Either is gonna be awesome as all heck, or its gonna be just a cash grab and pis all over the lore.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Xevross on Dec 10, 2015, 07:28 PM
huh?
It will certainly break all "fastest" records but will it top Titanic/Avatar? I think it can, as long as it's good and people want to see it twice
I agree, its gonna break a billion extremely quickly. Should easily get 1.5bn, 2bn is possible if its a great film
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Legend on Dec 10, 2015, 08:35 PM
Either is gonna be awesome as all heck, or its gonna be just a cash grab and pis all over the lore.
Hopefully it retcons Jar Jar binks out  ;D

It will certainly break all "fastest" records but will it top Titanic/Avatar? I think it can, as long as it's good and people want to see it twice
No to Titanic, no way to Avatar.

Jurassic World ended up $500 million behind titanic, and over $1 billion behind Avatar. Huge gulf between them.

I'd bet $1.8 billion lifetime for episode 7. Huge huge opening but I think it'll have only average legs. No way the movie exceeds expectations.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 10, 2015, 11:04 PM
Hopefully it retcons Jar Jar binks out  ;D
No to Titanic, no way to Avatar.

Jurassic World ended up $500 million behind titanic, and over $1 billion behind Avatar. Huge gulf between them.

I'd bet $1.8 billion lifetime for episode 7. Huge huge opening but I think it'll have only average legs. No way the movie exceeds expectations.

SW has much, MUCH, MUUUUUCH more hype than Jurassic World ever had.
It's already smashing presale records in Iceland
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Legend on Dec 10, 2015, 11:16 PM
SW has much, MUCH, MUUUUUCH more hype than Jurassic World ever had.
It's already smashing presale records in Iceland
In America too.

That'll lead to a big opening, not good legs.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 10, 2015, 11:21 PM
In America too.

That'll lead to a big opening, not good legs.
Well it is star wars and I think many will want to see it again.

Holiday movies tend to have decent legs too I think

So where did you see it was breaking pre-sale records in America?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 11, 2015, 12:50 AM
It'll be big.

Think legs will have a lot to do with how well it is received.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 11, 2015, 01:15 AM
huh?
TMNT:OTS trailer
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Legend on Dec 11, 2015, 02:27 AM
TMNT:OTS trailer
Why the heck would they make another?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 11, 2015, 02:48 AM
Why the heck would they make another?
Because it is awesome
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Legend on Dec 11, 2015, 04:07 PM
Because it is awesome
No, no...





Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 11, 2015, 04:45 PM
No, no...






zomg

Still haven't seen the last one
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 11, 2015, 06:19 PM
No, no...
Yes, yes...

Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 11, 2015, 06:54 PM
Yes, yes...


(http://img-comment-fun.9cache.com/media/8304d9b9141701486026937387_700wa_0.gif)

A friendly reminder that The Phantom Menace did well over 1B at the box office back in 2001...
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 12, 2015, 12:07 AM
No, no...






dang goosebumps

2016 will be awesome

shame, accidentally read a major SW spoiler
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Riderz1337 on Dec 12, 2015, 01:42 AM
The new TMNT trailer looks pretty good.

I mean it looks fun...That's all I want from that movie. Not to take itself seriously. The Turtle van looks awesome as well. Also a Rhino with a tank? Looks like a good time lol.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 12, 2015, 03:40 AM
The new TMNT trailer looks pretty good.

I mean it looks fun...That's all I want from that movie. Not to take itself seriously. The Turtle van looks awesome as well. Also a Rhino with a tank? Looks like a good time lol.
It looks like a Michael Bay movie
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 12, 2015, 04:14 AM
The new TMNT trailer looks pretty good.

I mean it looks fun...That's all I want from that movie. Not to take itself seriously. The Turtle van looks awesome as well. Also a Rhino with a tank? Looks like a good time lol.
The van has "tartaruga" on the side lol



This is what happened when this turtle watched the trailer for TMNT.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 13, 2015, 07:16 PM
Independence day looks good
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 13, 2015, 07:35 PM
Independence day looks good
Good gravy, someone made a sequel.  :o
I had not heard of this.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 13, 2015, 08:26 PM
Good gravy, someone made a sequel.  :o
I had not heard of this.  
No will Smith but same pres and Jeff goldblum and his dad are back
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Legend on Dec 13, 2015, 09:38 PM
Independence day looks good


CGI action movie!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 13, 2015, 10:52 PM
Looks really good.  :o

Will have to watch that movie for the speech alone.
Actually I need to watch the first one again.  It's been a long time. :P
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Legend on Dec 13, 2015, 11:04 PM
Looks really good.  :o

Will have to watch that movie for the speech alone.
Actually I need to watch the first one again.  It's been a long time. :P
lol
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Legend on Dec 14, 2015, 06:33 PM


Spoiler free
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 14, 2015, 09:28 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Riderz1337 on Dec 15, 2015, 07:10 AM
Holy shame guys just came back from seeing the movie...WOW

Riveting, amazing, suspenseful, action packed, etc... I mean this movie has it all, and you're all in for a treat. This film is going to break box office records.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip was just such a wonderful film.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 15, 2015, 07:15 AM
That ended exactly how I expected.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 15, 2015, 12:43 PM
I don't know why JJ should be worried. The movie will smash the 1.5B wall
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Riderz1337 on Dec 15, 2015, 01:11 PM
Awesome to get to go back to the Wizarding World =)

Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 15, 2015, 05:39 PM
Oh lawdy, the fanboys are in full force on Star Wars' IMDB page. On both sides. People claiming it's the worst SW without having seen it, people claiming it's amazing, people posting spoilers etc. etc.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Dec 15, 2015, 08:12 PM
Disney won't let it be bad so we are fine.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Legend on Dec 15, 2015, 08:15 PM
Oh lawdy, the fanboys are in full force on Star Wars' IMDB page. On both sides. People claiming it's the worst SW without having seen it, people claiming it's amazing, people posting spoilers etc. etc.
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Spoilers suck!<br>
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars hype
Post by: Xevross on Dec 16, 2015, 11:12 AM
YES YES YES

99% rotten tomatoes, 83 meta.

HYPE LEVEL OVER 9000
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is actually INCREDIBLE. Will it SMASH records?
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 16, 2015, 12:31 PM
YES YES YES

99% rotten tomatoes, 83 meta.

HYPE LEVEL OVER 9000
holy SHIIIIIIT, what?!?!

oh, man, records will be SMASHEDDDDDDDDDDD


Hype is now insane!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is actually INCREDIBLE. Will it SMASH records?
Post by: BananaKing on Dec 16, 2015, 01:34 PM

seriously?

1.5 billion to be considered successful? wtf is this shame?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is actually INCREDIBLE. Will it SMASH records?
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 16, 2015, 01:46 PM
seriously?

1.5 billion to be considered successful? wtf is this shame?
Marketing budget as big as the budget for the movie?  You should look into Spider-man.  I don't know about the first 3, but the last two didn't make any money, despite making double its budget.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is actually INCREDIBLE. Will it SMASH records?
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 16, 2015, 01:57 PM
seriously?

1.5 billion to be considered successful? wtf is this shame?
Well they are probably taking into account that it's star wars.

Still, the toy sales alone will probably earn them money lol

Everyone vote in the poll!!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is actually INCREDIBLE. Will it SMASH records?
Post by: Xevross on Dec 16, 2015, 02:31 PM
holy SHIIIIIIT, what?!?!

oh, man, records will be SMASHEDDDDDDDDDDD


Hype is now insane!
Nah, its down to 97%

Doom confirmed.

Actually ep IV and V are the previous best SW films on 94%. So critics think this is the best Star Wars yet
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 16, 2015, 02:42 PM
So there's two cinemas in my city.

One has 36 showings of Star Wars out of a total 45 films tomorrow and the other has 34 showings of Star Wars out of a total of 39.

God dang, never seen so many.
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Dec 16, 2015, 03:18 PM
Nah, its down to 97%

Doom confirmed.

Actually ep IV and V are the previous best SW films on 94%. So critics think this is the best Star Wars yet
Huh? Look at the ratings again. It's not the "Tomato score" or whatever it's called that matters.

Force Awakens - 8.4/10

Empire Strikes Back - 8.9/10

Empire strikes back is the highest rated. Even A New Hope is rated 8.5/10
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 16, 2015, 03:21 PM
Huh? Look at the ratings again. It's not the "Tomato score" or whatever it's called that matters.

Force Awakens - 8.4/10

Empire Strikes Back - 8.9/10

Empire strikes back is the highest rated. Even A New Hope is rated 8.5/10
Well I was just using the main one that rt gives out on its own site.

By your measure those two are better, obviously.
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Dec 16, 2015, 03:34 PM
Well I was just using the main one that rt gives out on its own site.

By your measure those two are better, obviously.
Yeah that one is basically just which people liked the movie or not. Someone could give it a 6/10 but another person a 10/10. Two different ratings but for the tomato score they would both mean the same thing.

I used to look at the tomato score but now I look at the actual score. So many movies are 80% on rottentomatoes but are then rated 6/10
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 16, 2015, 03:47 PM
Yeah that one is basically just which people liked the movie or not. Someone could give it a 6/10 but another person a 10/10. Two different ratings but for the tomato score they would both mean the same thing.

I used to look at the tomato score but now I look at the actual score. So many movies are 80% on rottentomatoes but are then rated 6/10
I look at both tbh. Critic score usually correlates well to Meta anyway (83 on meta, 8.4 on RT)

2 voters and neither thinks it'll go beyond $2B!!! You'll be surprised
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 16, 2015, 03:54 PM
IMDB is down!
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 16, 2015, 03:56 PM
Box Office: 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Eyes $200 Million-Plus Debut   | Variety (http://variety.com/2015/film/box-office/star-wars-the-force-awakens-box-office-debut-1201662230/)
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Post by: Legend on Dec 16, 2015, 03:57 PM
I look at both tbh. Critic score usually correlates well to Meta anyway (83 on meta, 8.4 on RT)

2 voters and neither thinks it'll go beyond $2B!!! You'll be surprised
Over $2.5 billion?

(http://i.imgur.com/wYit1JS.gif)



I am getting hyped though! Will try to see it Friday morning at cheap ticket time!
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Post by: Legend on Dec 16, 2015, 04:00 PM
Box Office: 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Eyes $200 Million-Plus Debut   | Variety (http://variety.com/2015/film/box-office/star-wars-the-force-awakens-box-office-debut-1201662230/)
Now that sounds too low.

$261 million debut opening weekend imo
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 16, 2015, 04:00 PM
Over $2.5 billion?

(http://i.imgur.com/wYit1JS.gif)



I am getting hyped though! Will try to see it Friday morning at cheap ticket time!
You betcha. The movie is actually great, it will have amazing legs and break opening records everywhere
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Dec 16, 2015, 04:43 PM
Ok guys...

What order do I watch the Star Wars movie in?

Should I just do the order they were released in? Episode 4,5,6 then 1,2,3?
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 16, 2015, 04:54 PM
Ok guys...

What order do I watch the Star Wars movie in?

Should I just do the order they were released in? Episode 4,5,6 then 1,2,3?
Yes. 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3 is the best order imo
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 16, 2015, 05:27 PM
Nah, its down to 97%
Doom confirmed.
97%?  
Dang, worst movie ever.  
So there's two cinemas in my city.
One has 36 showings of Star Wars out of a total 45 films tomorrow and the other has 34 showings of Star Wars out of a total of 39.
God dang, never seen so many.
The hype is real.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 16, 2015, 06:06 PM
Ok guys...

What order do I watch the Star Wars movie in?

Should I just do the order they were released in? Episode 4,5,6 then 1,2,3?
Yes. Skip 1+2. LOL. Nah, you can watch them if you think you can manage

97%?  
Dang, worst movie ever.  The hype is real.
MOTY
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Dec 16, 2015, 07:17 PM
Yes. Skip 1+2. LOL. Nah, you can watch them if you think you can manage
MOTY
Mad Max Fury Road
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Post by: Legend on Dec 16, 2015, 07:39 PM
Mad Max Fury Road
Googled best movie of 2015 and Mad Max popped up at #1.

Sorry star wars.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 16, 2015, 07:43 PM
Googled best movie of 2015 and Mad Max popped up at #1.

Sorry star wars.
star wars isn't out
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 16, 2015, 07:45 PM
star wars isn't out
Google has it at number 2.  

Then again they have it at the top (http://www.imdb.com/search/title?year=2015,2015&title_type=feature&sort=moviemeter,asc)
On the other hand, google has never let me down.  So I'm going to trust google on this one.  
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 16, 2015, 07:52 PM
Google has it at number 2.  

Then again they have it at the top (http://www.imdb.com/search/title?year=2015,2015&title_type=feature&sort=moviemeter,asc)
On the other hand, google has never let me down.  So I'm going to trust google on this one.  
Well I'm sure SW will overtake it before the end of the year
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Post by: Legend on Dec 16, 2015, 08:07 PM
Well I'm sure SW will overtake it before the end of the year
Na, the martian will overtake both!
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 17, 2015, 05:54 PM
Forecast: 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'... Will Box Office Records Feel the Force? - Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4131&p=.htm)

"To break the record Force Awakens will need to average over $50,510 per theater, we're predicting a $55,899 average for a record-breaking $231 million opening. "

"Beyond opening weekend, the average multipliers in 2014 and 2015 were 3.15 and 3.01 respectively. For films opening in 4,000+ theaters that drops to 2.91 for 2014 and 2.57 in 2015. However, the average multiplier for the top opening weekends of all-time climbs to 3.24 and if you look at the two films that opened over $200 million, Jurassic World and The Avengers have 3.12 and 3.01 multipliers, which sets something of a baseline. All things considered a 3-3.5 times multiplier seems a safe approximation. This would put the overall domestic gross at $693-808.5 million, which means Avatar's all-time domestic record of $760.5 million is in some jeopardy."

"So go ahead and expect a record breaking opening internationally and across the globe with anywhere from $575-650 million worldwide."
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 17, 2015, 05:55 PM
The ground trembles
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 17, 2015, 06:10 PM


Marry me
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 17, 2015, 06:12 PM


Marry me
Wow, that was very well done
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Post by: Legend on Dec 18, 2015, 03:06 AM
Star Wars is here!!!


Wasn't sure what to do without infringing on copyrights lol.
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Post by: Cute Pikachu on Dec 18, 2015, 03:23 AM
Bastards I'm ready for the fireworks!
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 18, 2015, 05:54 PM
'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Opens with Record Breaking $57 Million Thursday Previews - Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4132&p=.htm)

"Our weekend prediction (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4131&p=.htm) for Force Awakens of $231 million now looks like it may be in jeopardy of being too low.
...
As for that international performance, the film now accounts for the largest single day of all time in UK/Ireland ($14.4m), Germany ($7.1m), Norway ($1.1m) and Sweden ($1.7m). Along with those four territories, it also accounts for the largest opening day in Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, Belgium, Finland, Netherlands, Switzerland (French-speaking), Austria, Ukraine, Slovakia, Croatia, Iceland, Serbia, Chile and Peru."
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Post by: Legend on Dec 18, 2015, 06:04 PM
'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Opens with Record Breaking $57 Million Thursday Previews - Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4132&p=.htm)

"Our weekend prediction (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4131&p=.htm) for Force Awakens of $231 million now looks like it may be in jeopardy of being too low.
...
As for that international performance, the film now accounts for the largest single day of all time in UK/Ireland ($14.4m), Germany ($7.1m), Norway ($1.1m) and Sweden ($1.7m). Along with those four territories, it also accounts for the largest opening day in Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, Belgium, Finland, Netherlands, Switzerland (French-speaking), Austria, Ukraine, Slovakia, Croatia, Iceland, Serbia, Chile and Peru."
Come on $261 million debut weekend!
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Post by: Cute Pikachu on Dec 18, 2015, 06:33 PM
Wait 57 million thursday?
JESUP CHRIST
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 18, 2015, 06:35 PM
Wait 57 million thursday?
JESUP CHRIST
the skies are falling
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 18, 2015, 06:36 PM
Reykjavík Street Now Called "Darth Vader" - The Reykjavik Grapevine (http://grapevine.is/news/2015/12/17/street-name-changed-to-darth-vader-knoll/)
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Post by: Aura7541 on Dec 18, 2015, 07:03 PM
'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Opens with Record Breaking $57 Million Thursday Previews - Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4132&p=.htm)

"Our weekend prediction (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4131&p=.htm) for Force Awakens of $231 million now looks like it may be in jeopardy of being too low.
...
As for that international performance, the film now accounts for the largest single day of all time in UK/Ireland ($14.4m), Germany ($7.1m), Norway ($1.1m) and Sweden ($1.7m). Along with those four territories, it also accounts for the largest opening day in Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, Belgium, Finland, Netherlands, Switzerland (French-speaking), Austria, Ukraine, Slovakia, Croatia, Iceland, Serbia, Chile and Peru."
Dang... :o

Apparently, it's getting really good reception on Rotten Tomatoes, too.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 18, 2015, 07:31 PM
'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Opens with Record Breaking $57 Million Thursday Previews - Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4132&p=.htm)

"Our weekend prediction (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4131&p=.htm) for Force Awakens of $231 million now looks like it may be in jeopardy of being too low.
...
As for that international performance, the film now accounts for the largest single day of all time in UK/Ireland ($14.4m), Germany ($7.1m), Norway ($1.1m) and Sweden ($1.7m). Along with those four territories, it also accounts for the largest opening day in Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, Belgium, Finland, Netherlands, Switzerland (French-speaking), Austria, Ukraine, Slovakia, Croatia, Iceland, Serbia, Chile and Peru."
Extremely impressive. Can't wait to see numbers for the whole weekend
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Post by: Cute Pikachu on Dec 18, 2015, 08:16 PM
So maybe it will do 250 million...
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 18, 2015, 08:20 PM
650m globally?
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Post by: Cute Pikachu on Dec 18, 2015, 08:23 PM
650m globally?
Prediction or news?
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 18, 2015, 08:29 PM
Prediction or news?
Question
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Post by: Cute Pikachu on Dec 18, 2015, 08:40 PM
Question
We'll it has 130 million in 2 days so maybe?
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Post by: Cute Pikachu on Dec 19, 2015, 01:06 AM
Well I'm gonna predict 252 million for the weekend
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 19, 2015, 03:18 PM
Ok guys...

What order do I watch the Star Wars movie in?

Should I just do the order they were released in? Episode 4,5,6 then 1,2,3?
3, 4, 5, 6 is all you need. and I'd watch it numerically
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 19, 2015, 03:18 PM
3, 4, 5, 6 is all you need.
agreed
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Post by: Cute Pikachu on Dec 19, 2015, 04:33 PM
3, 4, 5, 6 is all you need. and I'd watch it numerically
Same
Except Anakin is an annoying baby in 3 but it's still good.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 19, 2015, 04:39 PM
Same
Except Anakin is an annoying baby in 3 but it's still good.
He may be an annoying baby, but he's hot as fudge ;)
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Post by: Cute Pikachu on Dec 19, 2015, 05:01 PM
He may be an annoying baby, but he's hot as fudge ;)
Agree
Hot dang he's hot
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 19, 2015, 05:50 PM
'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Shatters Opening Day Record - Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4133&p=.htm)

Anyone surprised?

$250m worldwide total already

($120.5m in US)
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Post by: Cute Pikachu on Dec 19, 2015, 06:26 PM
So 177 million so far in two days in uS?
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Post by: Legend on Dec 19, 2015, 06:27 PM
So 177 million so far in two days in uS?
120 includes thursday night.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 19, 2015, 06:57 PM
Looks like it can get 230m+

Best part is that it will have great legs due to launching now and because it's good. 'A'  cinemascore from attendees
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Post by: BananaKing on Dec 19, 2015, 08:18 PM
So 177 million so far in two days in uS?
120$ million

includes "previews" from Thursday which for some reason are lumped in with Friday numbers.
includes marathon tickets which ran for 59.99$

however, this movie's release is absolutely massive, and most likely will crush every box office record for opening weekend. its certainly on track to do so. how legs will pan out we are yet to see, but given the good word of mouth, i think it will have pretty good legs.

as for international the film opened to the single largest day in history in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Norway and Sweden.

i think the big question is China, how big will the film be there, its a pretty big market and i am not sure of how big starwars is over there.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 19, 2015, 09:27 PM
120$ million

includes "previews" from Thursday which for some reason are lumped in with Friday numbers.
includes marathon tickets which ran for 59.99$

however, this movie's release is absolutely massive, and most likely will crush every box office record for opening weekend. its certainly on track to do so. how legs will pan out we are yet to see, but given the good word of mouth, i think it will have pretty good legs.

as for international the film opened to the single largest day in history in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Norway and Sweden.

i think the big question is China, how big will the film be there, its a pretty big market and i am not sure of how big starwars is over there.
For some reason I believe SW can be very big in China
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 19, 2015, 10:26 PM
Just watched Meet The Millers, really good film!

Also someone in a PS4 facebook community I'm in decided to post a huge Star Wars spoiler and now I'm super pissed. Oh well, I was gonna watch the film twice so it would have all been spoiled for me on second viewing, now I've just got one bit spoiler for first viewing too ;D
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Post by: BananaKing on Dec 19, 2015, 10:33 PM
For some reason I believe SW can be very big in China
do we know how Episode 3 performed?

China can be a HUGE market, furious 7 made 390 million from there, roughly 33% if its foreign tally. if china is all over starwars, i can see Starwars breaking the 2 billion mark.

Just watched Meet The Millers, really good film!

Also someone in a PS4 facebook community I'm in decided to post a huge Star Wars spoiler and now I'm super pissed. Oh well, I was gonna watch the film twice so it would have all been spoiled for me on second viewing, now I've just got one bit spoiler for first viewing too ;D
fudgy spoilers. one reason i hate the internet is fudgy spoilers.

i dont know why people post them, but then again i do, its because people are assholes.
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Post by: Cute Pikachu on Dec 20, 2015, 05:59 PM
Star wars only did 240 M first 3 days
What a flopen
That ain't no 300 M
:P
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 20, 2015, 06:12 PM
Star wars only did 240 M first 3 days
What a flopen
That ain't no 300 M
:P
Big flop, fell $7m short of Jurassic World's global record! (It isn't out in China yet where JW took $99m in its first weekend)

Source is here btw (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4134&p=.htm)

Should be said this is an estimate as Sunday still hasn't fully happened yet. Actual numbers tomorrow.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 20, 2015, 06:18 PM
I'm surprised it got beaten by JW on saturday and sunday
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 20, 2015, 07:02 PM
It will beat JW global opening I think. Numbers are often underestimated when they're so huge
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 20, 2015, 07:09 PM
It will beat JW global opening I think. Numbers are often underestimated when they're so huge
Yeah, its beaten all the other estimates so far. I'll be surprised if it doesn't beat JW. Still amazing without China though
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Post by: Legend on Dec 20, 2015, 09:25 PM
I saw Star Wars. No Uncharted or Elite trailers :(

Spoiler free impressions

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Liked it a lot, but the ending was a dud. Really needed another half hour instead of ending with a cliffhanger.<br><br>Loved the characters and loved the action.<br><br>Minor Minor Spoiler impressions<br><div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px"><div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom:2px"><b>Spoiler</b> for <i>Hidden</i>: <input type="button" value="Show" style="width:60px;font-size:10px;margin:0px;padding:0px;" onClick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.value = 'Hide'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.value = 'Show'; }"></div><div class="alt2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px; border: 1px inset;"><div style="display: none;"><br>Needed less Lea and more Luke.<br><br>Plot Spoiler impressions<br><div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px"><div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom:2px"><b>Spoiler</b> for <i>Hidden</i>: <input type="button" value="Show" style="width:60px;font-size:10px;margin:0px;padding:0px;" onClick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.value = 'Hide'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.value = 'Show'; }"></div><div class="alt2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px; border: 1px inset;"><div style="display: none;"><br>Also needed an original plot. Death star&#39;s introduction and destruction could have been great if it was a minor element, not THE ENTIRE PLOT! Really fell flat and was really stupid to do it a third time around. Can&#39;t believe the movie was so great despite this shortcoming.<br></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><br>
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 21, 2015, 02:30 PM
Almost 10% of all people living in Iceland saw star wars in its first weekend. By far the biggest opening here ever
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 21, 2015, 03:31 PM
Almost 10% of all people living in Iceland saw star wars in its first weekend. By far the biggest opening here ever
I'm sure an impressive number of dead people in Iceland also saw it.  


I can't wait to hear the damage report.

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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 21, 2015, 04:09 PM
I'm sure an impressive number of dead people in Iceland also saw it.  


I can't wait to hear the damage report.


Wat
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 21, 2015, 04:28 PM
Wat
The film is so good people die watching it.

I'm hopefully seeing it this evening. Can't wait!
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 21, 2015, 07:07 PM
My favorite part in the new Star Wars movie is when Spock tells Harry that he's Batman, and then they both go on an adventure to save Middle Earth.  Only to find out that Middle Earth is actually this thing called the Matrix, where they go down a rabbit hole and a lion gets killed by a stampede of wildebeests.  Harry of course kisses the princess and becomes the Avatar, master of all 4 elements!!!  
The End.  
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Post by: Cute Pikachu on Dec 21, 2015, 08:09 PM
Well I saw it and it was pretty good.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 21, 2015, 08:43 PM
$247,966,675
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 21, 2015, 10:46 PM
$247,966,675
Told ya'll. That's crazy.
Now we wait for the global number. If ROW is the same as predicted that is enough to beat JW. I bet it's even higher than predicted.

Edit: Oh, maybe they're using the same number still in the article. WW: $529m. 4.1m higher than JW, without China. In December of all months. The previous opening record in December was just over 100m (in the US) lol
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 21, 2015, 10:50 PM
SW also had like 140 less theaters than JW so the average per theater is significantly higher

the box office mojo article keeps mentioning 524.1m for SW but that's actually the JW number lol
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 22, 2015, 12:03 AM
Well I just saw it, fudgy amazing. Probably the best Star Wars film.

We knew it would beat those records, $529m without China is crazy!

Speculation for those who have seen it:

Spoiler for Hidden:
Do we think Rey is Luke&#39;s daughter? It seems very likely, perhaps too likely.
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Post by: Cute Pikachu on Dec 22, 2015, 12:09 AM
Amazing movie with amazing records
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Post by: Legend on Dec 22, 2015, 12:53 AM
Well I just saw it, fudgy amazing. Probably the best Star Wars film.

We knew it would beat those records, $529m without China is crazy!

Speculation for those who have seen it:

Spoiler for Hidden:
Do we think Rey is Luke's daughter? It seems very likely, perhaps too likely.

lol not the best star wars, the unoriginal plot held it back.

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Yeah here&#39;s my theory.<br><br>Rey is Luke&#39;s daughter, and was part of his Jedi training camp. Then Kylo Ren went all sithy and killed peeps and stuff, including her mother/Luke&#39;s wife. Kylo had an internal struggle with this and couldn&#39;t bring himself to kill his cousin Rey as well, so he wiped her memories and hid her on Jakku.<br><br>
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Post by: Legend on Dec 22, 2015, 01:27 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/qXXZJuK.jpg)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - $529m global opening!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 22, 2015, 01:31 AM
What if there were planets near us with aliens.  
They start translating our movies and they become blockbusters on other planets.

20 years from now:
Star Wars IV becomes biggest movie in the galaxy, with $30 trillion earth dollars grossed.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 22, 2015, 10:27 AM
lol not the best star wars, the unoriginal plot held it back.

Spoiler for Hidden:

Yeah here's my theory.

Rey is Luke's daughter, and was part of his Jedi training camp. Then Kylo Ren went all sithy and killed peeps and stuff, including her mother/Luke's wife. Kylo had an internal struggle with this and couldn't bring himself to kill his cousin Rey as well, so he wiped her memories and hid her on Jakku.


True, the plot would have been better if it didn't follow a new hope so closely ;D

I loved all of the action scenes and the effects though, they were better than any other Star Wars film

Spoiler for Hidden:
Ooh I like that. I was thinking something fairly similar except Rey was too young to be in training and when Kylo went mad Luke ran away for her and hid her on Jakku so Kylo could never find her and then he hid away.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 22, 2015, 03:31 PM
My favorite part in the new Star Wars movie is when Spock tells Harry that he's Batman, and then they both go on an adventure to save Middle Earth.  Only to find out that Middle Earth is actually this thing called the Matrix, where they go down a rabbit hole and a lion gets killed by a stampede of wildebeests.  Harry of course kisses the princess and becomes the Avatar, master of all 4 elements!!!  
The End.  
I wonder if anyone read this.  

I can imagine someone thinking WTF Pi what are you thinking?  Spoilers you jerk!  
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Post by: Legend on Dec 22, 2015, 05:15 PM
I wonder if anyone read this.  

I can imagine someone thinking WTF Pi what are you thinking?  Spoilers you jerk!  
Nah we know you wouldn't post real spoilers.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 22, 2015, 06:19 PM
I wonder if anyone read this.  

I can imagine someone thinking WTF Pi what are you thinking?  Spoilers you jerk!  
I read it. Didn't bother to like it or reply. Try harder next time ;)
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 22, 2015, 06:40 PM
Nah we know you wouldn't post real spoilers.
No one believes Pi could do bad?
:(
Nah, its pretty true.  I worry over nothing, and I worry more over something.  



I read it. Didn't bother to like it or reply. Try harder next time ;)
That sounds fair.  
I didn't really try.  Was just making fun of some "spoilers" that I've seen.  Like "Harry gets told he's a wizard."

But overall lame enough to get ignored, but not so lame to get called out.  Just like all the other "spoilers".  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - $529m global opening!
Post by: Xevross on Dec 22, 2015, 06:50 PM
No one believes Pi could do bad?
:(
Nah, its pretty true.  I worry over nothing, and I worry more over something.  


That sounds fair.  
I didn't really try.  Was just making fun of some "spoilers" that I've seen.  Like "Harry gets told he's a wizard."

But overall lame enough to get ignored, but not so lame to get called out.  Just like all the other "spoilers".  

Well I saw the biggest spoiler possible before I read your post so at that point I didn't give a fudge.

I just saw the same spoiler again on facebook and reported the hell out of it
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 22, 2015, 07:13 PM
Well I saw the biggest spoiler possible before I read your post so at that point I didn't give a fudge.

I just saw the same spoiler again on facebook and reported the hell out of it
My condolences.  :(
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 22, 2015, 11:40 PM
Dat monday tho
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 22, 2015, 11:46 PM
Dat monday tho
Bloody hell!

$40m domestic for $288m total and $610m total worldwide ($81m WW on Monday), for those lazy people out there.

It'll fly past a billion before the year is over.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 23, 2015, 12:18 AM
Bloody hell!

$40m domestic for $288m total and $610m total worldwide ($81m WW on Monday), for those lazy people out there.
Wow!!! It destroyed Monday.
Monday isn't walking after that.
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Post by: Cute Pikachu on Dec 23, 2015, 02:04 PM
So we looking at 120 million 2nd week?
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 24, 2015, 02:05 AM
Spoiler for starwars:
Bad guy looks better with helmet...<br>Why do we need a new death star?<br>Also Han Solo can melt steel beams! &nbsp;<br><br>

Good movie!  



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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 24, 2015, 04:15 PM
So we looking at 120 million 2nd week?
More
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Post by: Legend on Dec 24, 2015, 04:44 PM
So we looking at 120 million 2nd week?
150 million 2nd weekend on its own, second week in full will probably be around $200 million.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 24, 2015, 04:45 PM
It now has the biggest Monday and Tuesday too.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 24, 2015, 05:16 PM
Fastest to 300m, 3 days ahead of Jurassic World. :o
Good gravy.  Nothing can stop this!  

Should hit 400m after today.  
Then the weekend should bump it up a bunch.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - $529m global opening!
Post by: Xevross on Dec 24, 2015, 05:28 PM
Took $38.1m on Wednesday for $363m total Domestic. Overtook Furious 7's domestic total today too.

$765m worldwide now
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - $529m global opening!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 24, 2015, 06:25 PM
Not a #1 Wednesday, but everything above it was released on a Wednesday.  
About double what Jurassic World was that day.

Spoiler for Hidden:
Do we think Rey is Luke's daughter? It seems very likely, perhaps too likely.

I saw Star Wars. No Uncharted or Elite trailers :(

Spoiler free impressions

Spoiler for Hidden:

Liked it a lot, but the ending was a dud. Really needed another half hour instead of ending with a cliffhanger.

Loved the characters and loved the action.

Minor Minor Spoiler impressions
Spoiler for Hidden:

Needed less Lea and more Luke.

Plot Spoiler impressions
Spoiler for Hidden:

Also needed an original plot. Death star's introduction and destruction could have been great if it was a minor element, not THE ENTIRE PLOT! Really fell flat and was really stupid to do it a third time around. Can't believe the movie was so great despite this shortcoming.


I agree with the spoilers.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - $529m global opening!
Post by: Xevross on Dec 24, 2015, 07:32 PM
Not a #1 Wednesday, but everything above it was released on a Wednesday.  
About double what Jurassic World was that day.

I agree with the spoilers.

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Yeah, I can&#39;t believe they did a death star plot for the 3rd time. Yet again they had to destroy it before they got blown up by a big laser. And yet again the death star got completely destroyed by attacking just one part of it with explosives ;D<br><br>Apart from that great plot.<br>
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - $529m global opening!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 24, 2015, 08:20 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:

Yeah, I can't believe they did a death star plot for the 3rd time. Yet again they had to destroy it before they got blown up by a big laser. And yet again the death star got completely destroyed by attacking just one part of it with explosives ;D

Apart from that great plot.


Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Thought it was alright the first two times around. &nbsp;<br><br>But the &quot;it&#39;s a death star, only bigger!!!!!!! was just really? &nbsp;:P<br>But yeah, it was great aside from that. &nbsp;<br>
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 24, 2015, 09:13 PM
Man, this will fly past 2 billion
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 25, 2015, 02:09 AM
At the movie, I saw the independence day 2 trailer, Uncharted 4 trailer and there was a trailer called the Secret Life of Pets that seemed interesting.  

Star Wars: The Force Awakens      $363,460,329
Jurassic World   Uni.   $278,389,075   


Star Wars is absolutely crushing number 2.  
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Post by: Legend on Dec 25, 2015, 03:57 AM
Spoiler for Hidden:

Thought it was alright the first two times around.  

But the "it's a death star, only bigger!!!!!!! was just really?  :P
But yeah, it was great aside from that.  

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>I honestly thought at that moment the movie was poking fun at the original and was about to steer the plot in a completely different direction.<br><br>NOPE!<br>
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - $529m global opening!
Post by: Legend on Dec 25, 2015, 03:59 AM
Man, this will fly past 2 billion
Already in the US its legs are no Avatar.

Nah.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 25, 2015, 04:45 AM
Already in the US its legs are no Avatar.
Nah.
Yeah, I mean Avatar had great legs.  
Look at them percentages.  Avatar went up 11% second Saturday over the first.  

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>But really, Avatar only made $125m at this point. &nbsp;The only thing it had were legs. &nbsp;<br>It never even broke $30m in 1 day. &nbsp;Meanwhile Star Wars hasn&#39;t been under $30m.<br>
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - $529m global opening!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 25, 2015, 04:47 AM
Spoiler for Hidden:

I honestly thought at that moment the movie was poking fun at the original and was about to steer the plot in a completely different direction.

NOPE!

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>I can kind of understand it. &nbsp;It&#39;s supposed to be like this crazy gigantic planet sized planet destroyer. &nbsp;<br><br>But really they should try going in the other direction just once. &nbsp;<br>Make a plot about a really tiny weapon capable of destroying a planet. &nbsp;<br>
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - $529m global opening!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 25, 2015, 12:09 PM
Already in the US its legs are no Avatar.

Nah.
It does t need to be. Avatar reached 2.7b
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - $529m global opening!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 26, 2015, 12:51 AM
Boxofficemojo is predicting almost 180m for its second weekend... Holyyyy shiiiiieeet
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 28, 2015, 04:53 AM
It's at 1.1b...
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 28, 2015, 04:34 PM
It's keeping it's distance from number 2.  

Fastest to 300m
#1=5 days
#2 = 8 days

Fastest to 400m
#1=8 days
#2=10 days

Fastest to 500m
#1=10 days
#2=17 days

It's a full week ahead of number 2.  
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 28, 2015, 05:03 PM
It's keeping it's distance from number 2.  

Fastest to 300m
#1=5 days
#2 = 8 days

Fastest to 400m
#1=8 days
#2=10 days

Fastest to 500m
#1=10 days
#2=17 days

It's a full week ahead of number 2.  
Anyone still thinks this won't reach 2b+?
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Post by: kitler53 on Dec 28, 2015, 11:18 PM
undeserved.  star wars sucked balls. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - huge second weekend coming
Post by: Aura7541 on Dec 28, 2015, 11:26 PM
undeserved.  star wars sucked balls.
Rey is a Mary Sue
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - huge second weekend coming
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 28, 2015, 11:55 PM
undeserved.  star wars sucked balls.
But getting balls sucked can be good tho
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - huge second weekend coming
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 29, 2015, 04:58 AM
so we are all in agreement? the movie sucked. But sucked less than Episodes 1 & 2 (and mostly 3 except for the Yoda fight and darth vader)


Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Finns wooing was dang annoying and Ren would have killed both of them with ease<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://vizioneck.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=dbf918fe75cd4df203028b248622b26e&amp;msg=142765">Quote from: Aura7541 on Dec 28, 2015, 11:26 PM</a></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Rey is a Mary Sue<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"></div>Saw a friend on FB post something showing Luke, Han and Darth describing the &quot;miraculous&quot; feats they accomplished. This guy is a well known self proclaimed feminist and the last picture has Rey and says &quot;but lets talk about how rey is a mary sue&quot;<br><br>Saw your post and had to google &quot;what is a mary sue&quot; <br><br>Had to go back to his post from days ago and tell him shes a mary sue (and noticed he was absolutely denying with someone else)<br><br>I liked Rey but come on. She knows the MF, is a dang rocket scientist, and a skilled pilot? A skilled fighter (which was the most believable). Then out of no where can not only &nbsp;defend from mind tricks but use it against someone as skilled as Ren (Stopped a dang blaster Neo style.) Then defeats him with a weapon shes never handled before?<br>
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 29, 2015, 12:20 PM
Can we please keep the spoilers out? At least mark them as such
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 29, 2015, 02:14 PM
Can we please keep the spoilers out? At least mark them as such
Haters too busy being haters to mark spoilers
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 29, 2015, 04:05 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:

I liked Rey but come on. She knows the MF, is a dang rocket scientist, and a skilled pilot? A skilled fighter (which was the most believable). Then out of no where can not only  defend from mind tricks but use it against someone as skilled as Ren (Stopped a dang blaster Neo style.) Then defeats him with a weapon shes never handled before?
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Knowing the MF kinda goes with being a rocket scientist. &nbsp;<br>I feel like those three things kinda go with the territory. &nbsp;Was likely picking up lots of scraps and was quite familiar with how things worked. &nbsp;<br>Seems very likely that she was defending herself on a regular basis.<br>Special? &nbsp;Sure. &nbsp;Crazy impossible unrealistically special? &nbsp;Not as much as you&#39;re letting on. &nbsp;<br><br><div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px"><div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom:2px"><b>Spoiler</b> for <i>Hidden</i>: <input type="button" value="Show" style="width:60px;font-size:10px;margin:0px;padding:0px;" onClick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.value = 'Hide'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.value = 'Show'; }"></div><div class="alt2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px; border: 1px inset;"><div style="display: none;"><br>I can&#39;t really agree about the last part. &nbsp;I didn&#39;t really feel like it was out of nowhere. &nbsp;<br>Here&#39;s why, there&#39;s so many indications throughout the movie that she is linked to Luke in some way. &nbsp;<br>Just the fact that his light saber was pretty much calling her. &nbsp;<br>Legend even suggested that she was already trained by Luke to some extent, and had her memory wiped. &nbsp;<br></div></div></div><br>
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.1b
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 29, 2015, 06:13 PM
Can we please keep the spoilers out? At least mark them as such
We've all seen it by now. If you haven't.... Well just wait to rent it


Spoiler for Hidden:

Knowing the MF kinda goes with being a rocket scientist.  
I feel like those three things kinda go with the territory.  Was likely picking up lots of scraps and was quite familiar with how things worked.  
Seems very likely that she was defending herself on a regular basis.
Special?  Sure.  Crazy impossible unrealistically special?  Not as much as you're letting on.  

Spoiler for Hidden:

I can't really agree about the last part.  I didn't really feel like it was out of nowhere.  
Here's why, there's so many indications throughout the movie that she is linked to Luke in some way.  
Just the fact that his light saber was pretty much calling her.  
Legend even suggested that she was already trained by Luke to some extent, and had her memory wiped.  


No. Absolutely not. Are you telling me that of I took my car to a scrap yard they'd know how to fix a starter, transmission, ignition switch ect ect. Even if that were believable if I brought them a old junk car to repair that had a carburetor then they'd know how to fix a electric car? No no no
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 29, 2015, 09:05 PM
We've all seen it by now. If you haven't.... Well just wait to rent it

No. Absolutely not. Are you telling me that of I took my car to a scrap yard they'd know how to fix a starter, transmission, ignition switch ect ect. Even if that were believable if I brought them a old junk car to repair that had a carburetor then they'd know how to fix a electric car? No no no

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>No, that&#39;s not what I&#39;m saying. &nbsp;I&#39;m not saying &quot;oh she picked it up and knows how it works.&quot;<br>I think she&#39;s very similar to my friend. &nbsp;He&#39;s 19, spends a large amount of time working with planes, rockets and cars. &nbsp;<br>So, if she&#39;s interested in that kind of thing, figuring out how stuff works, not just collecting it and selling it, but actually fixing stuff up, and figuring out how it actually works, I don&#39;t think that&#39;s unbelievable at all. &nbsp;<br><br>My friend can go on and on about how specific engines works, and tells me the rough price of a plane, builds his own planes, and his own rockets. &nbsp;<br>He&#39;s not even 19 and a half, so no I don&#39;t find it that unbelievable. &nbsp;<br>
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 29, 2015, 09:11 PM
We've all seen it by now. If you haven't....

A bit contradictory. I have not seen it yet, and I'm sure there are others who might check this thread. It's been out for less than 2 weeks, so obviously many will not have see  it yet.
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Dec 31, 2015, 04:26 AM
So I watched the Force Awakens even though I haven't watch the Star Wars movies...

Have to say it was pretty entertaining. I mean I know the jist of Star Wars and whatnot so I didn't go in completely blind but it was a pretty good film. A couple weak points and I felt it was a tad bit similar to previous films but still worth a watch.

Also ended up seeing The Big Short. Great film as well. Well done comedy on a serious subject about the economic crash of 2008. I recommend it as well.
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Post by: Legend on Dec 31, 2015, 04:31 AM
So I watched the Force Awakens even though I haven't watch the Star Wars movies...

Have to say it was pretty entertaining. I mean I know the jist of Star Wars and whatnot so I didn't go in completely blind but it was a pretty good film. A couple weak points and I felt it was a tad bit similar to previous films but still worth a watch.

Also ended up seeing The Big Short. Great film as well. Well done comedy on a serious subject about the economic crash of 2008. I recommend it as well.
Have you seen A New Hope? both have identical stories, definitly the worst part of force awakens.l
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 31, 2015, 05:10 AM
Have you seen A New Hope? both have identical stories, definitly the worst part of force awakens.l
That's the worst part? Seriously?
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Post by: Legend on Dec 31, 2015, 05:12 AM
That's the worst part? Seriously?

Well in my opinion and almost everyone else's opinion, definitely.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.1b
Post by: Riderz1337 on Dec 31, 2015, 05:21 AM
Have you seen A New Hope? both have identical stories, definitly the worst part of force awakens.l
I've seen parts of it. For the most part I have seen the whole film just not from beginning to end.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.1b
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 31, 2015, 05:24 AM
Well in my opinion and almost everyone else's opinion, definitely.
From what I see most people didn't like how stupid everything tried to come together and how unbelievable it was
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Post by: Perry574 on Dec 31, 2015, 06:59 AM
The first was bad and the second was really bad apart from sauron. ;D
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Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.1b
Post by: Xevross on Dec 31, 2015, 10:43 AM
From what I see most people didn't like how stupid everything tried to come together and how unbelievable it was

I just looked at imdb and saw 8.6, then I looked at rotten tomatoes and saw an audience score of 4.4 stars with 91% liking it. Seems like most people think its a great film.

The only flaw that bothered me was its similarity to IV, everything else that people mention is being exaggerated or can be easily explained.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.2b
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 31, 2015, 03:30 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:
why did the silver trooper have no problem lowering the shield to allow the obvious attack to destroy the death star BUT bigger!



I just looked at imdb and saw 8.6, then I looked at rotten tomatoes and saw an audience score of 4.4 stars with 91% liking it. Seems like most people think its a great film.

The only flaw that bothered me was its similarity to IV, everything else that people mention is being exaggerated or can be easily explained.
Going by user scores for a movie that has the biggest and most rabbit fanboy base is just asinine. And no, the issues can not just be easily explained
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.2b
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 31, 2015, 03:43 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:
why did the silver trooper have no problem lowering the shield to allow the obvious attack to destroy the death star BUT bigger!


Going by user scores for a movie that has the biggest and most rabbit fanboy base is just asinine. And no, the issues can not just be easily explained

Why not go by the critic scores then? Oh, wait, they are great too
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.2b
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 31, 2015, 04:03 PM
Why not go by the critic scores then? Oh, wait, they are great too
Why can't critics be apart of the biggest and most rabid fan false?


I mean, Phantom menace, a movie that was garbage on all fronts except a nicely done fight scene at the end, has a hugely bloated score at 56%why can't we have a gta4 here that in a year everyone will say, "yeah, it wasn't that good and scored that high due to hype"



Someone should open a spoiler thread or link one so we can talk more openly
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Post by: Legend on Dec 31, 2015, 04:19 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:
why did the silver trooper have no problem lowering the shield to allow the obvious attack to destroy the death star BUT bigger!


Going by user scores for a movie that has the biggest and most rabbit fanboy base is just asinine. And no, the issues can not just be easily explained

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Things like that really depend on the next movies. Maybe episode 8 will come along and make her a rebel spy.<br><br>It&#39;s kinda stupid how the film gets free passes at the moment like this, but the film isn&#39;t a complete story. I absolutely hated the ending cliff hanger, yet that&#39;s only a temporary problem till episode 8 releases.<br>
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.2b
Post by: Xevross on Dec 31, 2015, 04:51 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:
why did the silver trooper have no problem lowering the shield to allow the obvious attack to destroy the death star BUT bigger!


Going by user scores for a movie that has the biggest and most rabbit fanboy base is just asinine. And no, the issues can not just be easily explained

Spoiler for Hidden:
Because she&#39;s selfish, didn&#39;t want to die and thought they were well protected anyway because they&#39;d just destroyed the republic and its fleet?<br><br>Loads of reasons tbh
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.2b
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 31, 2015, 05:02 PM
Seriously,  someone open a spoiler thread so we can discuss the soap opera... I mean action film
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.2b
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 31, 2015, 05:04 PM
Seriously,  someone open a spoiler thread so we can discuss the soap opera... I mean action film
Star Wars VII: The Discussion Awakens (Spoilers) (http://vizioneck.com/forum/index.php?topic=3086.msg143006#new)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.2b
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 31, 2015, 09:28 PM
Why can't critics be apart of the biggest and most rabid fan false?


I mean, Phantom menace, a movie that was garbage on all fronts except a nicely done fight scene at the end, has a hugely bloated score at 56%why can't we have a gta4 here that in a year everyone will say, "yeah, it wasn't that good and scored that high due to hype"



Someone should open a spoiler thread or link one so we can talk more openly
56% is pretty bad. 7 is at like 94%...but yeah, it's a conspiracy probably lol
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.3b
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 31, 2015, 09:55 PM
56% is pretty bad. 7 is at like 94%...but yeah, it's a conspiracy probably lol
56% is bad. Phantom of the Menace is worse lol.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.3b
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 02, 2016, 04:33 AM
It's gonna reach number 2 tomorrow, domestically.  :o

Second only to Avatar.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.3b
Post by: Legend on Jan 02, 2016, 04:38 AM
It's gonna reach number 2 tomorrow, domestically.  :o

Second only to Avatar.  
Yup, going to crush avatar in America.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.3b
Post by: Xevross on Jan 02, 2016, 11:03 AM
We knew it would be close but not quite this close.

Star wars fell $300k short of JW'S total for 2015, meaning JW was the biggest film of the year.

It's kinda funny that a huge film such as star wars won't top any yearly chart and in the future if you look back in history at the #1 films it won't be there.

Still, it's going to crush avatar domestically and get fairly close globally at this rate
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.3b
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 02, 2016, 12:40 PM
It will top titanic globally though. The question is how close can it get to avatar
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.3b
Post by: Xevross on Jan 02, 2016, 02:54 PM
It will top titanic globally though. The question is how close can it get to avatar
I reckon that it will just make it pass Titantic. Might reach 2.2 or 2.3 bn if the legs turn out to be amazing
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.3b
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 02, 2016, 03:06 PM
I reckon that it will just make it pass Titantic. Might reach 2.2 or 2.3 bn if the legs turn out to be amazing
Well it should be at 1.5b+ after only it's third weekend with China still to come. Titanic is a certainty imo

The exchange is really unfavorable though for tfa compared to avatar so I don't see that as a strong possibility. It's doing much better in row than it seems in dollars
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.3b
Post by: Xevross on Jan 03, 2016, 01:48 AM
Looks like Star Wars will be able to pass Avatar this weekend.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.3b
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 03, 2016, 02:03 AM
Looks like Star Wars will be able to pass Avatar this weekend.
Good gravy, I wasn't expecting this to happen so soon, but yeah....  That seems almost certain.  

That's freaking NUTS!!!!

It'll hit 700m faster than the 2nd fastest movie hit 500m.....
Star Wars - $686,425,583  (15 days)
Jurassic World - $500,373,390     (17 days)
Marvel's The Avengers - $500,415,495 (23 days)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.3b
Post by: Legend on Jan 03, 2016, 02:35 AM
I wonder if Avatar 2 will take it back?

~900 million is so huge!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.3b
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 03, 2016, 02:41 AM
I wonder if Avatar 2 will take it back?
~900 million is so huge!
I kinda expect Avatar 2 to do that.  Only thing is I expect it to take like a full year to do it.  
Titanic and Avatar have such weird legs.  They don't really have very impressive numbers until you start looking long term.  In which case, they pretty much dominate.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.3b
Post by: ZhugeEX on Jan 03, 2016, 02:42 AM
Could theoretically be the first movie in the U.S. to cross $1 billion.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.3b
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 03, 2016, 02:52 AM
Movie Showdown (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/chart/?view=weekend&id=liberge.htm)

Week 1&2 Star Wars
Week 3-7 Avatar (No Star Wars entry yet.)
Week 8 - 34 Titanic  

Titanic never broke a $40m, but it was still managing 20m weekends in its 10th week, while Avengers and JW only were doing 1-2m that week.  Was still hitting 1m weekends long after some other (bigger) movies stopped showing.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.5b
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 03, 2016, 06:01 PM
Breezes past 1.5b

Easily has at least 600m left in it, especially with China remaining
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.5b
Post by: Xevross on Jan 03, 2016, 06:28 PM
Breezes past 1.5b

Easily has at least 600m left in it, especially with China remaining
Most impressive.

So its still some way off Avatar, Sunday turned out to be very disappointing and its lowest day so far. Looks like the legs are starting to slow down a lot
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.5b
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 03, 2016, 06:35 PM
Most impressive.

So its still some way off Avatar, Sunday turned out to be very disappointing and its lowest day so far. Looks like the legs are starting to slow down a lot
It was never going to come close to Avatar.  That's a weird movie, that had crazy legs and really impressive ROW numbers.  
Sunday is kinda interesting, it's literally the biggest drop in its entire history.  It was a bigger drop than day 1 to day 2.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.5b
Post by: Xevross on Jan 03, 2016, 06:49 PM
It was never going to come close to Avatar.  That's a weird movie, that had crazy legs and really impressive ROW numbers.  
Sunday is kinda interesting, it's literally the biggest drop in its entire history.  It was a bigger drop than day 1 to day 2.  
I meant Domestically, I was thinking it might be able to pass it this weekend but its $20m behind it still.

Yeah, was it a one off or is it a sign of things to come?

I wonder how Star Wars can do on the inflation adjusted chart, its at #21 at the moment. Do we think it can pass Avatar's 837m inflation adjusted total? In fact, if it makes it to $845 it'll be the second best Star Wars film, just passing The Empire Strikes back. At the moment its still behind A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Return of The Jedi and The Phantom Menace on the inflation adjusted chart.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.5b
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 03, 2016, 06:57 PM
I meant Domestically, I was thinking it might be able to pass it this weekend but its $20m behind it still.
I gotcha.  Not so far off though.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.5b
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 03, 2016, 07:34 PM
Like I said, tfa has the disadvantage of unfavorable conversion rates to dollars globally outside the US. Could maybe reach 2.5b+ if it wasn't for that
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.5b
Post by: Xevross on Jan 03, 2016, 07:36 PM
Like I said, tfa has the disadvantage of unfavorable conversion rates to dollars globally outside the US. Could maybe reach 2.5b+ if it wasn't for that
Who are you directing that at?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.5b
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 03, 2016, 10:58 PM
It was never going to come close to Avatar.  That's a weird movie, that had crazy legs and really impressive ROW numbers.  
Sunday is kinda interesting, it's literally the biggest drop in its entire history.  It was a bigger drop than day 1 to day 2.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.5b
Post by: Legend on Jan 04, 2016, 12:07 AM
Large Sunday drop, yet day to day it's still ahead of Avatar.

Wonder if this Sunday is a fluke.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.5b
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 04, 2016, 12:21 AM
Im thinking fluke, Sunday is still going.  Still a chance!!!!!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.5b
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 04, 2016, 01:16 AM
Yeah BOM is guessing Disney is being conservative with their estimate.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.5b
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 04, 2016, 03:04 AM
A lot of people have to go to back to work tomorrow. Could be the reason for the Sunday drop.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.5b
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 04, 2016, 03:07 AM
Aloy of people have to go to back to work tomorrow. Could be the reason for the Sunday drop.
Don't think we really know if there will be a drop quite yet.
But yeah, that is possibility.  
School and work will probably dip into what it would be doing.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.5b
Post by: Xevross on Jan 04, 2016, 09:04 PM
Sunday looks better now, its drop from Saturday was lower than all the others in the top 10
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.5b
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 05, 2016, 02:25 AM
Weekend actuals over $90m!

Biggest January weekend ever and it's its third weekend lulz
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.5b
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 06, 2016, 12:46 AM
Woah, big drop.  It makes sense though.  
Everyone is going back to work and school.  

Wonder if it'll go back up this weekend.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.5b
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jan 06, 2016, 12:57 AM
Tarantino should make a star wars film. Itd actually be fun to watch
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.5b
Post by: Xevross on Jan 07, 2016, 05:11 PM
With Wednesday's estimates, Star Wars will pass Avatar's domestic total becoming the #1 film of all time in America.

It launches in China this weekend too
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it passed avatar
Post by: Raven on Jan 08, 2016, 01:42 PM
With Wednesday's estimates, Star Wars will pass Avatar's domestic total becoming the #1 film of all time in America.

It launches in China this weekend too
And it's already very close to passing Jurassic World's global sales for third place. It also only took about a month to reach the domestic sales that took Avatar about 10 months to achieve.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it passed avatar
Post by: Legend on Jan 08, 2016, 04:57 PM
And it's already very close to passing Jurassic World's global sales for third place. It also only took about a month to reach the domestic sales that took Avatar about 10 months to achieve.
If star wars has as good of legs as Avatar, it'd still have another $400 million to do domestically. If star wars does just half as good with legs, it'll still reach $950 million. Crazy.


I can't help but laugh that I'm horrible predicting game sales, but pretty spot on with movies. Would be so nice if a boxofficemojo equivalent existed for games.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it passed avatar
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 08, 2016, 05:29 PM
If star wars has as good of legs as Avatar, it'd still have another $400 million to do domestically. If star wars does just half as good with legs, it'll still reach $950 million. Crazy.


I can't help but laugh that I'm horrible predicting game sales, but pretty spot on with movies. Would be so nice if a boxofficemojo equivalent existed for games.
Well you won't be spot on since it will go over 2B globally! Also, you were too low for JW!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it passed avatar
Post by: Legend on Jan 08, 2016, 06:26 PM
Well you won't be spot on since it will go over 2B globally! Also, you were too low for JW!
I was $13 mil over for opening, and globally I've always pegged it right below $2 bill.

What was I wrong with jw about?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it passed avatar
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 08, 2016, 06:46 PM
If star wars has as good of legs as Avatar, it'd still have another $400 million to do domestically. If star wars does just half as good with legs, it'll still reach $950 million. Crazy.

I can't help but laugh that I'm horrible predicting game sales, but pretty spot on with movies. Would be so nice if a boxofficemojo equivalent existed for games.
I'm looking at Avatar at the moment.  
Was really ready to call doom on Star Wars, but Avatar has a pretty big drop the same week it does.  It's pretty much neck and neck right now with how Avatar was doing at the same time (day to day basis obviously).  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it passed avatar
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 08, 2016, 11:16 PM
I was $13 mil over for opening, and globally I've always pegged it right below $2 bill.

What was I wrong with jw about?
You thought it would be lower
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it passed avatar
Post by: Legend on Jan 08, 2016, 11:25 PM
You thought it would be lower
I think I was like 100 mil off only, lol much better than my game predictions
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it passed avatar
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 08, 2016, 11:27 PM
I bet it'll end at 650 mil in America and 850 foreign. 1.5 billion total. What's your guess?
~640-650m in America and 1.2B+ foreign.
Both of your predictions were terrible for foreign.  Spot on for Domestically.  
Actual foreign:  $1,016,714,301

Averaging the 2 is pretty much spot on.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it passed avatar
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 09, 2016, 12:06 AM
Both of your predictions were terrible for foreign.  Spot on for Domestically.  
Actual foreign:  $1,016,714,301

Averaging the 2 is pretty much spot on.  
We should always do that. So SW should reach about 2.25b then
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Post by: Legend on Jan 09, 2016, 12:10 AM
We should always do that. So SW should reach about 2.25b then
Together we are unstoppable!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it passed avatar
Post by: Xevross on Jan 10, 2016, 03:50 PM
'The Force Awakens' In China With $33M; Market's Best Saturday Bow | Deadline (http://deadline.com/2016/01/star-wars-the-force-awakens-china-opening-day-box-office-results-1201679051/)

$33m estimated China first day (saturday), almost double Jurassic World (wednesday). Looking pretty good!

http://deadline.com/2016/01/the-revenant-star-wars-the-force-awakens-weekend-box-office-1201678383/

Also estimated at $41m for the weekend in the US (which would put it at $811m total)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it passed avatar
Post by: Xevross on Jan 10, 2016, 11:29 PM
'The Revenant' Storms the Box Office; 'Star Wars' Opens with $53M in China - Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4143&p=.htm)

Full estimates are in. $812m domestic total, $53m China weekend and $1.733bn worldwide total, flying past JW.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it passed avatar
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 11, 2016, 01:31 AM
'The Revenant' Storms the Box Office; 'Star Wars' Opens with $53M in China - Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4143&p=.htm)

Full estimates are in. $812m domestic total, $53m China weekend and $1.733bn worldwide total, flying past JW.
Very good for China!! Looking like $150m+ there maybe?

It will breeze past 2B!!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.75B
Post by: Legend on Jan 15, 2016, 07:10 AM
Looks like Star Wars will end $900-$950 mil in the US, and $1.2-$1.5 billion overseas depending on how China likes it.


Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.75B
Post by: DD_Bwest on Jan 15, 2016, 08:20 AM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.75B
Post by: Legend on Jan 15, 2016, 04:37 PM

Official



Talk about surprise!!

Releases in less than 2 months too!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.75B
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 17, 2016, 04:22 AM
So apparently 2 competing companies are making 2 different versions of The Jungle Book.  

The Jungle Book by Disney.
Jungle Book: Origins by Warner Brothers.  


Also there's a new Tarzan movie coming out.  


Also WB.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.75B
Post by: Legend on Jan 17, 2016, 04:33 AM
Yeah I saw the tarzan movie trailer and thought "wow looks much better than the reveal trailer." Wasn't till later in the day I realised it wasn't Disney's JB.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.87B
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 19, 2016, 08:10 AM
Over 1b in foreign and 2b total is very close!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.87B
Post by: Legend on Jan 19, 2016, 06:47 PM


Haha I'll get it from the library.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.87B
Post by: Legend on Jan 20, 2016, 06:35 AM
Sweet!

Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.87B
Post by: BananaKing on Jan 20, 2016, 09:40 AM
Anybody watch The Revnant? its a must watch, great film.


also, its seems the hatefull 8 isnt that well of a movie? (no spoilers please)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.87B
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 20, 2016, 09:56 AM
Anybody watch The Revnant? its a must watch, great film.


also, its seems the hatefull 8 isnt that well of a movie? (no spoilers please)
That well??
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.87B
Post by: BananaKing on Jan 20, 2016, 09:57 AM
That well??
i loved it. if it werent for the apple potatoes next to me who just wouldnt shut the fudge up i probably would have it as one of my all time favorites.

DiCaprio is just the best. and Tom Hardy is fudgy amazing.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.87B
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 20, 2016, 09:58 AM
i loved it. if it werent for the apple potatoes next to me who just wouldnt shut the fudge up i probably would have it as one of my all time favorites.

DiCaprio is just the best. and Tom Hardy is fudgy amazing.
Tom hardy is my idol

SW back on top in the Monday box office. Interesting. So will it reach over 2b by the end of this weekend?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.87B
Post by: Legend on Jan 20, 2016, 03:51 PM
Anybody watch The Revnant? its a must watch, great film.


also, its seems the hatefull 8 isnt that well of a movie? (no spoilers please)
Tom Hardy deserves an oscar.

Thought the film was great, if not a little long.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.87B
Post by: Legend on Jan 20, 2016, 11:19 PM
Star Wars 8 delayed to Dec. Star Wars: Episode VIII to Open December 15, 2017 | StarWars.com (http://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-episode-viii-to-open-december-15-2017)

Probably a strategic delay to re-hit the holiday season.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.87B
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Jan 20, 2016, 11:42 PM
December record being broken again  ::)
Nah
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.87B
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 21, 2016, 03:40 AM
NeoGAF - View Single Post -  Wkd Box Office 01•15-17•16 - Audiences search Hart and know it to be true (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=192458672&postcount=7)

Quote
Dat norm perfect score.
 
lol, it got a 0
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.87B
Post by: BananaKing on Jan 21, 2016, 08:59 AM
Tom Hardy deserves an oscar.

Thought the film was great, if not a little long.
it was long, but i didnt mind it, it wouldnt have been good if they rushed it, and made it shorter.

Star Wars 8 delayed to Dec. Star Wars: Episode VIII to Open December 15, 2017 | StarWars.com (http://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-episode-viii-to-open-december-15-2017)

Probably a strategic delay to re-hit the holiday season.
most likely. they are also better off avoiding the summer hits that will undoubtedly take some spot light and sales from it. releasing in the holiday period didnt effect SW's performance at all. so it seems better to release during the holidays and have the spot light all to its self like it did this year.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.87B
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 22, 2016, 03:10 AM
Jim Cameron's 'Avatar 2' Won't Be Ready for 2017 (http://www.thewrap.com/james-camerons-avatar-2-wont-be-ready-for-christmas-2017-exclusive/)

Apparently Avatar 2 not ready for 2017.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.87B
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 22, 2016, 03:53 AM
Jim Cameron's 'Avatar 2' Won't Be Ready for 2017 (http://www.thewrap.com/james-camerons-avatar-2-wont-be-ready-for-christmas-2017-exclusive/)

Apparently Avatar 2 not ready for 2017.
Ridiculous
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.87B
Post by: Legend on Jan 22, 2016, 04:22 AM
Jim Cameron's 'Avatar 2' Won't Be Ready for 2017 (http://www.thewrap.com/james-camerons-avatar-2-wont-be-ready-for-christmas-2017-exclusive/)

Apparently Avatar 2 not ready for 2017.
Guess that's why Star Wars was delayed haha.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.94B
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 26, 2016, 10:02 AM
Could be at 2b after next weekend
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.94B
Post by: Xevross on Jan 26, 2016, 03:28 PM
Could be at 2b after next weekend
Do you think it will make it past Titanic, at this rate?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.94B
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 26, 2016, 05:08 PM
Do you think it will make it past Titanic, at this rate?
It will be close
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.94B
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 26, 2016, 08:15 PM
To be fair, it did beat Titanic's original run.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.94B
Post by: Legend on Feb 01, 2016, 12:15 AM
Looks like it'll settle at ~$935 million in the US. Crazy that just 10 years ago its US total alone would have ranked it in the top 10 world wide.

Foreign looks like ~$1.2 billion. Going to be right on the nose with Titanic, has a shot at second highest movie of all time.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.94B
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 01, 2016, 02:05 AM
Looks like it'll settle at ~$935 million in the US. Crazy that just 10 years ago its US total alone would have ranked it in the top 10 world wide.

Foreign looks like ~$1.2 billion. Going to be right on the nose with Titanic, has a shot at second highest movie of all time.
Right now I'm thinking 930m+1150m or so, making the total 2.08b

Oh and it looks like nobody wins the poll!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.98B
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 02, 2016, 12:37 AM
So close!  

Based on your predictions, I'm going to say
932.5m US, 1175m foreign
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.98B
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Feb 02, 2016, 12:43 AM
Kung Fu Panda 3 is pretty dang good.
Probably best dreamworKS  trilogy so far.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.98B
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 02, 2016, 12:48 AM
Kung Fu Panda 3 is pretty dang good.
Probably best dreamworKS  trilogy so far.
:o
I needs to see it!  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.98B
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 02, 2016, 08:53 AM
Kung Fu Panda 3 is pretty dang good.
Probably best dreamworKS  trilogy so far.
And only?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.98B
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Feb 03, 2016, 01:28 AM


Still a goI'd series
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.98B
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 03, 2016, 01:31 AM
And only?
Madagascar and Shrek?  
DreamWorks Animation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamWorks_Animation#Feature_films)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.98B
Post by: Xevross on Feb 03, 2016, 08:00 AM
So it's better than shrek?  Huh, I might have to watch 2 and 3 then. I did love the first one.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.98B
Post by: Xevross on Feb 07, 2016, 09:20 AM
As soon as the weekend estimates come in star wars should pass $2bn, finally!

Looks like it's legs have fallen off in China, and in most places for that matter, so it won't be going much further. It seems that the UK will end up bring the 2nd largest market, which isn't surprising at all!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $1.98B
Post by: Xevross on Feb 07, 2016, 05:01 PM
$2.008bn. There it is!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 07, 2016, 07:32 PM
Still estimates.

Domestic:    $905,961,469      45.1%
Foreign:    $1,102,400,000      54.9%

Foreign weekends were:
Jan. 22-24  23,300,000
Jan. 29-31  12,600,000
Not sure what this one is


Domestic weekends
Jan. 22-24  14,078,648
Jan. 29-31  11,116,684
Feb. 5-7     6,890,000
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Legend on Feb 08, 2016, 05:11 PM
Pretty much at the end of the road.


If the movie had an original plot it probably would have passed Titanic.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 08, 2016, 05:31 PM
Pretty much at the end of the road.


If the movie had an original plot it probably would have passed Titanic.
Just like avatar, eh? Lulz
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Legend on Feb 08, 2016, 05:41 PM
Just like avatar, eh? Lulz
If Avatar had a better plot it could have made it to 3 billion!

Cameron has a good track record with great plots so I'm hopeful Avatar 2-4 will rectify the mistakes of the first.


But with TFA I don't mean it had an unoriginal plot within film, but it literally copied the plot from a previous entry in the series. I'm so glad Abrams isn't directing the next movies.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 08, 2016, 06:50 PM
If Avatar had a better plot it could have made it to 3 billion!

Cameron has a good track record with great plots so I'm hopeful Avatar 2-4 will rectify the mistakes of the first.


But with TFA I don't mean it had an unoriginal plot within film, but it literally copied the plot from a previous entry in the series. I'm so glad Abrams isn't directing the next movies.
I didnt see that myself. Sure, the theme wasn't original but it's star wars!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Legend on Feb 08, 2016, 07:16 PM
I didnt see that myself. Sure, the theme wasn't original but it's star wars!
How did you not see that!?!?!?

The Force Awakens is pretty much a remake of A New Hope. You can google it and get a lot of detailed breakdowns. Abrams did the same thing for the past two star trek movies as well.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 11, 2016, 09:19 PM


fudgy hype!!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 12, 2016, 04:24 PM
How did you not see that!?!?!?

The Force Awakens is pretty much a remake of A New Hope. You can google it and get a lot of detailed breakdowns. Abrams did the same thing for the past two star trek movies as well.

It's about as close to A New Hope as Return of the Jedi was.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Feb 13, 2016, 10:11 PM
HOLY crud DEADPOOL.
Went from 65 million opening and is now on pace for 130 million first weekend holy shame.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 13, 2016, 10:27 PM
HOLY crud DEADPOOL.
Went from 65 million opening and is now on pace for 130 million first weekend holy shame.
Wow, impressive. Lol @ the prediction though!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 13, 2016, 10:38 PM
It's about as close to A New Hope as Return of the Jedi was.
Nah, it's definitely closer to A New Hope.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Feb 13, 2016, 10:52 PM
It also has very very strong word of mouth as well. I think we might see some legs.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Legend on Feb 13, 2016, 10:54 PM
Deadpool was pretty good. A bit slow, but very refreshing.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 13, 2016, 11:06 PM
Man, I haven't been to see a movie since SWVII!

Still need to see the revenant, hateful eight, deadpool, spotlight and the big short...at least
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Legend on Feb 13, 2016, 11:14 PM
Man, I haven't been to see a movie since SWVII!
I watch tons of movies since I was raised by film buffs.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 13, 2016, 11:18 PM
Man, I haven't been to see a movie since SWVII!
I've watched like 3 movies in the past 2 years in theaters.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Legend on Feb 13, 2016, 11:23 PM
Guys, it's not that hard!

Go early morning and on Sundays. Also find out if your town has an Elvis. Tickets are a dollar.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 13, 2016, 11:23 PM
Man, I haven't been to see a movie since SWVII!

Still need to see the revenant, hateful eight, deadpool, spotlight and the big short...at least
Updated

Guys, it's not that hard!

Go early morning and on Sundays. Also find out if your town has an Elvis. Tickets are a dollar.
Elvis? Lol. Dollar? Lol
I could go a lot more often but I usually just end up watching tv shows at home.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 13, 2016, 11:25 PM
Guys, it's not that hard!

Go early morning and on Sundays. Also find out if your town has an Elvis. Tickets are a dollar.
I think Elvis is only in Colorado.  

Also, we have cheap Tuesdays.  That's all though.  Sometimes I think there are free community days too.  

Also it's more time issue not money.

Also I'm at church.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Xevross on Feb 13, 2016, 11:35 PM
Guys, it's not that hard!

Go early morning and on Sundays. Also find out if your town has an Elvis. Tickets are a dollar.
Tickets are always at least £7 here and that's for a teen ticket.
I've watched like 3 movies in the past 2 years in theaters.  
Really? Wow that's not very much.

I don't go too often but I'd say I've watched about 15-20 in that time frame
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Legend on Feb 13, 2016, 11:51 PM
I think Elvis is only in Colorado.  

Also, we have cheap Tuesdays.  That's all though.  Sometimes I think there are free community days too.  

Also it's more time issue not money.

Also I'm at church.  
Oh I had no idea Elvis was local. Just thought it was the super cheap theater company everyone had.

(http://www.film-tech.com/warehouse/pics/kiplingelvis/kipling_elvis_10.jpg)

Ceilings have mold stains, videos often have burns in them, speakers are blown out, but it's cheap!


Skip church! >:D
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 14, 2016, 05:26 AM
Tickets are always at least £7 here and that's for a teen ticket.Really? Wow that's not very much.

I don't go too often but I'd say I've watched about 15-20 in that time frame
After a recount, I realize I'm a bit low on that number.  Probably closer to 5-7.  
I watched a lot of movies in the last year.  

Ceilings have mold stains, videos often have burns in them, speakers are blown out, but it's cheap!
Skip church! >:D
"It looks bad, but at a price you just can't beat."

That's okay.  :P
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Feb 14, 2016, 03:33 PM
Official first 3 days estimates are 135M for deadpool.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Xevross on Feb 14, 2016, 03:35 PM
Official first 3 days estimates are 135M for deadpool.
dang, I wasn't expecting such a big opening weekend for it.

My friend went to see it earlier this week and said it was his favourite Marvel film. All of the trailers have put me off but I might go watch it in the end.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Feb 15, 2016, 12:06 AM
265 M first 6 days for deadpool.
Keep in mind budget was 60 M.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: BananaKing on Feb 15, 2016, 10:11 AM
so.... wasnt there supposed to be an Assassins Creed movie trailer?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Legend on Feb 15, 2016, 04:28 PM
so.... wasnt there supposed to be an Assassins Creed movie trailer?
Next month

Assassin's Creed Production Finished! Trailer Set For March Release - Movie News Guide (http://www.movienewsguide.com/assassins-creed-production-finished-trailer-set-march-release/143051)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 15, 2016, 04:55 PM
265 M first 6 days for deadpool.
Keep in mind budget was 60 M.
Marketing budget must've been huge tho. Even Manchester United advertise it
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: BananaKing on Feb 15, 2016, 05:20 PM
Next month

Assassin's Creed Production Finished! Trailer Set For March Release - Movie News Guide (http://www.movienewsguide.com/assassins-creed-production-finished-trailer-set-march-release/143051)
i thought it was supposed to Air as the commercials before dead pool.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Legend on Feb 15, 2016, 06:01 PM
i thought it was supposed to Air as the commercials before dead pool.
Nah it's before Batman VS Superman
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Star Wars is destroying box office records - it's at $2.01B
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 15, 2016, 07:12 PM
Nah it's before Batman VS Superman
Hype!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 15, 2016, 08:42 PM
Hype!
???
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 16, 2016, 12:13 AM
???
For BvS!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 16, 2016, 12:38 AM
For BvS!
:(
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 16, 2016, 03:57 PM
How the hell did they make Deadpool with 60 million?  Seems like they put more money in it.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 16, 2016, 04:33 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 16, 2016, 04:34 PM
Overall, Star Wars is sitting $160m away from Titanic, all things considered, not bad.  

Plus Titanic got a boost later.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Legend on Feb 16, 2016, 04:45 PM


Spoilers!

Spoiler for Hidden:
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Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 16, 2016, 05:18 PM


That was fast
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 16, 2016, 05:49 PM
That was fast
Thank you, I can be pretty fast.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 22, 2016, 10:09 PM



IMDb | 'Justice League' Is Happening, As of April 11
 (http://m.imdb.com/news/ni59532631/?ref=tsm_1_fb_s_IMDb_Marketing&linkId=21483675)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 23, 2016, 04:23 PM
Star Wars brought in about 6.6 million over the weekend, 2.6 foreign, 4 US.  
Not bad.  

$2,040,557,590

$2,186,772,302  

It'd be cool if it could crawl its way there.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Legend on Mar 03, 2016, 03:35 PM


I don't think it looks that bad.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: ethomaz on Mar 03, 2016, 03:51 PM
Deadpoll was fine.

I watched the second Divergent movie yesterday on Telecine Play (same than HBO Go but for Telecine movies instead HBO)... I found the story interesting and I guess I watch the 3rd on cinema.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 03, 2016, 08:48 PM


I don't think it looks that bad.
A big meh
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Mar 04, 2016, 08:26 AM
Oh I had no idea Elvis was local. Just thought it was the super cheap theater company everyone had.
(http://www.film-tech.com/warehouse/pics/kiplingelvis/kipling_elvis_10.jpg)

Ceilings have mold stains, videos often have burns in them, speakers are blown out, but it's cheap!


Skip church!
Ogden 6/Tivoli are cheap ticket movie theaters. Definitely local but sounds the same as what you described. I think they're 3 dollars now though.

I can beat cheap though. Sis works at Regal, gets free movies.


Ghostbusters looks like pure shame. Hope it goes down in flames. They are making it over the top nonstop comedy. Something like Jump Street but jump Street was never a classic and the premise was always stupid to begin with so making it into a spoof worked. Also, hill is funnier than all those. Actually, McCarthy is so unfunny and so fudgy annoying that it detracts from the comedy and just makes it cringe worthy. And Tatum worked well with Hill. Thus making that duo better than this cast. I'm not even going to touch the black lady slapping the ghost out of McCarthy or being "not good at the science stuff but I'm from the streets yo." I think Egon is turning over in his grave.



And they have the audacity to play "homage"  to the original while completely butchering it's name
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 05, 2016, 11:53 PM
Is the Deadpool post-credits scene up on YT yet?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Legend on Mar 05, 2016, 11:59 PM
Is the Deadpool post-credits scene up on YT yet?
I missed it too.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: BananaKing on Mar 06, 2016, 11:50 AM


I don't think it looks that bad.
looks like shame.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Mar 06, 2016, 03:20 PM
Zootopia was fudgy amazing
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Legend on Mar 11, 2016, 12:54 AM


So hyped!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: darkknightkryta on Mar 11, 2016, 01:04 PM
I'm not, his costume looks terrible and he looks terribly out of place.  Like, this looks to be such an important scene between Stark and Cap, and then "Oh here's Spider-man".  There's no build :/ and takes away from what might be happening.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 11, 2016, 03:53 PM
I'm not, his costume looks terrible and he looks terribly out of place.  Like, this looks to be such an important scene between Stark and Cap, and then "Oh here's Spider-man".  There's no build :/ and takes away from what might be happening.
He did say he had run out of patience
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: darkknightkryta on Mar 11, 2016, 04:10 PM
He did say he had run out of patience
Yes, but it seems so "I'm out of patience, here's Spider-man Children!"  Like, in no situation is Spider-man an ace in the hole.  Why hide him like that?  It'd be better to hide Black Panther or whoever else is new in this movie.  Or better yet, hide everyone new.  There were also very serious issues with why Spider-man joined Stark, and unless they have something else that emotional, why would he join Iron Man over Cap?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 11, 2016, 07:22 PM
Yes, but it seems so "I'm out of patience, here's Spider-man Children!"  Like, in no situation is Spider-man an ace in the hole.  Why hide him like that?  It'd be better to hide Black Panther or whoever else is new in this movie.  Or better yet, hide everyone new.  There were also very serious issues with why Spider-man joined Stark, and unless they have something else that emotional, why would he join Iron Man over Cap?
This is only the trailer lol. The movie should explain it
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: darkknightkryta on Mar 11, 2016, 08:05 PM
This is only the trailer lol. The movie should explain it
I hope so >:(
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Legend on Mar 15, 2016, 03:51 PM


looks good
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Legend on Mar 15, 2016, 07:25 PM
Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford returning for "Indiana Jones 5" in 2019 : movies (https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/4ajkdu/steven_spielberg_and_harrison_ford_returning_for/)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 15, 2016, 09:13 PM
Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford returning for "Indiana Jones 5" in 2019 : movies (https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/4ajkdu/steven_spielberg_and_harrison_ford_returning_for/)
How old will ford be then?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Legend on Mar 15, 2016, 09:17 PM
How old will ford be then?
~75
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 15, 2016, 09:19 PM
~75
dang.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Riderz1337 on Mar 16, 2016, 04:12 PM
I can't believe Batman V Superman is only 8 days away...

EIGHT DAYS!!!

Oh and apparently this tweet is in relation to the Rotten Tomatoes score...

Umberto Gonzalez on Twitter: " (https://twitter.com/elmayimbe/status/709927329737248769)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Legend on Mar 16, 2016, 04:24 PM
I don't think Batman vs Superman looks that great. Much more excited for Suicide Squad on the DC side of things.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 16, 2016, 04:24 PM
I can't believe Batman V Superman is only 8 days away...

EIGHT DAYS!!!

Oh and apparently this tweet is in relation to the Rotten Tomatoes score...

Umberto Gonzalez on Twitter: "
 (https://twitter.com/elmayimbe/status/709927329737248769)
I do hope it gets good reviews but I enjoyed Watchmen and man of Steel a lot despite mediocre reviews
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Riderz1337 on Mar 16, 2016, 04:51 PM
I do hope it gets good reviews but I enjoyed Watchmen and man of Steel a lot despite mediocre reviews
Me too! Man of Steel was much more entertaining that Iron Man 2/3, Thor 1/2 and Captain America 1, and yet all those films got a higher tomato score.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Legend on Mar 23, 2016, 05:24 AM
I do hope it gets good reviews but I enjoyed Watchmen and man of Steel a lot despite mediocre reviews
You didn't hope enough!

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/batman_v_superman_dawn_of_justice/)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Xevross on Mar 23, 2016, 07:03 AM
You didn't hope enough!

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/batman_v_superman_dawn_of_justice/)
Ouch! I was expecting a lot better than that.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: BananaKing on Mar 23, 2016, 07:53 AM
Ouch! I was expecting a lot better than that.
I wasn't expecting much better. You could tell from the trailers that it didn't seem like that great of a movie
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 23, 2016, 02:02 PM
Eh it's Snyder and his movies usually get mediocre reviews for some reason. Really liked both Watchmen and man of Steel so I'm going to see it soon!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: BananaKing on Mar 23, 2016, 02:35 PM
Eh it's Snyder and his movies usually get mediocre reviews for some reason. Really liked both Watchmen and man of Steel so I'm going to see it soon!
its because his movies are usually mediocre... :D
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 23, 2016, 03:00 PM
its because his movies are usually mediocre... :D
Well not according to my taste. It's weird because I don't like some of the highly rated comic book movies nearly as much as reviewers either
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: BananaKing on Mar 23, 2016, 03:01 PM
Well not according to my taste. It's weird because I don't like some of the highly rated comic book movies nearly as much as reviewers either
thats because they arent as good either ;)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: darkknightkryta on Mar 23, 2016, 03:43 PM
Well not according to my taste. It's weird because I don't like some of the highly rated comic book movies nearly as much as reviewers either
I'm actually starting to think Marvel movies are getting the Nintendo pass.  They get high ratings because they're Marvel.  There was so much wrong with Avengers 2 for instance, yet I don't see anyone talking about them in reviews.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Deadpool surprises!
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Mar 25, 2016, 01:55 PM
Eh it's Snyder and his movies usually get mediocre reviews for some reason. Really liked both Watchmen and man of Steel so I'm going to see it soon!
Because they are mediocre

BvS I saw coming a mile away.

Next awful movie? Ghostbusters. There's a sexist teaser released with Hemsworth looking for a job. This completely goes against the feminist movement this movie had.

Lego batman looks awesome
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: darkknightkryta on Mar 26, 2016, 12:39 PM
Saw Batman/Superman yesterday.  Great movie.  Really don't know what the reviewers were watching.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 26, 2016, 12:45 PM
Saw Batman/Superman yesterday.  Great movie.  Really don't know what the reviewers were watching.
Finally. Gives me some hope!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: darkknightkryta on Mar 26, 2016, 12:48 PM
Finally. Gives me some hope!
Like there's a few things here and there, but it's that, things here and there and in every movie.  Nothing mind blowingly stupid.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Mar 26, 2016, 01:08 PM
Saw Batman/Superman yesterday.  Great movie.  Really don't know what the reviewers were watching.
They were watching a sequel to a crud movie with a more crud storyline
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: darkknightkryta on Mar 26, 2016, 01:22 PM
They were watching a sequel to a crud movie with a more crud storyline
Man of Steel was a great movie, best Superman movie made that isn't animated.  Batman/Superman has a great storyline.  For comparison I found more wrong (and the plot worse) with Avengers 2 and more execution problems (And general lack of direction) with Force Unleashed.  Those movies got ridiculously high ratings.  The funniest thing I found about reviewers complaining about, was the thing that they spent the most time with.  World building and characters.  They complained about a lack of it, when they spent hours on it.  There was some fallacy, but I can understand why Superman and Batman had to fight, and it made more sense than when Miller did it in the 80s.  That graphic novel is considered, by these same critics, as the greatest Batman graphic novel ever.  They complain about Superman, yet he puts people in danger as his utmost priority in this film.  Superman was no sociopathic killer as reviewers claimed him to be.  Batman wasn't some sociopathic killer as reviewers made him out to be.  Where the reviewers got both those ideas is beyond me and I'd like to watch what they were watching.  Hell, I was expecting a lot of brooding from Batman.  Yet there wasn't any.  I remember reading a reviewer about how Snyder did Watchman better in Batman/Superman than in Watchman, yet the theme of should there be Superman, is such a small part of the film.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 26, 2016, 01:41 PM
My problem with Man of Steel had nothing to do with the characters or the world building.

My biggest problem with it, was that it just kind of felt like 3 movies that they just tied together kinda awkwardly.  

Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: Xevross on Mar 26, 2016, 02:40 PM
I found Man of Steel ridiculously boring. I didn't care for any of the characters, not much really happened in it. The only reason I'd watch BvS is because of the Batman side. I loved the Dark Knight trilogy.

A few of my friends went to see BvS and they said its not that great and not really worth it. I trust them, so I'm not watching it in cinema.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Mar 26, 2016, 02:48 PM
Man of Steel, explained superman's powers retardedly. What the fudge was the codex besides retarded? Butchered lois lanes existence. Didn't understand that gravity doesn't negate black holes pull. Killed Jonathan off in the most stupid way. Jonathan straight up tells a young Clark to let a school bus full of kids die next time. Clark just spills his guts to the first reporter to show... Should I go on?

I found Man of Steel ridiculously boring. I didn't care for any of the characters, not much really happened in it. The only reason I'd watch BvS is because of the Batman side. I loved the Dark Knight trilogy.

A few of my friends went to see BvS and they said its not that great and not really worth it. I trust them, so I'm not watching it in cinema.
My sister works in a theater. I go see most movies just because it's free. Very few movies aren't worth even seeing for free.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: Legend on Mar 26, 2016, 03:04 PM
Add me to the hate train for Man of steel. Everything in it was just so average, and they made superman feel underpowered.

I think bvs looks much better, but I'm worried it ends with a huge cliffhanger.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 26, 2016, 04:43 PM
A lot of people were bothered by a couple scenes.
Spoiler for Hidden:
why didn&#39;t Superman save his dad. why didn&#39;t he do something the destruction. &nbsp;Stuff like that. &nbsp; <br>
 Like I said before the biggest problem I had was just it felt disjointed.  
Like Superman origin story almost should have been separate from the Zod stuff.  IMO
 
It's a lot to pack in and I think it suffered a lot for that and other reasons.  

Superman's power is kinda hard though.  From what I understand the comics were mostly about the challenge of being an outsider kind of thing.  It wasn't difficulty with saving the world, which I think is actually what movies tend to deal with.  So we end up with generally underpowered Superman.  

Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: darkknightkryta on Mar 26, 2016, 05:02 PM
Man of Steel, explained superman's powers retardedly. What the fudge was the codex besides retarded? Butchered lois lanes existence. Didn't understand that gravity doesn't negate black holes pull. Killed Jonathan off in the most stupid way. Jonathan straight up tells a young Clark to let a school bus full of kids die next time. Clark just spills his guts to the first reporter to show... Should I go on?
My sister works in a theater. I go see most movies just because it's free. Very few movies aren't worth even seeing for free.
By explaining his powers retardedly, do you mean 100% comic based?  Superman gets all his powers from the sun.  It's been this way for maybe 50 years now.  It's been this way in every medium.  You'd have to know nothing about Superman (Which I suspect is the case for the majority of people complaining about these two films) to complain about that.

The codex was the basis of Kryptonian life.  They've been engineering people instead of procreation for millenia.  Not sure if it's this way in the comics.  It was more or less used to show Superman was siding with his new world instead of insane Zod.  Superman was willing to destroy Krypton's future to stop Zod and save earth.  You know, selflessly saving people as people complains he does do in these films (Which he does). 

They didn't butcher Lois Lane's existence.  She's a hardcore reporter willing to get herself nearly killed to get her story.  That's exactly as they portrayed her here. 

The gravity/blackhole thing wasn't anything other than the phantom zone.  Snyder just tried to explain how it would possibly work.  Phantom Zone has been in the comics for a long time.  Goyer/Snyder just modified it to fit their story, which wasn't poorly done.

If you can't understand why Jonathan died, because he felt so deeply the world wasn't ready for Superman.  I don't know what to tell you.  Jonathan felt he was doing what was right.  If Superman came out that way, it could possibly have been a disaster.  Part of this reasoning is dealt with in Man of Steel where Superman's actions are questioned.  Same goes with the school bus.  But if you listen to what Jonathan said, he said "Maybe" as in, he doesn't know what the right thing is to do.  Which is why he let himself die to protect his son.  Which is what any good father would do.

You do realize Lois found a paper trail left by Clark, which is how she found him?  You know, showing off her reporter skills which you're apparently complaining about.  He was willing to talk because he felt she was trust worthy.  Plus transparency.  His father was so worried about what would happen if Superman was discovered, now that it was going to happen, Clark was going to be transparent.  So that people don't come to him with pitchforks.

Add me to the hate train for Man of steel. Everything in it was just so average, and they made superman feel underpowered.

I think bvs looks much better, but I'm worried it ends with a huge cliffhanger.
Superman under powered?  You crazy?  He caused trillions of dollars in damages.    On top of that he managed to take Zod up into Space in minutes and they both came back down in reminiscence of gods.  My dad actually said, when we were watching that part "What if people like that exist in the universe and came here to take over.  What would we do?".  Plus they're portraying Superman on the high end of his portrayals.  Like, how absurd he is in comics currently is how he is in this movie.  Still the most physically strongest being shown in movies. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Mar 26, 2016, 05:05 PM
You need to go back and rematch man of Steel. It wasn't just the sun it was also the atmosphere... Do you remember he loses his powers when he enters krypton ship because of air composition... That's not suitable for humans but perfectly fine for superman. And the codex was just absolutely stupid. No defending it.

And the Phantom zone, everything is getting instantly sucked in... Except lois... She free falls to earth.... Because ya know, she's denser than a black hole...
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: BananaKing on Mar 27, 2016, 12:59 PM
just watched Kung Fu Panda 3. shame film, SO disappointed in it. this is coming from someone who is a huge Kung Fu Panda fan.

Add me to the hate train for Man of steel. Everything in it was just so average, and they made superman feel underpowered.

I think bvs looks much better, but I'm worried it ends with a huge cliffhanger.
Man of Steal sucked. it was stupid, and boring for the majority of the film.

i dont get why people are upset he killed zod though, i find it stupid that they complain that he shouldnt have.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 27, 2016, 01:42 PM
This is why Force Awakens is just like A New Hope.  

"A New Awakening" - Star Wars Episode IV and VII Shot Comparison on Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/160263943)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Mar 27, 2016, 01:58 PM
i dont get why people are upset he killed zod though, i find it stupid that they complain that he shouldnt have.
I didn't have a problem with him killing Zod because he was in put in an impossible situation that Zod would definitely have put him in. However, I can see why some would be mad about it. Superman is suppose to be super in everything. Quick wit for one thing. MoS superman was pretty daft and unprepared. It just wasn't a good movie. Wasn't a good superhero movie. It was pretty bleh. I mean, it still provided entertainment (had decent cinematography and action) so it fulfilled it's objective. But if I had to pay to see it I'd definitely avoid seeing the continuations in the theater based off MoS.


Superman under powered?  You crazy?  He caused trillions of dollars in damages.    On top of that he managed to take Zod up into Space in minutes and they both came back down in reminiscence of gods.  My dad actually said, when we were watching that part "What if people like that exist in the universe and came here to take over.  What would we do?".  Plus they're portraying Superman on the high end of his portrayals.  Like, how absurd he is in comics currently is how he is in this movie.  Still the most physically strongest being shown in movies. 
You need to rewatch the movie.

Yes, extremely underpowered. He could only fight one kyrptonian at a time... Who weren't even getting their full potential of power due to inhaling kryptons atmospheric composition and probably weren't even aware of their dormant abilities... When he had 33 years to acclimate and perfect his powers... A point he makes sure to make to zod that he says took him years.... Who then perfects all the same powers within minutes of being introduced to an atmosphere he's never had been introduced to (same reason Star Wars was crud).... Yet superman coughs blood when he breaths krypton atmosphere.... Because apparently it only works one way. Again, it was a VERY bad movie. Only redeeming factors in it were action sequences and cinematography. And that's okay if you are one of those able to shut off their brain and enjoy a movie solely based on flash. (one of my Co workers has the opinion that The expendables and Fast and Furious are the best franchises ever)

BTW, when they went to space, they should have both died instantly

7 Weird Things In 'Man of Steel' That We Need To Talk About - Dorkly Post (http://www.dorkly.com/post/65234/7-things-that-bother-me-about-man-of-steel)

Only one I'd change is 4. The codex was just retarded and I would talk about that. I'd add 8 that lois for some idiotic reason is on a military plane ready to drop a doomsday device and just so happens to fall out right before it detonates and everything gets sucked up except her because she's in a more perilous situation of free falling to earth
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: Xevross on Mar 28, 2016, 10:02 AM
So BvS opened at $424m worldwide! That is an extremely impressive opening, 80% of what The Force Awakens managed.

$170m was its US takings.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 28, 2016, 12:32 PM
So BvS opened at $424m worldwide! That is an extremely impressive opening, 80% of what The Force Awakens managed.

$170m was its US takings.
Niceee
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Mar 28, 2016, 12:34 PM
Everyone go see Zootopia.
Also Wonder Woman was BA in the movie.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: darkknightkryta on Mar 28, 2016, 01:32 PM
I didn't have a problem with him killing Zod because he was in put in an impossible situation that Zod would definitely have put him in. However, I can see why some would be mad about it. Superman is suppose to be super in everything. Quick wit for one thing. MoS superman was pretty daft and unprepared. It just wasn't a good movie. Wasn't a good superhero movie. It was pretty bleh. I mean, it still provided entertainment (had decent cinematography and action) so it fulfilled it's objective. But if I had to pay to see it I'd definitely avoid seeing the continuations in the theater based off MoS.

You need to rewatch the movie.

Yes, extremely underpowered. He could only fight one kyrptonian at a time... Who weren't even getting their full potential of power due to inhaling kryptons atmospheric composition and probably weren't even aware of their dormant abilities... When he had 33 years to acclimate and perfect his powers... A point he makes sure to make to zod that he says took him years.... Who then perfects all the same powers within minutes of being introduced to an atmosphere he's never had been introduced to (same reason Star Wars was crud).... Yet superman coughs blood when he breaths krypton atmosphere.... Because apparently it only works one way. Again, it was a VERY bad movie. Only redeeming factors in it were action sequences and cinematography. And that's okay if you are one of those able to shut off their brain and enjoy a movie solely based on flash. (one of my Co workers has the opinion that The expendables and Fast and Furious are the best franchises ever)

BTW, when they went to space, they should have both died instantly

7 Weird Things In 'Man of Steel' That We Need To Talk About - Dorkly Post (http://www.dorkly.com/post/65234/7-things-that-bother-me-about-man-of-steel)

Only one I'd change is 4. The codex was just retarded and I would talk about that. I'd add 8 that lois for some idiotic reason is on a military plane ready to drop a doomsday device and just so happens to fall out right before it detonates and everything gets sucked up except her because she's in a more perilous situation of free falling to earth
To quote Zod " I was bred to be a warrior, Kal. Trained my entire life to master my senses. Where did you train? ON A FARM?" (Shannon is such a great actor)

You're saying Superman wasn't strong enough to beat two "powered" Kryptonians, two Kryptonians who are just as strong as Superman, two Kryptonians who were literally engineered to be soldiers with millenia worth of combat knowledge programmed into them, makes him weak?  He's overpowered for the fact that he didn't die.  

You do realize Superman's entire weakness is based on Kryptonite?  Now, the "flaw" with how they handled that in the movie is actually a flaw in the comic books and it was a flaw for nearly a century.  They never actually properly explain how Kryptonite affects Superman.  They hint to the fact that it's radio active.  But that doesn't mean Krypton the planet wasn't radioactive.  So Snyder explaining Kryptonite with Superman walking on a ship who's entire atmosphere is simulating Krypton, the same planet shards that can kill Superman in the comics, making cough up blood is actually very faithful to the comics.

BTW Superman has been going up into space without a space suit in comics for more than half a century.  He can actually travel to other planets just on his abilities alone.

Don't know why you have this hatred for the codex.  It was a big theme in the movie.  Jor-El embedded it to Kal because of hope.  Krypton as a culture became slothful which caused their demise.  Jor-El didn't agree with what Kryptonians have become and decided to have a son that wasn't tied down to genetic coding (Being hopeful that his son can choose a better life).  He knew the planet was going to be destroyed so he took the basis of Krypton's genetic engineering device and embedded it into Kal.  This way there's hope that Superman at some point will be able to create new Kryptonians and restart the race.  Which was a good clash with Zod and fits with Zod vs Jor-El that happened at the beginning of the movie.  Zod was genetically engineered to keep Krypton safe.  It is this blind programming which causes the cataclysmic event in the movie that Superman had to stop.  Which makes Superman and Zod's fight more meaningful.  Zod was just trying to save Krypton any way possible with his blind programming.  As opposed to how Superman would have been able to do it.

You need to start reading comics
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Mar 29, 2016, 12:36 PM
You can't have superman require respiratory system for his powers then ignore the fact there's no atmosphere in space.

The codex was never in the comics and was a useless and retarded addition.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Mar 29, 2016, 01:37 PM
Anone excited for the jungle book (I'm a wonder woman fan so I'm not getting into that argument you two are having lol)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Mar 29, 2016, 01:41 PM
Anone excited for the jungle book (I'm a wonder woman fan so I'm not getting into that argument you two are having lol)
But this is a man of Steel sucked balls argument.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: darkknightkryta on Mar 29, 2016, 04:20 PM
You can't have superman require respiratory system for his powers then ignore the fact there's no atmosphere in space.
You need to start reading comics
The codex was never in the comics and was a useless and retarded addition.
Jarvis is a butler in the comics, he's an A.I. in the marvel movies.  Are Iron Man, Avengers, Avengers 2 terrible movies because of it?  Also, I objectively gave you reasons as to why the codex was a great plot device.  It gave thematic reasoning to give it to Kal-El (Hope, and is a theme in the movie).  Gave a meaningful and logical purpose to Zod to terraform earth wiping out the human race in the process.  It also gave Zod reason to try to kill Superman and take revenge since Zod's entire existence, his programming, was taken from him by Superman.  Wanna objectively reason/argue why you think the codex is "stupid...retarded" as opposed to just saying it's "stupid and retarded" for no reason other than you not understanding its purpose, which I suspect is the case of your hatred to it.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Mar 29, 2016, 04:26 PM
Jarvis is a butler in the comics, he's an A.I. in the marvel movies.  Are Iron Man, Avengers, Avengers 2 terrible movies because of it?  Also, I objectively gave you reasons as to why the codex was a great plot device.  It gave thematic reasoning to give it to Kal-El (Hope, and is a theme in the movie).  Gave a meaningful and logical purpose to Zod to terraform earth wiping out the human race in the process.  It also gave Zod reason to try to kill Superman and take revenge since Zod's entire existence, his programming, was taken from him by Superman.  Wanna objectively reason/argue why you think the codex is "stupid...retarded" as opposed to just saying it's "stupid and retarded" for no reason other than you not understanding its purpose, which I suspect is the case of your hatred to it.

None of that makes it any good
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Mar 30, 2016, 12:07 AM
Just got back from BvS. Almost walked out. Dull dull dull

First hour an a half dragged on (probably longer). Jumps from Clark to superman to bruce to batman to superman to Bruce to Clark to wonder woman and is completely disjointed with awkward dream sequences that really didn't fit into the movie. Bruce straight up says if there is 1% of uncertainty that superman can become bad then they need to kill him... Uh what the fudge? There's a seen where batman is in a bat mobile and sees something as he's turning and has this completely retarded look on his face. I point this out because the director made sure to slow it down and zoom in
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: Legend on Apr 07, 2016, 04:02 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: Legend on Apr 11, 2016, 02:30 PM


Even after the BVS disappointment, I'm hyped as fudge for Suicide Squad.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: Legend on Apr 13, 2016, 05:47 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman v Superman drama
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 13, 2016, 06:27 PM
So much movie stuff!

Also, Ben Affleck will direct and star in a solo batman film
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman going solo; new comic movie trailers
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 13, 2016, 10:31 PM
so no Assassinc Creed trailer yet? i guess that isnt coming out this December after all?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman going solo; new comic movie trailers
Post by: Legend on Apr 13, 2016, 10:41 PM
so no Assassinc Creed trailer yet? i guess that isnt coming out this December after all?
Yeah I have no clue what's happening with that.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman going solo; new comic movie trailers
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Apr 16, 2016, 07:41 PM
The Jungle Book was the greatest movie ive seen this year and that includes zootopia, revenant, and deadpool.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman going solo; new comic movie trailers
Post by: Legend on Apr 16, 2016, 08:34 PM
The Jungle Book was the greatest movie ive seen this year and that includes zootopia, revenant, and deadpool.
I don't believe you.

Looks so meh in the trailers.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman going solo; new comic movie trailers
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 17, 2016, 12:39 AM
I don't believe you.

Looks so meh in the trailers.
It sounds good.  

Quote
The Jungle Book received critical acclaim, with praise aimed at its visual effects, the performances of the voice cast, and faithfulness to both the animated film and original Kipling works.[50] On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 95%, based on 169 reviews, with an average rating of 7.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "As lovely to behold as it is engrossing to watch, The Jungle Book is the remake that actually improves upon its predecessors - all while setting a new standard for CGI."[51] On Metacritic the film has a score of 78 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[52] On CinemaScore, audiences gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale. 97% of the audience gave the film an A or a B. It got A's from both the under and over 25 crowd and A+ among those under 18 years of age and also for the over-50 audience.[30]
Thought the trailers looked okay, but those types of movies usually burn.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman going solo; new comic movie trailers
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 17, 2016, 02:01 AM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman going solo; new comic movie trailers
Post by: Legend on Apr 17, 2016, 02:17 AM
Wait when did this new poll go up, and why did I vote gotg2?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman going solo; new comic movie trailers
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Apr 17, 2016, 02:27 AM
Go see it please
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman going solo; new comic movie trailers
Post by: Riderz1337 on Apr 25, 2016, 12:24 AM
The Jungle Book was great. Only part I didn't like was the Kaa (Snake) part...Felt so random and out of place and lasted for such a short time.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman going solo; new comic movie trailers
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 25, 2016, 12:25 PM
so BvS is at 850 million, i would have thought it would have done more to be honest, specially with all the hype that was around it.  what are the thoughts about its performance?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman going solo; new comic movie trailers
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 25, 2016, 02:20 PM
so BvS is at 850 million, i would have thought it would have done more to be honest, specially with all the hype that was around it.  what are the thoughts about its performance?
Would've done 1b+ without the shaming reviews
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman going solo; new comic movie trailers
Post by: Xevross on Apr 25, 2016, 04:19 PM
Would've done 1b+ without the shaming reviews
I'd probably have watched it if it wasn't for shaming reviews and bad word of mouth
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman going solo; new comic movie trailers
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 25, 2016, 04:51 PM
I'd probably have watched it if it wasn't for shaming reviews and bad word of mouth
Same here. Haven't seen it yet. To be fair though I haven't gone to the cinema much lately.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman going solo; new comic movie trailers
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 25, 2016, 05:08 PM
Anyone hyped for the new x men?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman going solo; new comic movie trailers
Post by: Legend on Apr 25, 2016, 05:24 PM
Anyone hyped for the new x men?
Nah
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman going solo; new comic movie trailers
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 25, 2016, 05:29 PM
Anyone hyped for the new x men?
Extremely.

First class and days of future past were amazing.

And this is coming from someone who usually dislikes super hero movies.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman going solo; new comic movie trailers
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 25, 2016, 07:52 PM
Anyone hyped for the new x men?
A bit. Still haven't seen days of future past
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman going solo; new comic movie trailers
Post by: Legend on Apr 28, 2016, 10:35 PM
Fudge you comcast

Comcast buys DreamWorks Animation in $3.8 billion deal - Apr. 28, 2016  (http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/28/media/comcast-dreamworks-nbcuniversal/index.html)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Batman going solo; new comic movie trailers
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 28, 2016, 10:42 PM
Ratchet & Clank (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ratchet_and_clank/)

dang, it's bad
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Apr 28, 2016, 11:05 PM
I don't believe you.

Looks so meh in the trailers.
Mowgli was pretty bad but Shere Kahn, Kha, Louie, Baloo and Bagera were pretty cool

Anyone hyped for the new x men?
Hyped? No, every movie besides first class has been pretty bad. Will I see it? You bet.

BvS performance? Should have done less.

Ratchet & Clank (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ratchet_and_clank/)

dang, it's bad
I expected this to be honest. Let me know if anyone who plays the games review it. I doubt critics would understand this movie

Fudge you comcast

Comcast buys DreamWorks Animation in $3.8 billion deal - Apr. 28, 2016  (http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/28/media/comcast-dreamworks-nbcuniversal/index.html)
Absolutely awful...
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Apr 29, 2016, 12:05 AM
fudge comcast
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Legend on Apr 29, 2016, 01:06 AM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Apr 29, 2016, 01:11 AM

That's... Not proof at all. Fully trained jedi/sith fighting his son vs not fully trained anything fighting a trained soldier. copying one fight doesn't prove anything other than it was uncreative garbage. The desperation to defend this crud is hilarious.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Legend on Apr 29, 2016, 01:19 AM
That's... Not proof at all. Fully trained jedi/sith fighting his son vs not fully trained anything fighting a trained soldier. copying one fight doesn't prove anything other than it was uncreative garbage. The desperation to defend this crud is hilarious.
Oh you misunderstand me.

I posted this because I thought it was amusing that TFA copied the fight from the original trilogy. I'm pretty sure the original video uploader thought the same thing hence "like poetry."


Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Apr 29, 2016, 11:19 AM
I'm going to see ratchet and clank. Ign and gamestop reviewed it and say it didn't lived up to the game but Ign doesn't sound like they hated it. Just kinda uneventful
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Legend on Apr 29, 2016, 11:13 PM
‘Ghostbusters’ Remake the Most Disliked Trailer of All Time (http://screencrush.com/ghostbusters-trailer-most-disliked-movie-trailer-in-history/)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 30, 2016, 05:21 AM
I'm going to see ratchet and clank. Ign and gamestop reviewed it and say it didn't lived up to the game but Ign doesn't sound like they hated it. Just kinda uneventful
You let us know how it is.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Xevross on Apr 30, 2016, 09:11 PM
Captain America Civil War is absolutely incredibly amazing, oh my goodness. I loved it. So much. Holy crud.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 30, 2016, 09:12 PM
Captain America Civil War is absolutely incredibly amazing, oh my goodness. I loved it. So much. Holy crud.
hype!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Xevross on Apr 30, 2016, 09:14 PM
hype!
I think its my new favourite film
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 30, 2016, 09:15 PM
I think its my new favourite film
Was Spidey good?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Xevross on Apr 30, 2016, 09:22 PM
Was Spidey good?
fudgy awesome. He was barely in it but they did his part so fudgy well!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Legend on Apr 30, 2016, 09:45 PM
America would like to watch it too. :'(
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 30, 2016, 09:56 PM
Weird how Europe gets to see it before America. He is called Captain AMERICUH
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Xevross on Apr 30, 2016, 09:57 PM
Weird how Europe gets to see it before America. He is called Captain AMERICUH
Its not weird.

Europe>America
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 30, 2016, 09:57 PM
Its not weird.

Europe>America
When you put it that way

Weekend forecast from BOM:



Ouch @Ratchet
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Apr 30, 2016, 10:20 PM
Holy shame at the jungle book.
That nuggets gonna get to 1 billion watch.
Poor ratchet
and the huntsman is just terrible but hillarious.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Max King of the Wild on May 01, 2016, 01:09 AM
Not bad for ratchet. They only had 3 show times and they were early (10am) and late (3pm and 9pm)

Aquaman and flash apparently lost their directors
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: BasilZero on May 02, 2016, 10:10 AM
So I was in India for a month.

While on my vacation - got to watch some movies (thanks to the airplane ride xD)

-Guardians of the Galaxy - loved this movie! Sooo good *_*
-MacBeth - it was okay though I enjoyed a older one from the 1990s
-The Good Dinosaur - it was better than I expected but not as revolutionary as Toy Story.
-Deadpool - was surprised about this movie, loved the presentation overall.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 03, 2016, 06:21 PM


Ragnar Lothar
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Cute Pikachu on May 03, 2016, 07:28 PM
Im going to my first midnight viewing this weekend  :D
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Legend on May 03, 2016, 07:43 PM
Im going to my first midnight viewing this weekend  :D
Captain America?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Cute Pikachu on May 03, 2016, 09:33 PM
Captain America?
Yes, I am very excited  ;D
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Max King of the Wild on May 06, 2016, 08:33 PM
Ratchet and clank wasnt terrible like Human Centipede level or movies of that nature. It was just kinda boring and uneventful. Also, didn't really revolve around the main characters. Should have been called Captain Quirk and the Space Rangers.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Cute Pikachu on May 07, 2016, 10:06 PM
well Civil War made around 75 Million on Friday so it might do around 180 million first weekend it looks like.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Max King of the Wild on May 08, 2016, 01:06 PM
BvS is pretty much done now. Terrible legs. Less than 900m in BO globally. It just wasn't a good movie.

Haven't seen CW yet but it's projected to be about 700m by end of today.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ratchet am Cry
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 08, 2016, 01:08 PM
CA:CW was at like 87 on meta a few weeks back until it released and now it's down to 75. Weird
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: Legend on May 10, 2016, 01:47 PM
AC first trailer tomorrow.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: Legend on May 12, 2016, 04:34 AM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: Max King of the Wild on May 12, 2016, 04:36 AM

That's really bad...
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: Legend on May 12, 2016, 04:37 AM
That's really bad...
Looked good to me.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: Max King of the Wild on May 12, 2016, 11:46 AM
Looked good to me.
:o
Why? It was cringe worthy. It's going to flop
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: BananaKing on May 12, 2016, 12:14 PM
omg that music was horrible.. was that kanye west? why just why would you use that track... other than that the trailer is... ok. but it seems they are making it an action movie, when it should be more focused on stealth and cool assassinations.

also, wtf is that animous.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 12, 2016, 12:24 PM
Looked good to me.
Me too.

Also, Captain America was really good
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 12, 2016, 01:23 PM
-AC trailer-
Looks good-ish.
-Music was really lame when Kanye started singing.  That song is just bleh.  
-"What do you want from me?" "Your past" this line just feels awkward to be honest.
-Like bananaman said, what is up with that animus?  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 12, 2016, 01:48 PM
Looks good-ish.
-Music was really lame when Kanye started singing.  That song is just bleh.  
-"What do you want from me?" "Your past" this line just feels awkward to be honest.
-Like bananaman said, what is up with that animus?  
I like Kanye so the song was great
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 12, 2016, 01:51 PM
I like Kanye so the song was great
(http://i.imgur.com/Ufbr5ej.gif)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 12, 2016, 04:23 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/Ufbr5ej.gif)

Talk to me when you've listened to all his stuff!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: Max King of the Wild on May 14, 2016, 06:21 AM
Civil War was infinity more entertaining than bvs
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: Max King of the Wild on May 19, 2016, 01:18 AM
Well, what do you think about the new ghost buster trailer?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: BananaKing on May 19, 2016, 08:26 AM
watched Civil War, its a pretty fun movie, i expected it to be a little bit better after all the hype, but im certainly not disappointed. (i managed to get the tickets for free, btw). i didnt like black panter, CGI battleship moves, give me real stunts, not this battleship. was the main disappointment of the movie. i still hate Vision, such a useless and annoying character, they shouldnt have even bothered with him.

Days of Future Past is still the best super hero movie though.

Spoiler for Hidden:
its sad that bucky lost his arm, he is my favorite character, his fight scenes are the best (and yes, i know a lot of them are CGI as well), but his fights in winter soldier for example were fantastic. overall Bucky, Captain America and spider man had great action shots. ant man was entertaining in the little time he was given. overall pretty fun movie.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: Legend on May 19, 2016, 04:11 PM
watched Civil War, its a pretty fun movie, i expected it to be a little bit better after all the hype, but im certainly not disappointed. (i managed to get the tickets for free, btw). i didnt like black panter, CGI battleship moves, give me real stunts, not this battleship. was the main disappointment of the movie. i still hate Vision, such a useless and annoying character, they shouldnt have even bothered with him.

Days of Future Past is still the best super hero movie though.

Spoiler for Hidden:
its sad that bucky lost his arm, he is my favorite character, his fight scenes are the best (and yes, i know a lot of them are CGI as well), but his fights in winter soldier for example were fantastic. overall Bucky, Captain America and spider man had great action shots. ant man was entertaining in the little time he was given. overall pretty fun movie.

Vision was the best part of the film. Liked panther too.

I agree about the CGI. It looked relatively cheap to me vs past Marvel films.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: Legend on May 21, 2016, 07:36 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: BananaKing on May 22, 2016, 09:25 AM
Vision was the best part of the film. Liked panther too.

I agree about the CGI. It looked relatively cheap to me vs past Marvel films.
Vision sucks, he is so over powered that he cant do anything entertaining. shooting lasers, being invisible and literally cant be touched isnt cool, its just boring. its like a child made up a super hero and gave him every over powered ability he thought of. why do you think he was largely absent in the fight scenes?

yeah the CGI for black Panther was very cheap, it just felt like CGI, with spiderman it was done much better surprisingly. i actually liked Spidermans character too, its making me look forward to the film.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 22, 2016, 11:19 AM
Captain America has topped 1b ww
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: BananaKing on May 22, 2016, 01:14 PM
zootopia is amazing. probably my favorite animation movie since wreck it ralph.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: Legend on May 22, 2016, 02:15 PM
Vision sucks, he is so over powered that he cant do anything entertaining. shooting lasers, being invisible and literally cant be touched isnt cool, its just boring. its like a child made up a super hero and gave him every over powered ability he thought of. why do you think he was largely absent in the fight scenes?

yeah the CGI for black Panther was very cheap, it just felt like CGI, with spiderman it was done much better surprisingly. i actually liked Spidermans character too, its making me look forward to the film.
I like vision because he's so op.

Just like why I like Dr. Manhatten.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: Legend on May 23, 2016, 04:27 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: BananaKing on May 24, 2016, 07:58 AM
I like vision because he's so op.

Just like why I like Dr. Manhatten.
i dont know who doctor manhatten is. and being OP is boring. just look at superman, fudgy boring.


god forbid hollywood makes something original for once. geez.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Captain America -Will it blend?
Post by: Max King of the Wild on May 24, 2016, 10:31 AM
I'm skeptical about it translating into live action well. Same with little mermaid.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - X-men coming up
Post by: darkknightkryta on May 24, 2016, 03:41 PM

I'm not sure if anyone noticed, but they're flying the Enterprise-NX at the last shot.  I'm guessing they find it near the end of the film.  And the enterprise leaving the dock is probably the end of the movie.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - X-men coming up
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 24, 2016, 05:09 PM

Way better than the other trailer
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - X-men coming up
Post by: Legend on May 25, 2016, 07:58 PM
Warcraft Reviews - Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/movie/warcraft?ref=hp)

Nice reviews
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - X-men coming up
Post by: Max King of the Wild on May 25, 2016, 10:58 PM
Warcraft Reviews - Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/movie/warcraft?ref=hp)

Nice reviews
Looks awful. Flop ahead (hopefully)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - X-men coming up
Post by: Legend on May 26, 2016, 12:18 AM
Looks awful. Flop ahead (hopefully)
Well it's a 32, so yeah a flop is unavoidable.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - X-men coming up
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 26, 2016, 12:50 AM
Anyone see the new xmen yet?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - X-men coming up
Post by: Max King of the Wild on May 30, 2016, 08:42 PM
Anyone see the new xmen yet?
Just did. They should have made this for the first one
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - X-men coming up
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 30, 2016, 09:00 PM
Just did. They should have made this for the first one
Any good?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - X-men coming up
Post by: Max King of the Wild on May 30, 2016, 09:05 PM
Any good?
Better than the original trilogy. Like I said, the first movie should have been what this was.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - X-men coming up
Post by: BananaKing on Jul 01, 2016, 02:11 AM
so i watched batman v super the other day. what a stupid movie. so i got some questions, because a lot of this movie didnt make sense. obviously spoilers ahead


- what the fudge was that dream, and why the fudge was it in the movie, it didnt mean anything

- why was superman suddenly concerned about batman, when batman has been doing his thing for 20 years now?

- why did batman suddenly stop wanting to kill superman, and being afraid of his power, because both of their mothers name is martha?

- why would kryptonians carry kryptonite on their ship if it weakens them?

- why was lex luthor allowed full access to the ship site and zod's body without any supervision what so ever. he isnt a goverment official, why did he have access without even somebody saying "hey, what ya doin?"

- when superman and luise lane have naughtiness, does she call him daddy?

- lex wanted to kill superman because he was afraid he could use his power to destroy or hurt humanity. so his answer to that was to create a monster that is even stronger than superman to kill superman... then kill humanity... how does this make sense?

- lex knew batman had the kryptonite that was stolen from him, what would lex have done if batman actually killed superman using it, what was going to happen with doomsday then?

- lex has been spying on wonder woman for a long time, digging up kryptonite and doing all sorts of shame, why didnt he have one fudgy security guard to guard his data? which could have been stolen within just 7 minutes

- how did lex know how to create doomsday? how was it even possible? why would the kryptonian ship know how to do it, how does it even have the equipment to do it? how did lex even know what the fudge it was doing? what was doomsday made of, zods dead body and that water thing in the ship? this whole thing just doesnt make sense to me.

- if wonder womans sword could cut off doomsdays hand, why didnt they just use it to kill doomsday instead of the kryptonite? since it obviously can hurt it.

- why would batman drag doomsday back to the city near the spear, when he could have just quickly flied there and back to where doomsday was with the spear? it would have been a lot easier for him to just go get it and come back to doomsday.

- after being in space, and a fudgy nuke hitting and exploding doomsday and superman from beneath, how did doomsday return back to earth? when there was no gravity to pull him, the nuke's explosion logically pushing him further into space (not sure if that makes sense even, can a nuke explode in space?), and his entire momentum pushing him further away from earth?  shouldnt he have drifted away in space?

- how did wonder woman come to lex's party in the first place? wasnt she laying low? then how did she get invited to the party?

- why did people think superman killed those people in the desert when they were shot, why would superman even use a gun? the guy can shoot lasers out of his fudgy eyes.

- i still dont know if people knew that superman was clark kent. it doesnt make sense if they couldnt tell. not one bit.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - X-men coming up
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 01, 2016, 02:28 AM
I'll go through your post but first let me say that movie sucked bad. I'm no comic book nerd but I'm also not a casual movie goer. That dream sequence was so mind boggling stupid. You can't have a scene like that and lose 90% of your audience.

Basically, the dream was actually the future. It showed Darksied was coming. However, flash time traveled to Bruce to warn him but missed his target and was too early

As for your second point, neither of them really had motive to be concerned with what the other was doing. Seriously, terrible plot

Third point, seriously... fudgy stupid right?

4th point, didn't he make a deal with the dude he force fed a jolly rancher to for that?

5th, I hope so

6th, again, motives were unclear... For every single fudgy character. I thought lex was just the crazy dude who wanted to do as he pleased and didn't care what happens. I'm not sure where you got he wanted to save humanity from. But if that was in the movie and I missed it then woah that's stupid

Doomsday got stronger each time it got hurt.

Better question, how did lex know which symbol each meta human would eventually take on?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - X-men coming up
Post by: BananaKing on Jul 01, 2016, 01:46 PM
I'll go through your post but first let me say that movie sucked bad. I'm no comic book nerd but I'm also not a casual movie goer. That dream sequence was so mind boggling stupid. You can't have a scene like that and lose 90% of your audience.

Basically, the dream was actually the future. It showed Darksied was coming. However, flash time traveled to Bruce to warn him but missed his target and was too early

As for your second point, neither of them really had motive to be concerned with what the other was doing. Seriously, terrible plot

Third point, seriously... fudgy stupid right?
beyond stupid.

4th point, didn't he make a deal with the dude he force fed a jolly rancher to for that?
this is the goverment that spies on every bodies phones, and collects what ever data it can about everybody. so when one person with money, comes and admittedly says he wants to use the ship and body to weaponize it. they just say, sure, right this way. and they dont even bother to know what he was doing?

5th, I hope so

6th, again, motives were unclear... For every single fudgy character. I thought lex was just the crazy dude who wanted to do as he pleased and didn't care what happens. I'm not sure where you got he wanted to save humanity from. But if that was in the movie and I missed it then woah that's stupid
well when he says he wants to make the weapon to take down superman, it was kind of implied. he wants to make it so if that humanity ever needs it, they would have it. basically as a safe guard for humanity. if that wasnt his reasoning then what the fudge is? if he wasnt afraid superman could whip out humanity, what the hell was his reasoning. that even makes the movie even dumber than it already is

Doomsday got stronger each time it got hurt.
which is stupid and doesnt make sense, i know its a superhero movie. but come on, it just seems like an idea an 8 year old would come up with.

Better question, how did lex know which symbol each meta human would eventually take on?
i was too concerned with other stupid ideas to even think about this.
my answered are in the bolded. its such a shame that movies like this make around 850 million, when a great film like gangster squad doesnt make shame.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 01, 2016, 07:15 PM
my answered are in the bolded. its such a shame that movies like this make around 850 million, when a great film like gangster squad doesnt make shame.
Well, there are people who liked this movie. They try to justify it as just getting undeserved hate from marvel fan boys.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Legend on Jul 01, 2016, 07:47 PM
Independence day was pretty good. A lot better than Jurassic World imo.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 01, 2016, 08:52 PM

Independence day was pretty good. A lot better than Jurassic World imo.
My friend thought it sucked
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 03, 2016, 09:34 PM
Google Trends (https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F070vn%2C%20%2Fm%2F01d5g%2C%20Spiderman%2C%20%2Fm%2F0hnws&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B5)


With this in mind, I really think DC needs to get on it.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 03, 2016, 09:36 PM
Google Trends (https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F070vn%2C%20%2Fm%2F01d5g%2C%20Spiderman%2C%20%2Fm%2F0hnws&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B5)


With this in mind, I really think DC needs to get on it.  
They are, tho
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 03, 2016, 09:37 PM
They are, tho
With better movies.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 03, 2016, 09:38 PM
With better movies.  
Affleck is making one
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Legend on Jul 04, 2016, 03:00 AM
Affleck is making one
But will it be great?

Probably not.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 04, 2016, 03:15 AM
Marvel is just doing so much better right now.  

Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Avengers, GotG all were varying levels of huge.  

Man of Steel did fairly well, and so did BvS, but Batman is the only one that has done really well.  It seems to me like they might have the market potential to be on top, but they have basically nothing to show they are going through with it.  

Man of Steel wasn't very great either to be honest.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Legend on Jul 04, 2016, 05:21 AM
Suicide Squad better be awesome. It's the first DC movie that actually looks good pre release.


I also watched The Big Short. Was really good.

Saw The Jungle Book as well. Was ok. I need to stop listening to the general online consensus on movies when it goes against my gut.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 05, 2016, 01:39 AM
But will it be great?

Probably not.
Good or better

Suicide Squad better be awesome. It's the first DC movie that actually looks good pre release.
Wat
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Legend on Jul 05, 2016, 01:48 AM
Good or better
Wat
Bvs looked bad in trailers. Same with superman.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 05, 2016, 02:27 AM
Bvs looked bad in trailers. Same with superman.
Tdk franchise?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Legend on Jul 05, 2016, 03:26 AM
Tdk franchise?
Tdk was great, but that was a long time ago.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 05, 2016, 04:02 PM
Tdk was great, but that was a long time ago.
Lol not that long. Last one came out 4 years ago
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 05, 2016, 04:23 PM
Watched black hat last night. If you were thinking about it. Don't.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 05, 2016, 05:08 PM
This will be great @Legend

Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Legend on Jul 05, 2016, 05:22 PM
Lol not that long. Last one came out 4 years ago
That felt like a lot longer. Guess I was thinking of TDK which was 8 years ago.

This will be great @Legend


I don't really watch those films, and neither do most people imo. A great animated movie won't help in the battle vs Marvel.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 05, 2016, 05:58 PM
That felt like a lot longer. Guess I was thinking of TDK which was 8 years ago.
I don't really watch those films, and neither do most people imo. A great animated movie won't help in the battle vs Marvel.
Well, you should
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 06, 2016, 04:58 AM
Watched ridiculous 6 last night... If you like making fun of movies while watching it then it's worth it... If not it's really bad
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Legend on Jul 06, 2016, 05:52 AM
Watched ridiculous 6 last night... If you like making fun of movies while watching it then it's worth it... If not it's really bad
I enjoyed the tumbleweed jokes.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Xevross on Jul 06, 2016, 09:57 AM
I watched the new independence day and it was okay. Really bad first half and good second half.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Proxum on Jul 08, 2016, 03:05 AM
zootopia is amazing. probably my favorite animation movie since wreck it ralph.
Dang, I forgot about Wreck it Ralph. That movie was fantastic.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Legend on Jul 08, 2016, 03:11 AM
Dang, I forgot about Wreck it Ralph. That movie was fantastic.
Sequel was recently announced. This time they go in the internet.

(http://i.imgur.com/FDs0uPn.jpg)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Proxum on Jul 08, 2016, 03:28 AM
I hope am just hoping this is like Portal 2 and the sequel is just as good as the original.
Sequel was recently announced. This time they go in the internet.

(http://i.imgur.com/FDs0uPn.jpg)
Side note: What time do you go to bed.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 08, 2016, 03:32 AM
zootopia is amazing. probably my favorite animation movie since wreck it ralph.
I don't know if I responded to this.  

But heck yeah.  Both are amazing movies!  :o
We are still 2 years away though.  :'(
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Legend on Jul 08, 2016, 05:42 AM
Side note: What time do you go to bed.
I live in Colorado so about now.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: BananaKing on Jul 08, 2016, 10:30 AM
I hope am just hoping this is like Portal 2 and the sequel is just as good as the original.
Side note: What time do you go to bed.
I doubt it will bem. Animation movies always have worse sequels. the first ones are usually really original, the sequel's usually just use the same formula.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Proxum on Jul 08, 2016, 12:56 PM
I doubt it will bem. Animation movies always have worse sequels. the first ones are usually really original, the sequel's usually just use the same formula.
Shrek 2 *tips fedora*
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 08, 2016, 04:24 PM
Shrek 2 *tips fedora*
Toy Story 3 *drops mic*
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Legend on Jul 08, 2016, 04:36 PM
Toy Story 3 *drops mic*
was ok *runs away*
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 08, 2016, 05:00 PM
was ok *runs away*
(https://i.imgflip.com/4kes.jpg)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Legend on Jul 09, 2016, 01:25 AM
I watched Gods of Egypt. Such an odd movie.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Riderz1337 on Jul 10, 2016, 03:54 AM
I watched Gods of Egypt. Such an odd movie.
That movie is so bad. Like seriously how do you as a director watch the first cut of that movie and think "yeah it's good release it". So many parts it felt like the lip sync was off as well. Like they were just moving their mouth but the audio was added back in later as if they recorded the audio separate in a studio or something.

Anyways, watched Finding Dory. Great movie, I really enjoyed it.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Legend on Jul 10, 2016, 05:03 AM
That movie is so bad. Like seriously how do you as a director watch the first cut of that movie and think "yeah it's good release it". So many parts it felt like the lip sync was off as well. Like they were just moving their mouth but the audio was added back in later as if they recorded the audio separate in a studio or something.

Anyways, watched Finding Dory. Great movie, I really enjoyed it.
Would have been cool if it had more mythological stuff.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Legend on Jul 15, 2016, 06:12 AM
Ghostbusters Reviews - Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/movie/ghostbusters-2016)

Not that bad
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Xevross on Jul 15, 2016, 09:16 AM
Ghostbusters Reviews - Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/movie/ghostbusters-2016)

Not that bad
Thank god
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 15, 2016, 02:17 PM
Ghostbusters Reviews - Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/movie/ghostbusters-2016)

Not that bad
Roeper annihilated it. He hated it. Everything about it. The positive reviews I read said shame like "sorry guys, women are funny"
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 17, 2016, 05:33 PM
Ghostbusters bombed
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Legend on Jul 17, 2016, 07:39 PM
Ghostbusters bombed
Nope.

Did pretty good actually. 'Pets' Slimes 'Ghostbusters' While 'Finding Dory' Swims to All-Time Domestic Record - Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4207&p=.htm)

Largest opening for the director and for Melissa McCarthy.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 17, 2016, 07:47 PM
Nope.

Did pretty good actually. 'Pets' Slimes 'Ghostbusters' While 'Finding Dory' Swims to All-Time Domestic Record - Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4207&p=.htm)

Largest opening for the director and for Melissa McCarthy.
Depends on what you are expecting.   It's all relative.  
Relative to Avengers, Star Wars, Batman, Pi-guy, it bombed.  

It's funny how our expectations change on stuff.  
*2007: ____ app gets downloaded 200k times --- "Wow, that's like the biggest success ever!"
*2016: ____  app gets downloaded 400k times --- "Holy wow, that's really terrible.  Biggest failure I've ever seen.  CoD app is getting downloaded 30m times."
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 18, 2016, 04:04 AM
Nope.

Did pretty good actually. 'Pets' Slimes 'Ghostbusters' While 'Finding Dory' Swims to All-Time Domestic Record - Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4207&p=.htm)

Largest opening for the director and for Melissa McCarthy.
They won't profit. Bomba
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Legend on Jul 18, 2016, 04:07 AM
They won't profit. Bomba
Probably will when all is said and done. Certainly not a flop.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 18, 2016, 04:10 AM
Probably will when all is said and done. Certainly not a flop.
244m budget. Nope.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Legend on Jul 18, 2016, 04:11 AM
244m budget. Nope.
144m budget.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 18, 2016, 04:11 AM
There's supposed to be a bomb there

144m budget.
Plus 100m ad campaign

Let me put how big of a flop ghostbusters is into perspective... The movie needs about 500m to break even at the box office. Next week is star trek. The week after Bourne. Movie tickets are 100% more expensive than they were when the original came out. This movie won't match the original release domestic total which is half of what they need to break even.

As for highest release for director and McCarthy... I'm sure the massive 100m ad budget  and having the ghostbuster name has something to do with it

Oh, and the toys have already been discontinued at stores
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: BananaKing on Jul 18, 2016, 09:49 AM
There's supposed to be a bomb there
Plus 100m ad campaign

Let me put how big of a flop ghostbusters is into perspective... The movie needs about 500m to break even at the box office. Next week is star trek. The week after Bourne. Movie tickets are 100% more expensive than they were when the original came out. This movie won't match the original release domestic total which is half of what they need to break even.

As for highest release for director and McCarthy... I'm sure the massive 100m ad budget  and having the ghostbuster name has something to do with it

Oh, and the toys have already been discontinued at stores
Why does it need 500  million to break even?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 18, 2016, 12:45 PM
There's supposed to be a bomb there
Plus 100m ad campaign

Let me put how big of a flop ghostbusters is into perspective... The movie needs about 500m to break even at the box office. Next week is star trek. The week after Bourne. Movie tickets are 100% more expensive than they were when the original came out. This movie won't match the original release domestic total which is half of what they need to break even.

As for highest release for director and McCarthy... I'm sure the massive 100m ad budget  and having the ghostbuster name has something to do with it

Oh, and the toys have already been discontinued at stores
Let's see how it does in other markets first before we declare it a flop.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 18, 2016, 01:52 PM
Let's see how it does in other markets first before we declare it a flop.
Lol, 19m so far and isn't releasing in China. Floppity flop

Why does it need 500  million to break even?
Box office tickets are split between theaters and distributers. Distributer gets about half. Therefore times the budget by two to get the break even point

Empty theaters in Ghostbusters opening week, attacking your main audience with vile insults doesn't seem to be a good marketing strategy after all. (https://m.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/4t4v0l/empty_theaters_in_ghostbusters_opening_week/)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 18, 2016, 03:08 PM
Lol, 19m so far and isn't releasing in China. Floppity flop
Box office tickets are split between theaters and distributers. Distributer gets about half. Therefore times the budget by two to get the break even point

Empty theaters in Ghostbusters opening week, attacking your main audience with vile insults doesn't seem to be a good marketing strategy after all. (https://m.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/4t4v0l/empty_theaters_in_ghostbusters_opening_week/)
[justify]"More realistically, we're probably looking at a domestic run around $135-145 million. Ghostbusters carries a $144 million budget (net after tax incentives and rebates) and received an "A-" CinemaScore for the under 25 crowd, and an overall "B+", on par with Bridesmaids and Spy and just behind The Heat's "A-".[/justify]

[justify]Internationally, Ghostbusters delivered $19.1 million from three major territories along with a few smaller markets. The opening included $6.1 million from the UK where the film opened on July 11 along with $3.7 million from Australia and $2.2 million in Brazil. Key upcoming releases include Russia and Italy on July 28, Germany (Aug 4), France (Aug 10), Mexico and Spain on August 12 and Japan on August 19. "[/justify]

[justify]'Pets' Slimes 'Ghostbusters' While 'Finding Dory' Swims to All-Time Domestic Record - Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4207&p=.htm)[/justify]

[justify]So, 19m from 3 major markets. Not out yet in most places.[/justify]
[justify]They say net budget is 144m.[/justify]
[justify]I think it can make it to 350-400m or so globally. Not very profitable but not a flop either.[/justify]
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 18, 2016, 03:33 PM
Lol, you are not including the massive ad campaign in the budget. Until you do then there is no use in talking to you.

Box-Office Analysis: Why the 'Ghostbusters' Reboot May Haunt Sony - Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-analysis-why-ghostbusters-911836)

How does the revenue from a movie get split among actors/directors and everyone else? - Quora (https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-revenue-from-a-movie-get-split-among-actors-directors-and-everyone-else)

What percentage of box office revenues goes to the makers of the movie? - Quora (https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-box-office-revenues-goes-to-the-makers-of-the-movie)

Floppy flop flopped
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Legend on Jul 18, 2016, 08:36 PM
My favorite thing is that you keep coming back to your post to edit in more links.

You really want this to be considered a flop don't you.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 19, 2016, 12:20 AM
My favorite thing is that you keep coming back to your post to edit in more links.

You really want this to be considered a flop don't you.
It is a flop. Nothing I want will change that

Also, since official numbers came out, the movie lost 1m from the estimate
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 21, 2016, 05:00 PM
(http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/custom/Embeds/Michael%20Jianu/2016/ghostbusters_chart_embed.jpg)Mega bomba
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 21, 2016, 09:01 PM
Last Divergent movie is skipping theaters due to poor performance. Smaller budget than ghost buster and will have a better global showing.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Legend on Jul 21, 2016, 09:09 PM
Last Divergent movie is skipping theaters due to poor performance. Smaller budget than ghost buster and will have a better global showing.
Straight to DVD? Ouch that's horrible.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 21, 2016, 09:25 PM
Last Divergent movie is skipping theaters due to poor performance. Smaller budget than ghost buster and will have a better global showing.
Not necessarily. 
Allegiant launched in like twice as many countries.  And first weekend is about 15m GB to 25m Allegiant.  GB is doing better in the UK, Australia than Allegiant. 
GB isn't even launched in some of the biggest markets. 

