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I legit cried when I first saw the news Carrie Fisher died. Fuck 2016.

I just realized we don't have a Best Sound Editing/Mixing Award. It's not overly exciting, but audio (besides just the score/soundtrack) is pretty essential to films. I think Best Sound would be a good addition.

I think this quote is going to become an all-time classic here on BOT

A good pick, but he also put the generic tentpole Civil War at number 2

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A Arrival Deadpool The Edge of Seventeen Eye in the Sky Finding Dory Hacksaw Ridge Hell or High Water Hunt for the Wilderpeople Kubo and the Two Strings La La Land Moana Moonlight Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Zootopia B The BFG 10 Cloverfield Lane Captain America: Civil War Doctor Strange Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Hail, Caesar! Into the Forest The Jungle Book The Little Prince Love & Friendship Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising The Nice Guys Nocturnal Animals Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Sausage Party The Shallows Sing Sing Street Star Trek Beyond Talullah Warcraft C The Accountant Allied The Angry Birds Movie Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Bolgen Central Intelligence The Conjuring 2 The Finest Hours Hardcore Henry Jason Bourne The Legend of Tarzan Miracles From Heaven Nerve Passengers Risen The Secret Life of Pets War Dogs Why Him? X-Men: Apocalypse D Alice Through the Looking Glass Assassin's Creed The 5th Wave Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Dirty Grandpa The Divergent Series: Allegiant God's Not Dead 2 Jane Got a Gun London Has Fallen My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 Office Christmas Party Suicide Squad Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows Trolls F 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Bengazi Collateral Beauty The Choice The Darkness Independence Day: Resurgence Nine Lives Norm of the North Ratchet and Klank Planning on seeing before the year ends Manchester by the Sea Fences

I've done it at least three times in the Top 10 of 2017 thread

Having lived in various parts of Texas, this film does a great job at portraying West Texas. I'm not used to seeing many places I've actually been in movies, so it was fairly surreal, especially with the fact that it didn't feel like a caricature of the environment.

It's incredibly authentic, gorgeously shot and stirring. I didnt find it as strong as Boyhood, and it did feel a little meandering at parts (Boyhood did too, but it worked better for me). It is powerful cinema though, and I can't overstate how strong the ensemble is. A-

You would only face potential issue if your party was a large John Carpenter's Halloween inspired Halloween party. I also believe when Disney originally filed the trademark they were planning on the film being called Dia de los muertos, which a trademark would make sense. They'd only be trademarking the phrase as a title to the movie and in reference to the movie.

I don't get the hate on Disney's legal department for this. Does it look bad? Yes. Is it out of the ordinary, and were they trying to trademark the actual holiday? No. I think it comes across the wrong way from Disney, but it's fairly standard practice and would only be trademarking the term with uses relating to Coco.

Lol, I'm glad to see I wasn't crazy when I had no idea where the 300m+ predicts for Sing were coming from.

Blacklist scripts are unproduced for a reason.

That's very interesting, I feel a little surprised I didn't know this kind of marketing was going on right in front of me. It just clicked that the preacher subtly brings up upcoming secular movies in his sermons every so often, and includes stills from movies coming out in his power points. Never paid much attention.

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Lol, President Donald Trump is real, the Emoji Movie is real, the altright has become a mainstream movement, everything is just WTF right now.

For the Passengers debate, I think it's safe to say Pratt and Lawrence didn't bring in 70m worth of Box Office (what they'd need for the studios to break even from the cost of hiring them).

We should just forever pin this thread to the top of the BO Discussion forum

Don't play with my heart like that man.

Unless of course...

Eh, I don't get the hate, but I don't get the love either. It's pretty bland. C

It's pretty, but it definitely sounds like Newman phoning it in. He's done much better.

16.9m and not 17m? That's not a big enough increase to be an event, obviously.

I'm worried about how Lionsgate will treat this BO wise. They suck at marketing their movies, and this is a movie that could easily be a genuine WoM crowd pleaser if they would just put the film in theaters and put out a few advertisements. Lionsgate got lucky with the Hunger Games (and even then they screwed up twice with marketing Mockingjay). They've released good movies, they're just an incompetent studio when it comes to getting people to come and see them.