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Underrated (by fans) - Star Trek Into Darkness (my favorite movie of the summer)
Overrated - This is the End
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The GodfathersTerminator 1 and 2GoodfellasPulp FictionForrest GumpSuperman 1 and 2Beverly Hills CopThe ExorcistAnd every film on your list besides Indy and Halloween!
I'd say Forrest Gump, Superman 1, Terminator 2, and The Exorcist are all ones you see first!
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The only two films on your list I have seen are Halloween and Indiana Jones the Last Crusade. Both are great movies, so watch those first!
Haha ok! I was planning on saving all of the horror movies for a marathon around Halloween week
but I'll have to dig for Indy 3 in the DVD folder lol. Can't believe I've never seen it or Temple or Doom! What a sad film buff I am -
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I still think The Good Dinosaur will be the highest grossing movie of Summer 2014
1. Pixar's golden release date (last weekend of May) - Up and Finding Nemo both did great in this slot
2. Dinos = $$$ - little boys will automatically love it
3. An original property - originality is always a plus during the heat of summer
4. 3 weeks all to itself - no kiddie competition until HTTYD2
5. Intriguing plot - more thought-provoking than Brave anyways
I'd say:
$77 million opening weekend
$324,5 million DOM total
2. Spidey 2: $310 million DOM total
3. HTTYD2: $295 million DOM total
4. TF4: $270 million DOM total
5. DOFP: $225 million DOM total
6. Maleficent: $210 million DOM total
7. Apes 2: $205 million DOM total
8. F&F6: $190 million DOM total
9. Guardians of Galaxy: $185 million DOM total
10. Million Ways to Die: $175 million DOM total
But I definitely think the 3 biggest films of 2014 will be Mockingjay Part 1, Hobbit 3, and the Minions spinoff - not to mention Tomorrowland, Ridley Scott's Exodus, Big Hero 6, and Interstellar all being contenders for big hit status.
I'd actually say November-December 2014 has a better lineup than Summer 2014
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In no particular order and all of which have been featured in the 1001 Movies list at some point. I've also never seen any of these. Here's my list:
1. Blade Runner
2. Hannah and Her Sisters
3. Being John Malkovich
4. Little Miss Sunshine
5. Broadcast News
6. Seven Samurai
7. From Here to Eternity
8. The Godfather Part II
9. Spartacus
10. The Great Escape
11. Lawrence of Arabia
12. 2001 - A Space Odyssey
13. M*A*S*H
14. Saturday Night Fever
15. This is Spinal Tap
16. Bonnie and Clyde
17, Pulp Fiction
18. Apocalypse Now
19. The Birth of a Nation
20. Intolerance
21. Metropolis
22. A Fish Called Wanda
23. Midnight Cowboy
24. The Grapes of Wrath
25. 8 1/2
26. Shane
27. Heat
28. Sunset Blvd
29. Fantasia
30. Halloween
31. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
32. Dawn of the Dead
33. A Nightmare on Elm Street
34. Goodfellas
35. Fight Club
36. Taxi Driver
37. West Side Story
38. Raging Bull
39. Se7en
40. Spirited Away
41. Grave of the Fireflies
42. Princess Monokoke
43. Fargo
44. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
45. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
46. Once Upon a Time in the West
47. Full Metal Jacket
48. Memento
49. Almost Famous
50. The Big Lebowski
What classic/iconic films have you been meaning to see?
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Seeing Trainspotting so far down the list makes me sad...