Allegiants biggest markets (in order) - Russia, France,  Brazil, UK, Spain, Italy.
These were all the markets where it did over 1m first week.
By comparison GhostBusters hasn't launched in Russia, France, Spain, Italy.
Won't necessarily do well in those markets, but it has yet to launch in the biggest markets. 

Meanwhile it's tracking at about 30m higher than Allegiant in the US.
So the jury is still out on it. 


If you take only the countries that Ghostbusters has launched in, it's beating Allegiant almost 2:1.   There is literally no evidence (yet) that Allegiant is winning. This does not even include the US showing where it'll beat the entire running of Allegiant's US run in the next day. 
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br><table class="bbc_table"><tr><td>Russia - CIS</td><td>$3,023,634 </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>France</td><td>$2,780,715 </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Brazil</td><td>$2,698,341 </td><td>$2,153,194 </td></tr><tr><td>United Kingdom</td><td>$2,644,289 </td><td>$3,545,878 </td></tr><tr><td>Spain</td><td>$1,647,247 </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Italy</td><td>$1,592,123 </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>United Arab Emirates</td><td>$758,117 </td><td>$424,694 </td></tr><tr><td>Thailand</td><td>$673,875 </td><td>$250,952 </td></tr><tr><td>Netherlands</td><td>$438,600 </td><td>$259,066 </td></tr><tr><td>Argentina</td><td>$422,627 </td><td>$510,052 </td></tr><tr><td>Colombia</td><td>$413,574 </td><td>$445,772 </td></tr><tr><td>Hong Kong</td><td>$399,712 </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Turkey</td><td>$346,277 </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Sweden</td><td>$282,716 </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ecuador</td><td>$230,753 </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Romania</td><td>$181,458 </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Portugal</td><td>$176,196 </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ukraine</td><td>$158,370 </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Hungary</td><td>$143,996 </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Finland</td><td>$136,532 </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Czech Republic</td><td>$125,143 </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Croatia</td><td>$38,550 </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Uruguay</td><td>$32,520 </td><td>$46,972 </td></tr><tr><td>Venezuela</td><td>$28,843 </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Lebanon</td><td>$27,547 </td><td>$27,813 </td></tr><tr><td>Oman</td><td>$23,358 </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Slovakia</td><td>$15,288 </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Serbia &amp; Montenegro</td><td>$12,466 </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Slovenia</td><td>$12,370 </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Egypt</td><td>$4,924 </td><td>$3,449 </td></tr><tr><td>Malaysia</td><td></td><td>$1,014,22</td></tr><tr><td>Australia</td><td></td><td>$3,532,755 </td></tr><tr><td>Phillipines</td></tr></table><br><table class="bbc_table"><tr><td></td><td>$821,153 </td></tr><tr><td>Singapore</td><td></td><td>$742,611 </td></tr><tr><td>Taiwan</td><td></td><td>$578,336 </td></tr><tr><td>New Zealand</td><td></td><td>$456,423 </td></tr><tr><td>Chile</td><td></td><td>$273,750 </td></tr><tr><td>Poland</td><td></td><td>$117,638 </td></tr></table><br>


Everything below Australia is only for Ghostbusters, don't know why it isn't lining up.  :P
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 21, 2016, 09:52 PM
It's above the original opening weekend when adjusting for inflation? Unexpected imo
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 21, 2016, 11:49 PM
It's above the original opening weekend when adjusting for inflation? Unexpected imo
You are clearly unaware of how movies worked back then

Straight to DVD? Ouch that's horrible.
Worse. Straight to tv

Not necessarily.  
Allegiant launched in like twice as many countries.  And first weekend is about 15m GB to 25m Allegiant.  GB is doing better in the UK, Australia than Allegiant.  
GB isn't even launched in some of the biggest markets.  

Allegiants biggest markets (in order) - Russia, France,  Brazil, UK, Spain, Italy.
These were all the markets where it did over 1m first week.
By comparison GhostBusters hasn't launched in Russia, France, Spain, Italy.
Won't necessarily do well in those markets, but it has yet to launch in the biggest markets.  

Meanwhile it's tracking at about 30m higher than Allegiant in the US.
So the jury is still out on it.  


If you take only the countries that Ghostbusters has launched in, it's beating Allegiant almost 2:1.   There is literally no evidence (yet) that Allegiant is winning. This does not even include the US showing where it'll beat the entire running of Allegiant's US run in the next day.  
Spoiler for Hidden:

Russia - CIS$3,023,634
France$2,780,715
Brazil$2,698,341 $2,153,194
United Kingdom$2,644,289 $3,545,878
Spain$1,647,247
Italy$1,592,123
United Arab Emirates$758,117 $424,694
Thailand$673,875 $250,952
Netherlands$438,600 $259,066
Argentina$422,627 $510,052
Colombia$413,574 $445,772
Hong Kong$399,712
Turkey$346,277
Sweden$282,716
Ecuador$230,753
Romania$181,458
Portugal$176,196
Ukraine$158,370
Hungary$143,996
Finland$136,532
Czech Republic$125,143
Croatia$38,550
Uruguay$32,520 $46,972
Venezuela$28,843
Lebanon$27,547 $27,813
Oman$23,358
Slovakia$15,288
Serbia & Montenegro$12,466
Slovenia$12,370
Egypt$4,924 $3,449
Malaysia$1,014,22
Australia$3,532,755
Phillipines

$821,153
Singapore$742,611
Taiwan$578,336
New Zealand$456,423
Chile$273,750
Poland$117,638



Everything below Australia is only for Ghostbusters, don't know why it isn't lining up.  :P
Ghost busters will not launch in China. Game over for ghostbuster
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 22, 2016, 12:15 AM
Ghostbusters will make up that by doing much better in the US than allegiant.  
It'll make up for what Allegiant made in China by this weekend.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: nnodley on Jul 22, 2016, 04:10 AM
Straight to DVD? Ouch that's horrible.
I've heard TV movie and they are possibly working in new stuff for a TV series.  I will say though that while I still liked Allegiant, it was absolutely trash when it came to being anywhere near the book story.  It seemed to barely even resemble what the last book was.  Divergent overall is the best movie from the franchise and even that is not nearly that good of a movie.

 I could have swore they were filming both allegiant and ascendant back to back, but I guess not.  I'm actually surprised they didn't as most of the movies that are split into two parts are filmed that way.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Legend on Jul 22, 2016, 04:36 AM
Star Trek Beyond was really great. I didn't like the other two too much but loved this.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: DD_Bwest on Jul 23, 2016, 06:06 AM
How many of you guys remember the original? lol


Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Jul 23, 2016, 12:49 PM
Seeing Star Trek today ^_^
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 23, 2016, 01:44 PM
How many of you guys remember the original? lol



That's a movie that never needed to be rebooted. It's not old and has a sequel or tso
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 23, 2016, 07:06 PM
Ghost busters had a sharper than anticipated 2nd Friday drop off
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Xevross on Jul 23, 2016, 07:12 PM
Ghost busters had a sharper than anticipated 2nd Friday drop off
Are you only here to try and make ghostbusters look as bad as possible?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 23, 2016, 07:41 PM
Ghost busters had a sharper than anticipated 2nd Friday drop off
I was anticipating 5m, so it beat what I was anticipating.  

Do you have like a bet going on with someone, and you're trying to invent a bunch of arguments to prove to them that you win?  

Really want to know why you care so much.  I'm personally expecting it to disappoint, but no where near as bad as how you're claiming.  
Have you seen the movie?  Did it do horrific things to your family?  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 23, 2016, 07:52 PM
Are you only here to try and make ghostbusters look as bad as possible?
I don't need to try. I'm just posting the news that you guys are denying. Once we all realize it's a mega flop is the moment we can all move on

I was anticipating 5m, so it beat what I was anticipating. 

Do you have like a bet going on with someone, and you're trying to invent a bunch of arguments to prove to them that you win? 

Really want to know why you care so much.  I'm personally expecting it to disappoint, but no where near as bad as how you're claiming. 
Have you seen the movie?  Did it do horrific things to your family? 
Your anticipation is useless and meaningless though. The people in the industry expected a better hold (and better opening). Also, the movie looks like scary movie 6 or 7 (what ever one they are on now). Why would I waste my money? I can hold off till it's in redbox
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Legend on Jul 23, 2016, 09:44 PM
Your anticipation is useless and meaningless though. The people in the industry expected a better hold (and better opening). Also, the movie looks like scary movie 6 or 7 (what ever one they are on now). Why would I waste my money? I can hold off till it's in redbox
I think it looks stupid, but the CGI/ghosts seem really good. Will rent it from the library.



Looks better than I was expecting at least.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Xevross on Jul 23, 2016, 10:34 PM
I don't need to try. I'm just posting the news that you guys are denying. Once we all realize it's a mega flop is the moment we can all move on
I haven't denied anything and I haven't really looked into how well its doing to make my own judgment tbh. Its just all you seem to post in here is bad news about ghostbusters. Is there any films you're wanting to do well?


I just saw Star Trek, it was pretty awesome :D
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: DD_Bwest on Jul 23, 2016, 11:48 PM
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Gangster Squad is great, apparently
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 24, 2016, 12:11 AM

Hype!

So many juicy trailers today. Wonder woman, justice league, suicide squad, Kong, King arthur
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Legend on Jul 24, 2016, 12:32 AM
I just saw Star Trek, it was pretty awesome
Yar!

I haven't denied anything and I haven't really looked into how well its doing to make my own judgment tbh. Its just all you seem to post in here is bad news about ghostbusters. Is there any films you're wanting to do well?
To be far, it's fine for Max to dislike a movie and want to post about it failing/him wanting it to fail.

Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: nnodley on Jul 24, 2016, 01:28 AM
Actually just watched the first 2 star trek movies today! Thought they were great.  Never really been into start trek, but now super excited to see the new one sometime.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Aura7541 on Jul 24, 2016, 01:54 AM
I heard that the Ghostbusters movie isn't actually that terrible (though still not good from what my friends told me) and it was more of the fault of the trailer.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 24, 2016, 04:50 AM
I heard that the Ghostbusters movie isn't actually that terrible (though still not good from what my friends told me) and it was more of the fault of the trailer.
Most of what I've heard is the humor is the only redeeming factor....

Lego Batman looks better than everything else released
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 25, 2016, 08:10 PM
Ghostbusters was projected to do 23m due to the typical "comedy drop off" with a possibility of it dropping less due to "fieg and McCarthy normal holds"

Ended up doing 21m due to star treks Friday debut.

From this point on theaters will be taking a pretty good chunk out of sales. 150m loss I first said was generous.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Legend on Jul 25, 2016, 08:21 PM
Glad to see Star Trek did good. Hopefully it has better legs than the previous one.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Legend on Jul 26, 2016, 02:24 PM
It'd be really cool if there was a horror film shot from the ghost's perspective. So instead of it being jump scares every time the ghost pops up, the camera is tracking behind the ghost showing how it's moving in and out of visibility.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Legend on Jul 27, 2016, 06:33 AM
Jessica Chastain Joins Jake Gyllenhaal In Video Game Adaptation 'The Division' (http://theplaylist.net/jessica-chastain-joining-jake-gyllenhaal-video-game-adaptation-division-20160726/)

Didn't even know a division movie was in the works.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 29, 2016, 03:52 PM
Funding Christmas!

(that auto correct is marvelous!)


I knew I read it needed 500m. Someone asked me for a source but I couldn't find it due to the movie just releasing and every site analysing the performance and what it needs to break even. I go on vgc to see how Sony report matches with them and I see a thread...



Paul Feig on Making His Ghostbusters Reboot -- Vulture (http://www.vulture.com/2016/07/paul-feig-ghostbusters-reboot-c-v-r.html)

The poster did say he is talking about the studios expectations and not break even point. Still, break even point can't be too far below that. Can we call it a mega flop yet?

Why did my last comment save over the comment I made previously?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 29, 2016, 09:17 PM
That movie was absolutely garbage. Holy shame if there were no drama prior to release this movie would have been annihilated with critics and shredded to obscurity and never spoken of again. You can thank the drama for helping the movie make what it did
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 30, 2016, 12:55 AM
I want to see it now because it gets so much hate
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Legend on Jul 30, 2016, 12:57 AM
I want to see it now because it gets so much hate
Me too!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 30, 2016, 01:17 AM
My sister works at the theater so I go often for free. She gave me an attitude because she didn't want to see the movie. Instead wanted to see star trek. I convinced her to go to ghostbusters instead.

It wasn't worth it. 2pm show time and the guy next to me was snoring by 3

I want to see it now because it gets so much hate
It was lowbrow slapstick. No coherent plot. Unspecial effects. The cast was two bit snl/mad TV/the office actors. The protagonist had a cliche motive and no background (somehow he was a paranormal physicist engineer working out of a high class hotel basement as a janitor). McCarthy did not have a single funny line and Wiigs humor was out of place for the setting. Each scene was a pathetic attempt at an snl skit. The big screen was beyond the acting ability of some characters (cicily strong specifically)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Raven on Jul 30, 2016, 06:56 AM
My sister works at the theater so I go often for free. She gave me an attitude because she didn't want to see the movie. Instead wanted to see star trek. I convinced her to go to ghostbusters instead.

It wasn't worth it. 2pm show time and the guy next to me was snoring by 3
It was lowbrow slapstick. No coherent plot. Unspecial effects. The cast was two bit snl/mad TV/the office actors. The protagonist had a cliche motive and no background (somehow he was a paranormal physicist engineer working out of a high class hotel basement as a janitor). McCarthy did not have a single funny line and Wiigs humor was out of place for the setting. Each scene was a pathetic attempt at an snl skit. The big screen was beyond the acting ability of some characters (cicily strong specifically)
Really not surprised. Movies like this which seek to change or replace beloved characters in a pathetic attempt to pander to a certain group end up sucking. Mostly because it seems like the whole point is, "Look how diverse and sensitive we are!" instead of trying to actually make a good movie.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 30, 2016, 08:05 AM
Really not surprised. Movies like this which seek to change or replace beloved characters in a pathetic attempt to pander to a certain group end up sucking. Mostly because it seems like the whole point is, "Look how diverse and sensitive we are!" instead of trying to actually make a good movie.
People are arguing with me that this movie wasn't lowbrow slapstick and asking if we saw the same movie... Opening seen of the movie a guy runs into a haunted basement, realizes he messed up and then runs up rickety stairs as they collapse and hangs off a ledge. This is the ghost that, shortly after, pukes all over Wiig in the trailer. Which, Wiig makes the lowbrow joke that the slime got in every crack. As they test the proton packs, again clip in the trailer, McCarthy is being thrown around. And the scene, again in the trailer, where McCarthy gets possessed, Jones is holding McKinnon,  who got picked up with one hand and thrown out a window, by one hand and fighting of McCarthy (who rotates her head around) off with the other. Oh, and semi spoiler, they beat the bad guy (keyword guy) by a cliche lowbrow typical slapstick move...

Every scene with Hemsworth was lowbrow (he plays an idiot)

I wanted sharp quick wit banter with characters that played well off each other.  Instead, we got a ghostbuster parody.

Each nod to the franchise felt out of place or forced. The tone and setting of the movie were completely out of place for the franchise.

At the end of the movie there was a huge unnecessary action scene which was out of place.

And to support my claim of the cast, there were 10 characters from SNL in the movie that I caught. 1 from mad and 1 from the office

Oh an one thing that I just couldn't get past... The proton packs destroyed the ghosts... Sometimes
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Jul 30, 2016, 08:17 PM
Star trek underperforming hurts :(
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 30, 2016, 10:56 PM
Star trek underperforming hurts :(
It's going to turn profit. Who cares?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 30, 2016, 10:56 PM
It's going to turn profit. Who cares?
Nah it flopped son
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 30, 2016, 11:00 PM
Why is Pixar so disproportionately unpopular in ROW vs US as compared to some other animated movies, most being way worse than Pixar ones?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 30, 2016, 11:11 PM
Nah it flopped son
China release in September son.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Legend on Jul 30, 2016, 11:17 PM
Nah it flopped son
Lol
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Jul 31, 2016, 02:53 AM
In case your wondering predictions are putting it at 10 million plus less than into darkness.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 31, 2016, 02:54 PM
In case your wondering predictions are putting it at 10 million plus less than into darkness.
Very good.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Cute Pikachu on Jul 31, 2016, 05:44 PM
Very good.
Do you hate star trek or something.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 31, 2016, 06:27 PM
Do you hate star trek or something.
Sequels do less. This had a smaller budget
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 31, 2016, 06:34 PM
GB looks to be sitting around 150m by the end of the weekend.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jul 31, 2016, 06:40 PM
GB looks to be sitting around 150m by the end of the weekend. 
It lost 1k  theaters. Probably will lose even more tomorrow. It'll crawl to 200m
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: BananaKing on Aug 02, 2016, 04:35 PM
suicide squad is 47 on metacritic, and 33 on rotten tomattoes. anyone surprised that it sucks? it was clear since the first trailer.

cant wait for the DC fanboys to start defending this sour apple like they did with BvS
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 02, 2016, 04:42 PM
suicide squad is 47 on metacritic, and 33 on rotten tomattoes. anyone surprised that it sucks? it was clear since the first trailer.

cant wait for the DC fanboys to start defending this sour apple like they did with BvS
I'm surprised...
Looked great
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Ghost Busters, bomb or the bomb?
Post by: Legend on Aug 02, 2016, 04:54 PM
I'm surprised...
Looked great
Yeah me too.

The scene with Viola Davis explaining the plot looked cringey, but I ignored that since everything else looked awesome. At least it's better than BVS.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Rorono on Aug 02, 2016, 06:07 PM
But i'm not a DC fanboy and thought BvS was great
SS never looked more than okay, it's not the best fit for Live action imo
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Ludicrous Speed on Aug 02, 2016, 08:05 PM
SS looked like garbage to me from the start. Probably won't even pirate it.

My wife and oldest son are stoked to see it.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Aug 03, 2016, 12:19 AM
I'm not surprised. Looked like a heap movie wise since the beginning. Still, it looks leaps better than bvs in the entertainment department. DC movies are just shame
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Aug 03, 2016, 01:44 AM
I got free tickets thanks to tmobile. Just dont think i can go see it. I work weekends.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Riderz1337 on Aug 03, 2016, 02:24 AM
As a big DC fan, I'm pretty disappointed with their film output ever since the Nolan era. They just can't seem to catch a break.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 03, 2016, 02:26 AM
They've been lacking in quality and quantity.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Aug 03, 2016, 05:50 AM
They've been lacking in quality and quantity.  
You can tell that's lack of direction in the whole scheme of things. Director changes in aquaman and flash. Other films switch focus mid production. They've went in half assed and are force feeding us

This movie needs about 450m to break even....
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 03, 2016, 03:27 PM
 'Suicide Squad's' Secret Drama: Rushed Production, Competing Cuts, High Anxiety - NeoGAF (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1257390)

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Warners chief Kevin Tsujihara announced the project in October 2014 as part of a slate of 10 DC films stretching into 2020. Though the studio believed there was enough time to get the movie done, a source with ties to the project says it was a sprint from the start. "(Ayer) wrote the script in like, six weeks, and they just went," he says, arguing that the whole process would have benefited if Ayer, 48, had been given more time to work. But another source closely involved with the film says once it was dated, pushing back the release was not an option: "It's not just that you've told the public the movie is coming, you've made huge deals around the world with huge branding partners, with merchandise partners. It's a really big deal to move a tentpole date."

 
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A source with knowledge of events says Warners executives, nervous from the start, grew more anxious after they were blindsided and deeply rattled by the tepid response to BvS. "Kevin was really pissed about damage to the brand," says one executive close to the studio. A key concern for Warners executives was that Suicide Squad didn't deliver on the fun, edgy tone promised in the strong teaser trailer for the film. So while Ayer pursued his original vision, Warners set about working on a different cut, with an assist from Trailer Park, the company that had made the teaser.

 
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In May, Ayer's more somber version and a lighter, studio-favored version were tested with audiences in Northern California. "If there are multiple opinions that aren't in sync, you go down multiple tracks — two tracks at least," says an insider. "That was the case here for a period of time, always trying to get to a place where you have consensus." Those associated with the film insist Ayer agreed to and participated in the process. Once feedback on the two versions was analyzed, it became clear it was possible to get to "a very common-ground place." (The studio-favored version with more characters introduced early in the film and jazzed-up graphics won.) Getting to that place of consensus, however, required millions of dollars worth of additional photography.

 
Full Article (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/suicide-squads-secret-drama-rushed-916693?utm_source=twitter)
 Man, sounds like this thing really went through the ringer.
 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 03, 2016, 04:31 PM
I'm not surprised. Looked like a heap movie wise since the beginning. Still, it looks leaps better than bvs in the entertainment department. DC movies are just shame
Tell that to Nolan

You can tell that's lack of direction in the whole scheme of things. Director changes in aquaman and flash. Other films switch focus mid production. They've went in half assed and are force feeding us

This movie needs about 450m to break even....
It will get there easily
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Aug 03, 2016, 05:42 PM
Tell that to Nolan
It will get there easily
It will. It being profitable isn't a question. However, the fact that it has such a bloated budget is ridiculous. Which is what I was trying to point out. I think they could have made just as good of a movie without the big budget... Seriously, will Smith? How many millions did he take up which you could have easily saved by casting someone else without a dip in talent. (I like will.)

The company who made the trailer helped reshoot? What the fudge? Lol
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 03, 2016, 10:01 PM
It will. It being profitable isn't a question. However, the fact that it has such a bloated budget is ridiculous. Which is what I was trying to point out. I think they could have made just as good of a movie without the big budget... Seriously, will Smith? How many millions did he take up which you could have easily saved by casting someone else without a dip in talent. (I like will.)

The company who made the trailer helped reshoot? What the fudge? Lol
Well Smith is supposedly the best part about the movie
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: BananaKing on Aug 04, 2016, 08:41 AM
and here we go again with the DC fanboys. barking about reviewers because the movies suck and cant accept it. i cant wait for the "just watch the movie and decide for yourself" argument.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Aug 04, 2016, 02:29 PM
and here we go again with the DC fanboys. barking about reviewers because the movies suck and cant accept it. i cant wait for the "just watch the movie and decide for yourself" argument.
I've already got that shame on Facebook.
"marvel movie bias"
me: shut up there is no bias. These movies just aren't good.
Someone Else: shut your lollipop sucking mouth
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Aug 04, 2016, 07:53 PM
Ghost busters at 111m domestic. Tomorrow it will drastically cut available theaters with the release of Suicide Squad. Remember, this movie was expected to have a high multiplier due to McCarthy, comedy and fieg (160m was suppose to be reachable). After second weekend drop bigger than expected the expectations changed to 130m. I'm not sure if it'll be able to reach that. Let's say it does 6m from here to Sunday. It will need 13m left. That would be about another two weeks at its current rate

Next week, Petes dragon and sausage party takes up theater spots. This week, suicide squad and nine lives
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Aug 08, 2016, 02:18 PM
Box-Office Analysis: 'Suicide Squad's' Huge Saturday Drop | Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/suicide-squad-box-office-analysis-saturday-drop-917872)

Verdict: not looking good for SS longevity after huge debut
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Aug 08, 2016, 03:41 PM
Star Trek is flopping in the foreign markets. Should really be about 20% higher than it is right now. Still, will lose less money than ghost busters thanks to stronger US sales (already 10m more and a week less) and Chinese launch.

Ghostbusters pretty much done this week. 20m left to cross 200m and 13m left to cross the post released revised lower end expectations for domestic.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 12, 2016, 05:51 AM
I actually liked the Lego Movie.  
Some parts I didn't like though.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Legend on Aug 12, 2016, 06:41 AM
I actually liked the Lego Movie.  
Some parts I didn't like though.
I thought everyone liked it?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 12, 2016, 07:16 AM
I thought everyone liked it?
Everyone probably does.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Aug 14, 2016, 01:41 AM
80% drop.... Holy shame
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: BananaKing on Aug 14, 2016, 08:06 AM
man are the DC fanboys going full force. "roten tomatoes hates DC",  "if this had marvel on it everybody would love it", "just watch it for yourself and then decide, i loved it", "reviewers dont know shame and are biased against DC". seriously, the amount of butt hurt on the internet because this movie sucks is incredible. they really just cant accept that people dont like DC movies because they are DC, but because they suck.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Aug 14, 2016, 05:09 PM
man are the DC fanboys going full force. "roten tomatoes hates DC",  "if this had marvel on it everybody would love it", "just watch it for yourself and then decide, i loved it", "reviewers dont know shame and are biased against DC". seriously, the amount of butt hurt on the internet because this movie sucks is incredible. they really just cant accept that people dont like DC movies because they are DC, but because they suck.
I like the movieweb page on Facebook. I made a post "DC fan boys in overtime"

They are so bad. To the "don't listen to critics. Decide for yourself" I always respond, "it isn't my job to blindly support a movie with my hard earned money. It's the movie makers job to give me something I'm excited to see"

"Marvel is for kids"

Me: actually, both marvel and DC are for adults being as those are the ones who have the money to pay to go see it.

"DC ismore dark and deep"

Me: there nothing more deep in DC than marvel and being shot in a dark environment doesn't make it better
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: nnodley on Aug 14, 2016, 08:42 PM
Suicide Squad will likely just be shy of getting to the estimated ~800(?) million it needs to break even. I really liked the movie so it's disappointing, but wonder woman at least looks amazing, but we'll see come it's release.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 14, 2016, 09:15 PM
Suicide Squad will likely just be shy of getting to the estimated ~800(?) million it needs to break even. I really liked the movie so it's disappointing, but wonder woman at least looks amazing, but we'll see come it's release.
Well it's at 465m already
80% drop.... Holy shame
For what?

Suicide Squad estimated drop is 67%
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Legend on Aug 14, 2016, 09:20 PM
wonder woman at least looks amazing, but we'll see come it's release.
Oh gosh no.

During that entire trailer my reaction was:
(http://thefw.com/files/2013/05/Gagging.gif)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: nnodley on Aug 14, 2016, 09:25 PM
Oh gosh no.

During that entire trailer my reaction was:
(http://thefw.com/files/2013/05/Gagging.gif)
You crazy! Looks amazing to me!  8)

Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 14, 2016, 09:27 PM
Well it's at 465m alreadyFor what?

Suicide Squad estimated drop is 67%
SS estimated Friday drop was 79.7% when I checked last.  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: nnodley on Aug 14, 2016, 09:30 PM
SS estimated Friday drop was 79.7% when I checked last.  
Yeah I'm curious to see what the whole weekend drop is.  Cause captain america dropped 74% on it's second friday, but over the whole weekend it was only a drop of like 59%.  If SS can have a weekend drop between 55% and 65% it won't be too bad.  

Friday to friday drops are usually always fairly large, but it's the overall weekend you have to watch.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 14, 2016, 10:25 PM
Yeah I'm curious to see what the whole weekend drop is.  Cause captain america dropped 74% on it's second friday, but over the whole weekend it was only a drop of like 59%.  If SS can have a weekend drop between 55% and 65% it won't be too bad.  

Friday to friday drops are usually always fairly large, but it's the overall weekend you have to watch.
'Suicide Squad' Drops Big, But Remains #1 as 'Sausage Party' Eats Up the Box Office - Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4215&p=.htm)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Legend on Aug 17, 2016, 12:20 AM


Heck yes this movie was made for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please don't screw it up, please don't screw it up.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Aug 17, 2016, 06:01 AM
Sausage party could end up being more lucrative for Sony than ghost busters lol
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Aug 19, 2016, 03:52 PM
Sausage party already at 50m with estimated 17m weekend. This movie could reach 1/2 of ghost busters with 1/10 budget
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Legend on Aug 19, 2016, 04:02 PM
I saw Suicide Squad. Was an enjoyable hot mess.

Joker was a joke.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Aug 19, 2016, 04:42 PM
I saw Suicide Squad. Was an enjoyable hot mess.

Joker was a joke.
I'm expecting that. First sausage party then ss for me
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 19, 2016, 05:18 PM
Kingslaive is getting bad reviews
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Suicide Squad disappoints??
Post by: Legend on Aug 19, 2016, 05:21 PM
Kingslaive is getting bad reviews
I'm shocked!

Still want to see it though.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 20, 2016, 02:37 PM
Kubo and the two strings came out of nowhere for me. Want to watch
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 20, 2016, 08:51 PM
 Final Fantasy Movie?  
Did anyone watch that Final Fantasy VII movie or the Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within?
Pretty sure I watched both, don't remember much though.  :P
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 20, 2016, 09:13 PM
Final Fantasy Movie?  
Did anyone watch that Final Fantasy VII movie or the Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within?
Pretty sure I watched both, don't remember much though.  :P
Kingslaive, son
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: Legend on Aug 20, 2016, 10:02 PM
Kingslaive, son
Haha up untill yesterday that's what I thought the movie's name was.

Never noticed the second G.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 20, 2016, 10:25 PM
Haha up untill yesterday that's what I thought the movie's name was.

Never noticed the second G.
Lol I actually pronounce it with the second g in my mind so this was just a typo!
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 20, 2016, 11:21 PM
Kingslaive, son
But did anyone see the other ones?  
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 20, 2016, 11:23 PM
But did anyone see the other ones?  
I, for one, did not
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: Legend on Aug 20, 2016, 11:27 PM
But did anyone see the other ones?  
I saw both.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Aug 21, 2016, 10:51 AM
I saw both. Spirits within at theaters.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Sep 03, 2016, 02:03 AM
2001 a space odyssey. Doing it, first time ever.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: Legend on Sep 03, 2016, 05:52 AM
2001 a space odyssey. Doing it, first time ever.
Did you understand anything?
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Sep 03, 2016, 09:47 AM
Did you understand anything?
I feel asleep about 30 minutesin. I'll watch it over the next few nights.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 03, 2016, 01:18 PM
2001 a space odyssey. Doing it, first time ever.
Amazing movie son
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: Max King of the Wild on Sep 05, 2016, 09:02 PM
SS SPOILER:

Spoiler for Hidden:
Oh, joker took over the helicopter.... &nbsp;Shoot it down! Oh shame, Harley is making a break for it! Forget the gun in your hand! Blow her up! Oh it&#39;s not working? Keep trying!


In a world that you know who Batman is, Aquaman, Flash, Wonder Woman and a woman welding a sword the captures souls.... Why would the team you try to organize first be criminals?

Needless to say, another DC disappointment
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: Legend on Sep 06, 2016, 12:18 AM
SS SPOILER:

Spoiler for Hidden:
Oh, joker took over the helicopter....  Shoot it down! Oh shame, Harley is making a break for it! Forget the gun in your hand! Blow her up! Oh it's not working? Keep trying!


In a world that you know who Batman is, Aquaman, Flash, Wonder Woman and a woman welding a sword the captures souls.... Why would the team you try to organize first be criminals?

Needless to say, another DC disappointment
Yeah turn your brain off and enjoy the good parts. It becomes kinda fun.

Can't believe it but BVS might be better imo, even though it has the stupid Soyuz scene.

Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: Kerotan on Sep 07, 2016, 12:55 AM
Do we talk about TV series in here or is there another thread?

Anyway finished narcos season 2 and fudge me what an epic series.  well done Netflix.  Another gem.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 07, 2016, 01:02 AM
Do we talk about TV series in here or is there another thread?

Anyway finished narcos season 2 and fudge me what an epic series.  well done Netflix.  Another gem.
The TV Show Thread - Page 33 (http://vizioneck.com/forum/index.php?topic=97.480)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 07, 2016, 06:02 PM
Do we talk about TV series in here or is there another thread?

Anyway finished narcos season 2 and fudge me what an epic series.  well done Netflix.  Another gem.
We have a thread for that too 8)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 15, 2016, 02:12 AM
The Last Airbender movie really pisses me off, and I haven't seen it in 6 years. 
So freaking awful. 
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: Legend on Sep 15, 2016, 02:46 AM
The Last Airbender movie really pisses me off, and I haven't seen it in 6 years.  
So freaking awful.  

I didn't think it was that bad  ::)
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 15, 2016, 02:49 AM
I didn't think it was that bad  ::)
Not sure how that's possible.   :o
Easily the worst movie I've ever seen. 
Has nothing on this.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: Legend on Sep 15, 2016, 03:12 AM
Not sure how that's possible.   :o
Easily the worst movie I've ever seen.  
Has nothing on this.

Yup I liked the show and enjoyed that episode a lot.

Not even close to the worst movie I've seen. Try watching more B movies lol.
Title: Re: The Movie Thread - Final Fantasy movie
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 15, 2016, 11:30 AM
The show was so great tho
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 01, 2016, 01:08 AM
Any exciting movies coming up? Seems rather quiet in movie world
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Oct 01, 2016, 03:34 AM
Patiently waiting and hoping Dr. Strange is good.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 01, 2016, 06:05 AM
Hyped for the arrival.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 01, 2016, 08:00 PM
Hyped for the arrival.
Oh yeah it looks good

Patiently waiting and hoping Dr. Strange is good.
It's got great actors. Hope it lives up to them
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 02, 2016, 11:33 PM
Actually happening.

(https://i.redd.it/20xnyuv663px.jpg)

Was in development hell for so long.

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Oct 02, 2016, 11:42 PM
That was a lame video.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: SWORDF1SH on Oct 02, 2016, 11:58 PM
I just watched Big Short, it's pretty well written although I feel they missed a few opportunities to make some moments epic.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 03, 2016, 12:46 AM
I just watched Big Short, it's pretty well written although I feel they missed a few opportunities to make some moments epic.
I liked it. What moments?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Oct 03, 2016, 01:07 AM
Just saw the trailer for Pirates on Fear the Walking Dead.  Looks good, but looks like it's going for a way darker vibe than any of the past ones.  Could be totally wrong though.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 03, 2016, 01:32 AM
That was a lame video.

It was barely a teaser.  

That was a lame video.



The real thing.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 03, 2016, 01:56 AM
Looks cool.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: SWORDF1SH on Oct 03, 2016, 01:59 PM
I liked it. What moments?
An example is during the panel discussion between Bruce Miller and Mark Baum (character played by Steve Carell). Mark Baum is a very intense & angry character
Spoiler for Hidden:
and it would of been awesome if he totally ripped into Bruce Miller. To that point his anger had been building up and you never really see him get his moment or he missed his moment in this instance to offload this pent up opinions.
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Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 04, 2016, 12:36 AM
Epic teaser
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 06, 2016, 06:23 PM
Yay another one!

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 13, 2016, 06:51 PM


Decreased my interest a lot. Will wait for reviews.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 13, 2016, 07:51 PM


Decreased my interest a lot. Will wait for reviews.
Why?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 14, 2016, 01:35 AM
Why?
Trailer focused on plot yet couldn't make the story seem interesting. Always a bad sign.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 18, 2016, 06:41 PM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 18, 2016, 06:50 PM
Meh. Don't like the music choice
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Oct 18, 2016, 06:58 PM
Meh. Don't like the music choice
Agreed.  So not assassins creed at all.

Other than that it looks great to me.  Hopefully it does well and launches a decent movie franchise as well.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Oct 19, 2016, 04:33 PM
Where the hype for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them?  Oh it's right here with me!!!! 8)

Can't fudgy wait, looks fantastic.
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Post by: Legend on Oct 19, 2016, 05:10 PM
Where the hype for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them?  Oh it's right here with me!!!! 8)

Can't fudgy wait, looks fantastic.
Harry Potter without Harry Potter is not Harry Potter.

That is all.
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Oct 19, 2016, 05:22 PM
Harry Potter without Harry Potter is not Harry Potter.

That is all.
Harry Potter sucks anyway, but let me say this. My kid loves Harry Potter yet knows nothing about it. So with fantastic beasts he can't know what is missing. He'll love the movie and I'll allow his mom the opportunity to take him since she's the HP fanatic

She's a nut though and tried to take me to court to find me in contempt for taking him to see Home and Inside out in theaters
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Post by: Legend on Oct 19, 2016, 05:44 PM


Harry Potter sucks anyway, but let me say this. My kid loves Harry Potter yet knows nothing about it. So with fantastic beasts he can't know what is missing. He'll love the movie and I'll allow his mom the opportunity to take him since she's the HP fanatic

She's a nut though and tried to take me to court to find me in contempt for taking him to see Home and Inside out in theaters
That's something
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 21, 2016, 06:02 PM
Fantastic beasts will be 5 movies. Wth
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Post by: nnodley on Oct 21, 2016, 06:20 PM
Fantastic beasts will be 5 movies. Wth
I think JK rowling said  originally it was planned out to be 3.  But they now have a better idea of the story so they expanded it.   I'm personally ok with it cause I like JK's writing and loved Harry Potter so I'm stoked for these.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 21, 2016, 06:55 PM
I think JK rowling said  originally it was planned out to be 3.  But they now have a better idea of the story so they expanded it.   I'm personally ok with it cause I like JK's writing and loved Harry Potter so I'm stoked for these.
Or they knew they could milk it
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Oct 21, 2016, 07:31 PM
Or they knew they could milk it
If it's good, why do you care?
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Post by: nnodley on Oct 21, 2016, 07:39 PM
Or they knew they could milk it
Well duh! That's the only reason they are making even 1 movie!   :P
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Post by: Legend on Oct 22, 2016, 01:01 AM
Fantastic beasts will be 5 movies. Wth
Harry Potter cinematic universe is comming along nicely.
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Post by: nnodley on Oct 22, 2016, 06:24 PM
Just watched Star Trek Beyond.  Really enjoyed it.  Hopefully the 4th does even better cause Beyond was way better than the 1st and 2nd, and I liked those a lot too.
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Post by: nnodley on Oct 22, 2016, 09:12 PM
You all need to watch the movie Triangle form 2009. Super mind bending.  Don't even look anything up about it just watch it.  
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Post by: DD_Bwest on Oct 31, 2016, 06:22 PM
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Post by: Legend on Nov 02, 2016, 01:39 AM

That's much cooler than I expected.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 03, 2016, 03:40 PM


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Post by: Legend on Nov 03, 2016, 03:49 PM
Over the top dream sequences are so overdone in movies nowadays. I blame inception.
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Nov 07, 2016, 05:36 PM
Dr Strange a box office success. No surprise.

Saw a power Rangers trailer... Looks like a lions gate film
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Post by: nnodley on Nov 07, 2016, 09:04 PM
I keep hoping to see news that the final divergent movie will be released in theaters and not as a TV movie.  While Allegiant was pretty much shame in regards to the books it was a decent movie.  Divergent and Insurgent were great even though they are still not even close to be the best movies.   They just need to work with their slashed budget for the final movie and move away from all the special effects that they had to do in the most recent one.  Just keep the majority of the movie in the city and keep the outside of the fence parts to a minimum.
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Post by: Legend on Nov 10, 2016, 07:06 PM


Cool world building but I have low confidence it's actually good.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 10, 2016, 07:24 PM


Cool world building but I have low confidence it's actually good.
Looks pretty cool.

I'm hyped for arrival !
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Post by: Legend on Nov 10, 2016, 07:45 PM
Looks pretty cool.

I'm hyped for arrival !
Arrival looks great. I plan to see it Sunday.
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Post by: Legend on Nov 14, 2016, 12:41 AM
Saw arrival and it was pretty good. I think my high expectations and conlang knowledge stopped me from loving it though. First third was super awesome and felt like the most realistic alien arrival I've seen depicted in a movie.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 14, 2016, 01:13 AM
Ghost in the shell trailer is promising
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Nov 16, 2016, 01:29 PM
Im a little worried about it.
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Post by: BananaKing on Nov 17, 2016, 11:31 AM
Sausage party was such a disappointment.
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Post by: Legend on Nov 17, 2016, 04:47 PM


Sausage party was such a disappointment.
That bad?
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Post by: BananaKing on Nov 20, 2016, 02:25 PM

That bad?
Yeah, really disappointed in it. its ending its super stupid too.


Just watched Suicide Squad. its by far the worst super hero movie i have ever seen. its beyond stupid. its plot makes no sense. acting sucks, specially Joker and Harley. CGI is a joke. and characters are stupid. honestly, its one of the worst movies i have ever seen. and i seen The Hungers Games: Mocking jay Part 1.
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Nov 20, 2016, 04:52 PM
Yeah, really disappointed in it. its ending its super stupid too.


Just watched Suicide Squad. its by far the worst super hero movie i have ever seen. its beyond stupid. its plot makes no sense. acting sucks, specially Joker and Harley. CGI is a joke. and characters are stupid. honestly, its one of the worst movies i have ever seen. and i seen The Hungers Games: Mocking jay Part 1.
It was bad, but DC fan boys loved it. I don't understand why they just don't shoot someone walking in front of them when the gadget malfunctions instead of pushing the button again and again.
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Post by: Legend on Nov 24, 2016, 03:43 AM
(https://i.reddituploads.com/463ce45c3b2c4995ae07252d1cd2b308?fit=max&h=1536&w=1536&s=977c6b58687b040280658dc07619a87a)Oh heck yes
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Post by: Xevross on Nov 27, 2016, 12:51 AM
Sausage party is the weirdest film I've ever watched. I have no idea what to make of it. That was so iced up but hilarious at the same time
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 04, 2016, 12:23 AM
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Post by: Legend on Dec 05, 2016, 07:29 AM
What the heck?


I'm confused right now...
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Post by: Legend on Dec 09, 2016, 03:54 PM


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Post by: nnodley on Dec 09, 2016, 06:44 PM
Both look great.  Can't wait!
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Post by: Legend on Dec 11, 2016, 04:50 PM
Swiss Army Man was surprisingly good imo. I had low expectations going in but I'd recommend it.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 11, 2016, 04:53 PM
So everyone loved rogue one at the premier apparently. Really hyped for it now! I'm going to my first midnight release for it
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Post by: BananaKing on Dec 11, 2016, 10:35 PM
I'd really love a Mass Effect movie
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 13, 2016, 05:42 PM
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rogue_one_a_star_wars_story)

Reviews coming in fast! Looks like another hit
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 13, 2016, 05:50 PM
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rogue_one_a_star_wars_story)

Reviews coming in fast! Looks like another hit
Yay! I'm really hyped for it!
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Post by: Legend on Dec 14, 2016, 04:27 PM
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rogue_one_a_star_wars_story)

Reviews coming in fast! Looks like another hit
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Reviews - Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/movie/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story?ref=hp)

65 on Metacritic. Force Awakens has an 81.
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Post by: DD_Bwest on Dec 14, 2016, 05:00 PM


holy fudge this looks good
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 14, 2016, 11:12 PM
Rogue One hype! Watching it in an hour #midnightrelease
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 15, 2016, 02:28 AM
Oh my fudgy goodness. Wowowowow
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Post by: Legend on Dec 15, 2016, 02:38 AM
Oh my fudgy goodness. Wowowowow
Better than 7?
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 15, 2016, 02:48 AM
Better than 7?
Better than 7.

Well, maybe. Seven is great all the way through while rogue one gets better and better as it goes along. The last ~45 mins of the film is the best segment of any film I can remember. Absolutely amazing.

Talking about how it links to episode 4:
Spoiler for Hidden:
the link is so much stronger than I expected and executed perfectly. Loved it.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 15, 2016, 02:53 AM
That was the first time I have ever felt the urge to clap when a film ended in the cinema. I wasn't going to do it but then a few other people started clapping and most others joined in. Never seen an audience applaud a film like that before
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Post by: Legend on Dec 15, 2016, 05:49 AM
That was the first time I have ever felt the urge to clap when a film ended in the cinema. I wasn't going to do it but then a few other people started clapping and most others joined in. Never seen an audience applaud a film like that before
I've seen it happen a few times. Other times people try to clap but instead they awkwardly shuffle out.
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 15, 2016, 07:18 AM
Well, 7 sucked so much donkey balls that if this isn't better than it then the franchise would be dead.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 15, 2016, 07:37 AM
Well, 7 sucked so much donkey balls that if this isn't better than it then the franchise would be dead.
How would your opinion kill an entire franchise?
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 15, 2016, 12:23 PM
Well, 7 sucked so much donkey balls that if this isn't better than it then the franchise would be dead.
Keep dreaming bud lol. 7 was huge
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 15, 2016, 01:39 PM
Even if it dropped like a rock, it'd still be bigger than most other things...  
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Post by: Legend on Dec 15, 2016, 03:24 PM
Keep dreaming bud lol. 7 was huge
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwdV_mkVEAAsPnN.jpg)
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 15, 2016, 04:09 PM
Keep dreaming bud lol. 7 was huge
OK. Doesn't mean if they kept putting crud out people would continue to see it. Like DC movies. They better hope WW is good
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 15, 2016, 04:25 PM
OK. Doesn't mean if they kept putting crud out people would continue to see it. Like DC movies. They better hope WW is good
Well the thing is, most people don't think its crud and were very happy about episode 7. Don't state your opinion like its a fact, when it in fact is a minority opinion.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 15, 2016, 05:24 PM
OK. Doesn't mean if they kept putting crud out people would continue to see it. Like DC movies. They better hope WW is good
What Xevross said. I really liked it, as well as most people I know
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Post by: nnodley on Dec 15, 2016, 06:07 PM
7 was the first star wars I could actually get into and thought it was great.  I never really cared about star wars, but do have them DVR'd when they were on tv so I could watch them again.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 15, 2016, 06:19 PM
7 was the first star wars I could actually get into and thought it was great.  I never really cared about star wars, but do have them DVR'd when they were on tv so I could watch them again.
Well I love star wars but I'd agree that 7 is probably the most accessible and that it is really great.

7 and Rogue One are definitely on opposite ends of the spectrum. You could start watching star wars at episode 7 and be perfectly fine but I think if you watched Rogue One without having seen the original trilogy you would be a little bit lost and wouldn't appreciate it anywhere near as much.

That's a good point actually, I'd recommend people watch at least the start of A New Hope before watching Rogue One. If ANH fresh in your mind you'll love the ending to Rogue One.
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Post by: nnodley on Dec 15, 2016, 07:42 PM
Well I love star wars but I'd agree that 7 is probably the most accessible and that it is really great.

7 and Rogue One are definitely on opposite ends of the spectrum. You could start watching star wars at episode 7 and be perfectly fine but I think if you watched Rogue One without having seen the original trilogy you would be a little bit lost and wouldn't appreciate it anywhere near as much.

That's a good point actually, I'd recommend people watch at least the start of A New Hope before watching Rogue One. If ANH fresh in your mind you'll love the ending to Rogue One.
yeah i plan on watching them all even the prequels before watching rogue one.  Though I likely won't see it in theaters since I tend to mostly wait for movies to come out on digital or blu ray.  Think I'm gonna throw on some of A New Hope right now.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 16, 2016, 05:03 AM
Do you think these are all bad?

NeoGAF - View Single Post -  Is it time to accept Revenge of the Sith as "one of the good" SW films? SPOILERS (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=226550631&postcount=12)

Quote
What's the worst line from REVENGE OF THE SITH?
 "Chancellor Palpatine, Sith Lords are our specialty." -Obi-Wan
 "My powers have doubled since the last time we met, Count." | "Good. Twice the pride, double the fall." -Anakin and Count Dooku
 "Wait a minute, how did this happen, we're smarter than this!" -Obi-Wan
 "You owe me one, and for not saving your skin for the tenth time." | "Ninth time. That business on Cato Neimodia doesn't- doesn't count." -Anakin and Obi-Wan
 "You are so... beautiful." | "It's only because I'm so in love." | "No, it's because I'm so in love with you." | "So love has blinded you?" | "Well, that's not exactly what I meant." | "But it's probably true." -Anakin and Padmé
 "Have you ever considered that we may be on the wrong side? What if the democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists? And the Republic has become the very evil we've been fighting to destroy?" -Padmé
 "Hold me, like you did by the lake on Naboo... so long ago when there was nothing but our love. No politics, no plotting, no war." -Padmé
 "No! No! No! YOU WILL DIE!" -Supreme Chancellor Palpatine
 "Killed not by clones, this Padawan, but by a lightsaber he was." -Yoda
 "I have seen... a security hologram... of him... killing younglings." -Obi-Wan
 "I don't know you any more. Anakin! You're breaking my heart! You're going down a path I can't follow!" -Padmé
 "Only a Sith deals in absolutes." -Obi-Wan
 "I have waited a long time for this moment, my little green friend." -Emperor Palpatine
 "Not if anything to say about it I have." -Yoda
 "From my point of view, it is the Jedi who are evil." -Anakin
 
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 16, 2016, 06:33 AM
Do you think these are all bad?

NeoGAF - View Single Post -  Is it time to accept Revenge of the Sith as "one of the good" SW films? SPOILERS (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=226550631&postcount=12)

The whole movie was bad
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 16, 2016, 08:29 AM
Do you think these are all bad?

NeoGAF - View Single Post -  Is it time to accept Revenge of the Sith as "one of the good" SW films? SPOILERS (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=226550631&postcount=12)

No I don't. People on gaf shame on ROTS too much. In fact most people on gaf shame on everything too much in off topic
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 19, 2016, 05:50 PM


Zomg!
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Post by: Legend on Dec 19, 2016, 05:58 PM


Zomg!
I'm really getting tired of soft reboots but that does look nice.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 19, 2016, 06:00 PM
I'm really getting tired of soft reboots but that does look nice.
Trailer looks nice, actor choice is good. Promising so far
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 19, 2016, 11:37 PM
Looks like assassins creed is another bad video game movie
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 20, 2016, 01:27 AM
Looks like assassins creed is another bad video game movie
What a surprise!

I wasn't going to watch it anyway, the modern part of the story looked as uninteresting as it is in the games
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 20, 2016, 06:53 AM
What a surprise!

I wasn't going to watch it anyway, the modern part of the story looked as uninteresting as it is in the games
And seems like that's the biggest part of the movie by far
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 20, 2016, 08:27 AM
I fudgy told you.... I think it was legend who said it looked like the first good game movie
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Post by: Legend on Dec 20, 2016, 05:01 PM
I fudgy told you.... I think it was legend who said it looked like the first good game movie
lol no that certainly wasn't me.

I tend to be a pessimist when it comes to unreleased films.
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Post by: Aura7541 on Dec 20, 2016, 05:23 PM
That was the first time I have ever felt the urge to clap when a film ended in the cinema. I wasn't going to do it but then a few other people started clapping and most others joined in. Never seen an audience applaud a film like that before
Take that, #DumpStarWars!
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Post by: BananaKing on Dec 21, 2016, 01:44 PM
And seems like that's the biggest part of the movie by far
thats what i was scared of. that the modern day setting will be the majority of the movie
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Post by: Legend on Dec 21, 2016, 11:33 PM
Ended up seeing rogue one for my birthday. Really liked the world building and tying in with past movies. Writing and editing felt off but I still liked it as a whole.

Second half felt like a different movie.
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Post by: Cute Pikachu on Dec 22, 2016, 05:31 AM
Just Saw Moana what a great film!
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Dec 22, 2016, 07:16 AM
Just Saw Moana what a great film!
Meh. Not terrible but I want my hero's to be likeable. Not one completely useless and one pompous dog hat
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 31, 2016, 07:26 AM
Storks and Sing were both better than I expected.  

I fudgy told you.... I think it was legend who said it looked like the first good game movie
All I can find is nnodley saying it looked good.
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Post by: nnodley on Jan 01, 2017, 06:11 AM
Storks and Sing were both better than I expected.  
All I can find is nnodley saying it looked good.
Eh I still do think it looks good.  I don't overanalyze my movie watching and nitpick at every single thing.  i watch shame and enjoy it.  
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Post by: Xevross on Jan 01, 2017, 01:32 PM
Eh I still do think it looks good.  I don't overanalyze my movie watching and nitpick at every single thing.  i watch shame and enjoy it.  
Same here. Films are for entertainment and I just watch them to enjoy myself.
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jan 02, 2017, 01:33 PM
It always looked like crud

Rogue one was awesome. Saved the franchise from mediocrity. Darth Vader was done right unlike the prequel
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Post by: Legend on Jan 03, 2017, 12:30 AM
Same here. Films are for entertainment and I just watch them to enjoy myself.
That's not what this is about though. We all play games for entertainment yet have no problem discussing their negative elements; movies aren't inherently different.

Max can work on his posts being less argumentative but analysing movies isn't a bad thing. I spent a few summers in film school and was in film club so personally it's fun to critique them.

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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 03, 2017, 12:50 AM
I guess I'm going to watch Suicide Squad. I just finished batman vs Superman, and it wasn't as bad as everyone made it seem. It was fairly entertaining, but not as good and the dark knight series. So I'm hoping SS isn't as bad as everyone made it out to be either.
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Post by: Legend on Jan 03, 2017, 01:00 AM
I guess I'm going to watch Suicide Squad. I just finished batman vs Superman, and it wasn't as bad as everyone made it seem. It was fairly entertaining, but not as good and the dark knight series. So I'm hoping SS isn't as bad as everyone made it out to be either.
SS has a lot of issues but I guess a lot of backlash was also about the lack of Joker. IMO the few scenes with joker were already too much  ::)

Fun film and better than BvS imo.
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Post by: nnodley on Jan 03, 2017, 01:21 AM
SS has a lot of issues but I guess a lot of backlash was also about the lack of Joker. IMO the few scenes with joker were already too much  ::)

Fun film and better than BvS imo.
I honestly wished there was more of Joker.  I thought his scenes were great.  Maybe a bit over the top in the acting, but still liked it.  
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 03, 2017, 11:53 PM
Rogue one was very good. Epic ending
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 12, 2017, 03:51 PM
Watched 2 movies on the plane.  
Kubo and Your Name. Both were really good.


Also watched part of Batman v. Superman.  
Some parts of it really bothered me.
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Batman just seems very stupid. &nbsp;<br>His whole &quot;we have to kill Superman because he could turn evil&quot; seems very anti-Batman. &nbsp;<br><br>And Superman just seems to be in a lot of trouble, and he never tries to explain himself. &nbsp;Even when he&#39;s on trial, (though he didn&#39;t talk at all). <br>


Just seems like they threw together a poorly executed plot to try to speed ahead to get further in the franchise plans.
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Post by: nnodley on Jan 14, 2017, 01:46 AM
Didn't realize ratchet and clank was put on netflix.  Might give it a watch sometime. Even though its supposedly not that good.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 23, 2017, 01:31 AM
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Post by: Legend on Jan 23, 2017, 05:20 PM
Official title revealed.
(http://cdn.collider.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/star-wars-the-last-jedi-poster.jpg)
Trailer will probably be at the superbowl.

(I really hope this film is original and isn't a soft remake like the previous)
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Post by: Xevross on Jan 23, 2017, 06:50 PM
Official title revealed.
(http://cdn.collider.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/star-wars-the-last-jedi-poster.jpg)
Trailer will probably be at the superbowl.

(I really hope this film is original and isn't a soft remake like the previous)
Loving the title! Obviously focused on Luke, which I love.

Yeah if it plays out like Empire Strikes Back then lots of people will be unhappy
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 24, 2017, 01:00 AM
Loving the title! Obviously focused on Luke, which I love.

Yeah if it plays out like Empire Strikes Back then lots of people will be unhappy
"Rey, I am your father"
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Post by: Legend on Jan 24, 2017, 01:34 AM
"Rey, I am your father"
If Rey loses her hand  >:(
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jan 24, 2017, 01:44 AM
Lol. Rey finds out she has a twin brother :-D
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Jan 25, 2017, 05:59 PM
Marvel has an announcement tomorrow.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 26, 2017, 05:45 PM
So la la land isn't "lala" at all with 14 Oscar nominations!
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Post by: Legend on Jan 26, 2017, 06:32 PM
So la la land isn't "lala" at all with 14 Oscar nominations!
It would have got even more nominations with a different lead.

(https://i.redd.it/3ltuuyyik1cy.png)
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Post by: Legend on Jan 30, 2017, 06:45 AM
I saw X Men apocalypse. Definitely the best of the prequels.

It did a lot of world building/setup and I liked that. Also was just much more fun than the other two.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 30, 2017, 04:47 PM
I saw X Men apocalypse. Definitely the best of the prequels.

It did a lot of world building/setup and I liked that. Also was just much more fun than the other two.
Hmm I doubt I'll like it more than the others. Days of future past was very good
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Post by: nnodley on Jan 30, 2017, 08:28 PM
Avatar 2: Motion Capture Begins in August - IGN (http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/01/30/avatar-2-motion-capture-begins-in-august)

I know people like to shame on Avatar, but it's one of my favorites.  Not even necessarily for the story. I understand the pitfalls for it and why people don't like it, but it was one of the best cinema experiences i've ever had.  

Saying that I hope 2, 3, 4, and 5(I think 2 and 3 would have been enough) are much better in story.  But I'm sure we can count on an amazing looking world again.
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Post by: Legend on Jan 30, 2017, 10:16 PM
Avatar 2: Motion Capture Begins in August - IGN (http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/01/30/avatar-2-motion-capture-begins-in-august)

I know people like to shame on Avatar, but it's one of my favorites.  Not even necessarily for the story. I understand the pitfalls for it and why people don't like it, but it was one of the best cinema experiences i've ever had.  

Saying that I hope 2, 3, 4, and 5(I think 2 and 3 would have been enough) are much better in story.  But I'm sure we can count on an amazing looking world again.
I'm right there with you. Loved the movie so much when it came out and all the news about Avatar Land and the sequels has me so excited.


It's been 8 years since Avatar (holy fudge time goes fast) and that'll probably help a lot with the movie's success. If it released 5 years ago while it was still popular to hate, that'd be an uphill battle.



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Post by: nnodley on Jan 30, 2017, 10:25 PM
I'm right there with you. Loved the movie so much when it came out and all the news about Avatar Land and the sequels has me so excited.


It's been 8 years since Avatar (holy fudge time goes fast) and that'll probably help a lot with the movie's success. If it released 5 years ago while it was still popular to hate, that'd be an uphill battle.




Yeah it's absolutely crazy to think it's been 8 years.  It's the movie that really pushed me to want to do environment art.  I had started thinking about it but it pushed me enough to do it.   

I really hope that A2 doesn't get delayed to 2019.  Hope December 2018 is achievable.

Also Avatarland is gonna be amazing.  Can't wait till it opens.
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Post by: nnodley on Jan 30, 2017, 10:28 PM
It's a fudgy shame that James Horner passed away.  His music in Avatar was simply amazing.  I'm worried whoever does the new movies won't live up to it, but I'm optimistic that they will keep the same sounds of the music.
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Post by: Xevross on Jan 30, 2017, 11:50 PM
I absolutely love Avatar. Can't wait for the sequels, so this is great news!
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Post by: nnodley on Jan 31, 2017, 06:57 PM
I hope james cameron can really deliver on amazing glasses free 3D.  If he can do that then I can see these will be massive hits again.  I doubt he will for Avatar 2, but maybe avatar 3 and beyond will be.
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Post by: Legend on Jan 31, 2017, 07:05 PM
I hope james cameron can really deliver on amazing glasses free 3D.  If he can do that then I can see these will be massive hits again.  I doubt he will for Avatar 2, but maybe avatar 3 and beyond will be.
I don't understand why he keeps mentioning that. A glasses less 3D is a display tech not a film tech.

Maybe he means rendering a light field but that's still a long way off from being common or standardized. Plus the data would be multiple terabytes. And rendering would take at least 10 times longer.
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Post by: nnodley on Jan 31, 2017, 07:38 PM
I don't understand why he keeps mentioning that. A glasses less 3D is a display tech not a film tech.

Maybe he means rendering a light field but that's still a long way off from being common or standardized. Plus the data would be multiple terabytes. And rendering would take at least 10 times longer.
Yeah I'm not sure what he's trying to want to do with it.  But he seems adamant about doing it or getting it.  Maybe he wants to help develop the display tech more for theaters.  I'm sure he will have a trial run with small amounts of theaters with avatar 2 if he is serious about it.
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Post by: Legend on Feb 05, 2017, 04:27 AM
Saw Passengers.

Incredibly well done science accuracy. I did not expect that at all from the trailers. Overall I actually enjoyed it a lot, mostly due to the space stuff.
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Post by: BananaKing on Feb 05, 2017, 08:59 PM
I saw X Men apocalypse. Definitely the best of the prequels.

It did a lot of world building/setup and I liked that. Also was just much more fun than the other two.
ummm what? Days of Future past was WAY better than it. in fact days of future past is hands down the best super hero film. First Class was also pretty good. Apocalypse isnt as bad as people say, its a fun movie, decent. but the formula is just tired by now. plus the VFX in it were weird, a noticable step down from Days of Future Past. at times they felt really really out of place.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 05, 2017, 11:41 PM
La la land was just wonderful
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Post by: Kerotan on Feb 06, 2017, 04:38 AM
Seen train spotting 2. Very nostalgic and obviously targeted at fans of the original.  Thoroughly enjoyable though.  Loved every minute.  Found it emotional too.  

9/10

I watched passengers too.  A space flick with a unique twist.  thoroughly enjoyed it too.

9/10

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Post by: Legend on Feb 07, 2017, 01:02 AM
ummm what? Days of Future past was WAY better than it. in fact days of future past is hands down the best super hero film. First Class was also pretty good. Apocalypse isnt as bad as people say, its a fun movie, decent. but the formula is just tired by now. plus the VFX in it were weird, a noticable step down from Days of Future Past. at times they felt really really out of place.
I didn't enjoy Days of Future past or First Class that much.

That's strange you felt that way about the VFX. I felt the opposite. Guess it's just a combination of me really not caring about the previous two and this one having more of my kind of movie.
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Feb 08, 2017, 05:43 AM
Watched Arrival for the second time. That music is just utterly amazing...Loved it.
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Post by: Legend on Feb 08, 2017, 06:53 AM
Watched Arrival for the second time. That music is just utterly amazing...Loved it.
Yup sound design was so wonderful.
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Feb 08, 2017, 07:04 AM
What are we expecting for the critical reception of wonder woman? Because of the last two DC movies I'm skipping WW and waiting for JL reviews.
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Post by: Legend on Feb 08, 2017, 07:14 AM
What are we expecting for the critical reception of wonder woman? Because of the last two DC movies I'm skipping WW and waiting for JL reviews.
Trailer sure made it look bad imo. Why the heck is it focusing on the guy?
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Feb 08, 2017, 07:29 AM
What are we expecting for the critical reception of wonder woman? Because of the last two DC movies I'm skipping WW and waiting for JL reviews.
As a HUGE DC fanboy, I have basically given up all hope for any future DC films. I just assume it will be dog shame until proven otherwise,  that way I'll never be disappointed.

Which kind of sucks to say because The Dark Knight is my favorite film of all time...but lately DC has been pumping out garbage movie after garbage movie and from what we've also seen from the Justice League, I don't think that'll be any good.  Thanks Snyder.
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Post by: Legend on Feb 08, 2017, 04:09 PM
I rewatched Arsenic and Old Lace the other day. It's really fun seeing movies you can only somewhat remember from your childhood. Plus old classics are just great.
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Feb 11, 2017, 03:28 AM
Lego batman is the best DC movie

"I'm not going to have bad guys fight bad guys. That is a stupid idea." -  batman
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 11, 2017, 04:41 AM
"I'm not going to have bad guys fight bad guys. That is a stupid idea." -  batman
Lol, I get it
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Feb 11, 2017, 05:51 AM
Lol, I get it
How about this one:
"i did something!" -  killer croc

Bwahahahahahahahahaha
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 12, 2017, 12:44 AM
Lego batman is the best DC movie

"I'm not going to have bad guys fight bad guys. That is a stupid idea." -  batman
That isn't saying much though.  
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Feb 12, 2017, 01:04 AM
That isn't saying much though. 
LOL, no it isn't. It's the best movie of the year and the best lego movie too. They rip on SS and BvS and make jabs at every previous batman from the TV show in the 40s to BvS
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 12, 2017, 08:50 AM
A DC movie must be amazing if Max likes it :o
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Post by: Legend on Feb 12, 2017, 06:06 PM
I was surprised there wasn't a star wars trailer at the superbowl. I'm really excited to see what direction this director goes.
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Post by: Max King of the Wild on Feb 13, 2017, 05:21 PM
Who sees Joel in Hugh Jackman in Logan.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 13, 2017, 06:48 PM
Who sees Joel in Hugh Jackman in Logan.
I did in the trailer
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 18, 2017, 12:32 AM
Looks like Logan is the last of us of the x-men movies
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Post by: Xevross on Feb 19, 2017, 12:23 PM
Looks like Logan is the last of us of the x-men movies
It does give of TLOU vibes
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Post by: nnodley on Feb 19, 2017, 03:58 PM
Watched Doctor Strange yesterday.  Loved it!  One of my favorites so far in the MCU
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 20, 2017, 01:54 PM
Avatar 2: Motion Capture Begins in August - IGN (http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/01/30/avatar-2-motion-capture-begins-in-august)

I know people like to shame on Avatar, but it's one of my favorites.  Not even necessarily for the story. I understand the pitfalls for it and why people don't like it, but it was one of the best cinema experiences i've ever had.  

Saying that I hope 2, 3, 4, and 5(I think 2 and 3 would have been enough) are much better in story.  But I'm sure we can count on an amazing looking world again.
I never saw Avatar in theatres, am I allowed to shame on it for it's story and everything? ;o
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Post by: Legend on Feb 20, 2017, 04:42 PM
Sausage party was actually pretty good imo. Did a lot of unexpected things.
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Post by: Xevross on Feb 20, 2017, 04:54 PM
Sausage party was actually pretty good imo. Did a lot of unexpected things.
You can say that again. I think it got too weird that it stopped being good, for me.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 21, 2017, 12:59 PM
I just wanted to say, that new beauty and the beast movie, burn it with fire. Seriously, it can go to hell.
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Post by: BananaKing on Feb 21, 2017, 01:26 PM
I just wanted to say, that new beauty and the beast movie, burn it with fire. Seriously, it can go to hell.
why did you even watch it?

Sausage party was actually pretty good imo. Did a lot of unexpected things.
it was pretty bad IMO. the general idea was good, but it stayed way past its welcome. the ending is just horrendous.

it should have been a short movie,  a short movie in the same tone as the trailer would have been great.  
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 21, 2017, 01:29 PM
why did you even watch it?
it was pretty bad IMO. the general idea was good, but it stayed way past its welcome. the ending is just horrendous.

it should have been a short movie,  a short movie in the same tone as the trailer would have been great.  
I didn't, its not out yet. But it looks shame.
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Post by: BananaKing on Feb 21, 2017, 01:29 PM
I didn't, its not out yet. But it looks shame.
that i agree with.
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Post by: nnodley on Feb 21, 2017, 04:57 PM
I didn't, its not out yet. But it looks shame.
I mean it does have emma watson in it and she is fudgy amazing, imo!!   Not sure about the movie, but i'll never see it anyway.
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Post by: nnodley on Feb 21, 2017, 06:42 PM
I watched Edge of Tomorrow for the first time a couple days ago.  AND WOW was it literally a worthless movie!  Don't get me wrong I really liked most of the movie, but that ending was so shame I can even fathom it.  It literally makes the rest of the movie have absolutely no outcome whatsoever.
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 21, 2017, 11:19 PM
I watched Edge of Tomorrow for the first time a couple days ago.  AND WOW was it literally a worthless movie!  Don't get me wrong I really liked most of the movie, but that ending was so shame I can even fathom it.  It literally makes the rest of the movie have absolutely no outcome whatsoever.
Was that that crud with Tom Cruise?
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 21, 2017, 11:24 PM
*reads last page of comments*
The fudge is everyone here smoking
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Post by: nnodley on Feb 21, 2017, 11:41 PM
Was that that crud with Tom Cruise?
Yeah.  I thought most of the movie was intriguing till they basically got rid of everything that happened in the film in 2 minutes at the end.  Was battleship.
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Post by: Legend on Feb 21, 2017, 11:56 PM
*reads last page of comments*
The fudge is everyone here smoking
Beauty and the beast looks good.

Edge of Tomorrow was great.

The rest is correct though.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 22, 2017, 01:24 AM
Beauty and the beast looks good.

Edge of Tomorrow was great.

The rest is correct though.
Good day sir!
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 28, 2017, 02:40 AM
(http://estaticos1.nochedecine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/nt_17_logan-imax-poster-destacada-400x300.jpg)
Could totally be a TLoU movie cover.  
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Feb 28, 2017, 04:58 AM
Watched Moonlight. Extremely powerful film.

This song is now stuck in my head

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Post by: ethomaz on Mar 03, 2017, 06:18 PM
(http://estaticos1.nochedecine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/nt_17_logan-imax-poster-destacada-400x300.jpg)
Could totally be a TLoU movie cover. 
I watched the trailer...

Copy/paste TLOU with mutant powers.
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 05, 2017, 11:41 PM
Just watched Logan. fudge me, what a depressing, brutal film.

Very, very, very, very, very the last of us. Its kind of hilarious how many similarities there are
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 10, 2017, 11:32 PM
Watching La La Land now!
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Post by: Legend on Mar 10, 2017, 11:59 PM
Watching La La Land now!
Have you watched lots of classic musicals?
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 11, 2017, 12:01 AM
Have you watched lots of classic musicals?
Not really. I've seen quite a few though
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 11, 2017, 12:58 AM
Wow great film.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised ;D
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 11, 2017, 03:10 AM
Wow great film.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised ;D
Finally. I feel like so many around me didn't like it. I get furious!
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Mar 12, 2017, 01:03 AM
Watched Get Out.

What an extremely original film. I thought it was great. Never really felt like it was that scary but it was very intense during most of the scenes. Had some nice comedy bits to it as well.

Overall an easy 8-8.5/10.
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Post by: Legend on Mar 14, 2017, 08:00 AM
Jordan Peele Just Became the First Black Writer-Director With a $100M Movie Debut (http://www.thewrap.com/jordan-peele-just-became-first-black-writer-director-100m-movie-debut/)

Noice
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Post by: DD_Bwest on Mar 17, 2017, 10:08 PM


lol not a real movie but funny enough to deserve a share
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 19, 2017, 10:53 PM
So Kong is a good action film. Quite enjoyed it.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 19, 2017, 11:25 PM
Anyone seen John wick +2?
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 22, 2017, 04:38 PM
Omg!

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Post by: nnodley on Mar 25, 2017, 05:18 PM
Watching assassins creed.  So far its alright.  I do like seeing them go more behind the scenes of abstergo.
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Post by: nnodley on Mar 25, 2017, 06:47 PM
Well I quite liked the movie.  Pretty fantastic fight scenes and the music score was great.  While the overall story was not anything fantastic it was still good.  I like Cal as a protagonist and Michael fassbender did great.  

If they don't continue making more movies for the series then I would love for Cal to be the new protagonist in the games and finish out/flesh out the modern day stuff.  I do hope they can get a second chance at making a new one cause I think finishing out the modern day story would be great for a movie franchise.  Leave the vast majority of animus stuff to the games.  Most people probably wouldn't agree with me though.
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Mar 26, 2017, 05:51 AM
Watched two films tonight!

1) Logan...WOW! Great film. Probably one of the best superhero films of the last 5 years (Since Dark Knight Rises) and really washed away the bad taste in my mouth from Doctor Strange, Suicide Squad, and X men Apocalypse. The action was extremely well done. The best in a superhero film to date. Just extremely gritty and tough and the violence really brought it all together and made it that much more intense. Sad to see Hugh Jackman leave the Wolverine character but at least he did it with a bang! 9/10

2) Power Rangers...I thought this one was okay...Not good but also not bad. Character development was much better than I was anticipating but the action sequences after watching Logan literally minutes before just made the movie feel extremely amateurish. CGI was also all over the place but I don't think this film had that big of a budget anyways. 6/10
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 26, 2017, 07:37 PM
I watched Moana, pretty good.  

And on another note, Frozen is overrated.  
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 28, 2017, 11:59 AM
Watched a weird thing of a movie called The Little Death.  
Weird as heck.  
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Post by: DD_Bwest on Mar 30, 2017, 06:05 PM



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Post by: Legend on Mar 30, 2017, 06:15 PM
I watched Moana, pretty good.  

And on another note, Frozen is overrated.  
Moana was eh. I enjoyed the music but everything else felt sub par. Animations were super odd feeling.

Frozen is great. I thought it looked stupid when announced but it's just so well done. The troll song is the only one I didn't like.

Did you like Tangled?
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 30, 2017, 06:21 PM
Moana was eh. I enjoyed the music but everything else felt sub par. Animations were super odd feeling.

Frozen is great. I thought it looked stupid when announced but it's just so well done. The troll song is the only one I didn't like.

Did you like Tangled?
I definitely liked Tangled.  

The story in Frozen to me just doesn't feel complete or something. I liked everything else about it.  
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Post by: Legend on Mar 30, 2017, 06:26 PM
I definitely liked Tangled.  

The story in Frozen to me just doesn't feel complete or something. I liked everything else about it.  
The movie originally had a different ending. Prince Hans turning evil and that whole resolution was off to me too, but I didn't really mind.

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Post by: Legend on Apr 08, 2017, 04:00 PM
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Post by: Legend on Apr 10, 2017, 03:59 PM


Eh
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 10, 2017, 04:56 PM


Eh
Looks GotG esque
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Post by: nnodley on Apr 10, 2017, 05:04 PM
Yeah while I liked the first 2 thor movies, Ragnorak looks awesome.  
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Post by: Legend on Apr 15, 2017, 09:08 PM
(https://i.redd.it/4tc285umtpry.jpg)
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 15, 2017, 10:55 PM
(https://i.redd.it/4tc285umtpry.jpg)

uhm
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Post by: Legend on Apr 15, 2017, 10:59 PM
uhm
Looks stupid but it does have an amusing poster.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 15, 2017, 11:00 PM
Looks stupid but it does have an amusing poster.
I wondered if it was related to deadpool lol
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 17, 2017, 02:17 PM
NeoGAF - View Single Post -  Fate of the Furious  opens to $532M worldwide. New all-time Record (http://neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=234050658)

Quote
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(http://24.media.tumblr.com/c3f1b0d04a12ea2fe8a60bf6e274c68e/tumblr_mnf4qcqcJ01r2nspeo1_400.gif)

 
I love how he's already airborne before the car even stops
 
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Post by: Legend on Apr 17, 2017, 02:23 PM
That's a huge opening. I was really expecting this to do worse numbers than the previous but no. Fast and Furious is the hollywood version of Call of Duty.
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Post by: Legend on Apr 24, 2017, 05:12 AM
New Release Dates Announced for Avatar 2, 3, 4 and 5 - IGN (http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/04/22/new-release-dates-announced-for-avatar-2-3-4-and-5)

Heh, we could have people on Mars by the time the Avatar 5 releases assuming both it and ITS get delayed equally.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 24, 2017, 12:30 PM
It's looking like Guardians of the galaxy 2 is a bit of a disappointment, but still quite good. Got that vibe from the trailers too. Didn't really seem like the plot was all that
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Post by: nnodley on Apr 24, 2017, 01:58 PM
New Release Dates Announced for Avatar 2, 3, 4 and 5 - IGN (http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/04/22/new-release-dates-announced-for-avatar-2-3-4-and-5)

Heh, we could have people on Mars by the time the Avatar 5 releases assuming both it and ITS get delayed equally.
11 years after the first is crazy.  I've been waiting so long for this!!  :'(
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Post by: nnodley on Apr 24, 2017, 09:37 PM
I can't understand why the fast and furious movies are so big in foreign countries.  F8 looks to do worse than F7 and maybe F6 domestic from what I can tell on box office mojo, but it's huge everywhere else.  
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 25, 2017, 12:22 AM
I can't understand why the fast and furious movies are so big in foreign countries.  F8 looks to do worse than F7 and maybe F6 domestic from what I can tell on box office mojo, but it's huge everywhere else.  
Probably the same reason GT is huge outside the US
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Apr 25, 2017, 04:23 AM
Watching Fast 8 tomorrow! Excited!
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Post by: Xevross on Apr 25, 2017, 11:27 AM
Watching Fast 8 tomorrow! Excited!
Its a great action film. Plot was okay but a Fast movie is never going to do better than that ;D
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Post by: SWORDF1SH on Apr 25, 2017, 04:11 PM
Probably the same reason GT is huge outside the US
Wow you are soo right!!! I can't believe how intelligent you are to make that connection.
Btw, I love your avatar. BA is my second favourite black guy after Samuel L Jackson.
I also noticed that you're from Iceland, what a fascinating place to live. Is it true that Greenland is icy and Iceland is green?  ;) :)
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 25, 2017, 05:24 PM
Wow you are soo right!!! I can't believe how intelligent you are to make that connection.
Btw, I love your avatar. BA is my second favourite black guy after Samuel L Jackson.
I also noticed that you're from Iceland, what a fascinating place to live. Is it true that Greenland is icy and Iceland is green?  ;) :)
Wow thank you so much!

Indeed it is true!
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Post by: Xevross on Apr 28, 2017, 08:36 PM
Just watched Rogue One again. dang I love it so much. Amazing film
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Post by: Legend on May 08, 2017, 08:27 PM


Also I saw Elle. That was an odd movie with a very weird video game tie in.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 09, 2017, 08:19 AM


Also I saw Elle. That was an odd movie with a very weird video game tie in.
dang, dat trailer. Sci-fi lover's dream
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 12, 2017, 01:27 PM
Anybody else hyped for blade runner? I remember scoffing at the announcement but everything about it looks right so far
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Post by: darkknightkryta on May 12, 2017, 04:30 PM
NeoGAF - View Single Post -  Fate of the Furious  opens to $532M worldwide. New all-time Record (http://neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=234050658)
I love how he's already airborne before the car even stops
 
At first I lol'd and was like "This is stupid" then I was like "Wait, this is an action movie, we need more absurdaties.  Good job Fast and the Furious. Good job."
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Post by: Legend on May 12, 2017, 05:48 PM
Anybody else hyped for blade runner? I remember scoffing at the announcement but everything about it looks right so far
Eh it looks "uninspired" to me. Hopefully the trailers are just poor.
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Post by: Xevross on May 15, 2017, 04:53 PM
Saw the new Alien yesterday. Great film, I'd recommend watching it.
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Post by: Legend on May 15, 2017, 05:00 PM
I saw gotg2. Ok. Pretty funny but they didn't care enough about the actual plot, unlike the first one.

Saw the new Alien yesterday. Great film, I'd recommend watching it.
I want to see it. I liked prometheus a lot.
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Post by: Xevross on May 15, 2017, 05:03 PM
I saw gotg2. Ok. Pretty funny but they didn't care enough about the actual plot, unlike the first one.
I want to see it. I liked prometheus a lot.
I wanna go and see GOTG2, I heard its not as good as the first but I loved the first so I have to watch it anyway.

If you liked prometheus then you should at least like this film as well
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 19, 2017, 09:33 PM


OMG yes
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Post by: Riderz1337 on May 20, 2017, 04:03 PM
Gonna watch Guardians 2 today! Hyped!
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Post by: Legend on May 29, 2017, 10:19 PM
I saw Silence yesterday and thought it was an incredible movie. It's version of Japan felt very authentic and unlike other films. Kinda long is my only complaint.


Also saw pirates today. Pretty fun movie and the ghost guys are cool. Better than stranger tides but not anywhere close to the originals. Do not expect a good plot.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on May 30, 2017, 05:26 PM
Reviews coming in for Wonder Woman (yesterday I think)
It's good.  Best DC since the Dark Knight they say.  
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 30, 2017, 05:29 PM
Reviews coming in for Wonder Woman (yesterday I think)
It's good.  Best DC since the Dark Knight they say.  
Very good it seems.
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Post by: Legend on Jun 05, 2017, 02:19 AM
'Wonder Woman' Sets a Record Opening for a Female Directed Feature - Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4298&p=.htm)
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Post by: Xevross on Jun 05, 2017, 11:48 AM
I'm quite surprised Wonder Woman turned out good. Might go and see it
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Post by: Legend on Jun 10, 2017, 05:40 AM
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 10, 2017, 03:14 PM

Hyped
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 16, 2017, 02:09 AM
Lilo and Stitch is still good, surprisingly.  
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Post by: Legend on Jun 16, 2017, 03:23 AM
Lilo and Stitch is still good, surprisingly.  
How is that a surprise? Of course it's still great!
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 16, 2017, 03:43 AM

How is that a surprise? Of course it's still great!
Sometimes I wonder about kids movies. Come back to them as an adult and sometimes they are awful.  

But Lilo and Stitch was actually great.
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Post by: Xevross on Jun 16, 2017, 09:05 AM
Lilo and Stitch is still good, surprisingly.  
Ah I used to love that film. I haven't watched it in a long time, though!
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 16, 2017, 09:43 PM
Ah I used to love that film. I haven't watched it in a long time, though!
Never really watched it. Characters didn't seem that appealing to me at the time
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Post by: Legend on Jun 19, 2017, 05:32 AM
Wonder woman was amazing. I'd put it near the top of my favorite super hero movies, around the first Iron Man.

Not perfect and my low expectations sure helped, but awesome regardless. I lost track of how many times I almost cried. It's very much a war movie.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 19, 2017, 11:37 AM
Wonder woman was amazing. I'd put it near the top of my favorite super hero movies, around the first Iron Man.

Not perfect and my low expectations sure helped, but awesome regardless. I lost track of how many times I almost cried. It's very much a war movie.
Holy cow!  
It's for real!  :D

I hope DC can make more good movies.   But I'm not gonna hold my breath....  
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 19, 2017, 12:08 PM
Wonder woman was amazing. I'd put it near the top of my favorite super hero movies, around the first Iron Man.

Not perfect and my low expectations sure helped, but awesome regardless. I lost track of how many times I almost cried. It's very much a war movie.
I want to see it. Best reception for a DC movie since TDK, right? :o
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Jun 22, 2017, 02:25 AM
Saw Resident Evil Vendetta last night.  It was good.  Not quite as good as the first one with Claire, but way better than the second one; which was trash.
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Post by: Legend on Jun 22, 2017, 03:39 PM
I watched the new Blair Witch. Besides Cloverfield, are there any shaky cam movies that don't suck?
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 30, 2017, 01:25 PM
I didn't realize planet of the apes was so critically acclaimed.  
96 rotten tomatoes, 79 meta, for the newest one.
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Post by: Xevross on Jun 30, 2017, 03:26 PM
There's a ridiculous amount of good, big films just come out. I don't know what to watch  :o
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Post by: Legend on Jun 30, 2017, 03:38 PM
I really liked the previous two Ape movies. Maybe I'll go see this one!
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 30, 2017, 05:44 PM
So apparently M Night said this about Last Airbender (2 years ago)
Quote
"It's really weird because on the show the average age was, like, 9 years old. My child was 9 years old. You could make it one of two ways. You could make it for that same audience, which is what I did -- for 9 and 10-year-olds -- or you could do the Transformers version and have Megan Fox
M. Night Shyamalan Defends His Avatar: The Last Airbender Adaptation  - IGN (http://m.ign.com/articles/2015/05/22/m-night-shyamalan-defends-his-avatar-the-last-airbender-adaptation)

This is so stupid. 
A good kids movie is one that can be enjoyed by adults too.  The TV series had that in spades. 

And if the options are stupid or sexy, you have no imagination. 

I still say it, this is the most disappointing movie I've ever seen.   

My rage will last me a lifetime.  Lol. 
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Jul 15, 2017, 08:56 PM
Watched War for the Planet of the Apes...

What an incredible film. The movies just got better and better with each installment. The first 10 minutes are amazing and really reel you into the film.

Next week I will be watching Dunkirk in REAL 70 MM IMAX!!! Only two theaters in Ontario offer IMAX showings of it and one of them is only ten minutes away from my house. Super hyped for that one.

But yeah, watch War for the Planet of the Apes people! It deserves your money.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 15, 2017, 11:17 PM
Watched War for the Planet of the Apes...

What an incredible film. The movies just got better and better with each installment. The first 10 minutes are amazing and really reel you into the film.

Next week I will be watching Dunkirk in REAL 70 MM IMAX!!! Only two theaters in Ontario offer IMAX showings of it and one of them is only ten minutes away from my house. Super hyped for that one.

But yeah, watch War for the Planet of the Apes people! It deserves your money.
Still haven't watched the last one. Enjoyed the first so I'm in for a treat I bet!
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 15, 2017, 11:31 PM
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Post by: Legend on Jul 19, 2017, 01:29 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/TjTt95A.jpg)
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Post by: nnodley on Jul 19, 2017, 01:38 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/TjTt95A.jpg)
YEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!

I'd be all for a series revival if the movie is amazing.  

Now you make me want to rewatch the show!
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Post by: Legend on Jul 19, 2017, 01:46 AM
YEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!

I'd be all for a series revival if the movie is amazing.  

Now you make me want to rewatch the show!
Yeah Psych was great. Not sure the film will capture the magic, but I'm hoping it does.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 19, 2017, 01:52 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/TjTt95A.jpg)
Much hype.  
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Jul 23, 2017, 12:20 AM
I started watching John Wick 2.  My dad suspects Italian producers and stuff had their hands in the film.  He said the guy who hired John did promo work in Sanremo.  There was an Italian actor my dad recognized.
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Jul 23, 2017, 12:31 AM
Watched Dunkirk... I actually missed the first 20 minutes cause I had to wait for my parents to get to the theatre so that fudgy sucked!!!

Buuuuut

The rest of the film were spectacular. The film is so well shot and the sound is immersive. Other people might call it too loud but personally I love the airplane flying by and having my seat shake due to the noise.

It's definitely an experience film. What I mean is that you HAVE to experience it in IMAX. The film really shines on that format. It was my first IMAX film and I was extremely impressed.

Overall from what I did see I would rate it a 9/10. Don't know if it would be a good film if you just watched it at home or if it was made good by the theatre experience. Guess I'll get back to you on that one haha
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Post by: Legend on Jul 23, 2017, 12:51 AM
VAlerian has the worst acting I've seen in recent memory.

Still though, it also has a lot of cool parts. I'd like to see an improved sequel.
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Post by: nnodley on Jul 23, 2017, 01:22 AM
Finally watched Logan.  Pretty awesome movie.

And watched xmen apocalypse which I thought was pretty good too.
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Jul 24, 2017, 02:23 AM
Going this Tuesday to rewatch Dunkirk in IMAX.

Want to see the first 20 minutes that I missed plus I really just want to experience that film again. Going alone this time. First time I've ever been to a theatre alone but it should be nice not having to wait on anyone.

Plus Tuesday tickets are cheaper. Only 13$ for an IMAX ticket.

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Post by: Riderz1337 on Aug 01, 2017, 07:41 AM
Really surprised how dead this thread is when it seems like there's a brand new good movie coming out every week.

This summer has been amazing for films thus far.

And it seems like there's more good movies coming out with Detroit and apparently even that new Annabelle movie is super good... Which is surprising for a horror film.
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Post by: BananaKing on Aug 01, 2017, 11:27 AM
so at 775M~ is pirate of the carribian 5 considered a success? its a really fun movie. really enjoyed it.
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Post by: Xevross on Aug 01, 2017, 11:57 AM
Really surprised how dead this thread is when it seems like there's a brand new good movie coming out every week.

This summer has been amazing for films thus far.

And it seems like there's more good movies coming out with Detroit and apparently even that new Annabelle movie is super good... Which is surprising for a horror film.

Good point. I've been saying to my friends how crazy the last month has been for films.

I watched Spiderman a few weeks ago and thought it was fantastic. Absolutely loved it.

I also watched Dunkirk on Sunday and thought it was decent. Was hoping I'd like it more than I did but I just couldn't really get into it. About the same level as Interstellar for me.

Watched Moana and Beauty and the Beast for the first time as well. BatB was great and Moana was excellent. Glad I finally got to watch it.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 01, 2017, 12:05 PM
Really surprised how dead this thread is when it seems like there's a brand new good movie coming out every week.

This summer has been amazing for films thus far.

And it seems like there's more good movies coming out with Detroit and apparently even that new Annabelle movie is super good... Which is surprising for a horror film.
A lot of good films this year.  Wonder Woman, Spiderman, and a lot of others were pretty well received.  I have only gone to the theater once this year.  Haven't watched any other new movies too much. 
There's a few I do want to see.  Planet of the Apes, Wonder Woman, but I don't know when I will.

so at 775M~ is pirate of the carribian 5 considered a success? its a really fun movie. really enjoyed it.
It's probably disappointing for the series, but it's a decent amount.  I am.sure they will make a sequel again. 
Good point. I've been saying to my friends how crazy the last month has been for films.

I watched Spiderman a few weeks ago and thought it was fantastic. Absolutely loved it.

I also watched Dunkirk on Sunday and thought it was decent. Was hoping I'd like it more than I did but I just couldn't really get into it. About the same level as Interstellar for me.

Watched Moana and Beauty and the Beast for the first time as well. BatB was great and Moana was excellent. Glad I finally got to watch it.
It seems like Dunkirk is really popular.  :o
But what do I know.   

I liked Moana.  Much better than frozen, imo.
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Post by: Xevross on Aug 01, 2017, 12:07 PM
A lot of good films this year.  Wonder Woman, Spiderman, and a lot of others were pretty well received.  I have only gone to the theater once this year.  Haven't watched any other new movies too much.  
There's a few I do want to see.  Planet of the Apes, Wonder Woman, but I don't know when I will.
It's probably disappointing for the series, but it's a decent amount.  I am.sure they will make a sequel again.
 It seems like Dunkirk is really popular.  :o
But what do I know.  

I liked Moana.  Much better than frozen, imo.
Oh yeah I also watched wonder woman and loved it. Another excellent film.

Yeah, still a massive profit for pirates but they were probably hoping for more.

Dunkirk is super popular and I know lots of people that love it. As far as I can tell though, its a bigger hit amongst reviewers than regular audiences.

I've still never seen frozen!
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 01, 2017, 03:09 PM
I also watched Dunkirk on Sunday and thought it was decent. Was hoping I'd like it more than I did but I just couldn't really get into it. About the same level as Interstellar for me.
Theres a thread on GAF about Dunkirk, the descriptions kinda reminds me of Gravity.  

I really liked interstellar, gravity I very much disliked.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 01, 2017, 03:59 PM
Theres a thread on GAF about Dunkirk, the descriptions kinda reminds me of Gravity.  

I really liked interstellar, gravity I very much disliked.

It's Nolan lol. Probably not like gravity and more like interstellar or inception

It's got 8.5 on imdb currently so it's not only the critics that like it (94 on meta!  :o)
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 01, 2017, 04:11 PM
It's Nolan lol. Probably not like gravity and more like interstellar or inception

It's got 8.5 on imdb currently so it's not only the critics that like it (94 on meta!  :o)
Nah, I mean Gravity is more about atmosphere. There isn't a lot of dialogue.
Apparently Dunkirk is the same.  
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Post by: Xevross on Aug 01, 2017, 04:32 PM
It's Nolan lol. Probably not like gravity and more like interstellar or inception

It's got 8.5 on imdb currently so it's not only the critics that like it (94 on meta!  :o)
Actually its much, much more like gravity than those two films. As Pi says, there's not many lines. If I had to compare them... I think Dunkirk is slightly better than Gravity.

Inception is one of my favourite films. I absolutely love it. Interstellar didn't come close and neither did Dunkirk for me.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 01, 2017, 06:57 PM
Nah, I mean Gravity is more about atmosphere. There isn't a lot of dialogue.
Apparently Dunkirk is the same.  
Well I've heard it uses converging viewpoints of sorts which reminds me of his prior movies
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Post by: Legend on Aug 24, 2017, 09:42 PM
I really enjoy gravity but I also dislike it. The script, acting, and science are so poor imo.

I liked Life.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 25, 2017, 04:06 PM
Watching the Death Note movie. According to GAF, it's basically so bad, it's good. 

Just starting it.  Doesn't keep with the series. 

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>-Apparently Lights mom is dead.&nbsp; <br>-Light is selling his homework and gets in trouble.&nbsp; <br>-hes screaming as he meets Ryuk.&nbsp; Totally different from the series.&nbsp; <br><br>
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 25, 2017, 05:54 PM
Entertaining, but it kinda sucked.  
It has basically nothing from the show that made the show great.  
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>There wasn&#39;t really any cat and mouse. &nbsp;<br>Light was a loner, who they seemed to try for a few seconds to portray as intelligent, but they seemed to drop that. &nbsp;<br><br>The movie basically ends with everything falling apart. (almost literally). <br><br>
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 27, 2017, 12:14 AM
Entertaining, but it kinda sucked.  
It has basically nothing from the show that made the show great.  
Spoiler for Hidden:

There wasn't really any cat and mouse.  
Light was a loner, who they seemed to try for a few seconds to portray as intelligent, but they seemed to drop that.  

The movie basically ends with everything falling apart. (almost literally).



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Post by: Legend on Aug 27, 2017, 12:59 AM

So is he in denial that it's bad? I'd like to see it someday so I haven't clicked on your spoilers.



Also I saw Transformers today. What a stupid movie. Felt like a bunch of unrelated shots all being played in a compilation. Did enjoy the british robots.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 27, 2017, 01:12 AM
So is he in denial that it's bad? I'd like to see it someday so I haven't clicked on your spoilers.
Yeah, he's basically retweeting every positive thing about it, and taunting the people who say bad things about it.  

It's around an hour and a half, btw.
I am sure you'll like it.  
Some of the complaints of the movie are that it doesn't hold up to the anime in certain regards, but there are some notable problems with the movie itself.  


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Post by: darkknightkryta on Aug 27, 2017, 11:59 PM
Watching the Death Note movie. According to GAF, it's basically so bad, it's good. 

Just starting it.  Doesn't keep with the series. 

Spoiler for Hidden:

-Apparently Lights mom is dead. 
-Light is selling his homework and gets in trouble. 
-hes screaming as he meets Ryuk.  Totally different from the series. 


I never actually watched Death Note to compare, but for comparison, Attack on Titans live action movie was pretty different, and bad.
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Post by: Legend on Sep 03, 2017, 05:39 AM
The Circle is good. Like a modern 1984. I thought they did a great job making it feel realistic. (Well except the cameras were too good)

The fake livestream comments felt straight out of youtube or reddit. They did their research.
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Post by: Legend on Sep 06, 2017, 12:49 AM
Collin Trevorrow is Out! : StarWars (https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/6yb9jj/collin_trevorrow_is_out/)
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Post by: SWORDF1SH on Sep 06, 2017, 04:53 PM
Apple, Amazon Now Gunning for Rights to James Bond Film Franchise - TheStreet (https://www.thestreet.com/story/14295850/1/apple-amazon-now-gunning-for-rights-to-james-bond-film-franchise.html)
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Post by: Legend on Sep 06, 2017, 05:58 PM
Apple, Amazon Now Gunning for Rights to James Bond Film Franchise - TheStreet (https://www.thestreet.com/story/14295850/1/apple-amazon-now-gunning-for-rights-to-james-bond-film-franchise.html)
I thought a new one was just announced with Daniel Craig?
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 06, 2017, 06:16 PM
It is apparently very good
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Sep 07, 2017, 03:10 AM
How did Sony lose Bond?
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Post by: BananaKing on Sep 07, 2017, 06:45 AM
Guardians of the galaxy 2 sucks
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Post by: Legend on Sep 23, 2017, 04:51 PM


The acting/stunts look off.

Guardians of the galaxy 2 sucks
I rewatched the other day and liked it a bit more. Still not as good as the first one.
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Post by: Legend on Sep 24, 2017, 08:36 PM
Kingsman 2 is ok. Lots of fun parts and lots of stupid parts. Long too.
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Post by: Legend on Sep 26, 2017, 11:22 PM
(https://i.redd.it/uvitah8an9oz.jpg)
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 26, 2017, 11:45 PM
(https://i.redd.it/uvitah8an9oz.jpg)
Looks like halo
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Post by: Legend on Sep 26, 2017, 11:53 PM
Looks like halo
Ha I thought the same thing. Was disappointed when I saw the full image.
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Post by: BananaKing on Sep 27, 2017, 09:29 AM
(https://i.redd.it/uvitah8an9oz.jpg)
cant fudgy wait.... please have more badass fight scenes between mega robots and massive space monsters... yeah baby!
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Post by: Cute Pikachu on Sep 27, 2017, 12:23 PM
Anyone gonna go see Bladerunner 2049?
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Post by: Legend on Sep 27, 2017, 03:29 PM
Anyone gonna go see Bladerunner 2049?
Yeah it looks cool. I need to rewatch the first one though. Hardly remember it.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 27, 2017, 05:27 PM
Anyone gonna go see Bladerunner 2049?
Obviously. Getting great reactions from critics
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Post by: Legend on Sep 27, 2017, 07:22 PM


Oh boy this looks exciting.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 28, 2017, 04:18 PM


Oh boy this looks exciting.
Yup. I have yet to see ex Machina tho
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Post by: Legend on Sep 28, 2017, 04:38 PM
Yup. I have yet to see ex Machina tho
Ex Machina is good. I wasn't that impressed when I saw it but the film stuck with me.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 29, 2017, 05:54 PM
So blade runner is apparently amazing
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Post by: Legend on Oct 05, 2017, 09:03 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/MSEj6nu.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/zkAZgHS.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/mArn6va.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/aQCYQCO.jpg)

Anyone else excited for the new power rangers movie?  ::)
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Post by: Legend on Oct 06, 2017, 07:02 PM


I think it looks way too generic.
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Post by: Xevross on Oct 06, 2017, 09:32 PM
Giant robots smashing other giant robots and giant monsters, who cares if it's generic? :o
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Post by: Legend on Oct 06, 2017, 09:48 PM
Giant robots smashing other giant robots and giant monsters, who cares if it's generic? :o
People who didn't want another transformers?
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Post by: Xevross on Oct 06, 2017, 10:55 PM
People who didn't want another transformers?
Those people exist?  :o

Anyway it's obvious what this film is. Its going to be extremely generic
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Post by: Legend on Oct 07, 2017, 12:40 AM
Those people exist?  :o

Anyway it's obvious what this film is. Its going to be extremely generic
Is Transformers still liked in your circles?

I've seen all of them but wouldn't want to pay a lot to see any of the recent ones.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 07, 2017, 01:10 AM
Transformers is super disliked.
It's like a internet meme in and of itself.
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Post by: Xevross on Oct 07, 2017, 12:03 PM
Is Transformers still liked in your circles?

I've seen all of them but wouldn't want to pay a lot to see any of the recent ones.
I haven't seen the last two because it was getting shame. I don't really know anyone that actually likes the new transformers. I know a lot of people who think pacific rim was amazing though.
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Post by: Legend on Oct 07, 2017, 12:56 PM
I haven't seen the last two because it was getting shame. I don't really know anyone that actually likes the new transformers. I know a lot of people who think pacific rim was amazing though.
I enjoyed pacific rim. Didn't think it was that amazing but I can fully understand people who did. The robots had a weirdly realistic feel to them.

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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 07, 2017, 02:39 PM
I'm trying to convince Wifey to let me buy Your Name Limited Edition.  
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Post by: nnodley on Oct 08, 2017, 08:54 PM
I finally watched Spiderman, Baby Driver, Wonder Woman, and The Lost City of Z.  All were pretty great!  City of Z was slow, but was still good.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 09, 2017, 08:36 PM
I'm feeling regret for pre-ordering the special edition of Your Name.  
It's a nice case, with an art book, the CD, and the movie.  

But I already bought the CD a while ago.  
So then it becomes is it worth it to keep the case and the art book for ~40$.  Maybe I can pawn off the CD to someone.  

It's an amazing movie and the first one I ever bought a special edition for.  So on the one hand I think it's worth it.  
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Post by: Legend on Oct 11, 2017, 10:28 PM


Looks good
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 12, 2017, 05:17 PM


Looks good
So late! Great but probably very spoilerific! (even the director said so)
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Post by: Legend on Oct 12, 2017, 07:14 PM
So late! Great but probably very spoilerific! (even the director said so)
I assume the trailer will be played everywhere and be pretty much unavoidable, so I watched it.

My power was out on Monday.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 12, 2017, 09:56 PM
I assume the trailer will be played everywhere and be pretty much unavoidable, so I watched it.

My power was out on Monday.
*checks*
1 post today.

I think your power is probably still out...  
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Post by: Legend on Oct 12, 2017, 11:43 PM
*checks*
1 post today.

I think your power is probably still out...  
Been driving people places ::)
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Post by: Legend on Oct 15, 2017, 09:40 PM
Saw Blade Runner. Really really cool film.

Not the best script imo but the world is incredibly interesting and it makes you think. I loved how it handled a lot of things.
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Post by: Legend on Oct 16, 2017, 02:48 PM
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 16, 2017, 09:52 PM
Saw Blade Runner. Really really cool film.

Not the best script imo but the world is incredibly interesting and it makes you think. I loved how it handled a lot of things.
I need to see it. My kind of movies
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 19, 2017, 04:46 PM
Thor is 100% on RT right now. Looks like a fun, funny romp
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Post by: Legend on Oct 19, 2017, 06:25 PM
Thor is 100% on RT right now. Looks like a fun, funny romp
But all marvel movies score good
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 19, 2017, 06:50 PM
But all marvel movies score good
Well Thor 2 was like 60%
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 19, 2017, 10:48 PM
But all marvel movies score good
On Metacritic, it's 20 points higher than the other Thor movies.  
The only Marvel movie (out of the ones I could remember) that scored higher was Iron Man 1.  
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 19, 2017, 11:37 PM
On Metacritic, it's 20 points higher than the other Thor movies.  
The only Marvel movie (out of the ones I could remember) that scored higher was Iron Man 1.  
Probably Avengers though?
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 20, 2017, 12:19 AM
Probably Avengers though?
Nah, 8 points higher.
69 vs 77
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Post by: BananaKing on Oct 20, 2017, 12:27 AM
War for the planet of the apes was a good movie. But it could have been SO much better.
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Post by: Legend on Oct 20, 2017, 02:52 AM
On Metacritic, it's 20 points higher than the other Thor movies.  
The only Marvel movie (out of the ones I could remember) that scored higher was Iron Man 1.  
Iron Man 1 is the only great Marvel movie (you know it's true!).
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 20, 2017, 08:49 AM
Iron Man 1 is the only great Marvel movie (you know it's true!).
Guardians of the galaxy was great
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Post by: Legend on Oct 20, 2017, 08:29 PM
Guardians of the galaxy was great
(https://i.imgur.com/A356jiI.gif)
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 20, 2017, 11:10 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/A356jiI.gif)
It was, son
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 21, 2017, 01:27 AM
It was, son
76 on meta backs me up
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Post by: Legend on Oct 21, 2017, 02:48 AM
76 on meta backs me up
76 is great?

I really enjoyed gotg and I understand why people would call it great, but it's not Iron Man great imo.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 21, 2017, 03:01 AM
76 is great?

I really enjoyed gotg and I understand why people would call it great, but it's not Iron Man great imo.
76 is great for movie reviews.  
81 is universal critical acclaim for movies.  
A 76 is at least an 87 for games.  

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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 21, 2017, 01:23 PM
76 is great?

I really enjoyed gotg and I understand why people would call it great, but it's not Iron Man great imo.
Iron man has 79. 76 is great for movies.

I like Rotten Tomatoes more for movies though, where it is 91% positive, which is amazing
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 21, 2017, 11:54 PM
Blade Runner 2049 was sooo good. Orgasmic audiovisual experience.

What about the story didn't you like, @Legend?
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Post by: Legend on Oct 22, 2017, 03:06 AM
Blade Runner 2049 was sooo good. Orgasmic audiovisual experience.

What about the story didn't you like, @Legend?
I liked the story mostly.

Spoiler for Hidden:
Thought the ending was stupid with him dying in the snow. He was tracked to that location before so it felt like they&#39;d all be caught. Also the robot uprising group did nothing. They just showed up and didn&#39;t matter.


The movie might be better because of this stuff, but it didn't feel like the best story telling.


Music was great. It was stupid having it for every random city shot but I loved it. Kept the city from feeling like a known entity.


Did you like the AI relationship? I loved how thought provoking it was.

Spoiler for Hidden:
The replicants have overcome oppression and consider themselves alive, yet they think of AI in the exact same way humans think of replicants.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Oct 22, 2017, 09:45 AM
Iron Man 1 is the only great Marvel movie (you know it's true!).
You cannot be serious
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 22, 2017, 10:45 AM
I liked the story mostly.

Spoiler for Hidden:
Thought the ending was stupid with him dying in the snow. He was tracked to that location before so it felt like they'd all be caught. Also the robot uprising group did nothing. They just showed up and didn't matter.


The movie might be better because of this stuff, but it didn't feel like the best story telling.


Music was great. It was stupid having it for every random city shot but I loved it. Kept the city from feeling like a known entity.


Did you like the AI relationship? I loved how thought provoking it was.

Spoiler for Hidden:
The replicants have overcome oppression and consider themselves alive, yet they think of AI in the exact same way humans think of replicants.

Spoiler for Hidden:
huh, did he die in the snow? I just saw him lie down. Didn&#39;t think it looked like he died. Also yeah, the replicant uprising stuff might be there for the sequel ;). I didn&#39;t think they needed to show more of that in this movie


And yep, replicant vs ai was interesting. Also,
Spoiler for Hidden:
dat naughtiness scene
was something else hehe

The music during the city scenes was so good, it really set the mood.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Oct 22, 2017, 11:53 AM
spiderman was fine. better than the last 2 though, thats for sure
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 22, 2017, 02:46 PM
You cannot be serious
Which ones do you consider great?

I enjoy most of the Marvel movies but they're just generic action flicks more or less. Great movies (on my own scale) tend to be more than that.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Oct 22, 2017, 04:26 PM
Which ones do you consider great?

I enjoy most of the Marvel movies but they're just generic action flicks more or less. Great movies (on my own scale) tend to be more than that.
Pretty much all the Captain Americas, especially 2. Guardians of the galaxy and Spiderman homecoming I consider to be great films
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Oct 23, 2017, 06:18 PM
Pretty much all the Captain Americas, especially 2. Guardians of the galaxy and Spiderman homecoming I consider to be great films
Then it's official. You have bad taste in films.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Oct 23, 2017, 08:30 PM
Then it's official. You have bad taste in films.
I'll admit I have a bad taste in games but films... nah :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 23, 2017, 10:01 PM
I'll admit I have a bad taste in games but films... nah :P
Wait what are your favorite games?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 25, 2017, 05:23 AM
Rented spiderman homecoming. Rant warning.


That was really stupid. It felt like a poor man's antman. Fun scenes and enjoyable parts but the definition of average. Without Michael Keaton, this would be like the new fantastic 4 or near the recent power rangers.

Probably the worst spiderman movie and for now the worst spiderman. It might have a lot to do with them skipping his origin story and not giving enough time to develop Peter, but he just felt so uninteresting.

Also didn't like the tech focus. I know the spider web is tech based in the comics, but this movie made him feel like Iron Man. There were no stakes when he was in the suit. Plus he felt like a test subject of Tony Stark. IE Iron Man is all powerful and just dicking around by putting a kid in one of his machines.

Writing felt forced like they were making a comedy focused film. CGI was cheap looking and distracting at times, but I'm probably an outlier for noticing it so much during the film.

It was enjoyableish but just so much worse than the other two spiderman sets. Even among Marvel films I'd rank it low.

4/10
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Oct 25, 2017, 04:06 PM
Nah your wrong^

By far the funnest and most enjoyable peter for me.  I absolutely love and think they nailed him feeling amateurish as spiderman even with stark's suit.  The last movies peter's always became an expert in like 5 seconds.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 25, 2017, 06:42 PM
Nah your wrong^

By far the funnest and most enjoyable peter for me.  I absolutely love and think they nailed him feeling amateurish as spiderman even with stark's suit.  The last movies peter's always became an expert in like 5 seconds.
I can't understand why anyone would think that.

The only reason peter wasn't an expert in this film was because he had to deal with not knowing how the suit worked. It wasn't him learning his powers, it was him learning someone else's software.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Oct 25, 2017, 07:06 PM
Nah your wrong^

By far the funnest and most enjoyable peter for me.  I absolutely love and think they nailed him feeling amateurish as spiderman even with stark's suit.  The last movies peter's always became an expert in like 5 seconds.
Yeah I agree. The only thing that bothers me is that he doesn't really have any powers of his own, or anything special about him. He's just learned how to use some advanced tech. I guess that's the theme for most Marvel heroes though, so he fits in.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 25, 2017, 11:05 PM
Yeah I agree. The only thing that bothers me is that he doesn't really have any powers of his own, or anything special about him. He's just learned how to use some advanced tech. I guess that's the theme for most Marvel heroes though, so he fits in.
Uhm he did have powers though lol. Didn't you see him on the plane?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Oct 26, 2017, 12:14 AM
Uhm he did have powers though lol. Didn't you see him on the plane?
Well yeah he's very strong but he can't shoot webs out of his fingers :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 26, 2017, 02:10 AM
Well yeah he's very strong but he can't shoot webs out of his fingers :P
Or have spidey sense.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Oct 26, 2017, 02:15 AM
Or have spidey sense.
Pretty sure they already confirmed he does have spidey sense and that it will be seen in upcoming movies.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 26, 2017, 02:20 AM
Pretty sure they already confirmed he does have spidey sense and that it will be seen in upcoming movies.
As in he'll develop them or the sense will be retconed?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Oct 26, 2017, 02:30 AM
As in he'll develop them or the sense will be retconed?
Not sure, I just remember they said he has it.  I'll look for where I saw that.

This is what I saw: Spider-Man Has Spidey Sense In MCU | Screen Rant (https://screenrant.com/spider-man-spidey-sense-mcu/)

Sounds like they want it to be something that is mostly implied that he's doing without having to show the ability like in previous movies.  But, if they are to be believed they will explore it potentially later on.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 27, 2017, 06:24 PM
I saw deathnote on netflix. Agree with Pi. About spiderman homecoming level of meh imo.

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 27, 2017, 08:46 PM
I saw deathnote on netflix. Agree with Pi.
Have you ever watched the tv series before?
What were your experiences of the movie?  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 27, 2017, 08:48 PM
Have you ever watched the tv series before?
What were your experiences of the movie?  
Never seen it. Just knew of the premis from my brother.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 27, 2017, 09:19 PM
Never seen it. Just knew of the premis from my brother.

Watch it
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 05, 2017, 07:54 PM
Angry Birds is a better movie than it pretty much has any right to be.  

Not a great movie, but not completely horrible either.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 07, 2017, 11:58 PM
I got the special edition of Your Name.

Awesome.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Nov 08, 2017, 09:41 PM
I saw deathnote on netflix. Agree with Pi. About spiderman homecoming level of meh imo.


I haven't seen either, but you think Homecoming is meh?  My comic book shop guys liked it.  I personally don't want to see Spider-man go through super hero puberty for a 3rd time...
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 08, 2017, 10:10 PM
I haven't seen either, but you think Homecoming is meh?  My comic book shop guys liked it.  I personally don't want to see Spider-man go through super hero puberty for a 3rd time...
Outside of the bad guy's acting, it was so generic imo.

I'm not the biggest Marvel fan but even among their films I'd put it as the worst. Like a b teir attempt to cash in on what people liked with Ant Man.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 09, 2017, 02:07 AM
Ya'll should watch Your Name.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 09, 2017, 05:35 PM
Ya'll should watch Your Name.  
*checks imdb page*
Interested
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 09, 2017, 06:19 PM
*checks imdb page*
Interested
You could have just accepted my recommendation!  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 09, 2017, 07:10 PM
  • Quote from: the-Pi-guy (http://vizioneck.com/forum/index.php?msg=216151) Thu Nov 09 2017 18:19:25 GMT+0000 (GMT)


You could have just accepted my recommendation!  
Well I had never heard of it and had no idea what it was. Good ratings are a bonus!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 09, 2017, 07:54 PM
Well I had never heard of it and had no idea what it was. Good ratings are a bonus!
Fair enough. :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 11, 2017, 12:06 AM
Honestly this is one of my favorite movies ever.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 11, 2017, 08:51 PM
Honestly this is one of my favorite movies ever.
Let me download it then
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Nov 11, 2017, 09:45 PM
Just looked it up and dang, 97% on RT is hard to achieve. Might give it a watch.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 11, 2017, 09:57 PM
Let me download it then
:P I have no control over you downloading it.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 11, 2017, 10:57 PM
:P I have no control over you downloading it.  
Mind control
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 16, 2017, 05:17 AM
First poster for 'Rampage' - based on the video game, Trailer tomorrow | ResetEra (https://www.resetera.com/threads/first-poster-for-rampage-based-on-the-video-game-trailer-tomorrow.6384/)

 
Quote
Plot summary for those curious:
Quote
"Primatologist Davis Okoye, a man who keeps people at a distance, shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it's soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals. As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend."Click to expand...
What genre is the movie?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 16, 2017, 01:29 PM
WB isn't sharing the Rotten Tomato score, but it's available on the app.  

(https://i.imgur.com/Je4n8Xq.png)

What a great score to unveil.  /S
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Nov 16, 2017, 02:01 PM
First poster for 'Rampage' - based on the video game, Trailer tomorrow | ResetEra (https://www.resetera.com/threads/first-poster-for-rampage-based-on-the-video-game-trailer-tomorrow.6384/)

     

What genre is the movie?

The Rock is in this? okay, it will be a meh movie that i might enjoy because the rock is in it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Nov 16, 2017, 06:32 PM
WB isn't sharing the Rotten Tomato score, but it's available on the app.  

(https://i.imgur.com/Je4n8Xq.png)

What a great score to unveil.  /S
Lol so wonder woman was the outlier and DC movies are going to continue to be trash, got it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 16, 2017, 10:47 PM
Lol so wonder woman was the outlier and DC movies are going to continue to be trash, got it.
Trailers looked trash to me tbh. Don't remember seeing trailers for superhero movies as bad as those

37% now
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 22, 2017, 12:52 AM
Avatar Sequels Underwater Filming Explained by James Cameron | Collider (http://collider.com/avatar-sequels-underwater-filming-explained-james-cameron/#motion-capture)

Really cool. I never even considered the possibility of them doing underwater motion capture. Everyone else just does cgi. Guess that will be the main tech thing this movie introduces.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 29, 2017, 06:30 PM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 29, 2017, 07:20 PM

Yes

CGI did look weird in places though
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Nov 29, 2017, 07:31 PM
Man that trailer has me so hyped. Need to do a full MCU re-watch in the run-up I think.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 09, 2017, 02:06 AM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 10, 2017, 09:39 PM
(https://i.redd.it/nn6et0p3tx201.jpg)
Long leg...
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 10, 2017, 09:42 PM
(https://i.redd.it/nn6et0p3tx201.jpg)
Long leg...
Hehe
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 12, 2017, 03:59 PM
Trying to do work in my uni building but everyone's distracted by the star wars European premier about to start outisde. They're blasting music on the street and the crowds are getting very loud
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 12, 2017, 05:45 PM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Dec 12, 2017, 06:02 PM
THis is the first star wars movie that i am hyped to watch.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 12, 2017, 06:04 PM
THis is the first star wars movie that i am hyped to watch.  
I was really hyped for episode 3. I loved general grievous.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 12, 2017, 06:12 PM
I've been hyped every year for the new ones
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 12, 2017, 06:12 PM

Holy fudge. Expected like 80%
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 12, 2017, 11:49 PM
Dropped to 93%, but its obviously a great film. Hope I agree! 24 hours til I see it

Almost finished the full re-watch and I think my ranking right now is:
Empire>ANH>>>RO>>TFA>ROTJ>ROTS>>>>>AOTC>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>TPM

Let's see where TLJ enters!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 14, 2017, 02:58 AM
The Last Jedi impressions (no plot spoilers)

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Tough one. Gonna have to re-watch. I&#39;m not buzzing like I was after seeing TFA or Rogue One, but I think it might be a better film. Maybe not. In terms of writing, cinematography etc.<br><br>Its not a movie to watch for enjoyment, but more to appreciate the quality of I think. There&#39;s some weird moments, there&#39;s some amazing suspenseful moments and there&#39;s some great action. There is a fair amount of it I think was quite boring, a bit like the entire first two thirds of Rogue One, but its not too much. I can definitely understand people not liking it, but personally I think it was very good.<br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 14, 2017, 03:54 AM
The Last Jedi impressions WITH SPOILERS THIS TIME

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>So there was three main storylines. Rey/Kylo/Luke/Snoke, the rebellion ships/Poe/Leia escaping and Finn/Rose doing their little weird trip. <br><br>The Rey storyline is 10/10 amazing. Some of the best moments in star wars history, fantastic writing, excellent character development, a lot of suspense and intrigue. I can barely fault it.<br><br>The rebellion ship chase is okay. It drags a bit too long and has some weird plot points, but its mainly brought down because its waiting for the Finn/ Rose storyline to happen. That one was poor; very boring and completely unnecessary. I like both characters but what they did was just so out of place and should have just been cut. <br><br>Their whole storyline (20 min+ screen time) achieved only slightly more than absolutely nothing, and as I said the way they shaped the whole film to fit this in just made the rebellion ship chase worse.<br><br>Basically, very high highs but very low (prequel level) lows.<br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 14, 2017, 06:16 AM
I only read the first line of the spoiler free one. Glad to know.

Going in with a bit less hype should help me enjoy it more.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 14, 2017, 01:09 PM
I only read the first line of the spoiler free one. Glad to know.

Going in with a bit less hype should help me enjoy it more.
Definitely. If you're feeling hyped for this film you will almost definitely be disappointed. Even though I like it a lot I feel a lot of disappointment. Now I've slept on it I know what's (mainly) wrong with the film. This is very very minor spoilers (I don't say anything that happens in the film, just the theme of a side plot)

Spoiler for Hidden:
Me and my friends&#39; biggest complaint is that there&#39;s a 20 minute side plot which feels more like bad harry potter than star wars. Its boring, and it achieves absolutely nothing so its a complete waste of time. It brings down the entire film. If they cut that section I might be having much more positive thoughts. <br><br>


Its not on a level of, oh well I can just ignore this part and enjoy the rest of the film, its just so bad, boring and pointless that its all I can focus on, rather than remembering how fantastic and awesome some other parts of the film were. But if you do ignore it, its a really great film with a lot of incredible moments, only let down by some very out of place humour and some weird moments.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 14, 2017, 09:00 PM
I was really hyped for episode 3. I loved general grievous.
I watched Revenge of the Sith 3 times in the theatre.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 14, 2017, 09:13 PM
I watched Revenge of the Sith 3 times in the theatre.
Revenge of the Sith is a great film. Pretty similar quality to TLJ I'd say.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 14, 2017, 10:47 PM
Revenge of the Sith is a great film. Pretty similar quality to TLJ I'd say.
Pretty strange that critics are amazed but early imdb score isn't that high (8.2 and dropping).
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 14, 2017, 11:26 PM
Pretty strange that critics are amazed but early imdb score isn't that high (8.2 and dropping).
Reading reddit, era, facebook comments and talking to people who've seen it, it seems like a lot of fans are disappointed with it and think there's a lot wrong. With TFA and Rogue One, obviously there was people who didn't like them but they were a minority, whereas this seems like a 50/50 split right now.

I honestly don't get why the critic score is so high, there is quite a lot which is very obviously wrong with the film. Unlike TFA and Rogue One, where for the next day I couldn't stop thinking about all the cool moments and how great it was, for the last day I've just been thinking about how boring and bad certain parts of the film were. Like what should have been cut, what I would want to change.

For me it feels like a 7/10 that is so, so close to a 9+/10 but it just made a couple of very bad decisions in terms of pacing and plot.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 14, 2017, 11:44 PM
I mainly watch and judge films for enjoyment and entertainment. In that regard TLJ falls very far short of TFA and RO, and short of all the OT too I think. That's why fans might not be liking it as much, I know that's the case for me.

Whereas from a technical standpoint, its an excellent film which is why critics will rate it high.

So if you're someone who likes to critique films and take them very seriously, you'll probably like it a lot more than if you're just going to have some fun.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 15, 2017, 12:06 AM
Sounds like the opposite of TFA. I hated that movie a lot but at the same time it was very polished and it was enjoyable. Wonder if a director's cut or something will be popular with this film.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 15, 2017, 12:31 AM
Sounds like the opposite of TFA. I hated that movie a lot but at the same time it was very polished and it was enjoyable. Wonder if a director's cut or something will be popular with this film.
Yeah I'd say it is. Hopefully it means TLJ will get better with re-watches, since TFA keeps getting worse.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 15, 2017, 03:06 AM
Yeah I'd say it is. Hopefully it means TLJ will get better with re-watches, since TFA keeps getting worse.
To be honest, The Force Awakens is %100 for a market that most people aren't.  I call them the "Smash Bros." crowd.  Not the pros mind you.  The kids who grew up with a Gamecube and were around 22 when The Force Awakens came out.  So we'll look at things differently.  They're easily pleased.  In a way, it's a bit envious because they enjoy things without "hating".  On the other ends, they're fanboys which can be annoying.  I personally though it was a "sloppy" movie that needed a few more rewrites.  It's also why you notice more flaws as you watch it.  Those "Smash Bros." crowd won't notice issues after the fact.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 15, 2017, 03:39 AM
To be honest, The Force Awakens is %100 for a market that most people aren't.  I call them the "Smash Bros." crowd.  Not the pros mind you.  The kids who grew up with a Gamecube and were around 22 when The Force Awakens came out.  So we'll look at things differently.  They're easily pleased.  In a way, it's a bit envious because they enjoy things without "hating".  On the other ends, they're fanboys which can be annoying.  I personally though it was a "sloppy" movie that needed a few more rewrites.  It's also why you notice more flaws as you watch it.  Those "Smash Bros." crowd won't notice issues after the fact.
Hey that's my demographic!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 15, 2017, 03:43 AM
Hey that's my demographic!
And I'm sure you see no flaws with Force Awakens :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 15, 2017, 05:14 AM
And I'm sure you see no flaws with Force Awakens :P
I think I dislike it more than everyone else on the forum  ::)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 15, 2017, 12:22 PM
I think I dislike it more than everyone else on the forum  ::)
::)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 16, 2017, 03:47 PM
I don't think I've ever seen a movie start so many plot points and then throw them away.  Last Jedi isn't the worst movie I've seen, but it's the most worst put together film I've seen.  I have no idea how the script was ever okay'd.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 16, 2017, 05:30 PM
I don't think I've ever seen a movie start so many plot points and then throw them away.  Last Jedi isn't the worst movie I've seen, but it's the most worst put together film I've seen.  I have no idea how the script was ever okay'd.
Ouch.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 16, 2017, 05:41 PM
I don't think I've ever seen a movie start so many plot points and then throw them away.  Last Jedi isn't the worst movie I've seen, but it's the most worst put together film I've seen.  I have no idea how the script was ever okay'd.
I know it throws away a lot of plot points from TFA but what of its own plot points does it throw away?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 16, 2017, 06:19 PM
I know it throws away a lot of plot points from TFA but what of its own plot points does it throw away?
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Fin and whatever her name was needed to find that code breaker. &nbsp;They never find him, they take another one instead.<br><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="bbc_size">That code breaker they found didn&#39;t even hack the system, he just pulled some wires.</span><br>They get to the tracking device and get captured. &nbsp;That entire plot point was pointless since they never actually end up destroying the tracker.<br>They never needed to destroy the tracking device in the first place because they were going to use cloaked ships. &nbsp;This entire plot thread was half the movie, if not more.<br>This entire thing could have been avoided if that commander woman just answered fin&#39;s question in the first place about the plan to sneak off.<br>They introduced that commander woman just to kill her.<br>They start this battle to stop the battering ram cannon and instead of stopping it, Fin gets hit by his new girlfriend.<br>I&#39;m sure I&#39;m missing more.<br>



Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 16, 2017, 10:27 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:

Fin and whatever her name was needed to find that code breaker.  They never find him, they take another one instead.
That code breaker they found didn't even hack the system, he just pulled some wires.
They get to the tracking device and get captured.  That entire plot point was pointless since they never actually end up destroying the tracker.
They never needed to destroy the tracking device in the first place because they were going to use cloaked ships.  This entire plot thread was half the movie, if not more.
This entire thing could have been avoided if that commander woman just answered fin's question in the first place about the plan to sneak off.
They introduced that commander woman just to kill her.
They start this battle to stop the battering ram cannon and instead of stopping it, Fin gets hit by his new girlfriend.
I'm sure I'm missing more.

Spoiler for Hidden:
It&#39;s because this film is all about characters and choices. Sometimes they make the wrong choices, and they all make mistakes. It was a mistake to go on that mission and it was a mistake to find the different code breaker. The film does this intentionally, it&#39;s not like they have terrible writing and had to try and force stuff together. And everything has consequences, they are often the development of character. <br><br>Although I didn&#39;t really like that particular plot thread; I thought it was boring and pretty unecessary. It&#39;s definitely the weak point of the film.<br><br>I though she was a great character, and her and Poe&#39;s story showed the real struggle of the rebellion and the mistakes made in the impulse of war. It was great for Poe&#39;s character development in particular. <br><br>Yeah well Finn knew that so he was going to destroy it at all costs, but Rose stopped him. That was an impulse of her character and you could argue it&#39;s a mistake.<br><br>I think this is a really deep film, that develops incredibly real feeling and meaningful characters. If you think it&#39;s a terrible film then you just don&#39;t appreciate this/ care about it. I thought it was boring often but I still get the great things the film did.<span style="font-size: 1em;" class="bbc_size"> </span>
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Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 16, 2017, 11:53 PM
The Last Jedi Doesn't Care What You Think About Star Wars (http://www.slashfilm.com/the-last-jedi-defense/)

This is a fantastic spoilery read. The more I read deeper and well thought out opinion pieces like this, the more and more I appreciate the film. I'm seeing it again tomorrow and hopefully I can notice all this stuff a lot more.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 17, 2017, 04:20 AM
Spoiler for Hidden:
It's because this film is all about characters and choices. Sometimes they make the wrong choices, and they all make mistakes. It was a mistake to go on that mission and it was a mistake to find the different code breaker. The film does this intentionally, it's not like they have terrible writing and had to try and force stuff together. And everything has consequences, they are often the development of character.

Although I didn't really like that particular plot thread; I thought it was boring and pretty unecessary. It's definitely the weak point of the film.

I though she was a great character, and her and Poe's story showed the real struggle of the rebellion and the mistakes made in the impulse of war. It was great for Poe's character development in particular.

Yeah well Finn knew that so he was going to destroy it at all costs, but Rose stopped him. That was an impulse of her character and you could argue it's a mistake.

I think this is a really deep film, that develops incredibly real feeling and meaningful characters. If you think it's a terrible film then you just don't appreciate this/ care about it. I thought it was boring often but I still get the great things the film did.
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Spoiler for Hidden:
Deep film? &nbsp;Based on what? &nbsp;Characters were developed? &nbsp;Characters were already developed from the last film and this movie takes a shame on all of them. &nbsp;This movie isn&#39;t about the characters making choices because their choices have no meaning and on top of that there&#39;s no reflection on their &quot;wrong choices&quot;. &nbsp;The director had no clue what the fudge he was doing plain and simple. &nbsp;If there was a payoff to their mistakes, then sure, there wasn&#39;t, there was nothing. &nbsp;2 hours of nothing because the director had no idea what he was doing or what he was making. &nbsp;This is all just stuff I&#39;m containing in the film. &nbsp;It gets far worse when you take into consideration he disregarded everything Abrams did in the last movie. &nbsp;While I feel the last movie was a few rewrites from greatness, it at least had heart. &nbsp;This movie is a souless film that didn&#39;t know what to do to get its climax, and even then he screwed that up. &nbsp;If you were to tell me Luke was going to die by overexerting his power instead of an epic fight, I wouldn&#39;t have believed you. &nbsp;Also the part of the film we agree on was boring and unnecessary was 3/4 of the film. &nbsp;I would never let this director direct another film to be honest. &nbsp;Not only is this film boring with no payoff (Even the space fight sequences were borderline bad), when you compound the issues with the way he shimed on Force Awakens makes it far worse. &nbsp;Funny thing is, I didn&#39;t go into this movie with any kind of expectations. &nbsp;Literally, I didn&#39;t even want to watch it right away. &nbsp;The fact that I went in with no expectations, it would have been very hard to disappoint me and boy did this movie do it in spades. &nbsp;I was actually more entertained by Clone Wars (I actually do like it) which is universally considered the worse film than this. &nbsp;Even taking the film as is, there was so much wrong with it in terms of actual filming and plot progression. &nbsp;Like, literally every plot point he started in the movie, finding an unnecessary code breaker (He didn&#39;t even code break anything), Jumping to hyper space, Luke wanting to die (Cause you know, making and leaving a map to him in R2D2 was going to help with that), destroying the Jedi, Snoke, everything, had it&#39;s payoff ruined by making what happens in each situation irrelevant cause something else happens instead. &nbsp;Do it once is one thing, doing it with all its plot points? &nbsp;You might be able to get away with that in a book or T.V. series in one episode, but this is piss poor story telling in movies.[/spoilers]
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 17, 2017, 01:30 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:
Deep film?  Based on what?  Characters were developed?  Characters were already developed from the last film and this movie takes a shame on all of them.  This movie isn't about the characters making choices because their choices have no meaning and on top of that there's no reflection on their "wrong choices".  The director had no clue what the fudge he was doing plain and simple.  If there was a payoff to their mistakes, then sure, there wasn't, there was nothing.  2 hours of nothing because the director had no idea what he was doing or what he was making.  This is all just stuff I'm containing in the film.  It gets far worse when you take into consideration he disregarded everything Abrams did in the last movie.  While I feel the last movie was a few rewrites from greatness, it at least had heart.  This movie is a souless film that didn't know what to do to get its climax, and even then he screwed that up.  If you were to tell me Luke was going to die by overexerting his power instead of an epic fight, I wouldn't have believed you.  Also the part of the film we agree on was boring and unnecessary was 3/4 of the film.  I would never let this director direct another film to be honest.  Not only is this film boring with no payoff (Even the space fight sequences were borderline bad), when you compound the issues with the way he shimed on Force Awakens makes it far worse.  Funny thing is, I didn't go into this movie with any kind of expectations.  Literally, I didn't even want to watch it right away.  The fact that I went in with no expectations, it would have been very hard to disappoint me and boy did this movie do it in spades.  I was actually more entertained by Clone Wars (I actually do like it) which is universally considered the worse film than this.  Even taking the film as is, there was so much wrong with it in terms of actual filming and plot progression.  Like, literally every plot point he started in the movie, finding an unnecessary code breaker (He didn't even code break anything), Jumping to hyper space, Luke wanting to die (Cause you know, making and leaving a map to him in R2D2 was going to help with that), destroying the Jedi, Snoke, everything, had it's payoff ruined by making what happens in each situation irrelevant cause something else happens instead.  Do it once is one thing, doing it with all its plot points?  You might be able to get away with that in a book or T.V. series in one episode, but this is piss poor story telling in movies.[/spoilers]
Well I completely disagree with pretty much all of that.

If all you wanted was entertainment then fine it's disappointing, but it's an extremely well crafted film and Rian knew exactly what he was doing. If you can't see that's it's your fault not the film's. Sure, you can blame the film for trying so much and being so complex that so many viewers don't understand though.

Spoiler for Hidden:
Although I do agree that a lot of stuff that was built up in TFA was thrown away. That sucks. Also the execution was off in a lot of areas. I don&#39;t think it&#39;s as good as TFA still, but it&#39;s really not a bad film.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 17, 2017, 08:27 PM
Okay I watched it a second time and now I fudgy love it. Incredible film.

Most things I thought weren't good after first viewing I completely disagree with myself on now.  :o
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 17, 2017, 09:22 PM
I am intrigued to read all this spoiler talk hopefully soon!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 17, 2017, 10:12 PM
Below 8 on imdb! Doom

'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Delivers Second Largest Opening Ever - Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4354&p=.htm)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 17, 2017, 10:35 PM
Very good opening.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 17, 2017, 11:22 PM
I am intrigued to read all this spoiler talk hopefully soon!
Yeah I've been very conflicted on it but I'd recommend 2 viewings whatever you think of the film, it's very complicated and a lot of things are easy to miss.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 22, 2017, 07:45 PM
Saw star wars

Lots of good, some bad, and 1 part absolute trash. Overall I liked it. A recut with removed scenes could be really good.

Reminded me of Mad Max Fury Road.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 22, 2017, 09:37 PM
Saw star wars

Lots of good, some bad, and 1 part absolute trash. Overall I liked it. A recut with removed scenes could be really good.

Reminded me of Mad Max Fury Road.
lol basically my reaction after first watch
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 22, 2017, 09:38 PM
Saw star wars

Lots of good, some bad, and 1 part absolute trash. Overall I liked it. A recut with removed scenes could be really good.

Reminded me of Mad Max Fury Road.
But mad Max was great
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Dec 22, 2017, 09:48 PM
All you guys need to realize that starwars is trash.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 22, 2017, 09:49 PM
But mad Max was great
Mad Max was great but it's also kinda frustrating. Not a generic action flick that's just casual fun.

Also the big thing

Spoiler for Hidden:
Whole movie is just the single event of them being chased by the bad guys, just like Mad Max.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 22, 2017, 10:29 PM
Mad Max was great but it's also kinda frustrating. Not a generic action flick that's just casual fun.

Also the big thing

Spoiler for Hidden:
Whole movie is just the single event of them being chased by the bad guys, just like Mad Max.

Mad Max didn't have side stories though.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Dec 23, 2017, 12:53 AM
All you guys need to realize that starwars is trash.
Pretty much. lol I've never really cared for them.  I thought this was the first one that looked good to me, but I'll still wait till bluray or digital.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 23, 2017, 03:10 AM
If The Last Jedi was re-edited and some parts were done better, it could have been a really really good movie. I want to love it but it's all over the place.

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Mikes cut:<br><br>Remove the stupid god awful Lea in space scene. Have the explosion but cut it early so you don&#39;t really see the extent of the damage. Then go straight to the announcement of the new leader and mention how Akbar died and Lea is just barely hanging on. Make it seem like she might not even make it through this.<br><br>Remove Po, Finn, and Rose&#39;s plots. Still have their events happen, but skip showing them. Leave it as just a side quest that the present characters are invested in but not involved in. I really liked the idea of them failing and not being the heroes like we expected, but the casino planet and the Finn+Rose relationship were kinda poorly done. Would probably need different footage to edit that into a good enough thing.<br><br>Then just make the small changes elsewhere too keep things consistent.<br><br><br>It&#39;d probably be an 8 or 9 if it was done this way imo, just a different edit of the current footage.<br>



Also a general thought
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>The movie couldn&#39;t decide what it wanted to be.<br><br>On one hand it was a very serious film that was trying to be big and complex with deep intentions. It had a lot of themes and they were pretty cool.<br><br>On the other hand, it tried to be a generic Marvel like action film.<br><br>These two did not mix in the slightest. You can&#39;t have a pointless sidequest with Finn and Rose that frustrates the viewer because this story is pushing failure as a theme, yet have Lea become a magic space wizard that comes back to life thanks to plot armor. Or similarly you can&#39;t have the message about self sacrifice with Finn not being worth it when just a few seconds earlier random other pilots are blowing up in a standard action scene.<br><br>The movie tried to be deep yet it didn&#39;t fully commit to it.<br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 23, 2017, 11:17 PM
If The Last Jedi was re-edited and some parts were done better, it could have been a really really good movie. I want to love it but it's all over the place.

Spoiler for Hidden:

Mikes cut:

Remove the stupid god awful Lea in space scene. Have the explosion but cut it early so you don't really see the extent of the damage. Then go straight to the announcement of the new leader and mention how Akbar died and Lea is just barely hanging on. Make it seem like she might not even make it through this.

