The Panda

September has surprisingly done pretty well. 3 30m openers is great for this month.

September is also just a bad time to release a movie geared at the high school - college demographic. They're so busy getting back into school and all of the activities that go with it that there's better things to do than hit the theaters. Sure, Maze Runner and Insidious 2 are a few exceptions but even they were just modest hits. Now, that's also not taking into consideration that most typical September/October films aren't geared toward a younger audience. Westerns aren't popular with that demographic. But I do think back to school time is a bad time for a movie geared towards the high school to college aged crowd.

It looks like it's worth seeing but not an amazeballs trailer

Game of Thrones deserved the win this season. There'll be a gap because of the summer year, and then it'll likely win for season 7 and 8 as well (as long as quality doesn't randomly tank)

Again, people use that thread in a variety of ways. Some do an entire ranking (which includes a top 10), others (like me) organize them because I don't make a top 10 until the years over. I mean it's whatever, I just don't really see the point in these being two separate threads.

Yeah... People post their top 10s, 5s, whatever on that thread. I just don't really see the point of this when people were already doing it in the other thread.

This is the same thing as the favorite films of 2016 thread.

Haven't seen hell or high water yet but besides that my best are 1.The Hunt for the Wilderpeople 2.Kubo and the Two Strings 3.The Nice Guys

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The Dark Knight and Memento are fairly close, but neither were able to haunt me in the fashion that Sicario was able to.

Villeneuve overtook Nolan already with Sicario. Nolan hasn't made anything as good as that film.

After how great Sicario was (it's really grown on me since my first watch, I'd probably upgrade my B+ rating to a solid A/A+ and rank it at solid number 4 or 5 for 2015) I'm incredibly excited for this. Villenueve is shaping to be one of the best new directors of millennium.

This is still my favorite directors cut of all time.

I've always done mine around the December 30th - January 1st Timeframe and I plan to continue to do so. It helps me to reflect on the year.

Thats true. There's always one great movie that would have made my top 10 (or even top 5) that doesn't come out before my list day.

I hope it doesn't expand in January, I want to be able to see it before the 1st so I can know if I want to include it on my best of 2016 list.

It gives a point of reference of what actors are worth to the studios though. If movie tickets averaged at 10 dollars, that's 250k more for the movie's gross because of Bill Murray. So as long as you pay Bill Murray less than 130k it was worth it to invest in having him be in the film. Now thats excluding factors such as, a director wanting to cast somebody who they think works well in the role over a nobody because Murray's to expensive, worldwide interest in Murray, and how many people may have known (and we're excited for) Murray's presence in the movie before the survey. If I'm a studio, a bomb is a bomb, and a hit is a hit. It doesn't change the fact I still want to maximize the profit of that hit, or minimize the loss of the bomb.

The first one

The vote bonuses is a good idea, I may include that if/when I do the top 100 films again next year. 1.Inside Out 2.Finding Nemo 3.Spirited Away 4.Coraline 5.The Little Prince 6.The Secret World of Arrietty 7.Grave of Fireflies 8.Wall-E 9.The Jungle Book 10.Dumbo 11.The Brave Little Toaster 12.Pinocchio 13.Watership Down 14.Princess Monoke 15.Persepolis 16.Beauty and the Beast 17.Paprika 18.Up 19.Yellow Submarine 20.Tarzan 21.South Park 22.Corpse Bride 23.The Nightmare Before Christmas 24.Fantasia 25.Bambi 26.Snow White and the Seven Dwarves 27.Aladdin 28.Ratatouille 29.Ponyo 30.Zootopia 31.Kubo and the Two Strings 32.The Lego Movie 33.Mary and Max 34.Wreck-It Ralph 35.Rango 36.My Neighbor Totoro 37.Howl's Moving Castle 38.A Charlie Brown Christmas 39.The Incredibles 40.The Lion King 41.The Secret of NIMH 42.Tangled 43.How to Train Your Dragon 44.Toy Story 45.Sleeping Beauty 46.Lilo and Stitch 47.Finding Dory 48.Arthur Christmas 49.Kung Fu Panda 50.The Fox and the Hound 51.Kiki's Delivery Service 52.The Prince of Egypt 53.Mulan 54.The Iron Giant 55.Monsters Inc 56.Toy Story 2 57.Lady and the Tramp 58.The Wind Rises 59.Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit 60.Fantastic Mr Fox 61.ParaNorman 62.The Illusionist 63.Secret of the Kells 64.Happy Feet 65.Alice in Wonderland 66.Triplets of Belleville 67.Monster House 68.Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer 69.Toy Story 3 70.Sausage Party 71.The Peanuts Movie 72.Kung Fu Panda 2 73.Ernest and Celestine 74.The Princess and the Frog 75.Shrek 76.The SpongeBob Movie 77.A Bug's Life 78.Brave 79.Big Hero 6 80.Hercules 81.The Little Mermaid 82.Cinderella 83.Peter Pan 84.101 Dalmations I don't really want to include anything else.

It was like Todd was trying to make a Wolf of Wall Street or Goodfellas kind of film based on the Iraq war. The only problem is it's inconsistent tonally, isn't engaging, and lacks the energy it needs for this kind of film style to thrive. Jonah Hill and Miles Teller do a good job with the material, but it doesn't change the fact that the material is pretty dull. I was tuned in the entire time, but I was never engaged, and I never overly cared about what happened next. It lacks the bite a film like this requires to succeed, C

Emotional dog movies are cheap, it's too easy.

Obviously, Deadpool was the only good comic book movie this year and all of the others sucked.

We were talking about SS? Nobody was even mentioning CW (which btw also had bad legs)