The Panda

Predicts Previews: 8.5m OD: 42.5m OW: 105.4m 2nd: 51.6m (-51%, 182m) 3rd: 31m (-40%, 228m) 4th: 19.5m (-37%, 256.5m) 5th: 12.5m (-35%, 275.2m) Total: 326m

This thread is to appreciate and love the diversity of the world and in the Panda species!

I'd like to submit an encouragement to the members. The Panda Appreciation Club may be about Pandas but it is a club meant for all to join and appreciate...Pandas. All are welcome, we exclude no one, except those who wish to exclude others. The Panda Philosophy is one of Equality. All people and pandas are equal to each. No man is greater that his sister, no woman is greater than her brother, no Panda is greater than their neighboring Panda. It is the Panda way to detest all evils of racism and hatred in this world. We believe in living in harmony, loving our neighbors (of all races, religions, genders, identifications, orientations, culture, ethnicity and species), and eating Bamboo in peace. Violence and hate against one another is darkness, and as MLK once said (in a paraphrase) we cannot drive out this darkness with darkness, only light can do that. So let us take today to show love to our fellow neighbors and drive out this darkness with our light.

Crazy how Annabelle 2 is going to increase from Annabelle, despite how disliked the first was.

I meant to post it in the CC

Internet trolls really need to learn to get better at insulting. Like, are the words libtard, snowflake and millennial the only ones you know? Lol. It's pretty sad, trolling quality has really fallen off a cliff post-Trump.

I saw a few set reports but not much else. Haven't read the leaks, but some of the events are fairly logically deduced. After the Queen's Justice it made sense that Daenerys had a great opportunity to ambush Jaime as he was bringing the loot back to King's Landing.

They literally cut out the part where he said "maybe that's for the best. I've seen it, it's fabulous."

This was nuts! A++

Valerian should have been dropped after week 1 imo.

It's confirmed: The season will end with The Night King and Jon Snow both at Eastwatch. Jon Snow says, "There doesn't have to be a battle. Let's settle this the old way, you against me." The Night King then opens his mouth for the first time to say, "You're right. Hit it." He then raise his arms up and snaps his finger. And one dead man pulls out a guitar, another a microphone, and the dead giant pulls the big ol' drumset made of bones he was carrying on his back as they start jamming out to a death metal version of "Thriller." The Night King drops his sword and proceeds to boogie like no White Walker has done before, taunting Jon Snow to beat his wickedly, cool moves, if he wasn't an ice man he'd be on fire. Jon Snow looks confused for a moment and he knows nothing that could match The Night King's groove. But he must try, so he drops Longclaw throws down his cloak as he prepares to show the King his boogie and the credits roll with the biggest cliffhanger of the century.

I think it's a little long but it's truthful and works to try to give background and open eyes to some of the realities that police brutality was and is still a thing, and how the same arguments 50 years ago are still being held today. The hotel scenes are disturbing, and there's moments that almost feel like humor from the confusion but it's to sinister to make you laugh, that was my big detraction from the film. For a film that seems to be criticizing passitivity, it can be pretty passive. What I liked best about the film was that it also offers a lot of sharp commentary on the bystander effect. People will say "Man, that's messed up!" and then turn an eye and do nothing. Even those who help don't really, they would rather avoid the mess than try to help fix it. While the silence didn't mean the bystanders approved, it did mean that they sat back and let it happen, without giving much effort to de-escalate the situation. I think the film could have used a little bit of trimming, it meandered a bit, and it could have compressed some of the first two acts and added a bit more to the trial (for example, maybe demonstrating the "fake" trial civil rights activists at the time held so they could declare the three men guilty). It's an unsettling movie, with a great ensemble cast, but at times can feel as if it's a bit much. It needed a little bit more humanity than what was offered. B+

It's also important to point out when you add legal streams (through Hulu and HBOGO) the viewership numbers are well over 25m (I think they were around 20m for season 6). Then apparently there's reports of 90m torrenters, but I'm not positive.

Lololol, IT's OD > September OW Record

Lol, Kingsman/Ninjago wouldn't even take the record if IT wasn't coming out.

It's over 100m on Facebook, way more than mummy

IT's OD could potentially be over mother! DOM

Predicts for rest of the year How I think things will turn out now Star Wars: The Last Jedi - 225m / 815m Beauty and the Beast - 175m / 504m Wonder Woman - 104m / 407m Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 - 147m / 389m It - 104m / 321m Spider-Man: Homecoming - 117m / 315m Thor: Ragnarok - 114m / 302m Justice League - 125m / 288m Coco - 58m / 263.2m Despicable Me 3 - 72m / 260m Logan - 88m / 227m Fate of the Furious - 99m / 226m Dunkirk - 51m / 185m LEGO Batman - 53m / 176m Get Out - 33m / 175m Boss Baby - 50m / 175m Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales - 63m / 172m Kong: Skull Island - 62m / 168m Cars 3 - 54m / 151m Blade Runner: 2049 - 41m / 148m Pitch Perfect 3 - 31m / 147m War for the Planet of the Apes - 56m / 145m A Bad Mom's Christmas - 34m / 142m Split - 40m / 138m Girls Trip - 31m / 132m Transformers: The Last Knight - 45m / 131m Downsizing - 24m / 122m Fifty Shades Darker - 47m / 114m Kingsman: The Golden Circle - 32m / 110m Baby Driver - 21m / 108m The Shape of Water - 12m / 107m My Little Pony - 36m / 105m Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - 17m / 104m The Papers - 14m / 102m