Remove Po, Finn, and Rose's plots. Still have their events happen, but skip showing them. Leave it as just a side quest that the present characters are invested in but not involved in. I really liked the idea of them failing and not being the heroes like we expected, but the casino planet and the Finn+Rose relationship were kinda poorly done. Would probably need different footage to edit that into a good enough thing.

Then just make the small changes elsewhere too keep things consistent.


It'd probably be an 8 or 9 if it was done this way imo, just a different edit of the current footage.



Also a general thought
Spoiler for Hidden:

The movie couldn't decide what it wanted to be.

On one hand it was a very serious film that was trying to be big and complex with deep intentions. It had a lot of themes and they were pretty cool.

On the other hand, it tried to be a generic Marvel like action film.

These two did not mix in the slightest. You can't have a pointless sidequest with Finn and Rose that frustrates the viewer because this story is pushing failure as a theme, yet have Lea become a magic space wizard that comes back to life thanks to plot armor. Or similarly you can't have the message about self sacrifice with Finn not being worth it when just a few seconds earlier random other pilots are blowing up in a standard action scene.

The movie tried to be deep yet it didn't fully commit to it.

Almost exactly my thoughts after first viewing. I've now watched it three times and I disagree with you and my past self. I absolutely love it now and can hardly fault it  :D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 23, 2017, 11:59 PM
Almost exactly my thoughts after first viewing. I've now watched it three times and I disagree with you and my past self. I absolutely love it now and can hardly fault it  :D
Spoiler for Hidden:
Even the lea space scene?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 24, 2017, 12:02 AM
Spoiler for Hidden:
Even the lea space scene?

Oh no that's still trash.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 26, 2017, 07:27 PM
Last Jedi is falling behind other movies.  
Went from 2nd highest 8 days US, to 3rd highest 9 days, 4th highest 10 day sales.  

It's falling pretty fast too.  

10 day sales is about equal to 9 day sales of Jurassic World.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 26, 2017, 09:55 PM
Last Jedi is falling behind other movies.  
Went from 2nd highest 8 days US, to 3rd highest 9 days, 4th highest 10 day sales.  

It's falling pretty fast too.  

10 day sales is about equal to 9 day sales of Jurassic World.
Possibly due to Christmas? I mean not many people go to the cinema on Christmas day etc?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 26, 2017, 10:52 PM
Possibly due to Christmas? I mean not many people go to the cinema on Christmas day etc?
No, Christmas day was the biggest day outside of it's opening weekend.  Doubled box-office from the 24th to the 25th despite the 25th being a Monday.
It's also way below TFA.  
170 million behind now.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 27, 2017, 06:24 AM
Yeah Christmas is a big movie day. People go with family.

Not shocked the numbers are dropping. Even if everyone liked it, I feel the drop would be similar. Fans would front load sales.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 27, 2017, 04:23 PM
Watching potc: Dead Men tell no tales.

It's alright so far.  

There's another couple like Will and Elizabeth.  I think it's kinda lame.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Dec 27, 2017, 06:46 PM
Watching potc: Dead Men tell no tales.

It's alright so far.  

There's another couple like Will and Elizabeth.  I think it's kinda lame.  
Best POTC, since the first 2, imo.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Dec 28, 2017, 12:06 PM
Best POTC, since the first 2, imo.  
1,2,3 were the best by far.

4 was disappointing

5 was entertaining
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Dec 28, 2017, 03:46 PM
1,2,3 were the best by far.

4 was disappointing

5 was entertaining

Yeah I don't disagree except for 3.  I found 5 to be better than that one, but 1 and 2 are for sure the best
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 29, 2017, 12:32 AM
POTC 3 was my favourite movie as a kid for a bit, because I loved the ship battle at the end. Transformers was my other favourite, guess I just liked mindless action.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 02, 2018, 03:00 AM
Star wars is pulling back in second place.  A bit ahead of Jurassic world, now.  

Expectedly, way behind the last Star wars though.  $220 million behind.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 02, 2018, 03:58 AM
How is foreign?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 02, 2018, 11:26 AM
How is foreign?
So far it is 160m behind on the first two weekends.  It also doesn't seem to have as much staying power.  But we will see.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 02, 2018, 06:19 PM
Watching Wonder Woman.  
Holy cow.  My favorite movie this year.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 02, 2018, 06:25 PM
Watching Wonder Woman.  
Holy cow.  My favorite movie this year.  
2018?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 02, 2018, 06:25 PM
2018?
2018.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jan 02, 2018, 06:46 PM
Watching Wonder Woman.  
Holy cow.  My favorite movie this year.  
You hadn't watched it yet?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 02, 2018, 06:52 PM
You hadn't watched it yet?
Bruh. :P
I have other things going on!  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 02, 2018, 07:01 PM
I watched Rebbeca. Really good.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jan 02, 2018, 10:02 PM
I watched gone girl. Incredible thrill ride. I'd recommend it to all!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 02, 2018, 10:07 PM
I watched gone girl. Incredible thrill ride. I'd recommend it to all!
That movie is like 3 years old and you've only now seen it!  

I have a love/hate relationship with that movie.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 02, 2018, 10:13 PM
That movie is like 3 years old and you've only now seen it!  

I have a love/hate relationship with that movie.
It's good but very frustrating. At least in my case you feel like there are other ways things could have been handled.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jan 02, 2018, 11:09 PM
Has anybody watched murder on the Orient express? Is it any good?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 02, 2018, 11:10 PM
It's good but very frustrating. At least in my case you feel like there are other ways things could have been handled.
Agreed.  
The end of the movie really freaks me out though.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jan 02, 2018, 11:27 PM
That movie is like 3 years old and you've only now seen it!  

I have a love/hate relationship with that movie.
lol

idk I choose not to think about films too much and just enjoy (unless its Star Wars)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 03, 2018, 12:20 AM
lol

idk I choose not to think about films too much and just enjoy (unless its Star Wars)
I like Gone Girl.
Spoiler for Hidden:
It does such an amazing job at making you like the characters and then making you hate the guy and then making you feel bad for him. The last part of it is frightening though.


I usually don't think about films too much. But sometimes things bother me. 
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jan 03, 2018, 10:15 AM
I like Gone Girl.
Spoiler for Hidden:
It does such an amazing job at making you like the characters and then making you hate the guy and then making you feel bad for him. The last part of it is frightening though.


I usually don't think about films too much. But sometimes things bother me.  

You're supposed to not like the last part. Me and my mum were freaking out and I loved it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 03, 2018, 02:51 PM
You're supposed to not like the last part. Me and my mum were freaking out and I loved it.
Well I know that. :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 03, 2018, 06:58 PM
You're supposed to not like the last part. Me and my mum were freaking out and I loved it.
Yeah it's fun that the movie wants you to dislike the situation so badly that it sacrifices your "enjoyment" as a viewer.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 03, 2018, 07:46 PM
The ending made me scared of people for the day.  
Spoiler for Hidden:
just disturbing. &nbsp;This woman brutally murdered a guy who loved her(and practically bathed in his blood), and completely screwed with your life. &nbsp;And here she is in your lap, acting super innocent. <br><br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 09, 2018, 06:39 PM
I just saw a trailer for Blockers, as in lollipop blockers.  

There was a scene in the trailer where John Cena has pants in his mouth and his wife is like "those are our daughter's pants."

Well then...
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 09, 2018, 11:20 PM
I just saw a trailer for Blockers, as in lollipop blockers.  

There was a scene in the trailer where John Cena has pants in his mouth and his wife is like "those are our daughter's pants."

Well then...

Sounds like a good movie
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 10, 2018, 09:01 PM
Sounds like a good movie



So far it is 160m behind on the first two weekends.  It also doesn't seem to have as much staying power.  But we will see.  
More comparisons:

Domestic:
TLJ $574.5m in 25 days
TFA $815.8m in 25 days, $600.9m in 12 days.

TFA took about 34 days to drop below 2 million, versus 25 for TLJ.

Massive movie, but its a massive drop off from the previous.  

Foreign:
Four weekends: (although TLJ seems to be missing a weekend...?)
TFA - $921m
TLJ -$634m

Right now it's basically doing less than half in it's better markets of what the previous did. But that might be comparing fourth to fifth, comparing TLA's 5th to the 4th listed week, it's in TLJ's favor.  I have no idea.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jan 10, 2018, 11:04 PM
The ending made me scared of people for the day.  
Spoiler for Hidden:
just disturbing.  This woman brutally murdered a guy who loved her(and practically bathed in his blood), and completely screwed with your life.  And here she is in your lap, acting super innocent.


I just skipped to now, this spoiler sounds like a part from Zero Time Dilema... what movie are we watching?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 10, 2018, 11:16 PM
I just skipped to now, this spoiler sounds like a part from Zero Time Dilema... what movie are we watching?
Gone Girl
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 10, 2018, 11:18 PM


More comparisons:

Domestic:
TLJ $574.5m in 25 days
TFA $815.8m in 25 days, $600.9m in 12 days.

TFA took about 34 days to drop below 2 million, versus 25 for TLJ.

Massive movie, but its a massive drop off from the previous.  

Foreign:
Four weekends: (although TLJ seems to be missing a weekend...?)
TFA - $921m
TLJ -$634m

Right now it's basically doing less than half in it's better markets of what the previous did. But that might be comparing fourth to fifth, comparing TLA's 5th to the 4th listed week, it's in TLJ's favor.  I have no idea.
And yet it's at 1.2B already WW. Won't come close to 2B but a massive success nonetheless. I'm sure episode 9 will rekindle the flame and be an even more popular movie (as long as they don't fudge it up)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 10, 2018, 11:50 PM
And yet it's at 1.2B already WW. Won't come close to 2B but a massive success nonetheless. I'm sure episode 9 will rekindle the flame and be an even more popular movie (as long as they don't fudge it up)
Yeah, it's only doing bad compared to TFA.  It's still doing gigantic numbers.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jan 11, 2018, 12:19 AM
Well it also might fall short of Jurassic World and Avengers, which wouldn't be so good for it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 11, 2018, 07:25 PM
Well it also might fall short of Jurassic World and Avengers, which wouldn't be so good for it.
Eh I'd still argue that's huge enough lol. I mean, they're making like 2 movies a year now
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jan 11, 2018, 09:21 PM
Eh I'd still argue that's huge enough lol. I mean, they're making like 2 movies a year now
Yeah it is but I bet Disney still were expecting better.

I can see Star Wars grossing dropping quite a lot now. Annual releasing of the films is a huge mistake, but I guess they don't care about long term longevity.

I wonder if the Solo film will even manage $1bn. Quite likely not.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 14, 2018, 02:13 AM
Solo I feel like will be pushed back. TLJ needs more time in the spotlight.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 14, 2018, 12:25 PM
Solo I feel like will be pushed back. TLJ needs more time in the spotlight.
When is it supposed to come out?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jan 14, 2018, 06:20 PM
When is it supposed to come out?
In 4 months.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 22, 2018, 09:04 PM
Morgen was surprisingly good. I liked a lot about it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jan 27, 2018, 02:07 AM
I finally got around to watching The Shawshank Redemption. I'd heard a lot of good stuff on the interwebs, and I was deciding on a film to watch when I saw it was #1 on imdb, and I thought fudge it lets finally watch it.

I agree with imdb
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 06, 2018, 08:46 PM
Game of Thrones Creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss to Write and Produce a New Series of Star Wars Films | StarWars.com (http://www.starwars.com/news/game-of-thrones-creators-david-benioff-and-d-b-weiss-to-write-and-produce-a-new-series-of-star-wars-films)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 06, 2018, 10:40 PM
Game of Thrones Creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss to Write and Produce a New Series of Star Wars Films | StarWars.com (http://www.starwars.com/news/game-of-thrones-creators-david-benioff-and-d-b-weiss-to-write-and-produce-a-new-series-of-star-wars-films)
So we have the johnson series too or is this replacing that?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 06, 2018, 11:11 PM
So we have the johnson series too or is this replacing that?
This is in addition to that :o
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 07, 2018, 12:43 AM
This is in addition to that :o
There's too many star wars movies!

9 main ones, rogue one, solo, 3 for johnson, and another ~3 for this. It's basically trying to become its own genre  :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 07, 2018, 12:38 PM
They're giving Marvel a run for their money now
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 07, 2018, 01:44 PM
They're giving Marvel a run for their money now
Speaking of...
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 07, 2018, 06:30 PM
They're giving Marvel a run for their money now
Disney owns Marvel. They're so powerful they're competing with themselves now.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 07, 2018, 06:59 PM
Disney owns Marvel. They're so powerful they're competing with themselves now.
Not many others to compete with, especially when they own Fox too!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 07, 2018, 07:08 PM
Not many others to compete with, especially when they own Fox too!
And DC sucks at making movies
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Feb 07, 2018, 07:40 PM
And DC sucks at making movies
But there is the mummy CU!!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 07, 2018, 07:42 PM
And DC sucks at making movies
At least they're better than the Dark Universe.

(you know that bad mummy movie with Tom Cruise? It's supposed to be the start of a cinematic universe including the likes of Bride of Frankenstein, Hunchback of Notre Dame, and the phantom of the opera)

But there is the mummy CU!!
You beat me!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 08, 2018, 04:53 PM
I finished watching all the marvel films and now I'm pumped for Black Panther. Got my tickets for Tuesday!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 08, 2018, 05:10 PM
I watched Thor ragnarok finally. Didn't expect it to have so much space. Was enjoyable and I liked that it didn't fully feel like a marvel movie. Poor editing though imo.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 08, 2018, 06:50 PM
I watched Thor ragnarok finally. Didn't expect it to have so much space. Was enjoyable and I liked that it didn't fully feel like a marvel movie. Poor editing though imo.
Yeah that's the last one I watched. I thought the comedy was the best of any Marvel film, but apart from that it was average in every area (for a Marvel film, so still very good).
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 08, 2018, 11:06 PM
Black panther getting great reviews!

Also,

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 13, 2018, 08:07 PM
Cinema is absolutely PACKED for Black Panther. Holy shame

Mostly black people too, which is cool
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 13, 2018, 10:42 PM
Yooo what a film. Black and woman POWAAAA. love it love it love it. This film is gonna be huge
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 13, 2018, 11:09 PM
Yooo what a film. Black and woman POWAAAA. love it love it love it. This film is gonna be huge
I don't know what all of this *gestures to all of you* is
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 13, 2018, 11:22 PM
I don't know what all of this *gestures to all of you* is
:o  power and love?

The supporting cast of Black Panther is by far the best of any marvel film. The woman are all incredible and I really hope we see more of them.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 13, 2018, 11:33 PM
I really hope we see more of them.
It's Marvel. They'll get their own spin off  ::)

How would you rate it compared to other Marvel films? I thought it looked kinda good from the trailers but I'm not really a marvel fan. Will see it once it gets to the $2 theater probably. I just saw Thor in theaters last week  :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 13, 2018, 11:40 PM
It's Marvel. They'll get their own spin off  ::)

How would you rate it compared to other Marvel films? I thought it looked kinda good from the trailers but I'm not really a marvel fan. Will see it once it gets to the $2 theater probably. I just saw Thor in theaters last week  :P
If you're looking for action its one of the worst marvel films. If you like comedy, great characters and setting its one of the best (if not, the best).

I'll need to watch it again but for me its up there. Its not as good as Civil War or Winter Soldier for sure (I feckin love those films) but its around the quality of Cap 1, Thor Ragnorok, Avengers, Iron Man and GOTG.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 14, 2018, 12:05 AM
:o  power and love?

The supporting cast of Black Panther is by far the best of any marvel film. The woman are all incredible and I really hope we see more of them.
I recommend the Black Mirror episode with the sidekick  ;)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 14, 2018, 12:08 AM
I recommend the Black Mirror episode with the sidekick  ;)
Yeah my friends mentioned it. I shall give it a watch
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 14, 2018, 12:21 AM
:o  power and love?

The supporting cast of Black Panther is by far the best of any marvel film. The woman are all incredible and I really hope we see more of them.
Oh, i know what power and love are.  I wield both of them with iron fists.  

I just don't know what all of this is.  


But seriously, glad you liked the movie!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 14, 2018, 12:31 AM
Oh, i know what power and love are.  I wield both of them with iron fists.  

I just don't know what all of this is.  


But seriously, glad you liked the movie!

Same! But what I love most is the cultural impact its going to have. I just couldn't help feeling so happy about the power being shown by all the black women, and how great their characters were. Also the African cultural influences in Wakanda are just so interesting and cool. I hope we start seeing much more diverse films like this.

The soundtrack is amazing too, it sounds very African and gave my Lion King vibes. I loved it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 14, 2018, 12:55 AM
Same! But what I love most is the cultural impact its going to have. I just couldn't help feeling so happy about the power being shown by all the black women, and how great their characters were. Also the African cultural influences in Wakanda are just so interesting and cool. I hope we start seeing much more diverse films like this.

The soundtrack is amazing too, it sounds very African and gave my Lion King vibes. I loved it.
Yeah, it's pretty exciting.  

Librals, trying to take out the white people.  <- there's always going to be that guy, though .
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 14, 2018, 04:14 AM
I watched Mother!

It was odd and all over the place. Kinda good? Kinda bad. Tried to be something special but I wouldn't say it succeeded.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 15, 2018, 11:00 PM
Not watching, but:

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 16, 2018, 12:26 AM
Not watching, but:


Nice
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 17, 2018, 02:29 PM
Black Panther is heading for the 6th biggest 3-day weekend opening of all time in the US. That's absolutely insane.

Currently predicted at $187m for the 3 day weekend, and about $215m for the 4 day weekend. That 4 day total would put it just above Age of Ultron and slightly below The Avengers at the top of the MCU openings.

It puts it well clear of Iron Man 3's solo opening record ($174m) and by far the highest Origins film.

Another fun fact, if it does reach its forecasts then it should pass Justice League's total in less than a week.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 17, 2018, 02:49 PM
Black Panther is heading for the 6th biggest 3-day weekend opening of all time in the US. That's absolutely insane.

Currently predicted at $187m for the 3 day weekend, and about $215m for the 4 day weekend. That 4 day total would put it just above Age of Ultron and slightly below The Avengers at the top of the MCU openings.

It puts it well clear of Iron Man 3's solo opening record ($174m) and by far the highest Origins film.

Another fun fact, if it does reach its forecasts then it should pass Justice League's total in less than a week.
Woah, way higher than expected. I'm guessing the great reviews helped

The movie seems to be very divisive on imdb. Only 7.7 so early and popular user reviews don't seem happy. Wouldn't surprise me that the movie got judged more fairly by critics due to the political/racial factors even though I'm sure the movie is very good. But is it 88 on meta good?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 17, 2018, 03:01 PM
Woah, way higher than expected. I'm guessing the great reviews helped

The movie seems to be very divisive on imdb. Only 7.7 so early and popular user reviews don't seem happy. Wouldn't surprise me that the movie got judged more fairly by critics due to the political/racial factors even though I'm sure the movie is very good. But is it 88 on meta good?
Audience scores are getting bombed by racists/ DC fans/ other haters. Its pretty much universally liked by actual audiences.

Its not 88 meta good in my eyes, but its close.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 17, 2018, 04:07 PM
Woah, way higher than expected. I'm guessing the great reviews helped

The movie seems to be very divisive on imdb. Only 7.7 so early and popular user reviews don't seem happy. Wouldn't surprise me that the movie got judged more fairly by critics due to the political/racial factors even though I'm sure the movie is very good. But is it 88 on meta good?
88 on meta is especially good for movies.  
And yes, whiny people complaining about black people are definitely going to bring the score down.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 17, 2018, 07:07 PM
88 on meta is especially good for movies.  
And yes, whiny people complaining about black people are definitely going to bring the score down.  
88 is craycray for movies, Best Picture territory
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 17, 2018, 08:35 PM
88 is craycray for movies, Best Picture territory
Oh, I misread what you just said.  :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 17, 2018, 09:54 PM
Not watching, but:


I hope there's more to it than what the commercial shows.

Spoiler for Hidden:
I&#39;d be pretty disappointed if it&#39;s just a repeat of the first movie but with the roles reversed.


Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 17, 2018, 10:16 PM
Oh, I misread what you just said.  :P
Understandably  ::)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 18, 2018, 12:00 AM
I hope there's more to it than what the commercial shows.

Spoiler for Hidden:
I'd be pretty disappointed if it's just a repeat of the first movie but with the roles reversed.

Agreed. I'm just hoping they're trying not to spoil the main plot so they're focusing on unimportant points.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 18, 2018, 04:32 PM
Man, Black Panther gross estimates just keep increasing. Its funny to think that about a month ago people were thinking a $100m+ opening weekend would be insane and a fantastic achievement.

The Friday gross was $76m, which is the 8th highest of all time, and the saturday and sunday numbers are looking abnormally high.

With what's looking like a phenomenal saturday performance, weekend estimates have increased to $192m, which would put it above Age of Ultron as the 5th biggest opening of all time. Absolutely crazy performance for an origins film.

With the 4 day weekend to help it, it has a chance of overtaking Avengers for the 4 day gross.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 18, 2018, 05:08 PM
MCU Origins films opening weekends (million dollars):

Hulk - 55
Ant-Man - 57
Captain America - 65
Thor - 66
Dr. Strange - 85
Guardians - 94
Iron Man - 98
Spiderman - 117
Black Panther - 192

Jee zus
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 19, 2018, 12:59 AM
MCU Origins films opening weekends (million dollars):

Hulk - 55
Ant-Man - 57
Captain America - 65
Thor - 66
Dr. Strange - 85
Guardians - 94
Iron Man - 98
Spiderman - 117
Black Panther - 192

Jee zus
It's crazy how good it's doing. Kinda is the MCU version of wonder woman, in the sense that it's become a juggernaut out of nowhere.

Doubt it'll be topped for a long time.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 19, 2018, 01:11 AM
It's crazy how good it's doing. Kinda is the MCU version of wonder woman, in the sense that it's become a juggernaut out of nowhere.

Doubt it'll be topped for a long time.
I expect only Avengers films and possible sequels will be able to top this in the MCU. Civil War is pretty much as big as it gets outside of Avengers and BP has beaten that by a fair way.

Just waiting for Rth on the box office theory forums to indicate if $192 is indeed another underestimate (pretty much every number has been an underestimate for this film). It would be incredible if it managed 200m.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 19, 2018, 07:51 AM
So apparently BP is in the brink of taking the all time Sunday gross record from TFA, which means it's looking at a 3 day weekend of around $202m. dang it just keeps getting crazier.

Edit: so the four day estimates have increased to $241-243m with this. Which would put it above TLJ for the four day total, as #2 of all time. Insane.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 19, 2018, 09:25 AM
So apparently BP is in the brink of taking the all time Sunday gross record from TFA, which means it's looking at a 3 day weekend of around $202m. dang it just keeps getting crazier.

Edit: so the four day estimates have increased to $241-243m with this. Which would put it above TLJ for the four day total, as #2 of all time. Insane.
The fudge happened with this movie?

Overseas numbers are modest in comparison
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Feb 19, 2018, 11:36 AM
The fudge happened with this movie?

Overseas numbers are modest in comparison
apparently they pushed the race card here and its getting people to watch it. as if this is the first movie to ever have a black lead. smart marketing if you ask me.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 19, 2018, 12:24 PM
Yep ^^ very smart marketing and it is a truly great film. It's doing just better than average MCU overseas (in most places, although UK and South Korea are very high) but the story is resonating with a lot of blacks in America.

I think something like 37% of the audience is black, contributing over $90 to the domestic gross. If you compare black and white population, that's like white people pushing a film to an almost $400m opening, which has obviously never happened.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 19, 2018, 01:08 PM
Do you think it could top last jedi? Globally
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 19, 2018, 01:29 PM
Do you think it could top last jedi? Globally
There is a very real chance. You would have laughed if you heard that a few months ago.

If I was to bet I'd say it'll fall a bit short, but Black Panther seems to continuously be exceeding all expectations.

TLJ is at $1.326bn rn, and won't finish much higher than that. It had an opening 3 day weekend of $450m worldwide, and Black Panther is looking at around $370-380m, and will have a much bigger monday. So with better legs, BP can make it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Feb 19, 2018, 02:07 PM
Do you think it could top last jedi? Globally
i doubt it. i doubt it will have the legs to do so. the surge in interest for this movie seems to be about the race of the actors, and i doubt that will help legs as much as it was genuine interest in the movie or character.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 19, 2018, 04:47 PM
Disney confirmed a $60.1m Sunday for Black Panther. Only $400k behind TFA's all time record. That puts the three day at $201.8m. Its probably going to be close to the all time Monday record now (which is $40.1m from TFA).
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 19, 2018, 06:59 PM
Do we know if Marvel was planning a direct sequel? Sure seems it'll be happening now.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 19, 2018, 07:20 PM
Do we know if Marvel was planning a direct sequel? Sure seems it'll be happening now.
Well there's plenty of Black Panther comics to go off, and without spoiling the comics, T'Challa is a/ the major Avenger going forward, so they almost certainly were already planning a sequel.

Now they're probably fast tracking it and planning for BP in more films.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 19, 2018, 09:23 PM
i doubt it. i doubt it will have the legs to do so. the surge in interest for this movie seems to be about the race of the actors, and i doubt that will help legs as much as it was genuine interest in the movie or character.
Well also word of mouth is going to be a big help, since it is a great movie. I think black people are especially loving it. The legs are going to be interesting to watch, but I hope they're good enough for the MCU's fourth $1bn film.

Also it seems BP is performing phenomenally in the US today. It could very well set a new all time monday record.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 19, 2018, 11:37 PM
Well also word of mouth is going to be a big help, since it is a great movie. I think black people are especially loving it. The legs are going to be interesting to watch, but I hope they're good enough for the MCU's fourth $1bn film.

Also it seems BP is performing phenomenally in the US today. It could very well set a new all time monday record.
Oh it'll definitely top 1b

Oh and it has risen on imdb to 7.9
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 20, 2018, 05:16 PM
Black panther took the all time Monday record from the force awakens, which was considered TFA's most impressive record.

Now #2 of all time after 4 days, above TLJ
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 20, 2018, 05:17 PM
Black panther took the all time Monday record from the force awakens, which was considered TFA's most impressive record.

Now #2 of all time after 4 days, above TLJ
Craycray
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 20, 2018, 10:51 PM
As long as it doesn't beat Avatar long term  ::)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 23, 2018, 12:22 AM
Black Panther is still doing extremely well. The global cume should have passed $500m today. Box office mojo are predicting an extraordinary second weekend in the US of $120m, which would easily be the second best second weekend of all time, and would bring its domestic cume to over $400m, and push worldwide possibly past 700 already.

Most people are doubting that number, and expecting a weekend more around $100m, but 120 would be absolute madness.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 23, 2018, 03:31 PM
So Batgirl got cancelled: Joss Whedon Exits 'Batgirl' Movie (Exclusive) | Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/joss-whedon-exits-batgirl-movie-1087384)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 23, 2018, 04:18 PM
DC needs to step up their game and stop sucking.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 23, 2018, 06:26 PM
The brightside can be Whedon might have been thinking of doing that crud burnside... crud.  If he was planning to do this right... then I'm sad.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 25, 2018, 12:20 PM
Black Panther posts easily the second best second Saturday ever. It looks like it might get close to hitting box office mojo's ridiculous early prediction after all.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 25, 2018, 12:52 PM
Black Panther posts easily the second best second Saturday ever. It looks like it might get close to hitting box office mojo's ridiculous early prediction after all.
Where do you see the numbers so early?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 25, 2018, 02:28 PM
Where do you see the numbers so early?
Box office theory forums. They have two insiders with access to all the numbers pretty much as they come in from all the cinemas. It's usually a poster called Rth who gives his estimate for the day once he's got most of the data. He said 47.8 about 8 hours ago, and Disney official numbers should come in a couple of hours. (Weekend currently looking like 105-110, which beats avengers for 2nd best 2nd weekend)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 25, 2018, 05:47 PM
Is Pixar "dead" nowadays?

I watched Cars 3 on netflix and it's just so average. I can't remember the last Pixar movie I thought was good, much less great.

Fake edit: looked at the list and it's Toy Story 3 from 8 years ago.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 25, 2018, 06:03 PM
Is Pixar "dead" nowadays?

I watched Cars 3 on netflix and it's just so average. I can't remember the last Pixar movie I thought was good, much less great.

Fake edit: looked at the list and it's Toy Story 3 from 8 years ago.
Inside Out?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 25, 2018, 06:39 PM
Inside Out?
I don't understand why people like it so much   :P


Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 25, 2018, 06:45 PM
I don't understand why people like it so much   :P
(https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/914/492/492914.jpg)

People liked Finding Dory, but I never felt a desire to watch it.  
Coco has gotten some great reviews, but at the same time to me, it just doesn't seem like a Pixar movie in terms of quality.  


But Inside Out is a national treasure!  
I'm like 85% sure I cried the first time I saw it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 25, 2018, 06:50 PM
WHAT. Inside Out was amazing! Finding Dory was fantastic! Coco is supposed to be really great and I want to watch it.  I'm hoping incredibles 2 will be as well. Pixar is still strong as ever.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 25, 2018, 07:32 PM
(https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/914/492/492914.jpg)

People liked Finding Dory, but I never felt a desire to watch it.  
Coco has gotten some great reviews, but at the same time to me, it just doesn't seem like a Pixar movie in terms of quality.  


But Inside Out is a national treasure!  
I'm like 85% sure I cried the first time I saw it.

I've talked about my dislike of Inside Out many times in the past. It's just an unoriginal concept that's just kinda forgettable. Only one person I've talked to in person likes it.

Finding Dory was probably a little worse. Pretty comparable to Monsters University.

Coco never looked good to me in the trailers but I won't judge it till I see it. My cousin loved it though but he's also the guy that liked Inside Out. Plus he's a Pixar fanboy who works in the industry so in general he likes every film they make.

WHAT. Inside Out was amazing! Finding Dory was fantastic! Coco is supposed to be really great and I want to watch it.  I'm hoping incredibles 2 will be as well. Pixar is still strong as ever.
Pixar still has fans and there's no problem with people still liking their films, but the decline seems to be something most people agree on.


I'd say...
Toy Story: Great
A Bug's Life: Great/Good
Toy Story 2: Good
Monsters, Inc.: Great
Finding Nemo: Great
The Incredibles: Great
Cars: Great/Good
Ratatouille: Great
WALL-E: Great
Up: Great/Good
Toy Story 3: Great/Good
Cars 2: Bad
Brave: Average
Monsters University: Average/Bad
Inside Out: Average
The Good Dinosaur: Bad
Finding Dory: Average/Bad
Cars 3: Average/Bad

They have so many movies nowadays that could just be ignored.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 25, 2018, 08:04 PM
I've talked about my dislike of Inside Out many times in the past. It's just an unoriginal concept that's just kinda forgettable. Only one person I've talked to in person likes it.
Not here you haven't!  (as far as I can tell.)

I am not sure how it's unoriginal.  I can only think of a few pieces of medium that have ever really tried to depict the "voices" inside someone's head like IO did.  

Finding Dory was probably a little worse. Pretty comparable to Monsters University.

Coco never looked good to me in the trailers but I won't judge it till I see it. My cousin loved it though but he's also the guy that liked Inside Out. Plus he's a Pixar fanboy who works in the industry so in general he likes every film they make.
I can agree with this though.
Coco is weird for me.  When I first saw the trailers, it reminded me of some cartoons that my 3 year old niece watches.  So I was expecting it to be some kind of B movie.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 26, 2018, 07:26 AM
Not here you haven't!  (as far as I can tell.)

I am not sure how it's unoriginal.  I can only think of a few pieces of medium that have ever really tried to depict the "voices" inside someone's head like IO did.  
Guess this is my only old (http://vizioneck.com/forum/index.php?msg=112432) post about it.

The inside out thing is called Ghost in the Machine (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GhostInTheMachine) on tv tropes.

I can agree with this though.
Coco is weird for me.  When I first saw the trailers, it reminded me of some cartoons that my 3 year old niece watches.  So I was expecting it to be some kind of B movie.
It felt like a knockoff of
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 26, 2018, 01:17 PM
You also made this post about it.
Movie Thread (http://vizioneck.com/forum/index.php?msg=112590)

Shortly afterwards.

Well I liked IO.  :p
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 26, 2018, 02:10 PM
You also made this post about it.
Movie Thread (http://vizioneck.com/forum/index.php?msg=112590)

Well I liked IO.  :p
Guilty!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 26, 2018, 05:19 PM
"Black Panther's second weekend is bigger than Justice League's opening weekend."
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 26, 2018, 08:45 PM
"Black Panther's second weekend is bigger than Justice League's opening weekend."
Yeah, and its not even that close. Black Panther had the #2 second weekend of all time, beating Jurassic World and Avengers by a fair way. $112m was the actual, which is an insane performance. Its now looking fairly likely it'll become the #1 domestic superhero film of all time, may have a shot at #3 dom of all time (above Titanic at $659m).

Its overseas which is the focus now, can the OS performance take it above Civil War, Iron Man 3 or maybe even TLJ? Time will tell! Its 10 day WW total is about $710m, China will add an easy 100m+ to that so its getting there.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 26, 2018, 09:21 PM
Yeah, and its not even that close. Black Panther had the #2 second weekend of all time, beating Jurassic World and Avengers by a fair way. $112m was the actual, which is an insane performance. Its now looking fairly likely it'll become the #1 domestic superhero film of all time, may have a shot at #3 dom of all time (above Titanic at $659m).

Its overseas which is the focus now, can the OS performance take it above Civil War, Iron Man 3 or maybe even TLJ? Time will tell! Its 10 day WW total is about $710m, China will add an easy 100m+ to that so its getting there.
The actuals are always above the estimates lol

Im thinking 1.5b
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 26, 2018, 09:29 PM
The actuals are always above the estimates lol

Im thinking 1.5b
1.5 is impossible. Its only a phenomenon in the US. Overseas its 'only' doing very well and isn't breaking records (its performing slightly above Thor Ragnorok so far, which managed $538m overseas). Its looking like domestic will be about half of its total, putting its roof at 1.4b and it will likely fall short of that.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Feb 26, 2018, 10:40 PM
Yeah, and its not even that close. Black Panther had the #2 second weekend of all time, beating Jurassic World and Avengers by a fair way. $112m was the actual, which is an insane performance. Its now looking fairly likely it'll become the #1 domestic superhero film of all time, may have a shot at #3 dom of all time (above Titanic at $659m).

Its overseas which is the focus now, can the OS performance take it above Civil War, Iron Man 3 or maybe even TLJ? Time will tell! Its 10 day WW total is about $710m, China will add an easy 100m+ to that so its getting there.
Honestly I didn't expect it's legs to be this strong but holly fudge.

It's oversees performance is becoming a lot more interesting. Civil war did 700 million in international markets, can this beat it? Honestly I doubt it. Can this be an international juggernaut like jurassic world or fast and furious? If it pulls that kind of numbers then this will.be one of the biggest movies of all time. However I doubt it. I'm looking expert though so how is it tracking internationally?

Anyways, you can bet black panther will have a much bigger role in infinity wars 2 than Originally intended lol
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 26, 2018, 11:05 PM
Honestly I didn't expect it's legs to be this strong but holly fudge.

It's oversees performance is becoming a lot more interesting. Civil war did 700 million in international markets, can this beat it? Honestly I doubt it. Can this be an international juggernaut like jurassic world or fast and furious? If it pulls that kind of numbers then this will.be one of the biggest movies of all time. However I doubt it. I'm looking expert though so how is it tracking internationally?

Anyways, you can bet black panther will have a much bigger role in infinity wars 2 than Originally intended lol
Yeah I think most are expecting it to fall short of Civil War OS - but with how it keeps overperforming its not going to miss it by too much, if at all. If it can get close to Civil War's 745m overseas then its looking at a higher gross than The Last Jedi worldwide at over 1.3bn. It is tracking behind Civil War right now though, and China was big on Civil War too so it might fall further behind.

1.3bn and TLJ is probably going to be close though, and a great race to keep track of. Who would have thought that a few months ago.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 27, 2018, 01:28 AM
1.5 is impossible. Its only a phenomenon in the US. Overseas its 'only' doing very well and isn't breaking records (its performing slightly above Thor Ragnorok so far, which managed $538m overseas). Its looking like domestic will be about half of its total, putting its roof at 1.4b and it will likely fall short of that.
I was thinking china would be strong
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 27, 2018, 09:45 AM
I was thinking china would be strong
China was extremely strong for civil war and that didn't get anywhere near enough overseas compared to what BP would need for 1.5b, unfortunately.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 27, 2018, 03:32 PM
China was extremely strong for civil war and that didn't get anywhere near enough overseas compared to what BP would need for 1.5b, unfortunately.
Well we'll see!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 02, 2018, 01:14 AM
BP is having a solid week, but nothing too special so far.

Avengers Infinity War worldwide release date got moved forward to April 27th, matching the UK release date. I don't know why it was set to release a week earlier in the UK in the first place, but hey ho. They probably did this to avoid clashes with Deadpool 2 and Solo for better Avengers legs.

I'm more hyped for Infinity War than anything right now (God of War is 2nd), and I've possibly only ever been more hyped for Horizon's release. I so cannot wait.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 02, 2018, 05:37 PM
BP is having a solid week, but nothing too special so far.

Avengers Infinity War worldwide release date got moved forward to April 27th, matching the UK release date. I don't know why it was set to release a week earlier in the UK in the first place, but hey ho. They probably did this to avoid clashes with Deadpool 2 and Solo for better Avengers legs.

I'm more hyped for Infinity War than anything right now (God of War is 2nd), and I've possibly only ever been more hyped for Horizon's release. I so cannot wait.
I want to see Infinity War since it's been hyped for a decade, but the trailers make me a bit worried it'll be a cameo fest and not really focus on the characters. Really hope I'm wrong.

Also interested to see how the movie ends. Used to have an Infinity War part 2 but they changed the name, so will this end right in the action or will they have rewritten things?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 02, 2018, 08:23 PM
Somehow I missed this!


Would have prefered more video game stuff again but hopefully it's good. Disney has a great track record as of late.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 02, 2018, 08:34 PM
Somehow I missed this!


Would have prefered more video game stuff again but hopefully it's good. Disney has a great track record as of late.
Agreed.
I'm excited for this.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 04, 2018, 05:21 PM
Black Panther will become the third fastest film ever to hit $500m in the US today, just being out Jurassic World. Its heading for a $66m third weekend, which is an incredible hold of -40% from last weekend. That also already puts it into the top 10 of all time total US gross.

WW it will hit almost exactly $900m after this weekend, $1b will come next week.

Edit: oh and that makes it the #5 MCU film worldwide (#2 domestic already), behind Avengers, Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3 and Civil War. Its already topped the three films of last year. Crazy.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 04, 2018, 06:19 PM
Black Panther will become the third fastest film ever to hit $500m in the US today, just being out Jurassic World. Its heading for a $66m third weekend, which is an incredible hold of -40% from last weekend. That also already puts it into the top 10 of all time total US gross.

WW it will hit almost exactly $900m after this weekend, $1b will come next week.

Edit: oh and that makes it the #5 MCU film worldwide (#2 domestic already), behind Avengers, Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3 and Civil War. Its already topped the three films of last year. Crazy.
Crazy how US centric it's doing. Number 10 domestic yet number 47 world wide. Rogue One is the only other recent blockbuster to make the majority of its money in America. Will be interesting to see how the release in China changes this.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 04, 2018, 07:59 PM
Crazy how US centric it's doing. Number 10 domestic yet number 47 world wide. Rogue One is the only other recent blockbuster to make the majority of its money in America. Will be interesting to see how the release in China changes this.
China is always a guaranteed $100m+ for MCU films, so instead of being a standout it'll just be fairly US centric in the end. If China is big enough it will probably still make more money overseas, like every other MCU film.

Its only happening because this is just a phenomenon in the US, and that's probably due to the large turnout of black people there and the notes the film strikes with them. In the rest of the world, this is just performing a bit better than what you'd expect for a normal, well reviewed MCU film. It's also doing very well in South Korea though, probably because of the scenes shot and based there. The UK is one of the other places where its outperforming Civil War and only short of Avengers, but its not as big as in the US that's for sure.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 04, 2018, 10:05 PM
Still don't think it can make 1.5b? 1b so soon

Interesting that it seems to have fallen quite a bit behind the last jedi now. It was like 1m behind and now it's over 15m behind
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 04, 2018, 11:04 PM
Still don't think it can make 1.5b? 1b so soon

Interesting that it seems to have fallen quite a bit behind the last jedi now. It was like 1m behind and now it's over 15m behind
TLJ had an incredible week at this point due to christmas holidays. It fell off a cliff after that though, BP should pass it pretty soon.

And no, overseas performance is nowhere near good enough for 1.5b unfortunately. China would have to be unbelievably incredible.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 04, 2018, 11:06 PM
I'm kinda curious how China is going to like it.  
From what i understand, China tends to be pretty racist towards black people.  Wonder how that'll factor in.  Hopefully the movie is successful and positive.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 04, 2018, 11:07 PM
I'm kinda curious how China is going to like it.  
From what i understand, China tends to be pretty racist towards black people.  Wonder how that'll factor in.  Hopefully the movie is successful and positive.  
BP is tracking above Spiderman, which made about $120m in total. So BP should do well. $1.3bn will be close for sure.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 05, 2018, 04:46 PM
Your Name is getting a live action remake by paramount studios and JJ Abrams is on board.  

On another note, the director of the animated version is unhappy with all the praise.  Doesn't like being compared to Miyazaki.

Also this:
Quote
Despite the praise he received, Makoto Shinkai insisted that the film is not as good as it could have been: "There are things we could not do, Masashi Ando [Director of animation] wanted to keep working [on] but had to stop us for lack of money ... For me it's incomplete, unbalanced. The plot is fine but the film is not at all perfect. Two years was not enough
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 05, 2018, 06:24 PM
Your Name is getting a live action remake by paramount studios and JJ Abrams is on board.  

On another note, the director of the animated version is unhappy with all the praise.  Doesn't like being compared to Miyazaki.

Also this:
Sounds like a perfectionist
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 05, 2018, 10:37 PM
BP ended Sunday with $899.9m worldwide. It will fly past 1bn with China this weekend. Awesome.

It only fell a couple of million short of Avatar's 3rd weekend total in the US too.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 06, 2018, 01:54 AM
Sounds like a perfectionist
Yeah.  I freaking love the movie, but the movie would benefit being a little longer.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 10, 2018, 05:55 PM
China is looking to be an opening weekend of $60-65m for Black Panther which isn't too great. Its likely going to miss $1.3bn worldwide because of that. It will have passed the $1bn mark today though.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 11, 2018, 04:20 PM
Tomorrow the top 5 comic book movies of all time worldwide will all be MCU films:

1. Avengers
2. Age of ultron
3. Iron Man 3
4. Cap Civil War
5. Black Panther
6. The Dark Knight

Took them long enough!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 11, 2018, 04:22 PM
Tomorrow the top 5 comic book movies of all time worldwide will all be MCU films:

1. Avengers
2. Age of ultron
3. Iron Man 3
4. Cap Civil War
5. Black Panther
6. The Dark Knight

Took them long enough!
Noooo not TDK
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 11, 2018, 04:23 PM
Awww ::(
Poor DC.  Even though their movies deserve it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 11, 2018, 04:29 PM
Awww ::(
Poor DC.  Even though their movies deserve it.
TDK does deserve a top 5 place though. Its the best film out of those 6, although Avengers, Civil War and BP come fairly close for me.

Its a shame DC can't come anywhere near that quality anymore, WW is the closest they got and it was still some way short.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 11, 2018, 04:31 PM
TDK does deserve a top 5 place though. Its the best film out of those 6
By far imo
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 11, 2018, 05:39 PM
By far imo
It's weird that "serious" superhero movies don't really happen anymore.

Also Black Panther 2 officially announced.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 12, 2018, 02:15 PM
Annihilation is apparently on Netflix now. Still in theaters in the US
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 13, 2018, 01:42 AM
Annihilation is apparently on Netflix now. Still in theaters in the US
Odd...

I wanted to see it so not like I'm complaining  ::)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 13, 2018, 02:43 AM
Annihilation is apparently on Netflix now. Still in theaters in the US
Booo you mislead me!

Only on netflix in Europe. I thought you meant it was theaters and netflix in the US  ::)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 13, 2018, 12:25 PM
Booo you mislead me!

Only on netflix in Europe. I thought you meant it was theaters and netflix in the US  ::)
Obviously  ??? ::)

Didn't know it was locked to Europe tho
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 13, 2018, 12:29 PM
Obviously  ??? ::)

Didn't know it was locked to Europe tho
Well Europe and American netflix are very different things, it makes sense in this case for it not to be up on American netflix yet.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 13, 2018, 04:38 PM
Well Europe and American netflix are very different things, it makes sense in this case for it not to be up on American netflix yet.
Well Icelandic netflix is even a lot different from other European netflix regions (translation: worse)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 14, 2018, 06:22 PM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 16, 2018, 03:46 PM
Spring break is being very kind to Black Panther, $700m domestic is on the cards. Overseas is doing quite well too, 1.3bn seems likely now.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 16, 2018, 03:56 PM
Spring break is being very kind to Black Panther, $700m domestic is on the cards. Overseas is doing quite well too, 1.3bn seems likely now.
Wow, it's holding really well.  :o
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 16, 2018, 11:09 PM
Avengers 2 trailer!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 16, 2018, 11:43 PM
Avengers 2 trailer!
I'm avoiding it!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 20, 2018, 06:29 PM
Black Panther has now made more money than Cap Civil War. Overseas total is only $20m behind domestic total now too.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 20, 2018, 06:42 PM
I saw Black Panther yesterday. Enjoyed it a bit more than most Marvel movies nowadays. Thought it started strong but halfway through it became more of a generic superhero movie.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 20, 2018, 06:48 PM
I saw Black Panther yesterday. Enjoyed it a bit more than most Marvel movie nowadays. Thought it started strong but halfway through it became more of a generic superhero movie.
Agree with that, the first half is definitely the better half.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 23, 2018, 06:05 PM
So Pacific Rim Uprising is extremely entertaining
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 23, 2018, 06:23 PM
So Pacific Rim Uprising is extremely entertaining
Reviewed badly tho
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 23, 2018, 07:22 PM
Reviewed badly tho
Its a much better film than the first, for the target audience, imo. The plot is super dumb, but the same can be said for the first film. At least the sequel didn't spend too long trying to justify it all in some crazy stupid way.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 23, 2018, 07:49 PM
For some reason I get Elysium and Pacific Rim mixed up in my head...  

Never seen Pacific Rim though.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 23, 2018, 07:53 PM
For some reason I get Elysium and Pacific Rim mixed up in my head...  

Never seen Pacific Rim though.
They aren't similar in the slightest, and no one ever talks about Elysium  :P

You should watch it. It's good.

Its a much better film than the first, for the target audience, imo. The plot is super dumb, but the same can be said for the first film. At least the sequel didn't spend too long trying to justify it all in some crazy stupid way.
I liked having a story in the first one. Meaningless action doesn't sound as fun.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 23, 2018, 08:00 PM
They aren't similar in the slightest, and no one ever talks about Elysium  :P
I know. :P
It's one of those random things my brain mixes up for no reason.
You should watch it. It's good.
I probably should.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 23, 2018, 08:32 PM
They aren't similar in the slightest, and no one ever talks about Elysium  :P

You should watch it. It's good.
I liked having a story in the first one. Meaningless action doesn't sound as fun.
You will probably think Uprising is worse then. I thought the attempted story was the worst part of the first film. I watch a film like Pacific Rim for the action, and I don't want it filled with a shaming plot. If it has a great plot, then awesome, but if not then get it outta there.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 23, 2018, 08:45 PM
You will probably think Uprising is worse then. I thought the attempted story was the worst part of the first film. I watch a film like Pacific Rim for the action, and I don't want it filled with a shaming plot. If it has a great plot, then awesome, but if not then get it outta there.
So it's basically just a CG montage?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 24, 2018, 01:44 AM
So it's basically just a CG montage?
Nah I'd still say less than half of the film is action pieces.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 24, 2018, 01:51 AM
Black Panther is holding pretty well.  
Maybe it can do $30m this weekend worldwide.  


Should pretty easily make another $50m in the US.  Jurassic World did about that at this point, and BP is tracking way ahead of it thus far.  

$1.3 billion is pretty much a lock, I think.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 24, 2018, 01:52 AM
Hey that's my job >:(
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 24, 2018, 01:54 AM
Hey that's my job >:(
:P
I was into following movies like a decade ago!
But then I stopped caring for a while.  :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Mar 24, 2018, 01:26 PM
Black Panther is holding pretty well.  
Maybe it can do $30m this weekend worldwide.  


Should pretty easily make another $50m in the US.  Jurassic World did about that at this point, and BP is tracking way ahead of it thus far.  

$1.3 billion is pretty much a lock, I think.
I wonder if it will pass TLJ. That would be a shocker. Either way this film was ALOT bigger than I expected. I was expecting something in the 600-800 million range.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 24, 2018, 01:56 PM
I wonder if it will pass TLJ. That would be a shocker. Either way this film was ALOT bigger than I expected. I was expecting something in the 600-800 million range.
It will in the US. Not in RoW. Overall should be close. It needs another 100m+
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 24, 2018, 10:58 PM
It will in the US. Not in RoW. Overall should be close. It needs another 100m+
As of now, it will have passed TLJ in the US.

It should be heading for easily another 50m in the US, but 50m overseas will be tough. Its gonna be very close to TLJ WW total in the end it seems.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 25, 2018, 12:20 AM
Has anyone seen the Hawking movies?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 27, 2018, 03:47 PM
Is anyone interested in Ready player one?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 27, 2018, 03:53 PM
Is anyone interested in Ready player one?
Seems like a fun movie.

Just watched ex machina, now that's a movie for you people if I've ever seen one
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Mar 27, 2018, 08:58 PM
Is anyone interested in Ready player one?
I don't know whether to read the book first. But if I watch the movie I'm certainly not gonna read the book. So I don't know
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 28, 2018, 08:14 PM
Is anyone interested in Ready player one?
I am! Sounds like great fun but I doubt I'll get around to watch it, sadly.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 28, 2018, 08:15 PM
Spoiler for spoiler that Legend will love:
<br>Knack is in a movie!!! &nbsp;<br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 28, 2018, 09:27 PM
Has anyone seen the Hawking movies?
I saw the theory of everything. I enjoyed it.
Is anyone interested in Ready player one?
No. It looks so generic and blan...
Spoiler for spoiler that Legend will love:
<br>Knack is in a movie!!! &nbsp;<br>

Welp I'm sold.


Also I saw Tomb Raider. Was the plot from the game so for once I got to experience what book readers are used to. They changed a lot of things but I liked it. Seems if they make another movie it'll follow the second game.

Also I saw Loving Vincent. Really really hard to describe the way the visuals felt. Definitely liked it.

Also I saw Darkest Hour. Quite good if not kinda long.

Also I saw Game Over Man. Was really stupid.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 28, 2018, 09:29 PM
I saw the theory of everything. I enjoyed it.
No. It looks so generic and blan...
Welp I'm sold.
The trailer didn't really do anything for me.
The cameos might be fun though!  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 28, 2018, 10:00 PM
Huh, I didn't realise the plot of Tomb Raider was based on the game. Well I wasn't going to watch it anyway.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 28, 2018, 10:01 PM
Huh, I didn't realise the plot of Tomb Raider was based on the game. Well I wasn't going to watch it anyway.
I'm sure you weren't.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 28, 2018, 10:02 PM
I'm sure you weren't.  
Yeah it always sounded shame to me.

I think I'm going to watch Love, Simon with a friend. Then I'm obviously watching Infinity War about 20 times, and then Solo, then Incredibles 2. I can't think of anything else rn
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 28, 2018, 10:03 PM
I think I'm going to watch Love, Simon with a friend. Then I'm obviously watching Infinity War about 20 times, and then Solo, then Incredibles 2. I can't think of anything else rn
Am I the friend?  :o
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 28, 2018, 10:04 PM
Am I the friend?  :o
If you pay for the plane tickets, sure.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 28, 2018, 10:06 PM
If you pay for the plane tickets, sure.
Of course, you'd cheap out on me.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 28, 2018, 10:08 PM
Of course, you'd cheap out on me.
Well I'd rather not spend most of my savings on watching a film.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 28, 2018, 10:10 PM
Well I'd rather not spend most of my savings on watching a film.
Not even to hang out for a day?   :-*
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 28, 2018, 10:12 PM
Not even to hang out for a day?   :-*
I guess I could give you at least half a day
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 28, 2018, 10:13 PM
I guess I could give you at least half a day
Awesome!!!  

We'll get to see all my favorite spots.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 28, 2018, 10:14 PM
Awesome!!!  

We'll get to see all my favorite spots.  
Kinky
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 28, 2018, 10:37 PM
Awesome!!!  

We'll get to see all my favorite spots.  
Does one start with a g?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 28, 2018, 10:41 PM
Does one start with a g?
Yes, the Gardens of the Rose is one of my favorites!  How did you know?  

It's where I relieve a lot of tension.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 02, 2018, 03:24 AM
(https://i.redd.it/rj8v9dldlcp01.jpg)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 02, 2018, 10:07 AM
(https://i.redd.it/rj8v9dldlcp01.jpg)
Lmao
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 02, 2018, 09:23 PM
Ready Player One is a lot of fun but not much more than that. Its kinda similar to Pacific Rim in that sense, although RPO is obviously a lot better. Visuals are fantastic, plot is decent (even though some details seem like they were suggested by children and not thought out any further). I don't know if I'd try to convince anyone to go and watch it but if you're interested its worth a watch.

Its probably much more fun to watch as a gamer as well, my friends who aren't gamers that I watched it with didn't like it so much.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 02, 2018, 09:31 PM
Ready Player One is a lot of fun but not much more than that. Its kinda similar to Pacific Rim in that sense, although RPO is obviously a lot better. Visuals are fantastic, plot is decent (even though some details seem like they were suggested by children and not thought out any further). I don't know if I'd try to convince anyone to go and watch it but if you're interested its worth a watch.

Its probably much more fun to watch as a gamer as well, my friends who aren't gamers that I watched it with didn't like it so much.
That's what I was expecting.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 02, 2018, 09:33 PM
Ready Player One is a lot of fun but not much more than that. Its kinda similar to Pacific Rim in that sense, although RPO is obviously a lot better. Visuals are fantastic, plot is decent (even though some details seem like they were suggested by children and not thought out any further). I don't know if I'd try to convince anyone to go and watch it but if you're interested its worth a watch.

Its probably much more fun to watch as a gamer as well, my friends who aren't gamers that I watched it with didn't like it so much.
My brother has seen it twice. Said it was amazing and better than black Panther (when I asked) . He's not a gamer at all lol but his taste in movies is way different to mine (he likes a lot of garbage, in other words, not suggesting this is tho)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 02, 2018, 09:37 PM
That's what I was expecting.  
Yeah. Its basically just really cool. I find myself nitpicking plot points a lot more than I normally do in films.

Its basically a big adventure quest type thing, like national treasure (that kind of film), where the main characters are trying to discover something that no one has managed to do for many years, despite having loads of super clever people investigating. The actual secrets/ puzzles are remarkably simple though, and you're just left thinking: "oh come on, really?". I was hoping there would be more depth to the secrets, and things would be better hidden. Like in an Uncharted game for example.

My brother has seen it twice. Said it was amazing and better than black Panther (when I asked) . He's not a gamer at all lol but his taste in movies is way different to mine (he likes a lot of garbage, in other words, not suggesting this is tho)
Yeah I guess its a great film for those who just go to the cinema for entertainment and don't really care much about good writing, narrative, acting etc. at all.

Nobody with even a slightly critical film brain would suggest its an amazing film.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 03, 2018, 05:05 PM
Black Panther is now the #10 film of all time Worldwide. Also now #4 all time in North America, passed Jurassic World. Will be past Titanic for #3 by the end of the week.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 03, 2018, 09:33 PM
Ready Player One is a lot of fun but not much more than that. Its kinda similar to Pacific Rim in that sense, although RPO is obviously a lot better. Visuals are fantastic, plot is decent (even though some details seem like they were suggested by children and not thought out any further). I don't know if I'd try to convince anyone to go and watch it but if you're interested its worth a watch.

Its probably much more fun to watch as a gamer as well, my friends who aren't gamers that I watched it with didn't like it so much.
Well I hope the book is better, I already bought it.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 03, 2018, 09:42 PM
Well I hope the book is better, I already bought it.
Xev told me books are bad for you.  
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Post by: Legend on Apr 03, 2018, 11:33 PM
Xev told me books are bad for you.  
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Post by: BananaKing on Apr 04, 2018, 12:17 AM
Xev told me books are bad for you.  
Depends what kind of books. Do they have pictures of naked ladies? Those are good. Do they have "words" in them? Those are bad.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 04, 2018, 12:19 AM
Depends what kind of books. Do they have pictures of naked ladies? Those are good. Do they have "words" in them? Those are bad.
What if they have words and naked ladies?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 04, 2018, 12:23 AM
What if they have words and naked ladies?
Ignore the words and look at the ladies. Or you'll die.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 04, 2018, 03:23 PM
Black Panther is now the #10 film of all time Worldwide. Also now #4 all time in North America, passed Jurassic World. Will be past Titanic for #3 by the end of the week.
$1.279 billion now .
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 04, 2018, 10:26 PM
.
So.... uh when do you think you'll watch that movie?
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 05, 2018, 01:21 AM
So.... uh when do you think you'll watch that movie?
I have downloaded it. This weekend hopefully!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 05, 2018, 04:14 PM
Black Panther is having incredible legs in North America. For the last few weeks its been outperforming TFA comparatively, and will continue to do so. $700m total seems fairly likely now.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 05, 2018, 05:55 PM
Black Panther is having incredible legs in North America. For the last few weeks its been outperforming TFA comparatively, and will continue to do so. $700m total seems fairly likely now.
Nice.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 05, 2018, 08:54 PM
Black Panther is having incredible legs in North America. For the last few weeks its been outperforming TFA comparatively, and will continue to do so. $700m total seems fairly likely now.
1.5b back on the menu, Boyz!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 05, 2018, 10:00 PM
1.5b back on the menu, Boyz!
Lol, the limit is probably around 1.36bn, unfortunately. And I'm saying that high so I have only like a 0.1% chance of being wrong :P

TLJ's total of 1.33 is going to be close though.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 09, 2018, 09:04 AM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 10, 2018, 01:09 AM

That looks kinda fun.

Shocking how little reaction I've seen to it.
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Post by: Xevross on Apr 10, 2018, 10:26 AM
Solo trailer makes the film look like great fun. Even if its not that good, it'll still be an enjoyable watch at least.

A Quiet Place is doing incredibly well at the box office. Already made way more than its budget in the first weekend.

Black Panther is still performing strongly and has reached 1.3bn WW. TLJ's total is looking pretty toast now, Black Panther needs $32m more and is looking to get at least another $25m in North America alone.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 10, 2018, 11:14 AM
Solo trailer makes the film look like great fun. Even if its not that good, it'll still be an enjoyable watch at least.

A Quiet Place is doing incredibly well at the box office. Already made way more than its budget in the first weekend.

Black Panther is still performing strongly and has reached 1.3bn WW. TLJ's total is looking pretty toast now, Black Panther needs $32m more and is looking to get at least another $25m in North America alone.
Will crawl to 1.5b AS PREDICTED

Also, dream debut for John Krasinski. Great reviews and an amazing opening
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 10, 2018, 07:06 PM
Infinity War
Ant Man 2

What is the next marvel movie after that? Seems like they'd kinda want to take a short break so infinity war doesn't share the spotlight.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 10, 2018, 07:25 PM
Infinity War
Ant Man 2

What is the next marvel movie after that? Seems like they'd kinda want to take a short break so infinity war doesn't share the spotlight.
Captain Marvel, March next year.

Avengers 4 is then after that in May, Spiderman 2 in July.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 11, 2018, 07:00 PM
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What...?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 11, 2018, 07:38 PM
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What...?
I have no idea what's going on here.  

What I think is happening can only be explained by drugs.  

Don't do drugs kids.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 11, 2018, 10:17 PM


Jesus H. Christ.

That includes Black Panther, which opened at $200m, Civil War which opened at $180m and five more films. TFA's opening weekend record seems like its going to fall, and the next few days after that are probably selling out as well.

Edit: also don't forget that Black Panther had the highest pre sales of any MCU film ever. Infinity War has already surpassed that, and then some, with over 2 weeks to go.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 11, 2018, 11:12 PM


Jesus H. Christ.

That includes Black Panther, which opened at $200m, Civil War which opened at $180m and five more films. TFA's opening weekend record seems like its going to fall, and the next few days after that are probably selling out as well.

Edit: also don't forget that Black Panther had the highest pre sales of any MCU film ever. Infinity War has already surpassed that, and then some, with over 2 weeks to go.
Holy crud.

I predict 3B globally
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 11, 2018, 11:13 PM
Holy crud.

I predict 3B globally
Lol what is it with you and predicting massive numbers.

Its going to have a crazy opening but relatively poor legs imo. I think it will fall around the 1.6-1.8 billion range.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 11, 2018, 11:14 PM
Lol what is it with you and predicting massive numbers.

Its going to have a crazy opening but relatively poor legs imo. I think it will fall around the 1.6-1.8 billion range.
Haha kind of kidding. Want to see records broken though.

Revising to 2.5B as long as it's dang good
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 11, 2018, 11:17 PM
Haha kind of kidding. Want to see records broken though.

Revising to 2.5B as long as it's dang good
I think it will take the domestic opening record and that's about it. WW opening record is impossible for any Disney film due to late China openings.

If it is a really good film then $2b+ is possible for sure. And maybe at a super stretch it has a crack at TFA's domestic total record.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 12, 2018, 12:00 AM
Haha kind of kidding. Want to see records broken though.

Revising to 2.5B as long as it's dang good
If you want to see records broken, just wait for Avatar 2 in 2036.


I bet Infinity War will be very similar to the first Avengers*inflation. Cross overs are way more common now but Marvel has grown larger and this has been talked about for a long time.

$1.6 billion is my ballpark guess.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 12, 2018, 12:06 AM
If you want to see records broken, just wait for Avatar 2 in 2036.


I bet Infinity War will be very similar to the first Avengers*inflation. Cross overs are way more common now but Marvel has grown larger and this has been talked about for a long time.

$1.6 billion is my ballpark guess.
Avatar 2 is not going to set any records.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 12, 2018, 12:08 AM
Avatar 2 is not going to set any records.
Yeah lol I doubt it will unless it has something really groundbreaking
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 12, 2018, 12:16 AM
Holy crud.

I predict 3B globally
Silly Pezus, 3B isn't a number.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 12, 2018, 12:22 AM
Avatar 2 is not going to set any records.
Yeah lol I doubt it will unless it has something really groundbreaking
Avatar 1: $2.8 billion in 2009


Titanic: $2 billion in 1997

Both are still the highest grossing films of all time.

You should always give Cameron the benefit of doubt.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 12, 2018, 12:26 AM
Avatar 1: $2.8 billion in 2009


Titanic: $2 billion in 1997

Both are still the highest grossing films of all time.

You should always give Cameron the benefit of doubt.
With new films, maybe. Sequels barely ever do as well, and Avatar only got that much because of 3D.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 12, 2018, 12:42 AM
With new films, maybe. Sequels barely ever do as well, and Avatar only got that much because of 3D.
Yeah but avatar 2 will have VR! /s

An article pointed that China has largely become a bigger market since Avatar 1 was released.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 12, 2018, 12:52 AM
With new films, maybe. Sequels barely ever do as well, and Avatar only got that much because of 3D.
Avatar sequel could do better as long as it's unique enough compared to the first.

The sequel would also be in 3D and ticket prices have gone up so that wouldn't matter. If he delivers with Avatar 2 it'd surely get most people to want to see it in 3D again.

Yeah but avatar 2 will have VR! /s

An article pointed that China has largely become a bigger market since Avatar 1 was released.  
Yeah China is huge now and Avatar 2 could make an extra 300 million there compared to the first.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 16, 2018, 10:40 PM


I thought this was mocking Infinity War at first.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 17, 2018, 09:24 AM
If you want to see records broken, just wait for Avatar 2 in 2036.


I bet Infinity War will be very similar to the first Avengers*inflation. Cross overs are way more common now but Marvel has grown larger and this has been talked about for a long time.

$1.6 billion is my ballpark guess.
I doubt avatar 2 will break any records. And I think avatars record of 2.7 billion will stand a long time.

Avatar 2 will get no where near avatars numbers.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 17, 2018, 10:25 AM
I doubt avatar 2 will break any records. And I think avatars record of 2.7 billion will stand a long time.

Avatar 2 will get no where near avatars numbers.
Yeah, there's probably about a 1% chance of Avatar 2 making more than the first.

Even $2bn would be a fantastic total for Avatar.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Apr 17, 2018, 04:43 PM


I thought this was mocking Infinity War at first.
Nope that's just how blockbuster trailers are made...
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 17, 2018, 09:35 PM
I just watched Coco. Oh my god, what an incredibly lovely film that is. First time in a while a film has made me tear up. Everyone go watch it, its amazing.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 17, 2018, 11:20 PM
I just watched Coco. Oh my god, what an incredibly lovely film that is. First time in a while a film has made me tear up. Everyone go watch it, its amazing.
I want to see it
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Post by: Xevross on Apr 17, 2018, 11:23 PM
I want to see it
Do it! It'll make you feel all lovely and warm :D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 18, 2018, 12:10 AM
Do it! It'll make you feel all lovely and warm :D
Need to watch Thor Ragnarok first and Your Name.  8)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 18, 2018, 12:15 AM
Your Name.  8)
DANG STRAIGHT!   :D  ;D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 18, 2018, 02:22 AM
Need to watch Thor Ragnarok first and Your Name.  8)
Is your name good? I just returned it to the library without watching because I was too busy.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 18, 2018, 02:27 AM
Is your name good? I just returned it to the library without watching because I was too busy.
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Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 18, 2018, 02:51 AM
Your Name is one of my favorite movies.  

There's a few things that I've heard people didn't like, but I will argue about any one of those as I feel usually the movie gives a good suggestion about why something is the way it is.  

Most people don't even care or notice those things.  It's a well liked movie .
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 18, 2018, 02:58 AM
Oh wait we're talking about a movie called "Your Name." I was talking about "Call me by your name."
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 18, 2018, 03:03 AM
Oh wait we're talking about a movie called "Your Name." I was talking about "Call me by your name."
I'm sure that movie is good too.  

I told Pezus he needs to get on that.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 18, 2018, 10:47 PM
Watching your name now
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 18, 2018, 10:48 PM
Watching your name now
YES YES YES!!!  
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Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 18, 2018, 10:50 PM
I'll get back to ya
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 19, 2018, 12:41 AM
dang, interrupted by my daughter. Have to finish later  I'm only like 45mins in
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 19, 2018, 12:56 AM
dang, interrupted by my daughter. Have to finish later  I'm only like 45mins in
How's it so far?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 19, 2018, 01:04 AM
How's it so far?
I'm actually watching now. Nice twist! Looks amazing too. Interesting stuff
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 19, 2018, 01:13 AM
I'm actually watching now. Nice twist! Looks amazing too. Interesting stuff
Let me know how you feel about it!
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 19, 2018, 08:23 AM
Finished it. Great movie
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 19, 2018, 12:49 PM
Finished it. Great movie
Let me know how you feel about it!
What did you think, Pi?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 19, 2018, 01:34 PM
What did you think, Pi?
Awesome visuals, awesome music.  And I'm a sucker for the story.   ;D
It's probably my favorite movie. 

Theres a part that still makes me tear up, even though I've seen it 10 times. 
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 19, 2018, 01:43 PM
Awesome visuals, awesome music.  And I'm a sucker for the story.   ;D
It's probably my favorite movie.  

Theres a part that still makes me tear up, even though I've seen it 10 times.  
I can imagine what part lulz. Is it
Spoiler for Hidden:
when they meet?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 19, 2018, 01:49 PM
I can imagine what part lulz. Is it
Spoiler for Hidden:
when they meet?

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>It&#39;s actually the last 20 minutes... &nbsp;<br><br>That part where she falls down and her hand has &quot;I love you&quot;, is where it starts for me. &nbsp;<br><br>



I really love that movie...  

Oh wait, you mean
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>The first time they meet? &nbsp;That&#39;s probably where it starts actually.... <br>
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 19, 2018, 02:23 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:

It's actually the last 20 minutes...  

That part where she falls down and her hand has "I love you", is where it starts for me.  




I really love that movie...  

Oh wait, you mean
Spoiler for Hidden:

The first time they meet?  That's probably where it starts actually....

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Yeah I mean when they physically meet for the fist time. That was a beautiful scene. <br><br>BTW, did she write &quot;I love you&quot; in her palm? Thought she wrote his name but then I saw that and was a bit confused<br>

.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 19, 2018, 02:29 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:

Yeah I mean when they physically meet for the fist time. That was a beautiful scene.

BTW, did she write "I love you" in her palm? Thought she wrote his name but then I saw that and was a bit confused

.
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br><br>He was supposed to write his name on her palm, and he said he did. &nbsp;But he didn&#39;t. &nbsp;<br><br>He took advantage of the opportunity to tell her how he feels about her. &nbsp;But then she was left without being able to remember his name. &nbsp;
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 19, 2018, 04:03 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:


He was supposed to write his name on her palm, and he said he did.  But he didn't.  

He took advantage of the opportunity to tell her how he feels about her.  But then she was left without being able to remember his name.  
Oh of course lol. No idea why I was confused about that one.
Spoiler for Hidden:
Somehow I was thinking he wrote on his and she on her palm
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 19, 2018, 04:04 PM
Oh of course lol. No idea why I was confused about that one.
Spoiler for Hidden:
Somehow I was thinking he wrote on his and she on her palm

Probably were on your phone or something.  ::)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 19, 2018, 04:05 PM
Probably were on your phone or something.  ::)
Hehe nah I think it was between 1 and 2 AM there and then I finished it this morning after sleeping like 5 hours
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 19, 2018, 04:08 PM
I guess I should get around to watching Your Name so I can join in!

First BP update in a while. TFA's launch aligned bump is over, and it looks like BP will make more than it from here onwards. TFA made $18m more, so BP is looking to get another $18-23m in NA, falling just short of $700m. International its going to get around $5-10m more. And now it looks almost certain to just trickle past TLJ's total of $1.332bn, as BP will land at $1.335-1.35bn.

Truly amazing performance, most were expecting around half of that total not too long ago.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 19, 2018, 04:12 PM
Hehe nah I think it was between 1 and 2 AM there and then I finished it this morning after sleeping like 5 hours
You liked it though?  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 19, 2018, 05:14 PM
You liked it though?  
Yeah of course. Very good
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 19, 2018, 05:20 PM
I guess I should get around to watching Your Name so I can join in!
Yes you should!  

I've been waiting for someone else to watch it.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 24, 2018, 04:07 PM
Venom trailer!

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 24, 2018, 10:24 PM
Infinity War reviews are coming out! Seems like it'll be in the 80s for RT score, possibly low 90s. Nice!
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 24, 2018, 10:35 PM
Infinity War reviews are coming out! Seems like it'll be in the 80s for RT score, possibly low 90s. Nice!
Can't possibly meet expectations lol. I'm expecting a fun romp with lots of spectacle but not much more than that
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 24, 2018, 10:35 PM
Can't possibly meet expectations lol. I'm expecting a fun romp with lots of spectacle but not much more than that
Sounds like that's what it is from the little titbits I've read.
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Post by: BananaKing on Apr 24, 2018, 10:39 PM
I hope ready player ones movie is better than the books.

No way am I gonna go watch it in theatres though .
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 24, 2018, 10:43 PM
89% after 46 reviews. 7.8/10 average. That's great, pretty much middle of the MCU.

Black Panther 96%
Iron Man 94%
Avengers 92%
Spider-Man 92%
Thor Ragnorok 92%
GOTG 91%
Civil War 91%
Winter Soldier 89%
Infinity War 89% (so far)
Doctor Strange 89%
GOTG Vol. 2 83%
Ant Man 82%
Iron Man 3 80%
Cap 1 79%
Thor 77%
Age of Ultron 75%
Iron Man 2 73%
Hulk 67%
Thor Dark World 66%

Is the order in terms of tomatometer.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 24, 2018, 10:49 PM
Is the order in terms of tomatometer.
Who came up with tomatometer?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 24, 2018, 10:55 PM
Who came up with tomatometer?
Mr Tomato, with his working partner Mr Meter.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 25, 2018, 11:34 AM
11 and a half hours to Infinity War! Boy oh boy oh boy am I hyped as fudge right now.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 25, 2018, 04:17 PM
11 and a half hours to Infinity War! Boy oh boy oh boy am I hyped as fudge right now.
Meh
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 26, 2018, 01:37 AM
What. The. fudge.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 26, 2018, 01:38 AM
What. The. fudge.
That bad?  ::)

I hope ready player ones movie is better than the books.

No way am I gonna go watch it in theatres though .
My sister said it was good. I'm waiting for it to hit the dollar theater.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 26, 2018, 02:09 AM
That bad?  ::)
My sister said it was good. I'm waiting for it to hit the dollar theater.
No. Very good.

Good luck avoiding spoilers.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 26, 2018, 02:12 AM
Basically, what happened in that film was not what I expected at all. I'm legit in a state of shock.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 26, 2018, 05:04 PM
My friend said it's more of an odyssey than a film. I agree  :o
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Post by: Legend on Apr 26, 2018, 05:20 PM
My friend said it's more of an odyssey than a film. I agree  :o
What does that mean?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 26, 2018, 05:52 PM
What does that mean?
A long exciting journey. Also it's a cool word. Basically it's an event. Cinematic history. Not really a film.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 26, 2018, 10:12 PM
Soon we'll be talking about Infinity War's box office success (predicted at $230m opening weekend for NA by the way) but Black Panther is having an incredible week. Its actually up week over week, by a fair margin. It had a huge tuesday jump (+44%), and then only fell 7% on wednesday. That's unheard of. $700m domestic is back on the table.

You can see how crazy BP has been doing recently here Movie Showdown (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/chart/?view=daily&id=openingweekendshowdown.htm) its currently doubling TFA's daily comparisons, and TFA made another $13m from here.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 26, 2018, 10:25 PM
Soon we'll be talking about Infinity War's box office success (predicted at $230m opening weekend for NA by the way) but Black Panther is having an incredible week. Its actually up week over week, by a fair margin. It had a huge tuesday jump (+44%), and then only fell 7% on wednesday. That's unheard of. $700m domestic is back on the table.

You can see how crazy BP has been doing recently here Movie Showdown (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/chart/?view=daily&id=openingweekendshowdown.htm) its currently doubling TFA's daily comparisons, and TFA made another $13m from here.
Just when you think the train is stopping, it just keeps plowing through.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 26, 2018, 10:39 PM
I bet Avengers will beat expectations and get like 250m or close to that
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 26, 2018, 10:42 PM
I bet Avengers will beat expectations and get like 250m or close to that
I bet Black Panther will be a boost for it.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 26, 2018, 10:55 PM
I bet Avengers will beat expectations and get like 250m or close to that
I bet Black Panther will be a boost for it.  
Yes I'm expecting around $245m, not too short of TFA. We'll see.

Black Panther will certainly have helped increase the potential audience for it. And Avengers is giving a boost to Black Panther this week as you can see ^^
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 26, 2018, 11:38 PM
I liked Infinity War more as a film on the second viewing.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 27, 2018, 12:10 AM
Soon we'll be talking about Infinity War's box office success (predicted at $230m opening weekend for NA by the way) but Black Panther is having an incredible week. Its actually up week over week, by a fair margin. It had a huge tuesday jump (+44%), and then only fell 7% on wednesday. That's unheard of. $700m domestic is back on the table.

You can see how crazy BP has been doing recently here Movie Showdown (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/chart/?view=daily&id=openingweekendshowdown.htm) its currently doubling TFA's daily comparisons, and TFA made another $13m from here.
It seems the hype for avengers is helping push black panther slightly. People who don't want to go in and watch the avengers without knowing black panthers story might be going to watch it now
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 27, 2018, 11:26 AM
$45m Thursday previews estimate for Infinity War. The Force Awaken's opening weekend record is under threat.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 27, 2018, 01:10 PM
There's talk of the worldwide opening weekend record falling. This would be the most impressive record if it could get it. Current record is Fast 7, which got $542m, including $180m from China where Infinity War is not opening yet. $540m+ without China would be absolutely bananas. The Force Awakens managed $529m without China as a reference.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 27, 2018, 02:47 PM
I liked Infinity War more as a film on the second viewing.
You've already seen it twice? That's pretty impressive, it's still opening day!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 27, 2018, 02:54 PM
You've already seen it twice? That's pretty impressive, it's still opening day!
Lol yeah me and my friend watched it at midnight. I was staying with them until late evening as we're watching another friends University musical. We were gonna revise in the day until then but we were like oh god we're gonna have to see that again aren't we. So we watched it again at 12:30 :D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 27, 2018, 02:57 PM
Lol yeah me and my friend watched it at midnight. I was staying with them until late evening as we're watching another friends University musical. We were gonna revise in the day until then but we were like oh god we're gonna have to see that again aren't we. So we watched it again at 12:30 :D
Was it packed?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 27, 2018, 02:58 PM
Was it packed?
Midnight showing the screen was 2/3 full. The most full I've ever seen a midnight release (more than TLJ and Rogue One). The midday showing on Thursday had barely anyone in, shockingly enough.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 27, 2018, 03:14 PM
Infinity War previews came in at $39m. Its hard to predict where it'll go from here but it seems TFA is safe domestically. Overseas IW is performing incredibly though. $95m by Thursday. Puts pre-friday WW total at $134m.

Edit: UK opening day came in at $8.9m, which is insanity. Over 80% more than Age of Ultron in £ equivalent. Noice.

Double edit: basically this reinforces the film is going for a solid $230m in NA (easy #2 of all time) but is going absolutely bonkers overseas. Despite doing worse than TFA in NA, it could still smash it WW and get the record due to how well its doing everywhere else.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 28, 2018, 12:52 PM
Infinity War update. Seems like its going to land on $105-107m for Friday domestic. That would be smashing the 'true friday' record (friday numbers - thursday previews), and not too short of TFA's Friday total. If it does that, its almost certain to set new Saturday and Sunday records as well. TFA's record might be falling here.

That friday number is crazy. On the high end its $68m. Films like Jurassic World, TFA, The Avengers all topped out at around $63m, it was thought that was the limit. This could blow them away.

Edit: worldwide opening record is toast. Film is going absolutely bananas worldwide, setting records pretty much everywhere.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 28, 2018, 03:59 PM
So here's a stat. The all time full opening record is The Force Awakens at $580m. That's the total if you add the opening for every single country as if they were the same week.

Infinity War has a very decent shot at over $800m. Insanity.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 28, 2018, 04:06 PM
So here's a stat. The all time full opening record is The Force Awakens at $580m. That's the total if you add the opening for every single country as if they were the same week.

Infinity War has a very decent shot at over $800m. Insanity.
Holly fudge.

2 billion + world wide confirmed.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 28, 2018, 04:48 PM
Holly fudge.

2 billion + world wide confirmed.
Nah I think people are just rushing out to see it early, rather than it being incredibly popular overall. Of course there's no real way to tell either way yet though. I'd guess 1.8-1.9 total though, which is still amazing for a comic book movie.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 28, 2018, 06:28 PM
So here's a stat. The all time full opening record is The Force Awakens at $580m. That's the total if you add the opening for every single country as if they were the same week.

Infinity War has a very decent shot at over $800m. Insanity.
The fudge? How?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 28, 2018, 06:42 PM
The fudge? How?
Its either almost matching or beating TFA everywhere right now, plus Asia is much, much bigger for Marvel than Star Wars. About half of that difference will come from China, the rest from places like South Korea, Thailand, India.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 29, 2018, 10:07 AM
All time domestic Saturday record is about to be decimated. Previous best is Jurassic World/ The Avengers at $69m (TFA got $68m). Infinity War is going to come in at around $82m. With that, TFA's opening weekend record looks like its going to be taken.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 29, 2018, 03:26 PM
And there it is. Projected $250m domestic opening, just taking the record from TFA. And Overseas opening is estimated at $380m (!) which would be an opening woldwide of $630m. That's a new record by over $90m WITHOUT the help of China.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 29, 2018, 10:19 PM
Monstrous.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 29, 2018, 10:23 PM
Black Panther passed TLJ! Wooh! Holy balls, the MCU is bigger than Star Wars. Pretty much no disputing that now. (talking box office only :P )
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 29, 2018, 11:48 PM
Black Panther passed TLJ! Wooh! Holy balls, the MCU is bigger than Star Wars. Pretty much no disputing that now. (talking box office only :P )
Well they had to have a very well received movie do it to a less well received one.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 30, 2018, 11:57 AM
Disney went way under with IW. They projected Saturday as $61m (new record) for 250 total, whereas it's actually going to come in over 70. Another record obliterated, and in the end the OW record wasn't even close with TFA, will beat it be over 12m.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 30, 2018, 02:25 PM
Infinity War has finally come in at $258m domestic (new record by $10m over TFA) and $640m WW (new record by $99m over Fast 7). Nice.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 30, 2018, 06:58 PM
Infinity War has finally come in at $258m domestic (new record by $10m over TFA) and $640m WW (new record by $99m over Fast 7). Nice.
Cray
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 01, 2018, 10:37 AM
Monday hold is looking very good for Avengers, Domestic and Overseas. It might actually be heading for $2bn  :o
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 01, 2018, 11:06 AM
Monday hold is looking very good for Avengers, Domestic and Overseas. It might actually be heading for $2bn  :o
My family went to see it yesterday. Which is crazy .They never go see a movie this early .
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 01, 2018, 11:22 AM
My family went to see it yesterday. Which is crazy .They never go see a movie this early .
:o cray cray
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 01, 2018, 12:15 PM
:o cray cray
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 01, 2018, 07:06 PM
Mother of fudgy god. It made $60m overseas on Monday, $25m domestic. The domestic number is extremely impressive (that's a drop you'd normally see in summer, not just a normal school day). That global total though is absurd. Its hurtling towards $1bn already, total is $725m.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 01, 2018, 07:21 PM
And holy fudge, Black Panther was only down 6% from last Monday. 700m domestic is locked now.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 01, 2018, 07:28 PM
Dang, we weren't sure if BP would make it to 1.3b, and now it's almost halfway from there to 1.4b. 
(It's a little over a third, still crazy)
:D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 01, 2018, 07:38 PM
Dang, we weren't sure if BP would make it to 1.3b, and now it's almost halfway from there to 1.4b.  
(It's a little over a third, still crazy)
:D
Yeah it's gonna make it to 1.35 now probably. Insane performance for a debut film. Almost as much as Age of Ultron.

Also, IW has already made more than Iron Man 1, 2, Hulk, Thor 1, 2, Cap 1, 2, Ant Man and Doctor Strange at the box office worldwide.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 01, 2018, 09:11 PM
Yeah of course. Very good
Pewdiepie liked it too.  

(https://i.redditmedia.com/wFYhRNk6DHJCw7jckRYesQvokhxyo4eogjRebtqegKY.jpg?w=1024&s=e721cbbd90e85961edeb493121a15a84)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcFtzE_UQAA_gnM.jpg)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 01, 2018, 09:13 PM
Pewdiepie liked it too.  

(https://i.redditmedia.com/wFYhRNk6DHJCw7jckRYesQvokhxyo4eogjRebtqegKY.jpg?w=1024&s=e721cbbd90e85961edeb493121a15a84)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcFtzE_UQAA_gnM.jpg)
Nice
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 02, 2018, 12:47 PM
Apparently China pre-sales of Infinity War are so good its locked to open at $200m+ there. That's insane. This might actually beat TFA worldwide if it keeps this up.

Edit: oh I guess context is needed. The current record China opening is $187m (Monster Hunt 2), with Fast 7 and 8 only a few million behind that. Age of Ultron managed $155m opening week. Black Panther got $105m lifetime.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Horizon on May 02, 2018, 05:43 PM
I have seen Infinity War twice which I never do, the funniest part is my fiancee was the driving factor behind this. Her friend has seen it 5 times already! It is a immensely enjoyable and watchable film you can honestly watch any time.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 02, 2018, 05:45 PM
It's dropped quite a bit on RT.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 02, 2018, 06:16 PM
It's dropped quite a bit on RT.
Critic score doesn't matter. WOM amongst fans/ general audience is fantastic. The RT audience score is more important, and that's at 92%.

I have seen Infinity War twice which I never do, the funniest part is my fiancee was the driving factor behind this. Her friend has seen it 5 times already! It is a immensely enjoyable and watchable film you can honestly watch any time.
I've seen it 3 times now and I'd watch it more if I wasn't trying to save money. I love it!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 02, 2018, 06:17 PM
Domestic legs are looking good. From the true friday, the percentage change every day has been better than The Avengers so far (most comparable film), which is an early sign that legs are going to be at least around as good as Avengers. If it did manage to match Avenger's legs it would reach an incredible $750m+ domestic.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 02, 2018, 06:40 PM
More than $780m, and that's without xevs future telling ability.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 02, 2018, 06:58 PM
More than $780m, and that's without xevs future telling ability.
You think it'll make more than $780m domestic?  ???

Oh maybe you looked at BOM total. They haven't added Tuesday domestic yet. The actual total is $808m.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 02, 2018, 06:59 PM
Oh maybe you looked at BOM total. They haven't added Tuesday domestic yet. The actual total is $808m.
This, where do you see this?

This is the future telling ability I was talking about.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 02, 2018, 07:09 PM
This, where do you see this?

This is the future telling ability I was talking about.
Oh, the best place to follow box office is the box office theory forums. The people there find the news and post it quickest, plus they're all knowledgeable and are good at making future predictions/ projections based on numbers so far.

Most importantly though, they have a couple of insiders who post there that have access to all the numbers from every cinema as they come in. Box office mojo and other sites actually get their numbers from these people. Sometimes they drop numbers early, as they can tell where days are heading based on data they have. Like for example Empire City said Saturday would be about $82m 12 hours before $83m was officially announced. The other main insider is called Rth (currently his username is Rthanos)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 02, 2018, 07:19 PM
Oh, the best place to follow box office is the box office theory forums. The people there find the news and post it quickest, plus they're all knowledgeable and are good at making future predictions/ projections based on numbers so far.
That's what I was meaning.  I don't read these places, I just check Boxofficemojo.  They still have $784m, which is insane.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 02, 2018, 07:41 PM
That's what I was meaning.  I don't read these places, I just check Boxofficemojo.  They still have $784m, which is insane.  
Yeah I used to do that. But BOM is just a database really, if you want analysis/ discussion, numbers to be put into context, future projections etc. Then box office theory is the place to go.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 02, 2018, 07:52 PM
Yeah I used to do that.
Excuse me, your highness.  ;D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 02, 2018, 09:09 PM
Like for instance, if I just looked at BOM tomorrow and see Infinity War's number, I'd think "nice" but I wouldn't really know if its good or not. But now with reading BOT forums I know that:

Less than 15m - pretty bad
15 - 16m - decent
16 - 17m - good
17 - 18m - great
18m+ - fantastic

is what we're looking for with the domestic number tomorrow.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 03, 2018, 09:24 PM
It came in at 16.9m, so very good.

Also apparently China opening is tracking towards $230-260m, which is just absolutely pure insanity.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 03, 2018, 10:44 PM
It came in at 16.9m, so very good.

Also apparently China opening is tracking towards $230-260m, which is just absolutely pure insanity.
Lol wtf

If this ain't hitting 2b I'm gonna eat my hat
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 03, 2018, 11:45 PM
Lol wtf

If this ain't hitting 2b I'm gonna eat my hat
If there wasn't Deadpool 2 and Solo coming it'd be locked. However I'd say its now loking more likely to land over $2bn than under.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 03, 2018, 11:58 PM
If there wasn't Deadpool 2 and Solo coming it'd be locked. However I'd say its now loking more likely to land over $2bn than under.
And we know how pessimistic you are!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 04, 2018, 02:06 AM
And we know how pessimistic you are!
Like predicting Black Panther will land around TLJ instead of 1.5b+? :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 04, 2018, 05:05 AM
Saw Coco.  Hated it at first, liked it by the end.  
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br><br>I saw one of the big twists coming like a mile away. &nbsp;I knew Hector was the dad. &nbsp;<br>


Saw black panther.

Fantastic movie.  


Saw a weird Japanese movie.  The storyline didn't really make sense, but it was fairly endearing.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 04, 2018, 10:08 AM
Saw Coco.  Hated it at first, liked it by the end.  
Spoiler for Hidden:


I saw one of the big twists coming like a mile away.  I knew Hector was the dad.  


Saw black panther.

Fantastic movie.  

Saw a weird Japanese movie.  The storyline didn't really make sense, but it was fairly endearing.  
Yeah I also saw that coming. Why did you hate it at first?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 04, 2018, 01:24 PM
Yeah I also saw that coming. Why did you hate it at first?
I was just irritated with the Grandma and other characters.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 04, 2018, 01:50 PM
I was just irritated with the Grandma and other characters.

You disliked the film because of good writing? They're supposed to be like that :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 04, 2018, 02:10 PM
You disliked the film because of good writing? They're supposed to be like that :P
They're supposed to be like that, but it still irritates me.  


Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>It might have been just how quickly they did it or something. &nbsp;<br><br>But I didn&#39;t get this feeling like &quot;poor kid&quot;, instead I got the feeling of &quot;why are these people so irritating&quot; to the point where I wasn&#39;t entirely sure I wanted to watch it. &nbsp;<br><br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 04, 2018, 03:10 PM
They're supposed to be like that, but it still irritates me.  


Spoiler for Hidden:

It might have been just how quickly they did it or something.  

But I didn't get this feeling like "poor kid", instead I got the feeling of "why are these people so irritating" to the point where I wasn't entirely sure I wanted to watch it.  


Spoiler for Hidden:
I kinda get what you mean. Its hard to believe they&#39;d hate music that much, but I think you&#39;ve just gotta go along with it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 04, 2018, 03:31 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:
I kinda get what you mean. Its hard to believe they'd hate music that much, but I think you've just gotta go along with it.

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>I think I would have liked it better if they spaced it out more. &nbsp;I think the part where I was annoyed was when the grandma kinda randomly shows up at the plaza. <br><br>But largely, yeah you have to go along with it. &nbsp;<br><br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 04, 2018, 03:36 PM
So the weird Japanese movie I saw:
Basically there's this couple, who experiences days backwards from each other.  

So her last day with him is his first day with her.  
She doesn't remember his yesterday, she only knows what to do because he told her what she did.  

They get to see each other for a month every 5 years.  And they date when they are 20.  And he tells her about it when she is 15 and he's 25.  

They both saved each other's like when the one was 35, and the other was 5.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 05, 2018, 02:48 AM
So the weird Japanese movie I saw:
Basically there's this couple, who experiences days backwards from each other.  

So her last day with him is his first day with her.  
She doesn't remember his yesterday, she only knows what to do because he told her what she did.  

They get to see each other for a month every 5 years.  And they date when they are 20.  And he tells her about it when she is 15 and he's 25.  

They both saved each other's like when the one was 35, and the other was 5.  
I feel like I've seen a western movie with the same premise.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 05, 2018, 03:48 AM
I feel like I've seen a western movie with the same premise.
I wonder what it would have been.  
Its kind of an interesting premise, I don't even know of any that are similar.  The movie wasn't the best, but it was alright.  

The closest one that I can think of is Benjamin Button, but even that's still pretty different from this.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 05, 2018, 04:23 AM
I wonder what it would have been.  
Its kind of an interesting premise, I don't even know of any that are similar.  The movie wasn't the best, but it was alright.  

The closest one that I can think of is Benjamin Button, but even that's still pretty different from this.  
Haha I figured it out

Spoiler for Hidden:
star trek episode
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 05, 2018, 04:53 PM
Not a very impressive Friday (relatively) for Infinity War, looks like the spillover is ending and the legs aren't going to be anything special. Tomorrow we'll get a better picture but >TFA WW is looking less likely.

Obviously its still looking very good though, that's why we're comparing it to the $2bn+ films and not Avengers 1/ Jurassic World area.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 05, 2018, 05:49 PM
Not a very impressive Friday (relatively) for Infinity War, looks like the spillover is ending and the legs aren't going to be anything special. Tomorrow we'll get a better picture but >TFA WW is looking less likely.

Obviously its still looking very good though, that's why we're comparing it to the $2bn+ films and not Avengers 1/ Jurassic World area.
Yeah I think the good but not incredible reviews will bring it down a bit
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 06, 2018, 04:30 PM
Weekend is estimated at $112m domestic. That's decent. Looks good for $600m+ domestic for sure but $700m might be slipping away. Speaking of $700m, Black Panther should be getting there soon, it had another fantastic weekend and is now only $7m away, certain to get there as it made over $3m this weekend alone.

BP gobal is now $1.338bn. Infinity War is already at $1.164bn, it made it to $1bn on Saturday, took 11 days. That's a new record, taken from TFA which took 12 days to reach 1 bil. Overseas legs are looking a bit better than domestic as well. $2bn is going to depend on how big China is going to be, but its looking good.

Fun fact, Infinity War has made more money overseas than The Last Jedi already (and Black Panther of course).

Oh and another fun fact (ish), Infinity War has already dropped below BP launch aligned in the US in terms of daily grosses. It might not ever get back in front.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 06, 2018, 04:58 PM
What a shame .
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 06, 2018, 05:00 PM
Crazy that Black Panther will make more money than Infinity War.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 06, 2018, 05:38 PM
Crazy that Black Panther will make more money than Infinity War.
How is that even possible
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 06, 2018, 06:54 PM
Crazy that Black Panther will make more money than Infinity War.
Well I guess Black Panther just took off in America. I don't think BP is going to be even close to IW's gross in any other country. IW has a very strong chance (in fact I'd say its more likely than now) to more than double BP's overseas take. But its more likely to fall short of even matching BP domestically. Crazy.

How is that even possible
America is just weird in so many ways :P

The China pre-sales tracking expert on BOT is still projecting a $230-260m opening weekend for IW, and now he says he's being a bit conservative. This is going to destroy the record for sure, but legs will be really key. Normally China is much more frontloaded (for example, about 2/3 of BP's total China gross was in the opening weekend). If IW manages to make double its opening weekend then that's an incredible performance and $2bn will be hit easily.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 07, 2018, 02:18 PM
Lol IW's box office performance is a complete rollercoaster ride. After slightly disappointing friday and saturday jumps, the sunday hold is fantastic and now people don't know what to think ;D

With the releases of DP2 and Solo coming up, and the unknown effects they'll have on IW's legs, this really could go anywhere in the 1.75-2.5b range it seems. Normally people would have a much better idea by now for a film's overall gross.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 07, 2018, 02:46 PM
IW sped up . :o
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 07, 2018, 04:29 PM
IW sped up . :o
Sped up?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 07, 2018, 04:49 PM
Sped up?
Its pretty meaningless.

It saw a bigger day to day increase than TFA, for the second weekend.  (Mostly due to being behind over the week).

It was 2 days behind to reach $350m, but only 1 day behind to reach $400m.
(But it'll fall behind again.)

Strong weekend.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 07, 2018, 05:51 PM
Its pretty meaningless.

It saw a bigger day to day increase than TFA, for the second weekend.  (Mostly due to being behind over the week).

It was 2 days behind to reach $350m, but only 1 day behind to reach $400m.
(But it'll fall behind again.)

Strong weekend.   
TFA is a very bad comparison for most films, for quite a few reasons. It would have been absolutely shocking if the friday jump for IW was less than it was for TFA (+80%). TFA had monumentally high weekdays, thanks to Christmas period and other reasons, and still saw an okay jump at the weekend too. That's why it holds the record 2nd weekend by an extremely wide margin at $149m (in fact IW has just gone into 2nd place with $115.5m, ahead of BP).

A general rule of thumb is that you can only compare films with the same school status (open or closed for holidays). And another is that TFA was a weird monster and shouldn't really be used for comparisons anyway :P

Since its true friday, infinity war has been performing close to The Avengers, so we were looking for a +135% friday, but it only hit +102%. That's comparable to BP, so not so bad but people were hoping for better. Sure its a lot better than TFA, but most films will be for Friday jump.

MCU films are famous for their big Saturday jumps, and IW managed +48%. That's a bit more than Avengers (+46%) but nowhere near enough a jump big enough to make up for Friday. Also, since the friday jump was close to BP we were looking for a weekend more like that, but BP's sat jump was a much bigger +65%.

The Sunday hold was better than Avengers and BP, so overall the weekend was solid. However its now clear its not going to match Avenger's legs and $700m dom is looking less likely.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 07, 2018, 06:11 PM
And another is that TFA was a weird monster and shouldn't really be used for comparisons anyway :P
But you've been comparing it to TFA.  

You just don't like me, that's what this is!   :'(
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 07, 2018, 06:19 PM
But you've been comparing it to TFA. 

You just don't like me, that's what this is!   :'(
I compared its opening weekend to TFA. That's fine, an opening weekend is an opening weekend no matter what kind of film it is. And in fact TFA is probably one of the best comps for IW's opening weekend. Mainly because raw numbers are the most important things for an OW.

Since then I've been comparing to Avengers and BP though. Avengers and Age of Ultron are the two best comps. And before it came out best case scenario seemed to be that IW would be somewhere between them (in terms of % changes), and that's how its turned out so far. Its just that for a while it was matching and even out-performing Avengers, so people had hopes for a huge $750m+ domestic run.

And its not just because those two are MCU films that they are the best comps. They are both non-holidays huge openers with quite a lot of hype. All other big openers had something like a 4-day weekend to inflate (like BP) or were in the holidays (TFA, TLJ, JW). Anything else was just too small an opening weekend to be comparable.

Its only if you go to proper box office forums/ sites that you'll know what comps are the best though. Like, if you were to guess what the best comp for Black Panther was, you wouldn't say Deadpool, but that's the answer.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 07, 2018, 06:21 PM
I'm a big believer that you can compare whatever you want, as long as you understand what you are comparing.  

I think you're starting to get a little silly about this. :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 07, 2018, 06:26 PM
I'm gonna start comparing it to Ant man.  

Domestic (10 days)
Ant man: ~$106m
IW: ~$450m

Worldwide (total)
Ant man:  $519,311,965
IW: $1,165,409,800

Poor Ant Man.  Never stood a chance.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 07, 2018, 06:28 PM
TFA is a monster, also, because it simply had absolutely everything going for it. It had:



No other film has had all of those. Of course, TFA still make less than Titanic and Avatar worldwide, but I guess you can just explain that with two acronyms: JC and 3D.

Infinity War is missing two of those. Its not near any holidays and has significant upcoming competition. MCU brand is probably almost as big as SW brand in places like the US now, and is probably even bigger worldwide. Which is why IW is easily going to make a lot more than TFA overseas. Well actually the difference is pretty much just going to be China. China loves Avengers, quite likes the MCU in general and doesn't particularly care for Star Wars.

I'm a big believer that you can compare whatever you want, as long as you understand what you are comparing.  

I think you're starting to get a little silly about this. :P
Well sure but you'd have to list the caveats every time you do. With the Avengers films you just say better/ worse and you know what that means.

I'm gonna start comparing it to Ant man.  

Domestic (10 days)
Ant man: ~$106m
IW: ~$450m

Worldwide (total)
Ant man:  $519,311,965
IW: $1,165,409,800

Poor Ant Man.  Never stood a chance.
Lol, Ant Man isn't particularly interesting so you can understand this. I can't see the sequel improving too much either (although it will get a nice Avengers bump). And sure you can put the numbers up for the total gross and compare it to any film, but while its still running and making money it doesn't really say much. Like wow, Infinity War is a lot bigger than Ant-Man, who would have thought that?!?!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 07, 2018, 06:35 PM
Plus you were the one saying Avengers "sped up", which is why I started talking about proper comparisons. If you want to use terms like that you gotta know what you're talking about :P because that 'speeding up' that you were talking about was actually more like slowing down compared to the films its performing similarly too. So instead of being impressive and speeding up for the weekend, it was actually slightly disappointing and heading down from where people expected given the weekday numbers.

That's like someone who doesn't know too much about Video Game sales saying "oh God of War dropped 35% in its second week in the UK despite being out for 7 days vs 2, that's terrible", yet we well know that 35% is an incredible drop. ;)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 07, 2018, 06:41 PM
Well sure but you'd have to list the caveats every time you do. With the Avengers films you just say better/ worse and you know what that means.
I don't think you have to list the caveats every single time.  If everyone understands the caveats, I think it's fine.  

I think everyone here has a pretty good idea of the caveats, even if they aren't 100% familiar with "all" of them.

Lol, Ant Man isn't particularly interesting so you can understand this.
And yet, here I am making the comparison.   8)

I can't see the sequel improving too much either (although it will get a nice Avengers bump). And sure you can put the numbers up for the total gross and compare it to any film, but while its still running and making money it doesn't really say much. Like wow, Infinity War is a lot bigger than Ant-Man, who would have thought that?!?!
Well it's a good thing I made the comparison.   ;D


If I can't make silly comparisons, what's the point of me being in here!?  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 07, 2018, 07:02 PM
I don't think you have to list the caveats every single time.  If everyone understands the caveats, I think it's fine.  

I think everyone here has a pretty good idea of the caveats, even if they aren't 100% familiar with "all" of them.
And yet, here I am making the comparison.   8)
Well it's a good thing I made the comparison.   ;D


If I can't make silly comparisons, what's the point of me being in here!?  
You can, it just doesn't say much :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 08, 2018, 12:57 AM
Stop fighting!!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 08, 2018, 01:14 PM
Stop fighting!!
We're not fighting, you're fighting!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 08, 2018, 01:30 PM
Monday is heading for about $8.5m according to Empire. That's still just above BP (which did 8.0 on second monday) so its pretty good. Hopefully it can match or beat BP until DP2 launches, which would make $650m+ dom quite secure.

China is ticking up even faster btw, but its still super hard to predict. What we can say for sure though is that IW's global second weekend ($275m) is going to be a lot less than its third, which is heading for $330m+
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 08, 2018, 01:32 PM
We're not fighting, you're fighting!
(https://www.askideas.com/media/48/We-Really-Need-To-Stop-Fighting-Since-We-Are-Going-To-Be-Together-Forever-Funny-Fight-Meme-Image.jpg)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 08, 2018, 02:30 PM
So I saw the Mummy movie with Tom Cruise. Eh, it was okay.  

Also saw part of Justice League.  The cover threw me off because it looked like some kind of 1990's justice league movie.  
I skipped a lot of the movie due to time on the plane, but I liked what I saw more than some of the other DC movies.  There were a couple of great parts.  
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>What&#39;s your superpower? &nbsp;<br>I&#39;m rich.<br><br>*Flash runs around Superman to attack from behind*<br>*Superman turns his eyes to look at him, just as fast as flash moves*<br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 08, 2018, 03:55 PM
I saw all the money in the world. It's crazy how fast they were able to do the reshoots with Plummer. Only for one scene did they digitally replace Spacey. Really liked Plummer's acting.

Saw the shape of water. Was good. Liked the "bad guy." He was great.

Saw the greatest showman. Was good. Liked the music but it was also kinda odd how the music and dancing were so modern.

Saw Ladybird. Was good.

Saw I Tonya a couple weeks ago. Was good but had poor special effects.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 08, 2018, 04:45 PM
Saw the greatest showman. Was good. Liked the music but it was also kinda odd how the music and dancing were so modern.
This reminds me of a thing I learned.
It's called the Tiffany problem.  Tiffany sounds completely modern, yet it's actually a common medieval name.  
Because it sounds so modern, the usage gets avoided in stories.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 08, 2018, 04:53 PM
I really liked Greatest Showman. Nice 'feel-good' movie and good musical.

Miles better than La La Land at least, it was a big reminder to me of how out of touch most reviewers/ awards places are.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 09, 2018, 01:02 AM
I really liked Greatest Showman. Nice 'feel-good' movie and good musical.

Miles better than La La Land at least, it was a big reminder to me of how out of touch most reviewers/ awards places are.
LA LA land was amazing though..  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 09, 2018, 01:25 AM
If I had more time on the plane, I was thinking to watch Greatest Showman.

It's got quite the range on Metacritic.  It literally has a 0 and a 100.  Seems like a divisive movie. :o
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 09, 2018, 11:12 AM
LA LA land was amazing though..  
Sure, Jan.

It was boring, the songs were few and far between while also being pretty boring and shame. The story was meh, didn't click for me like I guess its supposed to.

I don't like it at all.

If I had more time on the plane, I was thinking to watch Greatest Showman.

It's got quite the range on Metacritic.  It literally has a 0 and a 100.  Seems like a divisive movie. :o
Depends how critical you are when watching films I guess. If you enjoy musicals then its a top watch for sure, the songs are great and its good feel good movie :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 09, 2018, 12:08 PM
Sure, Jan.

It was boring, the songs were few and far between while also being pretty boring and shame. The story was meh, didn't click for me like I guess its supposed to.

I don't like it at all.
Depends how critical you are when watching films I guess. If you enjoy musicals then its a top watch for sure, the songs are great and its good feel good movie :P
Eh I thought it had the perfect balance between songs and dialogue. They were cute and memorable! Definitely one of my recent favorites. I mean, it wasn't just the critics that loved it. It's got a great score on IMDB too!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 09, 2018, 12:19 PM
Eh I thought it had the perfect balance between songs and dialogue. They were cute and memorable! Definitely one of my recent favorites. I mean, it wasn't just the critics that loved it. It's got a great score on IMDB too!
Eh. I thought there wasn't enough songs and I've pretty much forgotten the songs that were in it anyway. I think most British people would agree with me, maybe we just have a different taste.

Its score is nowhere near as high as Infinity War though, which tells you all you need to know ;)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 09, 2018, 01:00 PM
Eh. I thought there wasn't enough songs and I've pretty much forgotten the songs that were in it anyway. I think most British people would agree with me, maybe we just have a different taste.

Its score is nowhere near as high as Infinity War though, which tells you all you need to know ;)

Holy shame IW has 8.9 with 300k votes. It will get lower though but that's better than expected

Nah I think brits love this song.

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 09, 2018, 03:27 PM
Holy shame IW has 8.9 with 300k votes. It will get lower though but that's better than expected

Nah I think brits love this song.


Yeah ik its weird.

You pointed out the good song, well done  ;)

Edit: I also love the opening song, its a shame none of the rest are in that tone.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 09, 2018, 03:28 PM
Can't wait for Mamma Mia 2 to bring some quality musical songs :D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 09, 2018, 04:12 PM
Yeah ik its weird.

You pointed out the good song, well done  ;)

Edit: I also love the opening song, its a shame none of the rest are in that tone.


Can't wait for Mamma Mia 2 to bring some quality musical songs :D
Ugh!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 09, 2018, 04:54 PM
Eh I thought it had the perfect balance between songs and dialogue. They were cute and memorable! Definitely one of my recent favorites. I mean, it wasn't just the critics that loved it. It's got a great score on IMDB too!
I prefered lala land over greatest showman too, although I didn't love either.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 09, 2018, 07:46 PM

Ugh!
That's cheating
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 09, 2018, 07:53 PM
Would you guys consider yourselves musical fans in general?

What do you think of Les Miserables, Hamilton, Wicked, Annie style musicals and then film musicals like Mamma Mia?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 09, 2018, 08:08 PM
That's cheating
Why

Would you guys consider yourselves musical fans in general?

What do you think of Les Miserables, Hamilton, Wicked, Annie style musicals and then film musicals like Mamma Mia?
No. I'm a movie fan though and as a movie I thought La La Land was amazing
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 09, 2018, 08:17 PM
No. I'm a movie fan though and as a movie I thought La La Land was amazing
Yeah well that explains it. As a musical fan I found it extremely disappointing, most of my friends agree.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 09, 2018, 08:50 PM
Yeah well that explains it. As a musical fan I found it extremely disappointing, most of my friends agree.
Makes sense.  
I like Phantom of the Opera, but not really as a movie. I enjoy the music.

I think I'll watch The Greatest Showman, when I got the time.  *checks watch*  So hopefully sometime in the next few years.  Ugh.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 09, 2018, 09:00 PM
Makes sense.  
I like Phantom of the Opera, but not really as a movie. I enjoy the music.

I think I'll watch The Greatest Showman, when I got the time.  *checks watch*  So hopefully sometime in the next few years.  Ugh.  
Phantom is okay. I haven't watched it in ages though so I can't remember it that well.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 09, 2018, 09:05 PM
Would you guys consider yourselves musical fans in general?

What do you think of Les Miserables, Hamilton, Wicked, Annie style musicals and then film musicals like Mamma Mia?
I loved Wicked and the book of mormon.

Film musicals are also great. Paint your wagon, Annie get your gun, white christmas, easter parade, my fair lady, seven brides for seven brothers, fiddler on the roof, singing in the rain, mame, south pacific, oklahoma,  etc. are all fun. (I watch too many musicals)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on May 09, 2018, 09:24 PM
Finally saw black panther!  Such a good marvel movie. Probably one of my favorites.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 10, 2018, 02:07 PM
Seems like the wheels are falling off IW's China opening slightly. Its not accelerating in pre-sales as fast as expected, so it seems like its going to fall short of the $230-270m OW it was heading for. Still looks pretty good for taking the record with $200m+ though. This just makes 2bn WW look more difficult.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 10, 2018, 04:09 PM
At the risk of Xev yelling at me...  ;D

Nah, he won't yell at me for this.  

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Black Panther and Infinity War are pretty similar domestically. &nbsp;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; IW &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; : &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;BP<br><br><table class="bbc_table"><tr><td>1</td><td>106,335</td><td>75,941</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>82,132</td><td>65,995</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>69,232</td><td>60,067</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>24,740</td><td>40,152</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>23,426</td><td>20,857</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>16,967</td><td>14,688</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>15,501</td><td>14,253</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>31,454</td><td>28,790</td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td>46,677</td><td>47,553</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td>36,644</td><td>35,315</td></tr><tr><td>11</td><td>8,284</td><td>8,098</td></tr><tr><td>12</td><td>10,673</td><td>10,204</td></tr></table><br><br>Ignoring the first 4 days, Infinity War and Black Panther have a very similar trajectory. &nbsp;It&#39;s actually really impressive how close they are. &nbsp;<br>After the first 4 days, the furthest they are is somewhere around 15% difference. &nbsp;<br>After the first 6 days, the furthest is around 10% difference. &nbsp;<br>The past few days it&#39;s been less than a 5% difference. &nbsp; It&#39;ll be pretty cool to see how well this trend holds. &nbsp;Best case, it&#39;ll hold until Black Panther gets the Infinity War bump. &nbsp;<br><br>Domestically, this seems like the best comparison to see how well the movie will do.<br>


Now Xev will yell at me.
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>One thing I love about Boxofficemojo is that they have all these different comparisons. &nbsp;They don&#39;t care if I want to compare all the movies in the Marvel Cinematic universe. [see next spoiler] <br>They don&#39;t care if I want to compare the biggest openers. &nbsp;I can compare it to TFA, TLJ, Jurassic World. &nbsp;Whatever else. &nbsp;[see the next next spoiler]<br>


Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>If you read the previous spoiler, you know what&#39;s coming. &nbsp;<br>That&#39;s right. &nbsp;Ant man comparison.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; IW &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;: &nbsp; AM<br><br><table class="bbc_table"><tr><td>1</td><td>106,335</td><td>22,649</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>82,132</td><td>19,465</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>69,232</td><td>15,111</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>24,740</td><td>6,403</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>23,426</td><td>7,853</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>16,967</td><td>5,120</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>15,501</td><td>4,707</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>31,454</td><td>7,253</td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td>46,677</td><td>9,853</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td>36,644</td><td>7,804</td></tr><tr><td>11</td><td>8,284</td><td>3,323</td></tr><tr><td>12</td><td>10,673</td><td>4,265</td></tr></table><br><br>You can bet your apple, I giggled while making this chart. &nbsp;IW beat Ant Man&#39;s total in just the first weekend. &nbsp;You can see from the chart just how bad Ant Man was. &nbsp;<br>Wow Ant Man sucks. &nbsp;<br><br>A more interesting comparison: &nbsp;<br><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="bbc_size"> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;IW &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;: &nbsp; Avengers</span><br><table class="bbc_table"><tr><td>1</td><td>106,335</td><td>80,814</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>82,132</td><td>69,558</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>69,232</td><td>57,067</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>24,740</td><td>18,899</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>23,426</td><td>17,677</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>16,967</td><td>13,613</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>15,501</td><td>12,392</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>31,454</td><td>29,224</td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td>46,677</td><td>42,906</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td>36,644</td><td>30,923</td></tr><tr><td>11</td><td>8,284</td><td>7,924</td></tr><tr><td>12</td><td>10,673</td><td>8,478</td></tr></table><br>Actually a pretty decent comparison. &nbsp;Think it really shows how far the franchise has came. &nbsp;<br><br>


Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Now if you read 2 spoilers ago, you know what&#39;s coming. &nbsp;That&#39;s right, this is where we compare big dogs for no reason. &nbsp;<br><br><table class="bbc_table"><tr><td>Days</td><td>Star Wars: TLJ</td><td>Star Wars: TFA</td><td>Jurassic World</td><td>Avengers: IW</td></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>104,684</td><td>119,119</td><td>81,954</td><td>106,335</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>63,993</td><td>68,294</td><td>69,645</td><td>82,132</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>51,332</td><td>60,553</td><td>57,207</td><td>69,232</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>21,556</td><td>40,110</td><td>25,345</td><td>24,740</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>20,254</td><td>37,362</td><td>24,343</td><td>23,426</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>16,890</td><td>38,022</td><td>19,895</td><td>16,967</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>17,892</td><td>27,396</td><td>17,823</td><td>15,501</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>24,763</td><td>49,326</td><td>29,114</td><td>31,454</td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td>29,172</td><td>56,732</td><td>39,112</td><td>46,677</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td>17,630</td><td>43,146</td><td>38,362</td><td>36,644</td></tr><tr><td>11</td><td>27,460</td><td>31,362</td><td>11,566</td><td>8,284</td></tr><tr><td>12</td><td>27,734</td><td>29,529</td><td>13,130</td><td>10,673</td></tr></table><br><br>Jurassic World is kind of (ish) similar to IW. &nbsp;<br>My favorite part about this comparison is it shows just how stupidly huge TFA was. &nbsp;That movie was a monster beyond all reckoning. &nbsp;<br><br>IW&#39;s first 3 days were insane, by any measure. &nbsp; &nbsp;<br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 10, 2018, 04:23 PM
At the risk of Xev yelling at me...  ;D

Nah, he won't yell at me for this.  

Spoiler for Hidden:

Black Panther and Infinity War are pretty similar domestically.  
          IW       :      BP

1106,33575,941
282,13265,995
369,23260,067
424,74040,152
523,42620,857
616,96714,688
715,50114,253
831,45428,790
946,67747,553
1036,64435,315
118,2848,098
1210,67310,204


Ignoring the first 4 days, Infinity War and Black Panther have a very similar trajectory.  It's actually really impressive how close they are.  
After the first 4 days, the furthest they are is somewhere around 15% difference.  
After the first 6 days, the furthest is around 10% difference.  
The past few days it's been less than a 5% difference.   It'll be pretty cool to see how well this trend holds.  Best case, it'll hold until Black Panther gets the Infinity War bump.  

Domestically, this seems like the best comparison to see how well the movie will do.


Now Xev will yell at me.
Spoiler for Hidden:

One thing I love about Boxofficemojo is that they have all these different comparisons.  They don't care if I want to compare all the movies in the Marvel Cinematic universe. [see next spoiler]
They don't care if I want to compare the biggest openers.  I can compare it to TFA, TLJ, Jurassic World.  Whatever else.  [see the next next spoiler]


Spoiler for Hidden:

If you read the previous spoiler, you know what's coming.  
That's right.  Ant man comparison.
        IW        :   AM

1106,33522,649
282,13219,465
369,23215,111
424,7406,403
523,4267,853
616,9675,120
715,5014,707
831,4547,253
946,6779,853
1036,6447,804
118,2843,323
1210,6734,265


You can bet your apple, I giggled while making this chart.  IW beat Ant Man's total in just the first weekend.  You can see from the chart just how bad Ant Man was.  
Wow Ant Man sucks.  

A more interesting comparison:  
       IW        :   Avengers
1106,33580,814
282,13269,558
369,23257,067
424,74018,899
523,42617,677
616,96713,613
715,50112,392
831,45429,224
946,67742,906
1036,64430,923
118,2847,924
1210,6738,478

Actually a pretty decent comparison.  Think it really shows how far the franchise has came.  



Spoiler for Hidden:

Now if you read 2 spoilers ago, you know what's coming.  That's right, this is where we compare big dogs for no reason.  

DaysStar Wars: TLJStar Wars: TFAJurassic WorldAvengers: IW
1104,684119,11981,954106,335
263,99368,29469,64582,132
351,33260,55357,20769,232
421,55640,11025,34524,740
520,25437,36224,34323,426
616,89038,02219,89516,967
717,89227,39617,82315,501
824,76349,32629,11431,454
929,17256,73239,11246,677
1017,63043,14638,36236,644
1127,46031,36211,5668,284
1227,73429,52913,13010,673


Jurassic World is kind of (ish) similar to IW.  
My favorite part about this comparison is it shows just how stupidly huge TFA was.  That movie was a monster beyond all reckoning.  

IW's first 3 days were insane, by any measure.    

Yeah BP and IW have been running so close its awesome. IW's lead is pretty much all from the opening weekend (with BP's holiday monday cancelling out IW's higher first weekdays). I'm hoping they'll continue to be closely matched until next Thursday, when DP2 will undoubtedly cut away IW's legs. That would point to IW possibly making it to $700m. Its great that BP is the best comp right now, because the legs on BP were crazy good.

Not gonna yell at you for that, I love looking at all the BOM comparisons, even if they don't make much sense. That's because they usually select good films to compare it to :D

Lol well in raw numbers, it does show you how small Ant-Man was compared to IW. But comparing the relative drops/ holds is still a fun thing to do. Ant-Man is probably the most disappointing MCU film in terms of box office. #2 should be better.

Yeah, Avengers is a very good comparison. We've gotta hope that IW can hold above it for quite a while to come. If IW can keep its $80m lead when all is said and done, that would be fantastic.

The last one kind of demonstrates how big openers behave differently depending on circumstance. TFA and TLJ came out around the same time, yet TFA had much better WOM/ was much more liked by fans. Meanwhile TLJ was quite hated by fans. So TFA had phenomenal legs, while TLJ fell off a cliff after a couple of weeks. JW released in summer and had great WOM, which means weekdays are strong. There's more competition though, which limits its chance of making TFA kind of money. IW had insane hype, has great WOM but came out during schooltime, so it relies on the weekends more heavily. Since it was so hyped though, its legs compared to opening week won't be as big as something like JW.

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Post by: Xevross on May 10, 2018, 04:27 PM
Speaking of IW, wednesday came in at 7.0m, so still above BP although the gap is narrowing. That's decent.

The real story is the overseas wednesday at 17.1m, I have no idea where that came from, it barely dropped at all from Tuesday. Overseas legs looking very nice for $1bn without China.
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Post by: Xevross on May 10, 2018, 04:33 PM
Also, IW will fly past BP and take the #1 spot for the year with Friday numbers.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 10, 2018, 04:45 PM
Not gonna yell at you for that, I love looking at all the BOM comparisons, even if they don't make much sense. That's because they usually select good films to compare it to :D
I'm just teasing you about that.  

Lol well in raw numbers, it does show you how small Ant-Man was compared to IW. But comparing the relative drops/ holds is still a fun thing to do. Ant-Man is probably the most disappointing MCU film in terms of box office. #2 should be better.
Ant Man is my favorite comparison.  I was laughing the whole time making it.  

Speaking of IW, wednesday came in at 7.0m, so still above BP although the gap is narrowing. That's decent.
Nice.  That trend is looking sweet.  
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Post by: Xevross on May 10, 2018, 04:46 PM
I'm just teasing you about that.  
Ant Man is my favorite comparison.  I was laughing the whole time making it.  
Nice.  That trend is looking sweet.  
That's mean! Poor little Ant-Man, he tried his best.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 10, 2018, 04:58 PM
That's mean! Poor little Ant-Man, he tried his best.
I liked the movie.  :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 10, 2018, 11:47 PM
I'm finally watching The Last Jedi
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 11, 2018, 09:30 AM
I'm finally watching The Last Jedi
Shock react.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 11, 2018, 12:10 PM
Shock react.
::)
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Post by: Xevross on May 11, 2018, 12:35 PM
::)
What did you think of it?
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 11, 2018, 12:37 PM
What did you think of it?
Surprisingly good after all the backlash I heard.

How did Leia survive outside in space though lol?
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Post by: Xevross on May 11, 2018, 12:39 PM
Surprisingly good after all the backlash I heard.

How did Leia survive outside in space though lol?
The backlash was just from butthurt fanboys honestly. I liked it a lot. The biggest problem is the discontinuity with TFA. Every major plot point TFA sets up, TLJ seems to disregard and do its own thing. If TFA was different and built up to what TLJ actually became, people would like it more.

Da powa of da force, bro.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 11, 2018, 01:01 PM
The backlash was just from butthurt fanboys honestly. I liked it a lot. The biggest problem is the discontinuity with TFA. Every major plot point TFA sets up, TLJ seems to disregard and do its own thing. If TFA was different and built up to what TLJ actually became, people would like it more.

Da powa of da force, bro.
In what ways? I'm guessing they wanted it to be darker.
The movie felt a lot like empire strikes back though. That final battle for example. I heard some complaints about the humor and honestly I thought it just made it more enjoyable. Didn't notice much more than a few jokes but I had heard there were a lot and in inappropriate moments.

Was it thanks to the ring she had? Didn't know Leia could control the force
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 11, 2018, 01:05 PM
In what ways? I'm guessing they wanted it to be darker.
The movie felt a lot like empire strikes back though. That final battle for example. I heard some complaints about the humor and honestly I thought it just made it more enjoyable. Didn't notice much more than a few jokes but I had heard there were a lot and in inappropriate moments.

Was it thanks to the ring she had? Didn't know Leia could control the force
Um no, not at all. The fanbase thought it was way too dark. In their mind characters like Luke are pure heroes and having them make mistakes/ fail is basically heresy.

Spoiler for Hidden:
Obviously most of them were very unhappy about Luke dying as well. Plus Snoke dying didn&#39;t go down well, since TFA built him up as some big bad guy but he got killed off without much explanation. Obviously, TLJ is setting up Ren is the real, complex villain, but it doesn&#39;t continue TFA&#39;s story very well.


Of course she can control the force, I just don't she has ever bothered too much before. She's as much of a Skywalker as Luke is, her powers could be comparable to his if she trained them.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 11, 2018, 02:49 PM
Um no, not at all. The fanbase thought it was way too dark. In their mind characters like Luke are pure heroes and having them make mistakes/ fail is basically heresy.

Spoiler for Hidden:
Obviously most of them were very unhappy about Luke dying as well. Plus Snoke dying didn't go down well, since TFA built him up as some big bad guy but he got killed off without much explanation. Obviously, TLJ is setting up Ren is the real, complex villain, but it doesn't continue TFA's story very well.


Of course she can control the force, I just don't she has ever bothered too much before. She's as much of a Skywalker as Luke is, her powers could be comparable to his if she trained them.
Oh that explains it.

Hmm well then I've read some conflicting complaints. On the one hand it's too light hearted, and on the other it's too dark.

Also, I'm glad Ren is supposed to be the ultimate baddie over Snoke. I like my villains conflicted
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Post by: Xevross on May 11, 2018, 03:07 PM
Oh that explains it.

Hmm well then I've read some conflicting complaints. On the one hand it's too light hearted, and on the other it's too dark.

Also, I'm glad Ren is supposed to be the ultimate baddie over Snoke. I like my villains conflicted
Oh yeah. I think Ren is a fantastic bad guy. The best SW has had in terms of being well developed and complex. Of course, my friends who just want BADASS DARTH VADER HELL YEAH don't agree, because he's too young and inexperienced etc... Man, not enough people care about good writing :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 11, 2018, 03:10 PM
IW opens to $71m in China. It had the worst pre-sales to actual box office sales ratio ever, but its still enough for #3 opening day of all time behind FF8 and MH2. Thanks to stronger dollar and MCU's much stronger Saturdays, IW will take the overall opening weekend record. The question is by how much, hopefully it manages to make over $200m in its opening weekend. Right now that seems more likely than not, thanks to incredible Saturday and Sunday pre-sales, but the actuals for IW have only missed expectations so far...

Edit: Just to give you an idea about that ^^ IW pre sold 182M Yen for opening day, yet made 392M Yen in total (not counting Thursday midnights). That's a ratio of 2.15. FF8 had a ratio of just over 2.5, a record low, and people thought that was awful. Its been a weird day.

FF8 also has the record low Saturday pre-sales to final ratio (at 3.0), and its almost certain IW will break that record low too. Thankfully, IW's saturday presales are absolutely massive, so even if it only manages 2.5x, it will still make over 500M Yen on Saturday, which is pretty much the number needed for $200m OW. (Pre-sales are just over 200M Yen for Saturday).
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 11, 2018, 03:22 PM
Tracking China box office is great fun. They have a sit ( 猫眼专业版-实时票房 (https://piaofang.maoyan.com) ) which has the numbers coming in from all across the country pretty much live, and it updates every 4 seconds. So you can watch the gross go up all the time and see where its going. So it was known IW was having a bad day early on, and people were hoping for it to pick up, and keeping an eye on it throughout the day. You can change the date in the bottom left corner. All eyes are now on the total for the 12th, hopefully its well passed 50000 by this time tomorrow.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 11, 2018, 03:30 PM
IW opens to $71m in China. It had the worst pre-sales to actual box office sales ratio ever, but its still enough for #3 opening day of all time behind FF8 and MH2.
LAME!  

FF8 also has the record low Saturday pre-sales to final ratio (at 3.0), and its almost certain IW will break that record low too. Thankfully, IW's saturday presales are absolutely massive, so even if it only manages 2.5x, it will still make over 500M Yen on Saturday, which is pretty much the number needed for $200m OW. (Pre-sales are just over 200M Yen for Saturday).
Why is this in yen?  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 11, 2018, 03:39 PM
LAME!  
Why is this in yen?  
Oh I meant Yuan, my bad.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 11, 2018, 03:46 PM
Actually, unless the Sunday drop is catastrophic, 480M Yuan should do it for tomorrow. Hopefully it will be over 500M though, we'll see.

Domestically, $60M is the target for the weekend after a great Thursday hold ($6.9m). It would be fantastic if it could match or beat BP's $66m third weekend, but that's doubtful. We're all aboard the train to $2bn now.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 11, 2018, 03:49 PM
I'll get my coat.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 11, 2018, 03:58 PM
Its funny actually, the end target that was set for BP was TLJ's total, since it seemed like that's where it was roughly heading. Now IW's target is TFA. BP made it, can IW? Its going to be super close.

TLJ will also fall out of the all time top 10 this weekend, it had a very short stay. Deathly Hallows part 2 is going to drop from #8 to #10 as both IW and BP pass it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 11, 2018, 04:35 PM
Holy balls, the overseas Thursday gross was bigger than Wednesday. That's nuts, this film is going crazy overseas.

Also there's some weirdness going on with the China numbers. Some places are reporting $76m instead of the $71m I said before. There's a suggestion that Maoyan might have missed some shows being added, so didn't count the gross for them (like it did for FF8) and that $76m is actually right. Or the $76m calculation was a mistake. If $76m is right though then we are on for a big OW in China. We'll find out which is right soon....
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 11, 2018, 05:23 PM
Um no, not at all. The fanbase thought it was way too dark. In their mind characters like Luke are pure heroes and having them make mistakes/ fail is basically heresy.

Spoiler for Hidden:
Obviously most of them were very unhappy about Luke dying as well. Plus Snoke dying didn't go down well, since TFA built him up as some big bad guy but he got killed off without much explanation. Obviously, TLJ is setting up Ren is the real, complex villain, but it doesn't continue TFA's story very well.


Of course she can control the force, I just don't she has ever bothered too much before. She's as much of a Skywalker as Luke is, her powers could be comparable to his if she trained them.
I liked how TLJ didn't care about TFA. TFA was enjoyable to watch but frustratingly stupid from a script/canon point of view so it was nice that TLJ took the franchise in its own direction. As long as Abrams doesn't come back and make episode 9 a copy of Return of the Jedi, we should be good.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 12, 2018, 10:32 AM
Infinity War will be the first film in history to open with $200m+ in two different markets. That's nice.

Edit: well, unless the drop is unexpectedly bad tomorrow in China.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 12, 2018, 03:08 PM
$78M Saturday in China for Infinity War, a new all time record. Needs a hold of -34% or better to have an OW of $200m+. A drop of over 34% would be bad, but its hard to predict what this film will do. Let's see how it fares tomorrow.

Domestic Friday is $16m. Fully fallen behind Black Panther now on a day by day basis, but not by too much. Also passed $500m domestic. International numbers should take its total to near $1.4bn at the end of Friday.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 13, 2018, 11:15 AM
So that disastrous Sunday drop in China needed to miss $200m is actually happening. Its going to land almost exactly on $200m, 50/50 on whether it gets it. dang you China. After smashing the pre-sales record, this is a very disappointing weekend, its nowhere near the record in Yuan. It might set a new dollar opening record in China, but that's all due to exchange rates. Hopefully China can still land with over $300m lifetime, $350m would be fantastic from this point.

$27m domestic saturday apparently, that's a strong bump sort of in the middle of Avengers and BP bumps. Its going to come quite close to $700m domestic imo, next weekend will be the big deicder with DP2 releasing.

With just over $1b overseas - China, just over $300m in China and just under $700m dom, this should just reach $2bn WW in total. I'd say its a 60/40 chance to hit/miss $2bn right now.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 13, 2018, 01:54 PM
So that disastrous Sunday drop in China needed to miss $200m is actually happening. Its going to land almost exactly on $200m, 50/50 on whether it gets it. dang you China. After smashing the pre-sales record, this is a very disappointing weekend, its nowhere near the record in Yuan. It might set a new dollar opening record in China, but that's all due to exchange rates. Hopefully China can still land with over $300m lifetime, $350m would be fantastic from this point.

$27m domestic saturday apparently, that's a strong bump sort of in the middle of Avengers and BP bumps. Its going to come quite close to $700m domestic imo, next weekend will be the big deicder with DP2 releasing.

With just over $1b overseas - China, just over $300m in China and just under $700m dom, this should just reach $2bn WW in total. I'd say its a 60/40 chance to hit/miss $2bn right now.
Great stuff in any case!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 13, 2018, 02:42 PM
Great stuff in any case!
Of course. I didn't see this film making it to $2bn before the first numbers came out. I was thinking $1.6-1.8b. This is all excellent.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 13, 2018, 04:00 PM
Wow, China estimate is $200.06M, just made it. Rest of international weekend was $81.3m. Dom weekend estimate is $62m, that's a great performance.

Total is $1.606b worldwide, the 5th biggest film of all time already.

Edit: final gross is going to be $2.0-2.1bn most likely.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 14, 2018, 10:24 PM
Anyone hyped for Solo?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on May 14, 2018, 10:25 PM
Anyone hyped for Solo?
I wonder how many subpar movies it takes for starwars fans to get bored of this franchise.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 14, 2018, 10:26 PM
Anyone hyped for Solo?
Nah but I'm hoping it'll be a sleeper like Rogue One

I wonder how many subpar movies it takes for starwars fans to get bored of this franchise.
The last jedi got me more hyped!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 14, 2018, 10:32 PM
I wonder how many subpar movies it takes for starwars fans to get bored of this franchise.
Fans don't work that way  :P

Nah but I'm hoping it'll be a sleeper like Rogue One
The last jedi got me more hyped!
Last Jedi was really different but Solo feels so generic. I think it looks kinda enjoyable but I don't care in the slightest to its connections with star wars.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 14, 2018, 10:35 PM
Fans don't work that way  :P
Last Jedi was really different but Solo feels so generic. I think it looks kinda enjoyable but I don't care in the slightest to its connections with star wars.
Yeah I don't think the main actor is likeable enough either. Here's hoping the story is spectacular!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 14, 2018, 11:36 PM
Holy shame the actor is one year older me and already greying a lot. dang son
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 14, 2018, 11:42 PM
I'm looking forward to Solo but I'm not really hyped. There's about a 1% chance I'll love it as much as Rogue One.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 15, 2018, 12:21 AM
I'm looking forward to Solo but I'm not really hyped. There's about a 1% chance I'll love it as much as Rogue One.
That Darth Vader scene is too great to overcome
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 15, 2018, 06:51 AM
Oh I saw suburbicon and it was really good. I did not expect to like it that much.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 15, 2018, 06:32 PM
Deadpool 2 getting very good reviews!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 16, 2018, 12:13 AM
Solo reviews are pretty good! Similar meta as Avengers and D2 so far
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 16, 2018, 12:17 AM
Solo reviews are pretty good! Similar meta as Avengers and D2 so far
Using meta for movie reviews... (why is there no throwing up/ barfing emote?)

On RT its 73% with a 6.5 average rating. That's pretty good but by far the worst of the new Era, about what I expected (and much lower than IW and DP2).
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 16, 2018, 12:38 AM
Using meta for movie reviews... (why is there no throwing up/ barfing emote?)

On RT its 73% with a 6.5 average rating. That's pretty good but by far the worst of the new Era, about what I expected (and much lower than IW and DP2).
Eh RT tells us it's divisive but meta gives us a better idea of the average score
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 16, 2018, 01:11 AM
Eh RT tells us it's divisive but meta gives us a better idea of the average score
Using meta for movie reviews... (why is there no throwing up/ barfing emote?)

On RT its 73% with a 6.5 average rating. That's pretty good but by far the worst of the new Era, about what I expected (and much lower than IW and DP2).
RT gives an average score, and has way more reviewers (or will have in the future at least, most films have about 5x more reviews on RT). RT gives a much better idea for average score than meta. Meta would have you believe reviewers score Solo only just lower than DP2 and IW on average, when in reality they score it about 1 point lower on average, or 0.5 stars.

Even now, there's more than double the amount of reviews for solo on RT compared to meta. So the RT average is much more reflective. Same for other films.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 16, 2018, 04:53 AM
Saw Infinity War. Not what I expected.

Wouldn't say it was a good movie but it was pretty fun if you already cared about everyone.

Spoiler for Hidden:
Also the deaths felt pointless since this is Marvel and nothing matters. Sequels are already announced for some of these people so obviously they are coming back. still a cool ending
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on May 16, 2018, 01:17 PM
Saw Infinity War. Not what I expected.

Wouldn't say it was a good movie but it was pretty fun if you already cared about everyone.

Spoiler for Hidden:
Also the deaths felt pointless since this is Marvel and nothing matters. Sequels are already announced for some of these people so obviously they are coming back. still a cool ending

Well it's more

Spoiler for Hidden:
what will it cost the avengers in 4 to get them back and not really about the dusting of characters. I do agree though it takes away the stakes of the movie, but it&#39;s nice seeing them lose for once.


Also I felt the pacing was really weird in this movie
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 16, 2018, 01:56 PM
Saw Infinity War. Not what I expected.

Wouldn't say it was a good movie but it was pretty fun if you already cared about everyone.

Spoiler for Hidden:
Also the deaths felt pointless since this is Marvel and nothing matters. Sequels are already announced for some of these people so obviously they are coming back. still a cool ending

Yeah like nod said, it was written as a whole story and they just picked the best end point for part 1.

