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But the song isn't that good??

I keep forgetting to do these, lol 1. Will Dory Threepeat this weekend? YES 2. Will Independence Day hold on to 2nd place? NO 3. Will BFG make more than $21.5M? YES 4. Will BFG make more than $27.5M? YES 5. Will BFG make more than $35M? NO 6. Will Legend of Tarzan open above Purge? NO 7. Will at least two out of the three main new entries make more than $20M? YES 8. Will The Purge have a higher PTA than Independence Day? YES 9. Will Free State of Jones finish above The Conjuring? NO 10. Will Alice have a larger Percentage drop than ME Before You? NO 11. Will Finding DOry Overtake Jungle Book's Domestic total by the end of the weekend? YES 12. Will Swiss Army Man enter the top 18 this weekend? YES 13. Will Xmen finish above TMNT2? NO 14. Will NYSM2 have the best percentage drop in the top 12? NO 15. Will Warcraft fall below Civil War this weekend? YES 16. Will Central Intelligence have a Saturday increase above 25%? NO 17. Will at least 8 of the top 12 increase on Sunday? YES 18. Will any film increase 100% on Friday? NO 19. How many different films will win a day this weekend? 1 20. IF there was a Purge in the Pixar multiverse, who or what would be the first on your hitlist? MATER 14/20 - 2000 15/20 - 3000 16/20 - 5000 17/20 - 7000 18/20 - 9000 19/20 - 12000 20/20 - 15000 Part 2 1. What will Independence Day's percentage drop be this weekend? -67% 2. How many films increase on Sunday this weekend (out of every film in release)? 9 3. How much will BFG make on Sunday? 10.742M Part 3 2. THE BFG 4. IDR 8. THE CONJURING 11. X-MEN 14. THE JUNGLE BOOK 16. ALICE 3/6 - 2000 4/6 - 5000 5/6 - 9000 6/6 - 13000

Dory: The Dark Knight IDR: Driving Miss Daisy YES

Plus, BFG and Dory will likely have drive-ins together (whatever that's worth).

When you factor in that this was just US viewers and that (even more so than ever) the majority of GOT watchers don't watch it live (they either stream or play it whenever they want given how HBO works), that is very impressive. With 1 1/2 - 2 seasons left, I'm starting to wonder if GOT will ever slow down before it ends.

Ive been shipping Jaime strangling Cersei to death since I finished season 3.

Rightfully so.

