The Panda

Neither TDK or ESB deserve to win, but ESB deserves it much more than TDK.

1.Interstellar - 72.1m (75.4m) 2.Big Hero 6 - 58.4m 3.Nightcrawler - 6.2m (19.6m) 4.Gone Girl - 5.6m (144.7m) 5.Fury - 5.4m (68.5m) 6.Ouija - 4.6m (41.7m) 7.St. Vincent - 4.4m (25.7m) 8.The Book of Life - 4.3m (46.7m) 9.John Wick - 4.2m (33.8m) 10.Alexander and the Bad Day - 3.4m (58.6m) 11.The Judge - 2m (42.5m) 12.The Maze Runner - 1.6m (99.4m) 10th 1.Interstellar - 44.7m (142.5m) 2.Dumb and Dumber To - 41.7m (41.7m) 3.Big Hero 6 - 38m (115.1m) 4.Beyond the Lights - 5.7m (5.7m) 5.Gone Girl - 4.1m (150.9m) 6.Nightcrawler - 3.8m (25.3m) 7.Fury - 3.5m (73.8m) 8.St. Vincent - 2.7m (29.8m) 9.The Book of Life - 2.7m (50.8m) 10.John Wick - 2.6m (37.7m) 11.Ouija - 2.3m (45.1m) 12.Alexander and the Bad Day - 2.2m (61.9m) 17th 1.The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 - 154.8m (154.8m) 2.Interstellar - 26.4m (182.6m) 3.Big Hero 6 - 23.2m (150.9m) 4.Dumb and Dumber To - 19.2m (70.7m) 5.Gone Girl - 2.8m (155.3m)

1. Will Interstellar make more than 65M for its OW? Yes 2. Will Interstellar make more than 73M for its OW? No 3. Will Interstellar make more than 81M for its OW? No 4. Will Big Hero make more than 48M for its OW? Yes 5. Will Big Hero make more than 53M for its OW? Yes 6. Will Big Hero and Interstellar combine to make more than 125M? Yes 7. Will St Vincent stay in the top 8? Yes 8. How many films in the top 12 will not drop any positions from last week? 4 9. Will Book of Life drop less than 20% for the Weekend? Yes 10. How many films will increase by over 100% on Friday (not including Interstellar)? 4 11. Will Ouija remain in the top 5 after the weekend? Yes 12. Will Birdman remain in the top 12 after the weekend? Yes 13. Will Before I go to sleep stay above Annabelle this Weekend? No 14. Will John Wick drop less than 36% on Sunday? No 15. Will Fury have made back its budget by the end of the weekend ($68m)? Yes 16. Will Jessabelle have a PTA above 2,500k? No 17. Will Interstellar's Imax Preview takings be enough to finish 3rd for the weekend on their own? Yes 18. Will Dracula drop more than 52% this weekend? Yes 19. Will Big Hero 6 Gross more than the rest of the top 12 combined excluding Interstellar? Yes 20. Will there be less than $2M gross between 3rd and 7th place? No Bonus Questions 1. What will be the combined gross for Big Hero and Interstellar for the Weekends? 131.7m 2. What will Ouija's weekend drop be? 57% 3. What will Maze Runner's Total Gross be come Sunday? 100m Placements 3.Nightcrawler 5.Ouija 6.Gone Girl 8.St Vincent 11.Alexander and the Bad Day 13.The Maze Runner

The Road's some poetic, beautiful stuff.

I'd like to edit my list to add The Road, but that's not technically listed as sci-fi (Despite it being post-apocalyptic)

His exposition can often be one of his biggest flaws in my opinion, with Inception I felt he tried to hard to tell the audience what was happening and not enough time showing. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate Nolan, and I think Memento is fantastic and worthy of this list (I'd even be fine with The Dark Knight if it wasn't in the top 10), but he isn't close to the god-tier directing status a lot of people hail him as.

