Cmasterclay

I'm there with you Blank- this movie felt like a mediocre TNT drama in terms of how it was shot and staged. Very TV movie, but not HBO TV movie. I think I expected that, though, and was able to enjoy it more because the comedy is a ton of fun.

Yea, this was also appreciably small-scale and well-paced, especially in the climax. Ends with just a simple showdown on the bridge. It has the direction/production value of a Lifetime movie, but the script is sharper than I expected in all regards and the Rock/Hart are magic on-screen. A fun little bit of summer entertainment.

Me and you are seeing eye to eye this summer. I had Star Trek doing only 50 mill OW but it has done well for itself lately and I've come around on it actually being good. I haven't heard one single person talk about Bourne. Seen the first trailer alot, but that's it. No TV marketing, no second trailer, no nothing. I know it skews older, but yeesh. I'm at 45 mill for that right now, but like MI5 that might increase as we get closer to release. As for Suicide Squad, that did have massive buzz after the first couple trailers last year, and a ton of people were sharing/talking about it. I was at 95 OW for a point. But after BvS and all the news of SS being cut to shit, I'm completely out on that movie. The buzz has absolutely died due to BvS, too, given it's the movie equivalent of a wet fart in church. I'm also expecting a really bad movie. If marketing picks up again and reviews are surprisingly decent I could see that being very big still, yes.

Oh for sure. I was saying this in the Ghostbusters topic (aka hell), but just in terms of buzz this movie has the most of any left this summer IMO. Everyone I know is talking about it, good or bad, and it has a huge marketing/promotion/social media presence. It's everywhere. With the expectation of only decent reviews, I'm predicting Ant-Man OW (57m), but it reviews come through as strong I might bump that to 65m+. People are underestimating this one. It's a McCarthy Feig comedy AND a blockbuster action movie that is part of a beloved brand. It'll be big.

Tarzan kind of reminds me of the Last Airbender- a poorly reviewed, poorly marketed brand movie that everyone thought was going to be a mammoth flop but ended up doing pretty good over the Fourth of July weekend.

Last summer was pretty awful at this point, too, outside of Mad Max. Hell I would say it was alot worse, when it came to live-action movies. It wasn't until the solid Ant-Man and Trainwreck, and more importantly the awesome MI5/The Gift/Compton trio over the last three weeks that we really got some great movies. This summer hasn't had a Mad Max, but it did have Popstar (favorite movie of the year) and Civil War, along with Nice Guys and Central Intelligence, both of which were fun. I have hopes that Star Trek/Bourne/Sausage Party/The Founder/The Infiltrator/Ghostbusters will boost this summer quality wise (no hope for Suicide Squad, sadly). It's another back loaded summer, maybe.

Huh......I know that's still terrible relative to budget, but that seems alot better than I was expecting for Tarzan.

What a fucking finale. Also, props to the awesome subtle acting by Harrington and Turner in the "winter is here" part overlooking Winterfell. They really just brought home six seasons worth of emotions and memories in just a couple of seconds. I know those two sometimes have gotten flack for their acting in the series, but they crushed it this season. Also, that episode might give Headey the Emmy win, not just nom.

A true crossover hit in the making. Older adults looking for a mature war movie AND rabid Harry Styles fans.

It's not like Littlefinger is exactly a trustworthy guy, that's the whole reason she rejected him in the first place. Besides, Jon wanted to go quickly primarily because of weather. Waiting around for unknow/unconfirmed reinforcement wouldn't have been too smart in that regard.

God, please let Jaime live. He's the best character (not my favorite, necessarily- there's a difference). I think the season either ends on Tower of Joy, King's Landings Burning, or Dany leaving for Westeros. The Wall coming down is too early. Would make everything else irrelevant fast.

Frey Pies might still be coming. I doubt they're showing a big Frey event just to have a random celebration next episode. Something's going down there.

Season 6 has been pretty great and just as good as 3 and maybe 2, IMO. The only difference is people just love to complain. The Door might be my favorite episode of the show. 5 is by far the worst but Hardhome is maybe the best episode ever, and the last three episodes in general were terrific (but people were always gonna complain because their precious Stannis the Mannis did a bad thing, which was sooooo out of character for him). I think this season is a big jump back in quality, but people are just looking for reasons to complain. And I'm not just some casual fan. I loved the books and read them before the show, and even have read all the other content like a World of Fire and Ice and Dunk and Egg etc. But it's also important to note I HATED the last two books relative to everything else. The first three are all in my top ten books ever. The last two have about five worthy chapters, and I thank the show for streamlining.

But you said "most people are coming around to the fact that quality is declining," which, if true, would probably be reflected by declining ratings.

If by most people are coming around to the fact that it is declining, you mean that it is having its highest rated season ever, is now the most popular show on planet Earth once streams are factored in, and just won its first Emmy for Best Show and is going to again, sure, most people. Dudes complaining about every line change from the book on ASOIAF forums are not "most people." They're a tiny vocal minority. The show is as popular as ever.

Dude, I've been meaning to ask....you have never said one positive thing about this show. All you ever do is complain. So why watch? You hate it so much, just stop watching.

Short of Ellen DeGeneres being involved in a horrific crime and becoming this generation's O.J, I am willing to bet anything that Dory doesn't drop anymore than 60 percent max next weekend. C'mon now.

Usually that one comes first, methinks.

I feel like Ethan needs to get on Tinder.

Oh, I'm making this by the close of (box office) business today, at the latest. Sorry bud! I never indulge in epic floppage clubs, so hope you'll allow me this. Also, ID4 is one of my fave summer movies ever, so it's not like I'm happy it's come to this. But now it ends.

Wait, Ethan lost his virginity?

I mean if FD matched TS3's exact drop from a 140 OW, it would do 76 second weekend. That means we would be expecting ID42 to do less than 38 million at this point. Which, maybe, but yeeeesh. I'll debate it in my head on the way home from work.

Or maybe now I want to start a Dory Weekend 2 DOUBLE Independence Day Weekend 1 club Like Cjohn said, the other club might be useless.

Finding Dory second weekend DOUBLE ID42 opening weekend club, who's with me?

Mods: Can I actually do this right now? Because I want to be the one to do this. Or should we wait for Friday numbers?