Spoiler for Hidden:
The real stakes will be in part 2, where I think a lot of the old- school avengers are going to die trying to fix what happened. The stakes/ cost of it all needs to be judged at the end of the whole 2 parts I feel.<br><br>It was a great emotional ending though, and will have people dying to see what happens in the film next year. Its a shame they did kill off key characters like BP and Spiderman, because it would have made it more believable if they stayed alive. But they said in an interview they just had to write their own story, do their own thing, and its unfortunate that these characters already have sequels announced.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 16, 2018, 03:24 PM
Well it's more

Spoiler for Hidden:
what will it cost the avengers in 4 to get them back and not really about the dusting of characters. I do agree though it takes away the stakes of the movie, but it's nice seeing them lose for once.


Also I felt the pacing was really weird in this movie
Spoiler for Hidden:
I didn&#39;t get that feeling at all. They billed Thanos as the ultimate bad guy so it&#39;d just be a continuation of this fight. It didn&#39;t raise the stakes.<br><br>Seeing them lose was great. I wouldn&#39;t say this movie managed it, but it was nice to see a Marvel movie try to be dark.


Yeah like nod said, it was written as a whole story and they just picked the best end point for part 1.

Spoiler for Hidden:
The real stakes will be in part 2, where I think a lot of the old- school avengers are going to die trying to fix what happened. The stakes/ cost of it all needs to be judged at the end of the whole 2 parts I feel.

It was a great emotional ending though, and will have people dying to see what happens in the film next year. Its a shame they did kill off key characters like BP and Spiderman, because it would have made it more believable if they stayed alive. But they said in an interview they just had to write their own story, do their own thing, and its unfortunate that these characters already have sequels announced.

It'll probably be one of the better 2 part movies. This was a great point to stop it since there wasn't anything teased beyond this. Wonder if part 2 will stand on its own or act mainly as resolution to the first.

Spoiler for Hidden:
I think dr. Strange did something. It was odd how he just decided to give up the stone like that. Will probably be the beginning point of the next one.<br><br>Wouldn&#39;t expect that many people to die but if they do die it doesn&#39;t matter. Death isn&#39;t usually that interesting in a movie if it&#39;s the last in the franchise.<br><br>Yeah but the writers should know what universe they&#39;re writing in. Of course more movies are in the timeline and they can&#39;t determine the faight of everything. Both Antman 2 and Captain Marvel take place before infinity war so that the current state with everyone dead doesn&#39;t matter. Part 2 will come out and revert things so that everything can continue like normal.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 16, 2018, 03:43 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:
I didn't get that feeling at all. They billed Thanos as the ultimate bad guy so it'd just be a continuation of this fight. It didn't raise the stakes.

Seeing them lose was great. I wouldn't say this movie managed it, but it was nice to see a Marvel movie try to be dark.


It'll probably be one of the better 2 part movies. This was a great point to stop it since there wasn't anything teased beyond this. Wonder if part 2 will stand on its own or act mainly as resolution to the first.

Spoiler for Hidden:
I think dr. Strange did something. It was odd how he just decided to give up the stone like that. Will probably be the beginning point of the next one.

Wouldn't expect that many people to die but if they do die it doesn't matter. Death isn't usually that interesting in a movie if it's the last in the franchise.

Yeah but the writers should know what universe they're writing in. Of course more movies are in the timeline and they can't determine the faight of everything. Both Antman 2 and Captain Marvel take place before infinity war so that the current state with everyone dead doesn't matter. Part 2 will come out and revert things so that everything can continue like normal.

Spoiler for Hidden:
This is probably following the one way to win that Dr. Strange saw. He didn&#39;t give up the stone for Tony, that&#39;s for sure.<br><br>Well its the last hurrah of the majority of the original avengers, so some of them are probably going to die. Avengers will be lead by BP, Carol and Falcon after A4 if it follows the comics apparently.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 16, 2018, 06:04 PM
IW is dropping fast in China, but that's just standard. Its looking good for a $350m gross there apparently. Dom is holding well with numbers close to BP on Monday and Tuesday. $650m+ is extremely likely now. Overseas - China looking good for $1bn too. I'd say $2bn is pretty much locked now.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 17, 2018, 01:56 PM
Oh dang IW with that hold on Wednesday. Back above BP dailies after being just behind on Monday and Tuesday.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 19, 2018, 12:22 AM
Ugh terrible numbers for IW on thursday and friday. Deadpool really hit it hard. Deadpool itself isn't doing that hot either, seems like the opening week will fall decently short of the first film (although its all about context of course, its still going for an opening of way over $100m, which is excellent for an R rated film). If overseas is hit this hard for IW then $2bn is at risk of being missed.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on May 19, 2018, 01:22 AM
Ugh terrible numbers for IW on thursday and friday. Deadpool really hit it hard. Deadpool itself isn't doing that hot either, seems like the opening week will fall decently short of the first film (although its all about context of course, its still going for an opening of way over $100m, which is excellent for an R rated film). If overseas is hit this hard for IW then $2bn is at risk of being missed.
I'm sure marvel and Disney are crying in a huge pool of cash made from 1.7b bucks.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 20, 2018, 03:24 PM
I'm sure marvel and Disney are crying in a huge pool of cash made from 1.7b bucks.
Lol, well I don't care about the money Disney makes. As an MCU fan I really want to see it reach $2bn :D

It reached $1.8bn with the weekend numbers, seems to be heading for the range between $2b and TFA's $2.07b now. Deadpool 2 had a great opening of just over $300M worldwide. Didn't quite match the first film, which is a shame but it will make some good money.

Sequels almost always have a higher proportion of their BO on the opening weekend, so making less money than the first during OW means its almost guaranteed to fall quite a bit short of the first film overall.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 20, 2018, 05:08 PM
Lol, well I don't care about the money Disney makes. As an MCU fan I really want to see it reach $2bn :D

It reached $1.8bn with the weekend numbers, seems to be heading for the range between $2b and TFA's $2.07b now. Deadpool 2 had a great opening of just over $300M worldwide. Didn't quite match the first film, which is a shame but it will make some good money.

Sequels almost always have a higher proportion of their BO on the opening weekend, so making less money than the first during OW means its almost guaranteed to fall quite a bit short of the first film overall.
Probably has quite a bit to do with release timing
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 20, 2018, 05:35 PM
Probably has quite a bit to do with release timing
Yeah if IW wasn't around it would have performed slightly better. Its got to face Solo next week which will cut away its legs immediately. This release date for DP2 was a complete mistake for Fox. They could have grown the franchise but now its damage control.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 21, 2018, 02:13 AM
Solo seems like it might be heading for a disappointing run. There's a lack of interest in most markets, and pre-sales aren't so good. It seems like there's a big chance it'll fall short of $1bn (Rogue One managed 1.05), which would probably indicate the worst ever performance of a Star Wars film in terms of tickets/ attendance.

In particular it seems like its going to be a megaflop in China, as presales are woeful. They called it Ranger solo there, as TLJ was so toxic for the Star Wars brand they've tried to disassociate Solo with it. TLJ only made $42m in China (RO made $69m and TFA made $124m), but even that number isn't going to happen in Solo's wildest dreams. The continued massive decline of Star Wars films in China is quite staggering.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 21, 2018, 05:23 PM
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Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 21, 2018, 05:59 PM
So I figured out why Star Wars trilogy is bad.

It's because of diversity.  Too many black people and women.  

At least that's what I was told.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 21, 2018, 06:03 PM

So I figured out why Star Wars trilogy is bad.

It's because of diversity.  Too many black people and women.  

At least that's what I was told.  
Um what?

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 21, 2018, 06:30 PM
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:o

The lego movie was awesome

I'm way more excited for Incredibles 2 than Solo right now. I think a lot of people would say the same.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 21, 2018, 06:36 PM
Um what?
Chertz: forced diversity is bad such as in Star Wars.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 22, 2018, 01:01 PM
IW and Deadpool 2 holding quite well on Monday. IW now looks certain to fall short of $700m/ BP's total domestically. Man, who would have thought that BP was going to gross more than IW domestically just a few months ago.

Speaking of $700m, that's a worldwide total target that's being talked about for Solo. Quite a lot of BO followers think it might fall under that. Now that would be absolutely catastrophic. Its going to be an interesting one to follow. The 4 day memorial-day OW record is $139m, held by Pirates World's End. Solo not setting a new record would be the first sign of a disastrous BO run.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 23, 2018, 05:00 PM
Wow Deadpool had a fantastic Tuesday, $12.4m compared to the first film's 11.5. Early signs that legs might be a lot stronger than expected.

I doubt Solo will cut away at DP2's legs much, it continues to look very bleak for that film. I hope I'll enjoy it at least
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 23, 2018, 05:08 PM
We're going to see Solo at midnight tonight and we haven't even bother to book because the screens are just so empty. Seems like a much lower opening than even Rogue One will be happening.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 24, 2018, 12:33 AM
We're going to see Solo at midnight tonight and we haven't even bother to book because the screens are just so empty. Seems like a much lower opening than even Rogue One will be happening.
How was it?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 24, 2018, 01:52 AM
How was it?
Great actually. Just good fun, nothing too special.

It wasn't as obvious, predictable or cheesy as I thought it would be. The action was good, but not Rogue One level. I liked Han a lot more than I thought I would, he definitely plays exactly like you'd expect young Han Solo to. Lots of great moments for fans to appreciate. Definitely worth a watch.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 24, 2018, 03:28 AM
Rogue One > Solo ~ TFA >> TLJ out of the new films for me (in terms of enjoyment/ how much I like them).
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on May 24, 2018, 10:35 AM
Having a starwars film every year is just oversaturating and bringing the franchise down.

The hype for their movies is really going down and it seems solo will make things worse rather than better. I wonder if Disney will continue with this approach or start spacing the movies out.

Honestly it seems Disney over estimated how big Starwars as a franchise is and how much it can milk it in the short term.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 24, 2018, 11:02 AM
Having a starwars film every year is just oversaturating and bringing the franchise down.

The hype for their movies is really going down and it seems solo will make things worse rather than better. I wonder if Disney will continue with this approach or start spacing the movies out.

Honestly it seems Disney over estimated how big Starwars as a franchise is and how much it can milk it in the short term.
Oh definitely. Me and my friends were talking about this and I was telling them how bad it is for the longevity of the franchise.

Not only that, but its the poor management with the ST. It should have all been written beforehand and there should have been a plan so a TLJ like situation didn't happen. Solo is possinly looking to fall to as little as $700m at the global box office. That would be the worst performance ever for the franchise (inflation accounted for), and it'd mostly be thanks to TLJ alienating a lot of fans, and people not really caring because its only been 6 months since the last Star Wars film. It won't be because of the quality, because most Star Wars fans will prefer Solo to TLJ.

Disney/ Kathleen Kennedy needs to get their shame together, they'll run Star Wars into the ground. If they want to keep releasing each year they need to plan better and seriously improve what they're doing.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 24, 2018, 11:26 AM
Solo is collapsing from Rogue One all over the place.

Taiwan OD down 65%
France OD down 50%
Italy OD down 39%
China is looking to be at least 60% down on OW.

We'll find out more later.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 24, 2018, 11:42 AM
Rogue One > Solo ~ TFA >> TLJ out of the new films for me (in terms of enjoyment/ how much I like them).
I thought you loved TLJ?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 24, 2018, 11:47 AM
I thought you loved TLJ?
I did. But that was my order in terms of enjoyment of the films (on first viewing) ;)

Also I love TLJ as a film but I don't like what it did in the context of the SW universe/ Sequel trilogy. Luke would never do what he did in the gap between ROTJ/ TFA, Rey is still too much of a Mary Sue etc. I have a lot of problems with TLJ, but the others I just like.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 24, 2018, 11:49 AM
I did. But that was my order in terms of enjoyment of the films (on first viewing) ;)
Adjusted for truth:
Rogue One > Solo ~ TFA >> Death >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>TLJ
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 24, 2018, 01:08 PM
TLJ is a film where the creators (Kathleen/ Rian) just did there own thing and didn't care about what fans thought, or how fans would react. While that might make for a good film from one perspective, we all know what the effect of that was.

Meanwhile, Solo seems like the complete opposite. Its a film who's entire purpose is to please Star Wars fans and give them something nostalgic and fun to watch. Its just a shame that a lot of the fans who'd love it are now boycotting it because of the whole TLJ, Kathleen situations. Its mostly not too cheesy in how it does it as well. Its not always tooooo obvious that what they're doing is just fan service. One part where I rolled my eyes though, and thought it was really dumb (most people agree), is how Han got the name Solo.... you'll see

TLJ makes for a great standalone film, but is made much worse in the context of the SW universe/ the other films its supposed to connect to.
Solo makes for an okay standalone film, but it plays off the OT and other SW films so well that it more than makes up for it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 24, 2018, 03:07 PM
Mother of god, Solo is down 87% from Rogue One OD in South Korea. This is fudgy madness, possibly the flop of the year.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 24, 2018, 04:15 PM
Right now I think Disney would be happy to take Justice League's much mocked $657m WW total. This is just woeful everywhere. We'll see if the US is going to save Solo tomorrow, but I'm not holding my breath.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 25, 2018, 01:11 AM
And so it begins. Solo targeting 13-15m thursday previews. That's awful, only half of Rogue One. Its going to have to do a crazy new weekend : previews ratio record for SW to get any respectable numbers...
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 25, 2018, 01:23 AM
And so it begins. Solo targeting 13-15m thursday previews. That's awful, only half of Rogue One. Its going to have to do a crazy new weekend : previews ratio record for SW to get any respectable numbers...
I blame political correctness.  


Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>I&#39;m still salty about people....<br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 25, 2018, 09:47 AM
I blame political correctness.  


Spoiler for Hidden:

I'm still salty about people....

Lol I think the crowd who are angry at PC/ SJW shizwaz will probably help reduce this film's gross by only a miniscule amount. The biggest failings for Solo are lack of interest, mainly due to releasing so soon after TLJ. Also Summer competition doesn't help. If it was released in December I think it'd do maybe up to 50% better. It was such a dumb decision by Disney.

Anyway, Australia is down 70% from Rogue One on OD. I don't think there's any country where the early numbers are even remotely okay. I think the UK is the only big place we haven't seen yet, the last glimmer of hope (well along with full OD numbers for Dom).
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on May 25, 2018, 10:23 AM
Lol I think the crowd who are angry at PC/ SJW shizwaz will probably help reduce this film's gross by only a miniscule amount. The biggest failings for Solo are lack of interest, mainly due to releasing so soon after TLJ. Also Summer competition doesn't help. If it was released in December I think it'd do maybe up to 50% better. It was such a dumb decision by Disney.

Anyway, Australia is down 70% from Rogue One on OD. I don't think there's any country where the early numbers are even remotely okay. I think the UK is the only big place we haven't seen yet, the last glimmer of hope (well along with full OD numbers for Dom).
I haven't watched the film's so I don't know the content and how much they push political agendas. But if it's about the trilogy and RO having female leads then I'd agrue there was no "damage" done.

In the starwars universe it's perfectly fine, reasonable and honesty expected to have females take on roles of power and fighting the empire. The force and being a Jedi isn't naughtiness exclusive and it would be out of place if there were no female characters in lead roles.

There is a difference between mixing things up and flat out pushing a political agenda. Usually the latter deters a lot from the quality of the movie/game/story.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 25, 2018, 10:38 AM
I haven't watched the film's so I don't know the content and how much they push political agendas. But if it's about the trilogy and RO having female leads then I'd agrue there was no "damage" done.

In the starwars universe it's perfectly fine, reasonable and honesty expected to have females take on roles of power and fighting the empire. The force and being a Jedi isn't naughtiness exclusive and it would be out of place if there were no female characters in lead roles.

There is a difference between mixing things up and flat out pushing a political agenda. Usually the latter deters a lot from the quality of the movie/game/story.
Yep and all they're doing is mixing things up. Its mostly just sexists/ alt-right people who have these issues.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 25, 2018, 04:20 PM
Solo previews $14.1m, less than half of Rogue One. That's bad.

Solo international first two days - $11.4m, less than a third of Rogue One. That's absolutely atrocious.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 25, 2018, 05:00 PM
There is a difference between mixing things up and flat out pushing a political agenda. Usually the latter deters a lot from the quality of the movie/game/story.
Yeah unless you're a full out super racist/sexist and think people of color/women shouldn't be in media, it makes no sense to boycott something for being "PC." Either the changes harmed the movie/game/story and you'd just avoid it because it's not that good, or the movie/game/story is good and there's no negative for making the changes.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 25, 2018, 06:05 PM
Solo previews $14.1m, less than half of Rogue One. That's bad.

Solo international first two days - $11.4m, less than a third of Rogue One. That's absolutely atrocious.
Uh oh
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on May 25, 2018, 06:11 PM
Yeah unless you're a full out super racist/sexist and think people of color/women shouldn't be in media, it makes no sense to boycott something for being "PC." Either the changes harmed the movie/game/story and you'd just avoid it because it's not that good, or the movie/game/story is good and there's no negative for making the changes.
What bugs me though is when people complain about when a movie/game/series clearly makes a political driven change, and those who don't like it are labeled sexist/racist because they don't like it. An example would be the battlefield 5 case. There were no women in the British infantry, and people complaining about that inaccuracy are suddenly sexist. It's annoying.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 25, 2018, 06:19 PM
Uh oh
Yeah. If it plays the weekend like a normal star wars movie (preview dominated) this will be a complete disaster. Like, with a normal SW preview multiplier this is heading way below $100m for the 3 day. Disney gotta hope for an unprecedented amount of walk-ups for the franchise. Thankfully, it is memorial Day weekend so it's possible.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 25, 2018, 07:08 PM
Lord above, Deadline are saying the full Friday number will be $33m. This is an early estimate and could be quite a way off, but if that does transpire then this is going to be even worse than anyone could have forseen. I am stunned as to how this could be below $35m, I hope its wrong.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 25, 2018, 07:22 PM
Lord above, Deadline are saying the full Friday number will be $33m. This is an early estimate and could be quite a way off, but if that does transpire then this is going to be even worse than anyone could have forseen. I am stunned as to how this could be below $35m, I hope its wrong.
I mean there was zero hype. It's not that surprising.

What bugs me though is when people complain about when a movie/game/series clearly makes a political driven change, and those who don't like it are labeled sexist/racist because they don't like it. An example would be the battlefield 5 case. There were no women in the British infantry, and people complaining about that inaccuracy are suddenly sexist. It's annoying.

That's how the internet works in general. Very rarely can things be discussed from the middle ground.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 25, 2018, 07:31 PM
I mean there was zero hype. It's not that surprising.
I'd agree with you if we were just talking about slightly disappointing numbers here. The lack of hype was what was leading people to predict $700-800m WW total with a $150m OW domestically. People thought since it was a Star Wars film it'd still have a decent base level of popularity. If Deadline's $33m is right, along with the horror show that is the OS numbers, this is unlikely to even make it to $500m. There's lack of hype and then there's that. For it to be this low, there has to be  fairly widespread boycotts and general massive negativity around the fanbase.

On the bright side, @Pi now has something to compare Ant-Man to :D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 25, 2018, 07:47 PM
That's how the internet works in general. Very rarely can things be discussed from the middle ground.
Sorry...

Edit

Although I don't think I've called anyone sexist. 
On the bright side, @Pi now has something to compare Ant-Man to :D
Or maybe I'll compare whatever I want. 

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Woot!&nbsp; Woot!&nbsp; <br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 25, 2018, 10:01 PM
Sorry...

Edit

Although I don't think I've called anyone sexist.  Or maybe I'll compare whatever I want.  

Spoiler for Hidden:

Woot!  Woot!  

I'm sorry too

(What are we sorry about?)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 25, 2018, 10:04 PM
I'm sorry too

(What are we sorry about?)
I was arguing that I think the whole "forced diversity" thing is silly.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 25, 2018, 10:10 PM
I was arguing that I think the whole "forced diversity" thing is silly.  
I think unless a historical movie/game/story is focusing on the harsh reality of the past, making it more diverse is good.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 25, 2018, 11:29 PM
Oh good. Asgard 1 updates saying 37-40m OD. That'd be much more okay for Solo.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 26, 2018, 09:55 AM
UK is less than half of RO. In the first 4 days Solo will make about 65% of what TFA made on its opening day in the UK. Ouch. Its only just about going to beat DP2 for the weekend crown it seems.

In India, Solo is a megaflop, its going to lose to Infinity War's 5th weekend there. That's just sad.

Seems like overseas has overwhelmingly rejected Solo.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 27, 2018, 12:55 AM
Bridge to Terabithia is the fricken worst.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 27, 2018, 01:00 AM
Bridge to Terabithia is the fricken worst.  
Why?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 27, 2018, 01:07 AM
Why?
You know how Narnia is dumb but still kinda enjoyable?

This movie is dumb while also not being enjoyable while also being sad and depressing.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 27, 2018, 01:09 AM
Why?
Have you seen it?

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Throughout most of the movie, you are getting to know these two characters and then one of them dies.&nbsp; <br>


You know how Narnia is dumb but still kinda enjoyable?

This movie is dumb while also not being enjoyable while also being sad and depressing.
Honestly yeah. 
This is making me think about how much I dislike the whole movie.  There's nothing very fun about it, and the ending is just depressing. 
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 27, 2018, 01:37 AM
Have you seen it?

Spoiler for Hidden:

Throughout most of the movie, you are getting to know these two characters and then one of them dies.  

Honestly yeah.  
This is making me think about how much I dislike the whole movie.  There's nothing very fun about it, and the ending is just depressing.  
I was always quite interested in it! Haven't seen it though
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 27, 2018, 09:12 AM
Oh god that fudgy film. I can barely remember it now, but I still strongly remember how negatively I reacted to it.

I was always quite interested in it! Haven't seen it though
Don't bother with it.

Have you seen it?

Spoiler for Hidden:

Throughout most of the movie, you are getting to know these two characters and then one of them dies.  

Honestly yeah.  
This is making me think about how much I dislike the whole movie.  There's nothing very fun about it, and the ending is just depressing.  
Spoiler for Hidden:
Honestly the way she just disappears was so bad. I remember being so angry at it. What a dumb film :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 27, 2018, 09:49 AM
Full Solo Friday came in at $35.6M (bad, I thought 35M was the bare minimum after the preview number). Asgard is saying 24.6 for Saturday (bad). It might not even make $100M 4-day. Holy shame what a disaster.

Speaking of $700m, that's a worldwide total target that's being talked about for Solo. Quite a lot of BO followers think it might fall under that. Now that would be absolutely catastrophic. Its going to be an interesting one to follow. The 4 day memorial-day OW record is $139m, held by Pirates World's End. Solo not setting a new record would be the first sign of a disastrous BO run.
Man, how things have changed in just a few days. I said not beating $140m would point to a possible disaster, and its going to miss it by about $40m, just shows you how bad it is.

Quite likely to miss $500m WW at this point. That'd be a huge loss of money for Disney, and a massive collapse for the franchise.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on May 27, 2018, 11:05 AM
Full Solo Friday came in at $35.6M (bad, I thought 35M was the bare minimum after the preview number). Asgard is saying 24.6 for Saturday (bad). It might not even make $100M 4-day. Holy shame what a disaster.
Man, how things have changed in just a few days. I said not beating $140m would point to a possible disaster, and its going to miss it by about $40m, just shows you how bad it is.

Quite likely to miss $500m WW at this point. That'd be a huge loss of money for Disney, and a massive collapse for the franchise.
Wow. Missing the 500$ mark? That's insanely bad.

Don't get me wrong. I'm happy about this cause I want starwars to just fudge off already lol.

But seriously, after TLJ and this Disney should take a hard look at starwars and realise it's not the franchise they thought it was. Milking it this hard going forward will destroy it and run it to the ground. This isn't another MCU.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 27, 2018, 11:25 AM
Wow. Missing the 500$ mark? That's insanely bad.

Don't get me wrong. I'm happy about this cause I want starwars to just fudge off already lol.

But seriously, after TLJ and this Disney should take a hard look at starwars and realise it's not the franchise they thought it was. Milking it this hard going forward will destroy it and run it to the ground. This isn't another MCU.

Yeah exactly. The demographic that turns up to Star Wars films doesn't want films so often, not to mention films that no one really asked for.

Sub $500m for the Star Wars brand would be absolutely dire, I think Disney/ Lucasfilm are definitely going to rethink their strategy after this. Hopefully Kathleen goes, but I doubt it.

While the domestic performance is a disaster, its overseas where the real horror show is. Solo is only opening more than half of Rogue One in New Zealand and domestic. Most overseas places are dramatically down, even in big Star Wars countries like the UK (OW will be -65% from RO). This might be their biggest problem, trying to work out how to get the overseas market interested in Star Wars again. I think domestic is still decent and if they actually put a big film out there that people want to see, it will still do well, but overseas is a problem.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 27, 2018, 03:21 PM
Solo domestic 3 day early estimate ~ $83m, overseas ~$65m. Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear.

Unless legs are crazy, this will be closer to $400m than $500m. What a crazy collapse.

Deadpool 2 had a very bad 66% drop to its second domestic weekend, and Infinity War seems like its numbers will be okay-ish.

Not a good weekend for any of the big three.

Edit: I didn't even think but that's a $148m global debut for Solo. Tracking only a week ago thought that was the low end for the domestic debut. My oh my. The same tracking put the global debut at around $300m, its managed half of that.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 27, 2018, 03:39 PM
Solo domestic 3 day early estimate ~ $83m, overseas ~$65m. Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear.

Unless legs are crazy, this will be closer to $400m than $500m. What a crazy collapse.

Deadpool 2 had a very bad 66% drop to its second domestic weekend, and Infinity War seems like its numbers will be okay-ish.

Not a good weekend for any of the big three.

Edit: I didn't even think but that's a $148m global debut for Solo. Tracking only a week ago thought that was the low end for the domestic debut. My oh my. The same tracking put the global debut at around $300m, its managed half of that.
Wow. This is more than just franchise fatigue imo. Maybe people just didn't want a Solo film, especially without Ford himself
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 27, 2018, 03:43 PM
Solo domestic 3 day early estimate ~ $83m, overseas ~$65m. Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear.

Unless legs are crazy, this will be closer to $400m than $500m. What a crazy collapse.

Deadpool 2 had a very bad 66% drop to its second domestic weekend, and Infinity War seems like its numbers will be okay-ish.

Not a good weekend for any of the big three.

Edit: I didn't even think but that's a $148m global debut for Solo. Tracking only a week ago thought that was the low end for the domestic debut. My oh my. The same tracking put the global debut at around $300m, its managed half of that.
just fyi, your tracking updates are always great  ;D
Wow. This is more than just franchise fatigue imo. Maybe people just didn't want a Solo film, especially without Ford himself
Yeah this actor came across poorly in the trailers. Everyone loved the idea of Lando being Donald Glover but they didn't manage the same excitement for Han.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 27, 2018, 03:51 PM
Wow. This is more than just franchise fatigue imo. Maybe people just didn't want a Solo film, especially without Ford himself
Yes this is a combination of a very large number of negative factors. I have no idea how to unpick this, just a few days ago I was thinking it would do way better than this, and that was still bad. Thus isn't just lack of money for Disney, this movie will lose them quite a bit more than $100m. Something's gotta change after this. Its sad to see too, they really should have stuck to much less regular SW films, and actually listened to fans.

Infinity War passed $1.9bn, its going to be a nailbiter with reaching $2bn or not. While Disney has a lot of problems to sort out with Lucasfilm, they must be absolutely delighted with marvel right now.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 27, 2018, 03:54 PM
Another fun fact, Deadpool 2 made more money at the weekend than Solo overseas (fri,sat, sun numbers only - so not counting Solo's wed/ thurs launches in some countries).

That's the second weekend of an R-rated superhero sequel beating a Star Wars debut.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 28, 2018, 12:48 PM
Seems like Solo was underestimated by about 1 million in the US on Sunday, some good news for it. Although its not really Solo performing better than expected, every film is going to be higher than estimated thanks to memorial day sunday being better than anticipated. IW is also going to be over a million up for example, and its weekend will end up being extremely good.

Solo was massively overestimated overseas though, we don't know by how much in total but it was $3m in the UK alone (Solo did about $7m rather than 10) I don't really know what happened there.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 28, 2018, 12:49 PM
Seems like Solo was underestimated by about 1 million in the US on Sunday, some good news for it. Although its not really Solo performing better than expected, every film is going to be higher than estimated thanks to memorial day sunday being better than anticipated. IW is also going to be over a million up for example, and its weekend will end up being extremely good.

Solo was massively overestimated overseas though, we don't know by how much in total but it was $3m in the UK alone (Solo did about $7m rather than 10) I don't really know what happened there.
Jeez
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on May 28, 2018, 01:02 PM
I follow movie performance's here by reading xevx comments lol. He just gives the full picture.

Glad to see solo bombing! Yaaay for no starwars!

I gotta say, I get Disney didn't anticipate Starwars going this way back when they purchased it. TFA certainly did huge numbers. Rogue one did great for a spin off.  But TLJ and Solo have now under performed. And EA has released just two star wars games, the first under delivered critically, the second bombed critically and sold much less than anticipated.

EA also cancelled a starwars game, and after 5 years just Dice released a game when it seemed all thier studios have been working on a project at some point.

Other than the MMO, EA has also yet to release their own starwars sub genre. Battlefront was there long ago and it was created by EA.

After so much emphasis on Starwars by EA the last few years they have so little to show for it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 28, 2018, 02:05 PM
I follow movie performance's here by reading xevx comments lol. He just gives the full picture.

Glad to see solo bombing! Yaaay for no starwars!

I gotta say, I get Disney didn't anticipate Starwars going this way back when they purchased it. TFA certainly did huge numbers. Rogue one did great for a spin off.  But TLJ and Solo have now under performed. And EA has released just two star wars games, the first under delivered critically, the second bombed critically and sold much less than anticipated.

EA also cancelled a starwars game, and after 5 years just Dice released a game when it seemed all thier studios have been working on a project at some point.

Other than the MMO, EA has also yet to release their own starwars sub genre. Battlefront was there long ago and it was created by EA.

After so much emphasis on Starwars by EA the last few years they have so little to show for it.

Thanks! I do usually leave out smaller films though.

For example, you probably have no idea that A Quiet Place has performed phenomenally well this year. It has passed $300m off a $17m budget with incredible legs.

Maybe I should post the full weekend charts here too, I'll probably do that starting this weekend :P

Yeah you're right, the star wars brand as a whole has only gotten worse over the last couple of years. They need to turn this around ASAP otherwise it will become just another movie franchise, rather than THE franchise.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 28, 2018, 02:11 PM
Man I just realised that Solo really doesn't have much of a chance of making $500m. If it gets Rogue One legs it will reach about $515m, but here's some reasons why that is very unlikely.



Now I guess SW fans ignoring Solo in its first week gives it a chance at better legs, as they go and see it later. So I think optimistically it could reach that $460m, although that's probably the high end for it now.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 28, 2018, 04:00 PM
Man I just realised that Solo really doesn't have much of a chance of making $500m. If it gets Rogue One legs it will reach about $515m, but here's some reasons why that is very unlikely.

  • Rogue One was a better film - critically and in the view of the general audience (RO got an A Cinemascore, Solo got A-)
  • Rogue One opened at the start of Christmas - there's very little competition there and much more holidays for it to do well in
  • Rogue One opened late in China - so its $69m China total was all after the OW. If you line up RO's China launch, then RO legs gets Solo to $462m instead.


Now I guess SW fans ignoring Solo in its first week gives it a chance at better legs, as they go and see it later. So I think optimistically it could reach that $460m, although that's probably the high end for it now.
Another positive for Solo is that there's nothing coming out in the next two months or so, until Jurassic Park
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 28, 2018, 04:29 PM
I follow movie performance's here by reading xevx comments lol. He just gives the full picture.

Glad to see solo bombing! Yaaay for no starwars!

I gotta say, I get Disney didn't anticipate Starwars going this way back when they purchased it. TFA certainly did huge numbers. Rogue one did great for a spin off.  But TLJ and Solo have now under performed. And EA has released just two star wars games, the first under delivered critically, the second bombed critically and sold much less than anticipated.

EA also cancelled a starwars game, and after 5 years just Dice released a game when it seemed all thier studios have been working on a project at some point.

Other than the MMO, EA has also yet to release their own starwars sub genre. Battlefront was there long ago and it was created by EA.

After so much emphasis on Starwars by EA the last few years they have so little to show for it.

Wonder if respawn's Star Wars game will be announced at E3.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 28, 2018, 04:41 PM
Another positive for Solo is that there's nothing coming out in the next two months or so, until Jurassic Park
Um, well no. Jurassic World is releasing early overseas (i.e. starting next week in some places), so that will cut short Solo's overseas legs. Incredibles 2 is launching in a couple of weeks time in the US and some other places too. Those two will almost certainly be the top two films of the Summer (not counting IW), so yeah. Its not good for Solo.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 28, 2018, 05:16 PM
Um, well no. Jurassic World is releasing early overseas (i.e. starting next week in some places), so that will cut short Solo's overseas legs. Incredibles 2 is launching in a couple of weeks time in the US and some other places too. Those two will almost certainly be the top two films of the Summer (not counting IW), so yeah. Its not good for Solo.
The fudge. Boxofficemojo misled me.

'Solo' isn't Flying So High, Delivering Soft Memorial Day Weekend Debut - Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4402&p=.htm)

Oh it was a month and not two
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 28, 2018, 05:16 PM
Also New York Times reported that with marketing included Solo cost about $400m. With a $450m gross that's gonna roughly be a $175m loss from the theatrical run. With digital, blu-ray, merch and TV deals it might just sneak into the black, but its definitely not making any money.

The fudge. Boxofficemojo misled me.

'Solo' isn't Flying So High, Delivering Soft Memorial Day Weekend Debut - Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4402&p=.htm)

Oh it was a month and not two
Yeah and JW2 is releasing a couple weeks early in many places overseas. Not sure why BOM are ignoring Incredibles 2 though.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 29, 2018, 06:01 PM
Disney reported Solo's overseas weekend as $68m, which is up $3m rather than the reduction I was expecting. It seems they're kind of cheating though, and including Monday from some places like the UK - as it was a monday holiday so technically still the holiday weekend I guess. Means tuesday's overseas won't be good though :P

Solo had a good monday hold in the US, IW had a fantastic monday.

Here's the US weekend chart (3-day):


TW (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=main&yr=2018&wknd=21&sort=rank&order=ASC&p=.htm)LW (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=main&yr=2018&wknd=21&sort=ranklw&order=ASC&p=.htm)Title (click to view) (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=main&yr=2018&wknd=21&sort=title&order=ASC&p=.htm)Studio (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=main&yr=2018&wknd=21&sort=studio&order=ASC&p=.htm)Weekend Gross (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=main&yr=2018&wknd=21&sort=gross&order=ASC&p=.htm)% Change (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=main&yr=2018&wknd=21&sort=change&order=DESC&p=.htm)Theater Count (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=main&yr=2018&wknd=21&sort=theaters&order=DESC&p=.htm) ChangeAverageTotal GrossBudget
1NSolo: A Star Wars Story (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=untitledhansolostarwarsanthologyfilm.htm)BV (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?view2=calendar&yr=2018&studio=buenavista.htm)$84,751,000-4,381-$19,345$84,751,000-1
21Deadpool 2 (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=foxmarvel18.htm)Fox (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?view2=calendar&yr=2018&studio=fox.htm)$43,450,000-65.4%4,349-$9,991$208,157,352$1102
32Avengers: Infinity War (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=marvel0518.htm)BV (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?view2=calendar&yr=2018&studio=buenavista.htm)$17,435,000-40.8%3,768-234$4,627$622,629,638-5
43Book Club (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=bookclub.htm)Par. (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?view2=calendar&yr=2018&studio=paramount.htm)$10,075,000-25.8%2,810+29$3,585$32,459,516-2
54Life of the Party (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=lifeoftheparty.htm)WB (NL) (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?view2=calendar&yr=2018&studio=wb-newline.htm)$5,335,000-29.8%2,937-719$1,816$39,322,348-3
65Breaking In (2018) (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=breakingin2018.htm)Uni. (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?view2=calendar&yr=2018&studio=universal.htm)$4,280,000-37.3%1,985-552$2,156$35,869,385$63
76Show Dogs (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=showdogs.htm)Global Road (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?view2=calendar&yr=2018&studio=globalroad.htm)$3,267,165-45.8%3,212-$1,017$10,861,890-2
87Overboard (2018) (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=overboard2018.htm)PNT (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?view2=calendar&yr=2018&studio=pantelion.htm)$3,173,000-31.4%1,196-624$2,653$41,667,413-4
98A Quiet Place (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=aquietplace.htm)Par. (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?view2=calendar&yr=2018&studio=paramount.htm)$2,415,000-38.8%1,524-803$1,585$180,178,607$178
1012RBG (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=rbg.htm)Magn. (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?view2=calendar&yr=2018&studio=magnolia.htm)$1,260,303+0.6%415+40$3,037$5,776,941-4


Hm seems like copy/ pasting the BOM chart is a bit weird, the last column is the # of weeks the film has been out.

Infinity War has also overtaken The Last Jedi domestically, and after this weekend looks set to settle just above Titanic at #4 of all time (below Black Panther).

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 29, 2018, 09:55 PM
BOM updated and indeed the $69.7m Disney reported is the 4 day overseas total (incl. Monday). The actual opening weekend was $63m, which was down from estimates. Makes sense now. You have to laugh though, Disney sneaking that extra $6m in there to make it look better.

Also wait that means the overseas monday was only $6.7m. Oh god that's hilariously awful.

Just as a nice little comparison, Infinity War's first overseas monday gross was $60.3m, after a $382m OW. Early signs of bad legs for Solo.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 29, 2018, 10:03 PM
@Xevross

off topic, but is it weird for you to call the UK overseas?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 29, 2018, 10:05 PM
@Xevross

off topic, but is it weird for you to call the UK overseas?
Nah I'm just used to using it as a box office term, isn't weird at all.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 30, 2018, 08:33 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/Iyby4Hs.jpg)

Battle of the titans.

By titans I mean titanic flops.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 31, 2018, 05:44 AM
I watched the belko experiment.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 31, 2018, 03:53 PM
Oof it gets worse for Solo. Wednesday dropped 35% from Tuesday to 4.8m, which is the worst out of all the recent films to launch on memorial day weekend. Far from legs saving it from embarrassment, legs are actually even worse than expected.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on May 31, 2018, 04:22 PM
Oof it gets worse for Solo. Wednesday dropped 35% from Tuesday to 4.8m, which is the worst out of all the recent films to launch on memorial day weekend. Far from legs saving it from embarrassment, legs are actually even worse than expected
Great news!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 31, 2018, 05:32 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/u79PcZo.jpg)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 31, 2018, 05:47 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/u79PcZo.jpg)
People complaining about SJWs incoming
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 31, 2018, 06:26 PM
People complaining about SJWs incoming
Why do they always have to stick that token black dragon into things smh
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 31, 2018, 06:35 PM
Why do they always have to stick that token black dragon into things smh
Black men and white women.  

All this forced diversity, political correctness, ugh!  It's ruining society .
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jun 01, 2018, 01:37 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/u79PcZo.jpg)
I would be excited. But usually animated movies have bas sequels, if not part 3 sucks. They just lose their originality.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 01, 2018, 01:39 AM
I would be excited. But usually animated movies have bas sequels, if not part 3 sucks. They just lose their originality.
1->2 felt like a fair quality drop, but it's still pretty solid.  
I'm a little optimistic.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 01, 2018, 02:35 PM
With thursday's domestic of about $4.5m, Solo has finally reach TFA's total!

Spoiler for Hidden:
That is, what TFA achieved in one day - $119m.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 01, 2018, 03:04 PM
With thursday's domestic of about $4.5m, Solo has finally reach TFA's total!

Spoiler for Hidden:
That is, what TFA achieved in one day - $119m.

Well that's a pretty good way to sum up how bad the movie is doing.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 01, 2018, 03:33 PM
Well that's a pretty good way to sum up how bad the movie is doing.
Yeah. Here's another. It was children's day today in China, so films that are popular with families cab get big boosts.

Infinity War, for example, was up 186% today. Solo was up a mere 20%. A China BO expert said "no one will take their child to see a Star Wars movie", earlier when predicting this. Ouch.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 01, 2018, 04:32 PM
Has the deal with Disney buying Fox gone through? I wonder if this will push them into putting more on Avatar 2-5 to pick up from Star Wars slowing down.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 01, 2018, 04:53 PM
Has the deal with Disney buying Fox gone through? I wonder if this will push them into putting more on Avatar 2-5 to pick up from Star Wars slowing down.
Not yet. I think Avatar 2-5 are getting enough funding anyway. JC is a top director and won't waste money, so $250m per movie is loads.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 01, 2018, 05:34 PM
Not yet. I think Avatar 2-5 are getting enough funding anyway. JC is a top director and won't waste money, so $250m per movie is loads.
I mean more marketing and tie in content. Try to make that a big franchise like Star Wars, since Avatar has more world wide potential.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 01, 2018, 05:38 PM
I mean more marketing and tie in content. Try to make that a big franchise like Star Wars, since Avatar has more world wide potential.
Oh I see. Yeah I think they will do that, but it won't take too much effort on their part. Avatar is by far the biggest film of all time of course. They already have games planned too.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 01, 2018, 08:49 PM
Jesus effing christ, Solo is performing so badly. Despite a fairly low opening weekend, most experts are thinking its drop will be in the high 60s%. That's absolutely terrible with no competition this week.

For example, last year POTC5 launched the same weekend as Solo, launched much larger, and faced Wonder Woman on its second weekend, but that was still 'only' a 65% drop. Justice League, another high profile flop with numbers close to Solo managed a -56% second weekend.

Solo might actually struggle to hit $200m domestic. Which means it hasn't much chance of making $400m WW. Holy crud.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 01, 2018, 09:54 PM
Did you see the movie?  
Was it not good?  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 01, 2018, 10:46 PM
Did you see the movie?  
Was it not good?  
Xev liked it
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 01, 2018, 10:55 PM
Did you see the movie?  
Was it not good?  
It was good fun but nothing special. I thought most people who watched it would enjoy it and recommend it to people, so I was expecting much better legs than this.

This is really shocking.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 03, 2018, 03:10 PM
Seems Solo's drop will be 65% in its second weekend. Not quite as bad as TLJ (67%), although TLJ's second weekend was considered to be pretty terrible... so yeah. Overseas drop was better for Solo.

Infinity War is holding well now, overseas still doing extremely well. Made about $35m globally this weekend and is only $35m away from 2 billy now.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 04, 2018, 08:31 PM
Infinity War is showing some strong late legs. If it wasn't for Deadpool 2, it probably would have made it past TFA for #3 all time. A shame.

Its funny too, because Deadpool 2 was supposed to launch this last weekend but moved back to be ahead of Solo. Little did they know, Solo would flop hard and it would have been better for them to have launched the week after Solo rather than 3 weeks after IW.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 04, 2018, 08:48 PM
Just saw ready player one. Really cool!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 04, 2018, 08:54 PM
Just saw ready player one. Really cool!
It was good?  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 04, 2018, 09:43 PM
It was good?  
I thought it was very good entertainment but easy to pick apart.

One thing that really annoyed me

Spoiler for minor spoiler:
Was that the girl was actually good looking. I mean come on, it would have been great if she wasn&#39;t attractive for some reason yet he loved her anyway. But all she had was a slight bit of red skin, and looked great.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 04, 2018, 09:48 PM
It was good?  
Very good.

Remove the video game stuff and pop culture and it'd suck, but with them it's awesome.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 06, 2018, 06:56 AM
Wow. Annihilation is amazing.

I'd put it above Arrival but maybe that'll change after I've had more time to reflect. Visually it might be the best looking movie I've ever watched, even above Avatar.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: NeverDies on Jun 06, 2018, 07:06 AM
I just watched Annihilation as well. Easily the best looking movie I've seen all year. The set design was amazing, especially considering how they basically had to handcraft entire forests for a lot of the scenes.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 06, 2018, 07:25 AM
Wow. Annihilation is amazing.

I'd put it above Arrival but maybe that'll change after I've had more time to reflect. Visually it might be the best looking movie I've ever watched, even above Avatar.
It was a bit too dark for me at times (watched it in hdr)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 06, 2018, 07:38 AM
It was a bit too dark for me at times (watched it in hdr)
Is your TV properly calibrated?

I'd imagine HDR should make dark scenes more visible. Or maybe my tv is the one that's messed up.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 06, 2018, 09:53 AM
Wow. Annihilation is amazing.

I'd put it above Arrival but maybe that'll change after I've had more time to reflect. Visually it might be the best looking movie I've ever watched, even above Avatar.
I just watched Annihilation as well. Easily the best looking movie I've seen all year. The set design was amazing, especially considering how they basically had to handcraft entire forests for a lot of the scenes.
Wow what a coincidence you both watched it at the same time! :P

It does like a film I'd like actually, I love some good visuals. Maybe I'll watch it after my exams.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 06, 2018, 03:05 PM
Is your TV properly calibrated?

I'd imagine HDR should make dark scenes more visible. Or maybe my tv is the one that's messed up.
Calibrated by me using plenty of online instructions yeah. Well hdr will make dark scenes darker but it shouldn't ruin the detail. Maybe the movie was just supposed to be really dark at times.

BTW, I liked the movie but wasn't overly impressed
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jun 06, 2018, 03:21 PM
I actually just watched it last saturday!  I loved it.  Loved the score at the last bit of the movie.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jun 06, 2018, 04:29 PM
Oh also watched Tomb Raider.  Was good. Basically a stripped down version of both reboot games using story stuff from each.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 06, 2018, 04:50 PM
Calibrated by me using plenty of online instructions yeah. Well hdr will make dark scenes darker but it shouldn't ruin the detail. Maybe the movie was just supposed to be really dark at times.

BTW, I liked the movie but wasn't overly impressed
I understand not being impressed. It was a very "me" movie and did the types of things I love.

Also was great that it avoided so many tropes.

Spoiler for Hidden:
The team worked together and the boss didn&#39;t keep secrets. Natalie Portman was the only one that had anything close to ulterior motives but they were logical and minor. The lady that went crazy wasn&#39;t over the top and still tried to protect them once the monster attacked.<br><br>Speaking of that monster, that was just so creepy and awesome.

I actually just watched it last saturday!  I loved it.  Loved the score at the last bit of the movie.
Sound design and music were incredible. That last bit was the best by far.
Spoiler for Hidden:
Was such a WTF moment like in 2001 a space odyssey but it actually made sense.
I'm shocked the movie didn't get oscar nominated for score or anything.


Which parts of tomb raider were from the second game? I enjoyed it too but didn't pick up on any of those outside setting up the sequel.


I watched Red Sparrow too. Was ok/good. Wasn't the type of spy movie I expected.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jun 06, 2018, 05:22 PM
I understand not being impressed. It was a very "me" movie and did the types of things I love.

Also was great that it avoided so many tropes.

Spoiler for Hidden:
The team worked together and the boss didn't keep secrets. Natalie Portman was the only one that had anything close to ulterior motives but they were logical and minor. The lady that went crazy wasn't over the top and still tried to protect them once the monster attacked.

Speaking of that monster, that was just so creepy and awesome.
Sound design and music were incredible. That last bit was the best by far.
Spoiler for Hidden:
Was such a WTF moment like in 2001 a space odyssey but it actually made sense.
I'm shocked the movie didn't get oscar nominated for score or anything.


Which parts of tomb raider were from the second game? I enjoyed it too but didn't pick up on any of those outside setting up the sequel.


I watched Red Sparrow too. Was ok/good. Wasn't the type of spy movie I expected.
Tomb Raider spoilers
Spoiler for Hidden:
mostly just the trinity aspect and anna being in on it like in the second game. &nbsp;They basically just added that into the story of the first game, minus the supernatural aspect himiko/yamatai had in the game as well unless trinity was alluded to in the first and i&#39;m not remembering?.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 06, 2018, 05:32 PM
Tomb Raider spoilers
Spoiler for Hidden:
mostly just the trinity aspect and anna being in on it like in the second game.  They basically just added that into the story of the first game, minus the supernatural aspect himiko/yamatai had in the game as well unless trinity was alluded to in the first and i'm not remembering?.

Spoiler for Hidden:
I think trinity was alluded to in the first.<br><br>Will be interesting to see how they handle supernatural stuff in the second. Can&#39;t really explain away Jacob with science.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 06, 2018, 06:09 PM
I understand not being impressed. It was a very "me" movie and did the types of things I love.

Also was great that it avoided so many tropes.
What would you consider to be a very "you" movie? You compared it to Avatar in one way before, and iirc we are both very positive on Avatar. If we have similar film tastes I'll probably like it :D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 06, 2018, 06:17 PM
If we have similar film tastes I'll probably like it :D
That's not how tastes work!  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 06, 2018, 06:32 PM
That's not how tastes work!  
How would you know? You can't taste anything!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 06, 2018, 06:43 PM
What would you consider to be a very "you" movie? You compared it to Avatar in one way before, and iirc we are both very positive on Avatar. If we have similar film tastes I'll probably like it :D
It's a lot closer to Arrival than Avatar.

"me" movie is hard sci fi that doesn't hold back. Don't go in expecting too much though since it definitely helped that wasn't expecting anything specific from it.

That's not how tastes work!  
Are we going to start licking DVDs? Already was a thing with 3DS games.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 06, 2018, 06:48 PM
It's a lot closer to Arrival than Avatar.

"me" movie is hard sci fi that doesn't hold back. Don't go in expecting too much though since it definitely helped that wasn't expecting anything specific from it.

Are we going to start licking DVDs? Already was a thing with 3DS games.
I haven't seen Arrival yet either!

Yeah I do love that too. Its one of the reasons I loved Avatar, I just thought it was all so incredible.

Start? Its already one of Pi's biggest hobbies!

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 06, 2018, 06:54 PM
With Tuesday's numbers, Solo has finally matched Rogue One's 3 day opening weekend gross. Only took 12 days ...
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 06, 2018, 07:09 PM
Is it even going to make 300m? It's like 150 so far
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 06, 2018, 07:24 PM
Is it even going to make 300m? It's like 150 so far
Domestically? Its barely going to make 200m. Probably finish around 220. Its going to struggle to 400m worldwide.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 06, 2018, 07:52 PM
Domestically? Its barely going to make 200m. Probably finish around 220. Its going to struggle to 400m worldwide.
I meant worldwide

Oh thought I was looking at WW chart. It's like 270m WW, slightly better
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: NeverDies on Jun 06, 2018, 08:26 PM
I know it'll probably be garbage, but the Slenderman movie looks like it could be a fun late night beer and pizza movie.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 06, 2018, 09:53 PM
Well this is not what I was expecting

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 09, 2018, 03:21 AM


Could be really good
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 09, 2018, 08:51 PM


Also I watched Annihilation again. Not as amazing the second time around but I did notice some cool things I missed.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 10, 2018, 03:01 PM
Infinity War will be ever so close to $2bn with this weekend's numbers. Unfortunately JW hurt the overseas gross, so it won't quite make it. $2bn shall be reached on Monday or Tuesday though.

JW also really hurt Solo overseas, which collapsed to a $11.3m weekend (thats only 400k more than IW, which has been out for a much longer time).

Jurassic World 2 itself had a decent start, looking for almost $150m. Pretty much matching Solo's opening without domestic, china and some other big markets, lol. Anyway, a good start and looks set to be over $1bn with ease. Might be interesting to see where JW lands with respect to Black Panther. Could be a close one.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 11, 2018, 07:09 PM
With actuals, IW is only $500k short of 2 billy as of Sunday. Monday will be the day. Equal record for fastest to $2bn with Avatar, although its not going to get much further.

edit: China monday alone is already reported at $900k, so IW is officially over $2bn.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 11, 2018, 10:54 PM
Incredibles 2 getting great reviews!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 11, 2018, 11:01 PM
Incredibles 2 getting great reviews!
Hoorah! I'm so excited! :D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 15, 2018, 03:44 PM
Incredibles 2 just obliterated the Animated Movie Thursday Previews record. It got $18.5M, besting Dory's $9.2M. Insane. Movie will be massive.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jun 15, 2018, 04:00 PM
Incredibles 2 just obliterated the Animated Movie Thursday Previews record. It got $18.5M, besting Dory's $9.2M. Insane. Movie will be massive.
yeah literally everyone who was young when the first one came out, plus children now are going to want to see it.  This is the sequel we have been waiting for!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 15, 2018, 04:23 PM
yeah literally everyone who was young when the first one came out, plus children now are going to want to see it.  This is the sequel we have been waiting for!
dang straight, the only animated movie I've ever been hyped for.

I'm pissed off its still a month from release in the UK though, that's just mean.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 16, 2018, 03:07 PM
$71.6M opening day for Incredibles 2. That's fantastic, all time #9 best true friday number. Its going to smash Dory's animated OW record of $135M. Anything over $160M would be great, if it gets as high as $180M+ that's extraordinary.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 16, 2018, 04:05 PM
Story of the weekend is disney trying to fudge A Wrinkle in Time to over $100m. Apparently it made $750K on friday, which is a 2,430% boost from last Friday. Hmmmmmmm
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 16, 2018, 09:15 PM
Story of the weekend is disney trying to fudge A Wrinkle in Time to over $100m. Apparently it made $750K on friday, which is a 2,430% boost from last Friday. Hmmmmmmm
Wait, how?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 17, 2018, 02:54 AM
Wait, how?
Fudging is a common practice. They probably counted some Incredibles 2 money as AWIT money
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 17, 2018, 10:41 AM
Incredibles 2 with a huge $59M Saturday early estimate. That's an 11% increase over true friday, when pixar movies are normally flat. All signs are pointing to this being a box office monster, in the US at least.

Next weekend we might see two movies over $100M domestic for the first time ever. Jurassic World is looking good to get there, and Incredibles 2 might be able to hold well enough.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 17, 2018, 11:15 AM
Wtf will incredibles open with over 200m?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 17, 2018, 11:49 AM
Wtf will incredibles open with over 200m?
No, no chance of that. $180M looks pretty good though, which as I said would be extraordinary considering the next best animated movie opening is $135M.

Animated movies normally have better legs than superhero movies, but with such a huge opening who knows where the legs will head for this. Looks to be a pretty safe bet to be the first animated film over $500M domestic, and will make it into the all time top 10.

Disney are having a crazy year, they'll have released three of the all time top 10. Imagine if Solo wasn't a flop as well :o
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 17, 2018, 05:01 PM
A wrinkle in time jumped 1600% this weekend, and ended at exactly 100.00M.... hmmm.

Apparently most fudging like this is done by double features. They'll have shown AWIT before Incredibles in some places, and then the studio attributes the money to both films. That's where most of the money will have come from. Then they'll just count some I2 money as AWIT money to top it over the edge.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 17, 2018, 05:06 PM
Incredibles 2 180m estimated. Solo at almost 340m globally!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 17, 2018, 05:08 PM
Incredibles 2 180m estimated. Solo at almost 340m globally!
Yeah, phenomenal and dreadful. Solo has pretty much finished as well, it's not going to make 40m more from current markets, and I don't know if Japan can carry it to 400m.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 19, 2018, 07:26 PM
Incredibles 2 has overtaken Solo in 4 days. A solid Monday number, $23.6m
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 19, 2018, 07:40 PM
Here's a stat. Incredibles 2 has a good shot at being the second film to manage over 6 days with 20m+. Spiderman 2 has six and many others have five. The only film to manage more is TFA, which held above 20m for 17 days straight. Wowzas.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 21, 2018, 09:37 PM
Watched Incredibles 2.  It was great.  

A couple things kind of bothered me.  But these I think were because I haven't seen the original in a very long time.
I break it up here into 3 small pieces:
Last one isn't actually a spoiler, just weird being older.  
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>I don&#39;t remember superheroes being illegal in the first movie.<br>Like, I know they had some legal troubles, but I don&#39;t recall them being completely illegal.<br>


Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Apparently no one knows that Jack Jack has powers, which felt weird. &nbsp;Because in the last few scenes of the first movie, you see Jack Jack exploding with powers. &nbsp;<br>


Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>I didn&#39;t realize who the actors were of the first movie, and we were given a little video with the voice actors. &nbsp;And it kind of bothered me because now I could put together the voice and the character, and it took me out of it a little bit. &nbsp;Because a few times, all I could hear was the voice actor. &nbsp;<br>


The movie was great.  Pretty predictable.  

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>The movie wasn&#39;t just a flip of the first. &nbsp;It was really awesome to see Bob really take the dad role instead of the superhero role this time. &nbsp;I&#39;m kind of wondering if there was any outrage about this movie with that. &nbsp;Probably best I don&#39;t know. &nbsp;But it was filled with lots of just great moments of being a dad, and not just overly positive, but a lot of stuff about the challenges. &nbsp;<br><br>It was nice that Violet had a bigger part. &nbsp;<span style="font-size: 1em;" class="bbc_size">I feel like Helen got a way better part. &nbsp;I feel like Dash kind of got forgotten in the movie. &nbsp;He just didn&#39;t have as much of a role. &nbsp;Edna felt more like a throwback, than having a real part.</span><br><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="bbc_size"></span>
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Before the movie, there was:


Was just weird.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 23, 2018, 12:57 AM
Man I can't wait to see Incredibles 2.

Speaking of I2, its doing okay at the box office. Wednesday fell just short of $20m and thursday fell quite badly thanks to JW previews. Legs won't be anywhere near as good as Dory or other Pixar films, but thanks to the huge OW it looks set to easily become their new best. $600m might be out of reach for it, but we'll see.

JW had a decent start, $15.3m previews. We'll have to see the full friday number to make any judgement, but it looks set to be quite far down on the first film. Incredibles 2 is looking at about $90m for the weekend, JW around $130m. Any more for either would be great.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jun 24, 2018, 11:47 PM
Jurassic world opened up with 150 million. Better than expected it seems. The movie is at 700+ million already. It's easily gonna hit 1 billion. And with "just" a production budget of 170 million seems it's gonna be a huge success.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 25, 2018, 12:13 AM
Jurassic world opened up with 150 million. Better than expected it seems. The movie is at 700+ million already. It's easily gonna hit 1 billion. And with "just" a production budget of 170 million seems it's gonna be a huge success.
Yeah its a good opening and better than most have been expecting recently. Its a good success for them, and it just shows how popular the franchise is considering how bad the reviews and reaction are yet its still making this much. Also its a fair way down on the opening of the first but that was definitely expected. The first film took off in an unexpected way.

Depending on legs it'll challenge BP for #2 spot in 2018,, but its likely to fall around $100m short. I think Incredibles 2 will fall short of JW, as the second weekend hold hasn't been that great. Still its set for nicely over a billion WW which is a great result for Pixar. If I2 has good legs from here and does well overseas it could well have a go at JW though, which would be fun.

Solo is crawling to 400m, needs around 25-30m from Japan. It'll be close.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jun 25, 2018, 03:03 AM
Yeah its a good opening and better than most have been expecting recently. Its a good success for them, and it just shows how popular the franchise is considering how bad the reviews and reaction are yet its still making this much. Also its a fair way down on the opening of the first but that was definitely expected. The first film took off in an unexpected way.

Depending on legs it'll challenge BP for #2 spot in 2018,, but its likely to fall around $100m short. I think Incredibles 2 will fall short of JW, as the second weekend hold hasn't been that great. Still its set for nicely over a billion WW which is a great result for Pixar. If I2 has good legs from here and does well overseas it could well have a go at JW though, which would be fun.

Solo is crawling to 400m, needs around 25-30m from Japan. It'll be close.
It's having a high cinemascore though. A-. So people seem to like it.

This franchise is weird. The first film is considered a classic and well loved. But the second and third are considered horrible, yet people seemed to disregard when it came to this new reboots. The hype for Jurassic world was insane considering 2 out of 3 movies sucked dog.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 25, 2018, 12:32 PM
It's having a high cinemascore though. A-. So people seem to like it.

This franchise is weird. The first film is considered a classic and well loved. But the second and third are considered horrible, yet people seemed to disregard when it came to this new reboots. The hype for Jurassic world was insane considering 2 out of 3 movies sucked dog.
Cinemascore is weird. An A- is more average than high, for a big budget blockbuster with great special effects and action an A- is about as low as it goes with a B+ being basically a panning. For example, we all know how much TLJ was hated by a lot of people yet that still scored an A. The latest Transformers film was absolutely dire by all accounts and that got a B+. All this says is that people like blockbusters, there's a reason they earn so much money.

Jurassic World scored an A, so this scoring an A- is worse. Legs almost definitely won't be as good. The first film made 3.13x its first weekend, so this one will be less than 3x most likely. Heading for around 400m domestic it seems.

And yeah I don't really get that. I think dinos are cool but I was never hyped for JW because of how shame most of the old films were. I didn't particularly like JW either, so I'm not seeing this one in cinemas.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 29, 2018, 08:54 PM
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Hype
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 29, 2018, 09:39 PM
(https://i.redd.it/mlhc1es2wx611.jpg)

Hype
Sequel to unbreakable?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 29, 2018, 09:43 PM
Sequel to unbreakable?
And Split.

Shyamalan has been building his own cinematic universe.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 29, 2018, 09:53 PM
And Split.

Shyamalan has been building his own cinematic universe.
Didn't realize split was connected to it
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 03, 2018, 03:29 PM
I saw the new Jurassic World. I actually ended up liking it a fair bit. It was stupid and started hilariously bad but maybe ~30 minutes into the film it started coming together. Enjoyed it more than the first one and Coco.

I also saw Coco. Man am I just not a fan of modern Pixar's art choices. I was annoyed with how generally animated the movie was but once it moved over to the spirit world I started to like it. Probably the best Pixar film I've seen in a long time. I enjoyed the story and could see why people thought it was sad but personally it wasn't.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 03, 2018, 04:17 PM
I saw the new Jurassic World. I actually ended up liking it a fair bit. It was stupid and started hilariously bad but maybe ~30 minutes into the film it started coming together. Enjoyed it more than the first one and Coco.

I also saw Coco. Man am I just not a fan of modern Pixar's art choices. I was annoyed with how generally animated the movie was but once it moved over to the spirit world I started to like it. Probably the best Pixar film I've seen in a long time. I enjoyed the story and could see why people thought it was sad but personally it wasn't.
My mum had the same opinion. She really liked the first JW and thought it was a great film. She said this one was bad but in a funny and enjoyable way.

Well at least you thought Coco was Pixar's best in a while, that I can agree with. I guess you're just not a big fan of Pixar, I thought Coco was fantastic.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 03, 2018, 04:24 PM
I watched a movie called The Endless.  SOO GOOD!  

Go in blind if you ever watch it.  It's a mind bender.  Not particularly hard to understand, but really cool idea

Oh also The Signal is pretty good too
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 03, 2018, 05:04 PM
My mum had the same opinion. She really liked the first JW and thought it was a great film. She said this one was bad but in a funny and enjoyable way.

Well at least you thought Coco was Pixar's best in a while, that I can agree with. I guess you're just not a big fan of Pixar, I thought Coco was fantastic.
I should go through and rewatch all the old Pixar classics. I do wonder if nostalgia is the primary reason why I thought they were great yet the modern stuff is good to bad.

Although one specific complaint for modern Pixar is that they don't know what to do with the power of modern computers. They keep trying to get more and more photorealistic yet it just doesn't mesh with their caricature like humans. One reason I liked Coco was probably because so much of the movie was with skeletons in a stylized word and there wasn't a disonense.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 03, 2018, 06:11 PM
I guess I don't mind their visuals.

I think you are overrating the earlier ones.  I really liked them, but Inside Out, I would say I liked much more than a few of their earlier movies.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 03, 2018, 07:34 PM
I guess I don't mind their visuals.

I think you are overrating the earlier ones.  I really liked them, but Inside Out, I would say I liked much more than a few of their earlier movies.  
Yeah, I love the incredibles but apart from that I prefer their new stuff.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 03, 2018, 07:49 PM
Yeah, I love the incredibles but apart from that I prefer their new stuff.
No love for walle?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 03, 2018, 08:02 PM
No love for walle?
I like walle quite a lot!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 03, 2018, 08:07 PM
Incredibles, walle, finding Nemo. Come on son!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 03, 2018, 08:12 PM
Incredibles, walle, finding Nemo. Come on son!
All very good films
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 03, 2018, 08:15 PM
Incredibles, walle, finding Nemo. Come on son!
Doesnt mention toy story.  
I feel pretty comfortable putting Inside Out with those.  (I know Legend will especially disagree)


I wanna wait a few years with Coco.  Feels too new to really put along with them.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 03, 2018, 10:33 PM
Doesnt mention toy story.  
I feel pretty comfortable putting Inside Out with those.  (I know Legend will especially disagree)


I wanna wait a few years with Coco.  Feels too new to really put along with them.  
Toy story 1-3 minus 2 kinda is a given

And yeah inside out was great. Probably would've been even better if I was still a kid when I saw it
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 03, 2018, 10:39 PM
I'm actually not that big on Toy Story. I didn't like them as a kid, can't really remember why. I watched them again fairly recently and thought they were good, but its not the same. Coco, Inside out and Incredibles are my top 3 pixar movies. Hopefully Incredibles 2 comes close for me. I also need to rewatch Wall-E, think I only saw it once, it might be #4 ahead of Dory/ Nemo.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 04, 2018, 04:33 AM
Am I still thr only one who's seen Incredibles 2?  Haven't seen anyone else mention watching it.  

That'd be weird if I was, I'm usually the last to do so.  

Xev probably has another 10 days yet.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 04, 2018, 08:18 AM
Toy Story, Bugs Life, and Toy Story 2 I classify separately since I don't remember watching them for the first time. The rest of the Pixar films I can somewhat remember my first viewing.

I think more or less all of their films up till Brave I didn't love on first viewing. (Brave was the first one I didn't even like). Ratatouille for example I remember going to an early screening and we got to write down our thoughts. Was great but not amazing.

I'd rank finding Nemo lower than a lot of their other old movies but I think that and Incredibles are the ones I liked the most on first viewing. Walle was good too but as a kid it really needed multiple viewings to be fully appreciated.

Just reminiscing, but I remember loving Iron Giant when I first saw it. My mom had taken us so when we got back I was super excited explaining to my dad how awesome the robot was and how cool the scenes were. Ended up getting a toy Iron Giant for my birthday that year.

Would love it if Incredibles 2 recaptured that old Pixar magic. The trailers don't fill me with confidence but it's the one Pixar movie in recent memory that I've been excited about.



Just a random thought, but do you guys remember the movie Meet the Robinsons? That movie reminds me so much of modern Pixar  :P


(also shout out to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, one heck of an animated movie)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 04, 2018, 10:56 AM
Am I still thr only one who's seen Incredibles 2?  Haven't seen anyone else mention watching it.  

That'd be weird if I was, I'm usually the last to do so.  

Xev probably has another 10 days yet.  
Yeah I'm probably going in 10 days. Get back from holiday on the friday, will go saturday most likely.

I never saw the iron giant, maybe I should. I haven't watched meet the robinsons either.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 04, 2018, 12:12 PM
In box office news, both Incredibles 2 and Jurassic World are performing very well. JW heading for around $400m domestic, may fall behind Incredibles 2 on a daily basis this week though as Incredibles 2 is having much better legs. $600m is not entirely out of the question for I2, which would be, well, incredible.

Ant-Man releases this week. The opening of the first was $57m and tracking is pointing to a $70-80m opening for the new film. Anything higher would be great, and excellent growth.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 04, 2018, 01:28 PM
Iron Giant is awesome.
I think meet the Robinson's is a decent movie.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 05, 2018, 09:53 PM
I don't care for modern pixar either.  I actually never really cared for them outside of toy story and the incredibles.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 05, 2018, 11:18 PM
I rewatched Wall-E as I'd forgotten most of it. Really nice film. Falls short of Inside Out for me and its not even close to Coco. New Pixar still wins 8)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 05, 2018, 11:22 PM
I rewatched Wall-E as I'd forgotten most of it. Really nice film. Falls short of Inside Out for me and its not even close to Coco. New Pixar still wins 8)
Hmmm, yeah.  This is about where I am.  
Actually Inside Out is probably my favorite or second favorite.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 05, 2018, 11:29 PM
Hmmm, yeah.  This is about where I am.  
Actually Inside Out is probably my favorite or second favorite.
Yeah Incredibles, Inside Out and Coco are my top 3. The Finding films just behind that, hopefully I2 makes it into the top 5.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 06, 2018, 01:18 AM
Top 10

Walle
Incredibles
Monsters Inc
Ratatouille
Finding Nemo
Toy Story
Up
Bugs Life
Cars
Toy Story 3
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 06, 2018, 01:36 AM
Oh gosh, this is gonna be tough.  

My top 10:
Inside Out (I just feel this was the most relatable to me.)
Incredibles
Monsters Inc
Incredibles 2
Up
Wall-E
Coco
Ratatouille
Toy Story
Cars
Coco and Incredibles 2 are too new though, they might go up.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 06, 2018, 01:46 AM
Top 10

Walle
Incredibles
Monsters Inc
Ratatouille
Finding Nemo
Toy Story
Up
Bugs Life
Cars
Toy Story 3
Man I need to rewatch ratatouille and monsters inc as well. Up is a fantastic movie too, definitely up there for me! :D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 06, 2018, 05:00 PM
I think we can all agree Pixar are good!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 06, 2018, 10:34 PM
New Antman is also good. Very empty for opening day though. How is it tracking xev?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jul 06, 2018, 10:38 PM
New Antman is also good. Very empty for opening day though. How is it tracking xev?
Ahead of the first. It's previews were actually pretty good. Estimates are 88 million for the weekend.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 06, 2018, 11:31 PM
Watched the first one again.  

Some could be better stuff:
Spoiler for Incredibles 2:
<br>Pretty much what I said before. <br>There&#39;s 2 things that feel retconned. &nbsp;They aren&#39;t really. &nbsp;The movie is just taking advantage of a few missing details. &nbsp;<br><br>They are kind of telling the viewer that the Incredibles family has no idea what happens to Jack Jack. &nbsp;At the end of Incredibles 1, they still think that Jack Jack doesn&#39;t have any powers. &nbsp;Which feels weird because you basically have to fill in the detail that they are too far away to actually see what&#39;s happening to Jack Jack, even though they do see him. &nbsp;<br><br>It&#39;s kind of a similar story with supers being illegal. &nbsp;In the first movie, this fits. &nbsp;But the first movie doesn&#39;t explicitly say the supers are illegal. &nbsp;It says there was a program to relocate them, and they were all living normal lives. &nbsp;<br>So the second movie makes it feel like it&#39;s a lot more serious. &nbsp;<br><br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 07, 2018, 09:14 AM
Ahead of the first. It's previews were actually pretty good. Estimates are 88 million for the weekend.
Yeah, this. Better previews than Doctor Strange and GOTG which opened at 85 and 94M. So 90M opening is possible, which would be fantastic. Early Friday numbers are saying $34M Friday though, which would be okay. More like a low 80s OW.

Looking forward to see overseas performance, as that's where most of the money will come from.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 07, 2018, 09:24 AM
Early deadline numbers point towards a super weekend for Incredibles 2 as well, jumping JW into 2nd place. $600M still on the cards. That would be cray. Before December 2017 there were only 5 movies ever to have reached 600M, and Disney might have released another 4 in half a year.

Also JW cracked 1 bill WW.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 07, 2018, 05:33 PM
Evangeline Lilly is like the #1 reason to watch Ant-Man! 8) 
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 08, 2018, 03:45 PM
Seems like the internal multiplier for all films is very low this weekend (that's ratio of full weekend to friday's number). Apparently it was the same in 2012 when July 4th was last on Wednesday. Weird. Anyway, it means Ant-Man is heading for $76M instead, which is okay but awful off of $11.5M previews. Gonna be quite a low grosser in the MCU and coming off of IW that is a very small boost over the first film. Was hoping for much better.

Incredibles 2 will claim second ahead of JW but is only looking at a $29M weekend now. That still puts it passed Dory into the #1 all time animation slot, and now it stands over $500M. $600M will be a challenge to reach, but its already a fantastic performance.

Not really good for any film, but I guess Wednesday stole a bit of the gross.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 08, 2018, 03:52 PM
Movie Showdown (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/chart/?view=daily&id=marvelsequels.htm)

Really does make Ant-Man look small. Its just nowhere near as popular as the other MCU films. You can see why though, its just not that interesting.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 08, 2018, 10:11 PM
Movie Showdown (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/chart/?view=daily&id=marvelsequels.htm)

Really does make Ant-Man look small. Its just nowhere near as popular as the other MCU films. You can see why though, its just not that interesting.
Well ant man is the smallest . He's an ant and most of the others are people sized.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 08, 2018, 10:50 PM
Well ant man is the smallest . He's an ant and most of the others are people sized.
But he can also grow absolutely massive! I guess his growing powers don't work on the box office ...
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 08, 2018, 11:30 PM
Guess my anecdotal experience was accurate!  :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 08, 2018, 11:45 PM
Guess my anecdotal experience was accurate!  :P
Well your evidence was an empty opening day, but it was Saturday that was the real problem. Opening day was fine. ;)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 10, 2018, 04:41 AM
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4 more days!  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 10, 2018, 09:21 PM
Really bad Monday for ant-man, it's box office keeps getting more disappointing. It's such a B tier franchise  :(

Was a poor Monday for JW too, okay for I2
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 11, 2018, 02:56 PM
Really bad Monday for ant-man, it's box office keeps getting more disappointing. It's such a B tier franchise  :(

Was a poor Monday for JW too, okay for I2
Ant Man is A tier!

One of the few modern Marvel franchises that's pretty good.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 11, 2018, 04:38 PM
I liked Ant Man. 
I will need to watch the second one at some point. 
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 11, 2018, 06:45 PM
Ant Man is A tier!

One of the few modern Marvel franchises that's pretty good.
Lol I'm sorry what? It's the most insignificant and is on the lower end of quality, the first one was at least.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 11, 2018, 09:26 PM
Lol I'm sorry what? It's the most insignificant and is on the lower end of quality, the first one was at least.
I know it doesn't make the big bucks, but quality wise its up with gotg. Not low teir stuff like thor.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 11, 2018, 09:46 PM
I know it doesn't make the big bucks, but quality wise its up with gotg. Not low teir stuff like thor.
Yeah but I'm talking scale, spectacle and significance. It's the lowest in that measure very easily, that's the big difference maker in terms of box office.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 11, 2018, 09:51 PM
Ant man had a great Tuesday with a 42% jump, finally a good day! Incredibles had ana aazing 50% jump on Tuesday though. Not sure why boosts were so big, but cool!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 13, 2018, 05:32 PM
(Screenshot) Nathan Fillion teases Uncharted reveal on 7/16/18 again with this image. : PS4 (https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/8yd01l/screenshot_nathan_fillion_teases_uncharted_reveal/)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 14, 2018, 08:34 PM
Finally watched Get Out.  I liked the ideas it presented in the movie, but I can't say it was my favorite movie.  Some good twists that I kind of expected, but had a couple variations of them in my head most of the time.

Also watched The Invitation.  Super slow burn movie with a decent ending.

Now trying Radius. Man gets in a crash and then everything in a certain radius of him starts dying.  Just started so we will see if it's good.  it has a high 91% on rotten tomatoes
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 14, 2018, 11:13 PM
Finally watched Get Out.  I liked the ideas it presented in the movie, but I can't say it was my favorite movie.  Some good twists that I kind of expected, but had a couple variations of them in my head most of the time.
Woohoo maybe my thoughts on the movie weren't wrong!!!

Yeah it's not a bad movie. I just don't consider it that great either.


Haven't seen those other two movies.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 14, 2018, 11:20 PM
Mission impossible just keeps getting better apparently!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 14, 2018, 11:34 PM
Mission impossible just keeps getting better apparently!
New one looks great.

Getting good reviews?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 14, 2018, 11:51 PM
New one looks great.

Getting good reviews?
Yup many say it's the best one and even one of the all time action movie greats
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Post by: Xevross on Jul 14, 2018, 11:53 PM
New one looks great.

Getting good reviews?
Yeah what Pez said, its got 93% on RT. I'm so hyped, the last one is probably my favourite spy/ agent film ever.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 15, 2018, 12:14 AM
Woohoo maybe my thoughts on the movie weren't wrong!!!

Yeah it's not a bad movie. I just don't consider it that great either.


Haven't seen those other two movies.
Yeah I probably wouldn't put it in my top 30, but maybe top 50.   I watched the alternate ending to it too.  Definitely good they went with the ending they put in theaters.

I would recommend The Invitation only for the last 10 to 15 minutes and the final shot of the movie, but up until that it just took too long to where it was heading.  

Radius was good and had a pretty good twist at the end I didn't see coming.  Was also a slow burn movie
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 15, 2018, 12:43 AM
Yeah I probably wouldn't put it in my top 30, but maybe top 50.   I watched the alternate ending to it too.  Definitely good they went with the ending they put in theaters.

I would recommend The Invitation only for the last 10 to 15 minutes and the final shot of the movie, but up until that it just took too long to where it was heading.  

Radius was good and had a pretty good twist at the end I didn't see coming.  Was also a slow burn movie
Well top 50 is very good!
I really liked it but probably wouldn't make top 100 for me lol
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 15, 2018, 12:44 AM
Well top 50 is very good!
I really liked it but probably wouldn't make top 100 for me lol
Depends how many films you've watched I guess.

I can barely remember all of mine, making a list would be impossibly difficult
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 15, 2018, 12:56 AM
Depends how many films you've watched I guess.

I can barely remember all of mine, making a list would be impossibly difficult
I've only seen 51 movies, it's easy to make a list.  


Nah, I've seen a few hundred at least.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 15, 2018, 01:20 AM
Depends how many films you've watched I guess.

I can barely remember all of mine, making a list would be impossibly difficult
Well me and my friends used to spend almost entire summers watching movies back in the day. A few days per week that is where we watched 1 or 2 at a time. We mostly watched movies from imdb's top 250 list lulz
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 15, 2018, 03:29 AM
I've only seen 51 movies, it's easy to make a list.  


Nah, I've seen a few hundred at least.
My family owns a few hundred.  :P

I spend way more time watching films than playing games. I'm very much a film person  :P

Also I watched the 3rd Maze Runner. It's a well made movie with a horrible plot. Star Wars was great with the Rebels because they were fighting for political reasons. All these teen doomsday movies are horrible with rebels since they're fighting with teen angst, often leaving a trail of destruction behind them and dooming humanity.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 15, 2018, 05:00 AM
Well top 50 is very good!
I really liked it but probably wouldn't make top 100 for me lol
I only recently(like past 4 or 5 years) begun watching more and more.  Before that I watched them, but never really paid attention to most of them so most of those I wouldn't really count.

Also a lot of movies I used to watch were always the big action ones and those aren't really too hard to beat in quality for me.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 15, 2018, 06:29 AM
My family owns a few hundred.  :P
At least!
Us too, we buy most movies I've seen
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 15, 2018, 06:45 AM
At least!
Us too, we buy most movies I've seen
We used to buy a lot but nowadays it's just so easy to find them from other sources.

Probably 25% of our movies are VHS, another 50% dvd, and then 25% bluray.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 15, 2018, 09:28 PM
I rewatch movies I like too often and don't watch enough new ones. I guess I could just watch more movies. Anyway, I'm watching both incredibles with my friends tomorrow, I'm super excited!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 15, 2018, 09:48 PM
I rewatch movies I like too often and don't watch enough new ones. I guess I could just watch more movies. Anyway, I'm watching both incredibles with my friends tomorrow, I'm super excited!
Good man.  

Finally someone else watches it.  

Been kinda weird.  Usually I'm the last to watch new movies.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 15, 2018, 10:05 PM
I rewatch movies I like too often and don't watch enough new ones. I guess I could just watch more movies. Anyway, I'm watching both incredibles with my friends tomorrow, I'm super excited!
I don't re-watch movies much
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 15, 2018, 10:08 PM
I don't re-watch movies much
I'd say I've watched more movies 2+ times than I have just once. Its just what I do.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jul 15, 2018, 11:22 PM
Good man.  

Finally someone else watches it.  

Been kinda weird.  Usually I'm the last to watch new movies.  
Lol maybe I'm the one. I rarely go to the cinema and don't watch a lot of movies now days (even though I watched a billion movies in my lifetime).
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 16, 2018, 12:55 AM
I'd say I've watched more movies 2+ times than I have just once. Its just what I do.
That's crazy!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 16, 2018, 10:38 AM
Solo is stalling out right now and is looking like Japan legs won't be good enough to take it to $400m. Tragic performance.

Skyscraper debuted this weekend and seems to have been a slight flop, will most likely lose a fair amount of money.

Ant-Man legs are not looking too good. I think Marvel will be disappointed with it, its going to land with around Doctor Strange numbers worldwide. Its going to make a fair amount of money, but its a shame to see.

Incredibles 2 legs are fantastic, its looking like it might make it to $600m domestic but that will still be tough. It had a very nice debut weekend in the UK considering that the Wimbledon and World cup finals were on and the weather was great. $12m debut compared with $10m for Dory. Legs should be excellent for it here, can't wait to see how it does in its run.

JW:FK is looking okay in domestic and great overseas. Has a shot at $1.3b WW, which I'm sure they'll be super pleased with, That's a much smaller drop from the first than some were expecting, and most of that drop is in the domestic market, its barely dropped at all overseas.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 16, 2018, 03:35 PM
This JL cover gives me like 1970's vibes.  

(https://heroichollywood.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Justice_League_Blu_Ray_Art.jpg)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 16, 2018, 05:53 PM
Incredibles 2 was fudgy great. Absolutely loved it!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 16, 2018, 06:23 PM
Incredibles 2 was fudgy great. Absolutely loved it!
Yay!  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 16, 2018, 08:13 PM
Yay!  
Did you get the short film before it? That made me cry lol.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 16, 2018, 09:15 PM
Did you get the short film before it? That made me cry lol.
The one with the dumpling baby?  
Yeah.
That was weird.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 16, 2018, 09:28 PM
The one with the dumpling baby? 
Yeah.
That was weird. 
Very weird, but it was so emotional :'(

Just watched Incredibles 2.

Spoiler for Hidden:

I don't remember superheroes being illegal in the first movie.
Like, I know they had some legal troubles, but I don't recall them being completely illegal.


Spoiler for Hidden:

Apparently no one knows that Jack Jack has powers, which felt weird.  Because in the last few scenes of the first movie, you see Jack Jack exploding with powers. 


Spoiler for Hidden:

I didn't realize who the actors were of the first movie, and we were given a little video with the voice actors.  And it kind of bothered me because now I could put together the voice and the character, and it took me out of it a little bit.  Because a few times, all I could hear was the voice actor. 


The movie was great.  Pretty predictable. 

Spoiler for Hidden:

The movie wasn't just a flip of the first.  It was really awesome to see Bob really take the dad role instead of the superhero role this time.  I'm kind of wondering if there was any outrage about this movie with that.  Probably best I don't know.  But it was filled with lots of just great moments of being a dad, and not just overly positive, but a lot of stuff about the challenges. 

It was nice that Violet had a bigger part.  I feel like Helen got a way better part.  I feel like Dash kind of got forgotten in the movie.  He just didn't have as much of a role.  Edna felt more like a throwback, than having a real part.
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Spoiler for Hidden:
Yep, you&#39;d forgotten that.<br><br>He was high up in the air and they didn&#39;t see what happened.<br><br>You&#39;re weird.<br><br>I thought all the characters were utilised well. I thought Dash and Violet were both used well, but they were done so well in the first film it was hard to improve, and its especially hard to do anything fresh with Dash&#39;s power. Jack Jack was undoubtedly my favourite part of the film, he was super cute and hilarious constantly, and his powers are amazing. I loved that he was useful at the end and basically saved them all too. His fight with the Racoon was really great.<br><br>Edna was more of a cameo, sure, but I loved it. She was done really well again. Biggest disappointment is that Honey only got one line.<br><br>And yeah it was fairly predictable but not completely so. It was less predictable than most Pixar films at least.


Man I want to go straight back and watch it again, which I probably am doing (made plans to watch it on Wednesday  :D  )
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 16, 2018, 09:42 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br><br>&gt;Yep, you&#39;d forgotten that.<br><br><br>In the first movie they didn&#39;t outright say it, though. <br>It fits into how the first movie starts, but the second movie makes it sound much more serious than the first one did. &nbsp;
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 16, 2018, 09:45 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:


>Yep, you'd forgotten that.


In the first movie they didn't outright say it, though.
It fits into how the first movie starts, but the second movie makes it sound much more serious than the first one did.  
Spoiler for Hidden:
Well I also watched the first film today and it seemed the same to me. I&#39;m pretty sure they outright said it, and it was an important plot point that supers aren&#39;t allowed to do anything.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 16, 2018, 10:18 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:
Well I also watched the first film today and it seemed the same to me. I'm pretty sure they outright said it, and it was an important plot point that supers aren't allowed to do anything.

To me, it just feels like it was framed a bit differently in the second.  Doesn't hurt the movie though.  


Quote
Spoiler for Hidden:

He was high up in the air and they didn't see what happened.

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Yeah, I rewatched the first movie just to see how things lined up. &nbsp;<br><br><br>This felt weird to me. &nbsp;<br><br>Depending on what you took away from the first, the second one can feel weird. &nbsp;<br><br>The way, the second movie clearly means it, is that they were too far away to see that Jack Jack had powers. &nbsp;<br><br>But if you didn&#39;t realize they were too far away, then it can feel weird that they didn&#39;t know what happened at first. <br><br>Its kind of interesting because it&#39;s a fairly big plot point in the second movie, but there&#39;s a subtle distinction between the two interpretation of events in the first movie. &nbsp;<br>


Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 16, 2018, 10:26 PM
To me, it just feels like it was framed a bit differently in the second.  Doesn't hurt the movie though.  

Spoiler for Hidden:

Yeah, I rewatched the first movie just to see how things lined up.  


This felt weird to me.  

Depending on what you took away from the first, the second one can feel weird.  

The way, the second movie clearly means it, is that they were too far away to see that Jack Jack had powers.  

But if you didn't realize they were too far away, then it can feel weird that they didn't know what happened at first.

Its kind of interesting because it's a fairly big plot point in the second movie, but there's a subtle distinction between the two interpretation of events in the first movie.  
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Yeah maybe it was slightly, but it was the exactly the same for all intents and purposes of the film.<br><br>Eh, I don&#39;t think I ever considered they noticed Jack-Jack using powers. Whether you think they should have noticed from there or not, the film made it extremely obvious that they hadn&#39;t noticed and thought he had no powers at the end.<br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 17, 2018, 07:38 PM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 19, 2018, 10:49 PM
Box office nerds rejoice! It seemed like Disney were going to let BP stall at $699.9M but this weekend its re-expanding its theatre count and will finally get over that $700M domestic line. Nice.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 20, 2018, 01:04 AM
I saw the emoji movie. Not that bad actually. Pretty comparable to modern Pixar outside Coco.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 20, 2018, 03:04 AM
Finally watched Get Out.  I liked the ideas it presented in the movie, but I can't say it was my favorite movie.  Some good twists that I kind of expected, but had a couple variations of them in my head most of the time.

Also watched The Invitation.  Super slow burn movie with a decent ending.

Now trying Radius. Man gets in a crash and then everything in a certain radius of him starts dying.  Just started so we will see if it's good.  it has a high 91% on rotten tomatoes
Saw radius thanks to your post. Pretty good but a little slow.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 20, 2018, 03:24 AM
Saw radius thanks to your post. Pretty good but a little slow.
yeah it took a while to get going and never really fully got going, but had a pretty good surprise twist in the end.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 21, 2018, 06:14 AM


I'm pumped!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 21, 2018, 10:25 AM


I'm pumped!
Haven't seen split and had no idea this was a trilogy until very recently
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: DD_Bwest on Jul 21, 2018, 07:10 PM



Long Live the king
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 21, 2018, 09:40 PM
Loved Incredibles 2 even more the second time round. The Edna and Jack Jack scenes are probably my favourite comedy scenes ever (except for the majority of Hot Fuzz  :P ). Might be competing with Coco for my favourite Pixar film, they really have nailed it recently. I re-watched Ratatouille as well and I enjoyed it, that's a great film. 

Starting tomorrow afternoon I'm doing a full MCU marathon with a couple of friends, should be fun! We're skipping Hulk and Iron Man 2 I think but apart from that watching them all.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 21, 2018, 11:17 PM
Oh I also finally saw Solo.

It tried to be good and I liked some things about it but it really lacked polish imo. A lot of the elements just didn't fit together as good as they should have. Robot was great.

Spoiler for Hidden:
Felt very rogue one like at first with everyone dying, but then in the end I was very surprised it was setup so strongly to have a sequel. Also Darth Maul is back!!! His CGI was horrible and it was handled in probably the dorkiest way possible (they really wanted to hit people over the head with reminding people who he was) but he was my second favorite prequel character.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 21, 2018, 11:39 PM
Oh I also finally saw Solo.

It tried to be good and I liked some things about it but it really lacked polish imo. A lot of the elements just didn't fit together as good as they should have. Robot was great.

Spoiler for Hidden:
Felt very rogue one like at first with everyone dying, but then in the end I was very surprised it was setup so strongly to have a sequel. Also Darth Maul is back!!! His CGI was horrible and it was handled in probably the dorkiest way possible (they really wanted to hit people over the head with reminding people who he was) but he was my second favorite prequel character.

Its a good fun film, nothing special. Worth watching if you're a Star Wars fan, sure, but if you're not then meh.

Spoiler for Hidden:
Yeah they definitely set it up to have a sequel, probably focusing on Qira and Maul but I guess we&#39;re never getting that. Darth Maul cameo was awesome, but it was done really badly like you said.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 21, 2018, 11:47 PM
Incredibles 2 is going to settle at #9 all time domestic, TLJ is too far out of reach. That's great though, looks like it will have broken the animated film record by around $100m by the time its done. Worldwide is hard to judge with so many countries yet to launch still, but Frozen's $1.27b animated record may be within reach.

Speaking of Frozen, holy shame did that film do well in Japan. Like its only a smidgeon below Titanic for #2 imported film of all time. It made a total of $249m in Japan, which is by far its biggest overseas market. I wonder why it was so popular. Maybe its that kind of animated musical film they love... but Moana only made $45m there so surely it can't be that. Weird.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 21, 2018, 11:55 PM
Speaking of Frozen, holy shame did that film do well in Japan. Like its only a smidgeon below Titanic for #2 imported film of all time. It made a total of $249m in Japan, which is by far its biggest overseas market. I wonder why it was so popular. Maybe its that kind of animated musical film they love... but Moana only made $45m there so surely it can't be that. Weird.
I found this article
Why 'Frozen' Was Huge in Japan | Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-frozen-was-huge-japan-720193)

Quote
One factor that helped contribute to the success of Frozen was the local voice and song casting. Anna and Elsa were voiced by Sayaka Kanda and Takako Matsu, two singers and actresses whose performances received almost universal acclaim. Two postings of Matsu's Japanese version of Let It Go have more than 95 million hits on Youtube, and the song has been heard everywhere for months, while the bilingual soundtrack album has been in the top 10 since March, currently sitting at number two.
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Disney's marketing in Japan originally targeted young women and girls with the somewhat unconventional dual-female lead characters and the film's musical-like qualities. Spreading from that core audience, Frozen began to attract a wide age range, getting occasional cinemagoers into theaters, and a large number of repeaters.
So basically fantastic marketing, a song that translated over well, and popular voice actors.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 22, 2018, 12:31 AM
I found this article
Why 'Frozen' Was Huge in Japan | Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-frozen-was-huge-japan-720193)

So basically fantastic marketing, a song that translated over well, and popular voice actors.  
Yeah that explains why it was big but its still crazy how it was as huge as it was. Its run was crazy, it debuted with a $7.5m weekend and its next 10 weekends were all around or higher than that, it just never dropped. Japan is more leggy than other markets but that's still bonkers.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 22, 2018, 12:44 AM
Yeah that explains why it was big but its still crazy how it was as huge as it was. Its run was crazy, it debuted with a $7.5m weekend and its next 10 weekends were all around or higher than that, it just never dropped. Japan is more leggy than other markets but that's still bonkers.
Funny that it's the exact reverse situation with games
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 22, 2018, 09:11 AM
Funny that it's the exact reverse situation with games
Yeah, its because there's not many screens in Japan, so the maximum capacity for one weekend is rather small. That means most people have to wait to see films and can't go out first weekend.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 22, 2018, 09:40 AM
Have you guys heard about what's happening with Disney and firing James Gunn? Basically James Gunn tweeted out against Trump when he was meeting Putin, saying he's in Putin's pocket and should be impeached. Which is probably true, but anyway... he also made a few other tweets against Trump. Trump's fans weren't happy about this so pressured Disney to fire him, which they did, in a stupid cowardly move. They cited some bad jokes he made over 10 years ago as the real reason, but that wasn't a problem for them when he made the first two Guardians movies so why is it now?

So now Guardians 3 is in a bit of trouble due to having to find a new director, and James Gunn was fired for no good reason. Anyway, there's a petition (https://www.change.org/p/marvel-re-hire-james-gunn?recruiter=694971707&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_abi..&utm_term=psf_combo_share_abi..)to resign him which won't work but it shows support at least.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 22, 2018, 10:14 AM
Have you guys heard about what's happening with Disney and firing James Gunn? Basically James Gunn tweeted out against Trump when he was meeting Putin, saying he's in Putin's pocket and should be impeached. Which is probably true, but anyway... he also made a few other tweets against Trump. Trump's fans weren't happy about this so pressured Disney to fire him, which they did, in a stupid cowardly move. They cited some bad jokes he made over 10 years ago as the real reason, but that wasn't a problem for them when he made the first two Guardians movies so why is it now?

So now Guardians 3 is in a bit of trouble due to having to find a new director, and James Gunn was fired for no good reason. Anyway, there's a petition (https://www.change.org/p/marvel-re-hire-james-gunn?recruiter=694971707&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_abi..&utm_term=psf_combo_share_abi..)to resign him which won't work but it shows support at least.
Yeah. Maybe they didn't know about the tweets and someone showed them to them
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 22, 2018, 12:18 PM
Yeah. Maybe they didn't know about the tweets and someone showed them to them
Disney has many people working there and it could also be a case of different people having different opinions, and only once the controversy started would the higher higher ups learn about it.

The thing that gets me is that they fired him so incredibly fast. I only heard about the controversy through him being fired. Firing him exclusively for PR reasons against that specific backlash seems unlikely. Either it's a moral reason from a different exec or he was already on the chopping block imo.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 22, 2018, 12:49 PM
Disney has many people working there and it could also be a case of different people having different opinions, and only once the controversy started would the higher higher ups learn about it.

The thing that gets me is that they fired him so incredibly fast. I only heard about the controversy through him being fired. Firing him exclusively for PR reasons against that specific backlash seems unlikely. Either it's a moral reason from a different exec or he was already on the chopping block imo.
Considering the incredible success of his movies I doubt he was supposed to be fired before
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 22, 2018, 08:19 PM
Yeah his tweets back then were incredibly weird and nasty, though without context and reading them all at the same time makes them seem even worse.  He should not have been fired and especially not as fast as he was.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 23, 2018, 07:56 PM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 23, 2018, 08:57 PM
Watched Truth or Dare.  Wasn't too bad. Not really scary just a little creepy.

Finishing The Titan on netflix.  Not bad, but a lot of wasted potential.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 23, 2018, 11:26 PM
Harmon deleted his Twitter because of outrage of a shock humor video from years ago.  Really messed up, but it's dark humor.  

Seems it's mostly alt-right who were complaining .
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 23, 2018, 11:43 PM
Harmon deleted his Twitter because of outrage of a shock humor video from years ago.  Really messed up, but it's dark humor.  

Seems it's mostly alt-right who were complaining .
Shock and awe that it's the alt right getting upset at and complaining about everything.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 24, 2018, 12:19 AM
Harmon deleted his Twitter because of outrage of a shock humor video from years ago.  Really messed up, but it's dark humor.  

Seems it's mostly alt-right who were complaining .
Harmon?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 24, 2018, 12:29 AM
Harmon?
Rick and Morty writer.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 26, 2018, 10:30 PM
Checking out Donnie Darko.  Never seen it and most lists about mindfuck movies it's on the list.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 26, 2018, 10:43 PM
Man, for how big Incredibles opened its legs are sexier than Elastigirl's. It may actually make it to $600M at this rate, if it does it'll be close.

Mission Impossible Fallout is set to beat the franchise record OW, there's lots of buzz. No doubt the amazing 98% after 164 reviews on rotten tomatoes will be helping with that. I'm super excited to see it this weekend.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 26, 2018, 10:57 PM
Checking out Donnie Darko.  Never seen it and most lists about mindfuck movies it's on the list.
Oh man what a movie

Man, for how big Incredibles opened its legs are sexier than Elastigirl's. It may actually make it to $600M at this rate, if it does it'll be close.

Mission Impossible Fallout is set to beat the franchise record OW, there's lots of buzz. No doubt the amazing 98% after 164 reviews on rotten tomatoes will be helping with that. I'm super excited to see it this weekend.
So hyped for it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 27, 2018, 12:17 AM
Oh man what a movie
Not sure how to feel about it.  I quite liked it, but there was just something missing that would help make it click. Just missing that little piece that would help if you catch it, but not everyone will.  Unless I actually missed what I was looking for. lol.  I sorta understand what happens though.  

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 27, 2018, 01:03 AM
Not sure how to feel about it.  I quite liked it, but there was just something missing that would help make it click. Just missing that little piece that would help if you catch it, but not everyone will.  Unless I actually missed what I was looking for. lol.  I sorta understand what happens though.  


Did you watch the original or the directors cut?

Tbh I don't remember everything about it now because it's been a long time since I watched it but I remember my mind being blown.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 27, 2018, 01:03 AM
Did you watch the original or the directors cut?
Assuming it was the original.  It was on netflix and didn't sy directors cut.  Maybe i'll watch that one.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 27, 2018, 10:44 AM
Assuming it was the original.  It was on netflix and didn't sy directors cut.  Maybe i'll watch that one.
Yeah I've only seen the directors cut. Apparently it's very different
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 28, 2018, 02:46 PM
I watched Paddington 2. Such a fun movie  ;D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 28, 2018, 02:48 PM
I watched Paddington 2. Such a fun movie  ;D
I tried checking out the first movie, but my dad got weird and said I was too old to watch it.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jul 28, 2018, 02:51 PM
I tried checking out the first movie, but my dad got weird and said I was too old to watch it.  
If you are to old to watch it then you're old enough to make your own decisions on what you can and can't watch
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 28, 2018, 03:01 PM
If you are to old to watch it then you're old enough to make your own decisions on what you can and can't watch
I know, and I do.   :o
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 28, 2018, 03:09 PM
If you are to old to watch it then you're old enough to make your own decisions on what you can and can't watch
So then you still don't watch it since you respect your father  8)

I tried checking out the first movie, but my dad got weird and said I was too old to watch it. 
I mean I could kinda understand that if you were a preteen, but the first one didn't come out that long ago.

And it is a very childish movie lol. That's why I liked it so much.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 28, 2018, 03:20 PM
I tried checking out the first movie, but my dad got weird and said I was too old to watch it.  
lol what? Did you tell him its supposed to be a fantastic movie that most ages will enjoy?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 28, 2018, 10:01 PM
Oh my lord. I may have a new favourite action film.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 28, 2018, 11:38 PM
Oh my lord. I may have a new favourite action film.
Hype!

How does Tom Cruise do it?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 29, 2018, 09:44 AM
Hype!

How does Tom Cruise do it?
The man is mad. He spent thousands of hours training for some of the stunts in this film, and some of them were really risky too.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 29, 2018, 09:52 AM
The man is mad. He spent thousands of hours training for some of the stunts in this film, and some of them were really risky too.
Has to be something wrong with his head with all the scientology stuff in there
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 29, 2018, 11:07 AM
Opening day for MI was slightly weaker than expected, but Saturday is looking very strong compared to Friday, so good WOM probably kicking in already. Hopefully Sunday holds well and it can open to around $63M, which would be a nice improvement over the last one of $55M. A new franchise record is now pretty much guaranteed and it will have a good shot at beating MI2's $215M total dom gross record.

Overseas is where MI is really strong though, its outperforming rogue nation quite substantially in most countries. After the last two both fell just shy of $700M WW this one looks set to make it there.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 29, 2018, 06:00 PM
That's pretty awesome. The previous MI felt like a let down to me so I'm glad it wasn't signifying the end.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 29, 2018, 09:50 PM
I've never really been into mission impossible.  I like Tom Cruise, but he's not one of my favorites.  I did like him in The Mummy and Edge of Tomorrow though.  Dude doesn't seem to age though. Same with Leo DiCaprio.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 29, 2018, 09:56 PM
I've never really been into mission impossible.  I like Tom Cruise, but he's not one of my favorites.  I did like him in The Mummy and Edge of Tomorrow though.  Dude doesn't seem to age though. Same with Leo DiCaprio.
WutFace
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 29, 2018, 09:58 PM
WutFace
lol no I don't mean those are better or the best movies if thats what you think? I just liked him in those movies.  I don't think I've even seen anything past the first mission impossible.  May do a move marathon of them when fallout comes out on digital.


Also Infinity War on digital on tuesday!!!  And that's my birfday!!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 29, 2018, 10:02 PM
lol no I don't mean those are better or the best movies if thats what you think? I just liked him in those movies.  I don't think I've even seen anything past the first mission impossible.  May do a move marathon of them when fallout comes out on digital.


Also Infinity War on digital on tuesday!!!  And that's my birfday!!
I know I was just making a joke :P

His excellence in Mission Impossible is more behind the scenes really. Yeah the latest three MIs are a huge step up in quality, they're three of the best action films out there. I kinda want to do a marathon of them as well.

Yeah! Time to watch it again in high quality!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 29, 2018, 10:04 PM
I've never really been into mission impossible.  I like Tom Cruise, but he's not one of my favorites.  I did like him in The Mummy and Edge of Tomorrow though.  Dude doesn't seem to age though. Same with Leo DiCaprio.
Yeah it's weird how old he is. He's looked 30 for like 25 years

I know I was just making a joke :P

His excellence in Mission Impossible is more behind the scenes really. Yeah the latest three MIs are a huge step up in quality, they're three of the best action films out there. I kinda want to do a marathon of them as well.

Yeah! Time to watch it again in high quality!
Time to watch it first time for me!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 29, 2018, 10:29 PM
Yeah it's weird how old he is. He's looked 30 for like 25 years

Time to watch it first time for me!
Eh he looks more like 40 now :P

I imagine you know what happens?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 29, 2018, 10:34 PM
Yeah! Time to watch it again in high quality!
Yeah I had to just watch it on Kodi just to not get spoiled or have to continue avoiding them.  Gonna be so good in HD!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 29, 2018, 11:03 PM
Eh he looks more like 40 now :P

I imagine you know what happens?
35 maybe

Hmm no. Should I?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 29, 2018, 11:47 PM
35 maybe

Hmm no. Should I?
Definitely not! Its a film which is definitely nowhere near as good if you've been spoiled. You've done well to avoid spoilers though :o
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 30, 2018, 01:11 AM
Definitely not! Its a film which is definitely nowhere near as good if you've been spoiled. You've done well to avoid spoilers though :o
Well I know somebody is gonna die and I know what Thanos can do because I've seen countless spoofs all over the media of what he does. I also know he says "perfectly balanced, as all things should be" since it's an overused meme on reddit lulz
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 30, 2018, 10:21 AM
Well I know somebody is gonna die and I know what Thanos can do because I've seen countless spoofs all over the media of what he does. I also know he says "perfectly balanced, as all things should be" since it's an overused meme on reddit lulz
Ah well that's kind of what I meant, but at least you don't know details.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 30, 2018, 10:54 PM
Incredibles 2 will have passed $1B worldwide on monday, finally! Japan and Spain launches are this week, hopefully they are strong.

Unless I'm having a mind blank, I can't think of any other 2018 movies that might pass $1B.

That would be 3 films above one billion for Disney, which would be one off their record of four from 2016. No other of the big 6 really come close any more and it'll especially be the case when Fox comes underneath Disney.

Speaking of Disney releasing multiple $1B+ films in one year, next year could beat that record. Avengers 4 and The Lion King are almost guaranteed to make that, then there's Frozen 2, Toy Story 4, Star Wars IX which are more likely than not to make that amount. Aladdin could do it, but that's more of an unknown. You also wouldn't rule out Captain Marvel at this point. Safe to say Disney are looking at a record year next year.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 31, 2018, 03:00 PM


Hype!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 31, 2018, 07:00 PM
fudge!! Infinity War is just so good!  So many little details you miss when it's in subHD and filmed on a camera in a dark theater. lol

Gonna watch the bonus features that came with it later.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 31, 2018, 07:06 PM
fudge!! Infinity War is just so good!  So many little details you miss when it's in subHD and filmed on a camera in a dark theater. lol
Wait, what!  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 31, 2018, 07:40 PM
Wait, what!  
Pirate!

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 31, 2018, 07:49 PM
Wait, what!  
I watched it on kodi to see it without being spoiled and it was a poorly executed version, but just watched the amazon digital version.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 31, 2018, 08:03 PM
fudge!! Infinity War is just so good!  So many little details you miss when it's in subHD and filmed on a camera in a dark theater. lol

Gonna watch the bonus features that came with it later.
WAT? Why didn't you go to the cinema for the film of the decade?? >:(
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 31, 2018, 08:59 PM
WAT? Why didn't you go to the cinema for the film of the decade?? >:(
Cause I literally never go to the theaters/cinema. :P  Most films I can deal without seeing them till they come out on digital/blu ray.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 31, 2018, 09:20 PM
Cause I literally never go to the theaters/cinema. :P  Most films I can deal without seeing them till they come out on digital/blu ray.  
This is very sad. I don't go often but man the cinema experience is just so good for a big film like that. Its not just the screen quality but the crowd reactions as well.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 31, 2018, 11:07 PM
I don't like crowds.  

Let me have the theater to myself.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 31, 2018, 11:12 PM
WAT? Why didn't you go to the cinema for the film of the decade?? >:(
I didn't either son. The follow up will be the one  ;)

I don't like crowds.  

Let me have the theater to myself.
Pay up son. The best thing would be a cinema cave with a projector, great sound system and movie seats.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 31, 2018, 11:43 PM
Pay up son. The best thing would be a cinema cave with a projector, great sound system and movie seats.
That's what I want.
I'd also like a home server to stream movies to every screen in my house.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 01, 2018, 03:33 AM
That's what I want.
I'd also like a home server to stream movies to every screen in my house.
I really really really want a setup where every TV is essentially just an additional monitor for a central computer. Every device could be played on every TV and you'd be able to do splitscreen and stuff between different sources.

Could get really fancy and make it auto follow you around the house. IE have a casual Netflix show playing in one room and have it seamlessly transition to the next room as you walk.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 01, 2018, 08:41 AM
I really really really want a setup where every TV is essentially just an additional monitor for a central computer. Every device could be played on every TV and you'd be able to do splitscreen and stuff between different sources.

Could get really fancy and make it auto follow you around the house. IE have a casual Netflix show playing in one room and have it seamlessly transition to the next room as you walk.
That sounds like the future :o
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 02, 2018, 02:08 AM
I really really really want a setup where every TV is essentially just an additional monitor for a central computer. Every device could be played on every TV and you'd be able to do splitscreen and stuff between different sources.

Could get really fancy and make it auto follow you around the house. IE have a casual Netflix show playing in one room and have it seamlessly transition to the next room as you walk.
Well I want that too.

Watched infinity war for the first time.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 02, 2018, 02:31 AM
Well I want that too.

Watched infinity war for the first time.  
How did you find it?

I was really close to partially building that setup. I have multiple PS4s and would love to play multiplayer games with my brother but can't because we don't have a second TV in the room.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 02, 2018, 03:52 AM
How did you find it?
It was pretty good.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 02, 2018, 05:54 AM
It was pretty good.  
Cool.

I just got back from a cheap showing of Deadpool 2. Was actually pretty awesome and a lot better than the first. (I didn't really like the first)

Wonder how Disney will deal with Thanos and Cable having the same actor.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 02, 2018, 01:28 PM
It was pretty good.  
Gooooooooooooooood Gooooooooooood.

Its much better if you're a big MCU fan, its not like a Star Wars film where most people could just pick it up and enjoy it without missing much.

Cool.

I just got back from a cheap showing of Deadpool 2. Was actually pretty awesome and a lot better than the first. (I didn't really like the first)

Wonder how Disney will deal with Thanos and Cable having the same actor.
It won't matter at all since they're not in the same universe. I can't see them trying to claim Deadpool has been part of the MCU all along or anything like that. They'll either keep it going and won't care or will reboot Deadpool into the MCU with new actors.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 02, 2018, 01:30 PM
Here's a fun fact: half of the 36 films that have grossed over $1B worldwide were made by Disney.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 02, 2018, 03:13 PM
Here's a fun fact: half of the 36 films that have grossed over $1B worldwide were made by Disney.
Is that including Fox now?  ::)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 02, 2018, 03:40 PM
Is that including Fox now?  ::)
Nope! It would be 20 with Fox.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 02, 2018, 04:06 PM
Nope! It would be 20 with Fox.
How many is Marvel?

Disney is just at their A level so much right now. Moana, Frozen, Tangled, Wreck it Ralph, plus all their live action remakes.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 02, 2018, 04:54 PM
How many is Marvel?

Disney is just at their A level so much right now. Moana, Frozen, Tangled, Wreck it Ralph, plus all their live action remakes.
6 from Marvel, 3 from Pixar, 3 Lucasfilm and then 2 Pirates films, Frozen, BatB (2017), Alice in Wonderland and Zootopia from their own traditional studios.

Yeah and with Fox they now have a huge dominance of the big film market.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 02, 2018, 05:17 PM
6 from Marvel, 3 from Pixar, 3 Lucasfilm and then 2 Pirates films, Frozen, BatB (2017), Alice in Wonderland and Zootopia from their own traditional studios.

Yeah and with Fox they now have a huge dominance of the big film market.
Oh wow I forgot about how big Alice in Wonderland was!

Yeah that explains why the other live action remakes became a thing, even though I didn't really think about it belonging to the same category.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 02, 2018, 07:12 PM
Oh wow I forgot about how big Alice in Wonderland was!

Yeah that explains why the other live action remakes became a thing, even though I didn't really think about it belonging to the same category.
Yep, Jungle Book only just missed a billy as well. Their recent remakes are all doing crazy well. Many think The Lion King has a shot at $2b next year.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 02, 2018, 07:38 PM
Yep, Jungle Book only just missed a billy as well. Their recent remakes are all doing crazy well. Many think The Lion King has a shot at $2b next year.
I wouldn't bet against it
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 02, 2018, 07:56 PM
I wouldn't bet against it
I would.

How about $1,000 on the forum  ;D

Yep, Jungle Book only just missed a billy as well. Their recent remakes are all doing crazy well. Many think The Lion King has a shot at $2b next year.
I would not be shocked if that happened but I'd want to see a trailer before predicting anything. Jungle Book proved me wrong in the past but I don't think hyper realistic CGI animals mesh well with talking animals/humanized animals.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 02, 2018, 08:38 PM
I would.

How about $1,000 on the forum  ;D
I would not be shocked if that happened but I'd want to see a trailer before predicting anything. Jungle Book proved me wrong in the past but I don't think hyper realistic CGI animals mesh well with talking animals/humanized animals.
Make it 10k and we have a deal!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 02, 2018, 08:41 PM
Worldwide box office is always tricky this far out because of exchange rates. For example if Infinity War had released a couple of months later instead it would have missed $2b.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Aug 02, 2018, 09:22 PM
They better not reboot deadpool with a new cast.  Ryan Reynolds IS Deadpool.  I mean they also have a multiverse and I'm sure they could work it in somehow.  I'd rather they just keep it separate though.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 02, 2018, 10:24 PM
They better not reboot deadpool with a new cast.  Ryan Reynolds IS Deadpool.  I mean they also have a multiverse and I'm sure they could work it in somehow.  I'd rather they just keep it separate though.
Yes I expect they'll keep it separate.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 03, 2018, 12:15 AM
Make it 10k and we have a deal!
Free money. Deal!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 03, 2018, 12:21 AM
My fairly baseless prediction for The Lion King is $1.7-1.8b. It could be an interesting race between TLK and A4 for #1 film next year.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Aug 03, 2018, 08:41 PM
I just finished watching Infinity wars. My god that was an amazing film. By far the best marvel film.  Just wow. Cant wait for the next avengers  next year.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 04, 2018, 03:56 PM
I just finished watching Infinity wars. My god that was an amazing film. By far the best marvel film.  Just wow. Cant wait for the next avengers  next year.
So many amazing moments.

So it looks like Black Panther will finally make it to $700m this weekend. Hilariously it's double features with Christopher Robin that got it there.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Kerotan on Aug 05, 2018, 02:24 AM
I watched a comedy called the end the other night. Absolutely terrible. Enjoyed it though because I was drunk.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 05, 2018, 02:23 PM
Mission Impossible had a fantastic second weekend hold, word of mouth kicking in.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 08, 2018, 03:23 PM
Mission Impossible had a fantastic second weekend hold, word of mouth kicking in.
I watched it last night and really liked it. Def one of the best MI movies. Although I kinda forgot there was a movie between this one and ghost protocol. Would have been smart to rewatch the previous ones first.

Also saw Pacific Rim Uprising. Was just as stupid as the first trailer painted it lol. Wouldn't say it was really bad but it's definitely not as good as the first film.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 08, 2018, 09:04 PM
I watched it last night and really liked it. Def one of the best MI movies. Although I kinda forgot there was a movie between this one and ghost protocol. Would have been smart to rewatch the previous ones first.

Also saw Pacific Rim Uprising. Was just as stupid as the first trailer painted it lol. Wouldn't say it was really bad but it's definitely not as good as the first film.
Yeah Rogue Nation is fantastic too.

The plot is just so garbage, enjoyed the big monster action though.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Aug 09, 2018, 02:55 AM
I watched a comedy called the end the other night. Absolutely terrible. Enjoyed it though because I was drunk.
Is that the British one?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Kerotan on Aug 09, 2018, 01:27 PM
Is that the British one?
Not sure but the film was set in Holywood
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Aug 09, 2018, 01:43 PM
Not sure but the film was set in Holywood
The one with James Franco?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 09, 2018, 01:46 PM
Not sure but the film was set in Holywood
Was it "this is the end" with James Franco?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 09, 2018, 02:12 PM
Was it "this is the end" with James Franco?
Yeah I remember that film. Kinda funny.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Kerotan on Aug 09, 2018, 04:49 PM
Was it "this is the end" with James Franco?
Yep.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Kerotan on Aug 10, 2018, 03:46 AM
There's talk the next James bond could be a black actor. Idris Elba. Personally would prefer if they stayed faithful to the novels. You wouldn't get a European to play a future Jackie Chan. Can't help but feel the success of black panther has triggered this.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 10, 2018, 04:06 AM
There's talk the next James bond could be a black actor. Idris Elba. Personally would prefer if they stayed faithful to the novels. You wouldn't get a European to play a future Jackie Chan. Can't help but feel the success of black panther has triggered this.
I've heard the Idris Elba rumors for a few years now so it definitely isn't solely a result from Black Panther.

On one hand I don't think it makes sense to change characters that are larger than their individual movies, but at the same time James Bond has always been portrayed in a slightly new way with each new actor. It's not like the character is static to begin with.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 11, 2018, 12:27 AM
Okay wtf was up with that Avengers ending??
Spoiler for Hidden:
There&#39;s no way they&#39;re going to let all of those die? Like Spidey, Black Panther, Dr Strange who are all new heroes.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 11, 2018, 01:05 AM
Okay wtf was up with that Avengers ending??
Spoiler for Hidden:
There's no way they're going to let all of those die? Like Spidey, Black Panther, Dr Strange who are all new heroes.

Huh it's obviously going to be reversed. But what's the proper cost of it going to be in A4?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Aug 11, 2018, 01:57 AM
There's talk the next James bond could be a black actor. Idris Elba. Personally would prefer if they stayed faithful to the novels. You wouldn't get a European to play a future Jackie Chan. Can't help but feel the success of black panther has triggered this.
Well his ethnicity doesn't really have much to do with the character, but his nationality does. And there are many, many black British men.

Your comparison is invalid, Jackie Chan is a real person, James bond is a fictional character.

Being white has no effect on the story or character of James bond, it's an espionage centric movie/story, and race has no affect on it. If this were a story were the main characters has a lot of identity in their appearance (for example Harry potter) then I'd agree that just adding a black actor for the sake of it would be a wrong choice. But I don't feel that applies to James Bond as long as he is British, charismatic, fit and a ladies man.


Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Kerotan on Aug 11, 2018, 04:59 AM
Well his ethnicity doesn't really have much to do with the character, but his nationality does. And there are many, many black British men.

Your comparison is invalid, Jackie Chan is a real person, James bond is a fictional character.

Being white has no effect on the story or character of James bond, it's an espionage centric movie/story, and race has no affect on it. If this were a story were the main characters has a lot of identity in their appearance (for example Harry potter) then I'd agree that just adding a black actor for the sake of it would be a wrong choice. But I don't feel that applies to James Bond as long as he is British, charismatic, fit and a ladies man.



He was white in the novels so if you are going to do this might aswell make the next Harry Potter Black, the next frodo Black, the next gandalf Black.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 11, 2018, 05:56 AM
Huh it's obviously going to be reversed. But what's the proper cost of it going to be in A4?
There is no payoff though since that cost will be nothing compared to if the events were not reversed.

Also I saw skyscraper. Kinda cool and I love mega engineering. My mom liked it more than MI Fallout. Felt a lot like a Die Hard remake at times.

Also saw Escape Plan 2. Not as low budget as I was expecting, but still really low budget.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 11, 2018, 09:44 AM
Huh it's obviously going to be reversed. But what's the proper cost of it going to be in A4?
My bet is
Spoiler for Hidden:
iron man/cap america


Time stone is kind of OP though
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 12, 2018, 11:05 PM
Watched Ready Player One.  

The references were awesome.  

The movie started off a bit rough, I feel like.  But it got really good by the end.  

A small part of me, feels like the Oasis is kind of what Facebook is hoping for VR.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 12, 2018, 11:38 PM
Watched Ready Player One.  

The references were awesome.  

The movie started off a bit rough, I feel like.  But it got really good by the end.  

A small part of me, feels like the Oasis is kind of what Facebook is hoping for VR.  
Yeah I love the film. I guess kind of but it would probably only be one world  ;D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Aug 12, 2018, 11:43 PM
Watched Ready Player One.  

The references were awesome.  

The movie started off a bit rough, I feel like.  But it got really good by the end.  

A small part of me, feels like the Oasis is kind of what Facebook is hoping for VR.  
The book is bad though. Very overrated.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 13, 2018, 12:17 AM
Yeah I love the film. I guess kind of but it would probably only be one world  ;D
Well, I'd imagine it like the Oasis overall is facebook, and the individual world's would be apps like Farmville and stuff.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 18, 2018, 07:28 PM
Saw seven. Was good at the start, ok towards the end.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 18, 2018, 10:14 PM
Saw seven. Was good at the start, ok towards the end.
??

What's in the box?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Aug 18, 2018, 10:19 PM
Saw seven. Was good at the start, ok towards the end.
Se7en?. The one with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman? That movie is brilliant and only gets better and better. You're insane. The end is amazing
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 18, 2018, 10:46 PM
Se7en?. The one with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman? That movie is brilliant and only gets better and better. You're insane. The end is amazing
You're dang right
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 18, 2018, 10:58 PM
??

What's in the box?
Yeah that acting wasn't that good...

Se7en?. The one with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman? That movie is brilliant and only gets better and better. You're insane. The end is amazing
End could have been executed better. Cool concept though.
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Post by: BananaKing on Aug 18, 2018, 11:28 PM
Yeah that acting wasn't that good...
End could have been executed better. Cool concept though.
Acting wasn't good? Wtf are you smoking bro. Seven is a masterpiece and one of my favourites of all time.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 18, 2018, 11:33 PM
Acting wasn't good? Wtf are you smoking bro. Seven is a masterpiece and one of my favourites of all time.
Srsly
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 18, 2018, 11:41 PM
Acting wasn't good? Wtf are you smoking bro. Seven is a masterpiece and one of my favourites of all time.
Only wasn't good for that specific scene.

Srsly
Maybe the meme just made the scene too comical for me  :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 19, 2018, 12:02 AM
Only wasn't good for that specific scene.
Maybe the meme just made the scene too comical for me  :P
Perhaps  :o
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 24, 2018, 06:35 PM
Every day is a really good film. It's the standard romance movie where someone has special powers. The boy wakes up as a different person every day. What's cool about it is it focuses on that power and doesn't just use it as a mechanism for the love plot.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 31, 2018, 03:40 PM
I feel pretty is good. Nice to see Amy Schumer evolving as an actress. Wonder if this will be her equivalent of Spy. That was the movie that made me really start liking Melissa Mccarthy.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 31, 2018, 04:35 PM
I feel pretty is good. Nice to see Amy Schumer evolving as an actress. Wonder if this will be her equivalent of Spy. That was the movie that made me really start liking Melissa Mccarthy.
I've kinda wanted to watch that one .

Have you seen Incredibles 2, yet?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 31, 2018, 04:54 PM
I've kinda wanted to watch that one .

Have you seen Incredibles 2, yet?
Nope not yet.

Although I was thinking about the fact that the first one released pre MCU and nowadays the concept feels so much less original.
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Post by: Xevross on Aug 31, 2018, 11:10 PM
Nope not yet.

Although I was thinking about the fact that the first one released pre MCU and nowadays the concept feels so much less original.
Superhero families is something pretty much only the incredibles does, and its the main focus of the film. It definitely still feels original and quite unique.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 31, 2018, 11:15 PM
Superhero families is something pretty much only the incredibles does, and its the main focus of the film. It definitely still feels original and quite unique.
Yeah.  Theres a fun family dynamic that's a big part of both movies.  Can't think of anything even remotely similar.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 01, 2018, 01:22 AM
Superhero families is something pretty much only the incredibles does, and its the main focus of the film. It definitely still feels original and quite unique.
I didn't say it isn't original at all, but it used to also be the only big budget movie with multiple superheroes living in the same world. It tackled so many themes that are now popular.

*besides Watchmen
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 01, 2018, 01:28 AM
Watching Deadpool 2.  

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>&quot;You killed black Tom, you racist son of a baby!&quot;<br><br>


;D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 01, 2018, 02:25 AM
Watching Deadpool 2.  

Spoiler for Hidden:

"You killed black Tom, you racist son of a baby!"



;D
Deadpool 2 was shockingly good imo. Loved the regular guy.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 10, 2018, 11:49 PM
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It's weird how someone does all of these graphs and research, yet you still choose to stay completely ignorant to facts.  Yes, the industry was in a HUGE swing  going into the 80's.  Going from a time when movies were slow burns that stayed in the theater for over a year, to having huge openings and being gone within a few months.

 For Christ's sake, ANH opened with just $8.5M, and that's adjusted for ticket price inflation.  That would be a pathetic opening for pretty much any film today, especially a blockbuster.  ESB opened with what would be the equivalent of $25M today.  Definitely better, but still a flop for a big blockbuster film.  Add in the fact that movies weren't staying in theaters longer than a year anymore, and the better opening didn't help it much.  Now, look at ROTJ.  It opened with $99.1M, adjusted, back in 1983, just 3 years after ESB.  Even today, 35 years later, that's a great freaking opening for a mid-range blockbuster.  Hell, that's actually what JL was expected to open with.  Now, please explain away those numbers, numbers guy.  No change in the industry?  Please.

 
You missed the part where ROTJ's opening weekend was only 9% of its opening gross, and it was only $67.7M adjusted for the 3-day weekend, which is downright modest by today's standards. Sure, it may have set a record at the time, but that was highly atypical for a movie back then, it was still not a very front-loaded film (again, not even at half its lifetime gross after 30 days), and that record, even when adjusted for inflation, puts it at 234th place for all-time best opening weekends, bested by films like Troy, Scary Movie, and The Longest Yard, films not exactly know for record-shattering openings. Even if you added Memorial Day for the long weekend, it was at $89.7M adjusted, just shy of 12% its lifetime gross. Also, it's worth pointing out that the most front-loaded blockbusters of the 80s were, like ROTJ, all sequels to hit movies that were not very front-loaded at all. Ghostbusters II, Back to the Future Part II, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Lethal Weapon 2, Crocodile Dundee II, even The Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade to an extent. All vastly more front-loaded than their originals. But original films? E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Tootsie, Beverly Hills Cop, and Top Gun were among the best-performing films of the decade, and they were all relative slow burners that stayed in cinemas for at least half a year or more and took several months to reach ~90% of their lifetime gross.

 Put short, the increased front-loading of movies wasn't something that suddenly happened overnight in cinemas in the early 80s. The idea that some massive sea change in viewing habits by 1980 was what kept Empire from grossing what A New Hope did is entirely without merit or any supporting evidence. Those supposed changes in viewing habits after 1977 didn't keep E.T. (1982) or Titanic (1997) from netting well over a billion dollars adjusted gross in their original theatrical runs (and even Box Office Mojo has The Force Awakens at over a billion adjusted now). It takes a rare special movie to pull those kind of ticket sales, and The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi were not those movies.

 Star Wars was brand new in 1997, limited in release, and took a ton of time and word of mouth to propel it to blockbuster status, but once it did it became a major pop culture phenomenon. It was something new, something fresh, something exciting, but it wasn't an overnight hit. But it ended up becoming the second highest-grossing film ever adjusted domestically. And neither ESB nor ROTJ were going to replicate that level of success, even if they had a full year. They didn't have the excuse of home video or TV broadcasts to drag them down a few months after premiering, either. They simply don't have any excuse for failing to draw the same kind of ticket sales ANH did. Not as many people felt they were worth seeing, or at least not multiple times, and they didn't have the same novelty that ANH did. And after three times of a Star Wars trilogy having a huge first entry and the follow-ups not doing as well, I think it's safe to say that we're seeing a pattern. Hell, when the original trilogy was re-released in 1997 as Special Editions, A New Hope grossed more than Empire and Jedi combined. Why? What was ESB and ROTJ's excuses then?

 Personally, I think you and others who share your views simply feel the need to downplay TLJ's box office figures in order to support your narrative that the movie is objectively some sort of cinematic abomination. The very idea that film could be anything other than a financial disappointment is outright abhorrent to those who hated the film. You want the film to be viewed as a disappointment, because you hate it. And honestly, I haven't seen such a gross overreaction to a movie in my entire life. You know why so many people look down on geek culture? Petulant rage fits over movies not playing out like you wanted are almost certainly one reason why. Most people just want to enjoy a good movie (and it was good), and aren't going to engage in some asinine boycott and demanding producer resignations and director terminations because Luke Skywalker wasn't treated like Jesus Christ. The 30 Minutes Hate videos on YouTube are for a small niche of disgruntled Star Wars fans that have made this fanbase incredibly toxic, even more so than usual. Rian Johnson and Kathleen Kennedy did not rape anyone's childhoods. Is it too much to ask for Star Wars fans to grow up and get a grip? Apparently so.

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Post by: Xevross on Sep 11, 2018, 12:22 AM
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He's right you know. TLJ did pretty much the standard for a sequel to a highly anticipated film, its box office was still good by all accounts. Solo is truly a disaster though, so I think TLJ will have negative BO effects down the line.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 14, 2018, 01:32 AM
Nearly done watching a "A Beautiful Mind".  

This is fricken depressing.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Kerotan on Sep 14, 2018, 10:42 PM
Watching The Departed again atm. What a fudgy film!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 14, 2018, 10:43 PM
Did I mention I watched the new wrinkle in time? It was very forgettable and bad.
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Post by: Xevross on Sep 15, 2018, 12:06 AM
Did I mention I watched the new wrinkle in time? It was very forgettable and bad.
New? It's a remake or something?

Yeah that is what I heard, mediocre and subsequently poor box office run.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 15, 2018, 12:23 AM
New? It's a remake or something?

Disney has made 2 movies, based off the original book.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Sep 15, 2018, 01:07 AM
Disney has made 2 movies, based off the original book.  

Well ya learn something new every day
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 15, 2018, 04:37 AM
Well ya learn something new every day
The original was really popular in schools when I was a kid. I hated it but it was a movie during school so it was still fun.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Sep 15, 2018, 01:29 PM
Watched the new mamma Mia last week. Fun film but nowhere near as good as the first. Modern story was meh.

About to watch Crazy Rich Asians
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 15, 2018, 01:50 PM
Watched the new mamma Mia last week. Fun film but nowhere near as good as the first. Modern story was meh.

About to watch Crazy Rich Asians
You liked the previous mamma Mia?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Sep 15, 2018, 05:29 PM
You liked the previous mamma Mia?
Yeah it's a good fun film.

CRA is a great Romcom. Very well acted and overall much better production quality than the vast majority of Romcoms.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Sep 16, 2018, 12:57 AM
Finally watched the new Jumanji. I see why it did so well now, really entertaining film and plenty of eye candy  ;D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 16, 2018, 01:18 AM
Finally watched the new Jumanji. I see why it did so well now, really entertaining film and plenty of eye candy  ;D
I was surprised with it too. Might be better than the first if you ignore nostalgia even.

I really hope the sequel keeps it a video game (not an app) since so many of those jokes were great!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Sep 16, 2018, 01:42 AM
I was surprised with it too. Might be better than the first if you ignore nostalgia even.

I really hope the sequel keeps it a video game (not an app) since so many of those jokes were great!
It's miles better than the first. Only watched that recently and it's not even close.

The video game stuff was awesome.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 17, 2018, 07:37 PM
Disney is like too stupidly big, with Star Wars, Marvel, etc.

It's getting to the point that it's almost irritating that no one else is even close.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Sep 17, 2018, 07:38 PM
Disney is like too stupidly big, with Star Wars, Marvel, etc.

It's getting to the point that it's almost irritating that no one else is even close.
Oh yeah especially with 20th Century Fox now too. No other studio comes close
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 17, 2018, 07:48 PM
Disney is like too stupidly big, with Star Wars, Marvel, etc.

It's getting to the point that it's almost irritating that no one else is even close.
Disney at least is a nice overlord. It's not like their movies are trash.

Oh yeah especially with 20th Century Fox now too. No other studio comes close
I really want to see what they do with Fox. Have we learned anything about branding/new projects yet?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 17, 2018, 10:26 PM
Disney at least is a nice overlord. It's not like their movies are trash.
There's that, but it's still sad to see the lack of competition.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Sep 17, 2018, 10:28 PM
I really want to see what they do with Fox. Have we learned anything about branding/new projects yet?
I don't think we have learned anything.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 18, 2018, 12:42 PM
Domestic:

1   Star Wars: The Force Awakens   BV   $936,662,225   2015
2   Avatar                                   Fox   $760,507,625   2009^
3   Black Panther                           BV   $700,059,566   2018
4   Avengers: Infinity War           BV   $678,815,482   2018
5   Titanic                                   Par.   $659,363,944   1997^
6   Jurassic World                           Uni.   $652,270,625   2015
7   Marvel's The Avengers           BV   $623,357,910   2012
8   Star Wars: The Last Jedi           BV   $620,181,382   2017
9   Incredibles 2                           BV   $605,615,734   2018
10   The Dark Knight                           WB   $534,858,444   2008^

3 movies in the top 10, just from this year.  

Worldwide:

1   Avatar                                                    Fox   $2,788.0   $760.5   27.3%   $2,027.5   72.7%   2009^
2   Titanic                                                    Par.   $2,187.5   $659.4   30.1%   $1,528.1   69.9%   1997^
3   Star Wars: The Force Awakens                    BV   $2,068.2   $936.7   45.3%   $1,131.6   54.7%   2015
4   Avengers: Infinity War                            BV   $2,046.5   $678.8   33.2%   $1,367.7   66.8%   2018
5   Jurassic World                                            Uni.   $1,671.7   $652.3   39.0%   $1,019.4   61.0%   2015
6   Marvel's The Avengers                            BV   $1,518.8   $623.4   41.0%   $895.5   59.0%   2012
7   Furious 7                                                    Uni.   $1,516.0   $353.0   23.3%   $1,163.0   76.7%   2015
8   Avengers: Age of Ultron                            BV   $1,405.4   $459.0   32.7%   $946.4   67.3%   2015
9   Black Panther                                            BV   $1,346.9   $700.1   52.0%   $646.8   48.0%   2018
10   Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2    WB   $1,341.5   $381.0   28.4%   $960.5   71.6%   2011



Fun facts:
36 movies made over 1 billion, 4 released this year, 3 by Disney
4 of the 36, made over 50% of their gross in the US.  Black Panther is a pretty interesting case, as it's the only one to make it into the top 10.  
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Post by: Xevross on Sep 18, 2018, 02:18 PM
Its crazy how well BP did, pretty much thanks to America.

Its also crazy that there's only ever been 9 films to make over $600M domestic, and 4 of those were released by Disney in the space of half a year.

MCU is really taking over the box office, and Pixar keep growing too. Avengers 4 will certainly join the top 10 of all time, and Spidey should make over $1b next year.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 18, 2018, 05:56 PM
I wonder when/if MCU will decrease in popularity. It just keeps growing and growing.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Sep 18, 2018, 06:13 PM
I wonder when/if MCU will decrease in popularity. It just keeps growing and growing.
Post Avengers 4 it'll be interesting to see with the changing of the guard. No more Iron Man or Captain America. If they really nail Captain Marvel though then I think it'll stay as popular as ever with Black Panther, Captain Marvel and Spidey leading the way.
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Post by: Legend on Sep 18, 2018, 11:00 PM
Post Avengers 4 it'll be interesting to see with the changing of the guard. No more Iron Man or Captain America. If they really nail Captain Marvel though then I think it'll stay as popular as ever with Black Panther, Captain Marvel and Spidey leading the way.
Speaking of

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 19, 2018, 09:08 PM
I didn't realize Nick Fury was originally white.  

He was redesigned in 2002, to look like Samuel L Jackson.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 19, 2018, 10:50 PM
I didn't realize Nick Fury was originally white.  

He was redesigned in 2002, to look like Samuel L Jackson.  
I remember him white
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Sep 19, 2018, 10:51 PM
I didn't realize Nick Fury was originally white.  

He was redesigned in 2002, to look like Samuel L Jackson.  
Hell yeah mother fudge maker.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 19, 2018, 11:15 PM
I didn't realize Nick Fury was originally white.  

He was redesigned in 2002, to look like Samuel L Jackson.  
That's funny that they redesigned him after a specific actor and then were able to higher him. I wonder how often that happens with comics.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 20, 2018, 12:11 AM
That's funny that they redesigned him after a specific actor and then were able to higher him.
Yeah it's awesome.
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When the character resurfaced in 2002 in The Ultimates, he had been redesigned to look like actor Samuel L. Jackson.[4] and first appeared with this revised look in The Ultimates #1, as drawn by Bryan Hitch. The similarity is even noted within the comic itself, in a scene in which the Ultimates discuss who they think should play each of them in a hypothetical movie about the team. Fury's answer for himself is "Mr. Samuel L. Jackson, of course, no discussion."

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I wonder how often that happens with comics.
I'm sure probably never.  
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Post by: Legend on Sep 20, 2018, 02:36 AM
(https://i.redd.it/o9vyx16a09n11.jpg)
It's happening!



Yeah it's awesome.
I'm sure probably never.  

