AndyLL

About 5 hours until the deadline. If for some reason you can't login and cannot get a hold of me PM me your picks by midnight PST and I'll add them:

Now's the time to do it. There's a few people that are not active on the forum but were experts at the Derby. Even I might have a chance to win this week. (LOL... not a chance)

Welcome. Long time no see.

I changed the oil on the site and cleaned the windows... hopefully it still works. https://derby.boxofficetheory.com/Predictions.aspx I would put in placeholder predictions early to make sure there are no issues. The Derby is running on a new Server and Database and I've had no practice runs. @TalismanRing @lilmac @Keanu @ChipDerby @Bates @8wombi7 @Wildbill @Tower @Simionski @Rolling Thunder @Keanu @The Fast and the Furiosa @JMorphin @Sheikh @Boxx93 @TheXper @boxofficeth @datpepper @a2k @kayumanggi @glassfairy

We're about to find out...

Yep. We rarely go to the theater unless it's Dolby/IMAX. The only day our entire family can see Matrix is on Monday. NWH gets the IMAX and splits Dolby with Sing2!?! It's a 1/2 drive to our theater fairly and fairly expensive so we'll probably just go to NWH again. My son's gonna watch it at work and I'll just watch it on Max

Watched the 1st one earlier. Pretty good Watching the 2nd one now. I want to claw my eyes out

Yes 3rd act is great. Visuals are beautiful. A few spots that were a little slow could've been tightened up.

I wouldn't have known if not for these forums. I don't follow movies on social media. I would have loved to be surprised.

Spider-man relies on the relationship between Spider-man, Peter Parker, and his 'companions'. I've always felt that fans gave Rami a pass because of the good stories and great villains even with weak relationships between the characters. AM had great characters and relationships but weak stories and poor story telling. MCU Spidey has great relationships between Spider-man/Peter Parker/MJ/Ned and other than a weak story in FFH has been the most solid trilogy of all the modern versions of the franchise.

So... while we're waiting for numbers... Am I the only one that hates Toby Maguire and thinks Raimi botched the relationship between Spidey and MJ?

@RthHome Where are you when we need you most?

That was going to be the original spell. At the end Dr Strange said it was too late to do that spell and the only option was to erase PP completely.

Well... I will always take my AMCs Dolby theater over home. (they also have liemax and 2 other huge screens) But it's a 45 minute drive. For convenience I saw BW last night at my local AMC. One of their larger theaters but sitting in the middle of the theater did not feel 'immersive'. The screen seemed small and my current 7.2 home system in a small room has better sound then that theater did. You can't beat the atmosphere of a full theater on a blockbuster opener but you can certainly mimic the sound/visual at home these days at a reasonable cost

It's a new world and we'll have to adjust. Old metrics are not comparable. From r/hometheater: Some selected comments:

BOT is obviously back to pre-pandemic levels...

Yeah... but the data they got was that families are not yet comfortable going back to the theater. The poor multiplier shows that. I think they will re-consider.

Agreed. I agree with Cap. This was always lower tier MCU. I did expect 90 even before Covid. As far as im concerned its over performing

$30 for a 1st run movie is a bargain for families. It's a huge bargain for family movies where the parents really don't care much for the movie and in the past are only going for their kids. Why do I have the feeling most of those complaining about this do not have kids? I only have one kid but I can think of 100s of times over the past 14 years where it would have been cheaper and more convenient to pay $30 to watch at home instead of going to a theater.

Yes

At $950 California still has one of the lowest limits before shoplifting becomes a felony. (and the previous limit of 400 was crazy) I found this site that lists all the states petty thief laws and limits before it becomes a felony. https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/crime-penalties/federal/petty-theft.htm

Prop 47 just classified most thief crimes under 950 as misdemeanors meaning minor sentences for 1st time offenders. It is similar in most states. Here in Colorado it goes up to 2000. (although over $750 can mean up to 18 months in jail) I think what happened in SF is the DA publicly said they were not going to waste police resources on petty thief because it cost way more to arrest/jail/try petty thief criminals then it is to just ignore them. While true this seems to have lead to groups organizing and taking advantage of the situation. If the issues continue I'm sure they will have to crack down a little more. As far as Walgreens saying Prop 47 lead to them having to close 17 stores... never believe large corporations when they say stuff like this. My understanding is the saturated the SF city center with over 50 stores and when the pandemic hit and everyone started working from home they had to close and consolidate a lot of their stores. I'm sure that is happening everywhere.

Well... I just READ the posts... not just skimmed them. There were ZERO negative posts until Wednesday. The reaction to all the character announcements was positive. There were several people excited about it and plenty of others interested. After 3 years of positivity ... when the RT score was posted almost every comment was negative: That doesn't include the 'neutral' comments that were trending towards possession. I'm not sure why you think pointing out the obvious change of tone in this thread once the Rotten Tomato score was posted is "wanted to start something" This forum has always had a habit of changing their opinions of a movie based on RT. I can't tell you how many times over the years I've seen someone excited about a movie all of a sudden say: "I guess I won't see it now" when it receives poor reviews.

I'm certainly not complaining about the critics. I just don't understand why so many here are swayed by their opinions... especially on comedy films since humor is so subjective. The 1st one was rotten on RT... this one is rotten. Now if there is a decent amount critics that liked the 1st one and hated this one... those reviews might be worth reading. But to go from being excited about the movie to declaring it not worth watching based on an aggregate RT score is kinda stupid.

LOL... this forum will never change. 3 pages of excitement about this movie then RT trashes it and now everyone hates it. 😆 The critics didn't like the 1st one... did anyone really expect them to like this one? You all live and die by the Tomato way too much.