One of the worst "brilliant" films I've ever seen... when Anchorman, Dumbo, All the President's Men, The Graduate, The Goonies, Young Frankenstein, The Muppet Movie, Airplane!, My Neighbor Totoro, When Harry Met Sally, Breakfast Club, etc aren't on the list, it makes me mad that a movie about a bunch of Scottish heroin junkies even got in the top 150 let alone top 100
Slumdog Millionaire would have been a better Danny Boyle film to put on here IMO
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Seriously guys no before trilogy. Grrrrrrrrr
Haven't seen any of them. I'll get to watching them on Netflix and probably rent Before Midnight at Redbox once I've seen the first two
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1. Elysium: $42 million
2. Planes: $34.5 million
3. We're the Millers: $24 million
4. Percy Jackson 2: $20.5 million
5. 2 Guns: $13 million
6. The Wolverine: $10.5 million
7. The Smurfs 2: $9 million
8. The Conjuring: $8 million
9. Despicable Me 2: $6 million
10. Grown Ups 2: $5 million
Not a bad weekend at the box office except Planes has a good chance of winning the weekend
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Best 13 Films of 2012
1. The Avengers - A+
2. The Dark Knight Rises - A
3. Wreck-it Ralph - A-
4. Silver Linings Playbook - A-
5. The Hunger Games - A-
6. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - B+
7. The Perks of a Wallflower - B+
8. Chronicle - B+
9. Hotel Transylvania - B+
10. Life of Pi - B+
11. Lincoln - B
12. The Amazing Spider-Man - B
13. Looper - B-
With Les Miserables getting the coveted F
Still haven't seen Argo, Django, Beasts of Southern Wild, Amour, or Pitch Perfect
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Monsters University: Better story and unconventional twist
Despicable Me 2: Crowd-pleasing and hilarious
Really both are about the same but I enjoyed DM2 a little more because of the Minions and of how much it reminded me of the care-free attitude of Shrek 2 back in 2004
Monsters University will probably age better though
I can't truly say my opinion on this matter until I've seen The Croods, Cloudy 2, and Frozen
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1. Mama - B+
2. Identity Thief - F
3. Oz: The Great and Powerful - A-
4. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone - B-
5. G.I. Joe: Retaliation: C+
6. Iron Man 3: A-
7. Star Trek Into Darkness: A
8. This is the End: B
9. Man of Steel: B+
10. Monsters University: A-
11. Despicable Me 2: A
12. Grown Ups 2: B+
Still need to see for 2013 (with my most anticipated in bold) -
1. The Croods
2. Mud
3. 42
4. Oblivion
5. The Great Gatsby
6. Now You See Me
7. World War Z
8. The Lone Ranger
9. The Way, Way Back
10. Fruitvale Station
11. Pacific Rim
12. The Conjuring
13. The Wolverine
14. Elysium
15. Lee Daniels' The Butler
16. Insidious Chapter 2
17. Cloudy 2 - Revenge of the Leftovers
18. Gravity
19. Thor - The Dark World
20. Delivery Man
21. Catching Fire
22. Frozen
23. Grace of Monaco
24. The Hobbit - Desolation of Smaug
25. American Hustle
26. Saving Mr. Banks
27. Anchorman - The Legend Continues
28. Monuments Men
29. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
30. August: Osage Country
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Grown Ups
Grown Ups 2
Just Go With It
Cars 2 (A 38% for Pixar might as well be below 30% lol - definitely deserved a 65% on RT IMO)
Jack and Jill
Meet the Fockers
Transformers 3
Batman and Robin (if viewed as a comedy, the movie isn't half bad
)Baby Geniuses (guilty pleasure of mine as a kid)
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can DM2 reach the 350m mark?
If it drops under 50% this weekend, then yeah
it could since there'll be no kid competition until Cloudy 2. I'd say 355-360 is the range for how high it'll go -
Yeah We're the Millers should get 25-30m opening weekend with this kind of start
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I'm not a Nolanite but he's my favorite director of the 21st century just because he proves blockbusters don't have to be excessively stupid or aimed at teenagers to make big bucks.
I've only seen 4 of his films:
The Dark Knight - A+
The Dark Knight Rises - A
Batman Begins - A-
Inception - B+
He's also the only director I can think of who has not made a truly terrible (Michael Bay or Adam Sandler terrible) film
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I'm surprised Forrest Gump wasn't mentioned. $55 mil budget and did $677 mil WW but one of the writers who was supposed to get a % of the net profits had to sue because the studio was claiming it had not made any profit.
I think they settled out of court to avoid having to show their books in open court.
Edit- Here's a good read on Forrest Gump and creative Hollywood accounting:
http://www.redballoon.net/humor/gump.txt
And a few more examples:
http://www.creativemovieaccounting.com/examples-of-hollywood-accounting.html
Forrest Gump made a HUGE profit lol... it's the movie that made Tom Hanks flithy rich since he got 10-15% of the gross net profits... He basically got 30 to 40 million for the movie back in 1994. They were just trying to avoid giving them their paycheck
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1. Paths of Glory: 5/5 - definitely a nice, short war drama and probably Kubrick's most underrated
2. My Left Foot: 5/5 - Daniel Day Lewis and the kid in the movie were spot on. Great unconventional biopic!
3. The Big Sleep: 3/5 - confusing film noir that's saved by Lauren Bacall's looks and the chemistry between her and Bogie
4. Drive: 3.5/5 - Great throwback to 70s thrillers but Ryan Gosling isn't convincing as a tough guy. Albert Brooks, Hal from "Malcolm in the Middle"
and Carey Mulligan were great though. 5. Monsters University: 4.5/5 - easily Pixar's funniest since Finding Nemo and a great tribute to Revenge of the Nerds, Animal House and the college films before it. I didn't like how Sully was sidelined and Randall's reason for not liking Sully is beyond stupid. I loved the unconventional ending and it really showed that Pixar knows how to put a different spin on a story we think we know
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Will Ferrell, Bill Murray
non-sequiter: Where is Charles Grodin nowadays???