Well we already have 1 example so it can't be never.

Also reminds me of a joke Chris Pratt made. On parks and rec he had a joke about being in Jurassic Park 4 way before that actually happened.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 27, 2018, 11:47 AM
Joaquin Phoenix is looking pretty sick as the joker

(https://amp.thisisinsider.com/images/5babb1c4821ecf0605562485-1136-568.jpg)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Oct 03, 2018, 10:55 AM
In the biggest surprise of the week... Venom is sitting on a sweet 25% RT score.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Oct 03, 2018, 12:40 PM
In the biggest surprise of the week... Venom is sitting on a sweet 25% RT score.
HineHone the trailers didn't look good. Sure venom as a character looked cool and Tom hardy Is awesome. But the movie itself kinda looked lame
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 03, 2018, 02:38 PM
HineHone the trailers didn't look good. Sure venom as a character looked cool and Tom hardy Is awesome. But the movie itself kinda looked lame
Agreed. It looked like it had no substance.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 03, 2018, 04:59 PM
HineHone the trailers didn't look good. Sure venom as a character looked cool and Tom hardy Is awesome. But the movie itself kinda looked lame
Agreed

Was surprised to see Tom in such bad trailers
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Oct 03, 2018, 05:07 PM
"Hinehone" that's the work of my auto correct fixing the word "honestly". fudgy hell is my autocorrect shame.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 03, 2018, 05:31 PM
"Hinehone" that's the work of my auto correct fixing the word "honestly". fudgy hell is my autocorrect shame.
I was wondering if it was some local thing  ::)
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Post by: Xevross on Oct 03, 2018, 08:08 PM
HineHone the trailers didn't look good. Sure venom as a character looked cool and Tom hardy Is awesome. But the movie itself kinda looked lame
Yeah the first trailer looked okay but since then... Poop
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Ludicrous Speed on Oct 04, 2018, 03:01 PM
Venom looked terrible and they never should have bothered without the R rating.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Oct 09, 2018, 12:39 AM
Well Venom surpassed all expectations and smashed the October record with an $80M domestic opening weekend. WW total so far is $205M. Should make a pretty large profit, with a $600M+ gross overall.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 09, 2018, 03:17 AM
Well Venom surpassed all expectations and smashed the October record with an $80M domestic opening weekend. WW total so far is $205M. Should make a pretty large profit, with a $600M+ gross overall.
That's great. Sony needs a hit movie one of these years.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 14, 2018, 01:22 PM
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Post by: Legend on Oct 14, 2018, 06:09 PM

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 14, 2018, 08:58 PM
Apparently Venom is huge here in Iceland too. I wonder why it appeals so much to the casuals. Probably to do with Hardy and the cool look of Venom.

My brother said it was great but to be fair he says that about most films he sees in the cinema.

I'm just sad that Sony have failed in making Venom great in 2 movies now. Really just want Marvel's own take on him.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 30, 2018, 01:50 AM
Has anyone seen Hercules and Xena?  The movie with the Titans
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Nov 12, 2018, 02:08 PM
Holy shame. Venom made 111 in China during its debut. It's now up to 670 million, and it has "just" a 100 million production budget
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Nov 12, 2018, 06:49 PM
Holy shame. Venom made 111 in China during its debut. It's now up to 670 million, and it has "just" a 100 million production budget
Yeah it's done really well, general audiences like it a lot. The China opening is huge, second biggest CBM opening ever. Legs will be interesting.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 12, 2018, 08:35 PM
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Post by: Xevross on Nov 12, 2018, 08:41 PM

It looks creepy but I'm definitely in.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 12, 2018, 08:42 PM
Pokemon look better than I expected.  
Can't watch the trailer right  now though.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 12, 2018, 08:50 PM
Looks surprisingly good
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Nov 18, 2018, 07:44 PM
Venom is doing stupidly well in China, better second weekend than Infinity War! Legs are usually bad in China but venom has great legs. Might end up making more than Spider-Man Homecoming worldwide. Cray.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Nov 22, 2018, 11:22 PM


The next potential $2B+ grosser!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Nov 22, 2018, 11:33 PM
Just for fun, since The Lion King trailer is out, I'm gonna predict the BO gross of Disney's huge 5 films next year. I'm not expecting this to be anywhere close to accurate, not least because of varying exchange rates and stuff, but here goes:

The Lion King: $2.3B
Avengers 4: $1.9B
Toy Story 4: $1.4B
Episode IX: $1.3B
Frozen 2: $1.2B
Aladdin: $1.1B

That would be nuts, to be honest. Also TS4 above EP9 would be hilarious, I hope it happens.

Edit: somehow I forgot Frozen 2 is coming out! I would also say Captain Marvel has a decent shot at $1B too. Can you imagine 7 films grossing $1B from a single studio. Jesus. 4 is the record from Disney in 2016, so 5+ would be super impressive.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 22, 2018, 11:58 PM
Just for fun, since The Lion King trailer is out, I'm gonna predict the BO gross of Disney's huge 5 films next year. I'm not expecting this to be anywhere close to accurate, not least because of varying exchange rates and stuff, but here goes:

The Lion King: $2.3B
Avengers 4: $1.9B
Toy Story 4: $1.4B
Episode IX: $1.3B
Frozen 2: $1.2B
Aladdin: $1.1B

That would be nuts, to be honest. Also TS4 above EP9 would be hilarious, I hope it happens.

Edit: somehow I forgot Frozen 2 is coming out! I would also say Captain Marvel has a decent shot at $1B too. Can you imagine 7 films grossing $1B from a single studio. Jesus. 4 is the record from Disney in 2016, so 5+ would be super impressive.
I'd put frozen and Aladdin higher and lion king a bit lower
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Nov 23, 2018, 12:42 AM
Watching The Lion King because I haven't seen it in ages. fudgy love this film, although, who doesn't?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 24, 2018, 02:37 PM
New Lion King looks off. Not sure if it's actually a problem with the film or just my brain being used to the old one, though.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Nov 24, 2018, 02:48 PM
New Lion King looks off. Not sure if it's actually a problem with the film or just my brain being used to the old one, though.
I think it looks very realistic, but that's not necessarily a good thing. The original had amazing colours, which this one doesn't have, and its going to be much harder to show facial expressions etc.

I still really like the look of it though.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 24, 2018, 08:51 PM
Looks cool to me!
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 25, 2018, 04:20 PM
The Lion King Trailer Earns 224.6 Million Views in 24 Hours (#2 After Avengers) | ResetEra (https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-lion-king-trailer-earns-224-6-million-views-in-24-hours-2-after-avengers.82970/)

 
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Avengers: Infinity War is still #1 with 230 million. This knocks It to the #3 spot now.  
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Post by: nnodley on Nov 25, 2018, 04:30 PM
Go watch the movie, Searching.  Really good with a pretty good twist at the end.  

Also go watch TimeTrap.  It's pretty good too.  Has some sort time manipulation stuff and a weird twist towards the end, but solid overall.
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Post by: Xevross on Nov 27, 2018, 12:29 AM
Finally got around to watching Frozen lol. Good film, but Moana is miles better.

Go watch the movie, Searching.  Really good with a pretty good twist at the end.  

Also go watch TimeTrap.  It's pretty good too.  Has some sort time manipulation stuff and a weird twist towards the end, but solid overall.

Searching is next on my list, I think.
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Post by: Xevross on Nov 28, 2018, 03:32 AM
Considered watching searching but I felt like more Disney, so I watched Zootopia. Amazing film, one of Disney Animation Studio's best for sure. In fact, I think it should be up there with Pixar's better films too.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 28, 2018, 04:05 AM
Considered watching searching but I felt like more Disney, so I watched Zootopia. Amazing film, one of Disney Animation Studio's best for sure. In fact, I think it should be up there with Pixar's better films too.
Hear hear!  
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Post by: Xevross on Nov 29, 2018, 07:55 PM
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spider_man_into_the_spider_verse)

42 reviews and Spidey is on 100% with an 8.8 average rating. That's exceptional. Kinda want to see this now.

Also rumours that the Avengers 4 trailer is coming 3rd December, but they could be wrong.
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Post by: Xevross on Nov 30, 2018, 05:09 PM
We're still not sure what date, people are expecting Monday, but the Avengers 4 trailer is definitely coming next week.

Squeenix Avengers game is also almost certainly getting announced at TGA now too.
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Post by: BananaKing on Dec 01, 2018, 07:27 PM
Watched Ralph wrecks the internet, it's... Okay... No where near the awesomeness of the first
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Post by: Legend on Dec 03, 2018, 02:54 AM
Watched Ralph wrecks the internet, it's... Okay... No where near the awesomeness of the first
Ah that sucks
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 03, 2018, 11:57 AM
Captain Marvel trailer 2 tonight, Avengers 4 trailer Wednesday morning.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 04, 2018, 02:26 AM
Oh dang, Spidey Far From Home trailer 1 is also dropping this week apparently. Marvel dropping trailers for all 3 of their 2019 films in the same week, pretty rad.

Some people are suggesting that the trailers might all be connected, which would be nuts.

The Captain Marvel trailer is about to drop on ESPN!
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 04, 2018, 02:47 AM


Awesome trailer!! Way better than the first. Pretty hyped for this now.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 04, 2018, 03:01 AM
Captain Marvel looking very Doctor Strange-y. Awesome CGI effects, fairly well made, good fun. A generic but overall great Origin film. I hope. Carol looks OP.

Very much expect it to make more money than DS though, for obvious reasons. BP made $1.34B with the Avengers hype and the whole first all-black blockbuster film deal. This may crack a billy with the Avengers hype again and the first proper female Marvel lead deal. I wouldn't bet on it though.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 04, 2018, 07:05 PM
Avengers trailer delayed due to H.W.'s funeral. Bit of a bummer. Hopefully its only a day and we get it on Thursday.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 06, 2018, 04:10 PM
Golden globe noms:

Best motion picture, drama

"If Beale Street Could Talk"
"BlacKkKlansman"
"Black Panther"
"Bohemian Rhapsody"
"A Star Is Born"

Best motion picture, comedy or musical

"Crazy Rich Asians"
"The Favourite"
"Green Book"
"Mary Poppins Returns"
"Vice"

Best actress in a motion picture, drama

Glenn Close, "The Wife"
Lady Gaga, "A Star Is Born"
Nicole Kidman, "Destroyer"
Melissa McCarthy, "Can You Ever Forgive Me?"
Rosamund Pike, "A Private War"

Best actor in a motion picture, drama

Bradley Cooper, "A Star Is Born"
Willem Dafoe, "At Eternity's Gate"
Rami Malek, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
John David Washington, "BlacKkKlansman"
Lucas Hedges, "Boy Erased"


Best actor in a motion picture, comedy or musical

Christian Bale, "Vice"
Lin-Manuel Miranda, "Mary Poppins Returns"
Viggo Mortensen, "Green Book"
Robert Redford, "The Old Man and the Gun"
John C. Reilly, "Stan and Ollie"

Best actress in a motion picture, comedy or musical

Emily Blunt, "Mary Poppins Returns"
Olivia Colman, "The Favourite"
Elsie Fisher, "Eighth Grade"
Charlize Theron, "Tully"
Constance Wu, "Crazy Rich Asians"

Best director, motion picture

Bradley Cooper, "A Star Is Born"
Alfonso Cuarón, "Roma"
Peter Farrelly, "Green Book"
Spike Lee, "BlacKkKlansman"
Adam McKay, "Vice"

More listed on Era. (https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-2019-golden-globe-nominees-are-out-black-panther-nominated-for-best-motion-picture.85437/)

Hellz yeah Black Panther! Lady Gaga is so going to win, isn't she :o
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 06, 2018, 10:09 PM
Hollywood loves a good story
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 07, 2018, 01:15 PM


Beautiful. Predicted the title!!
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Post by: Legend on Dec 07, 2018, 03:27 PM


Beautiful. Predicted the title!!
Such a horrible title and meh trailer.

Infinity War part 2 would have been better imo.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 07, 2018, 03:32 PM
Such a horrible title and meh trailer.

Infinity War part 2 would have been better imo.
This is better than IW part 2. Part 1 and 2 is always such a shame title. Its the title I predicted since Doctor Strange said "we're in the end game now" in Infinity War.

Teaser was awesome, I'm glad they basically showed nothing. We're all going to watch it anyway, so why spoil shame.
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Post by: nnodley on Dec 07, 2018, 04:46 PM
This is better than IW part 2. Part 1 and 2 is always such a shame title. Its the title I predicted since Doctor Strange said "we're in the end game now" in Infinity War.

Teaser was awesome, I'm glad they basically showed nothing. We're all going to watch it anyway, so why spoil shame.
Yeah love it!  Definitley a worthless trailer, but gets people hyped again and stop peoples barking.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 07, 2018, 06:45 PM
The Lion King almost beat Infinity War for most trailer views in 24 hours across the internet. I wonder if this can become the new #1? 17.5M views on youtube, 15M on facebook, 17.5M on twitter so far (official videos only). Think 230M is the record. Might be close, but seems like it'll miss.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 08, 2018, 06:21 PM
dang, Endgame smashed the record. 289M views in 24 hours. Nuts.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 08, 2018, 06:27 PM
dang, Endgame smashed the record. 289M views in 24 hours. Nuts.
I like seeing records being smashed.  
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 14, 2018, 12:38 AM
(https://img1.ak.crunchyroll.com/i/spire3/5585d8a027dd5ef15be1a73732b9d2131544708986_full.jpg)
So HYPED!!
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 14, 2018, 10:21 PM
So Spider-Man Into the Spider Verse is absolutely fudgy brilliant. Wow.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 14, 2018, 11:09 PM
So Spider-Man Into the Spider Verse is absolutely fudgy brilliant. Wow.
So I've heard!
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 14, 2018, 11:13 PM
So I've heard!
I've also heard this.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 14, 2018, 11:22 PM
So I've heard!
I've also heard this.
Yeah. I've never read a comic in my life, not really that much of a fan but I went because I heard it was good and wowee. It nails pretty much everything, the animation is great, action is great, it's hilarious, emotional, brilliant story. Just brilliant. Might have replaced Mission as my #1 film of 2018. Need to watch again.

Friend I went to watch it with said it's her new favourite animated film and I might agree. It's like the incredibles but just better.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 14, 2018, 11:29 PM
Yeah. I've never read a comic in my life, not really that much of a fan but I went because I heard it was good and wowee. It nails pretty much everything, the animation is great, action is great, it's hilarious, emotional, brilliant story. Just brilliant. Might have replaced Mission as my #1 film of 2018. Need to watch again.

Friend I went to watch it with said it's her new favourite animated film and I might agree. It's like the incredibles but just better.
Best spidey movie ever?
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 14, 2018, 11:31 PM
Yeah. I've never read a comic in my life, not really that much of a fan but I went because I heard it was good and wowee. It nails pretty much everything, the animation is great, action is great, it's hilarious, emotional, brilliant story. Just brilliant. Might have replaced Mission as my #1 film of 2018. Need to watch again.

Friend I went to watch it with said it's her new favourite animated film and I might agree. It's like the incredibles but just better.
Better than the Incredibles?  
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 14, 2018, 11:46 PM
Best spidey movie ever?
Yes.
Better than the Incredibles?  
Yes.

Although I'm not the biggest fan of the Raimi films.

I am a big fan of the incredibles though.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 15, 2018, 12:46 AM
I need to watch it again to be sure but I think this is the best Marvel movie. The Dark Knight is the only superhero film I'd say is better, and even then I think this might take the crown if I still love it as much after a re-watch. Movie is just almost flawless.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 15, 2018, 12:56 AM
I need to watch it again to be sure but I think this is the best Marvel movie. The Dark Knight is the only superhero film I'd say is better, and even then I think this might take the crown if I still love it as much after a re-watch. Movie is just almost flawless.
Dang son.
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Post by: Legend on Dec 15, 2018, 05:08 AM
What are the origins of this film? It felt odd that people were treating it as a big movie 12 months ago but time proved them right.

That's some pretty glowing praise xev!
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Post by: Legend on Dec 27, 2018, 09:12 PM


Looks cool
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 28, 2018, 01:06 PM


Looks cool
Indeed, looks good!

Haven't talked Box office for a while, but here goes!:

Aquaman is doing really well, especially in China. Its going to beat BvS to be the top grossing DCEU film, and has a good shot at $1B WW. If it manages that it'll make it 5 $1B+ grossers this year, matching 2015's record of 5 in one year.

Mary Poppins is disappointing but Christmas legs are helping it make a respectable amount of money. Bumblebee is doing pretty badly. Spidey is doing fairly well and will make a decent profit but deserves so much more.
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 28, 2018, 01:29 PM
I was looking for this thread to say I saw Into the Spiderverse a few days ago.  So good!  Love what they did with Gwen, I had to go finish reading her books.  Mile's stuff might be too long to read, I have to see how many issues of Ultimate he was Spider-man for.  But his story was good.  I didn't like Peter's voice actor though.  Not so much his acting, cause he was spot on, but he had such a baritone voice, it threw me off.
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Post by: Xevross on Jan 06, 2019, 07:18 PM
Bohemian Rhapsody is still making lots of money, Japan loves it! Looks like it's going to finish around $800M. Crazy how well it's done.

Aquaman is now the top grossing DCEU film, will past $1B next weekend. Should beat the dark Knight films for DC's #1 ever, and Warner's 2nd highest ever behind the last Harry potter.

Spidey, Bee and Poppins are all doing fine. They should all make money, but have been slight disappointments. China does love Bumblebee though, so it might make it to $500M WW, which would be good considering its lower budget.

Solo has been knocked out of the 2018 worldwide top 20 by Ralph.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 06, 2019, 08:22 PM
Bohemian Rhapsody is still making lots of money, Japan loves it! Looks like it's going to finish around $800M. Crazy how well it's done.

Aquaman is now the top grossing DCEU film, will past $1B next weekend. Should beat the dark Knight films for DC's #1 ever, and Warner's 2nd highest ever behind the last Harry potter.

Spidey, Bee and Poppins are all doing fine. They should all make money, but have been slight disappointments. China does love Bumblebee though, so it might make it to $500M WW, which would be good considering its lower budget.

Solo has been knocked out of the 2018 worldwide top 20 by Ralph.
Aquaman is crazy. The vibrant colors and fun nature of it definitely helps
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Post by: Xevross on Jan 06, 2019, 09:44 PM
Aquaman is crazy. The vibrant colors and fun nature of it definitely helps
Yeah it does look great. Benji was saying it's a star wars film in disguise and I kind of agree, it's very star warsy, and audiences love it.
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Post by: Legend on Jan 15, 2019, 07:28 PM
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Post by: BananaKing on Jan 15, 2019, 07:56 PM
Yeah it does look great. Benji was saying it's a star wars film in disguise and I kind of agree, it's very star warsy, and audiences love it.
huh? how is it starwarsy?
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Post by: Xevross on Jan 15, 2019, 08:08 PM
huh? how is it starwarsy?
Replace Space with Ocean and its classic star wars. Main character and a few select others with 'force'-like abilities. Ships that fly/ propel around very sci-fi looking, dark environments. Many alien looking races, crazy visual effects, lightsaber/ trident duels, main hero is 'the chosen one'.

Very Star Wars.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 18, 2019, 04:22 AM
I didn't realize Kingsman had such a conservative bent the first time I watched it. 
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Post by: Xevross on Jan 22, 2019, 02:41 PM
Black Panther with 7 Oscar moms including best picture. Well, Disney got what they wanted  ;D
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Post by: Legend on Jan 22, 2019, 04:02 PM
Melissa McCarthy was nominated for best actress. It'll be funny seeing that listed on her comedies from now on.
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Post by: Xevross on Jan 22, 2019, 04:58 PM
Melissa McCarthy was nominated for best actress. It'll be funny seeing that listed on her comedies from now on.
That's great. I do love Melissa McCarthy, well deserved.

I once again have only seen one of the best pic moms. Think I'll watch at least ASiB at some point.
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Post by: Legend on Jan 22, 2019, 05:07 PM
That's great. I do Melissa McCarthy, well deserved.

I once again have only seen one of the best pic moms. Think I'll watch at least ASiB at some point.
I like her a lot too. Spy was the turning point for me.

I've seen Black Panther and Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 22, 2019, 10:37 PM
That's great. I do love Melissa McCarthy, well deserved.

I once again have only seen one of the best pic moms. Think I'll watch at least ASiB at some point.
Two for me.

Also, Avengers only got 1 nom!
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Post by: Xevross on Jan 22, 2019, 11:16 PM
Two for me.

Also, Avengers only got 1 nom!
Noms are rare for Marvel films. Disney just decided it was their sole purpose in life to try and get Black Panther as many noms as possible.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 22, 2019, 11:43 PM
Noms are rare for Marvel films. Disney just decided it was their sole purpose in life to try and get Black Panther as many noms as possible.
What did they  do?
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Post by: Xevross on Jan 23, 2019, 08:42 AM
What did they  do?
They were pushing for I think 15 nominations for black panther. Sending leaflets to academy members, extra screenings and press runs. Things like that.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 23, 2019, 04:40 PM
They were pushing for I think 15 nominations for black panther. Sending leaflets to academy members, extra screenings and press runs. Things like that.
Rigged!
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Post by: Legend on Jan 23, 2019, 07:32 PM
Rigged!
That's how almost every Oscar movie gets nominated.
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Post by: Xevross on Jan 27, 2019, 05:33 PM
Aquaman is now the highest grossing DC film ever (passed Dark Knight Rises) with $1.09B WW. Also I think that makes it WB's #2 ever, behind the last Harry Potter.
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Post by: Legend on Jan 29, 2019, 07:23 PM
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Post by: BananaKing on Jan 30, 2019, 09:49 AM
Aquaman is now the highest grossing DC film ever (passed Dark Knight Rises) with $1.09B WW. Also I think that makes it WB's #2 ever, behind the last Harry Potter.
Talk about undeserved lol

I don't like Harry potter, but I can't deny it's genius and ingenuity. And aquaman, while not passed the line to sucking, it's on the verge.

And yes, I watched it. It's... Meh lol. Fun at times though I'll admit .
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Post by: Xevross on Jan 30, 2019, 12:18 PM
Talk about undeserved lol

I don't like Harry potter, but I can't deny it's genius and ingenuity. And aquaman, while not passed the line to sucking, it's on the verge.

And yes, I watched it. It's... Meh lol. Fun at times though I'll admit .
It's the fun December star wars film that we didn't get. People wanted to see a film like this at Christmas and it was the only one.

Also China loves it, which helps.
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Post by: Legend on Jan 30, 2019, 05:57 PM
Bad times at the el royale was great. I'm surprised it didn't do better critically or commercially.
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Post by: Xevross on Jan 31, 2019, 05:58 PM
2018 WORLDWIDE PERFORMANCE



Disney are the kings of the big 6, with Fox under their wing they'll be about double WB in terms of yearly gross as well. 2019 is going to be massive for Disney, but WB should also have another great year. It'll be interesting to see how Universal's Hobbs and Shaw film does, can it reach the $1B+ heights of the other films in the Fast franchise?

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2018&p=.htm

Here's the 2018 list by film. Interesting year with 5 $1B+ grossers. I expect 2019 will beat this with probably 6-7 films cracking a billy. Bohemian Rhapsody and Solo are probably the big standouts, you'd probably have them switched around if you were asked at the start of the year.
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Post by: Xevross on Feb 11, 2019, 03:46 AM


What an awful trailer. This alone is making me want to scratch this film off the potential 2019 billy list. If this is a good reflection of the quality of the film then this could be a bomba
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 11, 2019, 04:22 AM


What an awful trailer. This alone is making me want to scratch this film off the potential 2019 billy list. If this is a good reflection of the quality of the film then this could be a bomba
They barely showed much, and it was weird. 

This era comment is on point. 
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And Genie..... WTF it's basically a fat, blue Will Smith
Jafar needs to sound more menacing.  Or menacing at all for a start... 

(https://abload.de/img/7b347747-159d-4954-apgkfp.jpeg)

He looks better here.
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Post by: nnodley on Feb 11, 2019, 02:56 PM


What an awful trailer. This alone is making me want to scratch this film off the potential 2019 billy list. If this is a good reflection of the quality of the film then this could be a bomba
I think it looks ok! But i never was into alladin so i don't have any attachment to the cartoon or anything.
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Post by: Xevross on Feb 11, 2019, 03:47 PM
I think it looks ok! But i never was into alladin so i don't have any attachment to the cartoon or anything.
Okay is quite generous imo. Let's not forget that this is a fairly big budget Disney film. It should be a lot better than this.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 11, 2019, 06:55 PM


What an awful trailer. This alone is making me want to scratch this film off the potential 2019 billy list. If this is a good reflection of the quality of the film then this could be a bomba
Too bad. Saw the Broadway play the other day and it was very good!
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Post by: Legend on Feb 11, 2019, 08:06 PM
Yeah that does look off, but I thought the same thing about so many recent Disney movies that ended up being mega hits.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 11, 2019, 08:18 PM
Yeah that does look off, but I thought the same thing about so many recent Disney movies that ended up being mega hits.
I don't think the other ones were so poorly recieved though.  
Era hates it.  
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Post by: Xevross on Feb 11, 2019, 09:06 PM
Yeah that does look off, but I thought the same thing about so many recent Disney movies that ended up being mega hits.
Like what? Disney hasn't really had any mega hits outside of Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar and their main animation studio and those films always look great.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 11, 2019, 10:46 PM
Like what? Disney hasn't really had any mega hits outside of Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar and their main animation studio and those films always look great.
I assumed he was talking about Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, etc.  
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Post by: Xevross on Feb 11, 2019, 11:04 PM
I assumed he was talking about Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, etc. 
Yes those two are the only two I thought he could be referring to. There isn't an etcetera. Unless he's a blasphemer who would speak ill of Disney animation.

Anyway, BatB was good and had decent trailers. I can't say much about Jungle Book though.

Disney films that look bad usually bomb. And they do have quite a lot of those. AWiT, Nutcracker both bombed last year for example. Poppins and Christopher Robin were also well under expectations.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 11, 2019, 11:08 PM
Yes those two are the only two I thought he could be referring to. There isn't an etcetera. Unless he's a blasphemer who would speak ill of Disney animation.
Unless he were including Alice, Christopher Robin wasn't super successful.

Pretty sure he didn't love recent Pixar.
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Post by: Xevross on Feb 11, 2019, 11:16 PM
Unless he were including Alice, Christopher Robin wasn't super successful.

Pretty sure he didn't love recent Pixar.
You'd never describe Pixar films as looking off though. I suppose Alice would count, but I remember thinking the Alice trailers were quite good.
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Post by: Legend on Feb 11, 2019, 11:38 PM
Jungle book, beauty and the beast, most of pixar nowadays, zootopia, moana, and frozen. I ended up loving a lot of these but they had some poor trailers imo.

Disney makes some trash movies like wrinkle in time but those always feel like a side venture to real disney.
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Post by: Xevross on Feb 12, 2019, 12:41 AM
Jungle book, beauty and the beast, most of pixar nowadays, zootopia, moana, and frozen. I ended up loving a lot of these but they had some poor trailers imo.

Disney makes some trash movies like wrinkle in time but those always feel like a side venture to real disney.
Fair enough. I don't recall any trailers looking as bad as this one though. Almost everything about this film seems wrong, and the trailer itself is so badly edited.
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Post by: Legend on Feb 13, 2019, 07:21 AM
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Post by: Xevross on Feb 13, 2019, 02:06 PM


Now that's a good Disney trailer. And holy crud that CGI quality is insane.
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Post by: Legend on Feb 15, 2019, 06:17 AM


Now that's a good Disney trailer. And holy crud that CGI quality is insane.
I need to rewatch it in higher quality and on the official upload but the trailer felt like it was missing some sound effects lol.


Anyway I watched Incredibles 2. I don't know if I'd say it's better than the first one, but it's awesome that it's even a debate. It's my favorite Pixar movie in a long long time. Also I always thought the underminer was a mole creature and not a human lol.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 15, 2019, 03:09 PM
I need to rewatch it in higher quality and on the official upload but the trailer felt like it was missing some sound effects lol.


Anyway I watched Incredibles 2. I don't know if I'd say it's better than the first one, but it's awesome that it's even a debate. It's my favorite Pixar movie in a long long time. Also I always thought the underminer was a mole creature and not a human lol.
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br><br><br><br>There&#39;s two things that I feel weird about with Incredibles 2.<br><br>In Incredibles 1, it feels more like relocating the supers was just a government program type thing.&nbsp; <br><br>And that not being able to be supers was more of an informal rule that they&#39;d get in trouble for breaking, not that there were actually laws written to prevent it.&nbsp; But then 2 really hammers in that there actually laws written about it.&nbsp; <br><br>So for me that feels weird.&nbsp; <br><br>It&#39;s also weird to think that the viewer and syndrome are the only ones that know what happened to Jack Jack at the end of 1.&nbsp; <br><br>


Great movie. 
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Post by: Legend on Feb 17, 2019, 04:52 AM
A star is born was good. I cried a lot since I had something stuck in my throat lol.
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Post by: Xevross on Feb 24, 2019, 02:20 AM
Wanted to watch a film so I looked back on some from the last two years. I saw Blade Runner 2049, remember hearing it was great so I decided to watch it.

Man, what a complete waste of time. One of the most boring films I've ever seen. Gosling is a brilliant actor though.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 24, 2019, 07:37 AM
(https://i.redd.it/z7bpgzu2idi21.jpg)
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 24, 2019, 09:48 AM
Wanted to watch a film so I looked back on some from the last two years. I saw Blade Runner 2049, remember hearing it was great so I decided to watch it.

Man, what a complete waste of time. One of the most boring films I've ever seen. Gosling is a brilliant actor though.
I can't look at you
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Post by: Xevross on Feb 24, 2019, 04:16 PM
I can't look at you
Can you argue the case of the film? I want to understand how anyone can think its entertaining.

Box office update here! Alita has almost bombed, with a poor opening last week and average at best legs, its going to lose money most likely. China likes the film but not enough. Lego Movie 2 is also a massive BO disappointment, came in well below tracking and legs have only been okay. Overseas Lego performance is nothing short of dire.

How to Train Your Dragon is very impressive however, its opening this weekend in america was extremely good and overseas has been strong so far.

Aquaman has overtaken Iron Man 3's overseas gross and is now the top grossing solo superhero film overseas. Only the three Avengers films made more. Worldwide it made it into the top 20 all time and will finish just short of Cap Civil War with just under $1.15B.
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Post by: Legend on Feb 24, 2019, 04:39 PM
Can you argue the case of the film? I want to understand how anyone can think its entertaining.
Did you watch the original blade runner first?

The great cool thing about blade runner 2048 is that it really pushes that film to the next level.

Spoiler for Hidden:
By this film you already view replicants as &quot;alive&quot; and as being special so the film does a great job of breaking that expectation and complicating things. K is not special and is not the chosen one. He is a machine like all the other replicants. The only unique thing about him is that he thought he was special.<br><br>This is the underlying message of the movie. The truth is irrelevant. Take for example in the movie when K asks if Harrison Ford&#39;s dog is real. Ford jokingly tells him to ask the dog because it doesn&#39;t make a difference.<br><br>The AIs in this movie are used as the new moral question. Are they alive just like the replicants from the first film? Blade Runner 2048&#39;s take is that they are factually machines just following their programing yet still &quot;the truth is irrelevant.&quot; K has prescribed meaning to his AI and that is what matters. After her death he sees the giant naked hologram of the same AI and is given the same nickname of Legend. On one hand this breaks the illusion of her being alive, but simultaneously it cements that his feelings for her were real.



Plus it was just a great looking movie with awesome sound effects!
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 24, 2019, 06:30 PM
Did you watch the original blade runner first?

The great cool thing about blade runner 2048 is that it really pushes that film to the next level.

Spoiler for Hidden:
By this film you already view replicants as "alive" and as being special so the film does a great job of breaking that expectation and complicating things. K is not special and is not the chosen one. He is a machine like all the other replicants. The only unique thing about him is that he thought he was special.

This is the underlying message of the movie. The truth is irrelevant. Take for example in the movie when K asks if Harrison Ford's dog is real. Ford jokingly tells him to ask the dog because it doesn't make a difference.

The AIs in this movie are used as the new moral question. Are they alive just like the replicants from the first film? Blade Runner 2048's take is that they are factually machines just following their programing yet still "the truth is irrelevant." K has prescribed meaning to his AI and that is what matters. After her death he sees the giant naked hologram of the same AI and is given the same nickname of Legend. On one hand this breaks the illusion of her being alive, but simultaneously it cements that his feelings for her were real.



Plus it was just a great looking movie with awesome sound effects!
Agreed. Really makes it better to have seen the original but overall the acting, cinematography, sound effects and music were just unreal. The underlying message and plot is just icing on the cake.
That flying in the city scene near the beginning stunned me.

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Post by: Xevross on Feb 24, 2019, 08:07 PM
I agree with all that. Its a good looking film and has a powerful message... But that doesn't change that it was horrifically boring. No wonder it bombed at the box office...
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 24, 2019, 10:46 PM
I agree with all that. Its a good looking film and has a powerful message... But that doesn't change that it was horrifically boring. No wonder it bombed at the box office...
I don't think it bombing has much to do with the pacing lol. The original also bombed hard.
I dno though, I was never bored. I don't need much action to keep focused.
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Post by: Legend on Feb 24, 2019, 10:58 PM
Oscars are tonight. Who do you all expect to win?

I've seen Black Panther, A star is born, Bohemian Rhapsody, and BlackkKlansman for best picture nominees. BlackkKlansman was my favorite but I expect Roma to win since it has all the buzz.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 24, 2019, 11:31 PM
Oscars are tonight. Who do you all expect to win?

I've seen Black Panther, A star is born, Bohemian Rhapsody, and BlackkKlansman for best picture nominees. BlackkKlansman was my favorite but I expect Roma to win since it has all the buzz.
I mean Roma is good but it's kinda boring   8) .

I'd expect that to win though. Rami Malek should win best actor.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 25, 2019, 07:15 AM
Green Book won! Roma got best director tho
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Post by: Legend on Feb 25, 2019, 07:45 AM
Green Book won! Roma got best director tho
Green Book looked good so I'm happy with that win. In general it was nice that everything was spread out and nothing swept the awards. I managed to only predict like 9 of them lol.
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Post by: Xevross on Feb 25, 2019, 10:48 AM
lol Era looks so salty. I guess I should read about Green Book's apparent racism somewhere else, in case its just Era being Era. My mum really liked that film anyway. But Bohemian Rhapsody winning best editing and best sound editing is just hilarious, hardly any films deserved it less.

And yay the MCU finally has an Oscar, and it has two in fact. Black Panther absolutely deserves best costume design and production design, so bravo.

So, so happy for Olivia Colman, I love her. Nothing like a bit of girl on girl!
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 25, 2019, 11:50 AM
lol Era looks so salty. I guess I should read about Green Book's apparent racism somewhere else, in case its just Era being Era. My mum really liked that film anyway.
I just did.  
Between Era and other sites.  

It's not that it's a horribly racist film ("plenty of nonracist people will enjoy it"), it just makes a hero out of a racist cop who "isn't too racist to take a black man's money".  And someone said it pushes the "I'm not racist, I have a black friend" argument.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 25, 2019, 09:47 PM
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 26, 2019, 12:10 AM
lol Era looks so salty. I guess I should read about Green Book's apparent racism somewhere else, in case its just Era being Era. My mum really liked that film anyway. But Bohemian Rhapsody winning best editing and best sound editing is just hilarious, hardly any films deserved it less.

And yay the MCU finally has an Oscar, and it has two in fact. Black Panther absolutely deserves best costume design and production design, so bravo.

So, so happy for Olivia Colman, I love her. Nothing like a bit of girl on girl!
Black Panther actually got three Oscars lulz
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 26, 2019, 01:41 AM
Black Panther actually got three Oscars lulz
He forgot best original score .
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Post by: Xevross on Feb 26, 2019, 06:21 PM


Man this is gonna be a great movie.

Black Panther actually got three Oscars lulz
Oh cool. I just read on the BBC story that BP made history with two awards going to black people for the first time and they didn't mention BP won another one. 3 Oscars is awesome, and probably deserved. Score and costumes are the strong points of the film.

It ain't the best MCU film, but it deserves an Oscar the most, none of the other MCU films excel in an Oscar category like BP does with the ones it won.
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Post by: Xevross on Feb 26, 2019, 06:26 PM
In other news, insecure manbabies were review bombing captain marvel on rotten tomatoes. Maybe due to this or maybe a separate decision, RT removed reviews before release date and all you can do now is press if you want to see. Of course, the manbabies are even more upset now and its hilarious.

Captain Marvel is sounding really great, every social media impression has been positive so far. I'm hyped as fudge.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 26, 2019, 06:54 PM
In other news, insecure manbabies were review bombing captain marvel on rotten tomatoes. Maybe due to this or maybe a separate decision, RT removed reviews before release date and all you can do now is press if you want to see. Of course, the manbabies are even more upset now and its hilarious.

Captain Marvel is sounding really great, every social media impression has been positive so far. I'm hyped as fudge.
Official or user reviews?
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Post by: Xevross on Feb 27, 2019, 01:54 AM
Official or user reviews?
User, obviously ::)
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Post by: Legend on Mar 01, 2019, 06:02 AM
I rented Disney's nutcracker from the library. Wasn't as bad as I was expecting but it was still fairly bad. Some of the scenes were extremely creepy and must have given nightmares to a bunch of kids.
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 07, 2019, 01:23 PM
Captain Marvel opens worldwide this weekend (everywhere except Japan) by virtue of this, expect one of the biggest opening weekends of all time.

Film has a very good 83% on RT: Captain Marvel (2019) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/captain_marvel) so hopefully legs will be good too. How much money the film is going to make is anyone's guess right now, but $1bn looks extremely possible.

We have some international numbers coming in and so far its matching or besting Black Panther everywhere, which is great. China is a big variable. Pre-sales are huge (second best in MCU) but word of mouth might be bad. Opening in China could reach $100M, which would be brilliant. If it does that then breaking into the all time WW top 5 openings is on the table.

Domestic opening still could be anywhere, but anything $150M+ would be fantastic. Top MCU openings:

Infinity War $257M
Avengers $207M
Black Panther $202M
Ultron $191M
Civil War $179M
Iron Man 3 $174M
GOTG2 $146M
Thor Ragnorok $122M

Besides Black Panther it should easily be the biggest solo MCU debut.
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Post by: Legend on Mar 08, 2019, 08:32 PM
Oh I saw venom the other day. It was kinda good how bad it was.
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 08, 2019, 10:00 PM
CM did $20.7M domestic thursday previews, which is great. Heading for around a $150M opening weekend. China opening weekend is heading for around $100M. WW should come in around $450M, challenging TLJ for the 6th biggest worldwide opening ever.
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 09, 2019, 02:58 AM
Captain Marvel is a good film! A very good origin story and definitely written with the intention of releasing it a month before Endgame.

I'd say its mid-tier MCU. Definitely better than the Ant-Mans, Iron Man 2&3, Thor 1&2 and Hulk. Around Doctor Strange and Cap 1 quality. Reminded me of Iron Man 1 in a few ways, especially pacing. Lacking in action but I love all the characters and it had some good weird shame. Hyped to see Carol wreck shame in Endgame!
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Post by: Legend on Mar 09, 2019, 09:22 PM
Green book was pretty good.
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Post by: Legend on Mar 10, 2019, 05:32 AM
I'm more excited for shazam than end game.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 10, 2019, 08:07 AM
I'm more excited for shazam than end game.
Say my name
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 10, 2019, 01:46 PM
I'm more excited for shazam than end game.
How does it feel being one of a kind?

:P
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 10, 2019, 04:25 PM
Captain Marvel with a massive estimated $455M global debut. That beats Star Wars The Last Jedi and becomes the 6th biggest of all time. If you don't count China its still in the top 20 all time worldwide debuts.

$153M is the domestic estimate, although people think Disney are lowballing that a little bit. Still, that's the third biggest March debut ever, 7th biggest MCU  debut.



Awesome performance. $1B is pretty much locked, and I didn't expect Captain Marvel to hit a billy. Only disappointment is China, where it came in a lot lower than expected considering its presales. China number is still great, its just it was expected to be higher. Also it had the biggest Sunday drop for a superhero film ever in China, so legs aren't going to be good.
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 11, 2019, 01:21 PM
My MCU ranking, upon reflection:

Top tier (10/10):

High tier (9/10):

Mid tier (8/10):

Low tier (7/10):

Bottom tier (6/10):

Genuine bad film tier (4-5/10):
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 12, 2019, 08:43 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B2pXKlhLlw

Looks pretty good, just wish Jafar was more menacing
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 14, 2019, 12:53 PM


Now this is how you do a movie trailer. Insanely hype while showing barely anything. Poster:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1nkUypU8AAIZ72.jpg:large)

Aladdin trailer was also great, miles better than the teaser.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 14, 2019, 04:10 PM


Now this is how you do a movie trailer. Insanely hype while showing barely anything. Poster:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1nkUypU8AAIZ72.jpg:large)

Aladdin trailer was also great, miles better than the teaser.
Really hype!
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 15, 2019, 10:27 PM
Disney brings back James Gunn for Guardians of the Galaxy 3 | ResetEra (https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-brings-back-james-gunn-for-guardians-of-the-galaxy-3.105553/)

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   EXCLUSIVE: Redemption and second chances have long been superhero movie staples, and today it looks like life has imitated art. I've learned that Disney has reinstated James Gunn (https://deadline.com/tag/james-gunn/) as the writer-director of Guardians of the Galaxy (https://deadline.com/tag/guardians-of-the-galaxy/) 3, and I've confirmed it with Marvel and Gunn's camp.  Click to expand...  nice

 Gunn is still doing Suicide Squad 2

   Gunn's return to Guardians of the Galaxy 3 got complicated when he signed on to write and direct the Suicide Squad sequel for Warner Bros and DC. Marvel Studios has agreed to commence production on Guardians of the Galaxy 3 after Gunn completes Suicide Squad 2  Click to expand...     
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Yes! fudge yes! Disney did the right thing.
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 16, 2019, 08:46 AM
After poor initial legs, Captain Marvel is having a good second weekend in China. Heading for around a $150m total there, which is great.

Legs have been good every day so far elsewhere in the world, particularly in the US where it seems CM may challenge Wonder Woman's incredible $412M domestic record.

Worldwide, CM is heading for $1.1B and may land really close to Aquaman's $1.14B global total, which is pretty funny. I didn't expect this level of success, great start to the year for Disney and we're basically confirmed to get a new record number of billy grossers in a year now.
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 18, 2019, 12:06 AM
Endgame trailer 2 is the second most viewed trailer in first 24 hours in history, second only to Endgame trailer 1!
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Post by: Legend on Mar 19, 2019, 02:49 PM
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Post by: Legend on Mar 21, 2019, 07:10 PM
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 21, 2019, 07:33 PM
Lots of hype trailers in the past few days

Avengers, toy story, got, stranger things 3, once upon a time in Hollywood, John wick
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Post by: Legend on Mar 24, 2019, 05:15 PM
Spiderman spider verse was brilliant. I totally understand all the praise now.
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Mar 24, 2019, 11:30 PM
Spiderman spider verse was brilliant. I totally understand all the praise now.
Which reminds me, I have to buy the bluray.  Which double reminds me, Samsung stopped making bluray players.  I'm not happy.
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 28, 2019, 11:50 AM
Avengers Endgame is going to release in China at the same time as the rest of the world. Worldwide opening weekend record is going to be absolutely destroyed, RDR2 is going to lose that opening weekend entertainment record that it claimed.
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Post by: BananaKing on Mar 28, 2019, 03:53 PM
Avengers Endgame is going to release in China at the same time as the rest of the world. Worldwide opening weekend record is going to be absolutely destroyed, RDR2 is going to lose that opening weekend entertainment record that it claimed.
750 million? Hmmmm not sure about that. But it will be close.

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Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 28, 2019, 04:16 PM
750 million? Hmmmm not sure about that. But it will be close.


Infinity War did around $830 million opening if you include China's opening (3 weeks later).
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 28, 2019, 07:22 PM
750 million? Hmmmm not sure about that. But it will be close.
Infinity War did around $830 million opening if you include China's opening (3 weeks later).
Exactly. Endgame is guaranteed $800m+ opening. People think a billion is in play but that's really, really, really tough  ;D
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Post by: Xevross on Apr 02, 2019, 12:27 PM
Endgame tickets are out now. Sounds like every ticket place is bricking it ;D

Trying to buy my tickets from Vue but their website has now died.
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Post by: Xevross on Apr 02, 2019, 10:54 PM
Avengers Endgame set the new record for first day ticket presales on fandango. In 6 hours. Fandango was down and struggling with queues most of the time as well.

Previous record holder was TFA. Infinity War was actually #4 behind TLJ and Rogue One as well, so this is a huge jump straight above Star Wars.
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Post by: Legend on Apr 03, 2019, 03:07 PM


I thought Jared Leto was making the joker movie  :P
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 03, 2019, 03:21 PM


I thought Jared Leto was making the joker movie  :P
Huh. Didn't notice the hype?
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Post by: Legend on Apr 03, 2019, 05:01 PM
Huh. Didn't notice the hype?
I'm a hipster. If something is hyped, I tend to miss it.
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Post by: Xevross on Apr 10, 2019, 03:28 PM
https://www.resetera.com/threads/avengers-endgame-advance-ticket-sales-set-new-record-outpacing-infinity-war-by-5-to-1.110708/ (https://www.resetera.com/threads/avengers-endgame-advance-ticket-sales-set-new-record-outpacing-infinity-war-by-5-to-1.110708/)

Endgame first week advanced ticket sales almost double Aquaman, The Last Jedi, Infinity War and Captain Marvel combined.
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Post by: Xevross on Apr 12, 2019, 10:09 AM
More Endgame presale news: it went on sale in China and completely exploded.

In only a few hours is has become the 6th highest grossing midnight previews ever, overtaking every superhero film except Infinity War. Madness.

And that's without China's biggest cinema chain, Wanda, which is just starting to sell its tickets now.
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Post by: BananaKing on Apr 12, 2019, 01:10 PM
More Endgame presale news: it went on sale in China and completely exploded.

In only a few hours is has become the 6th highest grossing midnight previews ever, overtaking every superhero film except Infinity War. Madness.

And that's without China's biggest cinema chain, Wanda, which is just starting to sell its tickets now.
The question is. Can this beat avatar?
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Post by: Xevross on Apr 12, 2019, 01:48 PM
The question is. Can this beat avatar?
The answer is: no! Well, its like a 1% chance, this film will see insane frontloading and will most likely make more than Infinity War but Avatar is still so far away, it would need to grow 37% from Infinity War which is just a massive jump to try and achieve.

Personally I'm thinking it'll land around $2.3-2.4b, comfortable #2 all time but still a way off Avatar. If exchange rate was better it might be possible, but exchange rate is too poor right now. For example, IW made $201m opening weekend in China but if it launched today that would only be $189 due to poor exchange rate.

Anyway, speaking of China here's the top 5 hollywood movie midnight previews of all time in chinese Yuan:

The Fate of the Furious - 62.71m
Avengers Infinity War - 59.49m
Furious 7 - 52.46m
Warcraft -  50.17m
Avengers Endgame - 45.79m (less than 10 hours of presales)
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Post by: Legend on Apr 12, 2019, 07:14 PM


Eh
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Post by: Xevross on Apr 12, 2019, 08:36 PM


Eh
Eh indeed.
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Post by: Legend on Apr 12, 2019, 08:55 PM
Eh indeed.
I will always love how much Rian Johnson screwed up JJ Abrams' mystery boxes. This trailer shows Kylo Ren getting his helmet back and teases a new ominous villain to replace Snoke. The movie will try to act like episode 8 didn't happen.
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Post by: Legend on Apr 12, 2019, 11:59 PM
Sweet!

Tomb Raider Movie Sequel in Development, Alicia Vikander is Back as Lara | ResetEra (https://www.resetera.com/threads/tomb-raider-movie-sequel-in-development-alicia-vikander-is-back-as-lara.111220/)

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More than a year after Alicia Vikander debuted as Lara Croft in 2018's Tomb Raider, MGM and Warner Bros. are looking to jumpstart a sequel.

 MGM tapped Amy Jump, who adapted High-Rise for actor Tom Hiddleston and co-wrote Free Fire with Ben Wheatley, to start development on Tomb Raider 2, EW has learned.

 Plot details are still under wraps at this point, but given that the first film, written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons, was rooted so heavily in the prequel video game trilogy, fans can probably come up with a few guesses.  Click to expand...  https://ew.com/movies/2019/04/12/tomb-raider-2-alicia-vikander-amy-jump/ (https://ew.com/movies/2019/04/12/tomb-raider-2-alicia-vikander-amy-jump/?utm_content=link&utm_term=0389AA82-5D49-11E9-BADC-93BC4744363C&utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_ew&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com)  
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Post by: Xevross on Apr 13, 2019, 10:29 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D4AaRcdUIAARFk4.jpg)
Image of China presales in thousands of yuan. The flatter bit was when most of China was asleep.

Also on box office theory an insider who has access to raw numbers from a major theatre chain in the US said presales have reached $29.3m already for Endgame. The all time record pre sales for this chain (which has about a third of domestic market) is TFA with $36m. That's gonna be destroyed.

Box office experts are starting to talk of a billion dollar global debut being a realistic possibility. Would be almost double any other film except IW.
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Post by: Xevross on Apr 13, 2019, 12:26 PM
With 10 days still to go, Endgame has just become the biggest midnights film ever in China. When all is said and done it's probably going to have roughly doubled the previous record.
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Post by: Xevross on Apr 16, 2019, 02:15 AM
There has been a massive Avengers Endgame leak online. 4 minutes of footage which spoils the climax and ending, all over social media.
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Post by: Legend on Apr 16, 2019, 03:43 AM
Gosh I hope I don't get spoiled. Some subreddit mods love putting spoilers on content that reaches the front page.
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Post by: Xevross on Apr 16, 2019, 10:17 AM
Gosh I hope I don't get spoiled. Some subreddit mods love putting spoilers on content that reaches the front page.
Yeah no Reddit for me for the next week. People on era who watched it said that nothing too major in terms of plot is spoiled, just what seems like the film's most epic moments.

But apparently it looks absolutely incredible.
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Post by: Xevross on Apr 18, 2019, 01:46 PM
Avengers Endgame has become the first film ever to hit 100m Yuan midnights in China. Previous all time record was 62m Yuan by Fast 8, Endgame still has 5 more days to keep selling, will easily double the previous record when all is said and done. Overall presales at 367m Yuan, which is #2 all time behind Infinity War at 410m. EG will become the best ever probably tomorrow or day after.

In Brazil, Endgame has already become the top preseller of all time with only 3 days of presales and is also the #2 movie of the year behind Captain Marvel already.

South Korea has presold sold 1.1mil tickets in just over 2 days, is about to overtake Infinity War for all time best presales with a week still to go. No other movie has presold over 1mil tickets before.

Also over 1.1mil presales in the UK for endgame, is running neck and neck with TFA for the all time record here. Note that TFA had a big boost due to preselling a lot after OW as well, like on Christmas day.

In Hong Kong, Endgame overtook Infinity War as #1 all time preseller in just a few hours.

Just a few highlights to show the ridiculousness going on with Endgame right now.

Edit: Guy on BOT forums with a source in major theatre chain said their Endgame presales are up to $34.2M (+$4.8M from 6 days ago). That's almost double Infinity War at 3 days out and only $2M short of the best ever presales for the chain (both TLJ and TFA at ~$36M). One week of presales still to go. Nuts! Pre sales usually more than double for most films from 7 days out, but obviously that's not gonna happen here. $50M+ and a new record by about 50% looks very good though.
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Post by: Xevross on Apr 19, 2019, 01:53 PM
More endgame presales talk! Its now the top preselling film ever in China. BOM's resident China experts are predicting $270m and $302m 5-day openings in China, even the lower of that would be incredible.

The guy predicting $302m did overestimate IW (he said 230-260 when it came in at 201) but he got caught out by record low pre-sale multiplier, which he is accounting for this time. FF8 had an unexpected low 2.52x presales for a hollywood movie OW, which is what he used for his estimation of IW. IW ended up being just 2.13x presales, unprecendeted low number. For Endgame he's using the lowest presales mutliplier ever seen in China, which is Monster Hunt 2 at 1.86x and that had so many crazy reasons for being so low which shouldn't apply to Endgame.

Even so, its likely that these will end up being overestimates. IW was a $201m debut so anything $230m+ in China is great, $250m+ would be brilliant. (reason being that both of these guys are presuming China absolutely loves Endgame and word of mouth is great, which of course might not happen).

Anyway, it looks like Endgame could be the first and probably only film which breaks the single territory OW record twice. Obviously current record is IW with $257M in domestic market. Endgame could beat that in China, setting a new record, and then have dom beat the China number.
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Post by: Xevross on Apr 21, 2019, 03:28 PM
Captain Marvel passed $400m domestic with an incredible estimated +6% this weekend. I wonder why CM would have grown this weekend over last weekend....

Spoiler for Hidden:
(https://media.giphy.com/media/19ijzMia1BaMg/giphy.gif)


Anyway, with a nice Avengers boost CM may land right next to Aquaman WW with ~$1.14b, amazing really.
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Post by: Xevross on Apr 23, 2019, 05:54 PM
And so it begins. Endgame grosses $26.2m from midnights in China. Almost 3x previous all time record held by Fast 8.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 23, 2019, 06:09 PM
And so it begins. Endgame grosses $26.2m from midnights in China. Almost 3x previous all time record held by Fast 8.
That's crazy
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 23, 2019, 07:21 PM
Midnight showings have finished and it sounds like the Chinese loved it. 9.1 Maoyan rating (the main metric for audience reception in China). IW started at 8.6 and went up to 9.0 in the end.

Edit: this doesn't mean Endgame will go up, IW was review bombed from the start due to the trade war and recovered well. Hard to tell if Endgame will go up or down. Also funny that maoyan score is only posted when there's a certain number of reviews, IW took until 1pm China time to be posted but this went up straight after midnights, shows how many people watched it.

Double edit: Douban rating started at 9.3/10. That's insane, Douban is normally very harsh for example IW is only 8.1/10. I think Douban is more limited and people who rate on there are more like proper critics with some sort of verification process.

In short: China really loved Endgame.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 23, 2019, 10:47 PM
98% RT after 85 reviews for Endgame.

Amazing!

Maoyan up to 9.2, film is about to go bonkers in China. $1B WW opening here we come.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 24, 2019, 07:54 AM
Maoyan up to 9.3 which is literally god tier, film is going mad on opening day so far. Midnights adjusted up to $27.7m as well (more than triple previous all time record). Openind day heading for about $110M including midnights, absolutely ridiculous. China is going to gross a shame load for Endgame with a 9.3 score, Avatar WW suddenly got a bit more likely. As if we didn't know it already, we're about to witness a truly historic BO run.


Here's the final china presales graph, pretty.
(https://preview.redd.it/75yo80g5m4u21.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=6b663ab597c9dcbbf4f6e6b6cdc99c323cf7f5c9)

Also small market but Endgame had doubled the previous best all time opening day in Indonesia, by mid-morning.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 24, 2019, 09:39 PM
Major Asian markets Endgame launched in today:

South Korea
China
Australia
New Zealand
Indonesia

New record opening day in every single one of them. Previous best in SK and China were local films, aus and NZ were TFA and Indonesia was IW.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 25, 2019, 02:44 AM
Well I enjoyed it, didn't love it. First 2 hours were quite slow, felt like the first hour should have been its own film or on the end of Infinity War instead. More I think the closer I get to loving it, gonna watch it tomorrow.

First Europe numbers: Italy Opening Day 5.168m euros, Infinity War was ~2.9m. Infinity War OD was a national holiday, Endgame was not. Insane, Europe is exploding for Endgame as much as Asia it seems.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 25, 2019, 07:18 PM
Well I enjoyed it, didn't love it. First 2 hours were quite slow, felt like the first hour should have been its own film or on the end of Infinity War instead. More I think the closer I get to loving it, gonna watch it tomorrow.
Fell in love second time round. Film has pacing issues and not enough action (barely any in first two hours) but apart from that its the perfect culmination of the MCU.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 25, 2019, 07:31 PM
Fell in love second time round. Film has pacing issues and not enough action (barely any in first two hours) but apart from that its the perfect culmination of the MCU.
Haha you watched it two days in a row?

Interesting that it has so many non action scenes. Usually I feel like two parters tend to have the first film the slower one (Deathly hallows for example).
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 25, 2019, 07:34 PM
Haha you watched it two days in a row?

Interesting that it has so many non action scenes. Usually I feel like two parters tend to have the first film the slower one (Deathly hallows for example).
Yeah, did the same with Infinity War as well.

It is interesting, although the way its done means Endgame was always going to be the slower of the two parts. The snap at the end of IW means they need to spend a while showing the reactions of all the characters and the world before it moves on with things, and that takes time. About an hour, in fact.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 25, 2019, 09:37 PM
$169m official estimate for Endgame opening day wednesday, in 25 markets. Take away China and its $62m, compared to $39m like-for-like in IW (up 58%). If +58% for OS-C holds all weekend we're looking at an opening of $1.2b (with Dom and China about $300m each), which is genuinely unfathomable, however that percentage is very likely to drop. Reminder: current record WW opening is $640m.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 25, 2019, 09:42 PM
$169m official estimate for Endgame opening day wednesday, in 25 markets. Take away China and its $62m, compared to $39m like-for-like in IW (up 58%). If +58% for OS-C holds all weekend we're looking at an opening of $1.2b (with Dom and China about $300m each), which is genuinely unfathomable, however that percentage is very likely to drop. Reminder: current record WW opening is $640m.
Can it break the 1b opening barrier??
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 25, 2019, 09:54 PM
Can it break the 1b opening barrier??
$1b is almost locked at this point, as mad as it sounds. China is heading for ~$315m, add Domestic and it will be $600m (on the low end of estimates). Then even just matching IW elsewhere would make it to $982m and like I said its currently running +58% on the markets that made the $382m in OS-C.

$1.1b looks like the target right now. Still could land anywhere $950-1300m depending on how things go, but even the low end is a ridiculous achievement.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 25, 2019, 09:56 PM
Can it break the 1b opening barrier??
It'll probably be close. 

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LOS ANGELES--Shedding light on a possible key plot point of the upcoming film Avengers: Endgame, an emerging theory among fans of the Marvel franchise suggests the key to beating Thanos could be nothing, nothing at all, because he isn't real and none of this exists, sources reported Tuesday. "They left plenty of Easter eggs hinting at it in the first three Avengers movies, so it's pretty obvious--the way to counter Thanos' power now that he has all the infinity stones must be to simply realize he's CGI and that it's just a movie," Avengers fan Raoul Bengston wrote in an online forum, detailing the potential implications of the villain being completely imaginary, including the possibility that the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe could itself be a wholly fabricated world devised decades ago by comic book writers. "Imagine what it would mean if, instead of T'Challa and Peter Parker disintegrating at the end of Infinity War, they turned out to be fictional characters portrayed by professional actors Chadwick Boseman and Tom Holland, who ultimately survive because the infinity stones aren't real? Could be quite a game-changer." At press time, the majority of fans on the forum had begun to tear into the new theory, deeming it "far-fetched" and "unrealistic."
New 'Avengers' Fan Theory Suggests Key To Beating Thanos Could Be Nothing Because He Not Real And None Of This Exists (https://entertainment.theonion.com/new-avengers-fan-theory-suggests-key-to-beating-thano-1832362299)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 25, 2019, 10:00 PM
It'll probably be close. 

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The Onion:

New 'Avengers' Fan Theory Suggests Key To Beating Thanos Could Be Nothing Because He Not Real And None Of This Exists (https://entertainment.theonion.com/new-avengers-fan-theory-suggests-key-to-beating-thano-1832362299)
By gawd, they solved it!

Also I don't think it'll be close, I'm currently on the $1.1b opening train although that's still very tentative :D

OS-C is short for overseas minus china by the way, so everywhere outside of domestic and china markets.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 25, 2019, 10:10 PM
Also I don't think it'll be close, I'm currently on the $1.1b opening train although that's still very tentative :D
1.1 is close.  /s   :D
That'd be crazy.
Automagically in the top 25 movies off all time.  



I'll probably see it on Sunday.  Depending on how things go.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 25, 2019, 10:19 PM
1.1 is close.  /s   :D
That'd be crazy.
Automagically in the top 25 movies off all time. 



I'll probably see it on Sunday.  Depending on how things go.
Yeah, I've been following presales cloesly so this madness has become almost normal to me, but reminding myself that the all time record is IW at $640m puts it all into context, it's ridiculous. Even then IW is a massive $100m above second place. Endgame could double the opening of every film except IW. The world's most hyped movie ever for sure.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 25, 2019, 10:32 PM
It'll probably be close.  

--------------------
The Onion:

New 'Avengers' Fan Theory Suggests Key To Beating Thanos Could Be Nothing Because He Not Real And None Of This Exists (https://entertainment.theonion.com/new-avengers-fan-theory-suggests-key-to-beating-thano-1832362299)
Lol, brilliant stuff
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 25, 2019, 10:35 PM
Also definitely recommend rewatching as much as you can before you watch Endgame. Not just for a recap, but there's so many throwbacks and smaller moments you might miss if the other films aren't fresh in your mind.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 26, 2019, 12:00 AM
Dom presales estimate from an expert with some numbers on BOT:

$170,000,000
 
+65% TFA
+100% TLJ
+170% A:IW

Well presales are done, hopefully we get previews estimates shortly.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 26, 2019, 11:12 AM
Please dont post spoilers
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 26, 2019, 12:31 PM
Please dont post spoilers
Yeah.  It's getting hard to avoid everything.   :(


*stares at Xev*  How dare he tell me how long something took!!!  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 26, 2019, 12:44 PM
Please dont post spoilers
Yeah I hate spoilers don't worry ;)

What little I said is not exactly accurate anyway.

Sounds like TFA's $57m thursday preview record is toast, although we're still waiting for exact confirmation. According to Deadline, Endgame made $43m when including shows up to 6pm PST, and obviously there's still a lot of time for more after that. We'll know in a few hours.

Endgame also broke TFA's opening day record in the UK, although we don't know by how much yet. TFA was £9.6m opening day, apparently Endgame is £11m+. Early legs are looking fantastic in Australia, South Korea, China and ... everywhere basically.

Edit: and there it is, official estimate is $60M Thursday previews for Endgame. Utter madness. Endgame needed $43m more than IW to reach $300M OW, and there's half of that on thursday alone. $305M overseas total from wednesday + thursday, holy crud! $365M from only Wed and Thu worldwide, would be the 18th best WW opening ever and we haven't even reached the weekend yet.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 26, 2019, 02:39 PM




$150.5M OS-C compared to $95M for Infinity War after 2 days, +58% holds for another day. Sweet Jesus.

Also UK opening is crazy, +85% on Infinity war in £ and easily smashes TFA's opening day record, £11.8M vs £9.6M (IW was £6.4M).

Another titbit: including presales for the rest of the day, Endgame already has a bigger Friday than Infinity War domestic (incl. previews) at $106M and climbing fast.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 26, 2019, 04:30 PM
Endgame just set the new all time OD record for domestic market ($119M), at 12:30pm EST!

Apparently if it matches TFA's walkups for the rest of the day then it'll land at over $150M opening day, which is just ... well...idk if there's words for that.

TFA was very weak for walkups, but Endgame has presold so well for the rest of the day that there's hardly any more seats for people to walk up and buy. So most likely will miss, the guy says $140-145m is the likely range (still absolutely fudgy unbelievable).
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 26, 2019, 07:30 PM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 26, 2019, 07:48 PM

Haha love it.

Deadline are estimating $315-330m weekend domestic, jesus lord. The record currently is $257m lest we forget. Disney themselves are now saying they project a weekend of roughly $300m, and they have always been cautious and underestimate their big movies' openings. Experts on BOT think China is going for $330m+, possibly as high as $350m. Previous record for hollywood movie opening was $201m. If Endgame lands on the high end of estimates for the weekend... Avatar's days at the top may be coming to an end.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 26, 2019, 08:03 PM

Best. Gif. Ever
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 26, 2019, 08:07 PM
Best. Gif. Ever
Will be a good one to use in the future lol
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 26, 2019, 08:32 PM
Best. Gif. Ever
Santa Monica and their gif creations with Kratos and Atreus are amazing, I hope they keep making them  ;D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Apr 26, 2019, 08:32 PM
Movie is INCREDIBLE!!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 26, 2019, 08:41 PM
Movie is INCREDIBLE!!
Yay! The more I think about it the more I agree with this.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Apr 26, 2019, 08:49 PM
Yay! The more I think about it the more I agree with this.
If we want we can make thread for discussion to take any hidden spoilers out of here.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 26, 2019, 08:57 PM
Spoilers ahead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   DO NOT CLICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spoiler for Hidden:
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If we want we can make thread for discussion to take any hidden spoilers out of here.  
I think the movie probably deserves that!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Apr 26, 2019, 09:11 PM
Deleted my spoiler post and made a discussion thread.

pezus you can delete my spoiler out of your quote if you want.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 26, 2019, 10:52 PM
Jesus's ballsacks. Rth (most reliable guy on BOT) says Friday is looking $148-153m. I don't even know what to say. ~$90m on a Friday is just completely and utterly outrageous. No film outside of IW has even managed a $70m day before even on a holiday or saturday. Even IW "only" hit $82m on its saturday. This is a Friday... people are at work and at school... this is a 3 hour long film. How the fudge has this happened :O

This is monumental.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 27, 2019, 12:01 AM
Doubling Infinity War's record opening and posting a $1280m+ worldwide debut is not actually looking that unlikely right now. Here's a chart of the worldwide opening weekend record over time:

2002Spider-Man (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_(2002_film))$125.9
2002Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Episode_II_-_Attack_of_the_Clones)$179.3
2002The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Two_Towers)$189.9
2003The Matrix Revolutions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_Revolutions)$201.4
2003The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Return_of_the_King)$250.0
2005Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Episode_III_-_Revenge_of_the_Sith)$303.9
2007Spider-Man 3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_3)$381.7
2009Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Half-Blood_Prince)$394.0
2011Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows_-_Part_2)$483.2
2015Jurassic World (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_World)$525.5
2015Star Wars: The Force Awakens (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens)$529.0
2017The Fate of the Furious (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fate_of_the_Furious)$541.9
2018Avengers: Infinity War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Infinity_War)$640.5

Gets beaten fairly regularly with small jumps, until Endgame. If Endgame does post something like $1280, how long is that record going to stand? This is a once in a lifetime event. $1280m opening would also mean IW legs get Endgame to over $3.1b worldwide as well... yeah... Avatar is in danger for the first time ever.

Also I feel like its gonna be Endgame which gets the credit for all these records, but Infinity War is the film which earned them. It was so phenomenal and likely introduced so many new people into the MCU over the last year and that's how this is possible.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 27, 2019, 12:09 AM
Make it happen boys.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 27, 2019, 12:21 AM
Make it happen boys.  
Whatever it takes.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 27, 2019, 02:58 AM
Spoiler for Infinity War Spoilers/s:
(http://files.explosm.net/comics/Rob/purpleguy.png?t=E28E9B)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 27, 2019, 07:57 AM
This is not real life. Marvel put me in an alternate reality when I watched Endgame.

Friday estimate $157M from Deadline. One hundred and fifty seven million. Friday. That's a $97M true friday, $28M higher single day than any film not called A:IW. The ALL TIME opening weekend record is going to be beaten, WITHOUT EVEN COUNTING SUNDAY. WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. Jatinder on BOT is still saying more like $151-152m though.

And.... A+ cinemascore, only the third MCU film to achieve this. Legs are going to be brilliant. This is going to make a shame tonne of money. No movie with an A+ cinemascore has ever had legs below a 3x OW. If that still holds for Endgame, we're about to see $1B domestic for the first time ever... and Avatar WW is toast.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 27, 2019, 09:49 AM
This is not real life. Marvel put me in an alternate reality when I watched Endgame.

Friday estimate $157M from Deadline. One hundred and fifty seven million. Friday. That's a $97M true friday, $28M higher single day than any film not called A:IW. The ALL TIME opening weekend record is going to be beaten, WITHOUT EVEN COUNTING SUNDAY. WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. Jatinder on BOT is still saying more like $151-152m though.

And.... A+ cinemascore, only the third MCU film to achieve this. Legs are going to be brilliant. This is going to make a shame tonne of money. No movie with an A+ cinemascore has ever had legs below a 3x OW. If that still holds for Endgame, we're about to see $1B domestic for the first time ever... and Avatar WW is toast.
I told you it can beat avatar.

But the question is how much of this massive opening stole from its legs. Without a doubt it's a bit more front loaded than other films. I don't think past successes can be measured to assess this film, it's on a league of its own.

Doesn't mean I am necessarily saying it's legs won live up to its massive opening though. Based on performance so far I can easily see this passing 3 billion WW when all is said and done
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 27, 2019, 11:14 AM
I told you it can beat avatar.

But the question is how much of this massive opening stole from its legs. Without a doubt it's a bit more front loaded than other films. I don't think past successes can be measured to assess this film, it's on a league of its own.

Doesn't mean I am necessarily saying it's legs won live up to its massive opening though. Based on performance so far I can easily see this passing 3 billion WW when all is said and done
Yeah well with expectations what they were before the weekend it was looking very unlikely and its still very hard. Even if this pulls off an incredible $1.2b opening weekend it'd then need to add the entire gross of the 5th best grossing film of all time to pass Avatar. Avatar is so crazy.

We'll have a good idea after the second weekend. But also we'll get a good idea tomorrow too, if Saturday is only flat or even falls a bit from Friday we'll know everyone was just rushing to see it as fast as possible.

Anyway, Friday estimate has been upped to $159m now, apparently preview number might have been a slight underestimate.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 27, 2019, 01:41 PM
Only 4 movies have made over $1.7 billion. $3 billion is insane.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 27, 2019, 03:09 PM
Only 4 movies have made over $1.7 billion. $3 billion is insane.
Yep!

Disney going with official estimate of $156.7m for opening day. Beats TFA's record by $37.5m and its expected to rise by a couple million when actuals come in. Weekend heading for around $350m, absolutely crazy. The 17th best opening weekend of all time without counting saturday or sunday, just wow. Almost $100m or an approx. 36% increase on the previous record. Saturday looking over $100m+ so the new OW all time record will be set before we even count Sunday. ROTJ was the last film to achieve that.

Apart from Jurassic World, the best a non-Disney film has managed is a $169m debut weekend (HP:DH2), this almost beat that.

Worldwide opening weekend record of $640M is beaten without even counting saturday or sunday...
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 27, 2019, 03:27 PM
$300m crossed in China including Saturday, took 4 days... new record! Also a new record biggest single day in China with $82m estimated.

Also checking my comp again, OS-C now 51% up over Infinity War. Big drop on friday but that was to be expected. Friday itself still up 43% like for like, so still going very strong. I expect that's a percentage it might be able to hold at, we will see.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 27, 2019, 04:46 PM
First movie to break $150 million day 1.

Amazing.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 27, 2019, 05:01 PM
First movie to break $150 million day 1.

Amazing.
Yeah and its not going to be joined by another movie for a very long time. Look at this chart

Best Opening True Fridays (i.e. Opening Friday sans Thursday Previews)


Like... what!?

If you rank the top 10 thursday previews of all time, Endgame is actually the second-least frontloaded (previews % of friday gross) behind IW, despite setting a new all time record for previews.

From BOP: Endgame has so far registered all-time single day records in NA, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, The Philippines, Korea (admissions), UK, Brazil, Mexico, Vietnam, Egypt, Panama, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Trinidad, Ecuador, Uruguay, South Africa and UAE. It has also registered the highest all-time industry opening day in Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Greece, Portugal, Bosnia/Herz, Czech Rep, Serbia (non-local), Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine, East Africa and West Africa. Every market saw openings above those Avengers: Infinity War when opening on the same day.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 27, 2019, 06:54 PM
Early numbers saturday looking $110m+ for Dom. Would be 14% up on true Friday despite cinemas being near capacity already, fantastic. Infinity War jumped 22% on saturday but of course there was plenty of room to accommodate that. If Endgame can also jump 22% and reach ~$118m then I have no idea what to even say about that.

Key will be Sunday onwards, if Endgame drops better than IW then we know its at capacity and doing as well as possible. If drops start to look better than IW then Avatar is in serious danger that's for sure.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 27, 2019, 07:31 PM
I bought tickets for Tuesday. I'm a sucker for $5 Tuesdays lol.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 27, 2019, 10:26 PM
I bought tickets for Tuesday. I'm a sucker for $5 Tuesdays lol.
Cheap tuesdays are awesome indeed, I managed to get £5 tix for my second viewing due to a student discount, but there's a cinema near me that does £7 tix for all movies all the time anyway. Awesome deal, especially for London. We have had 2for1 on tuesdays in the UK for years so tuesday is massive.

Anyway, Rth says saturday is looking $107-111m, destroying saturday record by $25m on the low end and breaking the all time weekend record by over $7m before Sunday even begins. Not bad ;D

From reports it sounds like supply of seats has pretty much hit the limit, so now we know what the real limit is. Sunday should hold well considering this.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 28, 2019, 12:44 AM
I almost read a spoiler earlier.  

Someone was talking about Avengers 1, so I opened the spoiler, only to read the tag "Endgame spoilers" after it opened. So I scrolled away fast.

Have like 16 hours to go, avoiding spoilers.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 28, 2019, 12:50 AM
Poor Endgame.  

Above only Hulk in the US, below Ant man.

For shame.  /s.  ;D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 28, 2019, 03:19 PM
Endgame officially smashes the opening weekend record for a single territory with $331.5M OW in China. This record is not going to last long... probably not even an hour ;D  

Disney's official (under)estimates for the weekend incoming.

Exactly. Endgame is guaranteed $800m+ opening. People think a billion is in play but that's really, really, really tough  ;D
More endgame presales talk! Its now the top preselling film ever in China. BOM's resident China experts are predicting $270m and $302m 5-day openings in China, even the lower of that would be incredible. Even so, its likely that these will end up being overestimates. IW was a $201m debut so anything $230m+ in China is great, $250m+ would be brilliant.
Just looking back on what expectations were  ;D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 28, 2019, 03:32 PM
Disney going with $350M domestic and $1.209B global debut! Insane! (and way under the real values).
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 28, 2019, 03:44 PM
Disney going with $350M domestic and $1.209B global debut! Insane! (and way under the real values)
Lol that's out of this world
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 28, 2019, 03:45 PM
Lol that's out of this world
Yeah, I can't believe this even though we saw it heading here for the last day or so.

Actuals should come in about $10M higher for Dom as Disney have gone for an almost laughably low $84M Sunday (can't believe I just typed that). OS is always under as well, so WW actuals may be more like $1.23B for the global debut. Interestingly, with that figure matching Infinity War legs would land Endgame on exactly $3.0B.

The biggest openers:

US/Canada $350M
China $330.5M
UK $53.8M
Korea $47.4M
Mexico $33.1M
Australia $30.8M
Germany $26.9M
India $26.7M
Brazil $26M
France $24.2M
Italy $19M
Philippines $17.9M
Thailand $14.3M
Indonesia $14.1M
Spain $13.3M
Japan $13M
Thailand - $14.3M
Indonesia - $14.1M
Spain - $13.3M
Japan - $13.0M
Hong Kong - $12.5M
Taiwan - $12.3M

And another little factoid: Endgame is the 18th highest grossing movie of all time with that estimate.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 28, 2019, 03:52 PM
Holy f.  


A monster of monstrous proportions.


Lol:
Quote from: BoxOfficeMojo
37   The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey   WB (NL)   $1,021.1   $303.0   29.7%   $718.1   70.3%   2012
131   Avengers: Endgame   BV   $1,015.7   $156.7   15.4%   $859.0   84.6%   2019
38   The Dark Knight   WB   $1,004.9   $535.2   53.3%   $469.7   46.7%   2008^
131st place.  


Disney has done well with Marvel.  If only DC had anything...  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 28, 2019, 04:09 PM
Holy f.  


A monster of monstrous proportions.


Lol:
131st place.  


Disney has done well with Marvel.  If only DC had anything...  
Haha yeah its funny seeing BOM mid-updates. 18th place all time after 5 days is mind blowing, should be 17th even with actuals.

This is what happens when you have a solid 10 year plan and don't rush, make 22 films with only two of them being arguably bad... and then cap it off with an incredible finale which fans and general audience alike love. Bravo Marvel and Kevin Feige.

DC need a Feige for themselves if they ever want to come close to pulling this off. Aquaman's $1.14b total proves their brand has the potential if they make a good movie that audiences really enjoy.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 28, 2019, 04:29 PM
Disney going with $350M domestic and $1.209B global debut! Insane! (and way under the real values).
Wells that's just a bit above the previous holder  /s
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 28, 2019, 04:41 PM
Wells that's just a bit above the previous holder  /s
Yeah, just a little bit!

Opening weekend record holders worldwide over time:

2002Spider-Man (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_(2002_film))$125.9
2002Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Episode_II_-_Attack_of_the_Clones)$179.3
2002The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Two_Towers)$189.9
2003The Matrix Revolutions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_Revolutions)$201.4
2003The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Return_of_the_King)$250.0
2005Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Episode_III_-_Revenge_of_the_Sith)$303.9
2007Spider-Man 3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_3)$381.7
2009Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Half-Blood_Prince)$394.0
2011Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows_-_Part_2)$483.2
2015Jurassic World (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_World)$525.5
2015Star Wars: The Force Awakens (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens)$529.0
2017The Fate of the Furious (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fate_of_the_Furious)$541.9
2018Avengers: Infinity War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Infinity_War)$640.5
2019Avengers: Endgame (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Endgame)$1,209.0


Staggering.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 28, 2019, 04:49 PM
Endgame made more in its opening weekend than any DC film in history.

Spoiler for Hidden:
;D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 28, 2019, 05:26 PM
Forgot about my tracker! OS-C for Endgame is estimated at $529m, for IW it was $383m. So that's 38% above IW before adjustments. It keeps slipping down but much slower, should end at around 40% over IW if it can match legs from now. Not bad at all!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 28, 2019, 05:49 PM
I haven't been going to box office mojo because I keep getting end game updates here lol
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 28, 2019, 08:16 PM
I was sent a pm on Reddit spoiling part of the ending.

Didn't believe it, so I didn't feel spoiled.

But still bewildered that someone could be so cruddy.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 28, 2019, 08:56 PM
I was sent a pm on Reddit spoiling part of the ending.

Didn't believe it, so I didn't feel spoiled.

But still bewildered that someone could be so cruddy.
That's messed up.

How was the movie besides that?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 28, 2019, 09:01 PM
That's messed up.

How was the movie besides that?
Movie was incredible.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 28, 2019, 09:06 PM
Movie was incredible.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas! It really does deserve this success, it was such a difficult film to make tying together all the 21 films before it, but they pulled it off spectacularly while also making a dang good standalone movie as well.

I haven't been going to box office mojo because I keep getting end game updates here lol
Lol, I get all my updates from the box office theory forum, those guys are awesome. By the way, their average prediction for Endgame was $295M dom in their prediction game so just goes to show how much higher this went that even fairly optimistic 'expert' expectations.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 28, 2019, 09:20 PM
Would you guys say watching GotG2 is important before watching endgame? It's one of very few I haven't seen yet (beside the ant man movies too)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 28, 2019, 09:30 PM
Would you guys say watching GotG2 is important before watching endgame? It's one of very few I haven't seen yet (beside the ant man movies too)
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>I&#39;d actually say watching the Ant Man movies is way more important. &nbsp;<br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 28, 2019, 09:38 PM
Would you guys say watching GotG2 is important before watching endgame? It's one of very few I haven't seen yet (beside the ant man movies too)
What Pi said, GOTG2 is almost irrelevant for Endgame as you'll have seen IW anyway.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 28, 2019, 09:40 PM
What Pi said, GOTG2 is almost irrelevant for Endgame as you'll have seen IW anyway.
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>It almost feels ironic that Ant Man played such a big part here. &nbsp;<br><br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 28, 2019, 09:47 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:

It almost feels ironic that Ant Man played such a big part here.  


Almost as if they knew Antman stuff was helpful to know so they put the sequel after infinity war  :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 28, 2019, 10:04 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:

I'd actually say watching the Ant Man movies is way more important.  

Fml

Also, just downloaded GotG2 and the file isn't supported by my TV surprisingly. Going for another file then as well as the ant man movies I guess. I won't be seeing the movie until late this week anyway
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 28, 2019, 11:05 PM
I probably made mistakes with inputting numbers or equations.

Did this in a hurry, while eating.


This is assuming it follows a similar trend to the following movies.

Star Wars350000000Black Panther350000000Infinity War350000000Average350000000Min350000000Max350000000
-33.8405806600-33.2406312400-64.3380095100-43.7667397404700-64.3380095100-33.2406312400
-6.9457762544.6-48.1435538536-5.3408595159.7-20.1435281055.3-48.1395714456.9-5.3459640242.8
1.8510653696.2-29.6456113735-27.6429229202.9-18.4667466162910.3-29.6406710484.21.8513927986.8
-27.9548788216.5-3497675638-8.6471095676.6-13.1667526372233.7-27.9426503333.2-3624077819.3
80617430353.1102566335902102.9533225523.694.96667612391286.980449265109.6102.9806045342.6
15696368810.165.261735047748.4581997453.542.86667678023824.615466177109.565.2948889848.4
-23.9756440975.9-25.7668365053-21.5630769383.3-23.7743656362.2-25.7483089109.4-21.51091734354
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 28, 2019, 11:11 PM
I probably made mistakes with inputting numbers or equations.

Did this in a hurry, while eating.


This is assuming it follows a similar trend to the following movies.

           
Star Wars350000000Black Panther350000000Infinity War350000000Average350000000Min350000000Max350000000
-33.8405806600-33.2406312400-64.3380095100-43.7667397404700-64.3380095100-33.2406312400
-6.9457762544.6-48.1435538536-5.3408595159.7-20.1435281055.3-48.1395714456.9-5.3459640242.8
1.8510653696.2-29.6456113735-27.6429229202.9-18.4667466162910.3-29.6406710484.21.8513927986.8
-27.9548788216.5-3497675638-8.6471095676.6-13.1667526372233.7-27.9426503333.2-3624077819.3
80617430353.1102566335902102.9533225523.694.96667612391286.980449265109.6102.9806045342.6
15696368810.165.261735047748.4581997453.542.86667678023824.615466177109.565.2948889848.4
-23.9756440975.9-25.7668365053-21.5630769383.3-23.7743656362.2-25.7483089109.4-21.51091734354


TFA and BP are unrealistic. Hopefully it follows IW pretty closely and does a bit better.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 29, 2019, 12:42 AM
Sunday 92-94, Disney went way under.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 29, 2019, 12:56 AM
Did this quick again, so very well could have made errors.  (Lets say it's not my most thorough work...)  (Even though I should be working on other stuff.  ::( )

Used just Avengers and Infinity War. 

More realistic. 

$598 million on the low end for next weekend, $670 million on the high end.

This would still be about $60 million ahead of TFA on the low end.  Still massive. 
       


Excel did something weird, fixed the chart:


Avengers360,000,000Infinity War360,000,000Average360,000,000Min360,000,000Max360,000,000
-66.9391114000-64.3393558000-65.6392336000-66.9391114000-64.3393558000
-6.5420205590-5.3425337426-5.9422764176-6.5420205590-5.3425337426
-23442606114.3-27.6448345730.4-25.3445494023.5-27.6441267901.2-23449807584
-9462990591.4-8.6469375320.7-8.8466223644.4-9460434604.3-8.6472173308.5
135.8511057188.4102.9512044359.3119.35511694067.8102.9499323845135.8524911686.7
46.8581618952.948.4575365212.647.6578808412.846.8556413250.448.4603175439.9
-27.9632493985.1-21.5625072082.4-24.7629345514.6-27.9597574711.6-21.5664612486.2
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 29, 2019, 11:17 AM
Actuals in UK alone gone up £1.8m or over $2m. Aus is way up as well. Looking like it will be $1.23b+
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 29, 2019, 03:40 PM
Updated estimate is $356m dom $1.222b WW opening. Weird to get a new estimate just before actuals but w/e :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 29, 2019, 04:12 PM
Russia opens today, last market for Endgame to open. Endgame set a new all time opening day record by 6pm. Looks pretty good! Monday should be a great hold WW.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 29, 2019, 07:52 PM
Actuals:

Endgame is $357,115,007.
 
Daily Breakdown:
FRI: $157,461,641
SAT: $109,264,122 (-30.7%)
SUN: $90,389,244 (-17.3%)

The Avengers - 207M (first movie over 200)
Infinity War - 257M (first movie over 250)

Endgame - 357M (first movie over 300 and 350)

Perfectly balanced.

$32.2m is the taget for Monday for matching IW.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 29, 2019, 07:57 PM
I know it's not going to happen, but I want it to hit 43m.  

Halving the time to reach $400m would be cool.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 29, 2019, 07:58 PM
I know it's not going to happen, but I want it to hit 43m.  

Halving the time to reach $400m would be cool.  
Yeah it would be cool but that's like a 0.0001% chance. Really hoping for that $32.3m+ though.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 29, 2019, 08:01 PM
2010:
3 movies above 500m. (Versus 12 today)
3 movies above 450m.  (Versus 14 today)
9? Movies above 400m. (Versus 30 today)

You'd think movies just hit their stride in the past few years.  


Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 29, 2019, 09:05 PM
2010:
3 movies above 500m. (Versus 12 today)
3 movies above 450m.  (Versus 14 today)
9? Movies above 400m. (Versus 30 today)

You'd think movies just hit their stride in the past few years. 
You'd think there's been some whack inflation ;)

Also here's Captain Marvels box office the last 3 weekends: $8.6M, $9.1M, $8.3M.... I said dang.

Also this is fun:

TOP SINGLE DAY GROSSES


Rank (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/days/?page=&sort=rank&order=ASC&p=.htm)Titl (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/days/?page=&sort=title&order=ASC&p=.htm)eStudio (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/days/?page=&sort=studio&order=ASC&p=.htm)Single Day Gross (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/days/?page=&sort=gross&order=ASC&p=.htm)Theaters (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/days/?page=&sort=theaters&order=DESC&p=.htm)Average (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/days/?page=&sort=avg&order=DESC&p=.htm)Date (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/days/?page=&sort=date&order=DESC&p=.htm)Gross-to-Date (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/days/?page=&sort=totalgross&order=DESC&p=.htm)
1Avengers: Endgame (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=marvel2019.htm)BV (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?studio=buenavista.htm)$157,461,6414,662$33,776F 4/26/19$157,461,641
2Star Wars: The Force Awakens (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=starwars7.htm)BV (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?studio=buenavista.htm)$119,119,2824,134$28,815F 12/18/15$119,119,282
3Avengers: Endgame (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=marvel2019.htm)BV (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?studio=buenavista.htm)$109,264,1224,662$23,437Sa 4/27/19$266,725,763
4Avengers: Infinity War (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=marvel0518.htm)BV (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?studio=buenavista.htm)$106,334,9394,474$23,767F 4/27/18$106,334,939
5Star Wars: The Last Jedi (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=starwars8.htm)BV (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?studio=buenavista.htm)$104,684,4914,232$24,736F 12/15/17$104,684,491
6Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=harrypotter72.htm)WB (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?studio=warnerbros.htm)$91,071,1194,375$20,816F 7/15/11$91,071,119
7Avengers: Endgame (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=marvel2019.htm)BV (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?studio=buenavista.htm)$90,389,2444,662$19,389Su 4/28/19$357,115,007
8Avengers: Age of Ultron (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=avengers2.htm)BV (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?studio=buenavista.htm)$84,424,5324,276$19,744F 5/01/15$84,424,532
9Avengers: Infinity War (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=marvel0518.htm)BV (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?studio=buenavista.htm)$82,131,6124,474$18,358Sa 4/28/18$188,466,551
10Jurassic World (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=jurassicpark4.htm)Uni. (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?studio=universal.htm)$81,953,9504,274$19,175F 6/12/15$81,953,950


If Thursday previews weren't counted then Endgame would hold all of the top 3 spots.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 30, 2019, 12:22 AM
Monday $38-40m :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

DOMESTIC AND WORLDWIDE RECORDS HERE COME

Edit: the two main BOT guys have basically said it could be anywhere $36-43m given its very hard to predict with unprecedented high presales for a monday... high end of that would be unbelievable, low end would still be really great. Let's see.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 30, 2019, 01:26 AM
43 million almost there!?  

C'mon peeps watch more movie!  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 30, 2019, 09:44 AM
43 million almost there!?  

C'mon peeps watch more movie!  
Nah, 37-39 is the range now :P

Think one guy just said it would be 43 high end following a normal trend but the presales being so high means its almost impossible to follow that normal trend.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 30, 2019, 11:57 AM
Infinity War did $60.3M overseas on its first monday. Endgame weekend was up 39.6% from IW in like-for-like markets, so we're looking for $84.2M overseas figure today to match IW drop. That's not counting China or Russia for Endgame which came in at $19m and $7m respectively, so $110.2M+ overseas total for Monday is the golden ticket... here's hoping.

shame if it does that then that's a ~$150M monday worldwide, what the actual fudge. Pretty sure best Monday WW right now is Infinity War's $85M first monday.

Also that $7m opening day in Russia for Endgame is great by the way, +50% on Infinity War. And that's the last market to launch for Endgame.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: DD_Bwest on Apr 30, 2019, 01:06 PM


I a..  what?!    This looks beyond bad
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 30, 2019, 03:38 PM


I a..  what?!    This looks beyond bad
I mean sonic in a film as a concept is bad. This however looks like a good execution, Jim Carrey was born for that role lol
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 30, 2019, 04:12 PM
Infinity War did $60.3M overseas on its first monday. Endgame weekend was up 39.6% from IW in like-for-like markets, so we're looking for $84.2M overseas figure today to match IW drop. That's not counting China or Russia for Endgame which came in at $19m and $7m respectively, so $110.2M+ overseas total for Monday is the golden ticket... here's hoping.

shame if it does that then that's a ~$150M monday worldwide, what the actual fudge. Pretty sure best Monday WW right now is Infinity War's $85M first monday.

Also that $7m opening day in Russia for Endgame is great by the way, +50% on Infinity War. And that's the last market to launch for Endgame.
$82.2M overseas for Endgame, $55.8M not counting Russia or China. I totally forgot that labor day was a day earlier for IW which really inflated its monday overseas numbers. Hard to judge how good this is then. Apparently IW monday final OS number was $55.2M, so this is just a smidge better. I guess we'll see what Tuesday numbers bring.

Infinity War went $55.2M Mon, $64.5M Tue, $32.2M Wed with labour day landing on tuesday, boosting mon and tue. I guess it'll be useful to compare Endgame's total for these 3 days with IW total. Also can compare Endgame's eventual Thursday number to that Wednesday for IW, both are day after labour day and wed and thurs are usually pretty close to each other in BO.

Domestic side is really great, came in low end at $36.7M which is -59%.

WW up to $1.34B, into the top 10 all time already.

So for me going forward overseas minus china and russia of $55.8M (yesterday's estimate), $64M, $88M, $45M would be a good week for Endgame. Let's see how that goes! Might be hard considering labour day isn't everywhere though.

China has a big holiday this week so its hard to compare directly to IW, we just want final total to be $600M+ to match IW legs for Avatar hunting, so we just gotta see how this next week goes. DOM is super easy to track, just hope the % drops and gains keep being better than IW.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 30, 2019, 07:54 PM
Lol, best thing about Endgame's monday was Indonesia. Endgame's monday matched the previous all time record for OPENING DAY. That's funny.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 01, 2019, 05:53 AM


I a..  what?!    This looks beyond bad
It looks like a seth rogan film. Not faithful but might make for a better end product.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 01, 2019, 04:24 PM
Endgame $32.9M Dom Tuesday, $105.3M overseas. Now #8 worldwide after 7 days officially, $1.481B total.

China was $38M on tuesday, so $61.5M OS-C,R. Pretty great although I was certainly hoping for more. China wednesday is $75M by the way, third biggest day ever. Absolute monster!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 01, 2019, 10:21 PM
Endgame $32.9M Dom Tuesday, $105.3M overseas. Now #8 worldwide after 7 days officially, $1.481B total.

China was $38M on tuesday, so $61.5M OS-C,R. Pretty great although I was certainly hoping for more. China wednesday is $75M by the way, third biggest day ever. Absolute monster!
How is Wednesday bigger in China?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on May 02, 2019, 12:04 AM
Pretty insane that 4 of the top 10 grossing movies of all time are Avengers
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 02, 2019, 08:21 AM
How is Wednesday bigger in China?
May 1st is labor day, a holiday for most of the world. It's a huge cinema day in China, they also have Thursday and Friday off this week so numbers will stay fairly big.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 02, 2019, 05:04 PM
$183M global Wednesday  :o :o

incl. $25.2M dom which is great, better wed drop than IW. OS-C&R around 80mil, still doing well.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 02, 2019, 05:19 PM
#6 already.  Holy cow.

5th place tomorrow.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 02, 2019, 11:07 PM
#6 already.  Holy cow.

5th place tomorrow.
Yeah, looking very likely that Avatar is going down now. Worldwide total of comfortably over $1.5+ after this weekend (not counting China) will confirm that, I think. The more above 1.5b the better. If it falls around or just short of 1.5b then Avatar is gonna be a close call. WW-C total right now is $1.205B, so 1.5b+ should be fairly easy so long as it keeps following Infinity War. Friday jump is gonna be very important.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 03, 2019, 06:04 AM
Saw Aquaman. Despite lots of horrible acting I enjoyed it a fair amount. Looked a lot better than it did in the trailers. Some good plot elements too.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 03, 2019, 11:55 AM
Saw Aquaman. Despite lots of horrible acting I enjoyed it a fair amount. Looked a lot better than it did in the trailers. Some good plot elements too.
Yeah its a very enjoyable film.

Rewatched Endgame again, still love it although its definitely slower to get through than IW.

Endgame heading for $21.5M thursday, first weak day. Hopefully friday jump is better than IW.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 03, 2019, 12:47 PM
Watched ant-man and it was pretty good. A bit small in scale (pun not intended) but enjoyable. Their romance and overall character development felt a bit rushed
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 03, 2019, 01:43 PM
Watched ant-man and it was pretty good. A bit small in scale (pun not intended) but enjoyable. Their romance and overall character development felt a bit rushed
Make sure to watch the second one.  
Then you'll be ready.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 03, 2019, 01:55 PM
Make sure to watch the second one.  
Then you'll be ready.
It's probably something to do with the quantum world isn't it
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 03, 2019, 02:12 PM
It's probably something to do with the quantum world isn't it
You're a funny guy pez.  
Just enjoy the movie.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 03, 2019, 02:33 PM
Watched ant-man and it was pretty good. A bit small in scale (pun not intended) but enjoyable. Their romance and overall character development felt a bit rushed
Yep yep, basically Antman in a nushell. Sequel is pretty much better in every way imo
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 03, 2019, 03:31 PM
Sonic is being redesigned due to the backlash.

First antman was better imo.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 03, 2019, 04:25 PM
Sonic is being redesigned due to the backlash.

First antman was better imo.
Funny that they're redesigning, might end up costing them more money but at least Sonic won't be an abomination any more.

OS for Endgame came in at $100M exactly on Thursday, so $121.4M total for the day. China was $50M so that's $44.9M for OS-China-Russia. Finally the first proper comparable day to IW since Sunday and its +39%, almost exactly what the weekend was, great. Let's hope that holds.

IW legs for the first week matched almost exactly across the world, which means its still on track for $2.9b+, but lets see how the weekend goes now.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 03, 2019, 04:27 PM
Yep yep, basically Antman in a nushell. Sequel is pretty much better in every way imo
It has a lower rating though! Will watch tonight

You're a funny guy pez.  
Just enjoy the movie.  
No answer means yes!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 03, 2019, 04:30 PM
It has a lower rating though! Will watch tonight
No answer means yes!
Lol well I just found the sequel more fun, its closer to a regular Marvel film.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 03, 2019, 05:42 PM
It has a lower rating though! Will watch tonight
No answer means yes!
I just dont like giving people expectations.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 04, 2019, 12:10 AM
Nah Ant Man 2 was worse than the first imo. Cliche and not very interesting. A worse villain as well.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 04, 2019, 01:01 AM
Sounds like it's mostly just redesigning sonic's teeth.  
Probably won't cost much.  


My biggest problem with the Sonic trailer is it just starts out feeling like it's suppose to be a Godzilla trailer.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 04, 2019, 01:09 AM
Sounds like it's mostly just redesigning sonic's teeth.  
Probably won't cost much.  


My biggest problem with the Sonic trailer is it just starts out feeling like it's suppose to be a Godzilla trailer.  
Oh gosh don't give sonic hedgehog teeth.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 04, 2019, 01:33 AM
Oh gosh don't give sonic hedgehog teeth.
No, he already has teeth, and they're going to change that.  

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While no re-imagining of a beloved childhood character will ever be without critics, CGI Sonic's human-like teeth and general un-Sonic-like proportions really freaked people out.

Sonic the Hedgehog' director says he hears you about the teeth thing and he'll make changes (http://"https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/03/entertainment/sonic-hedgehog-movie-response-director-character-change-trnd/index.html")
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 04, 2019, 03:10 AM
No, he already has teeth, and they're going to change that.  

Sonic the Hedgehog' director says he hears you about the teeth thing and he'll make changes (http://"https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/03/entertainment/sonic-hedgehog-movie-response-director-character-change-trnd/index.html")
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seemed to center around the use of human teeth on Sonic, who is, in fact, a hedgehog and would have much smaller, pointy teeth. Vulture even interviewed an exotic animals veterinarian who works with hedgehogs to get the lowdown on what Sonic's teeth should look like. Some fans, however, debated whether realistic teeth would really improve things.
'Sonic' Director Says Design Changes 'Going to Happen' After Backlash - Variety (https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news/sonic-the-hedgehog-movie-change-1203204053/)


Human teeth are better than hedgehog teeth.



Horrible
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 04, 2019, 11:02 AM
Sounds like it's mostly just redesigning sonic's teeth.  
Probably won't cost much.  


My biggest problem with the Sonic trailer is it just starts out feeling like it's suppose to be a Godzilla trailer.  
The song choice is the weirdest
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 04, 2019, 01:32 PM
Hmmm ~$40.8M dom friday for Endgame, only +90% from an already slightly meh thursday, which is well below IW's +103% (which was already considered low). Huge saturday needed now, but TFA's dom record looks safe regardless.

Avatar WW still very much a toss up, since Endgame legs are clearly looking worse than IW's now. Yesterday was a lot lower than I thought for OS-C as well, as it seems they were adjusting up previous day numbers and the day was more like $41m instead of $50m. So legs are worse than IW pretty much everywhere, and IW legs got Endgame to just shy of $3b. Avatar's $2.78b is gonna be a fun race.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 04, 2019, 02:48 PM
Figures that Endgame would be especially front loaded.  :(

Based off the 10 day chart, it looks like we can expect 513m to be somewhere between 60% and 70% of the total.  (And wow, Avatar is quite in a league of its own. )
60% would put Endgame at 855m domestic.
70% would put Endgame at 732m.

Second place seems like a safe bet.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 04, 2019, 02:56 PM
Figures that Endgame would be especially front loaded.  :(

Based off the 10 day chart, it looks like we can expect 513m to be somewhere between 60% and 70% of the total.  (And wow, Avatar is quite in a league of its own. )
60% would put Endgame at 855m domestic.
70% would put Endgame at 732m.

Second place seems like a safe bet.  
Oh yeah 2nd place Dom is 100% confirmed, avatar ww is the only target now.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 04, 2019, 04:24 PM
$40.7M dom, $88.2M OS for $128.9M friday for Endgame. OS-C is $52.4M, up 39% from IW. Overseas looking decent then. Domestic still set for easily #2 of all time $850m+

Total should be $2.165b+ after the weekend worldwide, meaning WW-C is at $1.59b+, well clear of my $1.5b target. If that estimate holds then Endgame looks all set to overtake Avatar. If Titanic ($2.187b) is down after Sunday's numbers then that basically confirms Avatar will go down at some point in the future too, how poetic.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 04, 2019, 04:54 PM
$40.7M dom, $88.2M OS for $128.9M friday for Endgame. OS-C is $52.4M, up 39% from IW. Overseas looking decent then. Domestic still set for easily #2 of all time $850m+

Total should be $2.165b+ after the weekend worldwide, meaning WW-C is at $1.59b+, well clear of my $1.5b target. If that estimate holds then Endgame looks all set to overtake Avatar. If Titanic ($2.187b) is down after Sunday's numbers then that basically confirms Avatar will go down at some point in the future too, how poetic.
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Endgame: I am inevitable. &nbsp;<br><br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 04, 2019, 05:19 PM
Figures that Endgame would be especially front loaded.  :(

Based off the 10 day chart, it looks like we can expect 513m to be somewhere between 60% and 70% of the total.  (And wow, Avatar is quite in a league of its own. )
60% would put Endgame at 855m domestic.
70% would put Endgame at 732m.

Second place seems like a safe bet.  
Avatar was the movie that got me really interested in tracking the box office.

It's funny because I remember at the time a big talking point was that Avatar didn't have nearly the same legs as Titanic. Amongst movies gunning for the all time record, it was viewed as fairly frontloaded.

Now it's seen as an abnormal monster that just kept going lol. Social media and the internet really pushes people to see a movie as fast as possible. Fans have always tried to go asap (side note but I really miss midnight openings) but now spoilers and fomo push even more people into the opening weekend. Endgame will definitely keep its opening records for a long time but I wouldn't be surprised if within 10 years we have a film that beats its opening day but falls behind its first week.

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 04, 2019, 08:18 PM
Avatar was the movie that got me really interested in tracking the box office.

It's funny because I remember at the time a big talking point was that Avatar didn't have nearly the same legs as Titanic. Amongst movies gunning for the all time record, it was viewed as fairly frontloaded.

Now it's seen as an abnormal monster that just kept going lol. Social media and the internet really pushes people to see a movie as fast as possible. Fans have always tried to go asap (side note but I really miss midnight openings) but now spoilers and fomo push even more people into the opening weekend. Endgame will definitely keep its opening records for a long time but I wouldn't be surprised if within 10 years we have a film that beats its opening day but falls behind its first week.
Yeah films are much more frontloaded on average now, but even back then Titanic and Avatar were freaks of nature with their legs. Titanic was crazier, which is why Avatar had weaker legs in comparison, but Avatar was still nuts. Titanic opening % of total was 4.8%, Avatar 10.3% domestically. The normal for big grossers around 2009 was 25-35%.

Endgame's legs are very short, especially for a very well received film, but this is what happens when there's a big push to go early to avoid spoilers.

Avatar holds the record for fastest to $2b, 47 days. Endgame is gonna smash that with 11 days taken. (interestingly, 11 days was the old record for reaching $1bil ;D )

Domestically, IW had made 66.9% of its gross by the end of its second weekend. I think for Endgame that's gonna be more like 70%. Estimating $620M total after the weekend, that's a ~$885M total gross for Dom, which would still be amazing and clearly in second place. Adding China would make that ~1.5B total, then $1.28B OS-C would be needed for Avatar, which is only +20% from IW when it should be +30% at least. Avatar still looking good.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 04, 2019, 08:44 PM
Avatar was the movie that got me really interested in tracking the box office.

It's funny because I remember at the time a big talking point was that Avatar didn't have nearly the same legs as Titanic. Amongst movies gunning for the all time record, it was viewed as fairly frontloaded.

Now it's seen as an abnormal monster that just kept going lol. Social media and the internet really pushes people to see a movie as fast as possible. Fans have always tried to go asap (side note but I really miss midnight openings) but now spoilers and fomo push even more people into the opening weekend. Endgame will definitely keep its opening records for a long time but I wouldn't be surprised if within 10 years we have a film that beats its opening day but falls behind its first week.


Aye.  
You can kind of see this effect on this chart:
Longest Top Ranking Movies at the Weekend Box Office (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/bestranked.htm?page=WKNDSAT1&p=.htm)

Not a definitive chart on the matter, but it's still striking how many of the movies that stayed at number 1 for the most weeks are from before the 2000's.  

I think I see in the top 30 movies only has 2 from this millennium.  

You can check Titanic's chart and it's still making million dollar weekends like 8 months after release.  When I  don't know of any that are even running in theaters that long.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 05, 2019, 12:39 AM
Just saw it and it was thoroughly amazing!

The pure scope of it, just wow.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 05, 2019, 12:03 PM
Sat heading for $61.5M or +51%, that's a bit better although only 3% higher than IW's bump. Let's see what Sunday brings. TFA's 2nd weekend record is $149m, this is looking to hit that right on the nose, a 58% drop from its ridiculous OW is not bad at all really.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 05, 2019, 03:47 PM
Disney went for $145.8M dom estimate, $2.189B global total after the weekend. That's $1.613B without China, Avatar is going down.

Also now #2 film of all time.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 05, 2019, 07:17 PM
Avatar was the movie that got me really interested in tracking the box office.
On the note of Avatar.   People keep mentioning that it had no real impact on pop culture.  
And it's really weird.  

Look up Avatar memes, and you get the nickelodeon TV show.  
Even if you specify the movie, you don't get a lot of memes...  And still some memes from the TLA show.  

I don't really hear people quoting the movie.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 05, 2019, 08:11 PM
On the note of Avatar.   People keep mentioning that it had no real impact on pop culture.  
And it's really weird.  

Look up Avatar memes, and you get the nickelodeon TV show.  
Even if you specify the movie, you don't get a lot of memes...  And still some memes from the TLA show.  

I don't really hear people quoting the movie.  
Yeah Avatar had no lasting impact in pop culture for sure, it was a huge influencer for hollywood though. This is why Avatar 2 is so unpredictable, there seems to be no hype for the sequel at all but loads of people could just turn up for it like they did the first films in cinemas.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 05, 2019, 09:20 PM
On the note of Avatar.   People keep mentioning that it had no real impact on pop culture.  
And it's really weird.  

Look up Avatar memes, and you get the nickelodeon TV show.  
Even if you specify the movie, you don't get a lot of memes...  And still some memes from the TLA show.  

I don't really hear people quoting the movie.  

Avatar didn't have a lot of merchandise or tie ins. Outside of the mediocre game, it really was just a film. It's hard for something to really impact popular culture when there is nothing new happening. I loved the movie and saw it a bunch but as a fan there just wasn't any way to interact with it. The closest thing I remember was an Avatar forum that focused on cataloguing all the worldbuilding into essentially a wiki.

The only significant thing that lasted is that people sometimes make Avatar jokes instead of smurf jokes when they see blue people. Avatar cosplay happens a fair amount too I guess.


It also didn't help that the counterculture developed pretty quickly. Avatar is talked about a lot online but almost always its just in the form of arguments between people that liked it and people that didn't like it.

Yeah Avatar had no lasting impact in pop culture for sure, it was a huge influencer for hollywood though. This is why Avatar 2 is so unpredictable, there seems to be no hype for the sequel at all but loads of people could just turn up for it like they did the first films in cinemas.
I'm really excited to see the first trailer for the sequel. It really needs to match the original's feeling of "raising the bar." An avatar sequel exactly like the first would probably do ok but it would blend in with most 2020 movies. Instead the sequel needs to once again redefine what is possible. Underwater motion capture will be cool but the movie needs more tricks than just that and 60 fps.

It also helps that this time around there's more potential to grow it as a franchise. The Avatar theme park section is megapopular, the upcoming Ubisoft game should be much better, and the third film should be right around the corner. Plus Disney could be a better partner for selling merchandise.

The movie really is unpredictable. So much potential but the devil is in the details. Child actors and worse acting could make it flop.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 05, 2019, 09:29 PM
Avatar didn't have a lot of merchandise or tie ins. Outside of the mediocre game, it really was just a film. It's hard for something to really impact popular culture when there is nothing new happening. I loved the movie and saw it a bunch but as a fan there just wasn't any way to interact with it. The closest thing I remember was an Avatar forum that focused on cataloguing all the worldbuilding into essentially a wiki.

The only significant thing that lasted is that people sometimes make Avatar jokes instead of smurf jokes when they see blue people. Avatar cosplay happens a fair amount too I guess.


It also didn't help that the counterculture developed pretty quickly. Avatar is talked about a lot online but almost always its just in the form of arguments between people that liked it and people that didn't like it.

I'm really excited to see the first trailer for the sequel. It really needs to match the original's feeling of "raising the bar." An avatar sequel exactly like the first would probably do ok but it would blend in with most 2020 movies. Instead the sequel needs to once again redefine what is possible. Underwater motion capture will be cool but the movie needs more tricks than just that and 60 fps.

It also helps that this time around there's more potential to grow it as a franchise. The Avatar theme park section is megapopular, the upcoming Ubisoft game should be much better, and the third film should be right around the corner. Plus Disney could be a better partner for selling merchandise.

The movie really is unpredictable. So much potential but the devil is in the details. Child actors and worse acting could make it flop.
Absolutely, and I love Avatar so I'm very much looking forward to tracking it and seeing how well it does. I won't mind at all if it overtakes Endgame, in fact I'd be happy as records being broken is always cool.

Avatar was so far ahead of its time in terms of CGI and SFX, if they raise the bar by that much again then it will do very well for sure. Its just so hard to judge how much of Avatar's performance came from the 3D craze at the time, which has now clearly died down. But maybe Avatar 2 could do something similar with a newer premium format. Also Avatar had much more favourable exchange rates, it would have made more like $2.3B if it released today.

At this point I really wouldn't be shocked if Avatar 2 made anything $1-3.5B kind of range.

Also all this Avatar talk is making me wanna rewatch it again, I haven't seen it in about 2 years I think.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 05, 2019, 11:23 PM
Figures that Endgame would be especially front loaded.  :(

Based off the 10 day chart, it looks like we can expect 513m to be somewhere between 60% and 70% of the total.  (And wow, Avatar is quite in a league of its own. )
60% would put Endgame at 855m domestic.
70% would put Endgame at 732m.

Second place seems like a safe bet.  
Oops, looks like Endgame made the 513 at 8 days.  I am not sure how I messed up like that.

60% would put it at $1.033 billion.  
70% would put it at $885 million.

Wow, that's a lot better than I thought.  It's just a little under Avengers, and IW.  So it's almost certain to come closer to the $885 million.

So yeah as Xev said.  2nd place is basically guaranteed.  1st place, possible but not really.  


Endgame had a couple of rough week days, but it's second weekend is pretty close to TFA's second weekend.  TFA got a bit of a Christmas boost.  

TFA was a beast during the week, either way.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 06, 2019, 01:51 PM


Oh yes this is everything I wanted. And following up on Endgame really nicely, gonna be the first $1b+ Spidey film for sure.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 06, 2019, 09:26 PM
$147.3 million actuals for Endgame. Slightly higher than predictions but still just shy of TFA.

It will be really interesting to see if it manages to beat TFA domestically once everything has settled.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 06, 2019, 09:41 PM
$147.3 million actuals for Endgame. Slightly higher than predictions but still just shy of TFA.

It will be really interesting to see if it manages to beat TFA domestically once everything has settled.
I'll spoil it for ya: it won't ;)

Well, I give it a 5-10% chance, if it matches IW legs from here it gets to $898mm, $38m short, and I don't think its matching IW legs.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 06, 2019, 10:21 PM
I'll spoil it for ya: it won't ;)

Well, I give it a 5-10% chance, if it matches IW legs from here it gets to $898mm, $38m short, and I don't think its matching IW legs.
How are you calculating those legs? I see $930.7 million if it has the exact same drops from here on out.

I agree though that it'll probably drop faster.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 06, 2019, 10:31 PM
How are you calculating those legs? I see $930.7 million if it has the exact same drops from here on out.

I agree though that it'll probably drop faster.
Using relative sunday grosses not total, as Endgame legs are constantly slipping compared to IW so it makes more sense.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 07, 2019, 12:04 PM
Monday looking $10.7m apparently, would be about a 76% drop, 1% better than IW. So, good.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 07, 2019, 10:30 PM
It looks like it should stay ahead of TFA for a couple more days at least.  
The weekend bump for Endgame will be interesting.  Wonder how long it'll stay ahead of TFA.  I'm guessing it'll get passed this weekend, or early next week at the absolute latest.

But that guess is without really looking at any trends...
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 08, 2019, 08:49 AM
It looks like it should stay ahead of TFA for a couple more days at least.  
The weekend bump for Endgame will be interesting.  Wonder how long it'll stay ahead of TFA.  I'm guessing it'll get passed this weekend, or early next week at the absolute latest.

But that guess is without really looking at any trends...
Yeah seems like you're right, TFA falls to normal levels after this coming weekend though so Endgame should be able to stay somewhat in touch with it
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 08, 2019, 01:26 PM
Yeah seems like you're right, TFA falls to normal levels after this coming weekend though so Endgame should be able to stay somewhat in touch with it
How's Tuesday doing?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 08, 2019, 01:39 PM
How's Tuesday doing?
None of the insiders on BOT have shared info so we don't know yet. Their overseas tuesday estimate is $23M though, compared to $34M for monday, which is pretty good as a lot of the world had a holiday monday and China is still declining quickly as expected.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 08, 2019, 04:21 PM
12.5M dom tuesday (+17%) and 21.7M overseas.... meh. Wednesday better be a good hold.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 09, 2019, 01:09 PM
So I just found out that Disney now has the Avatar films, because of Fox.  

It's legitimately horrific how big Disney is getting.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 09, 2019, 01:19 PM
So I just found out that Disney now has the Avatar films, because of Fox. 

It's legitimately horrific how big Disney is getting.
I wouldn't say horrific, the box office is one of the more okay things to be under a monopoly, from the consumer's perspective. Anyway, there's no reason the other big 6 could get this big, its just Disney has so many movies that people love.

Endgame news, wednesday heading for $8.4M or about -33%. Off the back of only a 17% bump on Tuesday that's actually really bad. Endgame legs starting to look rather weak, IW wed was 85% of Monday, $8.4M wed for Endgame would only be 78% of Monday. If this trend continues and is mirrored across the world... well Avatar isn't a sure thing yet.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 09, 2019, 03:19 PM
I wouldn't say horrific, the box office is one of the more okay things to be under a monopoly, from the consumer's perspective. Anyway, there's no reason the other big 6 could get this big, its just Disney has so many movies that people love.

Endgame news, wednesday heading for $8.4M or about -33%. Off the back of only a 17% bump on Tuesday that's actually really bad. Endgame legs starting to look rather weak, IW wed was 85% of Monday, $8.4M wed for Endgame would only be 78% of Monday. If this trend continues and is mirrored across the world... well Avatar isn't a sure thing yet.
I might feel different if it wasn't Disney at the top, but for the time being I agree that it is mostly fine.

Speaking of the fox buyout, has anything changed from that transition yet? Is Disney going to use Fox as a brand?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 09, 2019, 04:16 PM
I might feel different if it wasn't Disney at the top, but for the time being I agree that it is mostly fine.

Speaking of the fox buyout, has anything changed from that transition yet? Is Disney going to use Fox as a brand?
Yeah, the box office is literally just a measure of how watched each company's films are, its a direct result of consumer activity, so its not like its one company trying to monopolise a market. Disney are so dominant just because they put out the most big movies, there's nothing stopping other studios from doing the same, its just Disney got it right.

I have no idea, I'm presuming they're going to keep fox as its own brand.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 09, 2019, 04:49 PM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 09, 2019, 06:31 PM
Endgame $8.3M dom, $22.1M international wednesday. Dom number is bad as I said already but thats an incredible day for international, only down 3%. Well, I guess its perfectly balanced.

Detective Pikachu is debuting this week as well. Tracking for a $50-75M dom opening and $160M+ worldwide, on the low end neither of those are exactly great but we'll see.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 09, 2019, 06:35 PM
That Dom number almost physically hurts.  I'm disappointed.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 09, 2019, 07:13 PM
Endgame $8.3M dom, $22.1M international wednesday. Dom number is bad as I said already but thats an incredible day for international, only down 3%. Well, I guess its perfectly balanced.
As it should be
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 09, 2019, 08:16 PM
That Dom number almost physically hurts.  I'm disappointed. 
Yes although went up to $8.43M with actuals so at least we have that extra 130k. Situation is obviously evolving day by day, the next few days having great holds/ boosts will obviously make up for it, but the trend is downwards right now for sure in dom. Well $800m+ is secured anyway, which is great and it'll be nice to have a film in that 800-900 range finally. And as long as Avatar goes down WW I'll be happy :D Looking like its gonna land right around $2.50b after this weekend ($2.50b would be slightly worse WOW drops than IW), so lets see how it goes.

Looking forward to tracking the big films this summer, detective pikachu, aladdin, godzilla, spidey, the lion king and more, then we got frozen 2 and SWIX at the end of the year too!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 10, 2019, 04:34 PM
Pikachu $5.7M thursday previews (started at 4pm), that's kinda meh. International not looking great either. Don't see this film hitting $500M with these numbers. Real shame.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 10, 2019, 05:43 PM
Another bad domestic day for Endgame as it hit $7.5M (down 11%), $17.6M international is pretty meh as well. Good job the film is already over $2.3bil worldwide ;D

Little factoid: the MCU will finally have a film with a $100M+ gross from a country outside of China/ USA after today, as Endgame in the UK passes $100M.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 10, 2019, 06:00 PM
On the bright side, it'll probably have a $60-65 million weekend.
7.5m is around 20% better than the original Avengers for the same Thursday, so $67 million if that holds up.

After two great weekends, it seems like it's doing regular Avenger's numbers. 

On the one hand, the drops are disappointing, on the other hand, it probably should have been expected, and it's still doing pretty well. 

Even if it only does as well as IW (doing another ~192m), it would end up around 852 million.  Solidly second place biggest movie in the US, which is what we were expecting anyways. 


If it performs the 9% better for the rest of it's run that it did for Thursday that'd put it at almost $870m. 


Not the best analysis, but still good enough, that the movie should do really great.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 10, 2019, 06:12 PM
On the bright side, it'll probably have a $60-65 million weekend.
7.5m is around 20% better than the original Avengers for the same Thursday, so $67 million if that holds up.

After two great weekends, it seems like it's doing regular Avenger's numbers. 

On the one hand, the drops are disappointing, on the other hand, it probably should have been expected, and it's still doing pretty well. 

Even if it only does as well as IW (doing another ~192m), it would end up around 852 million.  Solidly second place biggest movie in the US, which is what we were expecting anyways. 


If it performs the 9% better for the rest of it's run that it did for Thursday that'd put it at almost $870m. 


Not the best analysis, but still good enough, that the movie should do really great.
Yeah I think its falling down to IW numbers pretty quickly, so ~192m is roughly what its heading for unless late legs surprise. I'd say $840-870m is the range for dom, call it $852m. China should end around $635m, meaning OS-C needs almost exactly $1.3bil for Avatar to go down. Its at $1.075B after thursday numbers, so ~$220m more needed. IW made about $210m more from the same point.

So basically Endgame needs to match IW from here to beat Avatar. Just went to check and IW's respective thursday overseas was $17.4M without including China numbers, so this really isn't a sure thing.

Edit: in fact that $17.6m figure for Endgame includes $4m from China, so OS-C was only $13.6M compared to IW's $17.4M... so unless I'm missing something Avatar isn't looking so good any more. Double edit: that thursday for IW was boosted by schools being out in Europe apparently as well as holidays in places like Indonesia, so hard to judge. Lets see how the weekends compare.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 10, 2019, 06:15 PM
For future reference: IW weekend was $70M OS-C (FSS) and $62M dom, lets see how Endgame fares. OS-C for the following week:

Mon: 8.5, Tue: 7.6, Wed: 7.0, Thur: 4.4, Weekend: 28.8
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on May 10, 2019, 11:33 PM
So is this thing gonna beat avatar WW or what?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 11, 2019, 12:13 AM
So is this thing gonna beat avatar WW or what?
I don't pay attention to WW as much as Xev does, but it's looking less likely than it was.  I think we'll know a lot more when we see the weekend.  

Almost certainly will make another $200m in the US, for the total run.

The movie is way bigger than the last one in China.  If it has legs like IW (which I have no idea if it will, it's way outsold IW already), it can expect to make another $60m.

Hopefully Xev will have better numbers, but I think it'll be close.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 11, 2019, 12:32 AM
So is this thing gonna beat avatar WW or what?
Yes or no
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 11, 2019, 07:47 AM
So is this thing gonna beat avatar WW or what?
Yeah there's now a growing discussion on BOT about whether Avatar is slipping away, a lot of people are still saying "Avatar is locked, no way it misses" but I don't think they've actually put much thought into the numbers we've been getting this week. I think if Endgame doesn't at least match the numbers I mentioned below, Avatar ain't happening barring a sudden turn in late legs.

For future reference: IW weekend was $70M OS-C and $62M dom, lets see how Endgame fares.
Endgame friday looking $16-17m dom according to BOT insiders, which isn't that great. Means it may be heading for around that $62m figure.


I don't pay attention to WW as much as Xev does, but it's looking less likely than it was.  I think we'll know a lot more when we see the weekend. 

Almost certainly will make another $200m in the US, for the total run.

The movie is way bigger than the last one in China.  If it has legs like IW (which I have no idea if it will, it's way outsold IW already), it can expect to make another $60m.

Hopefully Xev will have better numbers, but I think it'll be close. 
Be careful with using numbers on boxofficemojo for foreign markets, they do a weird thing with exchange rates which retroactively changes past grosses. IW mad $200.1M opening weekend and $376M total. Endgame is currently projected to pull in $40m more from China, compared with $54m for IW. Endgame burned a lot of demand last week when China had a holiday wed-sat and the exchange rate is worse now.

That means Endgame needs $420m more from WW-C to beat Avatar, and IW grossed $402m from this point (198 dom 204 OS-C)

OS-C for the following week: Weekend 70, Mon: 8.5, Tue: 7.6, Wed: 7.0, Thur: 4.4, Weekend 28.8

dang I forgot how much Deadpool 2 cut into IW's legs, you can see right where it hit. Yeah OS-C should be beatable.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 11, 2019, 02:53 PM
Speaking of Avatar


3 in 2023
4 in 2025
5 in 2027

Reworked now that Disney is in charge. Star Wars movie every non Avatar year. 4 and 5 are in production now too.

Avatar 2 Delayed Again As All Sequels Get New Release Dates - GameSpot (https://www.gamespot.com/articles/avatar-2-delayed-again-as-all-sequels-get-new-rele/1100-6466708/)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 11, 2019, 04:04 PM
Speaking of Avatar


3 in 2023
4 in 2025
5 in 2027

Reworked now that Disney is in charge. Star Wars movie every non Avatar year. 4 and 5 are in production now too.

Avatar 2 Delayed Again As All Sequels Get New Release Dates - GameSpot (https://www.gamespot.com/articles/avatar-2-delayed-again-as-all-sequels-get-new-rele/1100-6466708/)
Yep, very interesting release schedule.

Endgame $16.06M friday, barely above IW (only 80k). Lets hope for a big satursday jump, if not then just matching IW is the best it could possibly do.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 11, 2019, 05:14 PM
Seems like either IW will be it's new base line or it'll start falling below it.  

Hopefully the former.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on May 11, 2019, 06:19 PM
When you say reworked, does that mean the filmed and scripts themselfs are changing? Or just the release and production dates?
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Post by: Legend on May 11, 2019, 06:32 PM
When you say reworked, does that mean the filmed and scripts themselfs are changing? Or just the release and production dates?
Just production. Disney might push for changes or they might let them do their thing. Don't know about that one yet.

I kinda love that Disney wants Avatar to be a huge franchise like Marvel or Star Wars but I also kinda worry they could go too extreme with it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 12, 2019, 03:21 PM
Endgame $63.05M dom weekend (vs $62.08M Infinity War). $94M overseas estimate, or $76M OS-C (vs $70M vs IW). Well, just about beat IW this weekend and now Endgame needs to keep doing that for the rest of the run if it wants to get past Avatar.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 12, 2019, 03:33 PM
Exactly as expected for dom.  8)

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 12, 2019, 04:56 PM
Exactly as expected for dom.  8)
:P well these are early estimates of course. Dom should be about right but overseas is almost always underestimated. Hopefully we get a few million more. Legs need to at least match IW which got hit hard by Deadpool 2 in the coming week, so lets see if Endgame can stay ahead with basically no competiton.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 14, 2019, 02:13 AM
If all goes well, I'd guess it'd make another $100 m domestically.  

If it were to make it to number 1 worldwide, it seems like it'll be a slow crawl from here.  
But I'm not sure if it'll make it there.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 14, 2019, 08:54 AM
If all goes well, I'd guess it'd make another $100 m domestically. 

If it were to make it to number 1 worldwide, it seems like it'll be a slow crawl from here. 
But I'm not sure if it'll make it there. 
Well Monday is looking like $4.9M apparently which would be about the same drop as IW. Last week its monday drop was better than IW but then dropped worse throughout the week, so lets hope it stabalises now. Its got $120m+ more to make it domestically if it stays above IW.

At least actuals for the weekend went up by about $4m. So OS-C was more like $79m compared to IW's $70m weekend, which is a nice lead to have and hopefully it holds as IW got hit hard by deadpool 2 in the coming week.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 15, 2019, 09:53 PM
So detective Pikachu is really great, so much better than I was expecting. Me and my friends loved it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 15, 2019, 10:40 PM
So detective Pikachu is really great, so much better than I was expecting. Me and my friends loved it.
Yeah I thought it was fun too.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 16, 2019, 01:17 PM
IW dom week: mon 4.6m, Tue 6.0m, Wed 4.2m, Thur 3.4m
EG dom week: mon 4.7m, Tue 5.7m, Wed 3.8m...

Not looking good so far. IW got hit by DP2 on thursday, so Endgame really gotta beat that thursday 3.4m
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 17, 2019, 10:28 AM
IW dom week: mon 4.6m, Tue 6.0m, Wed 4.2m, Thur 3.4m
EG dom week: mon 4.7m, Tue 5.7m, Wed 3.8m...

Not looking good so far. IW got hit by DP2 on thursday, so Endgame really gotta beat that thursday 3.4m
Insider on BOT says 3.4m thursday, success! Now just gotta keep going, needs a bigger friday jump than IW!

Also OS-C for mon-wed was about $23m for Endgame, compared to also $23m for IW. But thursday onwards is when IW got hit super hard by DP2 overseas with only $4m thursday and $29m weekend, so its looking better now, lets see what the weekend brings.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 17, 2019, 01:22 PM
Insider on BOT says 3.4m thursday, success! Now just gotta keep going, needs a bigger friday jump than IW!

Also OS-C for mon-wed was about $23m for Endgame, compared to also $23m for IW. But thursday onwards is when IW got hit super hard by DP2 overseas with only $4m thursday and $29m weekend, so its looking better now, lets see what the weekend brings.
How much more does it need in total?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 17, 2019, 01:53 PM
How much more does it need in total?
Basically needs to make about $10m more than IW for the rest of its lifetime from the same point. Currently $257m behind Avatar, IW made about $230m more from this point in its life not counting China, and Endgame should get about $20m more from China.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 17, 2019, 03:32 PM
Endgame not granted extension in China due to trade war. Scratch about $5mil off.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 18, 2019, 09:29 AM
Deadline is saying $7.1m friday and $27.7m weekend for Endgame. If that's true then Avatar dream seems dead unless overseas comes in big time. Edit: BOT insider says its at $7.2m with more counting still to go so that's hopeful.

John Wick 3 making an excellent estimated $57m debut weekend, and pikachu with an okay hold at $23m, hopefully it can leg out to making a profit.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 19, 2019, 03:04 PM
Estimated $29.4M dom weekend for Endgame (same as IW), that's okay. Hopefully it goes up.

Overseas is $51m including thursday, without China that's about $43m compared to $33m for Infinity War. First drop less than 50%. Awesome, just gotta hold above IW now, actuals increasing would be great too.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 19, 2019, 09:16 PM
Without looking at Xev's special sauces (I use the inferior Box Office Mojo, which doesn't do very well with "foreign" numbers).. ..

Endgame will probably be able to crawl out another 80 million in the US.

And it needs to make around 92 million elsewhere.  

It feels so close, but it'll probably be a crawl over the next few weeks at least...  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 19, 2019, 10:02 PM
Without looking at Xev's special sauces (I use the inferior Box Office Mojo, which doesn't do very well with "foreign" numbers).. ..

Endgame will probably be able to crawl out another 80 million in the US.

And it needs to make around 92 million elsewhere. 

It feels so close, but it'll probably be a crawl over the next few weeks at least... 
Lol its just a different forum, mojo is pretty meh, they're slow and make mistakes and some data is confusing.

If I was to bet right now I'd put Endgame about $10-20m short of Avatar, it would be a shame to come so close and fail but whatever happens it was an incredible achievement.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 20, 2019, 12:26 AM
Lol its just a different forum, mojo is pretty meh, they're slow and make mistakes and some data is confusing.
A weird mysterious forum.

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If I was to bet right now I'd put Endgame about $10-20m short of Avatar, it would be a shame to come so close and fail but whatever happens it was an incredible achievement.
:(
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 20, 2019, 04:48 PM
Lol its just a different forum, mojo is pretty meh, they're slow and make mistakes and some data is confusing.

If I was to bet right now I'd put Endgame about $10-20m short of Avatar, it would be a shame to come so close and fail but whatever happens it was an incredible achievement.
Srsly? Thought it was trending alright, just above what's needed?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 20, 2019, 05:31 PM
Srsly? Thought it was trending alright, just above what's needed?
Last week gross was just above IW, but it needs to stay above it for rest of lifetime and its been dropping down to IW level so its unlikely it will stay above. Also IW had much less competition from this point on and had some great holds, Endgame won't be the same.

Well overseas actuals up $1.5m which is nice. Well above IW for the weekend (~$39m vs $30m), so even with worse legs it could stay above IW overseas at least. Will certainly be close with Avatar.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 20, 2019, 05:59 PM
Srsly? Thought it was trending alright, just above what's needed?
It's dropping fast, just look at US numbers:

AvengersIWEndgame
Weekend 2103,052,274114,774,810147,383,211
Weekend 355,644,10262,078,04763,299,904
Weekend 436,686,87129,452,903~29,411,000


For the most part, it's holding surprisingly closely to IW.  

After the second weekend, it kind of became a question of whether it was going to stay above IW (because it's a big movie), whether it was going to drop down to IW's numbers (because it's an avengers movie), or whether it was going to start dropping faster (due to being very front loaded, due to being very antipicated)

If everyone goes to see it the first weekend, then legs won't be as good.  

Most days it looks comfortably like it'll hold tightly to IW's numbers.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 20, 2019, 07:38 PM
It's dropping fast, just look at US numbers:

AvengersIWEndgame
Weekend 2103,052,274114,774,810147,383,211
Weekend 355,644,10262,078,04763,299,904
Weekend 436,686,87129,452,903~29,411,000


For the most part, it's holding surprisingly closely to IW. 

After the second weekend, it kind of became a question of whether it was going to stay above IW (because it's a big movie), whether it was going to drop down to IW's numbers (because it's an avengers movie), or whether it was going to start dropping faster (due to being very front loaded, due to being very antipicated)

If everyone goes to see it the first weekend, then legs won't be as good. 

Most days it looks comfortably like it'll hold tightly to IW's numbers. 
Only held above IW this weekend because IW got hit hard by DP2, gonna be impressive if it stays ahead in the future.

Edit: $29.97m actuals for Endgame dom.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 21, 2019, 03:55 PM
Endgame doing disproportionately well in vs IW in Canada compared to US, as a result monday holiday in Canada gave a great $3.2m dom monday gross, $500k more than IW on the same day. Split is 2.05m from US and 1.15m from Canada, normally Canada is about 10% of US. Endgame was also #1 movie in Canada over the 4 day weekend, narrowly beating John Wick 3.

Hopefully rest of the week holds well and Endgame can have another week out-grossing IW. IW has monster holds starting a week from now, and will surely pull ahead of Endgame at that point.

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 22, 2019, 12:58 PM
Aladdin soundtrack has been released and people love it, which is great. Here's the new song:



Really like it.

Reviews starting to come and its 85% on RT after 13 reviews. So way too early to tell but sounds a lot better than I and most were expecting.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 22, 2019, 05:13 PM
Aladdin soundtrack has been released and people love it, which is great. Here's the new song:



Really like it.

Reviews starting to come and its 85% on RT after 13 reviews. So way too early to tell but sounds a lot better than I and most were expecting.
Just a bad trailer then

Nvm it's down to 60%,almost rotten
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 22, 2019, 07:52 PM
Just a bad trailer then

Nvm it's down to 60%,almost rotten
Now 59% after 87 reviews. So yeah, not the disaster we thought it might be but still not good.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 22, 2019, 11:14 PM
Tarantino's latest getting great reviews from Cannes!

Also the deadwood movie is coming out and has some strong reviews already
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 25, 2019, 05:26 PM
Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Delayed To 2020 To Fix Sonic's Look (https://kotaku.com/sonic-the-hedgehog-movie-delayed-to-2020-to-fix-sonics-1835007489)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 25, 2019, 05:27 PM
Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Delayed To 2020 To Fix Sonic's Look (https://kotaku.com/sonic-the-hedgehog-movie-delayed-to-2020-to-fix-sonics-1835007489)
Crazy. They really are changing it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 26, 2019, 11:32 AM
Looks like Avatar is gonna live for another year. Endgame is now running too slowly to catch it.

In other box office news, Aladdin is exceeding expectations in its opening weekend. Its looking at a 4-day of nicely over $100m domestic, possibly $230m+ worldwide. Nothing special but WOM seems good so it could have a decent run.

Long range tracking for The Lion King also arrived and its pointing to a domestic OW of $180-200m+ at the moment.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 26, 2019, 11:56 AM
Looks like Avatar is gonna live for another year. Endgame is now running too slowly to catch it.

In other box office news, Aladdin is exceeding expectations in its opening weekend. Its looking at a 4-day of nicely over $100m domestic, possibly $230m+ worldwide. Nothing special but WOM seems good so it could have a decent run.

Long range tracking for The Lion King also arrived and its pointing to a domestic OW of $180-200m+ at the moment.
Lion king is beastly
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 29, 2019, 11:28 AM
WOM for Aladdin seems very strong despite the rotten rating. Yet another mis-match between critics and audience. Every daily % change so far has been phenomenal, if Disney didn't fudge up the marketing this could have been another $1b film. Oh well.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on May 29, 2019, 11:33 AM
So does avengers have a shot at avatar?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 29, 2019, 11:56 AM
So does avengers have a shot at avatar?
Nope. Only chance is if there's a big re-expansion or a late boost from Spidey, something like that. I'll let y'all know if the picture changes, but right now Endgame seems like it'll fall around $20-30m short. Its running below IW now which made $81m more from this point and Endgame needs $101m to pass Avatar.

That $81m came from some great legs from IW and Endgame is facing some tough competition coming up, so its legs will at best match IW from here without a boost from Disney.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on May 29, 2019, 01:43 PM
Toy Story 4 pre-sales smoked day 1 pre-sales of Incredibles 2. Now that is really surprising. If it keeps that up then its bound to outperform TS3 and be another $1b film for the mouse.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 01, 2019, 07:45 AM
Godzilla KOTM is performing badly. Early presales were suggesting it might have been the biggest OW of May, but then Aladdin exploded and now Godzilla is doing poorly and in fact Aladdin's 2nd weekend is going to be pretty close to Godzilla's OW figure. Ouch.