How I think things will turn out now Star Wars: The Last Jedi - 225m / 815m Beauty and the Beast - 175m / 504m Wonder Woman - 104m / 407m Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 - 147m / 389m It - 104m / 321m Spider-Man: Homecoming - 117m / 315m Thor: Ragnarok - 114m / 302m Justice League - 125m / 288m Coco - 58m / 263.2m Despicable Me 3 - 72m / 260m Logan - 88m / 227m Fate of the Furious - 99m / 226m Dunkirk - 51m / 185m LEGO Batman - 53m / 176m Get Out - 33m / 175m Boss Baby - 50m / 175m Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales - 63m / 172m Kong: Skull Island - 62m / 168m Cars 3 - 54m / 151m Blade Runner: 2049 - 41m / 148m Pitch Perfect 3 - 31m / 147m War for the Planet of the Apes - 56m / 145m A Bad Mom's Christmas - 34m / 142m Split - 40m / 138m Girls Trip - 31m / 132m Transformers: The Last Knight - 45m / 131m Downsizing - 24m / 122m Fifty Shades Darker - 47m / 114m Kingsman: The Golden Circle - 32m / 110m Baby Driver - 21m / 108m The Shape of Water - 12m / 107m My Little Pony - 36m / 105m Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - 17m / 104m The Papers - 14m / 102m Annabelle: Creation - 35m / 94m Molly's Game - 24m / 95m Suburbicon - 28m / 92m mother! - 23m / 92m Ferdinand - 18m / 88m American Made - 25m / 87m The LEGO Ninjago Movie - 23m / 84m The Hitman's Bodyguard - 27m / 88m Logan Lucky - 24m / 81m The Snowman - 25m / 78m The Greatest Showman - 12m / 76m The Disaster Artist - 7m / 74m The Star - 20m / 72m Wonder - 18m / 70m Wonder Wheel - 6m / 68m Murder on the Orient Express - 21m / 65m Happy Death Day - 27m / 64m Jigsaw - 27m / 58m Bastards - 15m / 55m Daddy's Home 2 - 17m / 55m Tyler Perry's Boo 2! A Madea's Halloween - 24m / 55m The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature - 12m / 41m The Mountain Between Us - 14m / 37m War With Grandpa - 17m / 35m Geostorm - 16m / 35m American Assassin - 12m / 30m Friend Request - 7m / 28m Home Again - 8m / 27m All Saints - 6m / 26m The Foreigner - 9m / 25m Flatliners - 12m / 24m Only the Brave - 8m / 23m Leap! - 7m / 22m The Glass Castle - 8m / 21m Thank You For Your Service - 6m / 20m Same Kind of Different as Me - 6m / 20m Marshall - 8m / 19m All I See is You - 5m / 18m Birth of the Dragon - 5m / 17m Polaroid - 7m / 16m Villa Capri - 5m / 14m 9/11 - 4m / 9m

Star Wars (16) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (16) The Empire Strikes Back (20) Ben-Hur (6) +2 Avatar (3) -3

I think Detroit is out. I saw the film, and it's really solid, but it's gotten a lot of backlash for being to violent and not doing enough to showcase the civil rights response to Algiers. With the lack of box office, it being rather polarizing, and it being an August release (meaning in a few months it'll be easier to overlook it for bigger movie names) I think Bigelow and Detroit are out of the running. Could possibly see a screenplay nod at best, I don't see how it'll contend that well elsewhere, sadly.

I'll be honest, the biggest weak link for Avatar is the characters in general. None of them stick out for me, I just kind of see the movie as blue people vs. white people.

I'm going with Annabelle Creation matching Annabelle, for the sole reason that it's the only real high profile new release of August.

That's true, it's unique to the situation. But they were making changes before that, cutting characters and condensing a few plotlines, because even for a TV Series the books get to inflated with characters to translate well on screen.

Yeah, even great TV adaptions like Game of Thrones or the Handmaid's Tale make pretty big changes in order to work on screen. The only time I really complain about changes are when I think they're nonsensical or go against the spirit of the source material. Such as with the Hobbit series, it overly lengthens the rather short and to the point novel, and adds a bunch of nonsense (such as Radagast and the bunny sled, or surfing through molten gold so there could be an action set piece instead of Bilbo tricking Smaug out of the mountain, and so on).