Since he's 78 years old, I'd guess he's happily retired... even though he's not doing anything these days, Jason Segel couldn't convince him to reprise his role from Great Muppet Caper in the new movie
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90 - Goodfellas
91 - JFK
92 - Unforgiven
93 - N/A
94 - Pulp Fiction (obviously. But I love both Forrest Gump and The Shawshank Redemption)
95 - None
96 - Fargo
97 - L.A. Confidential (but I'm fine with Titanic winning)
98 - The Thin Red Line
99 - American Beauty or The Insider
00 - Traffic
01 - None
02 - N/A
03 - N/A
04 - Million Dollar Baby
05 - Brokeback Mountain
06 - The Departed
07 - No Country for Old Men
08 - N/A
09 - Inglourious Basterds
10 - The Social Network
11 - None
12 - N/A
Does N/A or None mean you can't come up with one?
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I don't understand. Why did The Dark Knight affect the next two years seeing that the winners are different from your original post.
Because one of Pixar's masterpieces needed to win (WALL-E and Up) and I actually hated The Hurt Locker, Avatar and pretty much all of the nominees except Blind Side & Up... so I gave it to Pixar! and I didn't think Nolan should win BP twice within two years so I gave it to David Fincher
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As of the 20's I only agree with 2000, 2003, 2004, 2007, and 2009.
Should have been
2001- Monsters Inc
2002- The Ring (Although 8 Mile should have won too)
2005- The Exorcism of Emily Rose
2006- Letters from Iwo Jima
2008- The Dark Knight
2010- Toy Story 3
2011- The Help
2012- Life of Pi (although Django Unchained, Zero Dark Thirty, and Silver Lining Playbooks I would like to see win too)
8 Mile? ....... it's a good thing you aren't the Academy
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I don't have time to go through all the years but I'll select my most obvious
1990-Goodfellas
How'd I forget that?!!
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No way Wall-E should've won Best Picture in 2008. The Dark Knight should've won that.
All right...
2008: The Dark Knight
2009: Up
2010: The Social Network
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The years where the right film won BP are in bold
1927:Metropolis
1928: Steamboat Bill, Jr
1929: Unknown? Can't think of one
1930: All Quiet on the Western Front
1931: City Lights
1932: Scarface
1933: King Kong
1934: It Happened One Night
1935: Captain Blood
1936: Swing Time or Modern Times (can't decide)
1937: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1938: Bringing Up Baby
1939: The Wizard of Oz
1940: The Grapes of Warth
1941: Citizen Kane
1942: Yankee Doodle Dandy
1943: Casablanca
1944: Double Indemnity
1945: The Lost Weekend
1946: It's a Wonderful Life
1947: Miracle on 34th Street
1948: Red River
1949: Bicycle Thieves
1950: Sunset Boulevard
1951: The Day the Earth Stood Still
1952: Singin' in the Rain
1953: Roman Holiday
1954: On the Waterfront
1955: The Night of the Hunter
1956: The Ten Commandments
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958: Vertigo
1959: Some Like it Hot
1960: Psycho
1961: Breakfast at Tiffany's
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1963: The Great Escape
1964: Dr. Strangelove
1965: The Sound of Music
1966: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1967: The Graduate
1968: 2001 - A Space Odyssey
1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1970: Patton
1971: Dirty Harry
1972: The Godfather
1973: The Exorcist
1974: The Godfather Part II
1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976: Network
1977: Star Wars
1978: Superman
1979: Apocalypse Now
1980: Raging Bull
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1983: Terms of Endearment
1984: The Natural
1985: Back to the Future
1986: Stand by Me
1987: Fatal Attraction
1988: Grave of the Firefiles
1989: Do the Right Thing
1990: Edward Scissorhands
1991: Beauty and the Beast
1992: Unforgiven
1993: Schindler's List
1994: Forrest Gump
1995: Toy Story
1996: Fargo
1997: L.A. Confidential
1998: The Truman Show
1999: The Sixth Sense
2000: Requiem for a Dream
2001: LOTR - Fellowship of the Ring
2002: LOTR - The Two Towers
2003: LOTR - Return of the King
2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005: Walk the Line
2006: Pan's Labyrinth
2007: No Country for Old Men
2008: WALL-E
2009: The Hurt Locker
2010: Inception
2011: Midnight in Paris
2012: Life of Pi
I guess they only got it right 19 times
What do you think should have won each of those years?
but I'll have to dig for Indy 3 in the DVD folder lol. Can't believe I've never seen it or Temple or Doom! What a sad film buff I am 
Iconic Films You've Been Meaning To See
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Good thing Pulp Fiction and Apocalypse Now are on instant Netflix! Gonna watch them first