Friday early estimates: Godzilla $19m (incl. $6.3m previews), Aladdin $11.2m, Rocketman doing fairly well with $8.8m as well (incl. $1.8m previews).

Godzilla cinemascore is B+ which is really bad for a franchise film, legs won't be good.

So far Warner Bros are having a really bad year. Detective Pikachu, Lego Movie 2 and now Godzilla all doing badly and Shazam was okay at best.

Almost halfway through the year and the top 3 hollywood movies so far are: Endgame $2.7b, CM $1.1b, How to Train Your Dragon 3 $519m... big gaps! Outside of top 2 its been a disappointing year so far, at least Aladdin should be making $700m+
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 01, 2019, 10:25 PM
WOM for Aladdin seems very strong despite the rotten rating. Yet another mis-match between critics and audience. Every daily % change so far has been phenomenal, if Disney didn't fudge up the marketing this could have been another $1b film. Oh well.
I forgot to mention it but I saw Aladdin the other day. Was freaking horrible at first but slowly started to build into a good film. In the end I definitely liked it. Seems like it'll be yet another classic that mostly replaces the original going forward.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 02, 2019, 04:31 PM
Aladdin with a beautiful overseas hold in its second weekend, and a good second week hold dom as well. $700m+ locked pretty much, $800m+ looking good depending on how Japan takes to it. $446m worldwide total so far.

Contrast to Godzilla which debuted with a big yikes. Studio estimate earlier this week was $230m WW opening, which was still fairly low-end and they were hoping for more. Actually come in at $179m.... yikers. $49m dom debut, Aladdin second weekend estimate is $42m, pretty close.

Endgame side, dropping away from IW dom and overseas pretty fast now. Only $16.4m for the weekend worldwide, compared to $20m+ for IW... so yeah Avatar dreams are dead for now.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 03, 2019, 04:17 PM
Replicas was a bit slow and a bit boring, but still good or so.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 04, 2019, 10:23 PM
Watched the new Godzilla. Waste of money really, should have watched it when it came out on digital so I could pirate it and go on my phone during the numerous long boring bits without any monsters :P

Kong Skull Island was miles better, can see why this is flopping at the box office.

Aladdin already $900k ahead of Godzilla on Monday (4.7 vs 3.8 ). $4.7m second monday for Aladdin is pretty insane, legs for that film are incredible.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 04, 2019, 11:50 PM
Watched the new Godzilla. Waste of money really, should have watched it when it came out on digital so I could pirate it and go on my phone during the numerous long boring bits without any monsters :P

Kong Skull Island was miles better, can see why this is flopping at the box office.

Aladdin already $900k ahead of Godzilla on Monday (4.7 vs 3.8 ). $4.7m second monday for Aladdin is pretty insane, legs for that film are incredible.
I've been hearing bad things about Godzilla too. Still probably going to go see it though since my cousin worked on the special effects.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 05, 2019, 12:10 AM
I've been hearing bad things about Godzilla too. Still probably going to go see it though since my cousin worked on the special effects.
Hey at least your cousin did good work, the special effects are awesome :D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jun 05, 2019, 12:53 PM
The new Godzilla was shame. The old one was SO MUCH BETTER. Yes I said it!

Kung skull island was stupid but fun.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 07, 2019, 01:56 AM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 07, 2019, 10:36 AM


Uhm... Interesting
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 08, 2019, 10:58 AM


So this film finally has a date, I'll be surprised if it doesn't get delayed though.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 09, 2019, 01:35 PM
Dark Phoenix is flopping everywhere, crazy bad performance.

Aladdin still holding phenomenally well everywhere and it just opened huge in Japan, one of the biggest holywood openings of all time. $900m+ may be on the cards.

Godzilla not holding well at all in most places except China.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 09, 2019, 01:56 PM
Glad Aladdin is doing well!

Seems deserved for Dark Phoenix. Terrible reviews
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 09, 2019, 02:15 PM
The new xmen movies are just so ignorable. I don't know how much nostalgia is to blame but the previous set were actually exciting. Xmen origins were the only ones that were 50/50.

New ones just feel like young adult genre flicks.

#hottake
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 09, 2019, 02:30 PM
The new xmen movies are just so ignorable. I don't know how much nostalgia is to blame but the previous set were actually exciting. Xmen origins were the only ones that were 50/50.

New ones just feel like young adult genre flicks.

#hottake
Yeah, and this one coupled with the terrible reviews means people just don't care. Its looking at an OW of $35m, previous lowest for the X-men franchise was Wolverine's $53m in 2013. Its a similar story everywhere else in the world.

Secret Life of Pets 2 is also really bad compared to its predecessor. That had an $104m OW and SLOP2 is estimated at $47m. First film made $875m worldwide and sequel will be lucky to reach half that it seems.

All of these films flopping mean Toy Story 4 could be in for a monster opening in 2 weeks with little competition. Crazy how pretty much the only big films this year are going to be Disney + MCU Spider-Man. Captain Marvel, Endgame, Aladdin, Star Wars, Frozen, Toy Story, The Lion King all ~$900M+ and I don't see many other candidates for reaching that number this year. Spidey will for sure, but of course that's still affiliated with Disney. Hobbs and Shaw maybe, Jumanji sequel and Joker have a shot too I guess.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 10, 2019, 10:05 PM
$32.8M actuals for Dark Phoenix. OOF.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 11, 2019, 02:48 PM


Yeah DIsney got another billie grosser here.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 11, 2019, 11:54 PM
Dark Phoenix already $700k behind Aladdin on monday, jesus. What a flop this has turned out to be, after a terrible opening legs are looking terrible too. Meanwhile Aladdin keeps on flying, and its even more impressive in other countries like Spain, New Zealand and UK where Aladdin was in fact #1 this weekend above SLOP2 and others.

Speaking of flops, presale tracking for Men in Black is downright disastrous and it looks like this will be another loss maker. The flop summer carries on then and Disney are laughing all the way to the bank.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 12, 2019, 12:11 AM
Men in Black looked ok. Is it getting bad previews or did the trailers not work?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 12, 2019, 01:42 AM
Men in Black looked ok. Is it getting bad previews or did the trailers not work?
Well neither really, just presales are tracking really badly. We'll find out more soon.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 13, 2019, 05:18 PM
MiB 27% on RT after 114 reviews. Big yikes there, let's see how badly it flops. Projection from the studio is $30m (already very low, first three were all $51-55m).

On the other end of the spectrum, Toy Story 4 reviews are dropping and so far its at a very solid 100% after 56 reviews! Pre-sales were falling a bit slower but maybe this will speed them back up a bit, either way still looking good for a ~$150m debut (compared to $110m for TS3).
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 13, 2019, 05:51 PM
MiB 27% on RT after 114 reviews. Big yikes there, let's see how badly it flops. Projection from the studio is $30m (already very low, first three were all $51-55m).

On the other end of the spectrum, Toy Story 4 reviews are dropping and so far its at a very solid 100% after 56 reviews! Pre-sales were falling a bit slower but maybe this will speed them back up a bit, either way still looking good for a ~$150m debut (compared to $110m for TS3).
Very solid 100% lol
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 14, 2019, 11:27 PM
Early weekend numbers are saying MiB $25m (massive ouch) and Dark Phoenix looking at a 77% drop second weekend. That's an utterly dire second weekend if it holds, we're talking near all time worst drop for a blockbuster film.

SLOP2 also looking at a bad -57% second weekend (that's very bad for a kids film apparently), Godzilla still falling off a cliff. Only films still pulling in decent numbers that are holding well are Rocketman and Aladdin, but those numbers are getting fairly low now as well.

Path looks to be clear for Toy Story 4. Box office guys are starting to joke with "Mickey's Law" describing this year's BO. You can guess what it means.

Silver lining for MiB is apparently they 'only' need a ~$300m WW gross due to smart budgeting. That being said, it might miss even that mark at this rate...
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 18, 2019, 05:47 PM
Avatar's original run was $2,749,064,328.  

Endgame is sitting at $2,742,943,570.

Nice.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 18, 2019, 09:12 PM
Avatar's original run was $2,749,064,328.  

Endgame is sitting at $2,742,943,570.

Nice.  
Yeah Endgame is gonna win the original run race, shame its gonna fall just short overall though. Only hope is for Disney to really push for it, which probably won't happening considering they've got a few other big films to worry about.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 18, 2019, 09:14 PM
Yeah Endgame is gonna win the original run race, shame its gonna fall just short overall though. Only hope is for Disney to really push for it, which probably won't happening considering they've got a few other big films to worry about.
Yeah...
Avatar 2: "the sequel to the biggest movie ever"
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 19, 2019, 12:55 PM
https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/06/19/avengers-endgame-theatrical-re-release-extra-footage-kevin-feige/ (https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/06/19/avengers-endgame-theatrical-re-release-extra-footage-kevin-feige/)

The plot thickens!

Yeah...
Avatar 2: "the sequel to the biggest movie ever"
That ain't what I meant at all :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 19, 2019, 03:18 PM
https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/06/19/avengers-endgame-theatrical-re-release-extra-footage-kevin-feige/ (https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/06/19/avengers-endgame-theatrical-re-release-extra-footage-kevin-feige/)

The plot thickens!
That ain't what I meant at all :P
Well that will at least end the debate on if Avatar's second run should count.

Wonder how much Disney will push it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 19, 2019, 05:44 PM
Well that will at least end the debate on if Avatar's second run should count.

Wonder how much Disney will push it.
Yeah this could be as small as adding another few mil WW only or it could blow up and add $50m+. Apparently it may just be an end credits scene or two and comicbook.com were just clickbaiting, that probably wouldn't do it.

Edit: apparently its 6 mins extra
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 19, 2019, 06:36 PM
Spidey twitter reactions will go live in 2 and a half hours. Some teasers have cropped up already, apparently there's a "mindblowing" twist and some great crowd pleasing moments. I'm excited.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 19, 2019, 06:38 PM
Spidey twitter reactions will go live in 2 and a half hours. Some teasers have cropped up already, apparently there's a "mindblowing" twist and some great crowd pleasing moments. I'm excited.
The twist is that the apparent good guy is a villain like in everything else lulz, I guess
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 19, 2019, 06:43 PM
The twist is that the apparent good guy is a villain like in everything else lulz, I guess
I doubt it given the buzz around it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 19, 2019, 09:46 PM
https://www.resetera.com/threads/spider-man-far-from-home-social-media-reactions.124380/page-3 (https://www.resetera.com/threads/spider-man-far-from-home-social-media-reactions.124380/page-3)

Extremely positive! Awesome! Are we finally getting a $1b Spidey film?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 22, 2019, 12:17 PM
Toy Story 4 is opening... fine, although yet another disappointment compared to expectations this summer. Perhaps people are spent up after Aladdin and Endgame and are waiting to spend their money on certain films like TLK and Spidey. Disney have definitely screwed themselves slightly with so many similar films in such a short frame this year, I reckon one or two should have moved to next year (which is barren in comparison for the mouse).

$45-48m friday incl. $12m previews means its gonna land around the same opening as TS3 way back in 2010 domestically (~$110m). Tracking was saying $140m+ with some thinking a new animated record was possible ($180m+). With some good OS openers like Argentina where it set a new OD record, but some underperformers compared to TS3 like UK, I wonder if this will hit $1b after all. Should be another fun one to follow.

Meanwhile Aladdin just keeps on flying and may well be heading to $1b after all. Legs are just phenomenal everywhere, Japan and South Korea in particular where its looking to make $100m and $75m respectively.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 22, 2019, 12:28 PM
Aladdin seems possibly more likely to hit $1b than Toy Story 4 right now, didn't think I'd be saying that. For record breaking sake I hope both of them hit it, but its gonna be a nailbiter.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 22, 2019, 04:57 PM
I watched the old movie Sphere. Was interesting. I need to watch more movies like that.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 23, 2019, 04:13 PM
$118m debut for Toy Story 4. That's good, shame estimates got so inflated recently making this look bad and a shame it couldn't make up for the bad last few weeks, but still good. 4th best animation OW ever. Estimate of $120m international debut. $900m+ looks very good and $1b still very much on the cards.

The Lion King tickets go on sale tomorrow, the king approaches!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 26, 2019, 02:16 PM
China knows where it's at.


Toy Story 4 Beaten At Chinese Box Office By... Spirited Away? | ResetEra (https://www.resetera.com/threads/toy-story-4-beaten-at-chinese-box-office-by-spirited-away.125652/)

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(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/148F6/production/_107541248_miyazaki-spirited_away_1_-c1162-poster.jpg)    Spirited Away rules China box office 18 years late  (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48767679)  The Japanese cartoon from 2001 made more than twice as much as Toy Story 4 over the weekend.   (https://static.bbc.co.uk/news/1.283.03340/apple-touch-icon-57x57-precomposed.png) www.bbc.com    
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Japanese animation Spirited Away has dominated the Chinese box office over its opening weekend, making more than twice as much as Disney's Toy Story 4.

 The Studio Ghibli film grossed $27.7m (£21.8m), according to Maoyan, China's largest movie ticketing app.

 Spirited Away was officially released in 2001, but only now, 18 years later, has it been released in China.

 However, many Chinese viewers grew up with the film, having watched DVDs or pirated downloads.

  • Toy Story 4 breaks global box office record (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48742991)
  • Hayao Miyazaki: Japan's godfather of animation? (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38074088)
Toy Story 4 made $13.2m on its opening weekend, said consultancy firm Artisan Gateway.

 The Japanese film by famed director Hayao Miyazaki tells the story of a young girl who is transported into a fantasy world after entering an abandoned theme park with her parents.

 The movie gained a cult following after it was released and still remains Studio Ghibli's highest grossing movie of all time.

 It also became the first non-English language animated film to win an Academy Award.

 Image copyright2001 STUDIO GHIBLI - NDDTMImage caption10-year-old Chihiro is the film's main protagonist
 My Neighbour Totoro became the first Ghibli film to ever debut in theatres in China in 2018, 30 years after its original release.

 China has a strict quota on the number of foreign films it shows.

 One analyst told the BBC last year that political tensions between China and Japan in the past could be why some Japanese movies had not been aired in China until very recently.

 Japan occupied China in 1931 and millions of Chinese people had been killed by the time the war ended in 1945. But for many, feelings of resentment towards Japan lingered.

 "Right now that relationship has improved significantly and there is a lot of movement on Sino-Japanese co-productions, including in anime," Stanley Rosen from the University of Southern California said.

 Spirited Away has also already outperformed Totoro which grossed $27.3m for its full run, state media outlet CGTN reports.  Click to expand... Click to shrink...  
Wild, hard not to celebrate a pretty good movie being outgrossed by an outright classic though.  
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Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 26, 2019, 05:21 PM
China knows where it's at.


Toy Story 4 Beaten At Chinese Box Office By... Spirited Away? | ResetEra (https://www.resetera.com/threads/toy-story-4-beaten-at-chinese-box-office-by-spirited-away.125652/)
Wild, hard not to celebrate a pretty good movie being outgrossed by an outright classic though.  

Spirited away is goat tho
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 26, 2019, 05:30 PM
Spirited away is goat tho
Exactly.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 27, 2019, 03:17 PM
Yeah Spirited Away has been surprising folks over in the BOT forums, China absolutely loves it as well it's got an amazing maoyan score.

Spidey has 92% on RT so far, so yet another hit for the MCU. It's box office run begins now with $3.1m midnights in China (best solo superhero midnights ever). Good start, here's hoping for a big $100m+ OW in China. Legs will be better than normal in China as basically all local films are being banned right now as Communist party steps up censorship, so Chinese don't have much else to watch.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 27, 2019, 10:23 PM
I think Spidey will end around 85-90%. Maybe not the best Spidey yet!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 27, 2019, 11:34 PM
Spidey starts with 9.2 maoyan score! That's great and points to good word of mouth and hopefully a leggy run in China.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 28, 2019, 11:28 AM
Now up to 9.3 maoyan and opening day is going very well, this is basically a dream scenario for Spidey in China. Could match Homecoming's entire China gross in its OW ($116m) and should be heading for $200m+ lifetime easily. $1b is looking locked and loaded, hellz yes.

Also that maoyan score has me pumped as it means the films gonna have some great spectacle and be super fun, looking forward to seeing it monday midnight.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jun 29, 2019, 09:41 PM
Endgame had a $1.86m friday domestically thanks to the re-release. Heading for a $6m weekend. Overseas is still very much up in the air, but this doesn't look like anywhere near enough to reach Avatar (to me). If Disney want the record they gotta do more pushing.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 01, 2019, 02:44 PM
Spidey seems to be doing super well in Asia. Big OW in Japan (only behind Avengers and the Raimi trilogy) and has the biggest solo CBM presales ever in Korea. China legs looking good with a $12m Monday. Hoping the 6 day opening in domestic market is huge as well.

Going to see the film tonight, I'm excited!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 01, 2019, 05:36 PM



Looks good!

I also saw happy death day 2u and enjoyed it. Wasn't the movie I was expecting.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 01, 2019, 06:44 PM


Looks good!

I also saw happy death day 2u and enjoyed it. Wasn't the movie I was expecting.

Yeah this looks way better than it ought to be. FIrst film made a fudge tonne of money, would be crazy if this managed to improve upon that. The Rock playing Danny Devito is something I never knew I needed in my life. Also thank god Nick Jonas is back!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 02, 2019, 01:01 AM
Far From Home was awesome! Yes! I'm so happy right now :D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 02, 2019, 03:52 AM
Might see it in a few days!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 02, 2019, 11:45 PM
Suppose I didn't update about the Endgame re-release! It had a great weekend with $6.1m dom and OS was good too considering its staggered. The OS actuals went up by $3m after the weekend was estimated at about $2m and people aren't exactly sure why, maybe the weekend made $5m OS or maybe Disney made some money appear ;D

Either way, with a good monday hold and holding onto most of its theatres for another week, this isn't just a one weekend spike and there should be some good money left to come. Add in the re-release in some more countries to come and it seems Avatar is going to go down after all, as its gonna at least get close and then Disney can work some magic for the last few mil if it needs it. What a rollercoaster this run has been (and continues to be)!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 03, 2019, 09:18 AM
Spidey ~$40m tuesday debut domestically. New all time tuesday record and that's a great start. Considering no previews (only limited midnights which made around $3m) and discounts will have probably harmed more than helped, that's a few mil bigger than Homecoming's opening 'true friday' comparatively.

Homecoming made $154m in its first 6 days, I think $180m+ would be good for FFH for the 6 day opening but really hoping it can land at $200m. Wednesday hold is key, apparently 3rd July is a big movie day in America as everyone has the next day off.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 06, 2019, 05:02 AM
Saw far from home. Liked it a lot. Far better than homecoming imo. Although the end credits scene really reminded me how much I miss the other films set in New York. Hopefully spidy 3 can be even more traditional like that, but again this one was great.

Oh also saw bumblebee. Kinda good actually. Second half was worse but still better than the dumpster fire I expected. Set in 1987 and had the ISS as a plot element, that was crazy off lol.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 06, 2019, 10:05 AM
Saw far from home. Liked it a lot. Far better than homecoming imo. Although the end credits scene really reminded me how much I miss the other films set in New York. Hopefully spidy 3 can be even more traditional like that, but again this one was great.

Oh also saw bumblebee. Kinda good actually. Second half was worse but still better than the dumpster fire I expected. Set in 1987 and had the ISS as a plot element, that was crazy off lol.
Yeah I like that they're mixing it up though, new york has been done so much I guess they're worried people will be getting bored of the same Spidey stories over and over.

Still need to see Bumblebee, thanks for reminding me!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 07, 2019, 10:54 PM
Endgame had a $1.86m friday domestically thanks to the re-release. Heading for a $6m weekend. Overseas is still very much up in the air, but this doesn't look like anywhere near enough to reach Avatar (to me). If Disney want the record they gotta do more pushing.
15.5m away yet.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 08, 2019, 12:24 AM
Watched Ralph wrecks the internet, it's... Okay... No where near the awesomeness of the first
8 months later:

I'm in the middle...

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br><br>The whole social media thing is lame. <br><br>The Disney princess segment is a bit meh<br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jul 08, 2019, 12:50 PM
Just saw the mulan trailer. Looks like shame.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 08, 2019, 09:19 PM
8 months later:

I'm in the middle...

Spoiler for Hidden:


The whole social media thing is lame.

The Disney princess segment is a bit meh

I liked that Disney part!


Saw Serenity. Oh my gosh what a horrible movie but still kinda good. Massive spoiler but can't really explain the issues otherwise.

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Whole movie was in a video game. Matthew Mcconaughey learns his whole life is fake and he is just a program and he just kinda roles with it. Really weird. The movie shouldn&#39;t have gone with such a far out plot if it had zero impact on things.<br>




Looks uninspired imo.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jul 08, 2019, 10:05 PM
I liked that Disney part!


Saw Serenity. Oh my gosh what a horrible movie but still kinda good. Massive spoiler but can't really explain the issues otherwise.

Spoiler for Hidden:

Whole movie was in a video game. Matthew Mcconaughey learns his whole life is fake and he is just a program and he just kinda roles with it. Really weird. The movie shouldn't have gone with such a far out plot if it had zero impact on things.




Looks uninspired imo.
What looks uninspiring? The idea that mulan seems bad dog right from the start (because women power) rather than have to train and try and prove herself, removing most of the character development? Or that they no sign of the best character in the show is no where to be seen? Or that mulan fights in a dress mid battle (because again, women power).

Mulan was a great story, it showed how women were viewed as lesser in a certain society, and it took the entire films length for her to earn the respect she deserved. And she didnt earn it because she was bad dog jumping over horses and shame. It's a shame, they had a chance to make a very great film here. But of course the need to cater to the "PC" crowd will utterly destroy those chances
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 09, 2019, 12:48 AM
I see absolutely no emotion.
No laughter, no fear, no anything else....

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 09, 2019, 06:07 PM
Mulan looks fine. Isn't Mulan without the songs and the changes to it though.

If Spider-Man: Far From Home doesn't make a billion (which it will), full control reverts to Sony | ResetEra (https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-spider-man-far-from-home-doesnt-make-a-billion-which-it-will-full-control-reverts-to-sony.128111/)

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In a recent edition of journalist Richard Rushfield's entertainment industry newsletter The Ankler, Rushfield peels back the secretive curtain of the deal that was signed between Sony and Marvel Studios back in 2015 to share the character. "The original Sony/Marvel/Spidey deal to co-produce these movies stipulated that if this Spidey cleared a billion, Marvel would get to oversee a third. If it hadn't, full control would have reverted back to Sony," he writes.

 To be clear, Far From Home has not yet crossed the billion dollar mark at the worldwide box office, but the fact that it's already made over $600 million in its first week (https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2019/07/09/spider-man-far-from-home-lion-king-hobbs--shaw-tarantino-dora-joker-maleficent-transformers-box-office/#9ddc4712ab20) is practically a guarantee that it will cross the coveted billion dollar threshold before it leaves theaters. So the Sony/Marvel Studios deal will still hold - at least for one more solo Spider-Man movie, because actor Tom Holland revealed (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/spider-man-tom-holland-how-movies-will-he-be-945566) back in 2016 that he was on board for three solo Spider-Man films and three appearances in other MCU movies.  Click to expand... Click to shrink...  
(https://d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net/wp/wp-content/images/spiderman-farfromhome-intlposter-frontpage.jpg)    If 'Spider-Man: Far From Home' Doesn't Make a Billion Dollars, Sony Breaks Free of the Marvel Studios Deal  (https://www.slashfilm.com/spider-man-contract/)  The Ankler's Richard Rushfield reveals the Spider-Man contract stipulation that could result in Sony regaining full cinematic control of the webslinger.   (https://d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net/slashfilm/siteimages/favicon.ico) www.slashfilm.com          Bullets Over the Box Office: Spidey, Spidey, Spidey Ho - The Ankler  (https://theankler.com/bullets-over-the-box-office-spidey-spidey-spidey-ho/)     (https://theankler.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-Anklerfavicon-32x32.png) theankler.com    
 And for anyone that has seen those e-mails from the Sony hack (or the TASM movies), you know how big of a bullet was dodged here. Now, just keep Tom Holland far, far away from Venom.

 Edit: Maybe the second half of the title would be clearer if it said "Sony is no longer contractually obligated to work with Marvel"  
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Thank god it's probably gonna make it, but can we all go watch it (again) just in case ;D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 10, 2019, 10:11 AM


Good song. Press reactions from the premiere are extremely positive, looks like we're going to have the huge hit that we expected from TLK. Question is how huge. $1-1.5b range or could it challenge $2b... gonna be fun to follow.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 11, 2019, 04:35 PM
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_lion_king_2019 (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_lion_king_2019)

Only 67% and some real scathing reviews in there. Definitely not what I was expecting but it has looked pretty bad in some videos. This in particular is a big yikes, it seems to have lost all its personality

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 11, 2019, 04:44 PM
Well it was hard training those lions!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 11, 2019, 04:59 PM
Well it was hard training those lions!
Yeah although its a shame for all the people that the lions ate that their sacrifice was in vein. Original 1994 version just looks so much better. Sure the animals are crazy realistic but colours and expresion trumps that any day, one of the reasons why into the spider-verse was so amazing.

Fallen to 61% on RT already. Might end up rotten. Aladdin was rotten and had the best legs of any blockbuster in summer, so who knows what that means anyway.

Edit: yep 58% and rotten now.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 11, 2019, 05:14 PM
Not a rt fan (their scores never seem to reflect what I see) but ouch with that tweet.

Felt the same way about Jungle Book though so maybe this will still print money.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 11, 2019, 05:25 PM


Good song. Press reactions from the premiere are extremely positive, looks like we're going to have the huge hit that we expected from TLK. Question is how huge. $1-1.5b range or could it challenge $2b... gonna be fun to follow.
Next post shows lots of negative reviews lol. Just a reminder that press reactions mean nothing
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 11, 2019, 05:53 PM
Not a rt fan (their scores never seem to reflect what I see) but ouch with that tweet.

Felt the same way about Jungle Book though so maybe this will still print money.
Agreed, RT will never influence whether I'm going to watch a film or not but its always interesting to discuss. Jungle Book was 95% on RT by the way, so this is a huge drop from that.

This will print money, no way its making less than $1b but I was thinking it could challenge $2b...  if audience reaction is anywhere close to reviewers then that isn't happening. Out in China tonight so we'll get a first glimpse at audience reactions soon.

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 12, 2019, 06:38 PM
Saw this older Adam Sandler video where he told a bunch of jokes. There were hardly any jokes like he'd say today. Few naughtiness jokes, no fart jokes, etc.

It made me believe the "conspiracy" that Adam Sandler is just making worse movies on purpose to see how long people will watch him.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 14, 2019, 03:30 PM
Endgame now only $7.2m away from Avatar after estimated $2.8m weekend worldwide. Record is going down for sure now, although may still take a month.

Spidey at $847m WW after 2nd weekend and legs looking good, will be touch and go for $400m domestic ($275m currently) but already has set a new record for a Spidey film overseas. Should be heading for $1.1b easily. Weekend estimate is $145.3m worldwide.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 14, 2019, 03:51 PM
The crawl!  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 14, 2019, 08:59 PM
The crawl!  
Yep, gonna feel crazy when Endgame finally gets there. Also TS4 and Aladdin both seem to be heading for $1b, fantastic year for Disney. Aladdin keeps legging super well and TS4 had an incredible debut in Japan. We're gonna tie the record for number of $1b grossers in a year before TLK, Frozen 2 and Star Wars come out.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 18, 2019, 01:16 AM
~6-7 million left till Endgame over takes Avatar
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 18, 2019, 09:03 AM
~6-7 million left till Endgame over takes Avatar
Hey! You're not me! 8)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 18, 2019, 07:29 PM
Yeah I don't know how good Lion King will do. My mom was planning to see it Sunday but reviews have changed her mind (worried it'll be another number Dumbo). Can't get more anecdotal than this haha.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 18, 2019, 08:48 PM
Yeah I don't know how good Lion King will do. My mom was planning to see it Sunday but reviews have changed her mind (worried it'll be another number Dumbo). Can't get more anecdotal than this haha.
All depends on WOM. If general audiences love it then people like your mom will probably convinced to go.  Box office wise its made a great start pretty much everywhere its opened so far and we'll find out about domestic soon. Anything $180m+ for OW is very good imo, $200m+ would be great.

TLK is going to debut in a record 4725 theaters in North America, taking away the record of Endgame (4662). Top 4 theater numbers will be TLK, Endgame, Spidey FFH and TS4. Either there's been some new theater expansion going on in the US or disney/MCU is really using their muscle this year. That TLK number is almost 200 above the pre-Endgame record. Insane jump really for a market as settled as US/Canada.

Endgame may be announced as new #1 all time this weekend as well, with Spidey FFH and Aladdin bearing down on $1b its exciting times! Gonna make a guesstimate of $1.6-1.7B for TLK before numbers start to be reported in earnest. See how that goes, I'm assuming general audience loves it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 19, 2019, 02:36 PM
Early TLK domestic numbers! $22-25M Thursday previews estimate from deadline, with BOT insider agreeing $22-25m looks likely. He also adds full opening day is looking $90m+ and OW should be $220m+. Must note these are extremely early reads and could be quite a bit off, but its absolutely insane if that comes to pass, would be right on SW:TLJ for 4th best ever, and this is a family film which should have great legs.

This is gonna be a really fun box office run to follow. Unfortunately TLK has hurt other films with everything dropping big on thursday, Spidey hitting $400m total is looking a bit iffy now unless it recovers well on Friday.

Overseas-wise, China is a bit meh but Aus/NZ and Europe #s are phenomenal so far.

Edit: and so it begins. $23M thursday previews for TLK.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 19, 2019, 09:51 PM
The lion king is a phenomenon tbh. Too bad it wasn't a better remake because they potentially could've reached like 2b
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 19, 2019, 10:05 PM
The lion king is a phenomenon tbh. Too bad it wasn't a better remake because they potentially could've reached like 2b
Technically it could reach $2b if audiences really love it. A meh performance in China has certainly badly hurt its chances though. I'd put it at ~5% chance right now. Still thinking my $1.6-1.7b estimate is on track. $1.671b+ beating Jurassic World for 6th place would be a fantastic result and about as good as anyone could expect, $2b is still an extraordinary feat and takes something truly special with everything falling in place to reach.

Some industry sources are saying ~$80m dom friday, while BOT insider still sticking with $93m. That's a huge difference, like if it is 93 instead of 80 that's worth 50mil+ for the total run.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 19, 2019, 10:58 PM
Most reliable BOT insider is saying $80m as well now, so seems like Charlie was off after all. He does try to give earlier numbers than anyone else which leads to inaccuracies but that's two big ODs in a row he's got wrong now (he said Spidey was looking ~$50m when it came in at $39m), although Spidey was very difficult to judge being on a tuesday.

What this means is TLK is very presale heavy compared to similar films, so legs may not be that spectacular. Also audience scores aren't as positive as Aladdin and Cinemascore may only be A-. Perhaps will end up more like $1.4-1.5b, we'll see. Also this means that $200m OW may not be happening, which is sad (although still a great opening of course).
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 20, 2019, 04:36 PM
$78.5m official OD estimate for TLK ($23m thurs previews, $55.5m friday). Early saturday estimate is $58-60m from BOT insider, that would be a relatively weak sat bump and would mean $190m OW. A very good start but nothing special considering what film this is, basically the expected performance on OW for a TLK remake, I'd say.

Well, we'll have a much better picture in a day or so especially once we get overseas weekend estimates.

I think I'll be watching it this weekend, I guess my opinion of the film will shape how I'm rooting for the BO run.

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 21, 2019, 01:37 AM
'Avengers: Endgame' Passes 'Avatar' to Become No. 1 Film of All Time | Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/avengers-endgame-passes-avatar-become-no-1-film-all-time-1225121)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 21, 2019, 06:23 AM
'Avengers: Endgame' Passes 'Avatar' to Become No. 1 Film of All Time | Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/avengers-endgame-passes-avatar-become-no-1-film-all-time-1225121)
As we thought.

Phase 4 looks great, lots of Disney+ though!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 21, 2019, 12:56 PM
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Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 21, 2019, 03:18 PM
Love love love that phase 4 lineup. Guess I'm gonna be getting disney+ ;D

Also weekend estimates are coming in and Endgame is now officially the #1 film of all time (dom thru. Sunday and overseas thru. friday totals $2.7902b). Huzzah!

TLK estimated $185m dom debut, disney lowballing the Sunday like usual so should end round about $190m in the end. Very good debut, lets see how the legs are.

I watched TLK earlier and really enjoyed it. Its TLK, if you love TLK you'll love this, simple really. You don't think about the lack of colour compared to the original when you're in the film, and the facial animations are fine, you get used to them pretty quick. Timon and Pumba are amazing, they make a few hilarious meta jokes as well.

The original is better if you watch clips side by side but when you're in the theater TLK is still a visual treat, just in a different way. Critics were being super super harsh with this one for sure.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 21, 2019, 03:59 PM
Also we can now say with certainty that this year will set the new record for $1B WW grossers.

Endgame and Captain Marvel already there. Spidey and Aladdin are very close and will have it probably next weekend, Toy Story 4 is holding like a champ and will fly past $1b as its yet to open in a few markets. TLK has a big $530m estimated total so far and is also going to fly past the $1b mark, although this was never in doubt. That's 6 films, beating the previous record of 5. Frozen 2 and Star Wars Ep. 9 still to come as well.

Amazing year for the box office, next year is going to be really sad in comparison.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 21, 2019, 04:42 PM
Are those the real movie names? Some of them sound and look really bad. Also where does Black Panther 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy 3 fit into this?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 21, 2019, 05:14 PM
Are those the real movie names? Some of them sound and look really bad.
Yes and no.  

All are real.  Not all of them are movies though.  What if... Is a TV show for an example.  

When I saw IGN share it, I did a double take expecting it to be from The Onion.  
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Also where does Black Panther 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy 3 fit into this?
GotG 3 has no release date yet.  

It sounds like both will come after.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 21, 2019, 06:14 PM
Are those the real movie names? Some of them sound and look really bad. Also where does Black Panther 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy 3 fit into this?
Yep! What Pi said. I love all the names, I love that they're getting a bit whack with some of them. Which ones do you think are bad? I can see Shang Chi being a bit eh but I like it.

Fantastic Four, Guardians 3, Black Panther 2 and Captain Marvel 2 were all confirmed but given no official title or release date. They are probably 2022-2023 titles. Guardians 3 we know is waiting for James Gunn to finish with Suicide Squad.

Blade was also announced with Mahershala Ali playing the main character, that was given a logo but no more info. So I guess that's gonna be 2022.

Spider-Man could fit in here as well, as that would be announced separately by Sony. Some are suggesting that since the 2021 July slot is free they may put Spidey there and have 4 MCU films for 2021. Either way MCU films for the next 4 years looks like this:

Black Widow (May 2020)
The Eternals (Nov 2020)
Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Feb 2021)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (May 2021)
Thor: Love and Thunder (Nov 2021)

Spidey 3 (unannounced but likely 2021-2022, Sony want that MCU money)
Black Panther 2, Captain Marvel 2, Guardians 3, Blade, Fantastic Four (2022-2023)

Either one of the above will be turned into a Civil War style teamup film or we'll also get a dedicated Avengers teamup film 2022-2023. Looks great to me, I'm super hyped especially for a horror Doctor Strange film with Wanda and a female-led LGBTQ+ Thor film.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 21, 2019, 09:53 PM
What If is the worst offender in my opinion but as a tv show that is more reasonable.

Loki and Hawkeye just feel lazy. Marvel really likes movies named after the lead character but it's kinda different since these characters have already been in a lot of films and are side characters. A subtitle like Spiderman Homecoming would make more sense to me. Black Widow is the same but for some reason the name works a bit better imo, maybe since she has been treated as mysterious and not an open book.

Wanda Vision sounds like a play on words, like smell-o-vision. Is this a joke they're going for or are they trying to be serious? I just don't get it either way.

The rest are just really wordy besides Eternals. Kinda feels like a modern trend though. We're past the period of having hard gritty titles for movies and are now having ones reminiscent of old adventure novels. I'm sorta down for it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 21, 2019, 11:17 PM
What If is the worst offender in my opinion but as a tv show that is more reasonable.

Loki and Hawkeye just feel lazy. Marvel really likes movies named after the lead character but it's kinda different since these characters have already been in a lot of films and are side characters. A subtitle like Spiderman Homecoming would make more sense to me. Black Widow is the same but for some reason the name works a bit better imo, maybe since she has been treated as mysterious and not an open book.

Wanda Vision sounds like a play on words, like smell-o-vision. Is this a joke they're going for or are they trying to be serious? I just don't get it either way.

The rest are just really wordy besides Eternals. Kinda feels like a modern trend though. We're past the period of having hard gritty titles for movies and are now having ones reminiscent of old adventure novels. I'm sorta down for it.
Well what would you name what if...? I think its a great name for what it is.

Yeah not a big fan of Loki/ Hawkeye's names but they're just TV shows that are gonna be disney+ exclusives, not like their name matters.

Wordy film titles are always weird, they can be a mouthful and risk putting people off. Don't think the MCU has that problem, if anything whacky titles are just gonna make more people interested.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 22, 2019, 03:49 AM
This is horrific

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kyoto-animation-a-silent-voice-haruhi-free-clannad-on-fire-in-premeditated-arson-attack-update-death-toll-reaches-34-see-staff-post.129650/ (https://www.resetera.com/threads/kyoto-animation-a-silent-voice-haruhi-free-clannad-on-fire-in-premeditated-arson-attack-update-death-toll-reaches-34-see-staff-post.129650/)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 22, 2019, 01:06 PM
This is horrific

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kyoto-animation-a-silent-voice-haruhi-free-clannad-on-fire-in-premeditated-arson-attack-update-death-toll-reaches-34-see-staff-post.129650/ (https://www.resetera.com/threads/kyoto-animation-a-silent-voice-haruhi-free-clannad-on-fire-in-premeditated-arson-attack-update-death-toll-reaches-34-see-staff-post.129650/)
Its shocking all round, how it could happen and how it killed so many people. Hopefully Japan's government deals with this way better than UK government did with Grenfell. Fire safety is so important.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 22, 2019, 04:28 PM
Its shocking all round, how it could happen and how it killed so many people. Hopefully Japan's government deals with this way better than UK government did with Grenfell. Fire safety is so important.
I just don't understand why someone would do that.  :(


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On the brighter side Japan might be getting a new number one movie at their box office.  

Shinkai's Weathering With You Film Earns 1.64 Billion Yen in 1st 3 Days - News - Anime News Network (https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-07-22/shinkai-weathering-with-you-film-earns-1.64-billion-yen-in-1st-3-days/.149215)


If it keeps it up.  It probably won't though.  Probably front loaded due to his previous movie doing so well.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 22, 2019, 08:39 PM
There are as many 2 billion dollar movies right now as there were 1 billion dollar movies in 2007.  

Not bad.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 22, 2019, 09:32 PM
People already talking about Endgame not beating Avatar due to inflation, how tiring. Avatar was boosted so high by a crazy weak dollar in 2009 and the 3d craze. BOT expert/ insider estimates it has global admissions of about 275million, compared to 400m of Titanic before it.

Of course 275m is still massive, it wasn't beaten again until Infinity War came along with about 300m tickets sold. Endgame WW estimate is about 370m, so about 100 million tickets more than Avatar. Shouldn't be a contest between them really.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 22, 2019, 09:43 PM
(https://i.redd.it/jz8vtp3i7ub31.jpg)

It'll be weird if Avatar reclaims the title with a re-release to promote Avatar 2. Crazy just how close the two are.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 24, 2019, 08:07 PM
TLK just posted a $30.39M tuesday, the third highest non-opening tuesday ever (behind SW:TFA and Endgame). Very impressive. Dom total up to $243m already, and heading for an easy $500m+, perhaps $600m+ if legs continue to impress. Incredibles 2's $608m animation record may be a bit out of reach but we'll see.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 24, 2019, 09:20 PM
I remember the days when only 2 movies got over $500m in the US.  

Now there are 10 movies with over $600m.  And it seems like there's one or two every year that manages to hit that mark.  


Inflation is one hellava drug.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 24, 2019, 10:17 PM
I remember that too. Pre Avatar I was really into the box office and movies in general. A big thing back then was reaching a billion worldwide. Now it's almost disappointing if a major film doesn't reach that.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 25, 2019, 11:06 AM
I remember that too. Pre Avatar I was really into the box office and movies in general. A big thing back then was reaching a billion worldwide. Now it's almost disappointing if a major film doesn't reach that.
Depends on how major, there's still 'only' been 39 films to hit $1b. And $400m Dom is still considered a fantastic amount for most films.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 25, 2019, 11:08 AM
(Other) ER's Impact on Endgame's Gross Through out last ten years (2009-2019) compiled by Gavin Feng from BOT. : boxoffice (https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/chlfbm/other_ers_impact_on_endgames_gross_through_out/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)

Great chart which shows impact of ER on gross since Avatar and why it's so impressive that Endgame managed to best it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 25, 2019, 08:47 PM
Depends on how major, there's still 'only' been 39 films to hit $1b. And $400m Dom is still considered a fantastic amount for most films.
32 out of those 39 came out in the 2010's and 2019 will probably set the record with 6+ films reaching the mark. I'd say it's become standard for major blockbusters haha.



Could be good.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 25, 2019, 10:07 PM
Still not a standard, although I guess it depends what you consider a blockbuster to be. If you mean $150m+ production budget huge films then yeah I guess $1b is the standard. Still a big film can make 'only' $700m and still be a huge success.

Anyway, Spidey won the race to be the 40th $1b film by passing the mark on Thursday. Aladdin should cross it this weekend with TLK and TS4 closing fast. Never had so many $1b films in quick succession.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 26, 2019, 06:02 PM


I'm not crying you're crying. Can't believe they deleted this.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 26, 2019, 06:17 PM


I'm not crying you're crying. Can't believe they deleted this.
Aye.  Hopefully it's on the DVD!  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 26, 2019, 09:26 PM


I'm not crying you're crying. Can't believe they deleted this.
Eh, kinda slow scene  ::)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 30, 2019, 04:28 PM


Cool style
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 31, 2019, 04:52 AM


This looks awesome!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 31, 2019, 09:18 PM
Saw once upon a time in hollywood. Was long and started really slow, but I ended up liking it a fair amount.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 31, 2019, 09:26 PM
Saw once upon a time in hollywood. Was long and started really slow, but I ended up liking it a fair amount.
Gosh I love me some Tarantino. Need to see it
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 31, 2019, 09:45 PM
Gosh I love me some Tarantino. Need to see it
It wasn't the film I expected. Not like his last two at all.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 16, 2019, 02:13 AM
I watched saving Mr banks.  Which was okay.  

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Fun fact about Iron Man.  Before the first movie, he was considered so obscure that 30 writers passed on him.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 16, 2019, 02:58 AM
I watched saving Mr banks.  Which was okay.  

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Fun fact about Iron Man.  Before the first movie, he was considered so obscure that 30 writers passed on him.  
Yeah sums up my opinions on Mr. Banks too.

It was funny back then. Iron Man and Hulk were the two big movies Marvel started with after becoming their own film studio. Iron Man was the nobody character while Hulk was the big deal. Kinda ironic that Iron Man launched the most successful movie universe of all time while the Hulk movie was retconned away.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 21, 2019, 08:17 AM
Sony and Disney are negotiating the next Spiderman film. The article I saw said that Sony was going forward with a sequel with or without Disney, but other people are acting like the films have been axed. We will see.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 21, 2019, 08:38 AM
Sony and Disney are negotiating the next Spiderman film. The article I saw said that Sony was going forward with a sequel with or without Disney, but other people are acting like the films have been axed. We will see.
Yeah I saw an article here saying they couldn't agree on a fee so Disney said they're not going to include Spidey in the Marvel universe anymore. Somehow I doubt that'll be the case.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Aug 23, 2019, 05:01 PM
Yeah sums up my opinions on Mr. Banks too.

It was funny back then. Iron Man and Hulk were the two big movies Marvel started with after becoming their own film studio. Iron Man was the nobody character while Hulk was the big deal. Kinda ironic that Iron Man launched the most successful movie universe of all time while the Hulk movie was retconned away.
Iron Man was always part of Marvel's trinity with Cap and Thor...

X-men blew up because of Claremont and Jim Lee's redesigns back in the 90s.  Until then, it was always Cap, Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, Spider-man and the F4.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 23, 2019, 07:41 PM
Iron Man was always part of Marvel's trinity with Cap and Thor...

X-men blew up because of Claremont and Jim Lee's redesigns back in the 90s.  Until then, it was always Cap, Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, Spider-man and the F4.
Captain America and Thor were also not as popular back then outside of comic fans.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Aug 24, 2019, 11:06 AM
Captain America and Thor were also not as popular back then outside of comic fans.
Marvel was huge in the 60s and 70s.  Those guys took a back seat to the X-Men in the late 80s early 90s.  But that had to do with the edgier comic stories running at the time (The same kind of stories they lambast Snyder for adapting) and the X-Men cartoon blowing up.  This is from the Avengers cartoon that took over after X-Men:
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/5/5f/The_Avengers-_United_They_Stand.jpg/revision/latest/top-crop/width/360/height/450?cb=20090218062215)
There's a reason Cap, Thor and Iron Man are at the top in this image (Them not being in the show is why it also only lasted like 10 episodes.) Iron Man was always big, it's just that the X-Men were bigger at the time.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 24, 2019, 03:41 PM
Marvel was huge in the 60s and 70s.  Those guys took a back seat to the X-Men in the late 80s early 90s.  But that had to do with the edgier comic stories running at the time (The same kind of stories they lambast Snyder for adapting) and the X-Men cartoon blowing up.  This is from the Avengers cartoon that took over after X-Men:
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/5/5f/The_Avengers-_United_They_Stand.jpg/revision/latest/top-crop/width/360/height/450?cb=20090218062215)
There's a reason Cap, Thor and Iron Man are at the top in this image (Them not being in the show is why it also only lasted like 10 episodes.) Iron Man was always big, it's just that the X-Men were bigger at the time.
Yeah I grew up in the 90's so that was my childhood experience. X-Men, Spiderman, and Hulk were the big Marvel guys you'd get lunchboxes for. Thor was some old stupid sounding character and I didn't even know about Iron Man or Captain America.

I think I remember McDonalds having an Iron Man toy later on that could turn into an axe. That was the only interaction I had with him.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 24, 2019, 05:06 PM
I grew up with DC....

So
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 24, 2019, 06:01 PM
I grew up with DC....

So
Yeah DC was huge back then with superman and batman. Funny how the tables turned.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Aug 26, 2019, 09:45 PM
I grew up with DC....

So
I grew up with both.  Batman TAS started off on Fox.  Spider-man and X-Men were running at the same time on Fox.  Then like 95 or 96 WB made Kids WB and Batman got moved there and they started making Superman.  Spider-man and X-Men were finishing up by that point.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 26, 2019, 09:52 PM
I am mother on Netflix was better than I expected. I highly recommend it if you liked Horizon's lore.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 31, 2019, 09:41 PM
First Joker reviews are out and most are great. Funny how most are 5/5,10/10 or 4.5/5 and then there are a few that slam it. Probably has something to do with the message its trying to convey. What they all have in common though is that Phoenix's portrayal of Joker is masterful. Oscar coming up, surely.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 04, 2019, 02:09 AM
Watched Interstellar again. It's been a while.  Mixed feelings about it.  

On the one hand I find the "beings" aspect of it just not good.  It's also really long.  Part of the plot shouldn't work.  

But I think the music does wonders to keep the intensity, so even if it's been 10 minutes since anything has really happened, it doesn't hurt because it builds up anticipation wonderfully.  It's also a pretty emotional movie.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 04, 2019, 04:12 AM
Watched Interstellar again. It's been a while.  Mixed feelings about it.  

On the one hand I find the "beings" aspect of it just not good.  It's also really long.  Part of the plot shouldn't work.  

But I think the music does wonders to keep the intensity, so even if it's been 10 minutes since anything has really happened, it doesn't hurt because it builds up anticipation wonderfully.  It's also a pretty emotional movie.
I think it's an amazing movie. The robots are some of the coolest things in sci fi and as you say the music is incredibly fitting. The love plot has weird moments but mostly works I'd say.


Also watched Isn't it romantic. Pretty funny film!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 04, 2019, 04:38 AM
>I think it's an amazing movie

I think so too.  Mixed is too strong of a word on my part.  I love ~90% of the movie.  

>The robots are some of the coolest things in sci fi

How so?  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 04, 2019, 06:01 AM
How so?  
They have such an out there design yet are programed like Siri. Movie never treats them as being alive compared to almost every other movie with advanced AI.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Sep 04, 2019, 05:34 PM
I don't love Interstellar but it's way better than Dunkirk that's for sure.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 04, 2019, 07:51 PM
Watched Interstellar again. It's been a while.  Mixed feelings about it.  

On the one hand I find the "beings" aspect of it just not good.  It's also really long.  Part of the plot shouldn't work.  

But I think the music does wonders to keep the intensity, so even if it's been 10 minutes since anything has really happened, it doesn't hurt because it builds up anticipation wonderfully.  It's also a pretty emotional movie.
Music is amazing. Listen to the soundtrack still occasionally

I don't love Interstellar but it's way better than Dunkirk that's for sure.
Yeah watched Dunkirk recently. Good movie but nothing mindblowing. Interstellar was mindblowing in the cinema at least
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Post by: nnodley on Sep 04, 2019, 10:22 PM
I'm hoping Tenet is amazing.

Interstellar is one of my favorites.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Sep 04, 2019, 11:10 PM
Batman Begins - 7.5/10
TDK - 9.5/10
Inception - 9/10
TDKR - 8/10
Interstellar - 7/10
Dunkirk - 5.5/10
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 04, 2019, 11:14 PM
Batman Begins - 7.5/10
TDK - 9.5/10
Inception - 9/10
TDKR - 8/10
Interstellar - 7/10
Dunkirk - 5.5/10
That's some battleship
For me:
BB - 8/10
Prestige - 9/10
TDK - 10/10
TDKR - 8/10
Inception 9.5/10
Interstellar - 9.5/10
Dunkirk - 7/10
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 05, 2019, 01:27 AM
For me:
BB* 11/10
Prestige N/A
Interstellar 9/10


*Bloodborne
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 05, 2019, 07:53 PM
Prestige was awesome. It never gets enough love.

I also really liked the illusionist which was essentially the same movie made at the same time by different people.
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Post by: BananaKing on Sep 05, 2019, 09:56 PM
Interstellar is fudgy amazing yo. I'm not very fond of the twist ending. But everything other than that was epic.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 05, 2019, 10:33 PM
Prestige was awesome. It never gets enough love.

I also really liked the illusionist which was essentially the same movie made at the same time by different people.
Haha that was such a fun movie year. Really my first year watching "real" mature movies in the cinema as a teenager. Both blew me away but The Prestige was insane.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Sep 06, 2019, 12:31 AM
Actually I've got the interstellar soundtrack on vinyl.  Sounds amazing.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Sep 06, 2019, 12:07 PM
I don't trust anyone who thinks Interstellar is a genuinely great film ;D

Its good, but I won't go any higher than that. Its way too long, only the music stopped me from falling alseep at points and I never sleep during movies. Should have been an hour shorter than it was. I watched it again a year or so later and my opinion remained the same. And of course the whole ending sequence is just pure battleship.

Only film I watched in cinema which bored me more than Interstellar was Dunkirk, so go figure. Its a shame because I do consider The Dark Knight and Inception to be two of my favourite movies, but he's gone downhill since then. I don't have any excitement for Tenet, may well skip it in cinema if its anything like Dunkirk.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Sep 06, 2019, 01:48 PM
I don't trust anyone who thinks Interstellar is a genuinely great film ;D

Its good, but I won't go any higher than that. Its way too long, only the music stopped me from falling alseep at points and I never sleep during movies. Should have been an hour shorter than it was. I watched it again a year or so later and my opinion remained the same. And of course the whole ending sequence is just pure battleship.

Only film I watched in cinema which bored me more than Interstellar was Dunkirk, so go figure. Its a shame because I do consider The Dark Knight and Inception to be two of my favourite movies, but he's gone downhill since then. I don't have any excitement for Tenet, may well skip it in cinema if its anything like Dunkirk.
I'm not saying your opinion is wrong, but it's wrong!  8)

Kidding, but for me there is just something about it that I can't quite put into words that makes it one of my favorite films.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 06, 2019, 04:49 PM
I'm not saying your opinion is wrong, but it's wrong!  8)

Kidding, but for me there is just something about it that I can't quite put into words that makes it one of my favorite films.
The atmosphere
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 06, 2019, 09:40 PM
The atmosphere
Of which there is none... In space
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 07, 2019, 10:18 PM
Of which there is none... In space
There is atmosphere in space.  :P

Low Earth orbit satellites need to counteract it by firing their thrusters.

(https://i.imgur.com/s9op3rj.png)

Space by most definitions begins at 100 km up yet look at the drag the ISS experiences at 400 km.

Haha on that note, Interstellar with magic bookcases was still more scientifically accurate than Gravity.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Sep 09, 2019, 11:57 AM
There is atmosphere in space.  :P

Low Earth orbit satellites need to counteract it by firing their thrusters.

(https://i.imgur.com/s9op3rj.png)

Space by most definitions begins at 100 km up yet look at the drag the ISS experiences at 400 km.

Haha on that note, Interstellar with magic bookcases was still more scientifically accurate than Gravity.
Who cares? Both movies were flat out fantastic
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 09, 2019, 05:36 PM
Who cares? Both movies were flat out fantastic
I like Gravity a lot. Doesn't mean I can't laugh at its faults.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Sep 10, 2019, 01:52 PM
*Both movies were flat out okay to good 8)

I kid, Interstellar is good and gravity is great.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 10, 2019, 03:51 PM
And here I felt gravity was terrible.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 10, 2019, 04:39 PM
Rented Melancholia. Was pretty good yet weird. Wouldn't recommend but I liked it a lot.

And here I felt gravity was terrible.  
One theory I saw online was that Sandra Bullock hallucinated George Clooney the whole time, not just in the final ship. That would explain him continuously not being helpful haha.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Sep 27, 2019, 03:27 PM
Spider-Man Will Stay in The Marvel Cinematic Universe - Variety (https://variety.com/2019/film/news/sony-marvel-tom-holland-spider-man-1203351489/)

Spidey is back in MCU!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Sep 27, 2019, 03:30 PM
Spider-Man Will Stay in The Marvel Cinematic Universe - Variety (https://variety.com/2019/film/news/sony-marvel-tom-holland-spider-man-1203351489/)

Spidey is back in MCU!
As expected, but I was starting to worry
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 01, 2019, 05:15 PM
I saw Ad Astra two days ago and have had some time to think about it.

It wasn't a good movie. It had lots of bad space stuff but I'm used to ignoring that. It was mostly just a boring film with a really small budget. Very art house.

I loved elements of it though, it had some great moments. Just felt like a movie made in the 80's though. I'm very surprised that it has gotten a generally positive reception.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Oct 02, 2019, 07:12 PM
Just watched hateful 8. dang that's a good movie. Quintin is a genius.

I do love me some samuel l Jackson.  But the entire cast was phenomenal. Kurt russel was fantastic. Honestly such a great movie
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 02, 2019, 08:35 PM
Just watched hateful 8. dang that's a good movie. Quintin is a genius.

I do love me some samuel l Jackson.  But the entire cast was phenomenal. Kurt russel was fantastic. Honestly such a great movie
Twas good but not Quintin's best imo.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Oct 03, 2019, 08:14 PM
Twas good but not Quintin's best imo.
Not best. That's always gonna be pulp fiction. But it's amazing non the less. Better than django IMO. But I can see why people would like django more.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 03, 2019, 09:00 PM
Not best. That's always gonna be pulp fiction. But it's amazing non the less. Better than django IMO. But I can see why people would like django more.
Yeah I definitely preferred Django and Inglorious Bastards and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Oct 04, 2019, 03:08 PM
Joker is performing better than expected at the box office pretty much everywhere in the world. $13.3m domestic thursday previews is a fantastic new October record.

General audience WOM is great as well. Could be in for a good run here, perhaps that gaping $300m hole in the 2019 WW chart between #6 (Aladdin $1.05b) and #7 (Hobbs and Shaw $750m) will be filled.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 10, 2019, 04:24 PM
Iron Man:
   Governments spending billions researching, scientists: "this technology is impossible"

Doctor Strange:
  Regular guy: "yeah i learned some magic and can walk now"
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Oct 11, 2019, 12:44 PM
Joker is having a dream run so far, with big openings everywhere (new October record domestic, international and worldwide) and incredible looking legs.

Seems set for $800m or maybe higher, which is a simple phenomenal total without a China release for a film with only $55m budget. This may well end up as the 2nd most profitable film of the year after Endgame.

Iron Man:
   Governments spending billions researching, scientists: "this technology is impossible"

Doctor Strange:
  Regular guy: "yeah i learned some magic and can walk now"
It is very weird how pretty much everything Tony Stark does is apparently impossible for everyone else in that world. There's not really any reasonable explanation for it either.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 11, 2019, 11:48 PM
El Camino, breaking bad movie is out! Getting great reviews. Must watch it
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 13, 2019, 03:08 AM
I guess I should go see Joker. Was confused when the first trailer came out. Thought it was related to suicide squad at first.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Oct 13, 2019, 03:43 PM
Joker's run just gets more and more insane. A 43% drop 2nd weekend domestic, which is probably a slight overestimate as well. That's the best ever for a comic book movie.

The international hold is even more insane, with just a 32% drop in the same markets and strong openings in France and Germany as well. UK hold is a crazy -20%.

This is a zeitgeist movie, everyone's talking about it. Could well be on for $1b if legs stay this good. An R-rated movie with no action, not releasing in China, only a $60m budget. Simply bonkers, in a year of Aladdin and Endgame this may end up the most impressive box office run. $544m is the total after the second weekend.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 13, 2019, 05:47 PM
Joker's run just gets more and more insane. A 43% drop 2nd weekend domestic, which is probably a slight overestimate as well. That's the best ever for a comic book movie.

The international hold is even more insane, with just a 32% drop in the same markets and strong openings in France and Germany as well. UK hold is a crazy -20%.

This is a zeitgeist movie, everyone's talking about it. Could well be on for $1b if legs stay this good. An R-rated movie with no action, not releasing in China, only a $60m budget. Simply bonkers, in a year of Aladdin and Endgame this may end up the most impressive box office run. $544m is the total after the second weekend.
Funny what happens when you make a good movie.  

Plus DC fans are pretty starved for a good movie.  :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 15, 2019, 02:56 PM
It's cool that DC has pulled itself together.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 18, 2019, 11:51 PM
Saw Zombieland 2, was actually really great. Liked it better than the first one. Middle was a bit boring.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 21, 2019, 04:20 PM
Spoiler for Rumored Sonic redo:
<br>(https://i.imgur.com/lsU4naB.jpg)<br>


Spoiler for Before:
<br>(https://heroichollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Sonic-the-Hedgehog-Movie.jpg)<br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Oct 21, 2019, 05:22 PM
Spoiler for Rumored Sonic redo:
<br>(https://i.imgur.com/lsU4naB.jpg)<br>


Spoiler for Before:
<br>(https://heroichollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Sonic-the-Hedgehog-Movie.jpg)<br>

Way better.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 21, 2019, 08:19 PM
I need to see it in motion before judging.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Oct 22, 2019, 12:24 PM



What do people think?

Presales also went up with this and its a fairly strong start. We need to hear from Fandango but so far it looks to be inbetween Infinity War and Endgame day 1 sales, just like TFA, TLJ and Rogue One. I'm very interested to see where the OW will fall, will it bounce back from the drop of $247->$220m between TFA and TLJ? Will it set a new star wars record? Exciting times, although we got a long time to wait.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 22, 2019, 11:30 PM


What do people think?

Presales also went up with this and its a fairly strong start. We need to hear from Fandango but so far it looks to be inbetween Infinity War and Endgame day 1 sales, just like TFA, TLJ and Rogue One. I'm very interested to see where the OW will fall, will it bounce back from the drop of $247->$220m between TFA and TLJ? Will it set a new star wars record? Exciting times, although we got a long time to wait.
Why are they riding horse things?  ???

Outside of that, trailer didn't really hit me one way or another. The audio felt off with the voiceover being way too quiet. Probably will go see it on my birthday.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Oct 23, 2019, 11:50 AM
Why are they riding horse things?  ???

Outside of that, trailer didn't really hit me one way or another. The audio felt off with the voiceover being way too quiet. Probably will go see it on my birthday.
Yeah that's what I thought as well, it was an okay trailer. Anyways here's the top 5 first 24 hours ticket sales as estimated by a BOT insider/ expert (US only):

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Oct 23, 2019, 10:49 PM
Box office mojo has been gutted by amazon/ imdb pro. Most interesting data has either been put behing imdb pro paywall (like looking at actors/ directors/ studios) or just deleted (theatre counts, ranking entries below #200). The UI is way worse and the website is quite broken right now, for example most of the weekend and month records are just plain wrong.

So yeah, BOM is basically dead. If y'all wanna just peruse box office number then The Numbers - Where Data and the Movie Business Meet (https://www.the-numbers.com/) is the place to go now, although its missing a few things that old BOM had, and its quite as nice to use. Ah well.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Oct 25, 2019, 06:31 PM
Joker is the highest grossing R-rated movie of all time! Amazing! Also, according to deadline's estimates, its going to be in the top 10 most profitable films of all time as well, with as much as $500m profit for Warner Bros. Super amazing!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 25, 2019, 08:06 PM
Joker is the highest grossing R-rated movie of all time! Amazing! Also, according to deadline's estimates, its going to be in the top 10 most profitable films of all time as well, with as much as $500m profit for Warner Bros. Super amazing!
I'm shocked it didn't review well. Must've been something controversial in it I guess
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 25, 2019, 08:25 PM
I'm shocked it didn't review well. Must've been something controversial in it I guess
Yeah.  
I looked at a few of the bad reviews.  Complaints of how bloody the movie is, some of them barely even say anything.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 26, 2019, 02:50 AM
Box office mojo has been gutted by amazon/ imdb pro. Most interesting data has either been put behing imdb pro paywall (like looking at actors/ directors/ studios) or just deleted (theatre counts, ranking entries below #200). The UI is way worse and the website is quite broken right now, for example most of the weekend and month records are just plain wrong.

So yeah, BOM is basically dead. If y'all wanna just peruse box office number then The Numbers - Where Data and the Movie Business Meet (https://www.the-numbers.com/) is the place to go now, although its missing a few things that old BOM had, and its quite as nice to use. Ah well.
Wow that really sucks. I've been following boxofficemojo for almost exactly 10 years.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 26, 2019, 02:57 AM
Wow that really sucks. I've been following boxofficemojo for almost exactly 10 years.
I remember looking at it in 7th grade, so I have been following somewhere around 10 years too. 

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 28, 2019, 06:53 PM
Knives Out (2019) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/knives_out)

Hype! Great cast imo
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 29, 2019, 05:21 AM
Knives Out (2019) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/knives_out)

Hype! Great cast imo
I thought it looked 50 50 in the trailers. Pleasantly surprised!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 01, 2019, 02:50 AM
Box office mojo has been gutted by amazon/ imdb pro. Most interesting data has either been put behing imdb pro paywall (like looking at actors/ directors/ studios) or just deleted (theatre counts, ranking entries below #200). The UI is way worse and the website is quite broken right now, for example most of the weekend and month records are just plain wrong.

So yeah, BOM is basically dead. If y'all wanna just peruse box office number then The Numbers - Where Data and the Movie Business Meet (https://www.the-numbers.com/) is the place to go now, although its missing a few things that old BOM had, and its quite as nice to use. Ah well.
First time I've looked at Boxofficemojo in the past few weeks.
Wow.  It's ridiculously bad.

Really solidifies the end of an era.  

Hopefully The Numbers catches on.   And either gets good updates or, BOM backs down from being dumb.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Nov 01, 2019, 09:36 AM
First time I've looked at Boxofficemojo in the past few weeks.
Wow.  It's ridiculously bad.

Really solidifies the end of an era.  

Hopefully The Numbers catches on.   And either gets good updates or, BOM backs down from being dumb.  
The Numbers already are, immediately picking up the slack with theatre counts. They're now doing a weekly report on theatre counts for all movies, so we aren't losing that information!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 04, 2019, 03:54 AM
Saw the new terminator. It was really good. Glad to see that the franchise is back, although I will admit I liked salvation.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 04, 2019, 04:43 AM
Joker is the 4th biggest DC movie. 

And not terribly far from second place.  About 150m.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Nov 04, 2019, 09:00 AM
Saw the new terminator. It was really good. Glad to see that the franchise is back, although I will admit I liked salvation.
Unfotunately its bombing hard so who knows if there'll be any more of these films.

Joker is the 4th biggest DC movie. 

And not terribly far from second place.  About 150m.
The Batman brand is so incredibly strong at the box office. Joker may well overtake the Dark Knight films and give Aquaman a run for its money at the rate its going.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 06, 2019, 05:11 AM
The Numbers has some graphing stuff
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Joker-(2019)/Batman-v-Superman-Dawn-of-Justice/Wonder-Woman-(2017)/Aquaman-(2018)#tab=day_by_day_comparison (https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Joker-(2019)/Batman-v-Superman-Dawn-of-Justice/Wonder-Woman-(2017)/Aquaman-(2018)#tab=day_by_day_comparison)

Optimistically, there's a small chance Joker tops Aquaman domestically.  Pessimistically, it'll fall below Batman v Superman.


https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/international/all-movies/cumulative/all-time (https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/international/all-movies/cumulative/all-time)

Pretty impressive how well Joker is doing internationally though.  It's beaten all of the Dark Knight movies.  I think Aquaman is the only DC movie above it there.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 08, 2019, 03:35 AM
We thinking Terminator will have an ok drop for its second weekend?

I don't remember which website was talking about its performance but one thing seemingly hurting it is just how bad the last terminator was. If that is the case, the drop might be relatively small.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Nov 08, 2019, 10:06 AM
The Numbers has some graphing stuff
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Joker-(2019)/Batman-v-Superman-Dawn-of-Justice/Wonder-Woman-(2017)/Aquaman-(2018)#tab=day_by_day_comparison (https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Joker-(2019)/Batman-v-Superman-Dawn-of-Justice/Wonder-Woman-(2017)/Aquaman-(2018)#tab=day_by_day_comparison)

Optimistically, there's a small chance Joker tops Aquaman domestically.  Pessimistically, it'll fall below Batman v Superman.


https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/international/all-movies/cumulative/all-time (https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/international/all-movies/cumulative/all-time)

Pretty impressive how well Joker is doing internationally though.  It's beaten all of the Dark Knight movies.  I think Aquaman is the only DC movie above it there.
Yeah the numbers has always had great graphs, that was one of the things that made people go there even when BOM was still good.

Yeah Joker internationally is absolutely astounding, in some countries like Greece and Spain its just doing a phenomenal performance, like top 5 all time good. In the UK its just become the biggest 15-rated film ever. Domestically, legs are still really strong with better drops every week. Its one of the craziest box office runs ever, that's for sure.

We thinking Terminator will have an ok drop for its second weekend?

I don't remember which website was talking about its performance but one thing seemingly hurting it is just how bad the last terminator was. If that is the case, the drop might be relatively small.
Opening weekend was real bad and legs are looking fairly normal so far, so its not going to get close to recovering from the bad OW. I'd say avoiding a drop bigger than 60% into its second weekend would certainly be okay, but not enough to send it on its way to matching Genisys' $89M total. Whatever the legs look like, this film is making a loss. Performance globally is just too way, way too bad for a $185m budget.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Nov 10, 2019, 08:07 PM
Terminator with a bad 63% second week drop. This movie is going to lose a lot of money. Doctor Sleep bombs with a $14m opening. This is the worst start to a November box office since 2000, with the top 10 in both of the first 2 weekends failing to sum to $100m. Seems like audiences are saving their money after Joker with Frozen 2 and Star Wars looming, both with very impressive pre-sales (as expected).

Frozen 2's first 2 days of pre-sales were better than the full first week for the lion king, although Frozen 2 has the benefit of thanksgiving the week following its OW to boost these numbers. Opening weekend itself seems to be tracking below TLK's $180m.

Joker should hit $1b within a week, which is a phenomenal achievement for a $60m budget R-rated non-action film. After never having more than 5 $1bil+ films in a single year, we're going to end this year with at least 9, crazy.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 10, 2019, 09:36 PM
Saw Midway today, was good. That is all.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 10, 2019, 09:53 PM
Joker should hit $1b within a week, which is a phenomenal achievement for a $60m budget R-rated non-action film. After never having more than 5 $1bil+ films in a single year, we're going to end this year with at least 9, crazy.
In a year with Endgame, and honestly I think this might be the craziest run this year.
-Set to be the cheapest billion dollar movie ever.  
-most profitable comic book movie ever
-first billion dollar R rated movie.  

Pretty insane.  

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Nov 11, 2019, 08:06 PM
In a year with Endgame, and honestly I think this might be the craziest run this year.
-Set to be the cheapest billion dollar movie ever.  
-most profitable comic book movie ever
-first billion dollar R rated movie.  

Pretty insane.  


How would it be the most profitable comic book movie ever?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 11, 2019, 08:53 PM
How would it be the most profitable comic book movie ever?
Measured by dividing revenue with cost
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Nov 11, 2019, 09:23 PM
How would it be the most profitable comic book movie ever?
Measured by dividing revenue with cost
Correcto, although in terms of actual $ profit I think it might only be behind Endgame anyway, its pretty insane.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 11, 2019, 09:28 PM
Correcto, although in terms of actual $ profit I think it might only be behind Endgame anyway, its pretty insane.
Not sure how true this is:
Joker Set to Earn Almost as Much Profit as Avengers: Endgame (https://movieweb.com/joker-movie-box-office-profits-match-avengers-endgame/)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Nov 11, 2019, 09:47 PM
Not sure how true this is:
Joker Set to Earn Almost as Much Profit as Avengers: Endgame (https://movieweb.com/joker-movie-box-office-profits-match-avengers-endgame/)

Yeah they don't cite a source so its hard to say. But even harder to say regarding Endgame, because it was made together with IW so finding an exact budget for it is hard. Either way, I highly doubt Endgame will be toppled by Joker.

Using normal takings ratios, Endgame brought in approximately $1.2B for Disney while Joker will bring in roughly $500m (based on estimated overall $350m dom and $750m international). I expect Endgame will make much more from TV deals and home entertainment sales as well, but even assuming that's the same I really can't see Endgame costing $700m total, never mind $700m more than Joker.

I'm really not knowledgeable in this regard, but I'd say the estimates of $600m cost for Endgame are probably okay, meaning that's a $600m profit from the box office. Joker's BO profit will probably be more like $350-400m, so its way off. Could well be touch and go with Infinity War though, which is in second place for comic book movies, ($900m BO taking and a ~$500m budget put it at $400m profit). I'd back IW making more from TV and home as well though, so maybe IW will still hold onto second place. Not really any way to tell for sure.

Anyway, all 3 of these movies made ridiculous profit, and are seriously impressive in many different ways.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Nov 11, 2019, 09:48 PM
Measured by dividing revenue with cost
That's not the most profitable that the biggest return on investment
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Nov 11, 2019, 10:16 PM
Joker is the first film of the decade to last 6 weeks at #1 in the UK. Pretty rad.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Nov 11, 2019, 10:33 PM
I'm very excited to follow Frozen 2 starting in a week or so's time, its going to be a really interesting run. The first film was obviously a major breakout, and did so well thanks to incredible legs. Frozen 2 will be much more about the OW but should have good legs as well. It really could go anywhere from $1-2b, but I think around the $1.27b of the first film is where it will most likely land. Any better than that would be excellent, I'm sure Disney aren't expecting it.

A super, super big variable is Japan, where the first film was an ultra mega smash hit with $246m, its the second most attended film of all time at the Japanese box office (20.03 million tickets), only behind Spirited Away. Frozen 2 will surely decline in Japan, as many expect, but how well it can limit the decline will be a key factor. If it can pull of the unthinkable and grow from the first film in Japan... well... if its performing that well then $1.64b+ (above TLK) is probably happening.

To get a sense of how absolutely ludicrous Frozen's BO run in Japan was, here is its first 13 weekends up to the point it finally started to trail off and act like a normal film:

¥763 million ($7.5 million)
¥872 million ($8.5 million), +13%, ¥3.01 billion ($29.6 million)
¥881 million ($8.6 million), +01%, ¥5.28 billion ($51.6 million)
¥850 million ($8.3 million), -03%, ¥7.71 billion ($74.8 million)
¥841 million ($8.2 million), -01%, ¥9.28 billion ($90.7 million)
¥826 million ($8.1 million), -02%, ¥10.73 billion ($104.8 million)
¥772 million ($7.6 million), -07%, ¥12.10 billion ($118.4 million)
¥1.12 billion ($11.1 million), +46%, ¥14.62 billion ($143.4 million)
¥738 million ($7.2 million), -34%, ¥17.08 billion ($167.4 million)
¥807 million ($7.9 million), +09%, ¥18.53 billion ($181.8 million)
¥700 million ($6.9 million), -13%, ¥19.85 billion ($194.6 million)
¥759 million ($7.5 million), +08%, ¥21.23 billion ($208.1 million)
¥592 million ($5.8 million), -23%, ¥22.30 billion ($218.6 million)

Weekends in Japan are only counted as Sat-Sun, which is why the jumps in the totals are quite large compared to the weekend grosses.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 12, 2019, 12:05 AM
That's not the most profitable that the biggest return on investment
I'm not really sure.  There's a lot of unknowns.

Supposedly between actors taking a cut, China and the $500 million production and P&A budget, Endgame's profit for the studio was closer to $500m.  

Which is about where Joker is now in terms of profit due to low P&A and production budget.  

Although who knows how the numbers actually turn out.  I would imagine only Disney and WB know their numbers and they probably wouldn't want to share it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Nov 12, 2019, 10:40 AM
I'm not really sure.  There's a lot of unknowns.

Supposedly between actors taking a cut, China and the $500 million production and P&A budget, Endgame's profit for the studio was closer to $500m. 

Which is about where Joker is now in terms of profit due to low P&A and production budget. 

Although who knows how the numbers actually turn out.  I would imagine only Disney and WB know their numbers and they probably wouldn't want to share it.

You're mixing certain numbers up. $500m was Endgame's approximate profit from its box office run, it will be much more in total.

Infinity War's total profit was $500m, and that was based off $900m box office returns for the studio. Endgame's returns are $300m higher, and the movies were made together, with the cost for each essentially being equal, about half of a big total. So if you assume costs were the same as for IW, then Endgame is heading for $800m+ profit.

Now, perhaps there is a bigger budget on Endgame for various reasons, but I think that's counterracted by the fact that Endgame is setting home entertainment records, and TV deals will be super favourable for the new biggest film ever. Endgame's profit should be at the very least $700m.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 12, 2019, 01:08 PM
You're mixing certain numbers up. $500m was Endgame's approximate profit from its box office run, it will be much more in total.

Infinity War's total profit was $500m, and that was based off $900m box office returns for the studio. Endgame's returns are $300m higher, and the movies were made together, with the cost for each essentially being equal, about half of a big total. So if you assume costs were the same as for IW, then Endgame is heading for $800m+ profit.

Now, perhaps there is a bigger budget on Endgame for various reasons, but I think that's counterracted by the fact that Endgame is setting home entertainment records, and TV deals will be super favourable for the new biggest film ever. Endgame's profit should be at the very least $700m.
*Facepalm*
I did.  Ouch.

I have no idea how I made that mistake
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Post by: Xevross on Nov 16, 2019, 11:16 AM
A round of applause for Joker, the first ever R-rated $1b movie! I wonder what film will be the next
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Post by: Xevross on Nov 16, 2019, 10:02 PM
Terminator has not had good legs at all. A big ol' flop all round. An even bigger flop is Charlie's Angels, with a disastrous $8m opening weekend. Ford v Ferrari has fantastic WOM and is heading for a nice opening, should perform well over the holiday period. Box office is all set for Frozen 2 next week.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 16, 2019, 10:34 PM
Terminator has not had good legs at all. A big ol' flop all round. An even bigger flop is Charlie's Angels, with a disastrous $8m opening weekend. Ford v Ferrari has fantastic WOM and is heading for a nice opening, should perform well over the holiday period. Box office is all set for Frozen 2 next week.
Frozen not getting the excellent reviews I was expecting. Might not have the legs like frozen 1
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Post by: Xevross on Nov 16, 2019, 11:20 PM
Frozen not getting the excellent reviews I was expecting. Might not have the legs like frozen 1
Indeed, legs were always going to be worse but who knows where it will go now. If audiences still love it then reviews don't matter.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 16, 2019, 11:40 PM
I don't think reviews are going to matter at all.  

The first movie has so many lines of toys, clothes, etc that are still selling, it is obvious there is huge staying power with the first one.  The second one will do decent numbers just by virtue of being a sequel to Frozen.  

Bet on it.  

Disclaimer: this week I am very tired, so it's totally possible that these are the ramblings of a nincompoop.  
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Post by: Xevross on Nov 17, 2019, 01:53 AM
I don't think reviews are going to matter at all.  

The first movie has so many lines of toys, clothes, etc that are still selling, it is obvious there is huge staying power with the first one.  The second one will do decent numbers just by virtue of being a sequel to Frozen.  

Bet on it.  

Disclaimer: this week I am very tired, so it's totally possible that these are the ramblings of a nincompoop.  

You're right of course. This movie could have gotten godawful reviews and it'd still make a boatload of money. Like even 10% on rottentomatoes and it'd be $800m+ easy. With solid reviews, the film is at least good, so $1b is locked already. Question is does it beat the first film ($1.27b)... right now I'd bet on no, mainly due to Japan most likely declining massively.
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Post by: Xevross on Nov 18, 2019, 02:02 PM
Here's a wild one: currently, Rise of Skywalker is expected to gross less at the overseas box office than Joker. Joker is going to have something like $710-740m overseas, and The Last Jedi for example had only $690m overseas. Star Wars isn't the WW behemoth it could have been had they kept up TFA's form.
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Post by: Xevross on Nov 20, 2019, 04:01 PM
Previews for Frozen 2 are heading towards the $10-11m range it seems, which is rather weak. However, this film has the most back-loaded pre-sales I've ever seen, so numbers can only improve from there. Tracking is saying the domestic opening weekend is heading for around $110m, which would be quite disappointing. However, experts on BOT, using presales data from AMC and Cinemark for the weekend are estimating an OW more in the $150m range, which would be great. Let's see.

South Korea presales just ended and it narrowly missed out on becoming the second best ever presales, with 1.11m tickets pre-sold compared to Infinity War's 1.15m (Endgame holds the record with 2.32m). That's an amazing performance. Pre-sales in China are also pointing to an OW of higher than the lifetime performance of the first film ($48m). Things are looking good!
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Post by: Xevross on Nov 21, 2019, 11:14 PM
The last few days of presales for Frozen 2 were a lot weaker than expected. Presales now seem to be heading for only $9m. This number on its own means basically nothing though, this is the first ever animation blockbuster opening on a schoolday in the era of thursday previews, so its hard to judge anything. Everything about this movie is hard to predict, with thanksgiving coming in its second week and presales being so backloaded. If anything, we won't be able to judge too much about what its total gross may look like until the second weekend numbers come in. Still, I think an opening weekend of less than $130m would be quite disappointing for how hyped frozen 2 should be.

Here's the predictions from the major outlets:

deadline 90-135 (112.5 avg)
the-numbers.com 125
pro.BO 130
BOR 136

Overseas its looking good, going about as expected so far in places like South Korea and France.

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Post by: Xevross on Nov 22, 2019, 03:04 PM
Insider on BOT suggesting that those predictions are indeed looking to be too low, going by early friday numbers. So it begins. Preview numbers should be here soon anyway.

Edit: $8.5M previews. Solid but nothing spectacular. We should get early friday numbers soon. BOT guys are estimating about a $50M friday (incl. previews) based on pre-sales, which would be absolutely fantastic and probably lead to a $150M+ weekend. Saturday presales seem to be exploding everywhere in the world compared to friday, which is a rather odd consistent trend to have.

New edit: openiung day heading to more like $42M. Apparently Frozen 2 is as presale heavy as Infinity War, which is crazy. Cinemascore A- is disappointing (first was A+) so legs won't be spectacular. Looks like its heading for a good but not amazing run domestically, should still improve over the first film but not much. Needs overseas to go crazy if it wants a historic run.

Speaking of, the film is going absolutely mad in Japan. Seems like the all time admissions record for Saturday is being demolished - in fact its 6pm now and it looks like the record is already broken. Still, OW in Japan will be tiny compared to total due to nature of market, legs are way more important. South Korea is a similar story, its racing Endgame for the #1 all time saturday admission record and its gonna be close.
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Post by: Xevross on Nov 24, 2019, 07:48 PM
$350m global debut for Frozen 2 including $127m estimated for domestic market. Good start domestic but not crazy, lets see how thanksgiving week goes.

Globally though, this is fantastic. Smashes the global animation record and it hasn't opened in a lot of places. Simply phenomenal performance in Asia, South Korea is absolutely huge with over $30m and posting 2 of the 3 biggest dayt of all time. In Europe it seems to be matching TLK in major markets like the UK and Germany.

Depending on legs we could be looking at $1.5b+ and legs don't need to be anywhere near as good as the original Frozen. F2's international debut was up 233% over the original in like-for-like markets, simply stunning.
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Post by: Xevross on Nov 25, 2019, 08:36 PM
Final numbers $130.2m dom, $358.4m global opening for Frozen 2. Animation record demolished. Let's see how far the girls can go!
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Post by: Legend on Nov 25, 2019, 11:14 PM
I saw Maleficent 2 since my cousin worked on it. Liked it a fair bit more than the first but I really didn't like the first at all so...

I want to see Ford vs Ferrari. Kinda reminds me of how PlayStation started.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 01, 2019, 04:44 PM
Frozen 2 still going fantastically. $287m dom total after 2nd weekend is great, looks like $500m+ may happen. Real story is overseas, where its at $451m already. Fantastic holds everywhere, looks like its going to blast past Frozen's all time animation record worldwide, perhaps on its way to $1.5B WW total. Its almost halfway there already, $738m so far before actuals come in.
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Post by: Legend on Dec 03, 2019, 09:11 PM
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 03, 2019, 09:15 PM

TV tho, right?
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Post by: Legend on Dec 03, 2019, 09:35 PM
TV tho, right?
Theaters May 1 2020.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 03, 2019, 10:59 PM
Theaters May 1 2020.
Oh for some reason I thought it was a TV show
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 04, 2019, 01:01 AM

I'm hyped!

I don't think it looks all that amazing, but I love her character and want to find out more. Plus I'm an MCU fanboy now so its a requirement that I go watch in cinema.
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Post by: Legend on Dec 04, 2019, 06:18 PM
I'm hyped!

I don't think it looks all that amazing, but I love her character and want to find out more. Plus I'm an MCU fanboy now so its a requirement that I go watch in cinema.
It looks very generic action movie second tier to me (Hobbs and Shaw style but not that bad) but I can agree that I'll probably go see it lol.

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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 04, 2019, 09:55 PM
It looks very generic action movie second tier to me (Hobbs and Shaw style but not that bad) but I can agree that I'll probably go see it lol.


Bond looks Ace tho. Looking forward to Mr Robot villain
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 08, 2019, 07:35 PM
Frozen 2 is better than the first film in every way.
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Post by: Legend on Dec 09, 2019, 02:56 AM
Frozen 2 is better than the first film in every way.
I haven't seen it so I might eventually agree but that sure is a hot take lol.


Also
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 09, 2019, 03:08 AM
Frozen 2 is better than the first film in every way.
I didn't like Frozen 1, so I'm sure I'll like it more by default.  
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 09, 2019, 11:51 AM
I haven't seen it so I might eventually agree but that sure is a hot take lol.


Also

Well I'm one of the people who found Frozen to be really average and extremely overhyped, so it wasn't that hard to achieve.

That's a good trailer.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 17, 2019, 12:37 PM
Frozen 2 became only the third ever Walt Disney Animation Studios release to gross $1b+. On its way to $1.4+ WW.

The Rise of Skywalker social media reactions are up and it seems like its going to be less well received than the prior two (critically), although the critics views don't line up with fans at all so that's basically saying nothing. Some mixed opinions on how it relates to TLJ as well with some saying it follows on well and others saying the film basically nuggets on Rian Johnson. So who the fudge knows. Looking forward to seeing the film in 35 hours!
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 17, 2019, 11:19 PM
Oh gosh, as more reactions come out it seems Disney might have produced their first rotten SW film here. Gonna be very interested to see that critic score tomorrow...
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Post by: Legend on Dec 18, 2019, 12:23 AM
Oh gosh, as more reactions come out it seems Disney might have produced their first rotten SW film here. Gonna be very interested to see that critic score tomorrow...
Ouch. Realistically I'll still go see it over the weekend but if true that sucks for the last main SW film.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 18, 2019, 12:48 AM
Ouch. Realistically I'll still go see it over the weekend but if true that sucks for the last main SW film.
Well it could be one of the cases of critics being way off what general audiences think. And then hardcore fans are a whole other story as well.

Gonna be fun to unpack, in 24 hours time I'll be watching the film so I'll be able to give my opinion (and that of a couple of my friends). Actually it'll be interesting to watch it with my friends, one is a huge SW fan that watches everything and knows a lot of the EU and was quite disappointed with TLJ while the other has only watched the OT once when they were young and thought TLJ was a great film.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 18, 2019, 01:22 AM
Sad that Disney would ruin sw so if true. Tlj, solo not up to scratch

I'm reading some reactions on RT tho and many seem positive. Sounds like it's more of the same, kind of like FA, but with a lot happening.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 18, 2019, 10:21 AM
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_wars_the_rise_of_skywalker)

Oof, rotten indeed. 54% so far, only 1% above TPM which is the lowest rated film in the franchise. Meta is 53, also the second lowest of the franchise at the moment.

Looks like Disney have upset critics for the first time with Star Wars. Both TFA and TLJ were over 90% and even Solo was over 70%.

Edit: remarkable recovery, its reached 60%! :P
Edit 2: back down to 55%, double oof
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 18, 2019, 04:40 PM
Audience reviews in China are looking very bad. SW has been declining massively in China and it looks like that won't be stopping here. Decline has also been happening in most of Asia, will be interesting to see how the film performs there.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 18, 2019, 05:27 PM
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_wars_the_rise_of_skywalker)

Oof, rotten indeed. 54% so far, only 1% above TPM which is the lowest rated film in the franchise. Meta is 53, also the second lowest of the franchise at the moment.

Looks like Disney have upset critics for the first time with Star Wars. Both TFA and TLJ were over 90% and even Solo was over 70%.

Edit: remarkable recovery, its reached 60%! :P
Edit 2: back down to 55%, double oof
Sad  >:(
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Post by: BananaKing on Dec 18, 2019, 11:13 PM
Yaaaaassss

Let star wars die... let it die....
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 18, 2019, 11:55 PM
In the cinema now, will let you guys know what me and friends think in about 3 hours!
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Post by: BananaKing on Dec 19, 2019, 02:38 AM
In the cinema now, will let you guys know what me and friends think in about 3 hours!
Enjoy!
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 19, 2019, 02:47 AM
Oh good god. What a mess of a film. I think I like it overall but there is so much wrong with it. TLJ was absolutely shimed all over, they may as well have just released a video saying it's not canon anymore.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 19, 2019, 03:15 AM
Audience was very stale, no cheers, gasps or laughs: no jokes landed. My hardcore SW friend who hated TLJ thought it was good, and the casual friend thought it was okay mostly liking the kylo and Rey character development.

Heard one guy Infront of us say "star wars is dead to me now" on the way out so that's something.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 19, 2019, 12:41 PM
There's a bit of chatter on box office forums about star wars not actually reaching $1b. That would genuinely be astounding but it's certainly possible if general WOM isn't good. In the key European markets where SW is usually huge its opening worse than TLJ so far (Italy, france, germany).

China numbers are a complete and utter disaster, with WOM being so bad it's full opening day was lower than it's 7pm previews. Looks to be making less than $20m total there after TFA was over $120m. Star wars is basically dead there now.

Final week presales in the US have been relatively poor, seems the bad reviews had an impact. Opening weekend could well be less than $200m domestic, a big decline from the previous two films.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 19, 2019, 11:36 PM
Been formulating all my thoughts today, I still need to see the film again to make my mind up but I also don't really want to have to sit through it in cinema again (I watched TLJ 5 times in cinema). My Mum was planning on taking me to go see it with her on Sunday but I think I might just see if she wants to watch Frozen 2 or something because I think she'd enjoy that more and I know I'd much prefer to see F2 again in cinema than Rise of Skywalker. idk if she'll want to wait until its out on DVD though. Anyway, I'm not the biggest SW out there but here's my rankings for all the films now:

Star Wars 10/10
The Empire Strikes Back 10/10
Rogue One 9/10
Return of the Jedi 8/10
Revenge of the Sith 8/10
The Last Jedi 8/10
The Force Awakens 7/10
Solo 7/10
Attack of the Clones 6/10
The Rise of Skywalker 5/10
The Phantom Menace 5/10
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 20, 2019, 04:46 PM
$40m previews for TROS. Under $200m OW is happening... yikes. Let's see OD numbers, insider says presales point to about $48m true Friday for $88m OD total.

Overseas openings are 10-20% less than TLJ on average, which is also a yikes. Finales usually open much higher and have worse legs, same is true for the last two SW trilogies as well. Under TLJ total looks quite certain now after most were predicting a bounce back. May well not get much over $1b after all. Mad.
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Post by: Legend on Dec 20, 2019, 05:51 PM
I decided to not bother seeing it this weekend. Seems many are in the same boat.

In isolation (aka no last jedi and no star wars brand in general) how would you rate it? Are most of its problems due to context or is it just a poor film regardless of how you slice it?
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 20, 2019, 06:23 PM
I decided to not bother seeing it this weekend. Seems many are in the same boat.

In isolation (aka no last jedi and no star wars brand in general) how would you rate it? Are most of its problems due to context or is it just a poor film regardless of how you slice it?
The star wars stuff is super mixed overall, contributing lots of good and bad. I think without star wars brand the enjoyment that was there would be gone. It's a very mixed film just from a critical standpoint, so without star wars it would be just bleh
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 20, 2019, 11:41 PM
Full opening day friday for SW TROS is looking $89-92m according to insiders. Comparisons:

Endgame $157m
TFA $119m
Infinity War $106m
TLJ $104m
HP: DH2 $91m
Age of Ultron $84m

So this would be #5 or #6 opening day of all time and quite far off episodes 7 and 8. Probably heading to about $190m OW although hard to tell yet. If it comes in at the high end then has good sat and sun it could well sneak over $200m.

Also here's AJ's spoiler free review which surprisngly amost mirror's all my thoughts exactly, even the score

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Post by: nnodley on Dec 21, 2019, 12:44 AM
I'm glad i'm not super into star wars.  Haven't seen any in theaters, but i'll likely enjoy it when I watch on digital/bluray.

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Post by: Legend on Dec 21, 2019, 01:33 AM
I'm glad i'm not super into star wars.  Haven't seen any in theaters, but i'll likely enjoy it when I watch on digital/bluray.


Wow that reminds me, episode 9 might be the first I don't see in theaters outside of 4-6.

That's kinda sad  :'(
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 21, 2019, 01:46 AM
Wow that reminds me, episode 9 might be the first I don't see in theaters outside of 4-6.

That's kinda sad  :'(
Well it is the way it is, loads of people didn't see Solo in theatre as well. I'm glad SW is taking a few years break now, because I don't know if I'd have any desire to see a 2020 SW film in the cinema.

I'm just kinda tired at this point, Star Wars has nothing new or fresh to do or say. TLJ tried and was trashed to hell and back for it, the fans won't change so this won't change either. The bigger problem is now that they're struggling toeven make great, memorable films. Solo was good fun but not memorable at all, Rise is just really incompetently made (although I doubt I'll forget the film with how many baffling decisions there are).

At least Mandalorian is great fun to watch. Seems like the SW IP is much more suited to TV shows nowadays, I guess letting actual hardcore SW fans do their own thing helps as well.
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Post by: Legend on Dec 21, 2019, 02:09 AM
Well it is the way it is, loads of people didn't see Solo in theatre as well. I'm glad SW is taking a few years break now, because I don't know if I'd have any desire to see a 2020 SW film in the cinema.

I'm just kinda tired at this point, Star Wars has nothing new or fresh to do or say. TLJ tried and was trashed to hell and back for it, the fans won't change so this won't change either. The bigger problem is now that they're struggling toeven make great, memorable films. Solo was good fun but not memorable at all, Rise is just really incompetently made (although I doubt I'll forget the film with how many baffling decisions there are).

At least Mandalorian is great fun to watch. Seems like the SW IP is much more suited to TV shows nowadays, I guess letting actual hardcore SW fans do their own thing helps as well.
I don't have Disney + so don't spoil me if I'm wrong but it seems like the key right now is to make movies and shows that are fully separate from "Star Wars." Throw in an awesome cameo like Darth Vader in Rogue One where it is 100% fan service but that's it.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 21, 2019, 10:24 AM
B+ cinemascore for star wars. Good god that's bad, a big franchise blockbuster even getting an A- is sketchy but a B+... Wow. That's the worst for any star wars film, also lower than all MCU films for example. TLJ and TFA both got an A.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 22, 2019, 03:08 AM
Disney reporting a $90m OD for star wars. So about $50m true Friday.

Insiders currently putting Saturday at about $49m... that's horrible. Saturday less than Friday is only ever excusable on a full holiday Friday. Saturday should really be at the very least a 5% bump over friday... perhaps that B+ is kicking in
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 22, 2019, 11:30 AM
Overseas opening looks worse than it did on Friday, it seems Saturday is similarly poor in a lot of places. Both big insiders saying OS debut looking 195-200m, so perhaps a global opening of $375m for Star Wars. Holy guacamoley, that's quite far under 1/3 of Endgame's opening earlier this year and in fact it now looks almost certain Skywalker's total will be less than Endgame's opening weekend.

How the mighty fall.
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Post by: BananaKing on Dec 22, 2019, 12:21 PM
Yaaaaaaasssss

Yaaaaaaaaasssss

Let it die!

Hopefully the starwars franchise wont be milked as much as it is now and can fudge off a little. At some point it was starwars everywhere, from movies, to games to series and it was annoying.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 22, 2019, 03:30 PM
Yaaaaaaasssss

Yaaaaaaaaasssss

Let it die!

Hopefully the starwars franchise wont be milked as much as it is now and can fudge off a little. At some point it was starwars everywhere, from movies, to games to series and it was annoying.
You mean you aren't a fan of the yearly star war movies, and several big budget games that were announced just over the past few years.  
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Post by: BananaKing on Dec 22, 2019, 04:07 PM
You mean you aren't a fan of the yearly star war movies, and several big budget games that were announced just over the past few years.  
No I'm absolutely loving it. I love that talented studios are all put on making games within the same IP and milking it too
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 22, 2019, 04:25 PM
Yaaaaaaasssss

Yaaaaaaaaasssss

Let it die!

Hopefully the starwars franchise wont be milked as much as it is now and can fudge off a little. At some point it was starwars everywhere, from movies, to games to series and it was annoying.
Bit harsh!

No I'm absolutely loving it. I love that talented studios are all put on making games within the same IP and milking it too
We've had barely any SW games the last few years. I loved Jedi Fallen Order so I'm excited for more. Its a franchise that suits games very well and studios can still be very creative and have decent freedom due to the extent of the universe.

Anyways here's what Disney's going with for official estiamtes: $175.5M dom and $373.5M worldwide opening. What a decline from the heights of TFA, wowzas. 12th biggest dom opening of all time... jeez you'd have made a lot of money if you bet on this opening outside the top 10. Incredibles 2 did $7m better!
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Post by: Legend on Dec 22, 2019, 05:28 PM
No I'm absolutely loving it. I love that talented studios are all put on making games within the same IP and milking it too
I feel this way about movie ip games so so much. They can end up being great and a few a year are fine but I really don't want them to become the norm.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 23, 2019, 04:16 PM
Monday looking like $28-30m for Star Wars. The first good day for it, the best monday drop out of all 4 christmas SW films. It would have been alarming if not though since its the closest release to christmas out of all of them. TFA is probably the best comparison in this case (only 2 days earlier release) and that had a 34% drop on Monday.
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Post by: BananaKing on Dec 23, 2019, 09:59 PM
I feel this way about movie ip games so so much. They can end up being great and a few a year are fine but I really don't want them to become the norm.
Yeah they usually suck and it's a waste of time. Not sure if spiderman is considered a movie tie in or not but that's the only game I'd consider worth it. There is a finite number of talented game studios. And wasting so many of them on an IP is just... sad.
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Post by: Legend on Dec 24, 2019, 12:17 AM
Yeah they usually suck and it's a waste of time. Not sure if spiderman is considered a movie tie in or not but that's the only game I'd consider worth it. There is a finite number of talented game studios. And wasting so many of them on an IP is just... sad.
I wanna see the Avatar game at e3 next year. That could be cool imo since it will probably just use Pandora as a setting. Or it will really suck.
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Post by: BananaKing on Dec 24, 2019, 12:52 AM
I wanna see the Avatar game at e3 next year. That could be cool imo since it will probably just use Pandora as a setting. Or it will really suck.

From what I seen, the gameplay seems fun, but they went for a looter genre, which IMO kinda sucks, I wish they would have had a proper single player and a separate multiplayer from it. Something more in the line of RDR2 ir GTA5.

A 10~ hour campaign for an avengers game doesnt sound exciting at all.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 24, 2019, 04:08 PM
From what I seen, the gameplay seems fun, but they went for a looter genre, which IMO kinda sucks, I wish they would have had a proper single player and a separate multiplayer from it. Something more in the line of RDR2 ir GTA5.

A 10~ hour campaign for an avengers game doesnt sound exciting at all.
Wrong game based on highest grossing movie of all time.

Monday is $29m for TROS, down about 29% from Sunday. Really good hold, TFA was -34% while TLJ and Rogue One were over 50%. This is very much expected though considering its the 23rd. Here is a link to the numbers comparison between the 4. (https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Star-Wars-Ep-VIII-The-Last-Jedi/Star-Wars-Ep-VII-The-Force-Awakens/Star-Wars-The-Rise-of-Skywalker-(2019)/Rogue-One-A-Star-Wars-Story#tab=day_by_day_comparison)

Tuesday is christmas eve so will be a comparatively bad day, apparently early numbers point to $20m which is about expected, would be down 31%. TFA was down 28% on christmas eve (thursday), TLJ down 40% (sunday), Rogue One down 31% (saturday). So performance looking good in the weekdays so far. Perhaps opening weekend was slightly deflated for TROS with many planning to see it in the following week.
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Post by: Legend on Dec 24, 2019, 06:30 PM
Ended up seeing Star Wars today. About on par with The Force Awakens but I didn't think that one was great either.

Had some good moments. Had lots of funky plot.
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Post by: Legend on Dec 28, 2019, 01:48 AM
I've missed your updates xev!
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Post by: BananaKing on Dec 28, 2019, 03:25 PM
Finally watched end game. Great movie, but I feel infinity wars is still the best marvel movie
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 28, 2019, 10:57 PM
I've missed your updates xev!
I've been super busy, waiting until weekend numbers come in anyway since performance over christmas was very expected.

Domestically a good Mon-Thurs for star wars thanks to christmas boost, perhaps did a bit better than expected given a $177m opening weekend. Running total of $290m before the weekend, so $290m is a good first week but still you would have expected far better.

2nd weekend is looking very bad for Star Wars, only $26m friday off $30m thursday is a disastrous figure, perhaps WOM is genuinely bad and the christmas boost is over now. That's a -71% friday (drop from last week) which is miles worse than TFA, worse than RO but better than TLJ. However it is holiday boosted when TLJ wasn't quite yet.

If it plays normal from here its looking to head to ~$550m total but there's signs of collapse, with BOT insider saying saturday presales point to 23-24m. A drop on saturday is almost unheard of and would be genuinely awful, and if it does come in at 23-24 then under $500m total may still happen, perhaps under $1b WW could also still happen if overseas is similar.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 29, 2019, 04:30 PM
Crisis scenario avoided with $25m saturday and 3-day weekend estimate of $72m, dom total so far $361m. Still not good, total probably heading towards low 500s total domestic.

Overseas weekend of $94m, WW total now $724m. That's okay, should end up grossing slightly more overseas than dom when all is said and done. $1.05-1.1b total looking most likely.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 30, 2019, 02:13 AM
Seems Disney will be fine.

I wonder if history will end up being kinder to this film and put all three new movies in the same boat ala the prequels. This has been a funky ride now that we've seen it from start to finish.

8 had the coolest parts imo, force projection luke was great, but they have all been so aimless. 7 was a super safe reboot of past plots, 8 could be skipped without confusing the viewer, and 9 follows the "rule of cool" 100% of the time without actually being cool.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 30, 2019, 10:25 PM
Seems Disney will be fine.

I wonder if history will end up being kinder to this film and put all three new movies in the same boat ala the prequels. This has been a funky ride now that we've seen it from start to finish.

8 had the coolest parts imo, force projection luke was great, but they have all been so aimless. 7 was a super safe reboot of past plots, 8 could be skipped without confusing the viewer, and 9 follows the "rule of cool" 100% of the time without actually being cool.
Um what same boat? Most people consider revenge of the sith to be vastly superior to the first two prequels (myself included). Opinions for TROS are a bit all over the place but reliable metrics show general audiences think its the worst of the bunch. I agree with you second paragraph basically. 8 is the best film but in the context of the saga its almost irrelevant.

Box office wise its been funny to see lots of people, who aren't particularly knowledgable in the box office, claiming TROS has been doing amazingly well since its now only $6m behind TLJ launch aligned, people saying that means its legs are better and its going to fly past TLJ's $620m dom total.

Of course, the reality is TLJ released 5 days earlier and its second full week was massive. Monday onwards TLJ starts to smoke TROS. It did $27.5m on its second monday compared to estimated $14.5m for TROS. TLJ grossed $149m in its second full week, TROS will be lucky to add $90m... and the gap will keep growing. $14.5m monday means it may well miss the $500m domestic mark after all.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Dec 30, 2019, 10:41 PM
Frozen 2 opened in Scandanavian and baltic countries this weekend. It set the biggest opening weekend of the year in all of them, and looks to be the new highest grossing film ever in some of those countries. Film continues to be extremely strong DOM and pretty much everywhere overseas. Depending on how long it can go in Japan it may well make it to the $1.5b mark, which is incredible really. Likely range is $1.48-1.52b total.

Frozen 2 being almost 50% bigger than the big finale to the star wars skywalker saga, wowzas.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 30, 2019, 11:02 PM
Frozen 2 opened in Scandanavian and baltic countries this weekend. It set the biggest opening weekend of the year in all of them, and looks to be the new highest grossing film ever in some of those countries. Film continues to be extremely strong DOM and pretty much everywhere overseas. Depending on how long it can go in Japan it may well make it to the $1.5b mark, which is incredible really. Likely range is $1.48-1.52b total.

Frozen 2 being almost 50% bigger than the big finale to the star wars skywalker saga, wowzas.
Weird that it's been in cinemas here in Iceland for a few weeks and is only now opening in Scandinavia
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 31, 2019, 01:19 AM
Um what same boat? Most people consider revenge of the sith to be vastly superior to the first two prequels (myself included). Opinions for TROS are a bit all over the place but reliable metrics show general audiences think its the worst of the bunch. I agree with you second paragraph basically. 8 is the best film but in the context of the saga its almost irrelevant.

Box office wise its been funny to see lots of people, who aren't particularly knowledgable in the box office, claiming TROS has been doing amazingly well since its now only $6m behind TLJ launch aligned, people saying that means its legs are better and its going to fly past TLJ's $620m dom total.

Of course, the reality is TLJ released 5 days earlier and its second full week was massive. Monday onwards TLJ starts to smoke TROS. It did $27.5m on its second monday compared to estimated $14.5m for TROS. TLJ grossed $149m in its second full week, TROS will be lucky to add $90m... and the gap will keep growing. $14.5m monday means it may well miss the $500m domestic mark after all.
I liked phantom menace and attack of the clones a fair amount when they first came out but they were really focused on wee kids. George sure made his merchandise money off me lol. Revenge of the sith was darker and significantly better in many ways but it still very much has that distinctive prequel feel. It's super easy to lump them together as a monolith and I'd argue the general public has. It's not like prequel memes only focuses on the first two films haha.

Spoiler for Hidden:
General grievous was by far my favorite character. They made him so awesome in the books and marketing pre release and I was so bumbed how quickly he died.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 31, 2019, 03:26 AM
Spoiler for Joker:
<br>Nearly done with the movie. &nbsp;<br><br>The movie is brilliantly put together. &nbsp;But depressing. &nbsp;<br><br>Depressing doesn&#39;t even cover it. &nbsp;It starts depressing, then it keeps beating how depressing it is into you. &nbsp;<br>I think you could have shrunk the movie by an hour, still gotten the point. &nbsp;But then it&#39;d be bearable. &nbsp;<br><br><div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px"><div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom:2px"><b>Spoiler</b> for <i>Hidden</i>: <input type="button" value="Show" style="width:60px;font-size:10px;margin:0px;padding:0px;" onClick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.value = 'Hide'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.value = 'Show'; }"></div><div class="alt2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px; border: 1px inset;"><div style="display: none;"><br>For like an hour, you see him get bullied, mocked, beaten. &nbsp;<br><br>Adding in his mental illness. &nbsp;The movie feels too realistic. <br><br>Watching someone get beaten down too many times, and they finally decide that nothing is worth it. &nbsp;<br></div></div></div><br><br>The movie is a depressing tale of how society treats mental illness. &nbsp;<br><br>I don&#39;t know if I&#39;d recommend watching it. Or at the most, it&#39;s worth watching once. &nbsp;<br><br>


Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jan 02, 2020, 08:37 PM
Finally watched Paddington 2. Brilliant film!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 02, 2020, 09:12 PM
Finally watched Paddington 2. Brilliant film!
You're gosh darn right it is!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jan 04, 2020, 12:08 PM
(https://preview.redd.it/4u3f6c1dcl841.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=5c23654083ce15721f2aec6f2c71142829985eb0)

An incredibly dominant year from Disney at the box office. A lot of that is thanks to Marvel Studios, which grossed $5.06B worldwide from only 3 film releases. Marvel Studios, independent from Disney, would claim second place on this kist, beating all other major distributors.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jan 05, 2020, 04:09 PM
$33.7M (-53%) third weekend estimate for Star Wars with a running total of $450.8M. Not great, but not too bad. Probably heading for about $510m total domestic.

Jumanji continues to close with a $26.5M (-25%) weekend, its only a matter of time until it overtakes SW in dailies. It probably won't claim #1 though as 1917 should be #1 when it opens wide next weekend. Little Women is doing really well, as is Knives out. Cats is a big flop. Grudge opened with $11m this weekend and is only the 18th film ever to get an F cinemascore so legs will be dire.

Star Wars had a $50m international weekend, which is much better than domestic. Worldwide total of $919M so far, probably heading for about $1.06b in the end.

Frozen 2 reached $1.325B WW total to become the new highest grossing animated film of all time (depending on if you count TLK), overtaking its predecessor.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jan 09, 2020, 08:11 PM
Jumanji continues to close with a $26.5M (-25%) weekend, its only a matter of time until it overtakes SW in dailies.
Scrap that, Jumanji has dropped badly now the holiday is fully over. It had crept up to being 80% of SW's dailies and on wednesday its back down to only 58%. SW is holding okay, going about as exptected so far. Knives Out and Little Women are the two films which have held most impressively this week, Little Women has actually overtaken Jumanji now.

1917 is tracking really well after its golden globe wins, could well open over $40M. Think I might go and see it, there's not much else coming out for a while.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 09, 2020, 08:44 PM
Scrap that, Jumanji has dropped badly now the holiday is fully over. It had crept up to being 80% of SW's dailies and on wednesday its back down to only 58%. SW is holding okay, going about as exptected so far. Knives Out and Little Women are the two films which have held most impressively this week, Little Women has actually overtaken Jumanji now.

1917 is tracking really well after its golden globe wins, could well open over $40M. Think I might go and see it, there's not much else coming out for a while.
I heard really good things about 1917 from my cousin who worked on it. I'll probably go see it one of these days too.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jan 09, 2020, 09:55 PM
I heard really good things about 1917 from my cousin who worked on it. I'll probably go see it one of these days too.
Seems like a biased source!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 09, 2020, 10:45 PM
I heard really good things about 1917 from my cousin who worked on it. I'll probably go see it one of these days too.
Seems like a biased source!
Haha thankfully there are less biased sources out there with very positive impressions!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jan 15, 2020, 07:36 PM
Star Wars finally hit $1B today. Looks like the total will be about $1.07B, right on TS4 and Joker.

1917 opened well and is the biggest film out at the moment but Bad Boys will take #1 this weekend.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jan 17, 2020, 07:42 PM
TROS rottentomatoes score has kept slipping and its now finally fallen to 52%, lower than TPM's 53% setting a new low for Star Wars films. Probably deserved.

Bad Boys had exceptional thursday night previews with $6.3M, its going to easily claim #1 at the box office. Dolittle is doing very poorly with $900k previews, will probably make a loss due to its ridiculous $175M budget. 1917 and Bad Boys both overperforming means January is doing very well overall at the box office.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 17, 2020, 08:15 PM
dolittle looked garbage anyway
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 18, 2020, 05:14 AM
I did not expect BadBoys to make money lol
dolittle looked garbage anyway
Agreed. Pokemon are kinda cheating but has anything besides Detective pikachu had good talking animals?


Edt paddington is great.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jan 20, 2020, 04:02 PM
Bad Boys For Life seriously breaking out with a 4-day weekend that's looking like it could hit $75M now. Easily 2nd biggest Jan weekend ever. Total could get close to $200m with good legs but anything $170m+ is excellent from here. Sony would have taken $100M total a week ago if you offered it to them, it was tracking for about $30-40m debut and $100m total.

Jumanji moved ahead of Star Wars this weekend, finally. Frozen 2 also passed $1.4b WW.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 20, 2020, 06:43 PM
Studio Ghibli: Netflix buys rights to iconic animated films - BBC News (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/newsbeat-51178158)

Give it
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 08, 2020, 10:30 PM
How in the world did Uncut Gems not get any Oscar noms? Really great, if a bit uncomfortable to watch  :o . Adam Sandler really should've been nominated. Owned the film
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 09, 2020, 12:23 AM
How in the world did Uncut Gems not get any Oscar noms? Really great, if a bit uncomfortable to watch  :o . Adam Sandler really should've been nominated. Owned the film
Adam Sandler is good again?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 09, 2020, 12:34 AM
Adam Sandler is good again?

It's not a comedy.  It's a crime thriller.  
I've heard that Sandler is great in it.  

Funnily enough on that note, I saw this Sandler stand up video.  It was just a couple minutes long and it was funny.  The interesting thing is that none of it was the type of humor he would be associated with today.  No flatulence or naughtiness jokes at all.  

He just doesn't seem to try anymore.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 09, 2020, 12:38 AM
Adam Sandler is good again?

I guess he just needs a good role, script and directors
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 09, 2020, 12:42 AM
Sandler had his cookie cutter movies that I'm sure he made a lot of money off of back in the 90s.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 09, 2020, 12:46 AM
It's just surprising becsuse the movie got amazing reviews (90 on meta). Meanwhile, JoJo rabbit got noms with 58 meta
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 09, 2020, 01:37 AM
It's just surprising becsuse the movie got amazing reviews (90 on meta). Meanwhile, JoJo rabbit got noms with 58 meta
I saw jojo rabbit yesterday. Shocked it has a 58 meta. Might be the film I'm rooting for on Sunday.

So far I have seen:
Once upon a Time
Joker
1917
Jojo Rabbit
The Irishman
Marriage Story
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 09, 2020, 01:44 AM
I saw jojo rabbit yesterday. Shocked it has a 58 meta. Might be the film I'm rooting for on Sunday.

So far I have seen:
Once upon a Time
Joker
1917
Jojo Rabbit
The Irishman
Marriage Story

Thoughts on Joker?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 09, 2020, 03:20 AM
Thoughts on Joker?
Was good. I watched it way after release so I went in with some expectations.

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>I expected more bad stuff. The movie &quot;only&quot; had him murder some people while I expected it to show him become a full terrorist.<br><br>Great acting by the main cast. Kinda poor plot/pacing imo. <br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 09, 2020, 09:58 AM
I saw jojo rabbit yesterday. Shocked it has a 58 meta. Might be the film I'm rooting for on Sunday.

So far I have seen:
Once upon a Time
Joker
1917
Jojo Rabbit
The Irishman
Marriage Story

Tbf Joker got 59. Both got a way better response from audiences

Also, I hope Joker wins everything. Going to watch Parasite tonight though, which has a lot of buzz.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 09, 2020, 06:57 PM
Birds of Prey opened with a poor $33m, way below industry tracking and even below studio expectations which were ($45m). Biggest problem may be that perfect audience for film is teens but they decided to make it R rated, apparently it's only R rated due to lots of swear words that aren't even necessary.

With a budget of about $100m they might make a loss.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 09, 2020, 07:45 PM
Not at all shocking but ouch. They have promted this movie so much yet it has always looked bad.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Feb 10, 2020, 12:24 AM
Birds of Prey opened with a poor $33m, way below industry tracking and even below studio expectations which were ($45m). Biggest problem may be that perfect audience for film is teens but they decided to make it R rated, apparently it's only R rated due to lots of swear words that aren't even necessary.

With a budget of about $100m they might make a loss.
I think one of the issues is that Harley debuted in suicide squad. Which sucked and people didnt like. This kind associated with that movie

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 10, 2020, 02:47 PM
I think one of the issues is that Harley debuted in suicide squad. Which sucked and people didnt like. This kind associated with that movie
That definitely lowered hype and expectations, but doesn't explain how the film came in so far below tracking from earlier in the week.

Apparently 35% of the film's audience are under 25 compared to 54% for Suicide Squad and teens are giving it the most positive scores, seems like the R rating was just a disastrous decision. Teens who want to see the film and will probably enjoy it and create WOM aren't being allowed to watch. Marketing was very much trying to be teen appealing as well. Just a really weird clash of ideas on this one.

Overseas opening is possibly even worse for the film with a global opening of $81m (expectation was about $120m). It will probably squek past $200m but not much more, which is very much the territory for being in the red.

Looking forward to seeing how much Parasite jumps in the next week.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 10, 2020, 03:08 PM
I didn't even realize that Harley movie came out.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Feb 10, 2020, 03:25 PM
That definitely lowered hype and expectations, but doesn't explain how the film came in so far below tracking from earlier in the week.

Apparently 35% of the film's audience are under 25 compared to 54% for Suicide Squad and teens are giving it the most positive scores, seems like the R rating was just a disastrous decision. Teens who want to see the film and will probably enjoy it and create WOM aren't being allowed to watch. Marketing was very much trying to be teen appealing as well. Just a really weird clash of ideas on this one.

Overseas opening is possibly even worse for the film with a global opening of $81m (expectation was about $120m). It will probably squek past $200m but not much more, which is very much the territory for being in the red.

Looking forward to seeing how much Parasite jumps in the next week.
Yeah  seems like you are right. Because everytime I see an add to this it does feel like it wants to appeal to that demographic. And if a few curse words are what stopped it then it seems like a bad decision.

Maybe it was influenced by dead pool and wanted to be something like it. Edgy. And thought and R rating wouldnt hurt its perforperformance  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 10, 2020, 10:44 PM
How the eff do a few curse words make it R rated though lol.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 10, 2020, 11:49 PM
How the eff do a few curse words make it R rated though lol.
Its not just a few curse words but its very heavy on the swearing, lots of motherfuckers and stuff like that. Add that onto the violence and some naughtiness and drug references and they got themselves an R rating. Apparently all the swearing adds nothing to the film, its just there for the sake of it. And without all the swearing it would have got by with a teen rating.

Also this is something I've never seen, the film's name has just been changed in theatres. No longer "Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)" (the brackets its now called "Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey". This is just so bizzare, Warner Bros have no idea what they're doing with this film it seems.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 11, 2020, 12:03 AM
How the eff do a few curse words make it R rated though lol.
It's not the naughtiness and violence that made it R.  It's the sexy violence.   8)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 11, 2020, 10:48 PM
Parasite $501k monday up 16% from Sunday after its win, crazy unheard of jump even for an BP winner. For example, Green Book fell 34% last year, Shape of Water fell 19%. Film is due to expand to over 2000 theatres this weekend as well.

Jumanji is also having a great leggy run, only down 8% from last week on Monday.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 15, 2020, 02:39 AM
Sonic reviews are fairly good at 65% RT, about what I expected. Might go and watch it...

Box office wise it seems to be breaking out past expectations. $3m thursday previews is okay but true friday is tracking for about $19m which would be crazy. 4 day opening of $60m+ possible. If it pulls off these kind of numbers and performs similar overseas it should make a good profit.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 15, 2020, 12:26 PM
95% verified RT score and A cinemascore for Sonic. Audiences are loving it, great to see.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 15, 2020, 06:39 PM
That resetera thread about it beating pikachu might turn out correct after all!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 09, 2020, 09:57 PM
Onward debuted with $39.11M dom. Awful, no other way to put it. That's Pixar's worst opening for 22 years sing Bug's Life in 1998, and that's not adjusted for inflation of course.

International debut is even worse. With a big budget of $175M+ this one is making a massive loss for Disney.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Mar 09, 2020, 10:46 PM
Onward looks so dull. I cant believe it's a pixar movie. Seems so devoid of soul
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 09, 2020, 11:39 PM
Onward looks so dull. I cant believe it's a pixar movie. Seems so devoid of soul
Wow that's really harsh and from what I've read far from the truth. It definitely doesn't look like a pixar film but apparently it still has a lot of soul and is an emotional tale. I guess its just quite simple and wasn't advertised very well.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 09, 2020, 11:49 PM
This is the second time I've heard of this movie.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 10, 2020, 07:45 PM
Onward debuted with $39.11M dom. Awful, no other way to put it. That's Pixar's worst opening for 22 years sing Bug's Life in 1998, and that's not adjusted for inflation of course.

International debut is even worse. With a big budget of $175M+ this one is making a massive loss for Disney.
How are the markets in general? Bond was delayed to Thanksgiving due to coronovirus so maybe Disney will view the loss from that angle.

Not a good sign for Mulan though.
Onward looks so dull. I cant believe it's a pixar movie. Seems so devoid of soul
Ironically, I think it looks better than their next movie, "Soul."


Having a dad with just legs sounds like a classic Pixar premise. Sure the rest of the film feels like Dreamworks but that core story gives me hope.
This is the second time I've heard of this movie.  
I've seen a lot of adds but I forget its name every single time.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 10, 2020, 07:58 PM
How are the markets in general? Bond was delayed to Thanksgiving due to coronovirus so maybe Disney will view the loss from that angle.

Not a good sign for Mulan though.Ironically, I think it looks better than their next movie, "Soul."

Having a dad with just legs sounds like a classic Pixar premise. Sure the rest of the film feels like Dreamworks but that core story gives me hope.
I've seen a lot of adds but I forget its name every single time.
Not great, they're trending down although its not a disaster.

Eh, Mulan deserves to die. Such a shaming remake removing everything that was good about the original including removing characters that certain groups of people really cared about. I'm going to enjoy watching Mulan fail.

Uh what. Soul looks amazing, there's quite a lot of buzz about it too, many experts think its going to top the domestic box office for the year.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 14, 2020, 12:46 PM
Box office seems to have collapsed this weekend. New openers are all doing badly, long term holdovers are dropping more than normal. Onward is dead, its seeing a monumental 60%+ drop from opening week, unheard of for Pixar. COVID-19 doing a lot of damage to Hollywood.

Edit: saturday numbers are even worse, Onward looking -75%

Double edit: total weekend BO estimate is the lowest grossing weekend since September 1998.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 22, 2020, 09:38 PM
BO chart for thursday:

1(1)Onward (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Onward-(2020)#tab=box-office)Walt Disney (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Walt-Disney)$33,296-46%-98%4,310$8$61,555,14514
2(4)The Invisible Man (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Invisible-Man-The-(2020)#tab=box-office)Universal (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Universal)$21,800-34%-98%3,636$6$64,914,05021
3(3)Bloodshot (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Bloodshot-(2020)#tab=box-office)Sony Pictures (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Sony-Pictures)$18,549-49% 2,861$6$10,021,7877
4(2)I Still Believe (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/I-Still-Believe-(2020)#tab=box-office)Lionsgate (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Lionsgate)$15,753-59% 3,250$5$9,868,5217
5(6)The Call of the Wild (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Call-of-the-Wild-The-(2020)#tab=box-office)20th Century… (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/20th-Century-Studios)$14,657-15%-97%3,201$5$62,342,36828
6(5)The Hunt (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Hunt-The-(2020)#tab=box-office)Universal (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Universal)$13,100-46% 3,028$4$5,812,5007
7(7)Sonic The Hedgehog (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Sonic-The-Hedgehog-(Japan)-(2020)#tab=box-office)Paramount Pi… (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Paramount-Pictures)$9,191-44%-98%3,041$3$146,066,47035
8(8)The Way Back (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Way-Back-The-(2020)#tab=box-office)Warner Bros. (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Warner-Bros)$6,871-7%-99%2,718$3$13,590,51414
9(9)Bad Boys For Life (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Bad-Boys-For-Life-(Bad-Boys-3)-(2020)#tab=box-office)Sony Pictures (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Sony-Pictures)$5,691-12%-97%1,451$4$204,417,85563
10(10)Fantasy Island (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Fantasy-Island-(2020)#tab=box-office)Sony Pictures (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Sony-Pictures)$4,733-14%-92%515$9$26,441,78235
11(11)Birds of Prey (And the Fa… (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Birds-of-Prey-(And-the-Fantabulous-Emancipation-of-One-Harley-Quinn)-(2020)#tab=box-office)Warner Bros. (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Warner-Bros)$3,620-2%-98%2,173$2$84,158,46142
12(12)Emma (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Emma-(UK)#tab=box-office)Focus Features (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Focus-Features)$850-69%-100%1,732$0$10,055,35528
-(-)Jumanji: The Next Level (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Jumanji-The-Next-Level#tab=box-office)Sony Pictures (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Sony-Pictures)$774-70%-99%862$1$316,831,24698
-(-)Brahms: The Boy II (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Brahms-The-Boy-II-(2020)#tab=box-office)STX Entertai… (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/STX-Entertainment)$598-46%-99%607$1$12,611,53628
-(-)Star Wars: The Rise of Sk… (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Star-Wars-The-Rise-of-Skywalker-(2019)#tab=box-office)Walt Disney (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Walt-Disney)$582+5%-97%189$3$515,202,54291
-(-)Gretel & Hansel (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Gretel-and-Hansel-(2020)#tab=box-office)United Artists (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/United-Artists)$558+421%-84%43$13$15,347,65449
-(-)Spies in Disguise (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Spies-in-Disguise-(2019)#tab=box-office)20th Century… (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/20th-Century-Fox)$454+59%-96%136$3$66,757,01386
-(-)Dolittle (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Dolittle#tab=box-office)Universal (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Universal)$400-27%-98%256$2$77,047,06563
-(-)Just Mercy (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Just-Mercy#tab=box-office)Warner Bros. (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Warner-Bros)$343+224%-96%211$2$36,001,50286
-(-)1917 (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/1917-(2019)#tab=box-office)Universal (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Universal)$225-70%-100%766$0$159,227,64486
-(-)Knives Out (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Knives-Out-(2019)#tab=box-office)Lionsgate (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Lionsgate)$220-18%-99%221$1$165,363,254114
-(-)The Booksellers (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Booksellers-The#tab=box-office)Greenwich (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Greenwich)$148+1,750%-88%3$49$25,69414
-(-)Frozen II (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Frozen-II-(2019)#tab=box-office)Walt Disney (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Walt-Disney)$117-24%-99%165$1$477,373,578119
-(-)The Photograph (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Photograph-The-(2020)#tab=box-office)Universal (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Universal)$110-65%-100%198$1$20,578,18535
-(-)The Gentlemen (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Gentlemen-The#tab=box-office)STX Entertai… (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/STX-Entertainment)$96-72%-100%226$0$36,296,85456
-(-)Wendy (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Wendy-(2020)#tab=box-office)Searchlight … (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Searchlight-Pictures)$44-48%-99%165$0$143,51821
-(-)The Last Full Measure (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Last-Full-Measure-The#tab=box-office)Roadside Att… (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Roadside-Attractions)$41-45%-97%36$1$2,949,21256
-(-)Ford v. Ferrari (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Ford-v-Ferrari-(2019)#tab=box-office)20th Century… (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/20th-Century-Fox)$40+14%-99%55$1$117,624,357126
-(-)My Boyfriend's Meds (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Pildoras-De-Mi-Novio-Las-(Mexico)#tab=box-office)Lionsgate (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Lionsgate)$25-58%-100%133$0$2,971,11628
-(-)Burden (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Burden-(2020)#tab=box-office)101 Studios (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/101-Studios)$22 -99%109$0$139,27021
-(-)Jojo Rabbit (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Jojo-Rabbit-(Germany)-(2019)#tab=box-office)Fox Searchlight (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Fox-Searchlight)$18-33%-100%74$0$33,370,906154
-(-)Hope Gap (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Hope-Gap-(2019)#tab=box-office)Roadside Att… (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Roadside-Attractions)$6-95%-100%132$0$104,73214


Insane, absolutely insane.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 22, 2020, 09:51 PM
BO chart for thursday:



1(1)Onward (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Onward-(2020)#tab=box-office)Walt Disney (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Walt-Disney)$33,296-46%-98%4,310$8$61,555,14514
2(4)The Invisible Man (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Invisible-Man-The-(2020)#tab=box-office)Universal (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Universal)$21,800-34%-98%3,636$6$64,914,05021
3(3)Bloodshot (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Bloodshot-(2020)#tab=box-office)Sony Pictures (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Sony-Pictures)$18,549-49%2,861$6$10,021,7877
4(2)I Still Believe (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/I-Still-Believe-(2020)#tab=box-office)Lionsgate (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Lionsgate)$15,753-59%3,250$5$9,868,5217
5(6)The Call of the Wild (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Call-of-the-Wild-The-(2020)#tab=box-office)20th Century… (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/20th-Century-Studios)$14,657-15%-97%3,201$5$62,342,36828
6(5)The Hunt (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Hunt-The-(2020)#tab=box-office)Universal (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Universal)$13,100-46%3,028$4$5,812,5007
7(7)Sonic The Hedgehog (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Sonic-The-Hedgehog-(Japan)-(2020)#tab=box-office)Paramount Pi… (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Paramount-Pictures)$9,191-44%-98%3,041$3$146,066,47035
8(8)The Way Back (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Way-Back-The-(2020)#tab=box-office)Warner Bros. (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Warner-Bros)$6,871-7%-99%2,718$3$13,590,51414
9(9)Bad Boys For Life (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Bad-Boys-For-Life-(Bad-Boys-3)-(2020)#tab=box-office)Sony Pictures (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Sony-Pictures)$5,691-12%-97%1,451$4$204,417,85563
10(10)Fantasy Island (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Fantasy-Island-(2020)#tab=box-office)Sony Pictures (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Sony-Pictures)$4,733-14%-92%515$9$26,441,78235
11(11)Birds of Prey (And the Fa… (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Birds-of-Prey-(And-the-Fantabulous-Emancipation-of-One-Harley-Quinn)-(2020)#tab=box-office)Warner Bros. (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Warner-Bros)$3,620-2%-98%2,173$2$84,158,46142
12(12)Emma (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Emma-(UK)#tab=box-office)Focus Features (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Focus-Features)$850-69%-100%1,732$0$10,055,35528
-(-)Jumanji: The Next Level (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Jumanji-The-Next-Level#tab=box-office)Sony Pictures (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Sony-Pictures)$774-70%-99%862$1$316,831,24698
-(-)Brahms: The Boy II (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Brahms-The-Boy-II-(2020)#tab=box-office)STX Entertai… (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/STX-Entertainment)$598-46%-99%607$1$12,611,53628
-(-)Star Wars: The Rise of Sk… (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Star-Wars-The-Rise-of-Skywalker-(2019)#tab=box-office)Walt Disney (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Walt-Disney)$582+5%-97%189$3$515,202,54291
-(-)Gretel & Hansel (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Gretel-and-Hansel-(2020)#tab=box-office)United Artists (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/United-Artists)$558+421%-84%43$13$15,347,65449
-(-)Spies in Disguise (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Spies-in-Disguise-(2019)#tab=box-office)20th Century… (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/20th-Century-Fox)$454+59%-96%136$3$66,757,01386
-(-)Dolittle (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Dolittle#tab=box-office)Universal (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Universal)$400-27%-98%256$2$77,047,06563
-(-)Just Mercy (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Just-Mercy#tab=box-office)Warner Bros. (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Warner-Bros)$343+224%-96%211$2$36,001,50286
-(-)1917 (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/1917-(2019)#tab=box-office)Universal (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Universal)$225-70%-100%766$0$159,227,64486
-(-)Knives Out (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Knives-Out-(2019)#tab=box-office)Lionsgate (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Lionsgate)$220-18%-99%221$1$165,363,254114
-(-)The Booksellers (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Booksellers-The#tab=box-office)Greenwich (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Greenwich)$148+1,750%-88%3$49$25,69414
-(-)Frozen II (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Frozen-II-(2019)#tab=box-office)Walt Disney (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Walt-Disney)$117-24%-99%165$1$477,373,578119
-(-)The Photograph (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Photograph-The-(2020)#tab=box-office)Universal (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Universal)$110-65%-100%198$1$20,578,18535
-(-)The Gentlemen (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Gentlemen-The#tab=box-office)STX Entertai… (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/STX-Entertainment)$96-72%-100%226$0$36,296,85456
-(-)Wendy (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Wendy-(2020)#tab=box-office)Searchlight … (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Searchlight-Pictures)$44-48%-99%165$0$143,51821
-(-)The Last Full Measure (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Last-Full-Measure-The#tab=box-office)Roadside Att… (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Roadside-Attractions)$41-45%-97%36$1$2,949,21256
-(-)Ford v. Ferrari (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Ford-v-Ferrari-(2019)#tab=box-office)20th Century… (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/20th-Century-Fox)$40+14%-99%55$1$117,624,357126
-(-)My Boyfriend's Meds (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Pildoras-De-Mi-Novio-Las-(Mexico)#tab=box-office)Lionsgate (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Lionsgate)$25-58%-100%133$0$2,971,11628
-(-)Burden (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Burden-(2020)#tab=box-office)101 Studios (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/101-Studios)$22-99%109$0$139,27021
-(-)Jojo Rabbit (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Jojo-Rabbit-(Germany)-(2019)#tab=box-office)Fox Searchlight (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Fox-Searchlight)$18-33%-100%74$0$33,370,906154
-(-)Hope Gap (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Hope-Gap-(2019)#tab=box-office)Roadside Att… (https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributor/Roadside-Attractions)$6-95%-100%132$0$104,73214


Insane, absolutely insane.
Is this the lowest weekend in history?

I don't know how far back the numbers go but I don't think even WW2 was this bad.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Mar 22, 2020, 10:59 PM
Is this the lowest weekend in history?

I don't know how far back the numbers go but I don't think even WW2 was this bad.
Well that was thursday like I said but it may be the lowest in history. The drop from the start of the week is mad, Onward grossed $750k on monday (and that was already really bad).
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 20, 2020, 11:23 PM
Boxoffice: only 14 movie theaters open in the US. And the top film this week made less than $2000. Crazy.

Me: am watching Into the Spiderverse. Very delightful movie. Visuals are really special.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 20, 2020, 11:39 PM
Boxoffice: only 14 movie theaters open in the US. And the top film this week made less than $2000. Crazy.

Me: am watching Into the Spiderverse. Very delightful movie. Visuals are really special.
First time watching spiderverse?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 21, 2020, 12:00 AM
First time watching spiderverse?
Yep.  

I don't watch many movies lately ever
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 21, 2020, 12:04 AM
Yep.  

I don't watch many movies lately ever
Makes me sad, Spiderverse is such a slept-on movie.  People who would really enjoy it just haven't given it a chance, mainly because it still hasn't been watched by too many people. Hopefully with how positively the film is viewed the sequel will do much better at the box office.

I love it so much, must have watched it at least 5 times already and it gets better every time. I might even put it in my top 10 movies ever.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 21, 2020, 10:07 AM
Speaking of sleeping on movies. People need to watch Klaus on Netflix (yes it's a Christmas film).

Was reminded of it, because it too has a very unique look.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 21, 2020, 03:20 PM
Speaking of sleeping on movies. People need to watch Klaus on Netflix (yes it's a Christmas film).

Was reminded of it, because it too has a very unique look.
I was amazed to learn that it's 2D drawn animation, not 3D. They set up a lot of really cool tools that essentially allow them to use sketches to animate the film but have the computer handle textures and lighting. I still need to see it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 24, 2020, 11:44 PM
Cats made a loss of approximately $113M. Wowzas.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 25, 2020, 12:02 AM
Cats made a loss of approximately $113M. Wowzas.
I will be watching it tonight. Pray for me.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Apr 25, 2020, 10:28 AM
I will be watching it tonight. Pray for me.
So how was it?

Here's the top 10 movies of 2019 for total profit generated (estimates from Deadline):

1. Avengers Endgame - Costs: $899M, Revenue: $1789M, Profit $890M
2. Frozen 2 - Costs $453M, Revenue $1052M, Profit $599M
3. The Lion King - Costs $621M, Revenue $1201M, Profit $580M
4. Joker - Costs $393M, Revenue $830M, Profit $437M
5. Captain Marvel - Costs $453M, Revenue $867M, Profit $414M
6. Toy Story 4 - Costs $503M, Revenue $871M, Profit $368M
7. Aladdin - Costs $455M, Revenue $811M, Profit $357M
8. Spider-Man FFH - Costs $448M, Revenue $787M, Profit $339M
9. Star Wars TROS - Costs $627M, Revenue $927M, Profit $300M
10. Jumanji NL - Costs $422M, Revenue $658M, Profit $236M

Fun fact - Endgame made 78% more profit than IW, despite participations being much higher. $175M was given to cast and crew as bonuses, with $55M to RDJ alone. Ridiculous year for Disney overall, that's a lot of profit. This is also an interesting demonstration of Disney's influence. Despite a very slightly higher box office, FFH made almost $100M less revenue than Captain Marvel, as Sony negotiate lower % share of box office totals and worse TV deals. Its the same for every other studio.

Also crazy seeing Star Wars so low, that's actually less profit than Rogue One ($318M) and more than 60% less than TFA. Both TFA and TLJ topped the profit ranks in their years, so this is a big drop-off.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 25, 2020, 05:36 PM
So how was it?
Worse than I expected.

Started off just as a dumb movie that could be ironically good (dancing cockroaches) but it slowly morphed into a nightmare.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 30, 2020, 03:52 AM
Speaking of bad movies, It chapter 2 was horrible.

Felt like a parody of the first.



First one had a sense of mystery. Every seen with the clown was creepy and built up to bigger moments. Second one just put over the top cgi monsters in every scene.