Season 1: Episode 1 - Winter is Coming Summary of the Episode The episode begins north of the wall with a pivotal, eerie scene of foreshadowing of the things to come. You see three men of the nights watch patrolling, and nearly instantly the scene turns into one of horror (one of the many different pieces of the genre mash-up that is Game of Thrones). As the scene progresses, you see these three men get killed and slaughtered, similar to the way the creepy undead children and walking corpses were chopped into bloody bits. Afterwards, we get our first introduction to the Starks of Winterfell, and one of the only chances in the show to see the family together and happy (so it's something to take pleasure in). Shortly into the scene, good ol' Ned Stark is told there was a deserter and so he goes out with with his children for a nice friendly stroll and decapitation of the poor bloke who was just trying to not get his head chopped off by a crazy, blue-eyed ice zombie. Ned and the Stark boys, taking their time trotting on back to Winterfell, encounter a bloodied Stag and dead Direwolf mom with six orphaned Direwolf pups. Jon Snow, the bastard boy, talks Ned into not killing the poor puppies and letting each of the Stark children have one as a pet because of fate and omens and stuff like that. Ned's then like, "Sure, but you get small, ugly one." We then get a brief scene in King's Landing, starting with the corpse of Jon Arryn, the old Hand of the King, wearing ugly eyestone patches which is quite possibly the least fashionable way to have your body presented at a funeral, ever. In the scene, we're also introduced to Queen Cersei and her brother Jaime, the two talk very vaguely in a way to keep the audience out, but the two of them in, giving a nice bit of intrigue that Game of Thrones does so well. In the next scene, we get a nice little moment between Catelyn Stark, the wife of Ned, and good ol' Ned himself. Cat tells Ned the news that Jon Arryn died, and now fat, old King Robert Baratheon is going to be paying a visit. Ned's then like, "Dang it, he's probably going to make me the second most powerful man in the kingdom now." Cut to the next scene, and Ned's right as Robert and Ned take a walk through the creepy Crypts. Robert not only wants Ned to be the new hand of the king, but he wants his daughter Sansa to marry his little twat son Joffrey. Also in the Crypts, we get some crucial backstory about Robert's Rebellion, way back, and how his true love, Ned Stark's sister Lyana Stark, was killed by the Targaryens, who Robert was famously rebelling against in his good ol' rebellion. We then get a nice cut to Pentos, where we meet Daenerys Targaryen and her entitled twit brother, Viserys. Viserys is still salty that he wants to be king, and obviously had daddy issues or something because the whine in his voice is so strong that there is no other possible conclusion to come to. We then find out Viserys is marrying Dany off to a Dothraki War Lord in order to get an army to conquer the seven kingdoms. He also feels up his sister and tells her he'd let 40,000 Dothraki and their horses rape her if it got him the throne, because he's a little ---- that's never going to get anywhere in life. Also, Dany takes a steaming hot bubble bath. We then get a nice party scene. In the wild party scene, Sansa just wants to be a little princess to the little twat prince Joffrey. Cersei also asks Sansa if she's ever had the womanly problems, and Sansa just looks confused, so she obviously hasn't. Jon Snow sits outside the party, because he's the bastard boy, and he releases his brooding tension by hacking a way at a dummy while Tyrion Lannister, the imp child, offers some great advice, but all Jon hears is, "Bastard, bastard, bastard." Benjen and Ned then have a little chat about White Walkers, the dude he decapitated, and other obviously not-important things. Robert gropes up another woman, right in front of his wife Cersei, because he really just doesn't give a fuck. Arya then gets sent to bed, because she was having a little too much fun at the party, starting food fights and all. We then get a scene with Ned, Catelyn, and Maester Luwin learning that John Arryn didn't just fall over and died, the Lannisters conspired to kill him and are making a big power grab for the throne. This complicates things, as Ned now feels more duty to go to King's Landing, but also has to fear that he may suffer the same fate as poor old Johnny. We then get another crazy party scene of Dothraki dancing around, as well as taking turns killing and raping each other, you know, typical party affairs. Viserys continues to whine, because he really doesn't know how to have any fun. We also meet Jorah Mormont, who gives Dany some books as a present, and because those are really lame gifts, Jorah is instantly put into the friendzone. Dany then puts aside the small present and says, "I want the big one!", so some dude opens a box and there's three stone dragon eggs that will obviously never hatch dragons because they're stone, duh. Dany then rides off on her new pony with her new husband and gets raped gruesomely on a cliff. We then get our final scene of the episode, with Ned riding off to King's Landing. Bran Stark, Ned's second youngest son, decides he's going to climb up a hundred foot wall to see his father off, but ends up seeing Cersei getting the nasty on with her brother Jaime instead. Jaime then shoves Bran out the window, because nobody likes child actors. The Positives and Negatives of the Episode Winter is Coming is the definition of a set-up episode, mostly because it is literally setting the entire series up. But despite this, there's a lot to love about this pilot episode. While, it is a bit stale to go back to this episode after you've seen the rest of the series, you have to take into consideration how much it really did. This episode introduces a large number of the main characters on the show, and it does it in a rather short amount of time. Not only that but it gives you a lot of exposition in digestible chunks, and in ways to further develop the characters that it introduces. You automatically gain an attachment to the Starks of Winterfell, and you can just look at Lannisters and already get a distaste for them. In all honesty, the only bad things about this episode are Peter Dinklage's hairdo, the fact that it is noticeably on a lower budget compared to the rest of the series, and some of the younger actors have yet to grow into their roles like they do later in the series. While the episode is definitely not one of the most exciting on the show, minus the thrilling opening sequence, it brings up a lot of intrigue and fully pulls you into the world, making you want to learn more. And that is exactly what a pilot episode should do. If this episode didn't work, than the series wouldn't have worked, and this episode works. It is packed to the brim with information that carefully foreshadows and lays the foundation for the rest of the series to come. The Stag and the Direwolf One of the big things in the episode that I want to talk about is the great foreshadowing with the Stag and the Direwolf. While obviously the scene is foreshadowing a dead Ned leaving behind six orphaned children, killed shortly after a dead Robert (who the Stag represents), it isn't so obvious the first time watching. The scene sets up a careful thematic element of the animal sigils for each house representing them, as a classic fantasy element. In this case, the six direwolf pups are literally representing the Stark children and their identities as a Stark. When the direwolf dies, so does the Stark's identity. For example, when Lady dies in the following episode, it is a symbol for Sansa losing her Stark identity as she goes into the mess of politics of King's Landing. Nymeria running away, is Arya hiding from her Stark identity, trying to take on the identities of others (until not until much later in the series, she rediscovers herself as Arya Stark). Shaggydog and Greywind dying are precursors to a literal death of Robb and Rickon. Summer's death represents Bran losing his identity as a Stark as he becomes the Three Eyed Raven in the Wars to Come. The series itself is very much about death and identity, and this is the first set up for those themes that are heavily layered throughout Game of Thrones. Ned's Decision Another scene in-particular I wanted to talk about, was Ned's decision on whether to stay in Winterfell or go to King's Landing. The scene is a brilliantly shot sequence over Ned having to choose between Family and Duty/Honor (the two cores to his being). You have Cat to his left representing family (and she, as a character, is very much about that ideal) and Luwin on the right representing duty and honor. Ultimately Ned chooses what is honorable for the good of the kingdom, and honorable for his house, and decides to go to King's Landing. I thought this was an excellent choice on the director of the episode's part to highlight this decision, as it parallels with Ned's other big decision to come at the end of the season. This decision also highlighted the duality of the show, the ice and the fire. The show's themes and plot elements are very much dual in nature. In a way, it's a take on the old fantasy trope of good and evil, or in this case, of the devil and the angel on your shoulder. Only in Game of Thrones it twists those tropes, neither the ice or the fire are good nor evil. Both decisions are neither selfish or unselfish in nature. By blending the nature of duality we get on large shade of grey, and Ned's decision is the first of many grey streaks to come. "Winter is Coming" I, of course, have to talk about the pivotal theme of the episode, and that is that Winter is Coming. In this case, it's a reference to the motto of house Stark and Ned's infamous line. Winter is literally coming, as we see in the opening with White Walkers, and there will be no happiness in that. On a thematic level, it's a foreshadowing that the worst is still to come, and that this is just the beginning, so the audience better prepare. And further on, it's a commentary about humanity in general. We can never live a life in the summer, those happy moments of unity the Stark children share together, will come to an end and winter will come. No matter what good eras may dawn in history, they won't last and the dreaded eras of strife and desperation will come again. It's another nature of duality, in order for there to be good in a life, one must experience the bad in order to be able to appreciate the good. When humanity stops remembering and appreciating the good, the bad comes again in a cycle from man failing to remember their mistakes of the past. Winter is coming, and the dead come with it. Conclusion Overall, Winter is Coming is a very iconic episode in the series. There is so much meat to it, even if that meat doesn't feel as substantial once you come back to revisit it. The show throws you into a world of chaos and expects you to follow along. Grade: A