Retconning was so bad as well. First movie would have been trash if all these "additional scenes" were part of it. Once again just throwing in cgi monsters without reason. Also I was distracted by whatever methods they used to make the actors sound and look younger.


It really really felt like a parody, making moments so extreme that they mocked the original.

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Like when the bad guy breaks out and jumps in the car with his zombie friend. What the heck was that.<br><br><br>Speaking of spoilers, I was surprised that Stanley and Eddie died. Did not like how Stanley justified it later on, but the original suicide did a great job making me expect a really dark and scary follow up. Eddies death could have worked better if the rest of the movie was better.<br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 30, 2020, 04:22 AM
It wasn't a bad movie. But I'm reminded of Airplane!  

The sequel was so disappointing. It sucks as a comedy.

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br><br>Like 90% of the jokes in the sequel were from the first movie, either through flash backs or literally just resetting up the joke. &nbsp;<br><br>Well 90% might be overestimating. &nbsp;At the very least, 90% of the good jokes were just from the first movie. &nbsp;<br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 14, 2020, 07:37 PM
Just watched Knvies Out. Brilliant film, loved it from start to finish. Can't recommend it highly enough.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 14, 2020, 07:40 PM
Just watched Knvies Out. Brilliant film, loved it from start to finish. Can't recommend it highly enough.
'Twas great.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 14, 2020, 11:48 PM
Just watched Knvies Out. Brilliant film, loved it from start to finish. Can't recommend it highly enough.
Need to watch
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 27, 2020, 06:44 PM
Tenet was fantastic. Nolan is back!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Aug 27, 2020, 06:50 PM
Tenet was fantastic. Nolan is back!
haven't seen tenet but nolan never left.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 27, 2020, 07:32 PM
haven't seen tenet but nolan never left.
Interstellar and Dunkirk disagree.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Aug 27, 2020, 07:41 PM
Interstellar and Dunkirk disagree.
interstellar and dunkurk disagree with you.


...and more importantly legend +1'd both our posts.   you can't have it both ways man.  either nolan is back or he never left.  pick a side or die..
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 27, 2020, 07:46 PM
Interstellar and Dunkirk disagree.
Woah.  Woah.  Interstellar is 95% great movie.  

Dunkirk doesn't sound like my cup of tea, but eh.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Aug 27, 2020, 07:52 PM
Woah.  Woah.  Interstellar is 95% great movie.  

Dunkirk doesn't sound like my cup of tea, but eh.  
it was atypical of the "nolan style" but it was still a good movie.  92% on rotten tomatoes.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 27, 2020, 08:05 PM
Dunkirk is possibly the most bored I've ever been at the cinema.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 27, 2020, 08:09 PM
Interstellar and Dunkirk disagree.
Interstellar is one of my favorites lol. Dunkirk was decent.

I've read some mixed reviews about tenet but I will see it soon
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 27, 2020, 08:12 PM
Interstellar is one of my favorites lol. Dunkirk was decent.

I've read some mixed reviews about tenet but I will see it soon
Tenet has some big problems, mostly related to sound and dialogue, but its still really great imo. I enjoyed it a lot and there's some great payoffs.

Interstellar was way too long and the last hour or so was pretty terrible in most ways. It should have just ended.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 27, 2020, 08:14 PM
Tenet has some big problems, mostly related to sound and dialogue, but its still really great imo. I enjoyed it a lot and there's some great payoffs.

Interstellar was way too long and the last hour or so was pretty terrible in most ways. It should have just ended.
I never wanted it to end. Music and cinematics were just amazing
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 27, 2020, 08:19 PM
I never wanted it to end. Music and cinematics were just amazing
Music was terrible, just a loud horn than didn't stop. I'll agree with you on the cinematics though :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 27, 2020, 08:20 PM
Music was terrible, just a loud horn than didn't stop. I'll agree with you on the cinematics though :P
I still listen to the soundtrack all the time lol. Let's agree to disagree then haha
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Aug 31, 2020, 10:48 PM
I still listen to the soundtrack all the time lol. Let's agree to disagree then haha
Yup i've got the soundtrack for interstellar on vinyl even.  That and Avatar are 2 of my absolute favorite movie scores.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Sep 06, 2020, 11:41 PM
Tenet opened with $20million in the US and $146 million world wide.  Which is actually not too bad considering everything.  And if they keep the movie in theaters for long enough more and more might start opening back up so it should hopefully be at least profitable.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Sep 06, 2020, 11:55 PM
Tenet opened with $20million in the US and $146 million world wide.  Which is actually not too bad considering everything.  And if they keep the movie in theaters for long enough more and more might start opening back up so it should hopefully be at least profitable.
they should have just held onto the movie until next year.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Sep 07, 2020, 12:56 AM
Saw tenet today. Its shiiit. We get nolan, you like time. But this one pushed it too much.

It felt like just was following a gimmick here
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Sep 07, 2020, 01:22 PM
Tenet opened with $20million in the US and $146 million world wide.  Which is actually not too bad considering everything.  And if they keep the movie in theaters for long enough more and more might start opening back up so it should hopefully be at least profitable.
Eh it didn't really, WB are trying to make it sound better by counting 11 days as an opening. International opening weekend was about $50M, domestic was about $11M. Its still doing okay considering the times but only thanks to Europe really. Asia and domestic are a lot worse than people thought.

Box office insider and expert on BOT forum is projecting $350M for the total gross of the film, it could be super variable from here and legs could be much better than expected given no other films coming out, but its not going to go too much higher than that. In a normal release this would have been expecting $600m+ gross.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Xevross on Sep 07, 2020, 01:31 PM
Anyone seen Mulan? I heard some people say its good, some say its terrible. I'm not watching because I don't want to support that shame. Kinda hoping this fails for disney and loses money, it'll be interesting to see if they release numbers for the gross of this one.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Sep 07, 2020, 02:02 PM
The more i think about it the more i dislike tenet. Honestly at this point I'm feeling its a shame movie. The plot was just so stupid. The characters were one dimensional at best. Abd the villain was horrible

There where just a couple of fight seems that were somewhat cool
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Sep 07, 2020, 02:27 PM
Anyone seen Mulan? I heard some people say its good, some say its terrible. I'm not watching because I don't want to support that shame. Kinda hoping this fails for disney and loses money, it'll be interesting to see if they release numbers for the gross of this one.
don't have disney+ and I also don't want to support this shame.

the review I liked was the one that said it is following in the foot steps of star wars and marvel for being crud.  the plot and characters were cut to make room for visual effects.  sums up perfectly why I think modern disney is shame so i'm quite certain I will not like mulan.


The more i think about it the more i dislike tenet. Honestly at this point I'm feeling its a shame movie. The plot was just so stupid. The characters were one dimensional at best. Abd the villain was horrible

There where just a couple of fight seems that were somewhat cool
now that I've seen dark no time travel themed show/movie deserves to exist.  too much the disappointment.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 07, 2020, 04:28 PM
don't have disney+ and I also don't want to support this shame.

the review I liked was the one that said it is following in the foot steps of star wars and marvel for being crud.  the plot and characters were cut to make room for visual effects.  sums up perfectly why I think modern disney is shame so i'm quite certain I will not like mulan.

now that I've seen dark no time travel themed show/movie deserves to exist.  too much the disappointment.
Funny, I watched season 2 of umbrella academy right after finishing Dark and it seemed so cheesy and unrealistic in comparison
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Post by: kitler53 on Sep 07, 2020, 07:24 PM
Funny, I watched season 2 of umbrella academy right after finishing Dark and it seemed so cheesy and unrealistic in comparison
same.   i really, really like umbrella academy but the time travel aspects are not the focus or the part worth bragging about.   umbrella academy has style, and amazing soundtrack, and a refreshingly quirky unique set of characters.   time travel is obviously key to the story line but also not exactly the focus.   ..more like the prerequiste.   

in dark unraveling the mysteries of time travel is the "core mechanic" and done so amazingly well. 
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Post by: Xevross on Sep 12, 2020, 11:51 PM
Mulan is a massive flop in China. Kind of expected given the last week but earlier in the year this was expected to be a massive movie in China. Overall seems Mulan will make a huge loss for Disney.

Tenet is doing well in Europe but below expectations everywhere else, particularly in the US. US performance is pretty dire actually, other studios are seeing this and are staying the hell away still. WW84 was trying to release October 2nd but now delayed to Dec 25th. I think studios will be constantly monitoring the situation and if it doesn't get better by even Dec then everything will be pushed back again.
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Post by: Legend on Sep 12, 2020, 11:56 PM
Tenet was amazing.

Had issues with the early parts of the film but they are great in hindsight. Need to watch it again.

Only movie or game that actually handles time travel right.
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Post by: BananaKing on Sep 13, 2020, 12:07 AM
Tenet was amazing.

Had issues with the early parts of the film but they are great in hindsight. Need to watch it again.

Only movie or game that actually handles time travel right.
It was shame, good sir.
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Post by: Legend on Sep 13, 2020, 12:17 AM
It was shame, good sir.
Best movie released in years.
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Post by: kitler53 on Sep 13, 2020, 12:23 AM
Mulan is a massive flop in China. Kind of expected given the last week but earlier in the year this was expected to be a massive movie in China. Overall seems Mulan will make a huge loss for Disney.

Tenet is doing well in Europe but below expectations everywhere else, particularly in the US. US performance is pretty dire actually, other studios are seeing this and are staying the hell away still. WW84 was trying to release October 2nd but now delayed to Dec 25th. I think studios will be constantly monitoring the situation and if it doesn't get better by even Dec then everything will be pushed back again.
given the shame show that is america's mismanagement of covid i wouldn't be caught dead in a movie theatre right now.
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Post by: Xevross on Sep 13, 2020, 10:12 AM
Tenet was amazing.

Had issues with the early parts of the film but they are great in hindsight. Need to watch it again.

Only movie or game that actually handles time travel right.
Yeah the time stuff is so awesome.
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Post by: Xevross on Sep 14, 2020, 10:11 AM
Seems like Tenet is doing so badly in the US that most theatres are actually losing money due to it. They agreed to put it in the majority of their screens and its doing nowhere near enough business to cover theatre's costs of being open on that many screens.
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Post by: kitler53 on Sep 14, 2020, 01:33 PM
Seems like Tenet is doing so badly in the US that most theatres are actually losing money due to it. They agreed to put it in the majority of their screens and its doing nowhere near enough business to cover theatre's costs of being open on that many screens.
weren't they losing money before too?   i would have figured this was more like optimism on both parts that a good movie could get people to go to the theatres.
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Post by: Xevross on Sep 14, 2020, 04:29 PM
weren't they losing money before too?   i would have figured this was more like optimism on both parts that a good movie could get people to go to the theatres.
No, they weren't open.
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Post by: kitler53 on Sep 14, 2020, 04:40 PM
No, they weren't open.
not being open is still losing money.   taxes, rent, electricity, ect.  yes you don't pay for wages but you still lose money.  they opened on the hope they could start making money again.   it was an "experiment" if you will.  the market spoke loud and clear,  hell no i won't go..
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Post by: BananaKing on Sep 15, 2020, 11:28 AM
weren't they losing money before too?   i would have figured this was more like optimism on both parts that a good movie could get people to go to the theatres.
But it wasnt a good movie
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 03, 2020, 07:23 PM
No time to day delayed by by 6 months. This is fudgy shambolic
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Post by: Xevross on Oct 03, 2020, 08:21 PM
No time to day delayed by by 6 months. This is fudgy shambolic
Everyone's running scared after Tenet's disastrous performance.
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Post by: Legend on Oct 03, 2020, 11:02 PM
What will movie award shows do?

2020 had so few movies and 2021 will have tons.


Tenet best picture!!!
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Post by: kitler53 on Oct 04, 2020, 01:30 PM
What will movie award shows do?

2020 had so few movies and 2021 will have tons.


Tenet best picture!!!
you assume we will have covid fixed in early 2021.  the roll out time of a vaccine is like 6 months.  even if we get a valid vaccine in January that still means consumers afraid to go out until at least June. 

2021 will be devoid of releases too.  we probably have another year of this and by then the economy will be Soo trashed that perminate changes are likely. 


...and tons of movies released on netflix each week.  the stupid theatrical release only idea will die and things like mulan, trolls world tour, ebola holmes will be considered.  the preduice against streaming was always dumb anyways. 
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Post by: Legend on Oct 04, 2020, 04:26 PM
you assume we will have covid fixed in early 2021.  the roll out time of a vaccine is like 6 months.  even if we get a valid vaccine in January that still means consumers afraid to go out until at least June.

2021 will be devoid of releases too.  we probably have another year of this and by then the economy will be Soo trashed that perminate changes are likely.


...and tons of movies released on netflix each week.  the stupid theatrical release only idea will die and things like mulan, trolls world tour, ebola holmes will be considered.  the preduice against streaming was always dumb anyways.
No problem with streaming but that's what I'm talking about. Tours world tour was so bad compared to the first yet of course it will get nominated for best animated film.

I loved Tenet. Not joking that it should win because it was the only release.



No clue how 2021 will go with society, but figure they'll have to open the floodgates in theaters or streaming eventually.
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Post by: kitler53 on Oct 04, 2020, 04:52 PM
No problem with streaming but that's what I'm talking about. Tours world tour was so bad compared to the first yet of course it will get nominated for best animated film.

I loved Tenet. Not joking that it should win because it was the only release.



No clue how 2021 will go with society, but figure they'll have to open the floodgates in theaters or streaming eventually.
we'll I can only speak for myself but Xmas 2021 is the absolute earliest I could imagine my family going to a movie theater.  a well destributed vaccine is a mandatory prerequisite.  
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Post by: kitler53 on Oct 04, 2020, 07:01 PM
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/halloween-classic-hocus-pocus-nearly-beats-tenet-as-box-office-recovery-collapses


Quote
Hollywood got a huge shock Saturday night when mega-theater chain Cineworld revealed it is closing down again, including many of its Regal locations in the U.S.

With no new product in the marketplace, a rerelease of the 1993 Halloween cult classic Hocus Pocus was almost able to banish Christopher Nolan's Tenet and take the top spot at the weekend box office with a mere $2 million.
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Post by: Legend on Oct 04, 2020, 07:13 PM
I hate how hocus pocus just takes over tv every october. Now it's taking over theaters!
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Post by: Xevross on Oct 05, 2020, 07:05 PM
Dune delayed to October 2021.

No more films this year it seems.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 05, 2020, 07:22 PM
Dune delayed to October 2021.

No more films this year it seems.
fudgin hell
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 19, 2020, 09:25 PM


Just saw this. Its gold haha
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 20, 2020, 03:39 PM
I have such a love/hate relationship with this movie Summer Wars.  
(This movie is actually an anime movie)

The characters are really great. The main plotline has a few absurdities.

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>It&#39;s kind of like Ready Player One without the VR. &nbsp;Most of the internet is connected by this virtual world. &nbsp;Including the banks, and pretty much anything else you can think of. &nbsp;<br><br>First thing that bothers me. The main character gets a text with a really long number. I think in the movie they say it&#39;s like ~2000 digits long. &nbsp;He solves &quot;the math problem&quot; and it&#39;s a string encrypted to get access to the digital world. And he solves it in like 20 minutes. <br><br>Second thing. The thing that sent the text was a super intelligent AI being tested by the military. &nbsp;<br><br>Third thing, this family gets a super computer so that everyone can play the game, and fills the room with towers of ice to keep it cool. &nbsp;After that, someone takes the ice to keep their dead grandma cool on this hot summer day. &nbsp;<br><br>


Aside from those things, the movie is really great.
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Post by: BananaKing on Dec 21, 2020, 01:59 PM
1917 is banging. Fantastic movie. Not a classic but its close. The camera in it is fantastic. GOW level shame.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 26, 2020, 07:52 PM
Just watched Soul. Brilliant, brilliant.
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Post by: Xevross on Dec 27, 2020, 12:06 AM
1917 is banging. Fantastic movie. Not a classic but its close. The camera in it is fantastic. GOW level shame.
I really loved 1917, its extremely well made. The camera is definitely the shining part of it, like GOW it elevates the whole thing.
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 27, 2020, 04:11 AM
So I watched, I guess half, of Wonder Woman.  Not the new one.  It was so boring.  Even that last fight with Ares was so bleh.  Why was it so praised?  I mean, Chris Pine is acting gold, but everything else was so... bland.  Even Gal Gadot was off.  She played a better Wonder Woman in that hack job of a movie that Whedon put together called Justice League.  Was there some amazing movie from when they leave the island to when she fights on the battlefield?
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Post by: Legend on Jan 11, 2021, 04:41 AM
I'm on an Alien binge. I've watched Alien, Aliens, and Alien 3 Extended so far.

I'd definitely say the first one is my favorite. Still need to watch Alien Resurrection (haven't seen it) and I might watch the AVPs (have seen them).
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Post by: Legend on Jan 30, 2021, 01:27 AM
'Cloverfield' Sequel in the Works With Batman TV Spinoff Showrunner (Exclusive) | Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/cloverfield-sequel-in-the-works-with-batman-tv-spinoff-showrunner-exclusive)

Cloverfield direct sequel.
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Post by: Legend on Mar 07, 2021, 04:36 PM
I finally got around to watching the lighthouse.

Spoiler for Hidden:
It was really bad and too simple. Like I guess people were supposed to think stuff was actually happening? It felt incredibly obvious to me from almost the very beginning that it was just in their heads. Seems the director did not want viewers to feel this way, so this is a failure on both my end and the film.<br><br>
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 07, 2021, 09:27 PM
Saw Raya and the last dragon and was blown away! Audiovisual feast and a decent plot imo
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Post by: kitler53 on Mar 07, 2021, 11:04 PM
Saw Raya and the last dragon and was blown away! Audiovisual feast and a decent plot imo
cool.  I'll watch it when it comes to the non-premium disney+. 


I watched tenet last night.  I think someone here was ragging on it but I liked it.  
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 07, 2021, 11:11 PM
cool.  I'll watch it when it comes to the non-premium disney+.


I watched tenet last night.  I think someone here was ragging on it but I liked it.  
I can't remember who it was, I was the one was saying I liked it a lot.

Saw Raya and the last dragon and was blown away! Audiovisual feast and a decent plot imo
I'm looking forward to watching this, I love Disney animations
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 07, 2021, 11:19 PM
Also, I really liked the badass female characters. Seemed unusual for a Disney film (lots of female characters but usually princesses etc)
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Post by: nnodley on Mar 07, 2021, 11:21 PM
Yeah i really like Tenet.  Those are the type of movies i think Christopher Nolan is best at.  Interstellar and tenet are both great.
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Post by: kitler53 on Mar 08, 2021, 01:46 AM
I really like tenet as well. the reverse time machine was a pretty cool take on time travel.  

I don't have anything in particular to complain about but I did feel like the idea wasn't as fully realized as inception was.  still a great idea with some pretty awesome fight/action scences as a result of the premise. 

Also, I really liked the badass female characters. Seemed unusual for a Disney film (lots of female characters but usually princesses etc)
a sign of the times.  no one wants to see a damsel in distress type movie anymore. 

personally I'm a bit disappointed that so much of "equality" is making women be agressive, violent, and independent. it is basically writing the role for a man and casting a women.   I genuinely think the quote "femine" qualities deserve to be idolized more: kindness, empathy, community, ect. 

I suppose that doesn't make for as entertaining of a movie though. 
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Post by: BananaKing on Mar 08, 2021, 02:40 AM
cool.  I'll watch it when it comes to the non-premium disney+.


I watched tenet last night.  I think someone here was ragging on it but I liked it.  
I hated tenet. Well, didnt hate it. But its bellow meh
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Post by: Legend on Mar 08, 2021, 03:33 AM
Raya was great. Had dumb baby humor but I'd recomend it. No spoilers Kitler, but watch it. Plot was original.

Tenet was also great. I liked it less on my second viewing but I still love it.
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Post by: kitler53 on Mar 08, 2021, 01:50 PM
Raya was great. Had dumb baby humor but I'd recomend it. No spoilers Kitler, but watch it. Plot was original.

Tenet was also great. I liked it less on my second viewing but I still love it.
aye aye captain.  I intended to but I'll watch it with my wife.  might be a while before we are both in the mood for.   we just got to soul last weekend,.. 

dice this is the right thread soul was pretty meh.  felt like the recycled inside out's premise. 
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 08, 2021, 05:26 PM
I really like tenet as well. the reverse time machine was a pretty cool take on time travel.  

I don't have anything in particular to complain about but I did feel like the idea wasn't as fully realized as inception was.  still a great idea with some pretty awesome fight/action scences as a result of the premise.
a sign of the times.  no one wants to see a damsel in distress type movie anymore.

personally I'm a bit disappointed that so much of "equality" is making women be agressive, violent, and independent. it is basically writing the role for a man and casting a women.   I genuinely think the quote "femine" qualities deserve to be idolized more: kindness, empathy, community, ect.

I suppose that doesn't make for as entertaining of a movie though.
Well the main character had some of the usual female traits as well. Just not that one dimensional like before

Raya was great. Had dumb baby humor but I'd recomend it. No spoilers Kitler, but watch it. Plot was original.

Tenet was also great. I liked it less on my second viewing but I still love it.
Yeah lol the humor was one thing that wasn't great but the kids in the cinema laughed quite a bit

aye aye captain.  I intended to but I'll watch it with my wife.  might be a while before we are both in the mood for.   we just got to soul last weekend,..

dice this is the right thread soul was pretty meh.  felt like the recycled inside out's premise.
Good times for animated movies! Soul was amazing imo

Don't really know why though but I connected with the overall message there
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Post by: kitler53 on Mar 08, 2021, 05:45 PM
Well the main character had some of the usual female traits as well. Just not that one dimensional like before
for the record i wasn't complaining about raya in particular.  just the general shift to establish equality by making females adopt traits traditionally associated with males.   i think it's great that the world is becoming open to the "female bad dog".   i think it's not so great we aren't also seeing an openess to the "empathetic male".

it's like the shift in the work place mentality.  i think it's great that females are making big strides to be equals in the workplace.   i just think it's sad that "housewife" became something of a slanderous term and "house husband" is still viewed as completely unacceptable.   nurturing a child's development is a noble pursuit.  i don't think any man/women should feel forced into staying at home to take care of the kids,.. i think those that chose too should be viewed with much higher respect than they get these days.

does that make sense?
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 13, 2021, 10:58 AM
Avatar is the highest grossing film of all time again (China re-release doing very well).
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Post by: Legend on Mar 13, 2021, 03:59 PM
Avatar is the highest grossing film of all time again (China re-release doing very well).
Yeehaw!
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Post by: Legend on Mar 14, 2021, 09:05 AM
Watched starfish.

Cool seeing a local film. Didn't understand most of it.
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Post by: Legend on Mar 14, 2021, 07:59 PM
Time trap was amazing. Kinda just a generic fun adventure film but they did great with the sci fi.
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Post by: Legend on Mar 22, 2021, 06:07 AM
'Avatar' Re-Release Has Grossed More in China Than 'Mulan' (https://www.thewrap.com/avatar-china-box-office-mulan/)

Didn't fully understand how bad Mulan did in China.
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 22, 2021, 10:00 AM
'Avatar' Re-Release Has Grossed More in China Than 'Mulan' (https://www.thewrap.com/avatar-china-box-office-mulan/)

Didn't fully understand how bad Mulan did in China.
Oh yeah, real bad. Disney gutted the best parts of Mulan to try and make it better for Chinese audiences so it'd explode in China, but they assigned the task of doing it to four American writers... so yeah.
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Post by: Legend on Apr 06, 2021, 11:28 PM
So Godzilla vs Kong is a movie.




The action was often times great, but I don't think it's possible to reach the end without hating at least a few plot points.



Side note, what is up with the new movies treating Godzilla as a force of good? In Godzilla 2000 it was great having him be nothing but a monster.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 07, 2021, 12:20 AM
Side note, what is up with the new movies treating Godzilla as a force of good? In Godzilla 2000 it was great having him be nothing but a monster.
He's gone from villian to hero to anti-hero in the past:

Is Godzilla A Hero Or Villain? Why It's So Confusing (https://screenrant.com/godzilla-hero-villain-change-inconsistent-explained/)
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Post by: Legend on Apr 07, 2021, 02:45 AM
He's gone from villian to hero to anti-hero in the past:

Is Godzilla A Hero Or Villain? Why It's So Confusing (https://screenrant.com/godzilla-hero-villain-change-inconsistent-explained/)
Guess the movie I was thinking of was 1998.

Godzilla as a force of good is so out of wack. Anti-hero makes sense but these movies have people that worship Godzilla. "Sure he may be killing millions, but it's your fault you made him angry!"

Kong movies imo do a much better job making you care for him, even if it's the same "don't mess with nature" theme.
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Post by: GardenJoseph on Apr 09, 2021, 12:30 PM
For me real version of Godzilla vs Kong is Pacino vs De Niro in Heat xd
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Post by: Legend on Jun 06, 2021, 04:41 AM
Greenland is good. Didn't expect it to avoid so many tropes.
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Post by: Legend on Jun 20, 2021, 03:18 AM
Luca is not bad, but not that good.

It embraced that it was a kids movie and didn't put too much effort in imo. Not like Soul or even Raya.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 20, 2021, 03:22 AM
Luca is not bad, but not that good.

It embraced that it was a kids movie and didn't put too much effort in imo. Not like Soul or even Raya.
This is what I was talking about a while ago. (Not this movie, but the idea in general)

It's kind of irritating that so many kids movies put so little effort. 

----

A lot of people talk about learning they missed dirty jokes when they rewatch kids movies, but the thing that gets me is when I figure out who plays a character. 

When I was younger I usually didn't pay attention to any actors. Now I recognize who a voice is and it's weird. The illusion of broken. He's not Lightning McQueen, it's just Owen Wilson. 
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Post by: BananaKing on Jun 20, 2021, 12:29 PM
Remember when this thread was really active? You know... because there were actual movies coming out.... ahh the good old days
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Post by: Xevross on Jun 26, 2021, 06:56 PM
Well maybe its time for some box office!

Fast 9 opens to a $30m opening day, the box office is back baby.

AQP2 was the first big opening, with a $19m opening day and $47m opening weekend (GvK has $32m OW). Fast 9 is heading towards a $70m weekend, this is the first real big blockbuster weekend since before the pandemic. Sonic opened with $58m in mid-Feb 2020, that was probably the last one.

Black Widow will be the next big one, currently tracking for about a $90m opening weekend.
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Post by: Xevross on Jun 26, 2021, 07:02 PM
Hobbs and Shaw had a $60m opening, so F9 opening higher with it still being a declining franchise shows the box office is pretty much back to full health (Fate had a $98m opening following Furious 7's $147m).
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Post by: Xevross on Jun 26, 2021, 07:05 PM
And to speak of movies, I went to the cinema for the second time in the pandemic, first since Tenet.

I watched In The Heights, absolutely loved it, definitely my kind of thing.
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Post by: BananaKing on Jun 26, 2021, 08:14 PM
Man this thread was dead for so dang long.

It will still take a while for the worldwide box office to be back to full health. But hopefully it can return to its full force. I dont think streaming is the way to go for this market.
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Post by: kitler53 on Jun 27, 2021, 12:29 AM
I'm mostly certain I'll never go to the movie theatre for a movie ever again.   
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Post by: Xevross on Jun 27, 2021, 08:11 AM
I'm mostly certain I'll never go to the movie theatre for a movie ever again.  
I love going to the cinema. I'm probably going to start going more than I ever did before.
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Post by: kitler53 on Jun 27, 2021, 02:07 PM
I love going to the cinema. I'm probably going to start going more than I ever did before.
to each their own. 

with tickets running $15-20 in my area spending $60-80 for my family to get 1.5 hours of entertainment is the worst value in entertainment I can think of especially since half the movies suck.   Netflix and Disney+ movies on my home's big screen is good enough for me.  when I go out I want to do something that actually required me to go out: ballet, stand-up, go karts, swimming pool, ren fest, mini golf, bowling, ect.   if I see a movie out it will probably be an old movie at a drive in or community center kind of thing. 
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Post by: Legend on Jul 07, 2021, 02:57 AM
I watched The Thing for the first time.

Was good. Did not expect it to have so much story about the "thing" and where it came from. Felt like the writing was ok. People could have just stuck together and avoided most deaths. Visual design and effects were amazing. I went in expecting them to be overhyped but nah, they are really really good.

Also watched 2011 The Thing. Was ok.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 07, 2021, 10:55 AM
Rewatched Alien and Aliens. Aliens especially is still incredible
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Post by: Legend on Jul 07, 2021, 01:47 PM
Rewatched Alien and Aliens. Aliens especially is still incredible
It's funny. I rewatched the whole series a few months ago and Aliens just didn't do it for me. It was good, but felt way worse than Alien. Felt closer to Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 07, 2021, 08:00 PM
It's funny. I rewatched the whole series a few months ago and Aliens just didn't do it for me. It was good, but felt way worse than Alien. Felt closer to Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection.
I was actually blown away by the special effects considering its age. Alien was way more primative. Less action but more psychological I guess
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Post by: Xevross on Jul 09, 2021, 04:16 PM
$13.2M previews for Black Widow, by far the biggest since Star Wars Ep 9 in 2019. Expectations are its heading for about a $85-90m weekend given that its on Disney+ and fewer families will turn up at the cinema. Without D+ probably would be thinking over $100m with those previews.
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Post by: kitler53 on Jul 10, 2021, 01:50 PM
i watched michells bs the machines on netflix last night.  i was really good.   like really good not,.. just good for a gamepass netflix movie.   much much better than the things i've watched from disney this year like luca and soul.   luca was legit terrible.  still want to watch raya. 
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Post by: kitler53 on Jul 11, 2021, 04:18 AM
raya was really good too. 
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Post by: Legend on Jul 11, 2021, 04:54 AM
I watched Monster Hunter.
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Post by: Xevross on Jul 11, 2021, 09:03 AM
$13.2M previews for Black Widow, by far the biggest since Star Wars Ep 9 in 2019. Expectations are its heading for about a $85-90m weekend given that its on Disney+ and fewer families will turn up at the cinema. Without D+ probably would be thinking over $100m with those previews.
Weekend is gonna turn out way lower than thought, gonna be about $78-81m. Seems disney plus premier access has really killed the money from family audiences at the cinema. Saturday for an MCU film would always increase from friday before but now we're looking at over 10% down. There's no way BW should have only opened $10m about Fast 9. If they both came out as expected last year you'd be looking at a $30m difference at least according to expectations. But the main difference here is F9 was a theatres only release.

Its an interesting situation. For Disney the money they receive will have increased on the opening weekend, but they'll lose out big time on repeat viewings from people rewatching on D+ or pirating. And other countries like China will be affected big time by the easy piracy that it gives, so overall they probably lose money from this approach. And then movie theaters lose out the most of course because they just straight up lose revenue due to the hit on ticket sales from this.

That's probably why they're going away from it soon, we'll see how Shang Chi does with the strategy of Disney+ PA 45 days after theatric release, that's probably a good middle ground.
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Post by: Legend on Jul 12, 2021, 01:33 AM
i watched michells bs the machines on netflix last night.  i was really good.   like really good not,.. just good for a gamepass netflix movie.   much much better than the things i've watched from disney this year like luca and soul.   luca was legit terrible.  still want to watch raya.
Wow. Legit thank you for your post.

Wrote it off as just a dumb Netflix film. Ended up liking it more than soul too. Wish this team/studio earned more recognition.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 12, 2021, 01:51 AM
The director was also the creative director for season 1 of gravity falls.  :o

I'll watch this tomorrow I think.
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Post by: Legend on Jul 12, 2021, 09:21 PM
I rewatched 2001 Space Odyssey. Really liked the horror of just seeing an object from aliens. Most movies just introduce aliens and skip over the cosmic dread of such an encounter.

Rest of it is pretty slow, but amazing hard si fi for 1968. It's like they expected the public to call them out on mistakes due to Apollo public interest.
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Post by: kitler53 on Jul 13, 2021, 12:35 AM
Wow. Legit thank you for your post.

Wrote it off as just a dumb Netflix film. Ended up liking it more than soul too. Wish this team/studio earned more recognition.
welcome. 

I came in not entirely writing off because I really liked the trailer but at the same time I have low expectations for Netflix films. 

Netflix has done much better this year then in years prior but mostly that has meant good instead of bad.  

i really loved this one.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 19, 2021, 02:19 AM
Black widow was fun. The movie was all over the place and poor in many ways but I enjoyed my time with it.
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Post by: Legend on Jul 19, 2021, 09:29 PM
I can't get over a lot of stupid elements from the film lol. (no spoilers beyond what is in trailers)

Like Black Widow escapes from the "Red Room" which traumatized and tortured her growing up, but this movie retcons/reveals that her name, her outfit, and her symbol all come from this organization. It'd be like a person escaping their life as a hydra soldier yet they still wear their hydra uniform and put hydra logos on all their branding.

(http://image.uc.cn/s/wemedia/s/upload/2020/6cc78571331044bc0bc8199bcad09f15.jpg)
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 19, 2021, 10:33 PM
I can't get over a lot of stupid elements from the film lol. (no spoilers beyond what is in trailers)

Like Black Widow escapes from the "Red Room" which traumatized and tortured her growing up, but this movie retcons/reveals that her name, her outfit, and her symbol all come from this organization. It'd be like a person escaping their life as a hydra soldier yet they still wear their hydra uniform and put hydra logos on all their branding.

(http://image.uc.cn/s/wemedia/s/upload/2020/6cc78571331044bc0bc8199bcad09f15.jpg)
Good point. It felt weird. And the whole family dynamic.

Was a better movie than I was expecting though. Very nice action scenes. A bit disappointed with the villain not being more fleshed out.
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Post by: Legend on Jul 19, 2021, 10:43 PM
Good point. It felt weird. And the whole family dynamic.

Was a better movie than I was expecting though. Very nice action scenes. A bit disappointed with the villain not being more fleshed out.
I enjoyed Florence Pugh and David Harbour's acting. Just re-editing the movie probably could have put it in the upper half of Marvel quality for me.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 19, 2021, 11:37 PM
I enjoyed Florence Pugh and David Harbour's acting. Just re-editing the movie probably could have put it in the upper half of Marvel quality for me.
Yeah David Harbour was hilarious actually and Florence Pugh did really well. She did the action scenes intensely
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Post by: Legend on Jul 22, 2021, 02:24 PM


I love how they can only tease the weird stupid stuff in Dune. Can't wait to actually see the bad guy floating around like a balloon.
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Post by: BananaKing on Jul 22, 2021, 03:26 PM


I love how they can only tease the weird stupid stuff in Dune. Can't wait to actually see the bad guy floating around like a balloon.
It looks good. I wonder how faithful they will be to the book. I also wonder how they will do a sequel, because the second book sucks and certainly doesn't work as a block buster movie
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Post by: Legend on Jul 22, 2021, 04:07 PM
It looks good. I wonder how faithful they will be to the book. I also wonder how they will do a sequel, because the second book sucks and certainly doesn't work as a block buster movie
Pretty sure they are cutting a bunch from this film to save for the next. It's gonna suck if the second movie never happens.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Jul 22, 2021, 06:24 PM
so i feel like i should say this first; i've never seen or read dune.   i know nothing about the story.   

...that was a pretty awesome looking trailer.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 23, 2021, 12:15 AM
That was a good looking trailer. I really like scifi so this has me hyped. I haven't seen the original or read the book
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Post by: Legend on Jul 23, 2021, 01:07 AM
so i feel like i should say this first; i've never seen or read dune.   i know nothing about the story.  

...that was a pretty awesome looking trailer.
That was a good looking trailer. I really like scifi so this has me hyped. I haven't seen the original or read the book
Hmm how do so many people not know Dune?

I watched it last year plebs.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Jul 23, 2021, 04:28 AM
Hmm how do so many people not know Dune?

I watched it last year plebs.
i "know" dune i just haven't watched it.   just like i "know" about baby yoda or thanos even though i haven't watched the show/movie. 
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Post by: Legend on Jul 23, 2021, 05:13 AM
i "know" dune i just haven't watched it.   just like i "know" about baby yoda or thanos even though i haven't watched the show/movie.
Just making a joke that I would have been in the same boat if I didn't randomly watch it a year or two ago.

You always hear people talking about the spice but the original movie was something else. Didn't expect it to be so bad.





Speaking of my taste in movies, a big budget remake of Flash Gordan would be awesome.  ;D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 23, 2021, 11:01 AM
Hmm how do so many people not know Dune?

I watched it last year plebs.
Well I know of it
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 25, 2021, 04:58 AM
Watched Soul on the airplane.

Was a good movie, feels like it is missing something though.

Also felt like some weird combination of a few other movies like Coco, maybe Inside Out, can't place it.
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Post by: kitler53 on Jul 25, 2021, 03:23 PM
Watched Soul on the airplane.

Was a good movie, feels like it is missing something though.

Also felt like some weird combination of a few other movies like Coco, maybe Inside Out, can't place it.
i thought the same thing.  felt like a soft sequel to inside out to me.  not really a direct sequel but a big recycling of some core concepts. made it feel derivative especially  because  the ideas were poorly executed. 
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 27, 2021, 04:27 AM
Watched Raya.

Was very good. I think it could have been better if it was a little longer.  

Definitely thought it was better than Soul.  
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Post by: kitler53 on Jul 27, 2021, 01:24 PM
Watched Raya.

Was very good. I think it could have been better if it was a little longer.  

Definitely thought it was better than Soul.  
i thought the length was good.   not sure what one would add,.. i can't think of anything right now that felt rushed.   maybe a "growing up montage"?   


sooooooo much better than soul.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 27, 2021, 02:21 PM
Raya was very good. I thought Soul was too
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jul 27, 2021, 10:58 PM
Just watched mortal Kombat. Fun movie, definitely liked it.

Story was... surprisingly okay? I mean for someone who doesn't know much about MK they will be like wtf are they talking about. But, I know enough about it to think the story wasn't bad.

Fight scenes were good, could have been better, though i understand they had a limited budget.

Finishers were underwhelming, they should have been a lot better considering the ones you see in the games

I wouldnt watch it again really, but I definitely want a sequel
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Post by: kitler53 on Jul 29, 2021, 09:11 PM
https://www.wsj.com/articles/scarlett-johansson-sues-disney-over-black-widow-streaming-release-11627579278


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Scarlett Johansson, star of the latest Marvel movie "Black Widow," filed a lawsuit Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court against Disney (https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/DIS), DIS -0.42%  (https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/DIS?mod=chiclets)alleging her contract was breached when the media giant released the film on its Disney (https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/DIS) DIS -0.42%  (https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/DIS?mod=chiclets)+ streaming service at the same time as its theatrical debut.

According to the complaint, Ms. Johansson's representatives sought to renegotiate her contract after learning of the dual-release strategy for "Black Widow," which she has said is her ninth and last Marvel movie. Disney and Marvel were unresponsive, the suit said.

The decision to put the movie on Disney+ is projected to cost Ms. Johansson more than $50 million, a person familiar with details of her contract claimed.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 29, 2021, 09:27 PM
https://www.wsj.com/articles/scarlett-johansson-sues-disney-over-black-widow-streaming-release-11627579278



It seems really weird that Disney/Marvel wouldn't respond. Seems like a straightforward lawsuit, even though dear gosh big actors are overpaid. Surely that $50 million loss is miscalculated in some way.
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Post by: BananaKing on Jul 29, 2021, 10:01 PM
It seems really weird that Disney/Marvel wouldn't respond. Seems like a straightforward lawsuit, even though dear gosh big actors are overpaid. Surely that $50 million loss is miscalculated in some way.
Overpaid or not. This is the reality if the situation. And she is entitled to the money the dual release strategy cost her. Whether its 50 million or not I dont know.

I doubt she would have filed this lawsuit in the case she was still doing movies as black widow.
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Post by: Legend on Jul 29, 2021, 10:11 PM
Overpaid or not. This is the reality if the situation. And she is entitled to the money the dual release strategy cost her. Whether its 50 million or not I dont know.

I doubt she would have filed this lawsuit in the case she was still doing movies as black widow.
Yeah Disney is obviously in the wrong here with the current info.

I think she still would have imo. Lawsuits can sometimes be quick and painless and contract disputes are common in hollywood.
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Post by: kitler53 on Jul 29, 2021, 11:47 PM
It seems really weird that Disney/Marvel wouldn't respond. Seems like a straightforward lawsuit, even though dear gosh big actors are overpaid. Surely that $50 million loss is miscalculated in some way.
I'm going to assume that $50 million is a fairly rosey estimate in favor of Scarlett.  ...but I think a reasonable estimate would be easy to calculate: for each Disney+ rental assume 4 boxoffice ticket sales were missed and give her the share of those her contract entitled her too. 
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 30, 2021, 05:01 AM
I ended up finally watching the Mitchells vs the Machines.  

Was a bit overproduced I guess for my tastes. But was great.
The movie knows how to hit hard.  

Two of the characters gave me the strangest Gravity Falls vibe.  Some of the mannerisms of the dad are similar to the uncle in gravity falls.



Compared to Soul, there's a similar theme

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>about dreams/aspirations, albeit in different contexts. <br><br>Considering how I&#39;ve been feeling this year, I had expected Soul to hit me harder. I can&#39;t really think of why it failed to, at the moment. <br><br>I thought it was a good movie, and in a superficial kind of way it&#39;s a lot closer to the type movie I wanted than this one. While I have a hard time coming up with flaws for the movie, it just doesn&#39;t feel like a great movie. <br><br>Despite my reservations, Mitchell&#39;s hit so much harder, probably due to contextualizing the relationship with it. &nbsp;<br>


And on the whole I think it was a way better movie than Soul.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 18, 2021, 10:23 PM
Mortal Kombat movie was great. The violence made it so much more interesting than most movies with fighting. Was also incredibly authentic to the games haha.
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Post by: BananaKing on Aug 18, 2021, 10:24 PM
Mortal Kombat movie was great. The violence made it so much more interesting than most movies with fighting. Was also incredibly authentic to the games haha.
I wouldnt call it great. Id call it enjoyable. Definitely want to watch the sequel though
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Post by: Legend on Aug 18, 2021, 10:33 PM
I wouldnt call it great. Id call it enjoyable. Definitely want to watch the sequel though
Great for its genre/expectations.


Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 27, 2021, 12:52 AM
Do you ever stop and think how the RDJ Sherlock movies are retroactively better than the Sherlock TV show?
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Post by: Legend on Aug 27, 2021, 12:54 AM
I've never watched the show.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 27, 2021, 12:57 AM
I've never watched the show.
Implying you've seen the movie(s), thus proving the point!  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 01, 2021, 02:18 PM
Been wanting to rewatch Lord of the Rings, and finally getting wifey on board to watch it for the first time.  

Some negatives:

There are two or so scenes with the Ents that feel like they had to have looked bad when the movie came out.
A lot of the movie holds up remarkably well, but those two scenes look remarkably bad.  

Frodo's side of the story is kind of boring. Always felt that way. Feels like it moves slower.  



So many positives though. It's incredible these movies have been made.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 07, 2021, 09:02 PM
I feel like it might be silly to talk about the Lord of the Rings. They are incredibly popular, but I'm obsessing and I want to talk about them.  ;D

According to IMDB:Top movies (https://m.imdb.com/chart/top/)
The 3 movies are all in the top 15, which is crazy.  

But what makes them so good?

I think what makes these movies incredibly special is the combination of great scenes, great movies on an individual level and how they fit together.  

The movies each have scenes that I think are incredible and for different reasons.  

Spoiler for Hidden:
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A lot of what makes these scenes great is some combination of good casting, good acting, good special effects for the time.  
But most importantly Tolkien's good writing.  


I saw it mentioned on Reddit that each movie is a good movie on their own. And I think there's some amount of truth to that.

Even to the point where if for some reason only one of the movies existed, I think it would still be an enjoyable experience. Collectively they'd be worse, you'd miss out on the adventure, and the overall context.
But I think they'd still be good movies.  

If you just watched the second one, you'd get a pretty good tale about beating Saruman.  
If you just watched the third one, you'd get a pretty good tale about beating Sauron.  
I think the first one is a little weaker in this regard, and it would end on a more hopeless note, but it still has a conflict resolution.


Together though, they truly make for an adventure.
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Post by: BananaKing on Sep 07, 2021, 10:15 PM
They are absolutely amazing movies. The characters, writing, lore, creativity and setting is what makes them so special. Basically everything Hollywood is shame at now.

I just watched them like a year and a half ago for the first time. They are awesome, and I been thinking I need to rematch them again. I only seen the extended version, and I plan on only seeing them. I cant believe the 3rd one removed the saroman scenes from the original movie.

Also, while the hobbit movies aren't as good. They are still amazing.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 08, 2021, 03:49 AM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 08, 2021, 06:15 PM
I feel like it might be silly to talk about the Lord of the Rings. They are incredibly popular, but I'm obsessing and I want to talk about them.  ;D

According to IMDB:Top movies (https://m.imdb.com/chart/top/)
The 3 movies are all in the top 15, which is crazy.  

But what makes them so good?

I think what makes these movies incredibly special is the combination of great scenes, great movies on an individual level and how they fit together.  

The movies each have scenes that I think are incredible and for different reasons.  

Spoiler for Hidden:










A lot of what makes these scenes great is some combination of good casting, good acting, good special effects for the time.  
But most importantly Tolkien's good writing.  


I saw it mentioned on Reddit that each movie is a good movie on their own. And I think there's some amount of truth to that.

Even to the point where if for some reason only one of the movies existed, I think it would still be an enjoyable experience. Collectively they'd be worse, you'd miss out on the adventure, and the overall context.
But I think they'd still be good movies.  

If you just watched the second one, you'd get a pretty good tale about beating Saruman.  
If you just watched the third one, you'd get a pretty good tale about beating Sauron.  
I think the first one is a little weaker in this regard, and it would end on a more hopeless note, but it still has a conflict resolution.


Together though, they truly make for an adventure.
Incredible trilogy. Watched it so many times. It's so imaginative, exciting, well acted, fun and funny. It's also dark in places while bright in others. Just a wonderful experience

Not to mention how brilliant everything is from the music, cinematography, directing and costumes (this was especially groundbreaking!)
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Post by: Legend on Sep 09, 2021, 06:43 AM
I've been wanting to rewatch all 6 of them. The Battle of Five Armies keeps airing on tv and while it's always showing a dumb scene it still kinda hooks me.


Also fun fact, the prancing pony is the name of the inn they stop at before heading out on their journey. SpaceX built a restaurant called the prancing pony for their Mars launch pad.

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Sep 09, 2021, 04:38 PM
gonna be honest,.. the movies didn't do it for me.  amazing books and i will say traslating them to the movies is not an easy task.   ...but some of the changes they made to the story was just dumb.  i didn't hate the movies.. really i liked them enough.   still didn't love them.  

one of my personal complaints; the music.   it has been praised to high hell but tbh the score needed to be at least double what it was for the 9 hours of movie shown.  they kept repeating the same musical phrase over and over and over again until it pissed me off.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 09, 2021, 04:52 PM
gonna be honest,.. the movies didn't do it for me.  amazing books and i will say traslating them to the movies is not an easy task.   ...but some of the changes they made to the story was just dumb.  i didn't hate the movies.. really i liked them enough.   still didn't love them.  
What changes?

I've read about a bunch of little changes, but nothing absurd.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 09, 2021, 05:19 PM
The Matrix soft reboot is giving me Men in Black soft reboot vibes.

Wonder if it's just my distaste of bland cgi or if it's just that most soft reboots fail.
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Post by: BananaKing on Sep 09, 2021, 05:26 PM
The Matrix soft reboot is giving me Men in Black soft reboot vibes.

Wonder if it's just my distaste of bland cgi or if it's just that most soft reboots fail.
I just saw the trailer. I have to say I'm disappointed as well.

Their attempt to make this good seems to be "make everything CGI". The matrix was awesome because it had cool fight scenes that didn't really use CGI much (well the first one).

Plus boo at new morpheus
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Sep 09, 2021, 06:12 PM


What changes?

I've read about a bunch of little changes, but nothing absurd.
okay so i found a site that documents stuff:
https://www.theonering.com/

i can say just in general,.. because of the thickness of the books a lot of content had to be cut.   BUT,... there is a crud load of content that was created out of thin air.   some of it feels possible/probable and just not discussed in the books but some of it doesn't seem to fit at all.   generally speaking the movie made up a lot of scenes or changed details about scenes to make the movie more action oriented and dark.   i think this especially hurt the "rise" of the movies,.. encounters went from mild to intense as the story progressed.  a lot of make up crud is in the first movie where they wanted a more exciting movie than the story that was written: orc pod, lurtz, various black rider encounters,  the saruman and gandalf wizards dual.

..but a few key details that really ruffled my feathers.

Faramir was depicted as cruel and greedy by capturing frodo and (the part i was really mad about) taking frodo back to minas tirith.   none of this happens in the book.  faramir (the brother to boromir) is very gentle natured in the books and assists frodo without the need for explanation on his quest.  in the books, his character was made to be a counter-point to boromir whom betrays frodo in the first book.  that whole scence where frodo confronts the ringwraith really pissed me off.  all this fabricated content end in a completely unsubstantiated 180 in faramir sending frodo back on his quest.  it's like 30 minutes of completely fabricated BS that is completely counter to the themes established in the book.

in the first book they cut out tom bombadil.   it was like half of frodos journey from the first book and pretty cool.  why cut what's awesome to put in crud?!?

elves (other than legolas) at the battle of helms deep.   way to completely fudge up the entire back story of the elves bumb...   really there was a lot of changes to the elves to make them feel more important then they were.  the elves were extremely important in the hobbit but the theme in TLoR was fading glory.



one change i do approve of was removing the scouring of the shire.   the final book "ended" and then kept going for like another pointless 100 pages on pointless crud.   it really put a sour note at the end of some excellent books.


Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 14, 2021, 10:53 PM
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Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 15, 2021, 04:03 PM
So there was a 1978 cartoon movie of Lord of the Rings first book.  
I haven't seen the movie itself, but I've seen various scenes.  And it's so goofy.



Aragorn: Come no closer
Orcs: Ok, we'll stay here.

Goofy looking balrog flies 40 feet, only to land right in front of Gandalf.

Gandalf awkwardly yells at people, that they can't help him.




Gandalf looks like he's out of his mind, and is having PTSD flashbacks.




Sam^


Bilbo looks like he's got something else going on.
Frodo has this tiny fist, ready to punch out his uncle.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 20, 2021, 06:29 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:
<div style="text-align:center;margin:auto;padding:5px;max-width:560px;"><div style="position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;padding-top:0px;height:0;overflow:hidden;" class="youtube swZErNO5l3c"> <iframe style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/swZErNO5l3c" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div></div>


Uncharted movie trailer leaked.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 21, 2021, 06:55 PM
As I said before, I'm really obsessed with LOTR right now.  I've been on a binge for the past month, whenever I can.  

I don't recall ever watching the third hobbit movie.  But I know that that the Lord of the rings fan base doesn't love it.  


So far this is my favorite scene. And I think it helps me understand one of the big reasons why the hobbit movies are worse.  Besides the other factors like the amount of filler, and the stuff with the elves that most LOTR fans hate.  




I feel like this scene is the closest to LOTR in quality.  
I love the scenes, and there is always music that greatly complements it.

But that rarely happens in the Hobbit.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 08, 2021, 10:21 PM


Not so controversial take.

But the Age of Ultron trailer is so much better than the movie.
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Post by: BananaKing on Nov 08, 2021, 10:45 PM


Not so controversial take.

But the Age of Ultron trailer is so much better than the movie.
The trailer was fire. It got me so hyped.

The movie was a huge letdown.


Also did anyone watch dune? Is it any good?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 08, 2021, 10:50 PM
The trailer was fire. It got me so hyped.

The movie was a huge letdown.
All true.

Quote
Also did anyone watch dune? Is it any good?
My friend described it as "Spectacular"
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 09, 2021, 12:14 AM
The trailer was fire. It got me so hyped.

The movie was a huge letdown.


Also did anyone watch dune? Is it any good?
It's incredible. See it in the cinema
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Nov 09, 2021, 01:29 AM
It's incredible. See it in the cinema
The issue is that my friends aren't interested in watching sci fi movies. And one doesn't even have the vaccine so we won't go the cinema when doing stuff because she can't go.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 09, 2021, 12:28 PM
The issue is that my friends aren't interested in watching sci fi movies. And one doesn't even have the vaccine so we won't go the cinema when doing stuff because she can't go.
Go alone!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Nov 09, 2021, 01:39 PM
Go alone!
Going alone is just sad. Its like going to a resturant alone. I dont do that.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 09, 2021, 04:34 PM
Going alone is just sad. Its like going to a resturant alone. I dont do that.
I don't see the problem with going to a movie alone, but at the same time I don't know anyone who has gone to a movie alone...
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 09, 2021, 05:28 PM
Going alone is just sad. Its like going to a resturant alone. I dont do that.
In extreme circumstances you sometimes need extreme measures heh
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Nov 09, 2021, 09:27 PM
Going alone is just sad. Its like going to a resturant alone. I dont do that.
hire an escort...
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Nov 09, 2021, 09:30 PM
hire an escort...
If I hire an escort I really wouldn't want to be going to the movies
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Nov 09, 2021, 09:31 PM
If I hire an escort I really wouldn't want to be going to the movies
more like making movies...   ::)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 29, 2021, 08:29 PM
Probably a controversial opinion.

But I feel like Disney (animated) movies are a bit overrated. Not that they make bad movies, but I think there are some other animation studios out there that makes movies just as good, that doesn't get a fraction of the attention.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Nov 29, 2021, 08:30 PM
Probably a controversial opinion.

But I feel like Disney (animated) movies are a bit overrated. Not that they make bad movies, but I think there are some other animation studios out there that makes movies just as good, that doesn't get a fraction of the attention.
ditto for marvel.  ditto for nintendo.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 29, 2021, 09:05 PM
Probably a controversial opinion.

But I feel like Disney (animated) movies are a bit overrated. Not that they make bad movies, but I think there are some other animation studios out there that makes movies just as good, that doesn't get a fraction of the attention.
Pixar yes, Disney maybe.

What other movies are you thinking of?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 29, 2021, 09:28 PM
Pixar yes, Disney maybe.

What other movies are you thinking of?
I think I'd put Studio Ghibli above them.
But you may disagree. :P

I feel like Disney's strong point is that they have a long history, and definitely have fewer lows than a lot of other studios, but I also feel like there are other studios that have higher highs (even if most of their content is pretty bad overall.)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 29, 2021, 10:02 PM
I think I'd put Studio Ghibli above them.
But you may disagree. :P

I feel like Disney's strong point is that they have a long history, and definitely have fewer lows than a lot of other studios, but I also feel like there are other studios that have higher highs (even if most of their content is pretty bad overall.)
Studio ghibli is great. I thought you meant cgi studios like dreamworks or illumination.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 30, 2021, 03:30 PM
Maybe it's just that one.
I'm sure there are some others that are painfully underrated.

I'd say Illumination doesn't have enough movies under their belt.
Dreamworks has some great highs, but they also have lots of lows....
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 01, 2021, 10:47 PM
Now I've got almost all of the Marvel movies on Plex.

My Plex is almost as good as Disney+ for Disney stuff.   8)
And it has lots of random junk just like Netflix. 8)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 05, 2021, 06:50 AM




Art style looks changed a bit but should be good.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Dec 06, 2021, 12:57 AM
Finally watched Let There be Carnage.  Pretty good and the eddie/venom banter back and forth is the highlight for sure.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 24, 2022, 02:37 PM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 24, 2022, 05:22 PM
Think this movie will flop?

Or will it be big like spiderman?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 24, 2022, 06:55 PM
Think this movie will flop?

Or will it be big like spiderman?
I think since it has Tom Holland it will do pretty well and hit more than the video game nerds.  But it won't be that big of a hit.  Will do well enough to get a sequel i bet.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Jan 24, 2022, 09:43 PM
is any movie not a flop these days?   only anti-vaxxers are going to the movies..
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jan 24, 2022, 09:59 PM
is any movie not a flop these days?   only anti-vaxxers are going to the movies..
Spiderman is one of the biggest movies of all time. And it hasn't even opened in China yet. Could hit 2 billion WW
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 25, 2022, 10:51 PM
I think Uncharted could do 3-400m with some luck
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 25, 2022, 11:18 PM
I think Uncharted could do 3-400m with some luck
I'm pretty confident it'll sell at least one ticket too.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 26, 2022, 01:00 AM
I think Uncharted could do 3-400m with some luck
Supposedly it had a 120 million budget so anything over 300m would be great. I think it could get there.  Definitely not going over 500 million.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 14, 2022, 11:24 PM

I'm impressed!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Feb 20, 2022, 11:38 PM
Uncharted made 51million for its opening week and 139 million worldwide. Which is pretty good

More than I was expecting really
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 20, 2022, 11:41 PM
It sounds like it wasn't a good movie, but it was a fun movie and good for fans.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 20, 2022, 11:41 PM
Uncharted made 51million for its opening week and 139 million worldwide. Which is pretty good

More than I was expecting really
It's been advertised a lot +Tom Holland is now a superstar
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 20, 2022, 11:43 PM
Gonna see it in a few days.

Also saw encanto. Was nice but too simple imo.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Feb 20, 2022, 11:52 PM
It sounds like it wasn't a good movie, but it was a fun movie and good for fans.
Yeah I've heard mixed. But really what can you expect from a treasure hunter movie.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Feb 21, 2022, 06:16 AM
Gonna see it in a few days.

Also saw encanto. Was nice but too simple imo.
My friends dragged me to see encanto... for kids I can see how they could like it. But overall it was pretty bad
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 21, 2022, 10:03 AM
My friends dragged me to see encanto... for kids I can see how they could like it. But overall it was pretty bad
I liked it. But the best part by far were the songs
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Feb 21, 2022, 01:06 PM
My friends dragged me to see encanto... for kids I can see how they could like it. But overall it was pretty bad
I agree. 

I especially hate how obvious it was.  I wasn't more then 10-15 minutes in and I called the entire dang movie.   and not just the major plot points,..  tons of minor points too.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 21, 2022, 03:01 PM
I agree.

I especially hate how obvious it was.  I wasn't more then 10-15 minutes in and I called the entire dang movie.   and not just the major plot points,..  tons of minor points too.  
The movie really wasn't subtle haha.
I liked it. But the best part by far were the songs
I'm surprised the Oscar nominated song wasn't one I even remembered.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 21, 2022, 03:25 PM
I have not seen Encanto.

Yet weirdly I like this song:



I would say I'm more interested in the facial expressions though.

I agree.

I especially hate how obvious it was.  I wasn't more then 10-15 minutes in and I called the entire dang movie.   and not just the major plot points,..  tons of minor points too.  
I know exactly what you mean.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Feb 21, 2022, 04:55 PM
the music wasn't bad,.. some better than others.   but since we are sharing youtubes then i feel the need to share this one.



for context in case it's needed,.. this came out near the peak of the omicron surge.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 21, 2022, 05:41 PM
The movie really wasn't subtle haha.I'm surprised the Oscar nominated song wasn't one I even remembered.
It's really good though on repeat listening. Not as addictive as We don't talk about Bruno, of course.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Feb 27, 2022, 02:24 AM
uncharted was pretty good.  lots of nods to the games.  fun.  I didn't hate wallburgs sully as much as I thought I would.  Holland did great with drake,..  really nailed the humor.   
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Feb 27, 2022, 10:30 AM
I might go watch it this week if my friends agree to go
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 27, 2022, 03:12 PM
Also saw uncharted and felt about the same.

Wasn't a copy of the game but respected it more than I expected. Really looking forward to what they can do with the next one.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Feb 27, 2022, 04:19 PM
Also saw uncharted and felt about the same.

Wasn't a copy of the game but respected it more than I expected. Really looking forward to what they can do with the next one.
yeah.  I was really impressed with Holland.  I still think nathon Dillion is the perfect casting but I do suppose he's old.  Holland really did great with that cocky, funny, improvisational style that I think is the Hallmark of Drake. 

I'm not going to say I hate the Chloe that was presented on the screen,.. I did like her.  ....but she didn't really match up with Chloe from the game.  I kind of feel like that mashed her up with elena a bit too much by adding the romantic undertones.  

maybe it fits with the game as when Chloe was introduced their was an untold history between them.    but I dunno,..  Chloe just had so much more of a selfish swagger in the game.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 05, 2022, 02:10 AM
Watched Encanto.

Was okay.

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>I am not disappointed with the story itself, but I was disappointed with the climax -&gt; resolution. <br><br>In the space of like 5 minutes, Abuela is like this is all your fault to this is all my fault. With no story beat in the middle. &nbsp;<br><br>It feels like a Deus ex machina, but without the machina. <br><br>It bugs me. <br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 05, 2022, 03:40 AM
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br><br>Thinking about it some more, the movie has so much BS. <br><br>Bruno gets hated by the family, for warning them about stuff. And at the end, he&#39;s the one apologizing for stuff. Like what the f? &nbsp;<br><br>The grandmother does absolutely nothing to get back in Mirabel&#39;s graces. <br><br>A lot of the characters feel like they have a lot of depth, but the movie does absolutely nothing with them. &nbsp;<br><br>Bruno has been living in the walls for 10 years and that fact is basically ignored. <br>


Feels like this movie had a lot of good potential that was squandered.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 05, 2022, 10:19 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:


Thinking about it some more, the movie has so much BS.

Bruno gets hated by the family, for warning them about stuff. And at the end, he's the one apologizing for stuff. Like what the f?  

The grandmother does absolutely nothing to get back in Mirabel's graces.

A lot of the characters feel like they have a lot of depth, but the movie does absolutely nothing with them.  

Bruno has been living in the walls for 10 years and that fact is basically ignored.


Feels like this movie had a lot of good potential that was squandered.
Feels like we need a sequel to explain all of that!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Mar 06, 2022, 01:30 AM
Spoiler for Hidden:


Thinking about it some more, the movie has so much BS.

Bruno gets hated by the family, for warning them about stuff. And at the end, he's the one apologizing for stuff. Like what the f?  

The grandmother does absolutely nothing to get back in Mirabel's graces.

A lot of the characters feel like they have a lot of depth, but the movie does absolutely nothing with them.  

Bruno has been living in the walls for 10 years and that fact is basically ignored.


Feels like this movie had a lot of good potential that was squandered.
The movie is bad honestly. The more you think about it, the more you realize how bad it is



Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Bruno is treated like shame<br><br>The grandma gives merabelle shame for not having a power, when she doesnt have a power. <br><br>Its not explained why Merabelle doesn&#39;t have a power. Yes, the story isn&#39;t about the power and they didn&#39;t want to focus on that. But its still a lingering question, and the whole story is based on that point. Not answering that question is just bad writing to me, because they couldn&#39;t come up with a good reason. <br><br>The point if the movie is to show a great family and how much they love and care about each other. But if you think about it, the relationships they have are all very fickle and they turn on each other so fast. Merabelle and her sister hate each other. Everybody hates Bruno (Heck he &quot;ran away&quot; for 10 years and nobody even went looking for him, on the contrary they banned his name in the house). Merabelle and her grandma. And there are more examples but I forgot, as I watched the movie a while ago<br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Mar 06, 2022, 01:46 PM
what amazes me the most is how much passionate discussion we've generated declaring encanto as crud. 

usually we just say a movie is bad and move on.   ...so I guess it must have done something right. 
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Mar 06, 2022, 02:39 PM
what amazes me the most is how much passionate discussion we've generated declaring encanto as crud.

usually we just say a movie is bad and move on.   ...so I guess it must have done something right.
I was dragged to it at the cinema by my friends and had to pay to watch it. I have to get my movies worth somehow... if that means I gotta shame on it then I will do so :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 06, 2022, 03:43 PM
what amazes me the most is how much passionate discussion we've generated declaring encanto as crud.

usually we just say a movie is bad and move on.   ...so I guess it must have done something right.
It was not an all around terrible movie, it had some good things going for it.  

It was a 4/10 movie that I think would have been an 8/10 movie if it did some basic conflict resolution and wasn't bizarrely poorly executed to one of it's characters for no reason.



That's why it bugs me.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Mar 06, 2022, 07:49 PM
it has 9/10 music wrapped around a 6/10 story with a 1/10 story execution.   

all in all Isabela was hot.  would watch again.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 28, 2022, 02:34 AM
Wtf just happened at the oscars.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Mar 28, 2022, 03:47 AM
Wtf just happened at the oscars.
Wut happened

Are you talking about the will Smith thing? Because Holly shame. Dont think I ever saw anything like that. Craziest thing like was Kanye coming up on stage and saying beyonce should have won. But this guy flat out baby slapped Chris Rock and told him to basically stfu about his wife.

This will be memed forever. This will be fudgy huge

Man the oscars should make this into an NFT and sell jt
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 28, 2022, 05:40 AM
Wut happened

Are you talking about the will Smith thing? Because Holly shame. Dont think I ever saw anything like that. Craziest thing like was Kanye coming up on stage and saying beyonce should have won. But this guy flat out baby slapped Chris Rock and told him to basically stfu about his wife.

This will be memed forever. This will be fudgy huge

Man the oscars should make this into an NFT and sell jt
Yeah at first I thought it was a skit. Made for a very awkward rest of the show.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Mar 28, 2022, 03:39 PM
watched the video.   honestly,.. good for will smith sticking up for his wife like that.  making fun of a disability is so classless.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: SWORDF1SH on Mar 29, 2022, 12:00 AM
And another nail in the coffin for comedy. I hate to see what 'comedy' will be like in another 10 years time. Honestly though, I worry more about the mental state of Will Smith with how his wife has dragged him through the mud. Last night was actions of a man not mentally stable and we shouldn't be supporting physical assault over a joke.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 03, 2022, 05:10 PM
I watched uncharted. Honestly its was better than the train treck I initially expected.

The dialogue was horrible at times.


But the casting was the worst part. Holland doesn't know how to be drake. And Mark clearly didn't play the games or study sullys character.

I dont know why they made sully a huge bumb, and why they made sully and drake assholes to each other. Mark just doesn't fit the role, sully is a charismatic and slick character, Mark was just annoying, has a temper, and an bumb. The casting couldn't be more wrong. If they had a proper cast, the film could have been pretty good.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Apr 10, 2022, 05:07 AM
last night in soho was excellent. 
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 20, 2022, 02:06 AM
Netflix warns password sharing crackdown is coming (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/19/netflix-warns-password-sharing-crackdown-is-coming.html)
..
Might be the thing to get me to stop subscribing.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Apr 20, 2022, 02:28 AM
Netflix warns password sharing crackdown is coming (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/19/netflix-warns-password-sharing-crackdown-is-coming.html)
..
Might be the thing to get me to stop subscribing.
why?  ..or how?

if you aren't password sharing you should be affected.  if you are password sharing you aren't subscribing...


if you didn't notice netflix is down 25% again this quarter.   netflix has shown these last 2 quarters that subscription streaming is not a profitable business model.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 20, 2022, 03:31 AM
Netflix warns password sharing crackdown is coming (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/19/netflix-warns-password-sharing-crackdown-is-coming.html)
..
Might be the thing to get me to stop subscribing.
Me too. We only pay for netflix because my sister and brother can use it. If we can't share, none of us are interested enough to pay (beyond a month or two each year when the crown releases)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 20, 2022, 04:21 AM
why?  ..or how?

if you aren't password sharing you should be affected.  if you are password sharing you aren't subscribing...
We pay for the highest option and share with my parents/siblings.

There's no real point in us having anything other than the lowest tier.  

And personally I don't really like Netflix enough to keep it. Only real reason was because other people were on it.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Apr 20, 2022, 05:15 PM
i don't get all the hate for netflix.   i have or have had every service and netflix is soooooo much better than any other option.   all this speak of netflix content sucking is soo overblown.   yeah, netflix ships a lot of bad content but they also ship a lot of amazing content.   at least they are delivering something week after week.  disney releases 1 episode at a time to hide the fact they are only delivering 3 season of content a year.   netflix ships 5x that content a week.  

netflix would probably do well to pair back their bad content a bit to better highlight their good content.   but imo it's down to marketing.   netflix doesn't do it well compared to the other services but the other services content is just as bad as anything on netflix just as often.  



..and netflix has hands down the best UiUx.   disney tried their best but it's still bad in places.   ...probably on purpose to hide how little content in on their platform.   the others are down right terrible.  peacock most have a memory leak cause that app outright crashes every hour or so for me.    that's important to me at least.   i can't stand watching amazon even for their good content with how horrible their UiUx is.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 20, 2022, 06:31 PM
Netflix UI and user friendliness is great. Its a great experience. Its just that netflix is filled with trash shows. And yes, its got its few good ones, but honestly its needs ALOT more of older movies and TV shows. Give us a huge back log of movies and shows that are good or underrated, rather then bombard us with shame content
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 20, 2022, 06:50 PM
People like different things.  

Netflix easily has the best UI. A lot of services do weird things like having each language be its own entry as an episode in a TV series. So it's super annoying to have to jump around, and it's baffling as to why more services don't have it all together.

Or I think Amazon has every season of every series TV series as its own selectable entry, making it bizarrely difficult to get to the next season of a series.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Apr 20, 2022, 06:54 PM
People like different things.  

Netflix easily has the best UI. A lot of services do weird things like having each language be its own entry as an episode in a TV series. So it's super annoying to have to jump around, and it's baffling as to why more services don't have it all together.

Or I think Amazon has every season of every series TV series as its own selectable entry, making it bizarrely difficult to get to the next season of a series.

that one!  that one right there pisses me off to high hell!

...but it clear why they do it.   amazon puts their subscription shows sprinkled between a dozen "have to pay to watch" shows.   must of the non-original content included in the subscriptions is just the first season or two and then you have to pay to watch the rest.   it's frustrating as fudge that i can't just be show things i'm allowed to watch without the need to pay more.   that makes is a trash service that deserves to die more than any other on the market.   fudge amazon.  fudge them sideways in the dog.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 20, 2022, 08:23 PM
The thing about amazon prime video is part if amazon prime the delivery sub, so if you just want to sub to prime because you use amazon enough, then prime video being there as a bonus is nice.

Otherwise its not really worth the 10$ monthly, not at all.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 20, 2022, 11:23 PM
Netflix Animation Erased: Executives Fired, Shows Canceled and Accusations of 'Staged Data' (Exclusive) (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/netflix-animation-erased-executives-fired-220251819.html)

Yikes.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 22, 2022, 05:26 PM
I got the newest Spiderman movie and an anime movie that I'm pretty sure is going to make me cry.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 23, 2022, 05:38 AM
I got the newest Spiderman movie and an anime movie that I'm pretty sure is going to make me cry.
I watched spiderman a few days ago. Not sure how it'll hold up for future viewings, but it was great just being first time through.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 24, 2022, 02:41 AM
Venom 2 is actually pretty good. Big upgrade over the first.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Apr 24, 2022, 07:15 AM
Venom 2 is actually pretty good. Big upgrade over the first.
Huge downgrade. The story was shiiiiiiiiiiiit
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 26, 2022, 04:55 AM
Super Mario Bros. Movie Delayed to 2023 - Variety (https://variety.com/2022/film/news/super-mario-bros-movie-delay-1235240605/)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on May 04, 2022, 08:36 PM
Finally watched Uncharted.  I really liked it.   Mark as sully i'm still a little ehhhh on, but i love tom holland as Nate.  The chloe actress is pretty good too.  I think its great that they remixed the games.  I've played the games I don't need to see a full on remake of them.  But the humor and banter was perfectly uncharted, imo.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 07, 2022, 09:57 PM
Dr. Strange was meh. Multiverse stuff was fun once in spiderman, but they're making Avengers look like a small self contained story.

Avatar trailer was also meh. Just a few random shots that didn't show much. Feel like I missed a few details though.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on May 07, 2022, 11:07 PM
Dr. Strange was meh. Multiverse stuff was fun once in spiderman, but they're making Avengers look like a small self contained story.

Avatar trailer was also meh. Just a few random shots that didn't show much. Feel like I missed a few details though.
Disappointing about the trailer. After all this time you'd think the first teaser for it would be straight mind blowing
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 08, 2022, 02:38 AM
Disappointing about the trailer. After all this time you'd think the first teaser for it would be straight mind blowing
I think I was spoiled by the avatar game trailer, which has a pretty similar setup. That gave me "wow Pandora is back" feelings while the movie trailer was more like "yes avatar is back, but what makes this one different?" TBF it has a lot of different details which are pretty intriguing the more I think about them, but there's no immediate shock.

Also the graphics just felt regular, but that's pretty hard to judge without a higher quality screen. Supposedly the movie was filmed at 60fps not 24fps.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 09, 2022, 05:06 PM


Not even 4k :(
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on May 09, 2022, 05:42 PM
Seeing them side by side you can tell the difference in quality.  A2 looks pretty dang good.  Also i am so frickin sad that James Horner passed and won't be doing this.  But i already really like the updated theme in the trailer at least.  The Avatar soundtrack is one of my absolute favorites ever.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on May 12, 2022, 07:34 PM
People like different things.  
A lot of services do weird things like having each language be its own entry as an episode in a TV series.

Crunchyroll does that and it's so frustrating.  It's even worse with their new UI.

I got the newest Spiderman movie and an anime movie that I'm pretty sure is going to make me cry.
Don't watch Grave of the Fireflies!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 12, 2022, 07:51 PM
Don't watch Grave of the Fireflies!
:P

Was watching Josee, the Tiger and the fish. Was pretty good, did not make me cry.  

I have seen Grave of the Fireflies.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on May 13, 2022, 12:30 AM
:P

Was watching Josee, the Tiger and the fish. Was pretty good, did not make me cry.  

I have seen Grave of the Fireflies.
D:
Are you okay?  You didn't get scarred did you?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 13, 2022, 12:39 AM
D:
Are you okay?  You didn't get scarred did you?
It was like 4 years ago.
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Post by: darkknightkryta on May 16, 2022, 03:07 PM
It was like 4 years ago.
Scars can last 4 years :(
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 25, 2022, 01:12 AM


Well this came out of nowhere
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 27, 2022, 10:42 PM
Dreamworks isn't as good as Disney, but they have a few high spots that I prefer over 80% of what Disney makes.

I really like Kung Fu Panda.
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Post by: Legend on Jun 27, 2022, 11:07 PM
Dreamworks isn't as good as Disney, but they have a few high spots that I prefer over 80% of what Disney makes.

I really like Kung Fu Panda.

When was the last time they made something great? They've always been all over the place but I feel like they've gotten worse.

Feels like Illumination has replaced them as the #2 behind Disney/Pixar. Minions Rise of gru was better than I expected.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 27, 2022, 11:21 PM
When was the last time they made something great? They've always been all over the place but I feel like they've gotten worse.

Feels like Illumination has replaced them as the #2 behind Disney/Pixar. Minions Rise of gru was better than I expected.
Depends on what you consider great. I think Dragons 3 was pretty good, that was not that long ago.  
Though I think they have a big issue that it's been a long time since they made anything new that was great.

Illumination is way more consistent for sure though.  Even Sing 2 I thought was pretty decent.
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Jun 29, 2022, 02:10 PM


Well this came out of nowhere
I still remember Ryan Gosling on that Canadian show Breaker High.  Then he went and did Young Hercules.  How far he's come.

Depends on what you consider great. I think Dragons 3 was pretty good, that was not that long ago.  
Though I think they have a big issue that it's been a long time since they made anything new that was great.

Illumination is way more consistent for sure though.  Even Sing 2 I thought was pretty decent.
Did you ever watch that How to Train your Dragon t.v. show?  I used to watch it with my niece when she still lived with us.  Did they ever finish the story?
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Post by: Legend on Jul 11, 2022, 04:04 AM
Thought top gun was great. Mutch better than the original imo.
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Post by: Legend on Jul 23, 2022, 04:29 AM
Saw Nope. Loved many things about it. Pretty smart and original but not amazing imo.
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Post by: Legend on Aug 13, 2022, 05:38 AM
Saw lightyear. Fun for young kids but not at all as clever as most pixar movies imo.

Can't believe they did that to zurg.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 19, 2022, 11:59 PM
Saw lightyear. Fun for young kids but not at all as clever as most pixar movies imo.

Can't believe they did that to zurg.
Agreed. Pretty disappointing
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Post by: kitler53 on Aug 21, 2022, 12:12 AM
watching vivo.  quite good. 
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 21, 2022, 12:40 AM
watching vivo.  quite good.
I feel like Sony Pictures Animation is on a hot streak to some extent.

The Mitchells vs the machines was amazing. Spider verse is great.
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Post by: kitler53 on Aug 21, 2022, 01:12 AM
I feel like Sony Pictures Animation is on a hot streak to some extent.

The Mitchells vs the machines was amazing. Spider verse is great.
agreed that each are great.  not really sure what else they've worked on though.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 06, 2022, 11:47 PM
My kids have watched Monster's Inc about 40 times. It's a pretty good movie.

There are a few lines that kind of stand out to me.

"Rule number 1 out here, always.... never go out in a blizzard"

It's kind of odd, like it feels like it's a reference to something, but I don't see anyone talking about it. It's a little odd, because I feel like movies don't usually intentionally have mistakes like that, unless they're for humor or for some other reason. Like accidentally revealing something or causing confusion. But this line doesn't do any of that.
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Post by: BananaKing on Sep 07, 2022, 12:21 AM
My kids have watched Monster's Inc about 40 times. It's a pretty good movie.

There are a few lines that kind of stand out to me.

"Rule number 1 out here, always.... never go out in a blizzard"

It's kind of odd, like it feels like it's a reference to something, but I don't see anyone talking about it. It's a little odd, because I feel like movies don't usually intentionally have mistakes like that, unless they're for humor or for some other reason. Like accidentally revealing something or causing confusion. But this line doesn't do any of that.
I think that's just part of the sense of humor. I dont remember the scene tbh but sounds like the type of jokes early on pixar would put here and there
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 31, 2022, 04:08 PM
Been trying to watch Belle, it's an anime movie.

A lot of Mamoru Hosoda's movies are like really good, but there's usually something that bothers me.

But I swear this one has some of the worst writing I've ever seen.

Like an example here

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br><br>They&#39;re trying to set up this side character as being someone who everyone else aspires to be.<br><br>They set it up by having these other side characters talk about her in the background, with some weird statements. <br>&quot;Her legs are so long. She could be a model. She&#39;s like the sun, everything revolves around her.&quot;<br>&quot;So true&quot;<br>*giggles*<br><br>


I'm just baffled.
It has really good reviews:
Belle - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/belle_2022)

And I'm like did we watch the same thing? His other movies are so much better.
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Post by: nnodley on Nov 02, 2022, 02:14 PM


Good lord the underwater sequences look like they are going to be insane.  Annoying the trailer doesn't have 4k on youtube

Also i was worried with James Horner's death that the music wouldn't feel the same, but dang both trailers so far the soundtrack sounds amazing.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 02, 2022, 02:39 PM


Good lord the underwater sequences look like they are going to be insane.  Annoying the trailer doesn't have 4k on youtube

Also i was worried with James Horner's death that the music wouldn't feel the same, but dang both trailers so far the soundtrack sounds amazing.
Looks stunning! I just hope the movie is good
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Post by: Legend on Nov 02, 2022, 03:00 PM
I think I'll skip it. Already feeling the hype and know a bit too much from scoops over the past decade.

Will be forced to see it on tv/at theaters though :P
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Post by: nnodley on Nov 02, 2022, 03:05 PM
One part in the trailer with one of Jake's kids that i'm assuming is gonna be part of the story, but i won't say anything.  Im just guessing but seems likely
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 22, 2022, 09:04 PM
Two scenes from The Mitchells vs the Machines

Spoiler for Hidden:
<div style="text-align:center;margin:auto;padding:5px;max-width:560px;"><div style="position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;padding-top:0px;height:0;overflow:hidden;" class="youtube MFBn--FhKlg"> <iframe style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MFBn--FhKlg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div></div><br><br><div style="text-align:center;margin:auto;padding:5px;max-width:560px;"><div style="position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;padding-top:0px;height:0;overflow:hidden;" class="youtube gL8Ln6t0PXE"> <iframe style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gL8Ln6t0PXE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div></div>


They hit me so hard every single time.
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Post by: Legend on Nov 22, 2022, 09:37 PM
Two scenes from The Mitchells vs the Machines

Spoiler for Hidden:




They hit me so hard every single time.

Pretty good movie. First vid got me too.
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Post by: Legend on Dec 03, 2022, 09:10 PM
Bought tickets for avatar. It's going to have a huge opening, my theater is already selling out.
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Post by: kitler53 on Dec 03, 2022, 11:11 PM
but it looks Soo bad.  my extended family was all making fun of it at Thanksgiving. 
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Post by: Legend on Dec 04, 2022, 12:18 AM
but it looks Soo bad.  my extended family was all making fun of it at Thanksgiving.
I've been trying to avoid trailers and what not, but yeah I have no idea if I'll like it beyond the world building.
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Post by: nnodley on Dec 04, 2022, 02:36 AM
People underestimate how many people actually like Avatar and how much hype this one really has. It's going to be huge barring it just really is terrible but I highly doubt it. It looks great.
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Post by: nnodley on Dec 07, 2022, 03:32 PM
Seems initial impressions of Way of Water are all really good
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Post by: Legend on Dec 07, 2022, 04:12 PM
Seems initial impressions of Way of Water are all really good
I'm entering the movie with zero expectations. I really don't want to be burned by 10 years of hype.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 08, 2022, 01:18 AM
  Avatar: The Way of Water First Reactions: We Never Should Have Doubted James Cameron  (https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/avatar-the-way-of-water-first-reactions-we-never-should-have-doubted-james-cameron/)

Yeah really positive reactions!
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 08, 2022, 01:58 AM
Pezus this isn't the programming thread.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 08, 2022, 09:22 PM


When Cameron sent out the story for each movie, he got 3 pages of notes on Avatar 2, 1 page of notes on Avatar 3, and for Avatar 4, all he got was an email saying 'Holy fudge"
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Post by: nnodley on Dec 08, 2022, 10:01 PM
They all upload themselves into Eywa. BAM the end.  8)
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Post by: Legend on Dec 08, 2022, 10:04 PM
They all upload themselves into Eywa. BAM the end.  8)
Then we can have another quadlogy like the matrix.



When Cameron sent out the story for each movie, he got 3 pages of notes on Avatar 2, 1 page of notes on Avatar 3, and for Avatar 4, all he got was an email saying 'Holy fudge"
Aw yeah, get hyped for 2052.
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Post by: nnodley on Dec 08, 2022, 10:14 PM
well aren't all the sequels tentatively scheduled for every 2 years?  But i have my doubts they will stay like that.
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Post by: nnodley on Dec 13, 2022, 06:11 PM
avatar the way of water sitting at 84% on rotten tomatoes
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Post by: Legend on Dec 13, 2022, 06:17 PM
avatar the way of water sitting at 84% on rotten tomatoes
I'll be back on Friday to read them!

Also the first Avatar was on tv the other day so I ended up watching it. Was low resolution live tv but it still looked pretty good. Wonder if in a week it'll look like trash lol.
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Post by: nnodley on Dec 13, 2022, 06:18 PM
i'm gonna go see it hopefully in imax after the first of the year.
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Post by: Legend on Dec 13, 2022, 06:36 PM
Now that reviews are out, maybe it's time to predict the box office?

Will it be the first movie to $3 billion? I think it's possible but unlikely. I think a cool ~$2 billion world wide is more reasonable. Not as much money as the first, but still one of the biggest movies of all time. I think it'll have a much bigger opening than the first but worse legs. Covid might help with legs ala Topgun 2, but the Avatar 2 won't be as revolutionary as Avatar 1.

i'm gonna go see it hopefully in imax after the first of the year.
I might need to see it again in imax. I'm seeing it in dolby which some people say is better, but I have pretty fond memories seeing the first in Imax.
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Post by: kitler53 on Dec 13, 2022, 06:50 PM
all i'll say is:

i saw avatar in the theatre twice.  i will not see sequel until it is out on blu-ray free at the library.  



i think you overestimate greatly how much people liked the movie versus liking the novelty of 3D.   
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 13, 2022, 07:17 PM
Wasn't thinking I would watch Avatar 2, but apparently wifey is thrilled about it coming out and wants us to see it.
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Post by: BananaKing on Dec 13, 2022, 09:17 PM
1.7 billion worldwide if it doesn't release in China.

1.95-2 billion if it releases in china
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Post by: Legend on Dec 16, 2022, 04:01 PM
I'm getting hyped! 3 hours till I see it. Avoiding all news at this point.

Hopefully I love it but I really don't know what to expect. Aliens for example is far worse than Alien imo.
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Post by: Legend on Dec 16, 2022, 10:42 PM
Raw thoughts, just got out. Liked it a lot. Slower than first, a bit worse overall imo.
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Post by: Legend on Dec 17, 2022, 02:42 AM
Some quick yet longer thoughts.

The high framerate and graphics were sometimes incredible. It was unlike anything you've ever experienced in a theater. Reminded me a lot of the ride at Disney World.

Other times however it ranged from meh to atrocious. I don't know if there was a glitch or if my brain got too used to 48fps, but the framerate on a few shots near the end felt very low and was literally painful to watch. Was nauseating for the ~10 minutes of the movie that had those poor shots. Other times the cgi just looked bad. Still better than Marvel, but not by much.

Underwater sections were incredible. They were pretty boring story wise but tended to be a visual treat. Overall, I preferred the jungle.

Weirdest thing imo was just how much it copied the first movie. Many scenes are nearly identical yet they apply to different characters in different environments. It goes far beyond being nostalgic and is just kinda strange. Didn't bother me since I know there's at least one more movie to come, but I'd be really bummed if this was all fans would ever get.

Loved most of the beginning. It started so incredibly strong imo and then got more average. Pretty funny that most of the things people complained about in the first one are worse in the second, such as acting and plot. If the middle was shorter I'd definitely go see it again in theaters but as is I probably wont.
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Post by: kitler53 on Dec 17, 2022, 04:58 AM
that pretty well sums up why I have no desire to watch this. 
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Post by: Legend on Dec 17, 2022, 05:16 AM
that pretty well sums up why I have no desire to watch this.
Maybe you should. I seem to be an outlier. There's one subtitle most people including me laughed at, but my other issues are less common.

I think a director's cut that's also 48 fps the whole time could be a 10/10.



I'm looking forward to seeing it again.
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Post by: kitler53 on Dec 17, 2022, 02:17 PM
Maybe you should. I seem to be an outlier. There's one subtitle most people including me laughed at, but my other issues are less common.

I think a director's cut that's also 48 fps the whole time could be a 10/10.



I'm looking forward to seeing it again.
no, your summary is more fundamental to why I don't care.  in a line:

visual feast, bad acting plot. 



not interested. 
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Post by: Legend on Dec 17, 2022, 04:37 PM
no, your summary is more fundamental to why I don't care.  in a line:

visual feast, bad acting plot.



not interested.
Other people disagree and like the plot + acting. I seem to be the outlier.

Entire theaters are crying at parts that didn't even phase me lol.

Major spoiler but since you won't see the movie:
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>A major character dies in the movie. Some people who trashed the movie as a whole still teared up at this scene.<br><br>Not me! I was focused on other things lol.<br>


I'd recommend not seeing it in HFR though. Filming some shots at 48 fps and others at 24 fps was a baffling decision. I'm seeing that sentiment a lot so I have no idea how they didn't catch this in test screenings. They really need to render more frames or use AI interpolation to make everything a consistent 48 fps.

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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 17, 2022, 07:28 PM
Why did they only have 48fps in some scenes?
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Post by: Legend on Dec 17, 2022, 09:01 PM
Why did they only have 48fps in some scenes?
Cameron claims 24 fps looks more cinematic: Avatar: The Way of Water frame rate explained - why do some scenes look so smooth? | GamesRadar+ (https://www.gamesradar.com/avatar-the-way-of-water-smooth-frame-rate/)

The 24 fps moments that made me feel sick were in fast action moments though, so I think their public reasoning is bs.


EDT: After rewatching trailers, I think it's far more complicated.

24 fps isn't inherently a problem. The lack of motion blur is the problem. Some shots, and some elements within shots, have way too little motion blur.

This is a shot from a new trailer, where I chopped it up a bit to show the problem in action.

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>(https://i.imgur.com/rPpMN1g.png)<br>


The boats in the foreground have less blur than the ship in the background, yet they are copied in from a frame that actually should have made them ~50% blurrier than the ship. I measured pixels and all that.

Youtube compression definitely complicates things, but these boats were the major thing that made me feel sick. You can watch the trailers and find lots of shots that have this weird stop motion/low framerate feeling, and those are the exact shots that were nauseating in the theater, so it's not an issue with 24 fps or 48 fps directly.
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Post by: Legend on Dec 18, 2022, 01:54 AM
In non avatar news, the trailer for 65 was pretty great in theaters having no clue what it was. Should be called 66 though.

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Post by: BananaKing on Dec 21, 2022, 09:37 PM
I saw it. Visually its fantastic.

The 3d is also great. Its not about having things "pop" in your face, but it gives the scenes proper depth

Story is good, writing is good, acting is good.

Overall it was a good movie and an enjoyable one. But very very long.
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Post by: nnodley on Dec 26, 2022, 01:22 AM
Way of water looks to pass 900 million Monday or Tuesday. Pretty crazy it's gonna pass multiverse of madness' full run in 2 weeks or less

Not sure it will hit 2 billion but I'd say it will easily pass 1.5 billion

Hoping to go see it in imax this week or next
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Post by: Legend on Dec 27, 2022, 01:47 AM
Way of water looks to pass 900 million Monday or Tuesday. Pretty crazy it's gonna pass multiverse of madness' full run in 2 weeks or less

Not sure it will hit 2 billion but I'd say it will easily pass 1.5 billion

Hoping to go see it in imax this week or next
I'm pretty happy with my ~$2 billion prediction before release. I just meant it as a general "closer to 2 than 1 or 3" but it might end up really close to it.

Online discussions have been eerily similar to the ones in 2009. Back then Avatar 1 opened below expectations, had a massive storm that kept everyone home, and couldn't compete with the previous film's success. Like isn't this a fun quote from 2009?: The movie will need to demonstrate supernatural hold on audiences in the coming weeks to avoid becoming a financial calamity for Fox and its financing partners (https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/movies/21box.html)

Also I forgot how much I paid back then. I saw Avatar 1 at 3:25 PM on opening day for $15.00 in IMAX. My premium ticket for Avatar 2 was "just" $17.39.
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Post by: nnodley on Dec 27, 2022, 02:58 AM
Yeah I think it's definitely getting pretty close to 2 billion. I'd imagine the 1 billion it's about to hit will be enough to break even. No way it needs 2 billion just ti break even.  Pretty sure that was taken way out of context when he said that
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Post by: Legend on Dec 27, 2022, 06:58 AM
Yeah I think it's definitely getting pretty close to 2 billion. I'd imagine the 1 billion it's about to hit will be enough to break even. No way it needs 2 billion just ti break even.  Pretty sure that was taken way out of context when he said that
Sure seems like it'll make enough to greenlight 4 and 5.

I wanna see more worldbuilding! Haha I even got the way of water art book for Christmas.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 27, 2022, 10:34 PM


I haven't been following very closely. Not sure if different release periods are making a big difference.

All I know for sure is that people were pretty sure that it would not hit the top 5, when it was coming out.
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Post by: kitler53 on Dec 27, 2022, 11:32 PM
the original was pretty throttled by a limited number of theatres technically capable of showing it. 

and movie tickets are like 2x the price as they were back then.  

gratz I guess but this is no where near the social impact as the original and I highly doubt this will have the legs of the original which was still in theatres a year after release.  

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Post by: nnodley on Dec 27, 2022, 11:48 PM
Last 2 days of box office have been adjusted up like 8 million each day than what estimates were. This week will be bigger than a normal week as well as New Year's Eve and new years as people are off and kids are still on winter break till next week

Guarantee between way of water and avatar 3 they are gonna be getting near 4 billion easily. Unless 3 is just garbage. 4 and 5 are where avatar fatigue could come in.   I personally think there should be a bigger gap between 3 and 4
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Post by: Legend on Dec 28, 2022, 12:57 AM


I haven't been following very closely. Not sure if different release periods are making a big difference.

All I know for sure is that people were pretty sure that it would not hit the top 5, when it was coming out.
Yay! It released on the same weekend as Avatar 1 so it's pretty much identical.
the original was pretty throttled by a limited number of theatres technically capable of showing it.

and movie tickets are like 2x the price as they were back then.  

gratz I guess but this is no where near the social impact as the original and I highly doubt this will have the legs of the original which was still in theatres a year after release.  
But the first didn't have any cultural impact  :P


Last 2 days of box office have been adjusted up like 8 million each day than what estimates were. This week will be bigger than a normal week as well as New Year's Eve and new years as people are off and kids are still on winter break till next week

Guarantee between way of water and avatar 3 they are gonna be getting near 4 billion easily. Unless 3 is just garbage. 4 and 5 are where avatar fatigue could come in.   I personally think there should be a bigger gap between 3 and 4
I think it really depends on the story of 3, 4, and 5. 2 is very similar to 1 and if all of them are like that, the fatigue will be massive.
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Post by: Legend on Dec 28, 2022, 08:54 PM
I figured it was time to finally update my avatar  8)
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Post by: nnodley on Dec 30, 2022, 05:02 AM
1.1 billion today. Adding around 70million a day right now. And with it being a weekend again with people off or taking off it's likely to hit near 1.4 billion by January 2nd or 3rd I bet. Which is pretty good. Only movies in the past 5 years to rake in money this fast has been no way home, endgame and infinity war

Feels like 2 billion might be a given. If not at least 1.9 billion. Should be plenty to green light 4 and 5
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Post by: Legend on Dec 30, 2022, 09:17 PM
1.1 billion today. Adding around 70million a day right now. And with it being a weekend again with people off or taking off it's likely to hit near 1.4 billion by January 2nd or 3rd I bet. Which is pretty good. Only movies in the past 5 years to rake in money this fast has been no way home, endgame and infinity war

Feels like 2 billion might be a given. If not at least 1.9 billion. Should be plenty to green light 4 and 5
I don't want to celebrate too early since things could drop really quickly in January, but it's amazing how well it's doing. Was so funny just over a week ago when $1.4 billion felt optimistic.

Wonder how the Ubisoft game will do. It feels very "dated" now that I've seen Avatar 2. Without characters or locations from the new film, will people be as interested?
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Post by: BananaKing on Dec 30, 2022, 09:52 PM
I don't want to celebrate too early since things could drop really quickly in January, but it's amazing how well it's doing. Was so funny just over a week ago when $1.4 billion felt optimistic.

Wonder how the Ubisoft game will do. It feels very "dated" now that I've seen Avatar 2. Without characters or locations from the new film, will people be as interested?
I think locations from the second can be added as DLC and expansions, which would sell a lot.

I think this success will only help the game. And the game if its good will help the movies. Smart business so far if you ask me
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Post by: Legend on Dec 30, 2022, 10:02 PM
I think locations from the second can be added as DLC and expansions, which would sell a lot.

I think this success will only help the game. And the game if its good will help the movies. Smart business so far if you ask me
Yeah it's not like the success will hurt the game lol.

Just at least for me, this trailer feels a lot more bland now. Hopefully the game is holding a lot back.

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Post by: BananaKing on Dec 30, 2022, 10:09 PM
Yeah it's not like the success will hurt the game lol.

Just at least for me, this trailer feels a lot more bland now. Hopefully the game is holding a lot back.


Did they confirm that there will be no water locations from the second movie?

Either way, it might just be better as DLC. My concern from this game is its design and story. Are they just gonna make a farcry and assassins Creed rip off, or will there be a more interesting open world design
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 31, 2022, 04:25 AM
I don't remember if I mentioned this.

Watched Frozen with my son, he wanted to watch it for some reason. I felt like it was a much better movie than I remembered. I don't think I liked it at all the first time, but it was totally fine I thought.





On a different note, does Avatar 1 look kind of off in a few scenes?

Most of the scenes I think still look great. But there are a couple of scenes that look kind of gamey, or something.  
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Post by: Legend on Dec 31, 2022, 05:01 AM
I don't remember if I mentioned this.

Watched Frozen with my son, he wanted to watch it for some reason. I felt like it was a much better movie than I remembered. I don't think I liked it at all the first time, but it was totally fine I thought.
I liked it a fair amount back then. Nothing amazing, but just a well made movie.


On a different note, does Avatar 1 look kind of off in a few scenes?

Most of the scenes I think still look great. But there are a couple of scenes that look kind of gamey, or something.  
I remember different scenes looking better or worse than others. Like the scene when he's first getting on the direhorse is kinda bad.

Now that graphics are my job, I wonder why that is. I assumed they spent more time/money on different shots or used different teams, but would that really affect the lighting that much?

I think I'll rewatch it in 3D ahead of seeing Avatar 2 again next week.
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Post by: Legend on Dec 31, 2022, 04:28 PM
Wow $24.4 million domestic yesterday. It keeps doing better than expected.

Still such a large domestic range. Maybe it reaches #1 all time, maybe it doesn't crack top 10.  We need one more week of data to know imo.

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Post by: kitler53 on Dec 31, 2022, 04:49 PM
frozen 1 had a fantastic soundtrack but a rushed and kind of bad story that felt like someone wrote then ending first and then tried to figure out how to get there as an afterthought. 

frozen 2 was a much better story but the music just wasn't as good. 
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Post by: nnodley on Dec 31, 2022, 05:45 PM
Wow $24.4 million domestic yesterday. It keeps doing better than expected.

Still such a large domestic range. Maybe it reaches #1 all time, maybe it doesn't crack top 10.  We need one more week of data to know imo.


Yeah and it's definitely gonna do way better than Christmas Eve and Christmas Day domestic too. It's gonna have some decent legs I think. But just to think James Cameron may have 3 of the top 5 or 6 grossing movies of all time. Which is insane

I hope it continues to have great legs. I love the world building. May be more of an average story but dang the world is fantastic
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Post by: nnodley on Jan 01, 2023, 08:42 PM
Box office mojo has it at 1.397billion. That's including an 18 million Monday estimate

Passing top gun midweek or by weekend to be top grossing moving of 2022 in 3 weeks
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 01, 2023, 10:35 PM
My brother hadn't seen it so I watched it again, this time in IMAX. I think dolby was slightly better image quality, although I didn't have any issues with framerate/motion blur in Imax.

Combined with a rewatch of the first last night, I've changed my mind and now like #2 more. It does so many smart things that I didn't fully appreciate on my first viewing.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 02, 2023, 05:25 PM
Avatar 2 is growing not shrinking. Made 5% more this weekend vs last. Has never happened to a movie so large before.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 02, 2023, 06:16 PM
its definitely got really good buzz.  The vast majority are enjoying it.  It does also help theres not much else noteworthy to watch, but still crazy 2 billion seems to be locked now. Crazy
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 02, 2023, 07:05 PM
its definitely got really good buzz.  The vast majority are enjoying it.  It does also help theres not much else noteworthy to watch, but still crazy 2 billion seems to be locked now. Crazy
The deep freeze also really impacted last week, but it's still fun to see.

Worldwide I'm getting really hopeful that it'll beat Titanic. With Avatar 2, Top Gun 2, and Spiderman No Way Home, I think it's safe to say the pandemic has shifted audiences but mega blockbusters are fully viable again.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 02, 2023, 07:17 PM
The deep freeze also really impacted last week, but it's still fun to see.

Worldwide I'm getting really hopeful that it'll beat Titanic. With Avatar 2, Top Gun 2, and Spiderman No Way Home, I think it's safe to say the pandemic has shifted audiences but mega blockbusters are fully viable again.
thats true, but i'm still really surprised christmas weekend was as high as it was with that.

Yeah i expect it to get pretty close.  Unless it just drops like a rock, but i don't see that happening.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 02, 2023, 10:32 PM
Officially over 1.4 billion on BOM.  They adjusted the Monday estimate up roughly 1 million
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 03, 2023, 10:32 PM
Monday estimate was turned official at 21 million.  So added 2 million more to monday.  1.443 billion now.  Ive never been this excited about box office before, but i just want him to be able to do all the sequels and hopefully get more unique stories.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Jan 03, 2023, 11:46 PM
I hope avatar's box office is like Tesla's stock,.. falling.  crashing.  


...feels good to neg both at the same time. 
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jan 04, 2023, 12:17 AM
Monday estimate was turned official at 21 million.  So added 2 million more to monday.  1.443 billion now.  Ive never been this excited about box office before, but i just want him to be able to do all the sequels and hopefully get more unique stories.
Yeah I want to see his 5 movie vision come to fruition as well.
Im not a big avatar buff, in fact I only watched the first movie just one time, and after seeing the second I feel like ill probably never watch it again. But they are fun movies, and id love to see his ending for the saga and what he will do

A 5 movie sci fi saga sounds super interesting. But thats the point though, I want it to conclude and finish at 5
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 04, 2023, 12:35 AM
Yeah personally i feel it has some of the best sci-fi alien world building there is and not seeing his complete vision would be very uninteresting.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 04, 2023, 05:34 AM
I hope avatar's box office is like Tesla's stock,.. falling.  crashing.  


...feels good to neg both at the same time.
You'll have to settle for just one of those.

Early Tuesday numbers show that Avatar 2 has legs past the holiday. It has already been a success, but now it has a shot at doing a victory lap. Predictions from experts are being blown out of the water.

Monday estimate was turned official at 21 million.  So added 2 million more to monday.  1.443 billion now.  Ive never been this excited about box office before, but i just want him to be able to do all the sequels and hopefully get more unique stories.
I was like this for Avatar 1. I don't remember the forum, but it was a blast as every number came in. I'd use my graphing calculator to make my own predictions.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jan 04, 2023, 06:35 AM
So based on projections, where do we think it will end?

1.8 billion? 2? 2.4?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 04, 2023, 07:20 AM
So based on projections, where do we think it will end?

1.8 billion? 2? 2.4?
$2.1 billion is my prediction, but I'm making a lowball prediction so I can be excited when it does better.

$2.5+ billion is pretty unlikely yet still possible. That'd be my optimistic prediction.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 04, 2023, 02:27 PM
I'm thinking it will maybe just scratch Titanic's number so around 2.2 billion
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 05, 2023, 05:12 AM
I need to learn how they mixed humans with cgi so perfectly. Most movies just go 100% cgi to avoid this, like the first film.

Also I don't understand why so many people think the water is real. How the heck would that be cheaper when you still need a cgi blue person in it?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 06, 2023, 07:56 AM
Avatar: The Way Of Water Tops $1.5B Global, Now 10th Biggest Film Ever - Deadline (https://deadline.com/2023/01/avatar-the-way-of-water-box-office-beats-top-gun-maverick-best-of-2022-1235211240/)

But actually it's now #9.

(https://preview.redd.it/sg6s2jscjbaa1.png?width=1904&format=png&auto=webp&s=8a81ea4307fc32ce296db960a085239298d815e2)

Spoiler for Large GIF:
(https://i.redd.it/2y0xsm2ltbaa1.gif)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 06, 2023, 02:10 PM
People really like avatar
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 06, 2023, 02:37 PM
People really like avatar
Yuuup. This notion that no one likes the franchise and that it was a novelty because of the tech and 3d being so revolutionizing on its first release was such asinine battleship, that a very loud vocal minority spouts online.  These are movies that the general population really like to see. And that can be seen in Way of Water's box office in just 3 weeks.  

The only movies that have even done this well this fast is infinity war, endgame and no way home.

I believe its going to be sitting right under titanic at the end of its run.  Which if it actually does, james cameron having 3 of the top 4 grossing movies of all time is insane and no one should ever doubt cameron again.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jan 07, 2023, 12:40 AM
I watched it Monday.  It was okay.  It was a generic family movie with good visuals ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 07, 2023, 12:52 AM
Also I don't understand why so many people think the water is real. How the heck would that be cheaper when you still need a cgi blue person in it?
I have no idea about the movie. So maybe we are talking about different things, or maybe this article is misleading.

But I thought they made a big deal about actually shooting scenes underwater. There's tons of articles about it.

Quote
The key to it was to actually shoot underwater and at the surface of the water so people were swimming properly, getting out of the water properly, diving in properly," Cameron said ahead of the film's release. "It looks real because the motion was real. And the emotion was real."
Sauce1 (https://www.newsweek.com/avatar-way-water-cast-filming-scenes-underwater-1767298)

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 07, 2023, 01:32 AM
I have no idea about the movie. So maybe we are talking about different things, or maybe this article is misleading.

But I thought they made a big deal about actually shooting scenes underwater. There's tons of articles about it.


Sauce1 (https://www.newsweek.com/avatar-way-water-cast-filming-scenes-underwater-1767298)


They shoot motion capture underwater. It looks like the pic in your link:
(https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/2165149/avatar-way-water.webp?w=790&f=4a3de9d933081770a18fb9ee7211a280)

Yet people think this shot from the trailer was not cgi because it looks too good:
(https://solaceincinemas.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/avatar-way-of-the-water.jpg)

Here's one of many articles confused about it: This non-CGI 4 second shot in Avatar: The Way of Water cost $4 million - Solace in Cinemas (https://solaceincinemas.com/non-cgi-shot-avatar-the-way-of-water-cost/)

They made tons of real props for the movie including a mount for the actor of this scene, but it'd be so so so so so much harder to blend the real prop and real water with the cgi vs just replacing it all with cgi.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 08, 2023, 11:44 PM
1.708 billion after this weekend. 2 billion is definitely locked I think. It had a better Saturday from estimates than New Year's Eve.

45 million weekend down from 63.4 last week. Gonna have good legs

I'm just happy we will get the full 5 movies now
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 13, 2023, 11:56 PM
Going to see avatar in Dolby cinema. Not 3d though. I asked one of my friends who lives right beside it if he wants to go see it but looks like I'm just watching myself. Oh well
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 14, 2023, 09:40 PM
All I can say is WOW for avatar. Yeah it's a pretty similar story to the first but holy crud the cgi is in a league of its own. I ended up changing to a 3d showing. Glad I did cause the depth it gave the image was amazing
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Jan 14, 2023, 09:53 PM
sorry to hear you were so disappointed by it.  ...hate to say I told ya so.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 15, 2023, 06:39 PM
Now sitting at 1.9 billion based on estimates through Monday on BOM. Crazy. I wasn't expecting it to hit 1.9 till next weekend. 2 billion now probably gonna be hit end of next weekend and titanic seems to maybe be in reach
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 20, 2023, 12:16 AM
Now passed No Way Home to be 6th of all time. Might pass infinity war force awakens by end of next weekend or so. Then it's on to passing titanic but that still may not happen. Might get close
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 20, 2023, 01:38 AM
Now passed No Way Home to be 6th of all time. Might pass infinity war force awakens by end of next weekend or so. Then it's on to passing titanic but that still may not happen. Might get close
Titanic goes back in Imax next month. Will be very close.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 20, 2023, 02:29 AM
Titanic goes back in Imax next month. Will be very close.
Yeah I'm curious how much the titanic release will pull in next month. It might be a good nostalgia pull for people but who knows. It's probably gonna keep titanic above way of water but James Cameron wins all around

I'm tempted to go watch the re-release since I never saw it in theaters since I was like 5 or 6 when it first came out. And the last re-releases I never checked out
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 22, 2023, 06:20 PM


Massive milestone. Becomes the 6th movie in history to reach $2 billion.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 22, 2023, 09:17 PM
Crazy and that's three 2 billion movies for Cameron.  Gonna pass infinity war and force awakens for sure after next weekend
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 25, 2023, 11:42 PM
Looks like WoW is gonna pass infinity war in a day or 2
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 26, 2023, 01:03 AM
Looks like WoW is gonna pass infinity war in a day or 2
Lol world of warcraft with a shocking upset.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 27, 2023, 12:09 AM
Looks like WoW is gonna pass infinity war in a day or 2
Avatar 2 Passes Avengers Infinity War as Fifth Highest Grossing Film - Variety (https://variety.com/2023/film/news/avatar-2-fifth-highest-grossing-movie-infinity-war-1235503362/)

See yall tomorrow when it becomes the 4th highest grossing movie of all time.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jan 27, 2023, 02:43 PM
Clearly at this point it "doesn't really matter" if it crosses starwars or not, and that they will aim to do 5 movies instead of 3.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 28, 2023, 04:31 PM
'Avatar 2' Passes 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' at Global Box Office (https://www.thewrap.com/avatar-2-passes-star-wars-the-force-awakens-at-global-box-office/)

#4 all time now.
Clearly at this point it "doesn't really matter" if it crosses starwars or not, and that they will aim to do 5 movies instead of 3.
They casually confirmed all 5 movies a few weeks ago.

I wonder how locked in place things are. 2 and 3 used to be one script that was split in half, the same could happen to 5. Would prefer just a four hour film though.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 28, 2023, 04:47 PM
I wasn't sure if it would pass titanic but it looks kinda likely that it will.  But I think the titanic re-release will put it back ahead
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 31, 2023, 12:45 AM
77-78 million left before avatar passes titanic then we will see how titanic re-release does
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 31, 2023, 05:48 PM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 31, 2023, 06:28 PM
I mostly grew up as a DC fan, moreso than a Marvel fan. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Justice League, Flash, Green Lantern, Martian were things I was more interested in growing up than Iron Man, Spider-man, Hulk, Avengers, etc.

I'm hopeful that DC can do some good things.  

Been watching Smallville (TV series) with wifey. She's been enjoying that.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 31, 2023, 07:50 PM
How many months till their plans fall apart?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Jan 31, 2023, 08:08 PM
MCU is the worst part of marvel these days.   i get that it's profitable for disney but i fell behind on the MCU all the way back in 2012 with the original avengers movie.   i tried watching a view movies but all the cross over without knowing the entire "universe" makes the game really shame to watch.  MCU completely ruined watching the one franchise i love: spiderman.   now i'm just done watching any marvel movie from the MCU.  i'll watch the across the multiverse one and that's it.

if this is the direction DCU is going,.. i'm just going to bail now before it even starts.   i don't have time for that shame.  i don't want to have to watch a dozen shaming movies from franchises i don't care about in order to watch the ones i do like.   i love batman but fudge off needing to invest in terrible super heros like flash and superman in order to watch something interesting.   
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 03, 2023, 06:56 AM
I'm giddy reading a positive Avatar post on reddit:  Reddit - Dive into anything (https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/10s3ed3/avatar_sequels_oona_chaplin_plays_fire_navi/)

Normally Avatar is reddit's punching bag.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 03, 2023, 03:14 PM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Feb 05, 2023, 09:40 PM
Shoot 20million between avatar and titanic and the re release premieres next Friday. It might just stay ahead of avatar
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 05, 2023, 09:52 PM
Shoot 20million between avatar and titanic and the re release premieres next Friday. It might just stay ahead of avatar
Also dethroned from #1 this weekend   :'(

It's starting to feel like a flop
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Feb 05, 2023, 10:37 PM
not flop. fad. 
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 05, 2023, 11:31 PM
not flop. fad.
Yup. Absolutely no staying power. Sure, no movie in the past 25 years has stayed longer at #1 than Avatar 2, but those are all fads too!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Feb 06, 2023, 12:44 AM
Also dethroned from #1 this weekend   :'(

It's starting to feel like a flop
I'm still surprised but so happy it even got to where it is. I want all the sequels

At one point my best case guess was it ending around 1.8ish billion
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 06, 2023, 01:23 AM
I'm still surprised but so happy it even got to where it is. I want all the sequels

At one point my best case guess was it ending around 1.8ish billion
Yeah after the first trailer dropped I lowered my hype and was prepared for a sub billion run.

Also so great having all the new fans. I'm shocked at how many people disliked the first yet like this one.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Feb 06, 2023, 02:29 PM
Yup. Absolutely no staying power. Sure, no movie in the past 25 years has stayed longer at #1 than Avatar 2, but those are all fads too!
Well did those movies continue earning money in the box office for years? Or did they have a short run with high earnings then drop off quickly? Because those are fads!!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 12, 2023, 03:40 PM
Avatar the way of water is the third biggest movie of all time.

But so is Titanic, depending on which day you look lol.

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Feb 12, 2023, 05:02 PM
I'm guessing in the end way of water will pass titanic

Still absolutely insane to be the first director to have 3 movies hit 2 billion and 3 of the top 5 spots of all time
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 15, 2023, 01:37 AM
Currently have 398 movies.

I'm a mad man.  (I don't actually own most of them)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 19, 2023, 04:41 PM
Currently have 398 movies.

I'm a mad man.  (I don't actually own most of them)
How often do you rewatch them?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 19, 2023, 04:50 PM
How often do you rewatch them?
Only 1 out of 3 movies have been watched all the way through.
Probably 1 in 2 movies have been partially watched.
the top 25 movies have been watched 5 times or more.
top 14 movies have been watched 12 times or more.
top 5 movies have been watched 26 times or more
top 1 movie has been watched 41 times.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 19, 2023, 08:15 PM
How many months till their plans fall apart?
Depends what happens with their new Superman movie.  There's a reason why Superman Returns didn't meet expectations and just kind of cancelled everything Superman for a while.  If James Gunn can get the children who go out and subscribe to Disney Plus to go out and enjoy this movie he's making, then everything from then on will be popular like Marvel stuff.  If he can't, then the movie is going to do poorly and they'll can him faster than Zack, considering he's going scorched earth on everything.  A Superman Returns styled movie, is unfortunately boring and his outline sounds a lot like it, just with a younger Clark.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Feb 20, 2023, 12:44 AM
Welp way of water has now passed titanic

I wonder if it will be able to hit 2.3 billion now. It's really close and seems possible

Crazy how people didn't even expect it to hit 2 billion

Also quantumania had a good opening. Will be near 400million after the holiday weekend(for US)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 20, 2023, 03:21 AM
Welp way of water has now passed titanic

I wonder if it will be able to hit 2.3 billion now. It's really close and seems possible

Crazy how people didn't even expect it to hit 2 billion

Also quantumania had a good opening. Will be near 400million after the holiday weekend(for US)
Avatar really blew my prediction out of the water...

Quantumania will not be that high lol. It's only $225 million through Sunday.

edt: lol you got your number from boxofficemojo. They suck nowadays.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Feb 20, 2023, 03:38 AM
Avatar really blew my prediction out of the water...

Quantumania will not be that high lol. It's only $225 million through Sunday.

edt: lol you got your number from boxofficemojo. They suck nowadays.
Their number is including all the estimates through Monday. They adjust as actual numbers come through. So it might go down but they seem to have been decent with way of water
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 20, 2023, 04:07 AM
Their number is including all the estimates through Monday. They adjust as actual numbers come through. So it might go down but they seem to have been decent with way of water
No they added domestic twice. Their international total is the ww total.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 24, 2023, 03:06 AM
Lord of the Rings: New Movies in the Works at New Line - The Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/lord-of-the-rings-new-movies-in-the-works-1235332695/)

sweet
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 25, 2023, 02:46 AM
Deadline (https://deadline.com/2023/02/box-office-cocaine-bear-jesus-revolution-ant-man-and-the-wasp-1235269877/) predicts Ant Man will make $30 million this weekend, based off early numbers. That would be the worst drop in Marvel history. Maybe next weekend will be better, but it's set to not make a profit at the box office.

Disney sure lucked out with Avatar. As one gravy train ends, a new one begins. Hopefully Cameron has enough power to stop Disney from oversaturating it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 28, 2023, 06:17 PM
Checking ant man's box office has been my guilty pleasure as of late. Cocaine Bear almost beat it yesterday ($1.7 million ant man, $1.6 million cocaine bear).


Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 28, 2023, 06:25 PM
Checking ant man's box office has been my guilty pleasure as of late. Cocaine Bear almost beat it yesterday ($1.7 million ant man, $1.6 million cocaine bear).



Good. Time for something new. Not the same formula over and over
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Mar 01, 2023, 01:02 AM
Yeah I agree. Let the MCU die, and let the DC universe die (again) with it. Give us something new
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Mar 01, 2023, 01:26 AM
They are just oversaturating box office and tv screens with MCU content that its just too much.  Before it was always a couple movies a year and they were really good quality.  I hope they take the criticisms to heart and pull back on the content.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Mar 01, 2023, 01:38 AM
They are just oversaturating box office and tv screens with MCU content that its just too much.  Before it was always a couple movies a year and they were really good quality.  I hope they take the criticisms to heart and pull back on the content.
There are 2 main things i think that are affecting the box office of MCU

1- the story is done. At least for most people they got their closer with end game. Its what all the MCU films built up to. After that, its just... eh...

2- its just too much content to follow about characters nobody cares about. Im not gonna follow the loki tv show, or gonna follow the wandavision tv show. Or watch the eternal or shang shi or whatever. They could have an a very interesting arc for thor, but decided to fudge it up right away with love and thunder

I think x men might save them. But I doubt they will be able to outdo the older xmen films, specially the likes of days of future past.

I think the spiderverse might actually gain some traction, if Sony releases some actually good films
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Mar 01, 2023, 01:40 AM
I'm just tired of the "universe" approach.  just make movies that stand on their own.   until then I'm done with them. 
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Mar 01, 2023, 01:45 AM
I'm just tired of the "universe" approach.  just make movies that stand on their own.   until then I'm done with them.

Trust me. I hate them too. I wish we would go back to the days of one and done movies. Movies like seven, pulp fiction, forest gump and so on. You know, movies with an actual plot, story and good characters
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 01, 2023, 02:39 AM
Trust me. I hate them too. I wish we would go back to the days of one and done movies. Movies like seven, pulp fiction, forest gump and so on. You know, movies with an actual plot, story and good characters
I love a sequel here and there, but cinematic universes just suck.

I also hate the humor that Marvel popularized. It was fun in Iron Man and it's still fun in a few of their movies, but now everyone does it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 01, 2023, 03:41 AM
I watched quite a bit until Endgame.  

After that I feel like I stopped caring.

I'm not even completely sure why.  

Maybe lower stakes after Endgame.

Feels like a large number of the movies and tv series being headed up by random characters.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Mar 02, 2023, 04:49 PM
I don't know if I posted this already here, or if I just chatted with my friends about this.  But here's my feelings on MCU:

I remember when I went to watch Endgame.  I liked it, felt Infinity War was better, but it was enjoyable and I did like the ending.  AFTER I watched Endgame though, I felt; empty.  Not happy, not in awe, not "Oh this was the greatest thing ever", just, depressed.  It was the end of a story that I was heavily invested in for 11 years.  Did I watch every Marvel movie?  No, I skipped Civil War and Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (Maybe other things), but for 11 years I was on the hype train. 

I remember when Iron Man came out, I went to get a ride home with my sister who was working at a community center and one of her co-workers, who I'd call a "normie", was like "I can't believe they destroyed [insert car that got crushed when Tony was prototyping things" and I was thinking "That's what stood out to you?  Not that they managed to make Iron Man with all his flying and stuff work on screen?".  I mention that since up until Iron Man they had issues with special effects for Superheroes and they nailed it.  I also bring that up since regular people started to enjoy these movies and, while they were comic accurate, everyone could enjoy them.  We saw the Nick Fury cameo and me and my friends were hyped.  I watched all of phase 1 and enjoyed all of it.  Me and my friends enjoyed Iron Man 2.  I thought First Avengers was a great 80s syle action movie, and there really hasn't been one since.  I enjoyed Thor; "Another!" (throws glass on the floor).  Though re-watching Thor 1 a few years ago... esh.  This then brings everything ahead to Avengers.

I remember when we went to watch Avengers.  It was me and a few friends who I had recently met while working at EBGames.  This was before buying ticket seats, so we bought our tickets, waited in line and then found decent seats in the front row, front and center.  We were all so hyped after watching Avengers.  We were quoting the movie, re-enacting scenes, having a good time, and we were all so hyped.  We couldn't wait for the next stuff.  Years go by, I remember watching Thor Dark World the day I bought my PS4.  Winter Soldier was great.  Saw Guardians of the Galaxy with a co-worker from my grocery store I worked at and with my friend from Ebgames.  Watched Avengers 2, we enjoyed it.  Didn't watch Civil War, and thinking back, I didn't actually watch anything from that phase until Infinity Wars dropped.  I enjoyed Infinity War.  I was hyped to watch Endgame.  But by this point, unknowingly, my interest had waded. 

I didn't watch anything after Avengers 2 and before Infinity Wars.  I saw Black Panther on a flight to Italy, I saw a bit of the ending to Dr. Strange on T.V. a few years ago after Endgame, and as I mentioned; I didn't watch Cvil War, Spider-man nor Guardians of the Galaxy 2.  I knew enough from the comics and cartoons to keep up with the story, but I attributed to me not watching these movies due to timing (I got really busy at my app job, got let go, and then went back to school for my Bachelor of Education).  I did watch Captain Marvel with my friend after Infinity War, it was meh.  Not good or bad.  But I only watched it with one of my friends.  My entourage who I watched Avengers 1 with, and other movies, watched it on their own time.  Which circles back to my depressing feeling after Endgame.

The emptiness I felt with Endgame, came after I walked out of the movie.  I enjoyed it, not as much as Infinity War, but I enjoyed it, it was a good ending to an 11 year old running story.  But when I walked out, it was late at night, it was a weeknight, and the theatre was empty.  It was almost as if no one was in the actual cinema watching the movie.  There were no kids/teenagers talking about the movie, no one was hyped, no one was quoting from the movie, no one was acting out their favourite scenes.  My two friends, who I didn't watch the first Avengers with were kind of there.  We didn't talk much about it after.  We just went home.  The hype I had when I watched the first Avengers was gone.  My friends who I watched and got hyped watching the first Avengers with were gone.  I still talk to all but 2 of them, so it's not like we stopped being friends or anything, we just stopped watching the movies together.  So while Endgame was an event, we couldn't be bothered to make it an event.  There was no talk between us about what could happen.  There was no us sitting down playing games like we used to and get hyped with the movies.  There was no "Hey, Endgame is coming out, let's get tickets".    It was just assumed Endgame was going to be great, and that was the end of it.  So I left that cinema, empty, cause for 11 years of my life, we all looked forwards to watching these movies.  Now all the hype, good times, and just overall being nerdy ended in the span of minutes.  After 11 years, it occrued to me; that chapter of my life was over and I was sad.

I lost all will to want to watch these Marvel movies.  Will I still watch them?  Yeah, I saw Shang Chi and Eternals with one of my friends who I watched Endgame with.  We both enjoyed them.  We probably enjoyed them more than most people did, apparently.  I went to watch Multiverse of Madness and Quantumania with 2 close friends who I watched the first Avengers with.  We enjoyed both (We apparently enjoyed Quantumania more than most).  But my want and need to see these movies are gone.  11 years ago, we would plan to go watch these movies, now?  I went to watch all these films because I was asked to go watch them.  As I said to my friend for Mutiiverse of Madness and Quantumania; "I'm done with these movies, but you know, I'm here for the ride".
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Post by: Legend on Mar 02, 2023, 05:24 PM


Not sure if it'll be better than the Eddie Murphy one.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 06, 2023, 10:08 PM
Anyone see the movie Fantastic Mr. Fox?

It's a weird thing to me, because I hardly ever think of the movie. And yet I think it's a huge joy to watch.
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Post by: kitler53 on Mar 06, 2023, 10:16 PM
yeah, i own it on dvd.  i'm a big fan of stop-motion so i like it for that.   the story is so-so to me. 
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Post by: Legend on Mar 06, 2023, 10:17 PM
Anyone see the movie Fantastic Mr. Fox?

It's a weird thing to me, because I hardly ever think of the movie. And yet I think it's a huge joy to watch.
Yeah I read the book as a kid so it was kinda exciting when it became a movie.

Movie itself was kinda odd but I still like it too.
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Post by: nnodley on Mar 08, 2023, 08:22 PM
Way of Water being released digitally on March 28th
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Post by: Legend on Mar 08, 2023, 09:09 PM
Way of Water being released digitally on March 28th
I hope PS5 gets 3D support soon.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 10, 2023, 07:29 PM
Finally been getting around to some anime movies that I've had for quite a while, and never finished.

Millennium Actress, Penguin Highway, Garden of Words

Honesty all of them were good, but also weird for different reasons.

Millennium Actress has a very metaphorical story. I can understand and appreciate metaphors, but it makes the movie less grounded.
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>The movie is about an actress, and the storyline doesn&#39;t distinguish between what&#39;s real and what was part of her acting career.<br>

I'm sure people here would appreciate that one.

Penguin Highway was very good. It's a bit of a coming of age story, with a ten year old thinking about growing up; what he's going to be like.

Spoiler for the weirdness:
<br>The pretty young boy has an interest in a woman&#39;s breasts.<br><br>It&#39;s one of those things that when I was 10 or maybe 12, I would have related to it, but it feels weird to see as an adult.<br>


Garden of Words was pretty good. I don't think it was as good as Your Name.

Spoiler for the weirdness:
<br><br>The weirdness here is more dependent on how you view the relationship between the two characters.<br><br>It&#39;s very inappropriate if it&#39;s viewed romantically.<br><br>
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Post by: kitler53 on Mar 12, 2023, 04:08 AM
just finished the menu.   wow.  highly recommend. 
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Post by: Legend on Mar 12, 2023, 05:44 AM
just finished the menu.   wow.  highly recommend.
Yeah pretty good for that type of film.


On that note the oscars are tomorrow. My ranking of the nominated films is:

1: Avatar
2: Top Gun
3: Tar, I went in with absolutely zero expectations so the movie really surprised me
4: Everything Everywhere, a bit too weird but still pretty great
5: Fablemens
6: Elvis
7: The Banshees of Irishmen, only film I haven't watched yet so this ranking is a guess based off what others have told me
8: Women Talking, was kinda good but just so odd that the movie takes place in Bolivia. During the movie I thought it was in America and everything felt unrealistic (the walking away to find new land to cultivate part, not the sexism/rape part)
9: All quiet on the western front
10: Triangle of Sadness, only movie I hated so it'll probably win just like nomanland last year. First act was pretty decent but most elements of this movie were so low quality.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 26, 2023, 01:56 AM
Jonathan Majors Arrested in NYC Following Domestic Dispute (https://www.thewrap.com/jonathan-majors-arrested-in-nyc-following-domestic-dispute/)

If the allegations are correct, it might lead to a full reset of Marvel going forward.
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Post by: BananaKing on Mar 26, 2023, 02:34 AM
Jonathan Majors Arrested in NYC Following Domestic Dispute (https://www.thewrap.com/jonathan-majors-arrested-in-nyc-following-domestic-dispute/)

If the allegations are correct, it might lead to a full reset of Marvel going forward.
Why?
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Post by: Legend on Mar 26, 2023, 03:22 AM
Why?
He plays kang, their big new Thanos level bad guy. Disney could just recast him but the new movies are already having issues. Killing him off and moving to a more known bad guy like Dr. Doom could be their best move.
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Post by: SWORDF1SH on Apr 01, 2023, 07:33 PM
Just watched Mortal Kombat (2021) and it's just ok. CGI sucked for 2021, Kano shouldn't be the only interesting character, fight scenes are anticlimactic and  keep the corny "use the uppercut dad" stuff out of it, especially if you're going the mature route. I did enjoy it but expected more. 5/10
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Post by: BananaKing on Apr 01, 2023, 07:41 PM
Just watched Mortal Kombat (2021) and it's just ok. CGI sucked for 2021, Kano shouldn't be the only interesting character, fight scenes are anticlimactic and  keep the corny "use the uppercut dad" stuff out of it, especially if you're going the mature route. I did enjoy it but expected more. 5/10
100% agree with you. I hope the next one is better. It had so much potential but they made some weird decisions.
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Post by: Legend on Apr 01, 2023, 08:18 PM
Just watched Mortal Kombat (2021) and it's just ok. CGI sucked for 2021, Kano shouldn't be the only interesting character, fight scenes are anticlimactic and  keep the corny "use the uppercut dad" stuff out of it, especially if you're going the mature route. I did enjoy it but expected more. 5/10
100% agree with you. I hope the next one is better. It had so much potential but they made some weird decisions.
I liked a lot of things about it, but a 5/10 seems fair.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 04, 2023, 01:55 PM
just finished the menu.   wow.  highly recommend.
For some reason I keep getting shorts for this on YouTube, despite not reacting to any of them.  
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 04, 2023, 10:27 PM
Super Mario Bros The Movie:

Current RT Score: 55% (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_super_mario_bros_movie)

Metacritic: 48 (https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-super-mario-bros-movie)


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Post by: Legend on Apr 04, 2023, 10:29 PM
Super Mario Bros The Movie:

Current RT Score: 55% (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_super_mario_bros_movie)

Metacritic: 48 (https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-super-mario-bros-movie)



It's a mediocre!
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Post by: kitler53 on Apr 05, 2023, 12:36 AM
wow that's bad.  

unfortunately my kid is almost certain to drag me to the theater eventually. 
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Post by: Legend on Apr 05, 2023, 04:57 AM
I watched d&d. Pretty good! Zero interest in the game but the humor landed better than modern marvel imo.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 05, 2023, 10:13 PM
Super Mario Bros The Movie:

Current RT Score: 55% (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_super_mario_bros_movie)

Metacritic: 48 (https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-super-mario-bros-movie)



Dragged down for the plot. Apparently it's paper Mario thin
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 10, 2023, 08:03 PM
I watched Turning Red.

Thought it was surprisingly good.  
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 28, 2023, 03:52 PM



Anyone interested?

I feel like the story will be fine, but the visuals don't look very good.

Like what on Earth is going on here:



Sorry didn't want to link the tweet itself, but it had the picture I wanted to share.
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Post by: Legend on Apr 28, 2023, 04:25 PM
Wow that scene does look bad. Why would you make a movie about fire beings without making sure their lighting looked great?

I'll watch the movie and it'll be fine but it looks uninspired to me. Zootopia already did something pretty similar with a city divided into groups and almost every animated movie involves people becoming friends despite their differences.

I think Disney Wish looks slightly better. I hate the artstyle but half of Disney's recent animated movies have been pretty good.




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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 28, 2023, 07:22 PM
Wow that scene does look bad. Why would you make a movie about fire beings without making sure their lighting looked great?

I'll watch the movie and it'll be fine but it looks uninspired to me. Zootopia already did something pretty similar with a city divided into groups and almost every animated movie involves people becoming friends despite their differences.

I think Disney Wish looks slightly better. I hate the artstyle but half of Disney's recent animated movies have been pretty good.





I saw the Wish trailer yesterday and was actually thinking it looked like a low res textured game
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 28, 2023, 07:39 PM
Wow that scene does look bad. Why would you make a movie about fire beings without making sure their lighting looked great?

I'll watch the movie and it'll be fine but it looks uninspired to me. Zootopia already did something pretty similar with a city divided into groups and almost every animated movie involves people becoming friends despite their differences.

I think Disney Wish looks slightly better. I hate the artstyle but half of Disney's recent animated movies have been pretty good.





I really liked Zootopia and I think that's a pretty universal story; so I'm sure I would like the story.

But I am so baffled by that scene. It gives me like 1990's low budget vibes.  The fire people in general look bad and make whole scenes look bad.  


I think Wish looks broadly fine. It also gives me low budget princess movies vibes, and does not give me "made by the same people as Frozen" vibes.  

I'm baffled by both of these movies to some extent.
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Post by: kitler53 on Apr 28, 2023, 08:52 PM
not really trying to defend elemental here but maybe i am...

...the thing about "great graphics" is it makes everything far more intense for children.   as "great" as puss in boots: the last wish looked to me,.. my kids had nightmares from it.  i can show my kids all sorts of things from the 80's and 90's (like the original star wars) but the very comparable thing from today (star wars episode 9) is just too intense to be watched by a child.  

elemental may look "bad" to an adult but i know my kids won't care.  ..they'll actually probably like it more for it's lack of detail.  


know your customer.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 28, 2023, 09:22 PM
not really trying to defend elemental here but maybe i am...

...the thing about "great graphics" is it makes everything far more intense for children.   as "great" as puss in boots: the last wish looked to me,.. my kids had nightmares from it.  i can show my kids all sorts of things from the 80's and 90's (like the original star wars) but the very comparable thing from today (star wars episode 9) is just too intense to be watched by a child.  

elemental may look "bad" to an adult but i know my kids won't care.  ..they'll actually probably like it more for it's lack of detail.  


know your customer.
I mean that's not really the issue.

Most of the trailer looks great even, but for some reason the fire people look like they have a bit of a different art style and it looks they're doing bad things to the overall picture.  


(https://www.escapistmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/elementals-teaser-trailer-pixar.jpg?fit=1428%2C744)

It's not best looking movie ever or anything, but it looks totally fine for the most part.

It just seems like the lighting off the fire people is way too intense.  


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Post by: kitler53 on May 02, 2023, 03:00 PM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on May 02, 2023, 03:04 PM
just finished the trailer,.. it honestly looks surprisingly good.   i think they picked a pretty smart direction with this franchise to make it not about the game (a generic racing movie) but about the player.  it's a unique take in the genre that both highlights the game without having any particular reason to be beholden to it.   
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Post by: Legend on May 02, 2023, 03:52 PM
just finished the trailer,.. it honestly looks surprisingly good.   i think they picked a pretty smart direction with this franchise to make it not about the game (a generic racing movie) but about the player.  it's a unique take in the genre that both highlights the game without having any particular reason to be beholden to it.  

Yeah I was surprised how well it seems to balance respecting the game and mocking the absurdity of it. Might make a profit.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on May 02, 2023, 04:03 PM
It looked a lot better than the Twisted Metal trailer....  
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Post by: kitler53 on May 02, 2023, 06:23 PM
It looked a lot better than the Twisted Metal trailer....  
lol, yeah. 

maybe i should revise my previous statement from "it looked surprisingly good" to "it looked surprisingly better than my expectations of being terrible".   

this isn't going to make a billion+ dollars like the mario movie but it could be a not-terrible movie that doesn't flop.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on May 03, 2023, 11:42 AM
Yeah I was surprised how well it seems to balance respecting the game and mocking the absurdity of it. Might make a profit.
It's based of a real story  :o

So really you're just saying real life is absurd  8)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 03, 2023, 08:24 PM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on May 03, 2023, 08:41 PM
Still need to watch the first one
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Post by: Legend on May 03, 2023, 09:07 PM
Still need to watch the first one
(https://assholeswatchingmovies.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/dune-der-wuestenplanet.jpg)

It's ok.
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Post by: kitler53 on May 03, 2023, 11:08 PM
Still need to watch the first one
I have no prior experience with dune before watching the first movie and I really liked it.  

I'm quite excited for this. 
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Post by: nnodley on May 03, 2023, 11:30 PM
(https://assholeswatchingmovies.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/dune-der-wuestenplanet.jpg)

It's ok.
That the very very original? Lolol
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Post by: BananaKing on May 04, 2023, 12:46 AM
I have no prior experience with dune before watching the first movie and I really liked it.  

I'm quite excited for this.

Youre in for a treat.

That the very very original? Lolol
Thats the 80s one.

Surprisingly they did well with the production for something at the time. At least some parts of it. Some parts were shame  
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Post by: Legend on May 04, 2023, 02:47 AM
Thats the 80s one.

Surprisingly they did well with the production for something at the time. At least some parts of it. Some parts were shame  
Obviously I can't properly judge it till part 2 releases, but in some ways I like the 80s one more. It sucks, I'd never say it's a good movie lol, but it's spectacle is often more zoomed in which is interesting.
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Post by: BananaKing on May 04, 2023, 12:36 PM
Obviously I can't properly judge it till part 2 releases, but in some ways I like the 80s one more. It sucks, I'd never say it's a good movie lol, but it's spectacle is often more zoomed in which is interesting.
The 80s one wasn't bad. It just iced up part of the story for some reasons

Spoiler for Hidden:
Like &quot;the weirding way&quot; which is a form of combat and techniques, were made into this odd yell that had power. It also rained at the end for some dumb reason. I forgot if they gave the main character a son in it as well.