Ol Man River and White Christmas missing the top 100 is a big shame on the forums.

Hello, and as many know the (most likely) last full season of Game of Thrones is over leaving 1 1/2 more seasons to go. I don't normally do long in-depth reviews or the likes of it, but I figured I'd give something like it a go. I wanted to get a chance to re-watch the whole series from start to finish (with a full perspective of where everything is leading) and have an outlet thread to write my in-depth thoughts on thematic material, my thoughts on intention behind visual imagery, the good and the bad, etc.. After I watch each episode, I'm going to come here and post a full commentary/review of my thoughts for each episode in perspective. Also a note to the mods, if this thread would be better suited for the TV forum that's fine, id just like it as its own thread and not apart of the GOT one (mostly so I can go back and find these posts easier than if they got lost in the main show's mega thread).

Oh yeah, Ramin Djawadi better get that Original Score Emmy win for "Light of the Seven". That was brilliant, he's really perfected his game this season, especially in this episode in particular (no wonder the majority of the album tracks are from this episode).

Really phenomenal episode, that opening alone with the space dialogue and the (sonata?) that played in the background as the highlight. Sapochnik better get that Emmy, because both of these episodes were two of the best that television has ever had to offer.

The first movie is poor filmmaking, but dumb fun. This movie is was an insult to all things good.

Some of these are great choices, some of these not so much. Just like any BOT list.

I mean, it's an opinion thing, but I thought the action was overall sparse and weak.

2012 at least had some cool destruction sequences. IDR couldn't even deliver on the promised mass destruction.

Lol when people say an artist isn't, "real music". You can not like the performer or the composition, and argue they are poor, but they're still making music.

Newman has a distinct style, as does Hans Zimmer, plus many contemporary scores will use similar progressions and such so you'll hear the similarities. Newman definitely composed in his Newman style for this one, but I thought he did a good job altering the original Nemo score to a more personal feeling (for a more personal movie) for this one.

30.4m for Dory would get us at least a 75m weekend. Following a more TS3 path, a 78m weekend.

A Deadpool Finding Dory The Nice Guys Zootopia B 10 Cloverfield Lane Captain America: Civil War Hail, Caesar! The Jungle Book Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping The Shallows Warcraft C The Angry Birds Movie The Conjuring 2 The Finest Hours Miracles From Heaven Hardcore Henry Risen X-Men: Apocalypse D Alice Through the Looking Glass 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 F The Choice The Darkness Independence Day: Resurgence Norm of the North Ratchet and Klank Z 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Bengazi

Rock of Ages rocked me to sleep.

I think it was overall a solid film. My main complaint is that it's set up as a survival thriller, and they're wanting to make it believable. However the way the shark behaved, the logistics of how the action actually went down, etc. was all just silly. If it weren't for the fact that the visual tone of the movie was done so wonderfully and gut-wrenchingly, I would have been laughing out loud. Blake Lively gave a solid central performance, and I thought the concept behind her survival was clever, I just thought how everything played out on screen was incredibly far-fetched for the mood the movie was going for. Anyways, I did enjoy the movie. It's a great tension builder, and it builds a solid character arc for Blake Lively. It's beautiful to watch, and the non-storyboard elements are executed brilliantly. You're kept on the edge of your seat the whole way through. It kind of felt like a third rate Gravity in the Ocean (and a third rate Gravity is still a good movie). It's still one of the better Popcorn flicks of the summer, and a very fun time if you're looking for something to see. B-

So the truth is out... Baumer is one of those tumbler users with a fish fetish.

Yeah, it was funny and all to see Baumer's meltdowns about Dory, but it's kind of gotten stale now. Like, we get it, you don't like Pixar or fish.

It looked like Anna Kendrick had a nude scene in it, so I may go see it. Then again, that's probably just trailer bait.