But some parts of the 80s one were surprisingly accurate and honestly cool. I remember the helicopter scene was rather cool
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on May 17, 2023, 03:29 AM
I saw Guardians volume 3.

Was good. Not saying much, but I can't think of the last marvel movie that was better. Story dragged on at times so it could have been shorter.
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Post by: kitler53 on May 18, 2023, 12:23 AM
saw the Mario movie for my kids birthday today.  pretty bad movie.   clearly the priority was lurching from reference to reference instead of having anything worthwhile to show. 
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 06, 2023, 12:07 PM



Guess who's collection just increased enormously.   8)
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 06, 2023, 11:51 PM



Guess who's collection just increased enormously.   8)


Well... at least I got it at the lower price.   :-X
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Post by: Legend on Jun 07, 2023, 12:06 AM


Well... at least I got it at the lower price.   :-X
Haha as a person that doesn't really care about super heroes, $7.99 sounded like a normal msrp for this.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 07, 2023, 12:15 AM
Haha as a person that doesn't really care about super heroes, $7.99 sounded like a normal msrp for this.
I feel like movies usually bottom out at $2.  

$0.27 felt absurd to me.
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Post by: Legend on Jun 08, 2023, 08:10 PM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 08, 2023, 08:58 PM

They'll have to make up some plot
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Post by: Legend on Jun 08, 2023, 09:03 PM
They'll have to make up some plot
Haven't seen mario or played tears of the kingdom yet but it can't be that hard. Just set it during the fall of hyrule where zelda and all his friends are alive, but have him win.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Jun 12, 2023, 09:48 PM
They'll have to make up some plot
why?   mario movie didn't have one...
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jun 13, 2023, 10:37 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/pMrFRH9.jpg)

Big release date changes to avatar.   Lots of other movies got pushed around too

Star Wars, Marvel, and Avatar Films Delayed in Massive Disney Reshuffle
Star Wars, Marvel, and Avatar Films Delayed in Massive Disney Reshuffle - IGN (https://ign.com/articles/star-wars-marvel-and-avatar-films-delayed-in-massive-disney-reshuffle)
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 13, 2023, 10:52 PM
I can't even fathom a movie releasing over 8 years from now.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 14, 2023, 01:05 AM
A few random things:

Does anyone remember the "widescreen" DVDs, and "fullscreen" DVDs? It's a little funny to think that widescreen is actually fuller than full screen today.

I'm not 100% sure how big this was. But older movies were captured on film, so those can get reprocessed and turned into 4K basically. But it seems like there's a funny era where quality was basically lower, after film, but before high resolution digital video. So there's a lot of movies in the middle that are basically worse than older ones and newer ones quality wise. And that's a little funny to think about.

It also kind of makes me sad that there are tons of movies and tv shows that are made in 4:3. They will forever have rectangular black boxes on the sides of our TVs. Although VR/AR is a great possibility to get around that....
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Post by: kitler53 on Jun 14, 2023, 01:29 AM
I like the bars on 4:3 content.  reminds me I'm old skool. 
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 14, 2023, 01:30 AM
Watching Super Mario Bros

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>It&#39;s a little weird that everyone outside the Mario family just looks like a regular animated person.<br><br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 14, 2023, 02:12 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/pMrFRH9.jpg)

Big release date changes to avatar.   Lots of other movies got pushed around too

Star Wars, Marvel, and Avatar Films Delayed in Massive Disney Reshuffle
Star Wars, Marvel, and Avatar Films Delayed in Massive Disney Reshuffle - IGN (https://ign.com/articles/star-wars-marvel-and-avatar-films-delayed-in-massive-disney-reshuffle)
Wow. 2 and 3 were filmed at the same time so unless it's doing reshoots, this is just a marketing+polish delay.

So sad. 4 being delayed from 2026 to 2029 is also crazy. A third of it is already filmed.

Disney must really have faith in them after way of water. Wonder how many spinoffs will fill the gaps.
I can't even fathom a movie releasing over 8 years from now.
It's gonna become a two parter lol. That's what happened with Avatar 2 after all the delays.

A few random things:

Does anyone remember the "widescreen" DVDs, and "fullscreen" DVDs? It's a little funny to think that widescreen is actually fuller than full screen today.

I'm not 100% sure how big this was. But older movies were captured on film, so those can get reprocessed and turned into 4K basically. But it seems like there's a funny era where quality was basically lower, after film, but before high resolution digital video. So there's a lot of movies in the middle that are basically worse than older ones and newer ones quality wise. And that's a little funny to think about.

It also kind of makes me sad that there are tons of movies and tv shows that are made in 4:3. They will forever have rectangular black boxes on the sides of our TVs. Although VR/AR is a great possibility to get around that....
Always went with widescreen. It's funny that it was even a thing.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 14, 2023, 01:51 PM


Netflix drops first look at 'Nimona,' the movie Disney junked for being too gay (https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/netflix-drops-first-look-at-nimona-the-movie-disney-junked-for-being-too-gay/)
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Post by: nnodley on Jun 14, 2023, 02:36 PM
Wow. 2 and 3 were filmed at the same time so unless it's doing reshoots, this is just a marketing+polish delay.

So sad. 4 being delayed from 2026 to 2029 is also crazy. A third of it is already filmed.

Yeah i'm assuming with the huge success of way of water that they are gonna make sure he has the time he needs.  way of water is disney's biggest succes in the past year

and hopefully they realize they don't want too much avatar fatigue to drop box office sales.  This will hopefully keep anticipation up
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Post by: kitler53 on Jun 14, 2023, 02:42 PM


Netflix drops first look at 'Nimona,' the movie Disney junked for being too gay (https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/netflix-drops-first-look-at-nimona-the-movie-disney-junked-for-being-too-gay/)
looks pretty good.

Yeah i'm assuming with the huge success of way of water that they are gonna make sure he has the time he needs.  way of water is disney's biggest succes in the past year

and hopefully they realize they don't want too much avatar fatigue to drop box office sales.  This will hopefully keep anticipation up
this right here.  i'm soo fukting tired of marvel and star wars right now.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 17, 2023, 03:00 AM
I finally watched mario. How did this make a profit, let alone a billion dollars? Jack Black was the only ok thing in it imo.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jun 17, 2023, 01:18 PM
I finally watched mario. How did this make a profit, let alone a billion dollars? Jack Black was the only ok thing in it imo.
I enjoyed it.

It wasnt great, wasn't the way I hoped it would. But I just let the kid inside me enjoy it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Jun 17, 2023, 01:42 PM
I finally watched mario. How did this make a profit, let alone a billion dollars? Jack Black was the only ok thing in it imo.
yeah, I'm not even sure I liked jack black either but he was the least bad performance. 

for me it was the terrible story line and terrible dialog.  so much of the movie was clearly motivated by "how do we get a .... reference in?". and the answer was always "no one cares if it it makes any sense just throw ... it in somewhere"

I think Nintendo had a big influence on the script...
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 17, 2023, 03:42 PM
I enjoyed it.

It wasnt great, wasn't the way I hoped it would. But I just let the kid inside me enjoy it.
That's nice. I think I got tripped up by how ugly most characters were.

yeah, I'm not even sure I liked jack black either but he was the least bad performance.

for me it was the terrible story line and terrible dialog.  so much of the movie was clearly motivated by "how do we get a .... reference in?". and the answer was always "no one cares if it it makes any sense just throw ... it in somewhere"

I think Nintendo had a big influence on the script...
The rise of gru movie was the same way but it worked as a dumb kids movie. This made so many weird changes to the lore that I doubt Nintendo proposed. I did not like Mario having a family one bit lol.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jun 17, 2023, 03:50 PM
That's nice. I think I got tripped up by how ugly most characters were.
The rise of gru movie was the same way but it worked as a dumb kids movie. This made so many weird changes to the lore that I doubt Nintendo proposed. I did not like Mario having a family one bit lol.
I just tried not to get hung up by any weird changes. that's the reason I enjoyed mainly. I also enjoyed DK and Mario's rivalry. Didnt like how they portrayed luigi though, they should have gave him a spine.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 17, 2023, 03:52 PM
I still have only watched like the first 10 minutes.

I don't think Mario and company looked bad. But it felt jarring to me that most of the other human characters look like they're from an entirely different universe.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Jun 17, 2023, 03:53 PM
I just tried not to get hung up by any weird changes. that's the reason I enjoyed mainly. I also enjoyed DK and Mario's rivalry. Didnt like how they portrayed luigi though, they should have gave him a spine.
but then how would they fit in the reference to Luigi's mansion?!?!  the reference was more important than a well written story or character!!!

That's nice. I think I got tripped up by how ugly most characters were.
The rise of gru movie was the same way but it worked as a dumb kids movie. This made so many weird changes to the lore that I doubt Nintendo proposed. I did not like Mario having a family one bit lol.
yeah so I would also say this,..  you know how it is pretty universally accepted now that we have no need to watch yet another spiderman origin movie?  we all know it and it's boring at this point.

well,.. mario's origin is the dumbest and most boring thing ever written and the movie would have been much better to not do it.   ...or they should have rewritten it to not be the dumbest thing ever created.

if they had cut out that first 20 min + the learning to jump section they could have made a coherent movie that didn't suck.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Jun 18, 2023, 01:58 AM
holy sheet,.. across the spider verse was soo good.


Spoiler for Hidden:
only sore spot for me was I didn&#39;t know it was going to end on a &quot;to be continued&quot;.&nbsp;


Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 21, 2023, 01:19 AM
I've gotten Dune, Lord of the Rings (x3), ordered Avatar 2, Super Mario Bros all in 4K in the past like two weeks. Whereas before I only had 1 4k movie ever.

Dune was cheapest in 4K for some reason.
I think Amazon glitched and it was erroneously showing a coupon for Super Mario Bros otherwise I wouldn't have gotten it. There was barely a price difference between 4K Avatar and 2K avatar.

I've been wanting Lord of the Rings in 4K for a while. Big upgrade over 480p… (also for some reason the blu-ray for LotR is a bit messed up. Image has a blue tint.)

But I shouldn't buy any more movies for a while…

I finally watched mario. How did this make a profit, let alone a billion dollars? Jack Black was the only ok thing in it imo.
I've still only watched part of it…

There's already things bugging me….
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>Bowser just randomly has it out for Mario? <br>Why is Peach testing Mario with the obstacle course? <br><br>Some stuff is just weird. Like why is it a thing that Mario doesn't like mushrooms?<br><br>Maybe I missed some explanations…<br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 21, 2023, 01:23 AM
I've been wanting Lord of the Rings in 4K for a while. Big upgrade over 480p…
That's got to be pretty fun. Are you noticing tons of movie mistakes/details now? I remember going over to my aunt and uncle's house and seeing Enchanted on bluray for the first time. Never knew the apple had a skull on it.

(https://virtualfeastgallery.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/olivia4.png?w=1180)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 21, 2023, 02:03 AM
That's got to be pretty fun. Are you noticing tons of movie mistakes/details now? I remember going over to my aunt and uncle's house and seeing Enchanted on bluray for the first time. Never knew the apple had a skull on it.

(https://virtualfeastgallery.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/olivia4.png?w=1180)
That one I just got today, so I can't say.

I did skim through to see how it looked but that's about it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 21, 2023, 07:39 PM



Anyone interested?

I feel like the story will be fine, but the visuals don't look very good.

Like what on Earth is going on here:



Sorry didn't want to link the tweet itself, but it had the picture I wanted to share.
It's really funny how many people want to think it looks good, such as Reddit - Dive into anything (https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/14f87cd/this_summer_six_200m_movies_are_likely_to_flop_at/joz2vnd/)

Pixar's RenderMan | Whats New (https://renderman.pixar.com/whats-new)

If anything, they were focused on making the movie cheaper.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 21, 2023, 08:36 PM
Even if the movie were technically impressive, that doesn't automatically mean that it looks good.
Into the Spider-Verse is the opposite of that. It isn't pushing realistic visuals, but it still has fantastic visuals.
I don't know what the fix would have been. All I know is that those fire people do not look good at all.  :-X
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 21, 2023, 08:37 PM
What would everyone say is their top 5 favorite movies? If you have an easy list of more than 5 off the top of your head, I won't stop you...
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jun 21, 2023, 08:45 PM
What would everyone say is their top 5 favorite movies? If you have an easy list of more than 5 off the top of your head, I won't stop you...
- Seven
- Interstellar (it would be my favourite if it weren't for the ending)
- Pirates of the Caribbean (the first 3)

I will add more to the list when I can remember
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 21, 2023, 08:53 PM
First Avatar.
Silence.
2001 A Space Odyssey.

Can't think of more at the moment.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 21, 2023, 09:04 PM
I feel like I have a hard time building a full top 5 list.

These are definitely my top "2"/4. 
Lord of the Rings
Your Name


There's tons of movies I rate very highly, but I'm not sure which ones would round out the top 5 list.
Dark Knight, Interstellar, PIrates 1, Inception, Matrix, Interstellar, Spirited Away, Good Will Hunting.

Oh A Silent Voice, that's gotta be up there too.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 21, 2023, 09:13 PM
Alien is another one I'd rate super highly. I'm a huge James Cameron fan but his movie sucks compared to the first.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 26, 2023, 04:25 PM
That's got to be pretty fun. Are you noticing tons of movie mistakes/details now? I remember going over to my aunt and uncle's house and seeing Enchanted on bluray for the first time. Never knew the apple had a skull on it.

(https://virtualfeastgallery.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/olivia4.png?w=1180)
Somehow I never noticed that the ring changes size to fit on the users hand.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 26, 2023, 04:40 PM
Somehow I never noticed that the ring changes size to fit on the users hand.
I know that thanks to the internet, but I haven't watched the movies in decades so I never noticed myself.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 27, 2023, 06:06 PM


Watch out Mario, new video game movie gonna dominate the box office.

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 28, 2023, 11:37 PM
It helps so much that these movies used practical effects so extensively.  

So gorgeous.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 28, 2023, 11:56 PM
It helps so much that these movies used practical effects so extensively.  

So gorgeous.
Making puppets look like puppets? That seems too difficult.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 29, 2023, 05:50 PM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Jun 29, 2023, 06:10 PM
kind of awkward casting drax....
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 29, 2023, 06:13 PM
kind of awkward casting drax....
Why?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Jun 29, 2023, 06:25 PM
Why?
it was either this thread or the tv show thread where i talked in length about how i hate it when i can reconize the voice of an actor in an animated film.  it's distracting and immersion breaking.

same argument here.  not going to say that actor can't ever act again after being in Gaurdians but he's face is soo dang distinct that even under massive amounts of make-up and only like a 1 second glimpse of this face in the trailer all i could think was "drax".   it pulls me out of the experience.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 29, 2023, 08:43 PM
Not the best Dune trailer imo. Looks like mindless action which is not what I care about.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 30, 2023, 11:54 PM
Halfway through the second LOTR.

There's been a handful of scenes that look a little off. Either perspective looks a little off or generally looks duller than the rest.

One of the scenes on the wall very much looks like several people on a green screen set.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 04, 2023, 02:45 AM
Watched Nimona on Netflix, thought it was great. I think my biggest complaint was that the movie could have been a little longer.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 11, 2023, 01:19 PM
I got the Dark Knight Trilogy in 4K and the Matrix Trilogy in 4K on the Amazon Prime Day sales.

Should have waited on LOTR, because that's now on sale too.  :-\
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Jul 11, 2023, 01:28 PM
matrix wasn't a trilogy you know?   ;D
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 11, 2023, 01:44 PM
matrix wasn't a trilogy you know?   ;D
Ah of course. Thanks for reminding me of that new fourth movie.

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>(https://media2.giphy.com/media/xl5QdxfNonh3q/giphy.gif)<br><br><br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 11, 2023, 03:58 PM
I watched it on a plane so that couldn't help, but the fourth matrix movie might be the worst big budget movie I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 11, 2023, 07:42 PM
I watched it on a plane so that couldn't help, but the fourth matrix movie might be the worst big budget movie I've ever seen.
I've never seen it.

Also got the Batman 4K for $8.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 12, 2023, 03:16 AM
Also got Game of Thrones....  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 12, 2023, 07:04 PM
I feel like the physical 4K market, probably isn't doing the most amazing.
I've seen a surprising number of instances where the 4k is cheaper than the blu-ray and even the DVD.

Like Puss in Boots right now on the Prime Deal (I know I'm cheating) is 3 cents more for the 4K version vs the DVD, and $2.64 cheaper than the blu-ray.
The Batman was on sale a couple of weeks ago for $10 for the 4K version, whereas the DVD has never gone below $10.97 all year.  And then the 4K version was $8 yesterday.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 12, 2023, 07:11 PM
I feel like the physical 4K market, probably isn't doing the most amazing.
I've seen a surprising number of instances where the 4k is cheaper than the blu-ray and even the DVD.

Like Puss in Boots right now on the Prime Deal (I know I'm cheating) is 3 cents more for the 4K version vs the DVD, and $2.64 cheaper than the blu-ray.
The Batman was on sale a couple of weeks ago for $10 for the 4K version, whereas the DVD has never gone below $10.97 all year.  And then the 4K version was $8 yesterday.
Maybe I should start buying 4k movies then. I need to get a 4K bluray player one of these days, and I already have a ps5.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 12, 2023, 07:26 PM
Maybe I should start buying 4k movies then. I need to get a 4K bluray player one of these days, and I already have a ps5.
I can't say they're cheaper overall, but they frequently seem to go on hefty discounts that the other versions don't.

It was a big reason I jumped on getting Dune last month. Same reason I got the Batman yesterday.

Overall though, it's surprising to me how close in price they frequently are. Quite a few movies where they are within a dollar or two.

There are some big exceptions. LOTR 4K is usually like $80, on sale for $40 yesterday. Whereas the Blu-ray is regularly $10-$15.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 13, 2023, 04:52 PM
Sound of Freedom is doing really good at the box office. Probably will end up being the biggest out of nowhere hit of the year.

The narrative/marketing around it is really weird. By all accounts it's just a normal movie that was made in 2018 yet everything else about it has become pretty political: Sound of Freedom (film) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_of_Freedom_(film))
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 13, 2023, 05:17 PM
The narrative/marketing around it is really weird. By all accounts it's just a normal movie that was made in 2018 yet everything else about it has become pretty political: Sound of Freedom (film) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_of_Freedom_(film))
Lots of weirdness.

I see Ben Shapiro and other conservatives complaining that the movie was getting ignored by the media.
And then it seems like left wing media/liberal are reporting on it, going "why are these people talking about this random movie?"

I'm pretty sure lots of movies get ignored...

Makes me wonder if some people are stirring controversy to make it more popular.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 13, 2023, 05:47 PM
Lots of weirdness.

I see Ben Shapiro and other conservatives complaining that the movie was getting ignored by the media.
And then it seems like left wing media/liberal are reporting on it, going "why are these people talking about this random movie?"

I'm pretty sure lots of movies get ignored...

Makes me wonder if some people are stirring controversy to make it more popular.
People are definitely stirring controversy as a form of marketing, but I can't find any going "why are these people talking about this random movie?" since everything now talks about its box office reception like: Sound of Freedom: the QAnon-adjacent thriller seducing America | Movies | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/06/sound-of-freedom-movie-qanon-jim-caviezel)


Doubt most people would have even heard about this movie if it wasn't for the attached controversy. Its A+ cinemascore is really impressive but traditional word of mouth would only carry it so far.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 13, 2023, 07:16 PM
SAG-AFTRA On Strike: Board OKs Its First Walkout Against Film/TV Biz Since 1980 - Deadline (https://deadline.com/2023/07/actors-strike-sag-aftra-hollywood-studios-1235436118/)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 14, 2023, 03:02 AM
Current Plex Stats:

- 55 TV shows (Notable: Avatar the Last Airbender, Breaking Bad, Columbo, Game of Thrones, Parks and Rec, The Office)
- 37 complete
- 16 in HD + A few others that were never made in HD

Notable shows I'd like to pick up yet: The Sopranos, The Wire, The Good Place

- 473 movies (Notable: Every ghibli, many disney + pixar, many DC Animated from that 30 for $8 deal..., a lot of Scooby Doo)
- 14 in 4K
- 98 in 1080p

Notable movies I'd like to pick up yet: The Godfather, Good Will Hunting, The Prestige

(A lot of the movies are from my parents, so no I didn't spend that much money.)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 14, 2023, 03:22 AM
The Prestige is good.

The Illusionist is also good yet no one ever talks about it. (Haven't seen it in years, maybe I'd think it sucks as an adult)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 14, 2023, 08:43 PM
Current Plex Stats:

- 55 TV shows (Notable: Avatar the Last Airbender, Breaking Bad, Columbo, Game of Thrones, Parks and Rec, The Office)
- 37 complete
- 16 in HD + A few others that were never made in HD

Notable shows I'd like to pick up yet: The Sopranos, The Wire, The Good Place

- 473 movies (Notable: Every ghibli, many disney + pixar, many DC Animated from that 30 for $8 deal..., a lot of Scooby Doo)
- 14 in 4K
- 98 in 1080p

Notable movies I'd like to pick up yet: The Godfather, Good Will Hunting, The Prestige

(A lot of the movies are from my parents, so no I didn't spend that much money.)
Where do you have your Plex located?  I'm looking at maybe setting one up for a single base for all my content I have right now.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 14, 2023, 09:06 PM
Where do you have your Plex located?  I'm looking at maybe setting one up for a single base for all my content I have right now.
I have my gaming computer set up with a Plex media server.

Jellyfin is another alternative that is free and open source.
Plex has a paid pass, but that's mostly if you want to stream to your phone or outside of the house I believe. Or if you want to share with someone else. I got the lifetime pass for $60 I think, but it's regularly $120. Streaming to Roku and console is free I believe. My parents have access to my Plex.

And a crazy 12 TB of media, mostly ripped from DVDs and blu-ray.

I feel like I would have a hard time recommending it, because it takes a fair amount of effort to set up.

If you already have a collection of movies on your computer that are DRM free, it's easy to set up.

I personally like collecting movies and it's super nice to have all my media in one place.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 14, 2023, 09:22 PM
Is it super easy to switch from plex to jellyfin, or do they have different file/folder requirements?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jul 14, 2023, 09:46 PM
I have my gaming computer set up with a Plex media server.

Jellyfin is another alternative that is free and open source.
Plex has a paid pass, but that's mostly if you want to stream to your phone or outside of the house I believe. Or if you want to share with someone else. I got the lifetime pass for $60 I think, but it's regularly $120. Streaming to Roku and console is free I believe. My parents have access to my Plex.

And a crazy 12 TB of media, mostly ripped from DVDs and blu-ray.

I feel like I would have a hard time recommending it, because it takes a fair amount of effort to set up.

If you already have a collection of movies on your computer that are DRM free, it's easy to set up.

I personally like collecting movies and it's super nice to have all my media in one place.
Cool.  Yeah i figure i'd just set up on my PC. I plan on upgrading my rig eventually so i'd just then use my current one as a plex server full time.

My biggest thing i would want something like this for is i eventually plan to have a nice big theater room in my house when i'm able to get/build one.  So i'd have everything accessible in a single location for the theater

I'll just start getting things set up with it little by little.  I'm not in a rush for it anyway.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 14, 2023, 09:57 PM
Is it super easy to switch from plex to jellyfin, or do they have different file/folder requirements?
I haven't tried Jellyfin, but it looks like the file and folder requirements are almost the exact same.

This is from Jellyfin's website:
Code: [Select]

Movies
├── Film (1990).mp4
├── Film (1994).mp4
├── Film (2008)
│   └── Film.mkv
└── Film (2010)
    ├── Film-cd1.avi
    └── Film-cd2.avi


Plex strongly recommends putting the movies in their own dedicated folder like that third one is, due to faster matching I guess.

If you are forcing a match, this is where it looks different:
Plex:  {imdb-tt0372784}
Jellyfin: [imdbid-tt12801262]

But I've only had to label one of my movies from what I recall.


TV shows, I recommend doing this:

Code: [Select]

Shows
├── Series (2010)
│   ├── Season 00
│   │   ├── Some Special.mkv
│   │   ├── Episode S00E01.mkv
│   │   └── Episode S00E02.mkv
│   ├── Season 01
│   │   ├── Episode S01E01-E02.mkv
│   │   ├── Episode S01E03.mkv
│   │   └── Episode S01E04.mkv


Code: [Select]

── Series (2018)
    ├── Episode S01E01.mkv
    ├── Episode S01E02.mkv
    ├── Episode S02E01-E02.mkv
    └── Episode S02E03.mkv


The top one is supported in both, the bottom one is probably supported in both, as it looks like Plex has updated to support that. But still, probably best to do the top for ease reasons.


A big downside of Jellyfin is platforms you can use it on. Plex has an app on PlayStation and Xbox, even for the free tier. Whereas Jellyfin doesn't.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 16, 2023, 02:21 AM
Have y'all seen the movie Kubo?

Great stop motion movie.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 16, 2023, 04:26 AM
Have y'all seen the movie Kubo?

Great stop motion movie.
I didn't like it that much, sorry :'(


Saw dead reckoning today. Almost as good as fallout. Lots of great scenes but a worse plot/bad guy.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jul 18, 2023, 09:45 PM
I watched shazam. Honestly, do people really read these scripts before making these movies?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 18, 2023, 09:50 PM
I watched shazam. Honestly, do people really read these scripts before making these movies?
The first or second? I enjoyed both but yeah they're pretty dumb.

With movies being so expensive nowadays I'd love if there was a person who's sole job was just making sure things make sense. Like a continuity supervisor but for the plot.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jul 18, 2023, 09:55 PM
The first or second? I enjoyed both but yeah they're pretty dumb.

With movies being so expensive nowadays I'd love if there was a person who's sole job was just making sure things make sense. Like a continuity supervisor but for the plot.
The first. It started off okay, nothing great, but it wasn't too dumb. But the third act was just horrible. Why do action movies insist on including kids in fight scenes. Its annoying and dumb.  There is just a lot of dumb things in it. And at the times the acting was horrible
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 18, 2023, 09:58 PM
The first. It started off okay, nothing great, but it wasn't too dumb. But the third act was just horrible. Why do action movies insist on including kids in fight scenes. Its annoying and dumb.  There is just a lot of dumb things in it. And at the times the acting was horrible
Oh boy just wait for the acting in the second.  :P
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jul 18, 2023, 10:10 PM
Oh boy just wait for the acting in the second.  :P
I think ill pass. It had some good elements. But the cast was really annoying and the fight scenes sucked
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 19, 2023, 05:26 PM


It's essentially this generation's Paranormal Activity. Will be interesting to see how it fairs internationally once it's eventually released.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jul 19, 2023, 05:30 PM
So what happened to box office mojo? Why did they stop updating their site with articles and such? They even stopped doing head to head comparisons
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 19, 2023, 05:37 PM
So what happened to box office mojo? Why did they stop updating their site with articles and such? They even stopped doing head to head comparisons
Yeah they were the best a decade ago but for years they've been cannibalizing it to try and push people towards IMDB.

the-numbers.com is a good replacement.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Jul 19, 2023, 05:40 PM
Yeah they were the best a decade ago but for years they've been cannibalizing it to try and push people towards IMDB.

the-numbers.com is a good replacement.
Yeah I started to go to the numbers now. But it's a shame because BOM was awesome. And they just... Stopped....
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 19, 2023, 05:49 PM
I used to love boxofficemojo. They moved a lot of their stuff behind a paywall.

The numbers isn't quite as good, but I think they've made a lot of improvements since bom changed.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jul 20, 2023, 03:35 PM
The first. It started off okay, nothing great, but it wasn't too dumb. But the third act was just horrible. Why do action movies insist on including kids in fight scenes. Its annoying and dumb.  There is just a lot of dumb things in it. And at the times the acting was horrible
It's 100% an exec thing.  "If they have kids in there, you can then sell them toys".  I remember, either reading an interview, or watching an interview from Bruce Timm.  Warner execs went up to them and asked them to make a teen based Batman show.  I can't remember how he worded it, but essentially they wanted a high school Batman to sell toys to kids or something along those lines.  Timm and Dini were so mad at the execs for wanting them to dumb things down (Batman TAS and Superman TAS were pretty tame and all age friendly), they were going to walk.  Another producer was also told about wanting to do a teenage show and he got super excited, he was like "We can do this with this show, and that" so after seeing his enthusiasm Timm and Dini calmed down and were going to support him.  Show ended up being Batman Beyond, you know, probably the "darkest" and "adult" of the DCAU...  What I imagine WB wanted was something like X-men Evolution (Which is probably why it got made).  A high school X-men Evolution style Batman wasn't going to work... It's just that producers have way more sway in movies.  It also doesn't help that these execs are old and have dementia.  So things are getting increasingly made for pre-schoolers instead of being all ages (Family Friendly).  Like, they think the youngens today are all pre-schoolers.  Case in point; the new Ninja Turtles movie.  "They're teenagers, that's what teenagers are like", except I work with teenagers for a living, and no, that's not what teenagers are like.  The new turtles are aged betweened 6-8.  Which is fine and I'm sure the movie is going to be fine, but that's where movie exec's mentalities are.  They told producers to make a new Ninja Turtles movie and aim it for what they think are teenagers.  What they think are teenagers are pre-schoolers.  It also doesn't help current day writers just aren't good and you have this mess.
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Post by: BananaKing on Jul 20, 2023, 03:59 PM
It's definitely a mess. And this is obsession with selling toys is really annoying. I really miss the days where directors really cared about their movies and every screen and shot in the movie had a meaning and was thought out.

We barely got 5 or 6 interesting movies a year now. Rarely do we get a 2 really good ones.

It's just a shame that the art of the movies is heading in this direction
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Post by: nnodley on Jul 20, 2023, 04:07 PM
I started The Flash last night.  Still have an hour to finish, but overall i'm liking it mostly.  Some silly dialogue at times and the CGI even outside of the flash's running is hit and miss.

I so wish that Ezra Miller didn't do the things he had been doing the past few years.  I actually like him well enough as the flash, but oh well.  I just hope when they do eventually recast its someone really good.
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Post by: BananaKing on Jul 20, 2023, 04:12 PM
I started The Flash last night.  Still have an hour to finish, but overall i'm liking it mostly.  Some silly dialogue at times and the CGI even outside of the flash's running is hit and miss.

I so wish that Ezra Miller didn't do the things he had been doing the past few years.  I actually like him well enough as the flash, but oh well.  I just hope when they do eventually recast its someone really good.
It starts off well. But it it ends badly IMO
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 20, 2023, 04:13 PM
I hope that Gunn is able to turn around the DC universe, and that there's not anymore reboots.

It's probably just nostalgia, but I find the DC universe to be more interesting than the Marvel one.

For me personally
Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter are all up there with Iron Man, Captain America and Thor. But that's probably mostly because my dad would watch the Justice League show.
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Post by: nnodley on Jul 20, 2023, 04:17 PM
It starts off well. But it it ends badly IMO
Well dang. lol.  I definitely was enjoying the first hour or so. Guess I'll see the end later tonight.
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Post by: Legend on Jul 20, 2023, 04:39 PM
I hope that Gunn is able to turn around the DC universe, and that there's not anymore reboots.

It's probably just nostalgia, but I find the DC universe to be more interesting than the Marvel one.

For me personally
Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter are all up there with Iron Man, Captain America and Thor. But that's probably mostly because my dad would watch the Justice League show.
I liked suicide squad more than the suicide squad and disliked gotg2, but Gunn can be pretty great.

With Marvel sucking, I could see DC gaining some ground.
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Post by: Legend on Jul 20, 2023, 07:38 PM
Have y'all seen the movie Promising Young Woman?

Great movie.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 22, 2023, 04:50 PM
The kids have been watching Alvin and the Chipmunks movies. It's their current "kick".

They're kind of bad. The weirdest part about them has to be when the human people have weird issues with the Chipmunk people.

Like when a teenage boy tells chipmunks not to talk to a girl.

Super weird stuff.
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Post by: Legend on Jul 22, 2023, 05:25 PM
The kids have been watching Alvin and the Chipmunks movies. It's their current "kick".

They're kind of bad. The weirdest part about them has to be when the human people have weird issues with the Chipmunk people.

Like when a teenage boy tells chipmunks not to talk to a girl.

Super weird stuff.
How many of those movies did they end up making? I think I've only seen the first modern 2009 one.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 22, 2023, 05:32 PM
How many of those movies did they end up making? I think I've only seen the first modern 2009 one.
They made 4.  
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 31, 2023, 02:19 AM
Anyone watch The Godfather?

Quote
PUZO: Yeah, I mean, it was a cinch because it was the first time I'd ever written a screenplay, so I didn't know what I was doing. You know, it's - and it came out right. And the story I tell is that after I had won two Academy Awards, you know, for the first two "Godfathers," I went out and bought a book on screenwriting because I figured I'd better learn...

GROSS: (Laughter).

PUZO: ...You know, what it's about because it was sort of off the top of my head. And then the first chapter - the book said, study "Godfather I." It's the model of a screenplay. So I was stuck with the book.

I got a kick out of this story.

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/08/701492922/a-look-back-at-the-godfather-with-mario-puzo-and-francis-ford-coppola (https://www.npr.org/2019/03/08/701492922/a-look-back-at-the-godfather-with-mario-puzo-and-francis-ford-coppola)
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Post by: Legend on Jul 31, 2023, 02:49 AM
Never actually seen it. Def should though since I'm a cinephile.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 03, 2023, 04:15 PM
Supposedly the Sound of Freedom had been astroturfed.

I've seen a number of people claiming that they've seen an entire theater be reserved for the movie and no one shows up. They are surmising that churches are reserving seats and trying to give them away.

I did see a video where someone showed this, but there were some gaps. Like they showed a theater and showed that all the seats were reserved online. Reasonably possible that it wasn't the same theater.
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Post by: Legend on Aug 03, 2023, 04:55 PM
Supposedly the Sound of Freedom had been astroturfed.

I've seen a number of people claiming that they've seen an entire theater be reserved for the movie and no one shows up. They are surmising that churches are reserving seats and trying to give them away.

I did see a video where someone showed this, but there were some gaps. Like they showed a theater and showed that all the seats were reserved online. Reasonably possible that it wasn't the same theater.

Reminds me of im_literally_the_only_person_watching_avatar_2 (https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/zn74uy/im_literally_the_only_person_watching_avatar_2_in/)

People will always have funky experiences but it's just people trying to rationalize why a movie they dislike is doing well. Exact same thing happened with Captain Marvel. CEO of AMC (https://twitter.com/CEOAdam/status/1679212647772995586) strongly disputed it.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 03, 2023, 05:19 PM
Reminds me of im_literally_the_only_person_watching_avatar_2 (https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/zn74uy/im_literally_the_only_person_watching_avatar_2_in/)

People will always have funky experiences but it's just people trying to rationalize why a movie they dislike is doing well. Exact same thing happened with Captain Marvel. CEO of AMC (https://twitter.com/CEOAdam/status/1679212647772995586) strongly disputed it.

From a popularity standpoint for sure.

Rather curious that people are claiming that tickets are sold out.
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Post by: Legend on Aug 03, 2023, 05:46 PM
From a popularity standpoint for sure.

Rather curious that people are claiming that tickets are sold out.
No I mean this exact same thing happens. People claimed Captain Marvel tickets were being bought by Disney to fluff the numbers. They'd see seats were sold out online yet at the theater there'd be empty seats.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 03, 2023, 06:18 PM
I figured that was the case.  ;D
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Post by: Legend on Aug 04, 2023, 01:04 AM
I figured that was the case.  ;D
It's funny that I haven't heard of stuff like this on the game side. A game dev could easily buy a bunch of bots to make their steam activity look better.

Silicon valley even had an episode about it.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 04, 2023, 07:16 PM
Is something like this normal?
https://www.angel.com/pay-it-forward/sound-of-freedom (https://www.angel.com/pay-it-forward/sound-of-freedom)

(Genuinely curious. Someone brought it up in the Era thread.)
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Post by: Legend on Aug 04, 2023, 08:11 PM
Is something like this normal?
https://www.angel.com/pay-it-forward/sound-of-freedom (https://www.angel.com/pay-it-forward/sound-of-freedom)

(Genuinely curious. Someone brought it up in the Era thread.)
First big hit to use something like that. People can donate to let more people watch it but if no one redeems a ticket, the money can skip the box office and go 100% into the studio. The movie has made $156 million so far at the box office yet there's no way to know how much extra money the studio is gonna make from donated tickets that go unclaimed.


I bet something like this becomes standard for most mid budget movies. Fans of Wes Anderson who have more money than sense could feel like they're pushing his movies to a wider audience, for example.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 08, 2023, 01:58 PM
Gran Turismo: The Movie - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gran_turismo_the_movie)

RT: 55% currently
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Post by: kitler53 on Aug 08, 2023, 02:16 PM
ouch.  
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Post by: Legend on Aug 08, 2023, 04:14 PM
up to 61

hopefully it has a really small budget.


edt: 100 million budget, gonna be hard to break even at the box office but maybe it'll be a crowd pleaser and pull it off.
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Post by: Legend on Aug 09, 2023, 08:35 PM
Avatar Way of Water is biggest digital home release in Disney history, not too surprising.
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Post by: nnodley on Aug 09, 2023, 09:24 PM
Avatar Way of Water is biggest digital home release in Disney history, not too surprising.
literally the only thing making disney money movie wise right now
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Post by: Legend on Aug 09, 2023, 10:06 PM
literally the only thing making disney money movie wise right now
Puts a lot of extra pressure on the game. The Avatar ip can't be milked since Cameron owns it, so every movie/spinoff needs to deliver.

Really interested to see what their Avatar expansion looks like at Disneyland. All they've confirmed is that it's an Avatar "experience."
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Post by: Legend on Aug 14, 2023, 03:48 PM
Sound Of Freedom Director Talks Controversy, Calls QAnon Label Untrue - Variety (https://variety.com/2023/film/features/sound-of-freedom-director-controversy-calls-qanon-untrue-1235694549/)

Director says pay it forward tickets were under 10% of tickets sold. Also distances himself from the main actor.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 15, 2023, 02:35 AM
So I ordered a bundle of Little Mermaid movies.
I thought it would be fun for the kids to watch the two movies.

Got the discs today, and saw a strange message pop up when I put the disc into the computer. "Little Mermaid II and Little Mermaid III"

And that is how I found out there are 3 Little Mermaid movies.
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Post by: Legend on Aug 15, 2023, 02:46 AM
So I ordered a bundle of Little Mermaid movies.
I thought it would be fun for the kids to watch the two movies.

Got the discs today, and saw a strange message pop up when I put the disc into the computer. "Little Mermaid II and Little Mermaid III"

And that is how I found out there are 3 Little Mermaid movies.
Disney's direct to home sequels sure are something.

I liked Aladdin 3 as a kid. Had a golden hand.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 16, 2023, 12:20 AM
Disney's direct to home sequels sure are something.

I liked Aladdin 3 as a kid. Had a golden hand.
King of thieves is amazing
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Post by: Legend on Aug 24, 2023, 08:54 PM
Gran Turismo Reviews - Metacritic (https://www.metacritic.com/movie/gran-turismo)

46 on meta. Not that good.

Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gran_turismo_based_on_a_true_story)

Yet somehow a 98 from audiences on rotten tomatoes.
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Post by: Legend on Aug 27, 2023, 10:39 PM
Gran Turismo is pretty good. Saw it today and yeah I'm really confused how critics got it so wrong. I went with my mom for cheap $4 day and she even liked it more than I did.

Also finally saw barbie. Was fun and clever but kinda dragged on.


Barbismo is gonna catch on guys! 8)
/s
(I think it's the very first time I've seen two movies back to back in a regular theater)
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Post by: nnodley on Aug 28, 2023, 01:00 AM
Tbh it seems like critics are getting it wrong a lot anymore. I don't know what it is lately but I've been feeling like I can't really trust critics on movies, tv, or games anymore
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 28, 2023, 01:24 AM
Gran Turismo is pretty good. Saw it today and yeah I'm really confused how critics got it so wrong. I went with my mom for cheap $4 day and she even liked it more than I did.

High praise.  :o
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Post by: BananaKing on Aug 28, 2023, 04:08 AM
Gran Turismo is pretty good. Saw it today and yeah I'm really confused how critics got it so wrong. I went with my mom for cheap $4 day and she even liked it more than I did.

Also finally saw barbie. Was fun and clever but kinda dragged on.


Barbismo is gonna catch on guys! 8)
/s
(I think it's the very first time I've seen two movies back to back in a regular theater)

My friend watched GT too and said it was great. But I dont trust this guys opinion. He usually lets his biases play a factor his judgement of movies.

He loves Denzel, so be considers the equaliser to be a great movie. When in reality its just John wick ordered from wish.com
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Post by: Legend on Aug 28, 2023, 05:29 AM
My friend watched GT too and said it was great. But I dont trust this guys opinion. He usually lets his biases play a factor his judgement of movies.

He loves Denzel, so be considers the equaliser to be a great movie. When in reality its just John wick ordered from wish.com
Liking Equalizer, no bueno.

GT was far from perfect, the beginning before they got racing was pretty slow, but they did so much better than I expected.


Also a few times they showed the video game full screen and they had to recreate it as ugly cgi. The real game would have looked like real life and confused people.

Tbh it seems like critics are getting it wrong a lot anymore. I don't know what it is lately but I've been feeling like I can't really trust critics on movies, tv, or games anymore
Yeah critics in aggregate suck.

If you watch videos/read articles from the same reviewer over and over then it's not too bad. You can really get a sense of how they approach things.

High praise.  :o
They also handle that one spoiler thing well. I think people finding issues with it are just wanting to create issues.

Don't want to hype the movie too much though. I was ready to apologize to my mom when it ended since I thought she was super bored.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 28, 2023, 01:54 PM


Somehow, "Barbie took second" after Gran Turismo feels like a goofy thing to read.
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Post by: Legend on Aug 28, 2023, 04:57 PM


Somehow, "Barbie took second" after Gran Turismo feels like a goofy thing to read.
Sony really wanted #1. The movie has had "previews" for two weeks and all that money is counted as opening weekend.

Updated numbers move Turismo to 17.4 and drop Barbie to 15.1 though so it may have won the weekend either way.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 09, 2023, 05:26 PM
Miyazaki has failed to retire a 4th time (https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/8/23864856/studio-ghibli-hayao-miyazaki-retirement-postponed-yet-again)

I'll be glad to see more Studio Ghibli movies either way.
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Post by: Legend on Sep 09, 2023, 06:12 PM
What did anyone else think of the new little mermaid? Watched it on disney plus and thought it was so freaking bad.

Cinderella, beauty and the beast, and jungle book are all great.

Aladdin and Lion King were more mixed but still fine.

Then mermaid and pinocchio are these fever dreams that make no sense.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 12, 2023, 03:03 AM
What did anyone else think of the new little mermaid? Watched it on disney plus and thought it was so freaking bad.

Cinderella, beauty and the beast, and jungle book are all great.

Aladdin and Lion King were more mixed but still fine.

Then mermaid and pinocchio are these fever dreams that make no sense.
Honestly I have yet to see a single one of these.
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Post by: Legend on Sep 12, 2023, 04:55 AM
Honestly I have yet to see a single one of these.
Woah.

How come?
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 12, 2023, 01:10 PM
Woah.

How come?
Mostly just been a low priority, compared to the animated movies.
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Post by: kitler53 on Sep 12, 2023, 01:33 PM
i've only seen aladdin and beauty and the beast.  i liked aladdin better but these live actions remakes haven't really appealed to me.  

mostly i've just seen these stories a million times and don't really need to see them again.  just watching my favorites (minus lion king).   the lion king just annoyed me because it's 100% animated and not at all live action.   kind of pissed all over the point of the remakes imo.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 12, 2023, 08:57 PM
So I signed up for the Disney Movie Club.

I feel like it's not something I would recommend.

The premise is you become obligated to buy 5 full priced movies over the next 2 years, and on sign up you get 4 movies for $1 total.
They have some exclusives (some of them do get resold elsewhere). Like the Black Cauldron on Blu-ray is one. You can still find it on Amazon third party, but it's $45 instead of $25 ($15 on sale) (https://www.amazon.com/Black-Cauldron-blu-ray-Grant-Bardsley/dp/B093S92PB3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=DT0UFTNW8HDV&keywords=the+black+cauldron+blu-ray&qid=1694551503&sprefix=the+black+cauldron+blu-ray%2Caps%2C133&sr=8-1)


A big downside is that full price is full price. But there's lots of promotional stuff. Like take 50% off your second movie; kind of thing.


Probably not the kind of thing to stay with, but probably worth doing it once for some people like me....


Anyways, got Soul, Brave, The Jungle Book (live action), Coco; and got Elemental and Aladdin 2+3.

So I think that covers the 4 0.25 cent movies and I think the latter 2 both count towards the 5 full priced movies.


Will probably end up getting a couple more Pixar movies and maybe Disney's Wish if that isn't terrible.
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Post by: kitler53 on Sep 13, 2023, 01:10 AM
I did the CD clubs as a kid.  
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 16, 2023, 01:14 AM
I've been kind of worried about the future of being able to acquire movies and tv shows.

Warner Bros, Sony and Disney, I feel like are pretty good about either putting their stuff on DVD/blu-ray, or in some cases they are acquirable on iTunes.  

Netflix and Amazon on the other hand, are obviously not eager to release their stuff anywhere.

It worries me a bit, with physical media not doing great.
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Post by: kitler53 on Sep 16, 2023, 02:07 AM
all on Netflix stuff is easily pirateable. 
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 16, 2023, 02:15 AM
all on Netflix stuff is easily pirateable.
*Legally acquirable*
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 17, 2023, 09:59 PM
So movie wise I want to get:
- More of the Nolan movies
- More of the classic Disney/Pixar movies
- The Godfather movies


Not sure what else I should look into getting at some point.
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Post by: Legend on Sep 17, 2023, 11:32 PM
So movie wise I want to get:
- More of the Nolan movies
- More of the classic Disney/Pixar movies
- The Godfather movies


Not sure what else I should look into getting at some point.
Every alien film.

Not the franchise, I mean every film with aliens. Asteroid City wasn't that good though  :'(
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 18, 2023, 01:14 AM
Elemental is out on Disney+ currently, it comes out next week on disc.

Feel like it should be the other way around.

Get the suckers like me to pay $20 as an incentive to watch before it comes to Disney+.

Every alien film.

Not the franchise, I mean every film with aliens. Asteroid City wasn't that good though  :'(
Does Titan AE count?
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Post by: Legend on Sep 18, 2023, 03:01 AM
Elemental is out on Disney+ currently, it comes out next week on disc.

Feel like it should be the other way around.

Get the suckers like me to pay $20 as an incentive to watch before it comes to Disney+.
Does Titan AE count?
Elemental started better than I expected but by the end it was meh imo. Surprised it did such a good job recovering.

Titan AE sure does count. Same with Treasure Planet.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 19, 2023, 12:20 AM
The opening to Up is incredible.

That's all.
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Post by: Legend on Sep 19, 2023, 12:53 AM
The opening to Up is incredible.

That's all.
As a kid it just meh lol. I wanted to see a house fly!
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 19, 2023, 03:34 AM
What did anyone else think of the new little mermaid? Watched it on disney plus and thought it was so freaking bad.

Cinderella, beauty and the beast, and jungle book are all great.

Aladdin and Lion King were more mixed but still fine.

Then mermaid and pinocchio are these fever dreams that make no sense.
I bought one from each of these tiers (Jungle Book, Lion King and Mermaid). Apparently had Cinderella, but it wasn't a movie that I had gotten...
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Post by: Legend on Sep 19, 2023, 03:39 AM
I bought one from each of these tiers (Jungle Book, Lion King and Mermaid). Apparently had Cinderella, but it wasn't a movie that I had gotten...
They just gave you a free movie?...
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 19, 2023, 04:08 AM
They just gave you a free movie?...
If by "they", you mean my in-laws, then yes.  
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 20, 2023, 02:23 PM
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 22, 2023, 03:56 PM
Apparently if you get enough movies, you get points and you can redeem them for more movies.  
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 23, 2023, 01:35 AM
Scooby Doo on Zombie Island turns 25 today.


A legitimately good movie. Not even "good for Scooby-Doo", but legitimately good.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 23, 2023, 08:12 PM
Got Elemental 4 days early so that's cool.

I thought it was really good. Kind of mid tier for Pixar though. Thought it had some great moments.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 25, 2023, 01:04 AM
My controversial Pixar opinions:

I feel like the Toy Story movies are technically fantastic, but I don't connect with them; so I don't consider them among my favorites. I think my five favorite Pixar movies would be The Incredibles, Wall-E, Coco, Inside Out and Ratatouille. That part isn't really controversial.

Brave is pretty universally considered to be one of the worst Pixar movies, yet I have a huge soft spot for it.  I have some issues with it, but I think I like it a lot more than some of the more critically acclaimed movies.  
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Post by: Legend on Sep 25, 2023, 01:33 AM
I think brave is better than most of their new stuff, I'll give you that.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 27, 2023, 12:23 AM
What did anyone else think of the new little mermaid? Watched it on disney plus and thought it was so freaking bad.

Cinderella, beauty and the beast, and jungle book are all great.

Aladdin and Lion King were more mixed but still fine.

Then mermaid and pinocchio are these fever dreams that make no sense.
Getting Mulan and Beauty and the Beast (both live action) for free.
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Post by: Legend on Sep 27, 2023, 12:38 AM
Getting Mulan and Beauty and the Beast (both live action) for free.
Nice. Don't know how I forgot about live action Mulan but I didn't like it that much.
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Sep 27, 2023, 01:01 AM
Scooby Doo on Zombie Island turns 25 today.


A legitimately good movie. Not even "good for Scooby-Doo", but legitimately good.
There was a Lego Scooby Doo movie where they go to a haunted amusement park island.  I actually liked that movie a lot.
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Post by: Legend on Sep 27, 2023, 04:29 AM
There was a Lego Scooby Doo movie where they go to a haunted amusement park island.  I actually liked that movie a lot.
Lego scooby doo movies are a thing?
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 27, 2023, 10:41 AM
Lego scooby doo movies are a thing?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Lego_scooby-doo_haunted_holllywood_poster.jpg)
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Post by: kitler53 on Sep 27, 2023, 02:11 PM
not sure why we are talking about scooby doo but since we are i'll add...

...my son watched all of the scooby doo on netflix.  i thought the IP was pretty dormant but he loved the show.  i watch a few episodes with him and i gotta say,.. it was better than what i watched as a kid.  
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 27, 2023, 02:40 PM
not sure why we are talking about scooby doo but since we are i'll add...

...my son watched all of the scooby doo on netflix.  i thought the IP was pretty dormant but he loved the show.  i watch a few episodes with him and i gotta say,.. it was better than what i watched as a kid. 
I posted about the anniversary of the Zombie Island movie.

It is legitimately very good.

What did you watch as a kid? Scooby Doo Where are You, I assume?

A lot of scooby doo is very mediocre. Zombie Island is actually great. Witch's Ghost is a little less great. Movie wise. TV show wise, Mystery Incorporated is generally considered the gold standard.
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Post by: kitler53 on Sep 27, 2023, 02:47 PM
I posted about the anniversary of the Zombie Island movie.

It is legitimately very good.

What did you watch as a kid? Scooby Doo Where are You, I assume?

A lot of scooby doo is very mediocre. Zombie Island is actually great. Witch's Ghost is a little less great. Movie wise. TV show wise, Mystery Incorporated is generally considered the gold standard.
i mean, i dunno for sure.  whatever was out in the 80's.  i think you are right.   i did like it as a kid but it wasn't my favorite.   scooby doo and TMNT are top tier franchises for my son right now.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 27, 2023, 07:04 PM




i mean, i dunno for sure.  whatever was out in the 80's.  i think you are right.   i did like it as a kid but it wasn't my favorite.   scooby doo and TMNT are top tier franchises for my son right now.
Scooby Doo Where are you came out in 1969

1980's would also include Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo (which is generally disliked relatively), 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo (which I think is reasonably liked), and A Pup Named Scooby Doo.

The 80's were a big time for Scooby Doo....  
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Post by: kitler53 on Sep 27, 2023, 08:36 PM
Scooby Doo Where are you came out in 1969

1980's would also include Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo (which is generally disliked relatively), 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo (which I think is reasonably liked), and A Pup Named Scooby Doo.

The 80's were a big time for Scooby Doo....  

did some quick google image searches:
- Scooby Doo Where Are you - Probably Yes
- Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo - Definitely Yes
- 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo - No
- A Pup Named Scooby Doo - No
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 28, 2023, 10:57 PM
Current Plex Stats:

- 55 TV shows (Notable: Avatar the Last Airbender, Breaking Bad, Columbo, Game of Thrones, Parks and Rec, The Office)
- 37 complete
- 16 in HD + A few others that were never made in HD

Notable shows I'd like to pick up yet: The Sopranos, The Wire, The Good Place

- 473 movies (Notable: Every ghibli, many disney + pixar, many DC Animated from that 30 for $8 deal..., a lot of Scooby Doo)
- 14 in 4K
- 98 in 1080p

Notable movies I'd like to pick up yet: The Godfather, Good Will Hunting, The Prestige

(A lot of the movies are from my parents, so no I didn't spend that much money.)
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- 61 TV shows (Notable: Avatar the Last Airbender, Breaking Bad, Columbo, Game of Thrones, Parks and Rec, The Office)
- 44 complete
- 26 in HD + A few others that were never made in HD

Notable shows I'd like to pick up yet: The Sopranos, The Wire
- 493 movies (Notable: Every ghibli, many disney + pixar, many DC Animated from that 30 for $8 deal..., a lot of Scooby Doo)
- 15 in 4K
- 121 in 1080p

Notable movies I'd like to pick up yet: The Godfather, Good Will Hunting, The Prestige
I have too much fun with this stuff... Can't be healthy.   :'(

iTunes hasn't been helping. Smallville was $15 for ~217 episodes. That's less than 9 cents an hour.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 30, 2023, 01:43 AM
I watched the anime movie Lonely Castle in the Mirror.  



The movie has some pretty mediocre (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lonely_castle_in_the_mirror) reviews.

The movie definitely has issues with things like pacing and whatnot. I completely understand the complaints that the reviews mention, but wifey and I loved it.

It's been a while since a movie hit this hard.

It's like my brain is like yeah the reviews are definitely fair. And my heart is like this is an outrage, it deserves better!  
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Post by: Legend on Sep 30, 2023, 03:41 AM
Automatic 5/10 max for that wolf girl in the thumbnail.




I watched "No one will save you" since it had good reviews. I liked it. Did a lot of cool things.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 30, 2023, 04:13 AM
Automatic 5/10 max for that wolf girl in the thumbnail.
What do you have against wolf girls?  
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Post by: Legend on Sep 30, 2023, 05:49 AM
What do you have against wolf girls?  
Oh fine you made me watch the trailer. I guess it's just a mask.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 01, 2023, 11:04 PM
Since no one will watch the movie anyways, I want to talk about it.

Spoiler for the premise:
<br><br>So basically there are 7 teenagers who are struggling in their life. A few of them are getting bullied at school. One of them is struggling after their sister passed away. One of them is getting abused by their dad.<br><br>They all are transported to this castle in one of their mirrors. <br><br>They are offered:<br>They have 12 months to find a key and get a wish granted. But they&#39;ll forget everything that happened at the castle.<br>Or they can keep their memories and not have a wish granted.<br>There is one rule that they can not stay past 5, or they&#39;ll die.<br><br>The kids try looking for the key. But for the most part they are just keeping the castle as a safe space.<br>


Spoiler for The Ending:
<br>The one girl who was getting attacked by her dad stays after 5, and most of the other kids were still there looking for her. They all end up dying. <br><br>The last girl finds the key and uses the wish to bring the other 6 back. <br><br>And you find out that the kids all go to the same school, but they come from different time periods. <br><br>You find out that the sister had promised the brother she would ask God to grant one of his wishes, and he asks for the chance to go to school with her.<br><br>You find out that the wolf girl was actually the sister who passed away.<br><br>And you find out that the girl who was getting abused by her dad is now the counsellor for several of the others. That she&#39;s already been watching out for the younger kids as an adult for quite a while. <br><br>
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Post by: Legend on Oct 02, 2023, 02:14 AM
Sounds interesting but I only understood like half of that. I think I need a diagram haha.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 03, 2023, 03:11 PM


Meanwhile, Pi with his Plex:

(https://media.tenor.com/5U71OKqw63YAAAAC/doc-ock-it-cant-be-stopped.gif)
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Post by: Legend on Oct 03, 2023, 03:32 PM
Just don't let the strike end, problem solved 8)
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Post by: kitler53 on Oct 03, 2023, 08:40 PM
inflation is going to upturn here again imo.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 04, 2023, 12:46 AM
I'll probably stop subscribing or only subscribe for a month here and there if they raise the price. Good shows are few and far between these days tbh
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Post by: Legend on Oct 04, 2023, 02:57 AM
I watched el dorado on netflix today. 8)
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 06, 2023, 02:16 AM
.
Have you watched any Studio Ghibli movies?
Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving castle?
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Post by: Legend on Oct 06, 2023, 04:02 AM
I watched the new haunted mansion. It was actually kinda good, except for Jamie Lee Curtis.
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Post by: kitler53 on Oct 06, 2023, 12:12 PM
Have you watched any Studio Ghibli movies?
Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving castle?
yes to bold.  I feel like I've seen more but I can't name any off the top of my head. 
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 11, 2023, 09:06 PM
(https://a.storyblok.com/f/178900/1064x1596/fb54a3de99/suzume-key-art-rerelease-tall.png/m/filters:quality(95)format(webp))


Son a biscuit.

Why won't you release it on blu-ray already?!
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Post by: Legend on Oct 11, 2023, 11:02 PM
(https://a.storyblok.com/f/178900/1064x1596/fb54a3de99/suzume-key-art-rerelease-tall.png/m/filters:quality(95)format(webp))


Son a biscuit.

Why won't you release it on blu-ray already?!
You'll go back to theaters and like it!
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 12, 2023, 06:55 PM
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Post by: Legend on Oct 12, 2023, 07:12 PM

Even online, what the heck?  :'(
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Post by: kitler53 on Oct 12, 2023, 11:26 PM
just read the era on this,..   apparently walmart is also dropping xbox (but only xbox) physical too.

not too surprised other than i'm a bit surprised it would be only xbox.    i guess maybe it makes sense but i would have thought playstation's physical sales to be pretty close to xbox with regards to being terrible.   at least from what i've seen in my personal life nintendo seems to have a bit more in physical sales.
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Post by: kitler53 on Oct 12, 2023, 11:29 PM
to add,.. i still look with bewildered eyes at the CD section every time i walk past it.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 13, 2023, 12:23 AM
just read the era on this,..   apparently walmart is also dropping xbox (but only xbox) physical too.

not too surprised other than i'm a bit surprised it would be only xbox.    i guess maybe it makes sense but i would have thought playstation's physical sales to be pretty close to xbox with regards to being terrible.   at least from what i've seen in my personal life nintendo seems to have a bit more in physical sales.
I'm pretty sure the digital only Xbox Series S is more than 50% of all Xboxes sold. Whereas the digital only PS5 isn't much of a factor.
There were still some PlayStation exclusives that were selling 50%+ physical for launch. Which isn't happening on Xbox.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 17, 2023, 03:56 PM
'Oppenheimer' sets Nov 21 digital release, 4K Blu-Ray with over 3 hours of special features (https://www.resetera.com/threads/'oppenheimer'-sets-nov-21-digital-release-4k-blu-ray-with-over-3-hours-of-special-features.775742/)


If anyone wants to get me a birthday present, you'll be a few months early.

;D
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Post by: Legend on Oct 17, 2023, 05:07 PM
Yeah oppy was pretty good.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Good_Night_Oppy.jpg)
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 17, 2023, 09:41 PM
Miyazaki Film: Boy and the Heron poster, English cast confirmed.  

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br><br>(https://cdn.animenewsnetwork.com/thumbnails/max650x650/cms/news.6/203534/boy-and-the-heron-english.jpg)<br><br>


Kind of a weird mix of people.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 19, 2023, 04:09 AM
I really love movie/TV shows/songs that make me feel things.

The ones that make me happy or sad or just weird.

There are tons of engaging well made movies that don't really hit me like that.


I love Interstellar for this scene alone. (I mean I like more of the movie, but this scene is enough)

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Post by: Legend on Oct 19, 2023, 05:44 AM
Won't spoil the scene itself but this song always hits me like that.



Always funny seeing it in other things.
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Post by: nnodley on Oct 19, 2023, 12:43 PM
I love Interstellar for this scene alone. (I mean I like more of the movie, but this scene is enough)



Oh man I love this section of the movie. The soundtrack and everything is just so good.
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Oct 19, 2023, 03:31 PM
I really love movie/TV shows/songs that make me feel things.

The ones that make me happy or sad or just weird.

There are tons of engaging well made movies that don't really hit me like that.


I love Interstellar for this scene alone. (I mean I like more of the movie, but this scene is enough)



A Silent Voice hit me hard.  I still can't watch the beginning :(
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Post by: BananaKing on Oct 19, 2023, 04:27 PM
Ugh.... thats such a good scene. I think that's when the movie goes from really good, to utterly fantastic. Its just. So. Good.

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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 22, 2023, 01:38 AM
For some reason Amazon has Oppenheimer at $40 for the UHD.  $10 more than Target/Walmart. Rather unusual.  

Though I'm 95% sure it'll even out.




A really nice thing is that the digital edition that comes with a lot of blu-ray/uhd movies, at least the ones that are Movies anywhere, unlock an iTunes copy. So it's an easy back up.

It's made me a little more pumped to get digital copies, now that I know it does that.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 22, 2023, 01:47 AM
What's the most money ya'll have spent on a movie?

I once got the special edition of Your Name. I don't remember the exact price, but it was $60+.

A notable one is The Lord of the Rings 4k, I spent like $75 on 3 movies.

There are a few 4k movies that I ordered early, that I spent way too much money on. $30 (Avatar 2, Super Mario Bros, Elemental). Kind of justified it on the basis that we were going to see them in theaters and we didn't.
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Post by: Legend on Oct 22, 2023, 02:47 AM
I might go through and see which digital codes I can still activate. With me using apple+ it'd be convenient.

What's the most money ya'll have spent on a movie?

I once got the special edition of Your Name. I don't remember the exact price, but it was $60+.

A notable one is The Lord of the Rings 4k, I spent like $75 on 3 movies.

There are a few 4k movies that I ordered early, that I spent way too much money on. $30 (Avatar 2, Super Mario Bros, Elemental). Kind of justified it on the basis that we were going to see them in theaters and we didn't.
$30, Avatar 2.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 22, 2023, 02:58 AM
@Legend, do you have an Apple TV?

I might go through and see which digital codes I can still activate. With me using apple+ it'd be convenient.
It is a lot nicer than I expected. I assumed it was relegated to the one website and never bothered with it.

But you can hook up a few other sites (Vudu, iTunes, Google Play, Amazon). I'm not sure what the limits are. But I have Vudu, iTunes connected. Any movies I buy off iTunes, shows up on Movies Anywhere and Vudu.
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Post by: Legend on Oct 22, 2023, 03:03 AM
@Legend, do you have an Apple TV?
It is a lot nicer than I expected. I assumed it was relegated to the one website and never bothered with it.

But you can hook up a few other sites (Vudu, iTunes, Google Play, Amazon). I'm not sure what the limits are. But I have Vudu, iTunes connected. Any movies I buy off iTunes, shows up on Movies Anywhere and Vudu.

No just the app on my samsung tv.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 22, 2023, 09:45 AM
No just the app on my samsung tv.
How much is the subscription and is it worth it? Been a while since I checked the offering.
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Post by: Legend on Oct 22, 2023, 04:40 PM
How much is the subscription and is it worth it? Been a while since I checked the offering.
$7 a month

Def has some great content for at least a few months. Ted Laso, Foundation, Mythic Quest, For All Mankind, and Silo are all ones I've watched and highly recomend. Pretty much every Apple show gets worse in the second and third season though. A lot of other ok looking shows I just haven't tried.

Also has a few good movies like CODA and eventually Killers of the flower Moon but they are rare.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 26, 2023, 03:34 PM
Era thread about why they don't buy physical movies: most people seem to be talking about how there are too many movies to watch most of them more than once.

And I'm kind of thinking, if I don't like a movie enough to watch it twice, it probably wasn't worth watching once.  
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 27, 2023, 07:18 PM
Disney delays 'Snow White' and 'Elio' a year, removes Jonathan Majors' 'Magazine Dreams' from calendar (https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-delays-'snow-white'-and-'elio'-a-year-removes-jonathan-majors'-'magazine-dreams'-from-calendar.779171/)

Welp I guess I'll be waiting.
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Post by: Legend on Oct 27, 2023, 07:43 PM
Well that doesn't inspire confidence in those movies. Hopefully Elio is primarily because they want to prioritize Inside Out 2 at all costs since that is still set for June 2024.

Snow White will damage their brand even more so it's smart to punt the movie and figure it out at a later date. The new South Park special from today was focused on Disney's movie failings so it feels like it's reaching a critical point from a public perspective.
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Post by: nnodley on Oct 27, 2023, 07:46 PM
has anything happened with Johnathan Majors yet?  He's such a good Kang so having him actually not be a good person and being removed as kang would suck in terms of the character.  
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Post by: Legend on Oct 27, 2023, 08:26 PM
has anything happened with Johnathan Majors yet?  He's such a good Kang so having him actually not be a good person and being removed as kang would suck in terms of the character.  
He sure feels like a replaceable actor in the new Loki season.

I think at this point it's almost guaranteed he'll be recast. Why double down on him when variants make it so easy to change the actor?
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Post by: nnodley on Oct 27, 2023, 08:30 PM
He sure feels like a replaceable actor in the new Loki season.

I think at this point it's almost guaranteed he'll be recast. Why double down on him when variants make it so easy to change the actor?
oh i'm sure he will.  They'll just have to get past that initial period where all the kang statues and stuff have all just been johnathan majors, but its easily forgettable if it has to be.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 28, 2023, 02:26 AM
For some reason I can't find where I was talking about expensive movies.

But I have a new one.  

I want to eat your pancreas (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7236034/)

Heard really good things about it. For some reason it doesn't seem to be available anywhere.

For some reason it's an exclusive that was $40, I got it for $32.  

So that's one of the most expensive movies I ever bought. Getting it tomorrow.

Always a little fun to be able to stream a movie available nowhere else.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 28, 2023, 11:30 PM
So far what I've seen:
UHD bit rate: 44 - 92 Mbps
Blu-ray bit rate: 18 - 45 Mbps
DVD bit rate: 0.5 Mbps - 9Mbps
iTunes HD bit rate ~5 Mbps


I'm a little baffled by having a blu-ray movie that has a higher bit rate than a UHD one, and I'm a little baffled by how low res that one DVD is.  Unless I tried re-encoding it for some reason. It looks so bad.
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Post by: Legend on Oct 29, 2023, 12:31 AM
Does it look so bad even when played directly from a dvd player? That's crazy bad.

Also I never before thought about how freaking low disc bandwith is compared to a raw stream. HDMI is 18 gigabits per second and up.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 29, 2023, 02:56 AM
Does it look so bad even when played directly from a dvd player? That's crazy bad.
It doesn't.

I'm not sure what happened.

Either something weird happened when I ripped the movie, or I butchered the movie to save space for some bizarre reason.

The latter makes absolutely no sense to me. Maybe I made terrible decisions when I was two years younger. Which frankly I made a few on account of having limited space.

The former seems very unlikely, but not impossible. Something weird happened when I ripped The Notebook. It only copied like the first hour, and it was in weird condition. But I've probably ripped like 600 discs and that's the only time I've noticed something like that.

The more realistic bottom for DVD seems to be 3 Mbps. 

I have 9 movies below that mark though. I could believe I butchered a couple of movies intentionally that I didn't like as much. But the other 7 don't make any sense to me. 

Going to try re-ripping those and see if they come out better.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 29, 2023, 11:31 AM
I feel like Barbie's DVD release must not have done as well. Or it's just an early sale for some reason.

DVD is currently $10 at Amazon and the blu-ray is $13.
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Post by: Legend on Oct 29, 2023, 03:01 PM
My mom bought the bluray a week ago for a lot more than $13 lol.

Physical movies need to be cheaper and/or streaming needs to be more expensive. Crazy that you can save money by buying a month of a streaming service to watch a movie vs buying the disc.
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Post by: Legend on Oct 29, 2023, 08:30 PM
Five nights at freddy's is doing amazing. 3rd biggest horror opening weekend ever, only behind It.

This is all with the movie also being "free" on peacock. Would have otherwise broke more records.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 30, 2023, 01:25 AM
My mom bought the bluray a week ago for a lot more than $13 lol.

Physical movies need to be cheaper and/or streaming needs to be more expensive. Crazy that you can save money by buying a month of a streaming service to watch a movie vs buying the disc.
Was hoping to get the UHD, but decided it wasn't worth the wait/higher charge.

Yeah, but I think that's slowly changing. At least on Netflix's side. Already $23 for the highest tier.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 31, 2023, 01:38 AM
Only got to watch the first 40 minutes I think of Barbie.

I'm having a weird time.

I can honestly say that I had absolutely no clue what I was getting into. And I can't remember the last time I watched a movie with literally no expectations. I don't think I've ever seen a trailer.

All I knew was that it came out the same day as Oppenheimer and a lot of people loved it and some people were bothered by it.

It feels well made and yet a little overly cheesy.
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Post by: Legend on Oct 31, 2023, 03:10 AM
It's a funny and creative movie but if you're not liking the first 40 minutes I doubt you'll like the rest.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 01, 2023, 01:40 AM
It's a funny and creative movie but if you're not liking the first 40 minutes I doubt you'll like the rest.
I was liking it.

For me it just has a lot of highs and some lows.

It had some amazing scenes. I appreciate the barbie land goofiness, but it has unexplained goofiness.

I really loved the ending scene.

Spoiler for Hidden:
<div style="text-align:center;margin:auto;padding:5px;max-width:560px;"><div style="position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;padding-top:0px;height:0;overflow:hidden;" class="youtube Q3xO_HwojUc"> <iframe style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q3xO_HwojUc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div></div>
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Post by: Legend on Nov 01, 2023, 04:40 PM
I was liking it.

For me it just has a lot of highs and some lows.

It had some amazing scenes. I appreciate the barbie land goofiness, but it has unexplained goofiness.

I really loved the ending scene.

Spoiler for Hidden:


I haven't talked to that many people about it, but you're the first person I know who wasn't bored during that scene.

I was just there for the goofiness.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 01, 2023, 04:58 PM
I haven't talked to that many people about it, but you're the first person I know who wasn't bored during that scene.
People are weird.







And I might be even weirder than most. 

I kind of like the mix of goofiness and serious moments.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 01, 2023, 07:05 PM
Didn't realize that WB and Disney were founded in the same year.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 02, 2023, 05:15 PM
Studio Ghibli's Boy and the Heron English trailer


Spoiler for Hidden:
<div style="text-align:center;margin:auto;padding:5px;max-width:560px;"><div style="position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;padding-top:0px;height:0;overflow:hidden;" class="youtube t5khm-VjEu4"> <iframe style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/t5khm-VjEu4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div></div><br>



Really excited for this one.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 03, 2023, 09:49 AM
Looks like Ryan Gosling is really embracing his Kenergy again with The Fall Guy. I watched the trailer because I thought this might be related to Fall Guys the game lmao

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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 05, 2023, 01:59 PM
Beauty and the Beast is particularly gorgeous on blu-ray.
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Post by: Legend on Nov 05, 2023, 09:05 PM
Looks like Ryan Gosling is really embracing his Kenergy again with The Fall Guy. I watched the trailer because I thought this might be related to Fall Guys the game lmao


Could be fun.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 09, 2023, 02:57 PM



Spoiler for Hidden:
I&#39;m a little bugged they&#39;re kind of breaking what the first movie showed. <br><br>(https://www.geekpr0n.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/momemotions.jpg)<br><br><br>They showed the parents and everyone else having the same kind of breakdown, even if they played with it a bit, with the bus driver having 5 anger emotions.<br><br>So it is probably reasonable, but it bugs me nonetheless. &nbsp;<br>


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Post by: Legend on Nov 09, 2023, 03:18 PM
Yeah teaser has me just a bit worried for its quality.

Wonder how the story will go. First was all about how sadness is ok, so will this show the opposite? The gang murders anxiety and everything is better?
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Post by: Legend on Nov 13, 2023, 05:33 PM
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 14, 2023, 03:27 AM
Watched the movie Onward. It was good.

Kind of felt like it should have been a better movie though, but that might just be it wasn't the movie I expected.
Spoiler for Hidden:
For the first half of the movie it was packaged as going to be a father-son movie, but it didn&#39;t end up being that. Doesn&#39;t make it a bad movie, but it wasn&#39;t as personally impactful as I was expecting, and it felt a little flat.


This next week will be fun for movies for me.

Picking up a handful of 4K movies. Got Pulp Fiction for $8. Oppenheimer comes out.  Got Lion King and Cinderella very cheaply.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 14, 2023, 10:06 PM
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/christopher-nolan-buy-oppenheimer-blu-ray-evil-streamers-1235790376/ (https://variety.com/2023/film/news/christopher-nolan-buy-oppenheimer-blu-ray-evil-streamers-1235790376/)

Quote
"'The Dark Knight' was one of the first films where we formatted it specially for Blu-ray release because it was a new form at the time," he continued. "And in the case of 'Oppenheimer,' we put a lot of care and attention into the Blu-ray version… and trying to translate the photography and the sound, putting that into the digital realm with a version you can buy and own at home and put on a shelf so no evil streaming service can come steal it from you."

Strong words.


Pi: why not stream your blu-ray version.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 15, 2023, 03:54 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/2Vuw7a3.png)


https://www.thewrap.com/the-abyss-aliens-true-lies-4k-blu-ray-release-dates/ (https://www.thewrap.com/the-abyss-aliens-true-lies-4k-blu-ray-release-dates/)


Might be time to become a Cameron fan...

Quote
Both versions of The Abyss will be included on both 4K UHD and Blu-ray.
Both versions of Aliens will be included on both 4K UHD and Blu-ray.
ALL THREE VERSIONS of Avatar will be included on both 4K UHD and Blu-ray.
The Blu-ray versions of The Abyss and True Lies are mastered from the new 4K scans.
The Blu-ray versions may eventually be available separately, but for now they're exclusive to these 4K UHD + Blu-ray Combos.
All 4K presentations will include Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos audio on 100 GB discs.
All titles except Aliens will include new special features.
All titles will include the legacy special features.
4K Digital versions of all these titles will be available on December 12th.
Era summary (https://www.resetera.com/threads/4k-versions-of-aliens-the-abyss-and-true-lies-get-digital-dec-12-and-blu-ray-mar-12-release.785504/#post-114954968)

I can appreciate this kind of effort.  :o
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 15, 2023, 07:17 PM
I didn't realize that Disney was making "Live Action" versions of Lilo and Stitch, Hercules and Moana....  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 15, 2023, 09:23 PM
I didn't realize that Disney was making "Live Action" versions of Lilo and Stitch, Hercules and Moana....  
Yup they even have the rock keeping his role in Moana. What even is the point? Just make a sequel.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 17, 2023, 02:48 PM
*facepalm*

Thought I only had my parents Lion King DVD, and got Lion King on 4k since it was pretty cheap. Just to notice this morning that I had already gotten the Lion King blu-ray. Not sure how I forgot about that.

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 19, 2023, 12:40 AM
Amazon seems like they have some weird thing with Oppenheimer.

For a while the price was $10 more than anywhere else. Now that's been changed.

But then there was an issue with the release date. And it's still saying expected in January, despite coming out in like 3 days.  The page fully says that is when it is coming out.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 19, 2023, 12:54 AM
Maybe they didn't buy enough? It's on backorder?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 20, 2023, 03:31 PM
Maybe they didn't buy enough? It's on backorder?
Amazon does seem to be backordered, but not by that much.

>Sunday, December 10
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 20, 2023, 05:36 PM
Physical movies need to be cheaper and/or streaming needs to be more expensive. Crazy that you can save money by buying a month of a streaming service to watch a movie vs buying the disc.
Movies vs streaming feel really out of whack price wise. 


TV shows vs streaming feels like you could break even. You can get some great TV series for $50 or less, that might take a few months to watch. I paid $50 for Game of Thrones on Blu-ray, and $60 for Breaking Bad on Blu-ray. 

On the TV series side, you can actually save money by buying physical copies vs streaming.

Yet on the movie side that's basically impossible. 

It can work out if you have kids who literally rewatch the same movie 20-40+ times.

If you're a sentimental person like me who wants to rewatch a lot of the same movies from time to time, like myself, it probably works out.


But if you're someone who wants a new movie experience every day, streaming is an insane value.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 20, 2023, 07:43 PM
Everything Everywhere All At Once will be my #20 UHD Blu-ray.

Others include LOTR trilogy, Dark Knight trilogy, Matrix trilogy, Pulp Fiction
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 20, 2023, 10:16 PM
Still no uHDs. Ps5 is connected to a 1080p screen lulz
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 20, 2023, 10:35 PM
Still no uHDs. Ps5 is connected to a 1080p screen lulz
I've been buying here and there when they reach $5-$8

My first one (Avengers: Endgame), I actually got before I had a 4k TV. It was like $8 for black friday, and I think it was cheaper than getting just the blu-ray.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 21, 2023, 01:48 PM
Amazon does seem to be backordered, but not by that much.

>Sunday, December 10
Coming on Friday now.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 23, 2023, 05:16 PM
Watched the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once.

I thought it was amazing how the movie layered absurdity and yet still made sense.  

Although there's apparently quite a few people that didn't understand the movie...
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 23, 2023, 06:17 PM
Watched the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once.

I thought it was amazing how the movie layered absurdity and yet still made sense.  

Although there's apparently quite a few people that didn't understand the movie...
I didn't really like it, but how would someone not understand multiverse stuff? It's everywhere nowadays!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 23, 2023, 11:28 PM
I think I've already mentioned most of these things before.

1.) I really like that 4k discs usually come with tons of languages. Lion King on blu-ray comes with just English, Spanish and French. The 4K version also comes with German, Japanese, Chinese, Korean (dubs and subs). Even a lot of Japanese anime only comes with Japanese and English audio options and just English subs as an option .

2.) Animated Cinderella in 4k now has the highest bitrate of any movie I have. 104.4 Mbps. Which is fascinating. #2 is Super Mario Bros at 91 Mbps. LOTR trilogy extended is next at 85-90 each. Although it's odd that the theatrical versions are only 60-65.

3.) It feels kind of wild to me that my parents/people in general would spend $50+ a month on satellite/cable as a service. Like I get it, but I feel like it sucks to invest that kind of money into a service and not really get anything out of it after the service laps.  There's way more available today, you can even get newly broadcasted episodes of stuff off iTunes. I've talked about it before, but some level of ownership has super nice qualities.


I didn't really like it
But why?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 24, 2023, 06:25 PM
Some jokes were pretty funny but others were really lame imo. Felt like a live action Rick and Morty at times and I was already pretty tired of that show. Also the main story was too obvious imo, I was hoping it'd be smarter than that.

Still an ok movie.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 25, 2023, 05:14 AM
This is movie related, but not directly so.

Basically there is a Balrog in Lord of the Rings, and someone posted on the internet a picture of it saying "this is my favorite scene", (scene with the Balrog), but they spelled it Sean.

So now there is a whole reddit sub dedicated to Sean the Balrog.

with 2500 members (https://www.reddit.com/r/SeanTheBalrogMemes/)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 25, 2023, 05:26 AM
Talk about limited meme potential lol.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 26, 2023, 09:19 PM
Oppenheimer sold out on 4K.

I don't feel like that happens too often.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 28, 2023, 03:07 AM
I love Laika.

Haven't seen Boxtrolls or Missing Link, those never looked as good to me. But Coraline, ParaNorman are great and Kubo is one of my favorites.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 28, 2023, 08:29 AM
I love Laika.

Haven't seen Boxtrolls or Missing Link, those never looked as good to me. But Coraline, ParaNorman are great and Kubo is one of my favorites.
Missing link was a movie. Don't remember a thing about it. Boxtrolls I at least remember some things.

Corpse Bride is my favorite from them. Didn't know the same people were involved in all these movies though.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 28, 2023, 08:19 PM
Corpse Bride is my favorite from them. Didn't know the same people were involved in all these movies though.
Funnily enough, I don't associate Corpse Bride with them. That was just contract work.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 29, 2023, 02:25 AM
Universal "Working To Replenish" Sold-Out Stock Of 'Oppenheimer' 4K Discs - Deadline (https://deadline.com/2023/11/universal-oppenheimer-sold-out-4k-discs-christopher-nolan-best-buy-amazon-1235641121/)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 29, 2023, 02:40 AM
Universal "Working To Replenish" Sold-Out Stock Of 'Oppenheimer' 4K Discs - Deadline (https://deadline.com/2023/11/universal-oppenheimer-sold-out-4k-discs-christopher-nolan-best-buy-amazon-1235641121/)
Seems like a great thing. Glad to see physical media have a little bit of success.  

Oppenheimer is a great movie. Different from what I expected.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 29, 2023, 07:34 PM
Some jokes were pretty funny but others were really lame imo. Felt like a live action Rick and Morty at times and I was already pretty tired of that show. Also the main story was too obvious imo, I was hoping it'd be smarter than that.

Still an ok movie.
Spoiler for Hidden:
The ending was pretty obvious from the start, but the whole journey to get there wasn&#39;t for me at least.<br><br><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="bbc_size">There&#39;s a Rick and Morty element of nihilism and multiverse stuff, but I think it uses it differently; and I never really felt like it was Rick and Morty-ish until you brought it up. &nbsp;</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="bbc_size">Rick and Morty leans into nothing matters of nihilism; but I think EEAAO comes out the other end to have a positive message. </span><br><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="bbc_size">The multiverse stuff is more focused on the superposition of different paths that can be taken; the different choices that people make with their lives, rather than simply having replacement universes or other universes to explore. &nbsp;R&amp;M doesn&#39;t particularly explore different choices that are made. It&#39;s frequently used as a backdrop to explain a universe reset and to avoid too many consequences. </span><br><br><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="bbc_size">I think EEAAO has a lot of great scenes</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="bbc_size"></span><div style="text-align:center;margin:auto;padding:5px;max-width:560px;"><div style="position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;padding-top:0px;height:0;overflow:hidden;" class="youtube bV-YkkeGqyI"> <iframe style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bV-YkkeGqyI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div></div>[/size]<br><br><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="bbc_size">Waymond&#39;s speech, </span><br><br><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="bbc_size"></span><div style="text-align:center;margin:auto;padding:5px;max-width:560px;"><div style="position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;padding-top:0px;height:0;overflow:hidden;" class="youtube evgi396RBuo"> <iframe style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/evgi396RBuo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div></div>[/size]<br><br><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="bbc_size">reconciling with Joy</span><br><br><br><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="bbc_size">I say it&#39;s a great movie! </span><br><span style="font-size: 1em;" class="bbc_size"></span>
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Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 30, 2023, 09:50 PM
Watched Teenage Kraken.

It's like a mix between Turning Red and Little Mermaid.

Not a great movie, but didn't think it was terrible either.


My son really seems to like it for whatever reason. 

But not Dreamwork's best. 
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 30, 2023, 11:38 PM
Dreamworks knew it was bleh. They spent practically nothing advertising it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 01, 2023, 04:42 PM


Trailer has an odd feeling to it imo. Hopefully its the trailer's editing and not a problem with the movie itself.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Dec 01, 2023, 07:38 PM
i loved the previous mad max and i love anya.   this is exactly the kind of movie i want to break of the tedium of two decades of superhero movies.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 01, 2023, 11:51 PM


Trailer has an odd feeling to it imo. Hopefully its the trailer's editing and not a problem with the movie itself.
Imo it looked so hype. Didn't even realize that was Hemsworth. I thought he stopped acting??
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 02, 2023, 12:02 AM
Imo it looked so hype. Didn't even realize that was Hemsworth. I thought he stopped acting??
He was on a break.

- Ross
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 02, 2023, 08:14 PM
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Nevertheless, this week, Oppenheimer had an HD share of 74% and 36% of units sold from the 4K UHD format.
If I'm understanding this right, about 1 in 3 physical copies of Oppenheimer were on UHD.
I'm assuming this means DVD: 26%, Blu-ray: 38%, UHD: 36%.

Blu-ray Sales: November 19-25: Oppenheimer Tops the Charts in Debut (https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=33649)

Might have been a rare instance that UHD outsold the blu-ray, if stock was available.


These are pretty surprising:
Interstellar 4K (97%)
Dune 4K (2021) (72%)


I'm guessing a lot of people rebuying Interstellar.  

Dune feels less surprising. It's regularly $10, and I think regularly cheaper than the blu-ray
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 03, 2023, 12:55 AM
He was on a break.

- Ross
Interesting that his character's name is Dementus as in dementia
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 03, 2023, 01:15 AM
Got the Back to the Future trilogy on 4K. 

Would also like to get Indiana Jones and Pirates of the Caribbean on 4K. And would like to get some more Nolan movies (Interstellar, Inception, etc)

Would also like to get How to train your dragon on blu-ray.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 04, 2023, 05:05 AM
Watched the first back to the future in 4K. Not sure if I'll watch the other two soon ish.

Looks great.
Not the cleanest 4K movie I've played. But it was an awesome improvement over the DVD...  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Dec 04, 2023, 03:22 PM
looks like oppenheimer 4k is in stock at my local walmart.  Might order for home delivery today since it has the option.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 04, 2023, 03:43 PM
looks like oppenheimer 4k is in stock at my local walmart.  Might order for home delivery today since it has the option.
Have you watched it or would it be the first time?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Dec 04, 2023, 03:47 PM
Have you watched it or would it be the first time?
would be the first time

ehhh maybe I won't do home delivery. $10 for delivery, plus it adds a $4 driver tip(which is fine).  But I could  just go to store instead
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 05, 2023, 08:48 PM
Turning Red, Luca and Soul coming to theaters (https://variety.com/2023/film/news/pixar-soul-turning-red-luca-theaters-1235822031/)

'Oppenheimer' Flying Off the Shelves Is Proof Movies Need Physical Releases (https://collider.com/oppenheimer-4k-sold-out-physical-media/)


Inspired to ask, because of these articles. What does the future of monetization look like for movies?

Netflix seems very content with having streaming exclusives and not releasing anything anywhere else. A lot of their partners like Universal and DreamWorks are still releasing things on DVD/Blu-ray.

On the opposite end from Netflix, Warner Bros and Disney seem very desperate to get away from streaming as their only basket. Netflix has launched some of their streaming exclusives as Blu-ray box sets. WB has been pulling their content for tax breaks, and selling it elsewhere.  

Some companies have strangely made more of a push to put stuff on physical media this year than previous years. Disney is putting Mandalorian, Loki on physical media for the first time. A number of shows and movies are getting launched on 4k/Blu-ray. Titanic and a ton of other James Cameron movies are finally getting released in 4k. Monk and Columbo are getting remastered for Blu-ray launches.

It seems that some companies are interested in getting physical media money and streaming money and box office money.  The market itself doesn't seem that interested in getting away from streaming.

Boxoffice has been seeing more successes this year.
Domestically, it's up over the past few years, but it's still lower than most of the past 2 decades. (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/) But that's despite various failures; maybe it would have been closer if Wish, Elemental, Indiana Jones, etc were better movies.  

It seems like the BoxOffice isn't going anywhere any time soon.

But physical media has largely been in decline. There are still a few success stories; but streaming has really taken over there.

I think the obvious future is that physical media will go away in a some period of time.

But are there any chances that doesn't happen? Will WB and Disney try to reorganize their releases so that physical media comes out earlier to maximize how much they get. Box office first, home media second to incentivize some people, and then streaming third? Any chance they'd try something like that? Any chance, even if it's not very successful, that it would be successful enough for them to do that?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 05, 2023, 10:43 PM
Box office=>bluray and premium digital=>streaming

Seems to be the most stable setup.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 05, 2023, 11:34 PM
Box office=>bluray and premium digital=>streaming

Seems to be the most stable setup.
I think this makes the most sense for the industry. How likely do you think it would be that they would try it out?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 05, 2023, 11:59 PM
I think this makes the most sense for the industry. How likely do you think it would be that they would try it out?
I think a few studios are pretty close. Like Sony movies tend to do that before ending up on Netflix.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 09, 2023, 08:06 PM
I had a handful of issues with the Monk movie, but overall, it was pretty good.

Managed to feel like a genuine Monk episode.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 10, 2023, 12:30 AM
>The Boy and the Heron" stands out as the first original anime film to open wide to No. 1 at the U.S. box office.

The Boy and the Heron (https://www.thewrap.com/boy-heron-miyazaki-box-office/)

Awesome, well deserved.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 10, 2023, 06:17 AM
Eastern movies are doing well. The dubbed Godzilla film has made $20 million in America+Canada.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 12, 2023, 04:22 PM
Anyone watch the Kingsman movies?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Dec 12, 2023, 04:27 PM
Anyone watch the Kingsman movies?

I saw the first two
First one was great
Second one was lame
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 12, 2023, 09:27 PM

Third was lame but less lame than the second
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 13, 2023, 06:07 PM




I really like Kung Fu Panda 1-3, but I'm not sold on this.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 14, 2023, 04:16 AM
Reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/18hv4sk/4k_remux_looks_worse_than_1080/)

1080p:
(https://preview.redd.it/dpoqebe3i56c1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=d01d78a976f88e462dbb28aba358ae864366b75a)

4K:
(https://preview.redd.it/o1tr2oh3i56c1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=af4267503812255effbc7887e31174512d2b49e3)

1080p version looks cleaner, while the 4K version has an immense amount of film grain, retains a lot of detail that is missing in the former.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 14, 2023, 04:53 AM
yuk @ 4k one.

The praise it's getting on reddit reminds me of retro gaming with blocky pixels. It's a fun aesthetic seeing the paper/pixel art but that doesn't mean it's the way the creators wanted it shown.

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 14, 2023, 04:58 AM
yuk @ 4k one.

The praise it's getting on reddit reminds me of retro gaming with blocky pixels. It's a fun aesthetic seeing the paper/pixel art but that doesn't mean it's the way the creators wanted it shown.
It's interesting. People that are very into movies seem to tend to like that kind of stuff.

The 4K version almost has a drawn on paper look to it, and that can be nice sometimes. But I do think I'd take the 1080p version 9 times out of 10.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 14, 2023, 06:38 PM
Matt Braly, Sony Team On Animated Feature - Deadline (https://deadline.com/2023/12/matt-braly-sony-animated-feature-1235666774/)

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Sony Pictures Animation is in development on a new fantasy-adventure feature from Matt Braly, the creator of Disney's multiple Emmy-nominated animated series, Amphibia.
Quote
Braly will direct from his script written with Rebecca Sugar (Cartoon Network's Steven Universe).
I haven't watched Steven Universe, but this sounds like an awesome team up. Sony Pictures Animation + Matt Braly + Rebecca Sugar.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 15, 2023, 12:22 AM
Got Indiana Jones 5 finally. Delayed from Disney, due to their payment system getting messed up, I assume.

Will have to get the first 4 Indiana Jones on 4K next year.




Watched Pulp Fiction. A very different kind of movie. Very good, but not my favorite.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 15, 2023, 01:39 AM
Got Indiana Jones 5 finally. Delayed from Disney, due to their payment system getting messed up, I assume.

Will have to get the first 4 Indiana Jones on 4K next year.




Watched Pulp Fiction. A very different kind of movie. Very good, but not my favorite.

Wonder what you'll think of it. What are your thoughts of the first 4?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 15, 2023, 02:12 AM
Wonder what you'll think of it. What are your thoughts of the first 4?
It's been a while since I watched them.
I remember very much liking 1-3, and not liking 4.

I'd like to rewatch them at some point.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 15, 2023, 10:05 AM
Got Indiana Jones 5 finally. Delayed from Disney, due to their payment system getting messed up, I assume.

Will have to get the first 4 Indiana Jones on 4K next year.




Watched Pulp Fiction. A very different kind of movie. Very good, but not my favorite.

Hehe Pulp fiction is great. So weird but some scenes are true classics
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 18, 2023, 08:28 PM
Started watching the Godfather. I'm about an hour in.

A little horrified by one particular scene.


Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>So there&#39;s a scene where a horse head is put in the bed of a movie director.<br><br>It&#39;s a real horse head, and the actor apparently didn&#39;t know that it was real.<br><br>


Kind of hard to watch with kids...
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 18, 2023, 10:21 PM
Started watching the Godfather. I'm about an hour in.

A little horrified by one particular scene.


Spoiler for Hidden:

So there's a scene where a horse head is put in the bed of a movie director.

It's a real horse head, and the actor apparently didn't know that it was real.



Kind of hard to watch with kids...
That's a famous scene  :o
But yeah pretty disgusting
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Dec 18, 2023, 10:28 PM
i have never watched the godfather so i will not read your spoiler.   intend to watch that one of these decades.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 19, 2023, 02:33 PM
i have never watched the godfather so i will not read your spoiler.   intend to watch that one of these decades.
I'm sure you will love it.
Probably more up your alley than mine.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 19, 2023, 06:38 PM
I watched the new chicken run movie while eating a chicken pot pie. Both were ok.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Dec 21, 2023, 02:35 PM
Finally got around to watching Oppenheimer.  Really good movie.  Though it was a tad bit too long.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 21, 2023, 10:30 PM
They Want You To Forget What A Film Looks Like - Aftermath (https://aftermath.site/true-lies-4k-uhd-blu-ray-james-cameron-peter-jackson-park-road-post)

A lot of people really don't like Cameron's 4k transfers.
Spoiler for Titanic:
<br>(https://lede-admin.aftermath.site/wp-content/uploads/sites/55/2023/12/Titanic-1997-2160p-UHD-BluRay-x265-DV-HDR-DDP-7.1-English-Weasley-HONE-01_19_33.png?w=710)<br>&gt;Rose lookin&#39; like a Pixar character over here. Credit: 20th Century Fox.<br>


True Lies:
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>(https://i.slow.pics/SzOqGTFF.png)<br>(https://i.slow.pics/CZKTIWZV.png)<br><br>


Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>(https://i.slow.pics/jSQpwZkn.png)<br>(https://i.slow.pics/SeCnPJpb.png)<br><br>


Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>(https://i.slow.pics/CTTKVgaU.png)<br>(https://i.slow.pics/lurKCFut.png)<br><br>



Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 21, 2023, 11:42 PM
I've gotten 6 free movies from Disney in the past 3 months.
And effectively gotten one of those free movies from the other 5.

I've gotten 1000 reward points from the free movies.
Each individual free movie has cost between 600 - 1350.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 23, 2023, 05:23 AM
Watched The Creator.

Near the start: wow this is great, how did it flop?

Near the end: maybe this didn't lose enough money...
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 24, 2023, 12:04 AM
They Want You To Forget What A Film Looks Like - Aftermath (https://aftermath.site/true-lies-4k-uhd-blu-ray-james-cameron-peter-jackson-park-road-post)

A lot of people really don't like Cameron's 4k transfers.
Spoiler for Titanic:
<br>(https://lede-admin.aftermath.site/wp-content/uploads/sites/55/2023/12/Titanic-1997-2160p-UHD-BluRay-x265-DV-HDR-DDP-7.1-English-Weasley-HONE-01_19_33.png?w=710)<br>&gt;Rose lookin&#39; like a Pixar character over here. Credit: 20th Century Fox.<br>


True Lies:
Spoiler for Hidden:

(https://i.slow.pics/SzOqGTFF.png)
(https://i.slow.pics/CZKTIWZV.png)



Spoiler for Hidden:

(https://i.slow.pics/jSQpwZkn.png)
(https://i.slow.pics/SeCnPJpb.png)



Spoiler for Hidden:

(https://i.slow.pics/CTTKVgaU.png)
(https://i.slow.pics/lurKCFut.png)





The Titanic transfer is awful.  Which one is the True Lies one?
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Post by: Legend on Dec 27, 2023, 06:56 AM
Rebel Moon is kinda ok. Bad pacing but some cool designs. Think Valerian level quality.

I thought it was based off an anime but I guess it's original. Nice.

And I love that part 2 is just in April. I wish more movies with 2 parts could be so close together.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 27, 2023, 11:30 AM
Rebel Moon is kinda ok. Bad pacing but some cool designs. Think Valerian level quality.

I thought it was based off an anime but I guess it's original. Nice.

And I love that part 2 is just in April. I wish more movies with 2 parts could be so close together.
Worth watching? I dno, reviewers love shitting on Zack Snyder. Maybe wait for director's cut? 8)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 27, 2023, 02:57 PM
I watched The Batman a couple days ago.

I feel like I didn't like the cast as much as the Nolan Batman movies. The movie was pretty solid though.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 27, 2023, 04:37 PM
Worth watching? I dno, reviewers love shitting on Zack Snyder. Maybe wait for director's cut? 8)
Yeah worth watching. It has plenty of issues but I enjoyed it more than The Creator and Ant Man 3.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Dec 28, 2023, 09:42 PM
I quite liked Rebel Moon. The cinematography is pretty great. Snyder sure does love his slow mo shots though. Little overkill.  No way in hell is the film as bad as critics say. But it is quite the trend to shame on his movies so not surprising
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Dec 29, 2023, 04:03 AM
I quite liked Rebel Moon. The cinematography is pretty great. Snyder sure does love his slow mo shots though. Little overkill.  No way in hell is the film as bad as critics say. But it is quite the trend to shame on his movies so not surprising
Snyder is becoming the new micheal bay
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 29, 2023, 03:11 PM
I watched The Batman a couple days ago.

I feel like I didn't like the cast as much as the Nolan Batman movies. The movie was pretty solid though.
My friends asked me what I think of "The Batman" and I always answer "It's Batman".  When my cousin asked he was like "I understand".  Closest thing I've seen to Batman since The Animated Series.

Snyder is becoming the new micheal bay
I was watching the tail end of Justice League a few nights ago.  I'm still blown away by it.  A shame people complain about his work the way they do.  Like, we're never going to see super heroes move the way he's shown us.  I remember when I watched his cut the first time and it got to the scene where Wonder Woman was fighting the bank robbers.  My thoughts were "This is Wonder Woman.  If she was real, this is how she'd be."  We'll never get that again.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 29, 2023, 04:45 PM
In addition to being more focused on director's work, I've also been paying more attention to "boutique labels" like Criterion.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 30, 2023, 06:05 AM
That's way more than me. I like smaller publishers like A24 and Blumhouse but I've never heard of criterion.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 31, 2023, 04:49 AM
I finished the first Godfather.

I feel like it is a movie I might appreciate more with a couple rewatches. 

The movie is a little hard to follow for a few reasons:

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>There are like 30 named characters. They are also mostly names I am not familiar with. On top of that, a lot of the names come in and out. <br><br>There are a number of time skips, where it&#39;s not even clear that there&#39;s been a time skip. <br>


Overall, it isn't my favorite movie. But I can clearly see the quality there. But I think I'll appreciate it more in the future.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 02, 2024, 03:32 PM
Going to wait on watching the Indiana Jones 5 movie. Been wanting to get the 4 movies in 4k sometime this year. Whenever it goes on a good sale.


Also doing the same thing for Star Wars. I got the 8th movie for free on 4k, and got the 9th movie pretty cheaply. Going to buy more of the rest if they hit ~$10.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 05, 2024, 04:38 AM
Movie plans for this year:
Star Wars 1-7 4K
Indiana Jones 4K
Suzume blu-ray (March 12th)
Titan AE

TV shows:
The Wire
Phineas and Ferb
Star vs the Forces of Evil
Would like to get more shows my kids are interested anyways.
Interested in the blu-rays for Monk, Psych and Columbo. I think they deserve better than standard definition...  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 05, 2024, 04:00 PM
I liked Titan AE a lot as a kid. It just felt so cool and mature lol.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 05, 2024, 05:02 PM
I liked Titan AE a lot as a kid. It just felt so cool and mature lol.
I have no idea if I'd like it if I watched it today.

There are a few movies from my childhood that I'm curious about, that are probably terrible.

We're Back: A Dinosaur's Story
Secret of Nimh.
Quest For Camelot.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 14, 2024, 04:41 AM
Things I may or may not be looking forward to, over the next few months.


Monk season 3 blu-ray - January 30th
Avatar The Last Airbender - February 22nd on Netflix
Monk season 4 blu-ray - February 27th
Rick and Morty season 7 - March 12th
Suzume - March 12th
Wish - March 12th (probably won't get this one...)
Wednesday - March 26th
Monk season 5 blu-ray March 30th
Boy and the Heron - TBA


Actually mostly TV shows, only 3 movies. 
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 14, 2024, 04:56 AM
Does anyone have any fan edits of films they've watched and enjoyed?

There are a few popular ones of the hobbit films that I'm interested in, but I haven't watched one yet.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 14, 2024, 05:12 AM
The 4K Blu-ray Collectors Market Is on Fire (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/4k-blu-ray-collectors-market-140000292.html)

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4K Blu-ray sales rose almost 6% in the third quarter of 2023 compared to 2022, and at the end of 2022 were up 20% year-over-year, marking the only segment of the physical disc business to grow, according to numbers from Digital Entertainment Group



The third-quarter total of $363 million did not include the robust "Oppenheimer" numbers as discs didn't hit shelves until Nov. 21.
Doesn't sound like there is growth in physical media overall, but that the collectors space is going very strong.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 14, 2024, 05:41 AM
Blu ray is the new vinyl, nice.

I don't think I've ever watched a fan edit of a movie. Heck I think I've only ever seen two versions of the same movie twice: Avatar + Avatar Extended cut and Justice League + Snyder Cut.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 15, 2024, 05:37 PM
I currently have 5 out of 12 Nolan movies on 4k. Oppenheimer, Dark Knight Trilogy, and The Prestige.

.
What are your favorite movies? What are the hidden classics?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 18, 2024, 06:38 PM
Lol I still need to see Oppenheimer, but why do some people think liking it is a sign of intelligence?

"I saw a mainstream hollywood movie, that means I am very smart" is such a silly take.

Guess it happens for a lot of Nolan's stuff.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 18, 2024, 08:00 PM
Lol I still need to see Oppenheimer, but why do some people think liking it is a sign of intelligence?
I would say it feels like a different kind of movie. It's not actiony, or romantic or anything like that.

Quote
"I saw a mainstream hollywood movie, that means I am very smart" is such a silly take.
Definitely silly.

Quote
Guess it happens for a lot of Nolan's stuff.
I would say so. Interstellar, Tenet probably especially.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 19, 2024, 02:38 AM
This past weekend, watched The Shawshank Redemption.

This was interesting, I watched it without knowing anything about it.

Aside from hearing that it's pretty well loved.
The internet loves it, it edges out The Godfather as the #1 movie on imdb. (https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/)


It was a very great movie for sure. No question about that.

I don't necessarily feel like it's #1 though. I like it more than The Godfather, but I feel like The Godfather is more impressive as a movie. I feel like there's more going on there.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 19, 2024, 03:36 AM
Don't think I've seen it, but not sure.

I'll put it on my movie spreadsheet ;)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Jan 19, 2024, 05:24 AM
Shawshank is amazing. 
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 21, 2024, 01:23 AM
I think this is the second most expensive movie I have ever bought. Lawrence of Arabia on 4K is in short supply, so it's been fairly pricey. Paid ~$45 for it, doubt it will get cheaper.

Kind of feels fun to have rare movies and TV shows.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 22, 2024, 05:14 PM
Sometimes it feels weird to see the things that never got released on physical media vs the things that do.  

Warner Archive just announced (https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=33888) they're releasing a bunch of old Scooby-Doo movies on blu-ray.

Sometimes I feel anxious about physical media's existence. And yet here we are, Warner Bros is putting out some 35 year old Scooby-Doo movies on blu-ray. A bunch of Cameron movies are being reworked for 4K.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 22, 2024, 05:38 PM
Glad it's not like video game collector editions where the game is still digital.

I feel pretty good about movie discs sticking around, but I don't know if physical games will.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Jan 22, 2024, 10:12 PM
Glad it's not like video game collector editions where the game is still digital.

I feel pretty good about movie discs sticking around, but I don't know if physical games will.
physical movies can be played on any number of devices.

ps5 games can only be played on ps5 and may require a patch to be played even solo/offline.   the long term preservation of a disc based game just isn't the same as it is with movies anymore.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 24, 2024, 01:28 AM
Kind of noticing that none of the Disney 4K movies i have, feature Dolby Vision; and none of the Nolan movies feature Dolby Vision.

That feels kind of weird. The Batman has Dolby Vision. The Godfather films have Dolby Vision on the 4K. Back to the Future does.

Not that I particularly care. I was just looking at Titanic 4K on my plex server, and noticed it has a Dolby Vision tag on it, and was looking through whatever else had Dolby Vision.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 24, 2024, 08:36 AM
Is dolby vision just a brand name for hdr or does it do something special?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 24, 2024, 04:51 PM
Is dolby vision just a brand name for hdr or does it do something special?
There's 3 different things here:
HDR10 => static metadata
HDR10+ => dynamic metadata
Dolby Vision => dynamic metadata


HDR10+ is barely supported.
Dolby Vision/HDR10+ is considered better, because individual scenes can be color mapped/adjust the lighting better for individual scenes.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 24, 2024, 06:00 PM
I guess I've never looked into hdr for movies. Lame that they can't just throw full floating point colors at the screen.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 24, 2024, 07:58 PM
I guess I've never looked into hdr for movies. Lame that they can't just throw full floating point colors at the screen.
I think the challenge is more about storing the colors in a stream ;)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 24, 2024, 08:47 PM
I think the challenge is more about storing the colors in a stream ;)
Split the movie across 4,000 discs if you have to, I want uncompressed 96 bit colors!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 29, 2024, 03:53 PM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Jan 29, 2024, 05:22 PM
oh good.  it got a sequel.   afterlife was really good.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 29, 2024, 07:36 PM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 29, 2024, 08:00 PM
Twice as much at the box office and a two thirds of the budget, yet Aquaman will still struggle to break even. Really shows just how big of a disaster The Marvels is.

Pretty impressive how good Aquaman has done since everyone expected so little from it. It's the highest grossing DCEU movie since the first Aquaman.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Jan 29, 2024, 08:47 PM
Watched The Marvels yesterday.  It deserved to have done better than it did, imo.  it was a pretty good movie.  There was some wacky bits in the villain and story, but it was a good standalone entry.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 31, 2024, 01:16 AM
Sounds like Oppenheimer has been #1 for physical media the past 8 weeks.
Also sounds like it's usually a surprisingly even 3 way split between DVD, blu-ray and UHD.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 05, 2024, 04:18 AM
I've never seen The Shining (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film)#Initial_reviews) but I thought this was interesting.

When it came out, it was nominated for worst director and actress.

And now it's regarded pretty highly. One of the best movies of all time according to some people.

>In 2017, Empire magazine's readers' poll ranked the film at No. 35 on its list of "The 100 Greatest Movies", and in 2023 Empire also ranked it No. 1 on its list of "The 50 Best Horror Movies
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 05, 2024, 04:44 AM
I've never seen The Shining (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film)#Initial_reviews) but I thought this was interesting.

When it came out, it was nominated for worst director and actress.

And now it's regarded pretty highly. One of the best movies of all time according to some people.

>In 2017, Empire magazine's readers' poll ranked the film at No. 35 on its list of "The 100 Greatest Movies", and in 2023 Empire also ranked it No. 1 on its list of "The 50 Best Horror Movies
I knew about people disliking the actress, but I had no idea that that extended to the film as a whole. That's pretty surprising.

That's funny that contemporary critiques just wanted a cheap horror film or a direct book adaptation. Kinda interesting that Kubrick had so many movies release to mixed reviews. Glad opinions have changed.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 05, 2024, 04:36 PM
"We're fully written through movie five, and I've got ideas for six and seven, although I'll probably be handing the baton on at that point," Cameron told PEOPLE. "I mean, mortality catches up. But I mean, we're enjoying what we're doing. We're loving it. We get to work with great people." (https://people.com/james-cameron-reveals-already-has-plans-for-avatar-6-and-7-8558690)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Feb 05, 2024, 04:54 PM
I don't think we need a six and seventh. lol

I'm fine with 4 or 5.  This doesn't need to become a fast and furious situation.  

However there is so much potential for stories based on all of the rich Pandora lore.  I think the jake & neytiri stories need to wrap up by 4 or 5
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Feb 05, 2024, 05:12 PM
i didn't think we needed a sequel...
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 05, 2024, 05:23 PM
If we get one movie every 5 years, I think they can just make them forever. No worry of oversaturation and no worry of entries just being pushed out the door, at least while JC is still in charge.

Just hope the quality stays constant. 3, 4, and 5 sound great from what they've talked about but if every film is slightly worse than the previous, that's going to be a pretty lame end for the franchise.

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 07, 2024, 09:18 PM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 07, 2024, 09:37 PM
Nice! All the rumors I had read expected Zootopia 2 to fill that slot. That's a great surprise.

What the heck does this mean for the live action movie though? Was that turned into this?

edt: nope. Guess there was a disney+ series in the works that instead became this.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Feb 07, 2024, 09:45 PM
cool.  moana is one of my favorites.  hope it turns out good.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 13, 2024, 07:01 PM


Surprised no one posted this.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 14, 2024, 03:26 AM
Not sure if anyone is a big fan of Star Wars.

There are some fan projects that have been working on restoring the films of the original trilogy in 4K, before the various edits that were made in later launches.

They just finished 4K80, apparently it took several years to procure the film and to work through them for that one.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 14, 2024, 04:58 AM


Surprised no one posted this.
I'm not a deadpool guy, but wolverine is cool.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 16, 2024, 03:14 AM
In recent weeks, watched Titan AE for the first time since I was a kid and Treasure Planet for the first time ever.

Both of them feel like good, but not great movies. I feel like they're both underappreciated to an extent.

Titan AE is a very unique movie I think. It has some issues. It starts off pretty good I think. I feel like there are a few parts of the story that just kind of happen without much justification. But overall good.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 19, 2024, 02:45 AM
So I now have 3 Quentin Tarantino movies (Reservoir Dogs, Inglourious Basterds, and Pulp Fiction)

and 8 out of 12 of Christopher Nolan's movies. Missing his first 3 and Tenet. And I have 7 of them in 4K.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 19, 2024, 02:13 PM
Not sure if anyone is a big fan of Star Wars.

There are some fan projects that have been working on restoring the films of the original trilogy in 4K, before the various edits that were made in later launches.

They just finished 4K80, apparently it took several years to procure the film and to work through them for that one.
I was looking at the projects.  I think they captured the footage with an iphone?  Cause no one wanted to touch the film reels since they were supposed to be "Destroyed"
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 19, 2024, 03:47 PM
I was looking at the projects.  I think they captured the footage with an iphone?  
I haven't seen any reference to this?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 20, 2024, 03:43 PM
I haven't seen any reference to this?
I think it's in a video.   No telecine company would touch the films out of fear.  They even have clips of people working on the footage, I think it took like months of fixing each frame, just to amount to like, minutes of film.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 20, 2024, 04:21 PM
Disney Movie Club shutting down in May (https://cordcuttersnews.com/disney-movie-club-is-shutting-down-amid-declining-dvd-blu-ray-sales/)


Joy... Just when I got the 60% discount.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 20, 2024, 07:26 PM
Disney Movie Club shutting down in May (https://cordcuttersnews.com/disney-movie-club-is-shutting-down-amid-declining-dvd-blu-ray-sales/)


Joy... Just when I got the 60% discount.  


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There are some significant developments happening within the home video industry of late, developments that I've been spending a lot of time investigating and really digging into these past few weeks here at The Digital Bits.

And I can now confidently report that one of them is this:

Disney and Sony have just inked a major deal for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment to take over all of Disney's physical media production going forward.

This means that Sony will handle and oversee the actual authoring and compression of discs, that they'll work with the replicators and packaging vendors, and that they'll oversee the titles as they go out to the distributors and on to retailers.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Feb 20, 2024, 07:37 PM
consolidation of a dying industry.   makes sense to me.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 20, 2024, 07:43 PM
Mixed feelings.

Very sad to see the DMC go.

But this will likely mean better Disney releases.

Disney has a tendency to cheap out on their 4K releases. They frequently only use 66 GB discs, lack Dolby features. The first Pirates of the Caribbean movie is one where people argue that the 4K transfer is worse than the blu-ray ones. Disney has also stopped releasing movies in Australia. I think the writing has been on the wall for them.

Sony has some excellent releases. And maybe this will be a good thing.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 20, 2024, 08:39 PM
I'm happy as long as the next Avatar still gets a 3d disc release ;D

How Disney's 'Moana 2' Jumped From Streaming to Theaters (https://www.thewrap.com/moana-2-disney-sequels-strategy/)
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The switch was set in motion a few months ago, when Disney execs started getting a look at nearly finished episodes of the long-developing "Moana" series. (...) Soon, a plan was hatched: Could the episodes be combined into a single theatrical experience?
Yeah that doesn't fill me with any confidence. Was nearly finished as a tv show and only switched into a movie a few months ago.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 21, 2024, 06:44 PM
I think there are probably like 20 movies I still want to get before DMC closes down, with my 60% discount.

Mostly the Star Wars 4Ks and then some random Disney animations.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 21, 2024, 08:09 PM
Split the movie across 4,000 discs if you have to, I want uncompressed 96 bit colors!

It's finally possible.
Meet the Super DVD: Scientists Develop Massive 1 Petabit Optical Disk (https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-super-dvd-scientists-develop-massive-1-petabi-1851272615)

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 21, 2024, 08:39 PM
It's finally possible.
Meet the Super DVD: Scientists Develop Massive 1 Petabit Optical Disk (https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-super-dvd-scientists-develop-massive-1-petabi-1851272615)


Oh journalism.

"An array of HHD drives that could fit a petabit of data would be about 200 centimeters high. An equivalent array of Blu-Ray storage would be over 2 meters high."
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 21, 2024, 11:15 PM
Dune Part Two coming soon  8)
I'm hyped
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 23, 2024, 04:07 PM
Oh journalism.

"An array of HHD drives that could fit a petabit of data would be about 200 centimeters high. An equivalent array of Blu-Ray storage would be over 2 meters high."
This showed up on my news feed.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 23, 2024, 09:22 PM
Megamind 2 looks so bad.  

The writing and acting doesn't sound great. The visuals are so poor.



It looks very in line with the tv series that they're making.   :-\





Kung Fu Panda 4 is also coming soon. I am not sure how this one will shape up. I think it at least looks good.
Still has Jack Black.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 23, 2024, 09:48 PM
Looks like it's a tv show. Doubt they have any long term plans with the megamind ip though so I guess it makes sense to act like it's a real sequel. Not coming to movie theaters right?

Kung Fu Panda 4 is just a regular sequel. It'll probably do great.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 23, 2024, 09:52 PM

Looks like it's a tv show. Doubt they have any long term plans with the megamind ip though so I guess it makes sense to act like it's a real sequel. Not coming to movie theaters right?
Yeah just a Peacock release I guess.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 25, 2024, 03:27 AM
So the Snow White 4k comes with the 4k, blu-ray and DVD. Which I don't think I've ever seen that before.

I think it's more common to outright skip the blu-ray, let alone also include a DVD.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 25, 2024, 03:58 AM
I have yet to buy a 4k movie so I haven't really thought about it, but it's kinda odd that they skip bluray most of the time in those bundles. Who still uses a dvd player yet is buying 4k movies?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 25, 2024, 04:35 AM
I have yet to buy a 4k movie so I haven't really thought about it, but it's kinda odd that they skip bluray most of the time in those bundles. Who still uses a dvd player yet is buying 4k movies?
Sorry I worded that very poorly/ambiguously.

I meant it seems way more common for a standalone 4K disc than 4K + blu-ray + DVD.
The vast majority of releases seem to have 4k+blu-ray. But a number of releases will omit/skip the blu-ray. But this is the first time I've seen a bundle that goes all the way from 4k to DVD.

Out of the 38 movies I have bought on 4K:
4K only: 7 (LOTR trilogy, Godfather trilogy, Titanic)
4K + blu-ray: 30
4k+blu-ray+DVD: 1

It makes perfect sense for 4k only to be more common than 4k+blu-ray+dvd, but it's weird because 4k+blu-ray just seems to be the norm.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 27, 2024, 04:59 AM
Not that anyone cares.

But I got Inglourious Basterds. There was no digital code included, despite the box saying otherwise.

So I emailed Universal. They asked for pictures of the back and front. I sent them.

I noticed afterwards that there's a small line that says the included digital copy may not be valid after 2022.

I don't super care about the digital code, but eh, I feel like I should have it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 27, 2024, 07:03 PM
Not that anyone cares.

But I got Inglourious Basterds. There was no digital code included, despite the box saying otherwise.

So I emailed Universal. They asked for pictures of the back and front. I sent them.

I noticed afterwards that there's a small line that says the included digital copy may not be valid after 2022.

I don't super care about the digital code, but eh, I feel like I should have it.
I wish those digital copies never expired. I've never bothered but one of these days they might be nice.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 27, 2024, 07:22 PM
I wish those digital copies never expired. I've never bothered but one of these days they might be nice.
Most of them don't actually expire.

Warner Bros has started expiring their old codes, whereas I've successfully used some 4 year expired Disney codes without any issues.

I started redeeming them, so I could recycle the paper.  But it also feels like a potential backup if something were to happen the physical copies too.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 03, 2024, 02:56 AM
I have been having a weird thought process when I am looking through my movies and shows lately. I don't recall having this before.

Like I am thinking how much time do I realistically have to watch something? Out of these options, what might people here want to watch?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 04, 2024, 09:08 PM
The 4k blu-ray reddit is getting excited about Walmart. Best Buy used to have exclusive steel books, which they are no longer selling.

Some Walmarts have set up steelbook sections.

Would be neat if it came over here. My Walmart barely has any blu-ray/4k.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Mar 05, 2024, 02:08 PM
I have been having a weird thought process when I am looking through my movies and shows lately. I don't recall having this before.

Like I am thinking how much time do I realistically have to watch something? Out of these options, what might people here want to watch?
Not the t.v. show thread, but yeah, I've been spending so much time up converting videos, shows, etc that I feel like I'll never get around to watching them.  I'll see how I feel once I'm done arching my Saturday morning cartoons and put them on Plex.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 07, 2024, 03:26 AM
The 4k blu-ray reddit is getting excited about Walmart. Best Buy used to have exclusive steel books, which they are no longer selling.

Some Walmarts have set up steelbook sections.

Would be neat if it came over here. My Walmart barely has any blu-ray/4k.
My local Walmart has far more blu-ray and 4K than they've ever had.

They hardly had any blu-ray or 4k before. Mostly the anime section and a couple others like Oppenheimer. They mostly just stocked DVD.

Today, they had a whole section of steel books that included a number of 4k movies.

I was actually tempted to buy something.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 07, 2024, 07:14 PM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 07, 2024, 07:39 PM
So will all these new emotions actually be bad, or will pixar say they have good parts too just like sadness?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 07, 2024, 07:47 PM
I'm weirdly optimistic about the Riley stuff and pessimistic about the internal emotion stuff.

So will all these new emotions actually be bad, or will pixar say they have good parts too just like sadness?
I said before, it bothered me that the adults have 5 emotions and now Riley has like 9.  

What will happen to the other 4?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 07, 2024, 07:57 PM
What will happen to the other 4?
Maybe anger gets to take care of them non-batman style  8)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 08, 2024, 01:35 AM
Sorry I worded that very poorly/ambiguously.

I meant it seems way more common for a standalone 4K disc than 4K + blu-ray + DVD.
The vast majority of releases seem to have 4k+blu-ray. But a number of releases will omit/skip the blu-ray. But this is the first time I've seen a bundle that goes all the way from 4k to DVD.

Out of the 38 movies I have bought on 4K:
4K only: 7 (LOTR trilogy, Godfather trilogy, Titanic)
4K + blu-ray: 30
4k+blu-ray+DVD: 1

It makes perfect sense for 4k only to be more common than 4k+blu-ray+dvd, but it's weird because 4k+blu-ray just seems to be the norm.
Paramount is apparently doing a whole line of them for very cheap.

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: nnodley on Mar 08, 2024, 05:03 PM
So i bought a nexigo aurora pro 4k laser projector for my office/game room. it has active 3d built in and its pretty stunning watching 3d on a 100inches just 5 or so feet back.  So i did end up buying the way of water 3d blu ray.  It has a digital code for the movie if anyone wants it? I already have the digital version so I don't need it again.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 08, 2024, 09:32 PM
So i bought a nexigo aurora pro 4k laser projector for my office/game room. it has active 3d built in and its pretty stunning watching 3d on a 100inches just 5 or so feet back.  So i did end up buying the way of water 3d blu ray.  It has a digital code for the movie if anyone wants it? I already have the digital version so I don't need it again.
I also bought it in 3d bluray, but I haven't watched it yet.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 09, 2024, 02:27 AM
Movie plans for this year:
Star Wars 1-7 4K
Indiana Jones 4K
Suzume blu-ray (March 12th)
Titan AE

TV shows:
The Wire
Phineas and Ferb
Star vs the Forces of Evil
Would like to get more shows my kids are interested anyways.
Interested in the blu-rays for Monk, Psych and Columbo. I think they deserve better than standard definition...  
Well.  

I've already picked up most of my list.  

I really need to pace myself better.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 11, 2024, 02:22 AM
 I have a tendency to filter out movies/games/TV shows that aren't related to things I don't know.

Like I will generally follow sequels/production companies(Disney Animation, Ghibli)/directors (Shinkai, Nolan, etc) that I'm already familiar with.

I think that's a big reason why I'm so geared towards animation.

I also think animation is just really great.

It's like there's enough separation that certain things can feel more palatable.

And they don't have to be gory.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 11, 2024, 02:30 AM
First part makes sense.

So many animated movies are gory, so I don't get your second part.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 11, 2024, 03:11 AM
So many animated movies are gory, so I don't get your second part.
Sorry my second half of my post wasn't really thought out.

It's like there's enough separation that certain things can feel more palatable. Like Dragon Ball would probably look less appealing/less convincing if it looked more realistic.

And they don't have to be gory. When things are real, you're probably going to be expecting more realistic amounts of blood and more realistic guts for the same kind of content. You are expecting a beat up guy to have semi-realistic bruises. Whereas animation can look cute with bruises. There's certainly plenty of gory animation, but I feel like animation can get away with having less.

(https://files.tofugu.com/articles/japan/2015-04-29-dragon-ball-training-guide/beat_up_gohan_sitting_by_cliff.jpg)

This same imagery would probably be horrifying in real life.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 11, 2024, 03:15 AM


Oppenheimer got 7 wins out of 13 nominations.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 11, 2024, 08:38 AM
And RDJr got his first. Really deserved it!
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 11, 2024, 02:58 PM
Just for fun.  
IMDB Top 250 movies (https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/)

I have the top 9 now. 8 of them in 4K, except for Shawshank Redemption.
13 of the top 15. 10 in 4K.

16 of the top 20, 13 in 4K.  


23 of the top 50.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 11, 2024, 08:46 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/First_Man_%28film%29.png)

Anyone watch First Man?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 11, 2024, 09:28 PM
Also what are some other good directors that I "should" be following?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 11, 2024, 09:56 PM
It's good but not great imo.

Kinda niche but I like Martin Scorsese and Denis Villeneuve.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 12, 2024, 12:32 AM
It's good but not great imo.

Kinda niche but I like Martin Scorsese and Denis Villeneuve.
I wouldn't call them niche lmao
Also what are some other good directors that I "should" be following?
Other than? I maybe missed the ones you're already following.

David Fincher, Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, Miyazaki, Spielberg, Tarantino, Ridley Scott sometimes, Stanley Kubrick
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 12, 2024, 12:41 AM
I wouldn't call them niche lmaoOther than? I maybe missed the ones you're already following.

David Fincher, Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, Miyazaki, Spielberg, Tarantino, Ridley Scott sometimes, Stanley Kubrick
You have a refined taste in directors so I get why you don't consider them niche. I'm just glad to know there is at least one other person that appreciates these unknown heroes of cinema.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 12, 2024, 01:30 AM
Other than? I maybe missed the ones you're already following.

David Fincher, Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, Miyazaki, Spielberg, Tarantino, Ridley Scott sometimes, Stanley Kubrick
I was just in general meaning niche directors I may not have heard of.

I have at least one movie from every director this far mentioned except for Ridley Scott.

The Martian is on my short list, though.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 12, 2024, 04:00 AM
I'm excited for Civil War since it's directed by Alex Garland. Everyone loves Ex Machina but I also really loved Annihilation from him.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 12, 2024, 10:59 AM
I was just in general meaning niche directors I may not have heard of.

I have at least one movie from every director this far mentioned except for Ridley Scott.

The Martian is on my short list, though.
Hehe I guess they aren't very niche.

American Gangster, Black Hawk Down I felt was great too and obviously gladiator, Alien and Blade Runner.

You have a refined taste in directors so I get why you don't consider them niche. I'm just glad to know there is at least one other person that appreciates these unknown heroes of cinema.
Hehe I know that's a joke.

Denis really has been going under the radar though. I mean everyone knows about Dune but his last movies are:

Incendies - haven't seen but great reviews
Prisoners - superb imo
Enemy - good reviews, haven't seen
Sicario - haven't seen, very good reviews
Arrival - really good!
Blade Runner 2049 - superb imo
Dune - superb imo
Dune part 2 - still haven't seen but apparently amazing
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 18, 2024, 05:40 PM



$31 though...  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 18, 2024, 07:04 PM
Rango is such a weird movie. I saw it in theaters and thought it sucked. Everyone else also thought it sucked and I promptly forgot about it.

Yet it has had a resurgence and people act like it's good now. Was it an age thing? Young kids loved it and can now make it popular?
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 18, 2024, 07:21 PM
Rango is such a weird movie. I saw it in theaters and thought it sucked. Everyone else also thought it sucked and I promptly forgot about it.

Yet it has had a resurgence and people act like it's good now. Was it an age thing? Young kids loved it and can now make it popular?
It's great.

People just think it sucks because it's a weird movie.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 18, 2024, 08:30 PM
It's great.

People just think it sucks because it's a weird movie.  
lol definitely not why I thought it sucked. I like weird movies.

Probably more of an age thing. All the old animated movies I can remember liking were more around the mid 2000s, like Happy Feet and Flushed Away.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 18, 2024, 08:42 PM
lol definitely not why I thought it sucked. I like weird movies.

Probably more of an age thing. All the old animated movies I can remember liking were more around the mid 2000s, like Happy Feet and Flushed Away.
If you were to watch Rango again, and still thought it was worse than Flushed Away and Happy Feet, I don't know what to tell you. 

(https://media1.tenor.com/m/iBy1lw4OZ_wAAAAC/big-lebowski-the-dude.gif)



It's a solid 7.5/10 movie. Better than Happy Feet. Not quite good enough to be a classic like Mulan, Zootopia.


I'm not sure that I liked it as much the first time. It's an ugly movie, but it's great.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Mar 18, 2024, 10:55 PM
Rango is such a weird movie. I saw it in theaters and thought it sucked. Everyone else also thought it sucked and I promptly forgot about it.

Yet it has had a resurgence and people act like it's good now. Was it an age thing? Young kids loved it and can now make it popular?
What? Rango was always awesome. Everyone I know who've seen it also loved it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 18, 2024, 11:40 PM
Bored me to tears personally, but I was probably tired when watching
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 20, 2024, 03:04 AM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 20, 2024, 10:31 PM


I don't like the face huggers running around like generic movie monsters, so hopefully that's not a sign of the whole film being generic, but it looks great!
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 20, 2024, 10:33 PM

Hopefully good. She looks more like Charlize Theron here than I expected
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Mar 20, 2024, 11:54 PM
I loved the chariot pulled by motor cycles. 
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 21, 2024, 03:06 AM
Movies and TV shows I'm looking forward to in the next few months.
- Kung Fu Panda 4 (TBA)
- The Boy and the Heron
- Dune II on 4k (TBA)
- Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island on blu-ray (April 30th)
- Succession on blu-ray (TBA)
- Maybe Suits on Blu-ray (yesterday it came out)
- Monk season 5 (March 26th)
- Wednesday (March 26th)
- Monk season 6 (April 23rd)
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 21, 2024, 04:56 AM
That's a lot of blurays. I doubt I buy another till Avatar 3.

Maybe I just need to upgrade my setup and get back into it.

Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 21, 2024, 04:45 PM
That's a lot of blurays. I doubt I buy another till Avatar 3.

Maybe I just need to upgrade my setup and get back into it.
It's how I watch pretty much everything now.
Buy the UHD/blu-ray/DVD, load it into Plex.

Wouldn't necessarily recommend it, but I have a lot of fun with it.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Mar 22, 2024, 02:41 PM
I saw road house. dang what a trash movie
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 23, 2024, 12:55 PM

I saw a different trailer in the cinema last night. Was kind of epic. Probably a must see on the big screen just like the previous movie.



I don't like the face huggers running around like generic movie monsters, so hopefully that's not a sign of the whole film being generic, but it looks great!
Could be good. The director makes tense movies
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 25, 2024, 01:13 AM
I watched Suzume a few days ago.

I liked it more than the previous movie Weathering With You, but it was still nowhere near as good as  Your Name. Which doesn't mean a lot, as that is still one of my favorite movies ever.

All of his movies are consistently awesome to look at.

(Suzume)
(https://www.alternateending.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ceYZCBfwbBwSpGJ6PapNVw5jqLG.jpg)


(Your Name)
(https://www.iamag.co/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cover-yourname.jpg)

But some of the stories have issues. Like I was really enjoying Children Who Chase Lost Voices, but then it kind of felt like it fell on its face towards the end.


Suzume's story had a few issues, but for the most part I enjoyed it.

The biggest complaint that I have:

Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>It felt like the main character had an attraction that the movie doesn&#39;t really care for. <br><br>Like there&#39;s a romantic aspect to the story, that it feels like the movie doesn&#39;t actually believe in. <br>
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 25, 2024, 03:01 AM
The colors in those screenshots look great
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 25, 2024, 04:06 AM
Some more screenshots I picked out from the movies, because I was having trouble finding some.  

Weathering With You:
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br><br><br>(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/863088098530557962/1221670354104094740/image.png?ex=66136c2d&amp;is=6600f72d&amp;hm=14ca4c392f27e3f0dea3d180b94efceafbdaf76d6e95fec711f15030df7d3446&amp;=&amp;format=webp&amp;quality=lossless&amp;width=1270&amp;height=671)<br><br>(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/863088098530557962/1221670355006001202/image.png?ex=66136c2e&amp;is=6600f72e&amp;hm=2ff7696adb953e9b6eef305ba9d6e765612a4d4044bc38fc1fc37816d2134223&amp;=&amp;format=webp&amp;quality=lossless&amp;width=1193&amp;height=671)<br><br><br>


Your Name;
Spoiler for Hidden:
<br>(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/863088098530557962/1221670355815497778/image.png?ex=66136c2e&amp;is=6600f72e&amp;hm=83522a3a6da865e6a5cd228a70eb507d693d0eed03a945ed3767b8b021fc7997&amp;=&amp;format=webp&amp;quality=lossless&amp;width=1193&amp;height=671)<br><br>(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/863088098530557962/1221670356746637372/image.png?ex=66136c2e&amp;is=6600f72e&amp;hm=0884469dad0416fc41662653ac7e48d07239ddda179ac3322d42050237f2c68f&amp;=&amp;format=webp&amp;quality=lossless&amp;width=1193&amp;height=671)



Here's a few other screenshots from his 2 most recent movies.  

The Studio Ghibli movies look really good, but somehow these edge past them in my book.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 27, 2024, 01:41 AM
So Warner Bros is putting out a new blu-ray of Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island and Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island.

The former is probably the best Scooby-Doo movie ever. And the latter is very hated.

It's funny how many people are disappointed that it's a 2 in 1 pack with the latter.

Quote
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Dexter's Lab and Scooby Doo on Zombie Island Blu-ray announcement on the same day? Did I die and go to heaven?
But it includes Return to Zombie Island, So maybe you went to Hell?
This is an exchange on the blu-ray.com website.  
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 27, 2024, 02:01 AM
A sequel made in 2019 from a beloved franchise? Of course it sucks!  ;D

No clue if I've seen the first one or not. I watched scooby doo from time to time but the live action movies are the only ones I can individually remember.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 27, 2024, 02:29 AM
A sequel made in 2019 from a beloved franchise? Of course it sucks!  ;D
I haven't seen the sequel, but apparently it retcons a bunch of things that made the first great.

But I've never seen people so disappointed by a two pack.
Quote
No clue if I've seen the first one or not. I watched scooby doo from time to time but the live action movies are the only ones I can individually remember.
Interesting  :o

I've said it before. Zombie Island is great. Not even "great for Scooby-Doo", it's just a great movie.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 27, 2024, 02:55 AM
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 27, 2024, 04:00 AM

I saw the duck part of this during the superbowl and was confused. Thought the Migration movie had robots and they were advertising a short that'd be included with the bluray or something.

It has a cool look and a cool premise. If the story holds up, which I doubt, it could be really great.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 27, 2024, 02:48 PM
A month ago:
Reddit - Journalist looking to talk to people who collect physical media (https://www.reddit.com/r/4kbluray/comments/1aws038/journalist_looking_to_talk_to_people_who_collect/)



Today:

The Guardian: "The film fans who refuse to surrender to streaming: 'One day you'll barter bread for our DVDs'" (https://www.reddit.com/r/criterion/comments/1bozps8/the_guardian_the_film_fans_who_refuse_to/)

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When a hurricane struck Florida in 2018, Christina's neighborhood lost electricity, cell service and internet. For four weeks her family was cut off from the world, their days dictated by the rising and setting sun. But Christina did have a vast collection of movies on DVD and Blu-ray, and a portable player that could be charged from an emergency generator.

Word got around. The family's library of physical films and books became a kind of currency. Neighbors offered bottled water or jars of peanut butter for access. The 1989 Tom Hanks comedy The 'Burbs was an inexplicably valuable commodity, as were movies that could captivate restless and anxious children.

"I don't think 99% of people in America would ever stop to think, 'What would I do if I woke up tomorrow and all access to digital media disappeared?' But we know," Christina told me. "We've lived it. We'll never give up our collection. Ever. And maybe, one day, you'll be the one to come and barter a loaf of bread for our DVD of Casino."
Not often I see a journalist reaching out through Reddit.

The headline sounds a little silly to me. It's a line from a hurricane survivor. 
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 27, 2024, 06:58 PM
Cool story but such a specific situation. Nowadays a neighbor with starlink could barter movie streaming in the same way.
Title: Re: Movie Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 28, 2024, 12:03 AM
HALO: Season 2, Se7en 4K release delayed to 2025, the challenges of film preservation in the digital age & more (https://thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/032724-1430#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThank%20you%20for%20your%20pre,shifting%20the%20release%20to%202025.)

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"Thank you for your pre-order of Se7en 4K. We are thrilled for you to see it beautifully remastered in UHD. We are working behind the scenes to bring you the most pristine version of the film possible. To that end, we will be shifting the release to 2025. We appreciate your patience and understanding and look forward to sharing the product with you in the near future."

Kind of wild that a remaster of a movie in 4K gets delayed by 7+ months.