I don't understand why some people think it's confusing or hard to follow, the exposition explains everything to you detail by detail.

I think I rank Inception around 23rd for the best Sci-Fi of this century (And that's not including anything released in 2014, superhero films, or Gravity. If I did it'd rank lower) It's a decent enough film, and while SW isn't in my opinion top 10 of all time I won't object to it being placed in the top 10, there is justification there.

Inception isn't even worthy of top 250, let alone top 10. It's good enough, but it's very flawed in over exposition to the point where it's way to easy to follow for a film that's supposed to blow your mind (nothing was really shocking or surprising with it). I mean it was a fun thriller, but there isn't enough substance to it to justify it placing so high. I mean there's a lot of movies that don't deserve their place, but every time I see a new one that doesn't it irks me even more.

The movie makes you enter an entrancing state of trippiness, and is magnificently well directed and shot. The overall camerawork and cinematography is the best of the year (even topping that of Grand Budapest Hotel), and it's one of the slickest edited films you will see in a long time. The script is a searing iron poking jabs at the Hollywood industry, Broadway, critics, celebrities, and the mindset of consumers, and it has so much depth with so much to be analyzed because this is a case where what is important truly is shown and not told. The secondary title really does define this film, The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, every character in the film is searching for fulfillment and in the end it is realized the only true way to fulfill yourself is to be ignorant to the entire idea of that (when Keaton decides to embrace himself as Birdman in the very end), ignorance is a virtue because Keaton was only truly at peace with himself when he had become ignorant to the idea of selling out (this exact thing being what forces the critic to write her positive review of the play). I could write so much about it, because it is so delicately detailed, everything is so planned, yet everything feels so organic at the same time. Birdman is literally one of the closest things you can get to the idea of organized chaos. My only true complaint is at times the camera work gets a tad bit too showy to the point where that takes prevalence from the plot thus dragging you a bit out of the story it is telling, plus for trying to give the illusion of one really long take the places there are takes are more obvious than they should. However, at this point I am just getting extremely nitpicky, which in and of itself is something that speaks highly of the film, it is so free of flaws that the few flaws it does have stick out like a sore thumb. Overall, excellent film and one of the best of the year. A (borderline A+)

After seeing Birdman, Keaton should win. I mean it's possible somebody pulls a better performance this year, but it's easily the best male performance this year.

Boyhood is more deserving than Birdman, but Birdman should definitely be a contender. Besides, the Oscars aren't always about which film is actually better.

I found it fairly jumbled, but I'm not going to judge until I see part 2.

I believe it's already in dollar theaters in some areas.

A's Birdman: Or The Unexpected Nature of Ignorance Boyhood Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Fury Gone Girl The Grand Budapest Hotel The Guardians of the Galaxy The LEGO Movie Snowpiercer B's Bad Words Begin Again Captain America: The Winter Soldier Chef Edge of Tomorrow The Fault in Our Stars Godzilla How to Train Your Dragon 2 Neighbors Next Goal Wins Noah Only Lovers Left Alive X-Men: Days of Future Past C's About Last Night That Awkward Moment Bears Divergent Dracula Untold The Giver God's Not Dead Life Itself The Monument's Men Muppets: Most Wanted Oculus Veronica Mars D's 300: Rise of An Empire Alexander and the No Good, Terrible, Very Bad Day The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Annabelle Blended Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Jersey Boys Maleficent A Million Ways to Die in the West Need For Speed Non-Stop Ride Along RoboCop Transcendence F's Deliver Us From Evil Endless Love I, Frankenstein The Nut Job Ouija Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones Pompeii Trans4mers: Age of Extinction Winter's Tale Z's America: Imagine a World Without Her

Can you add Birdman, I've seen it and would like to write my opinion on it.

Don't get me confused, I love MCU, it's the other three studios that I worry about because they seem drastically inconsistent and are the reason for market flooding. The other thing that worries me is that nearly every studio is trying to create universe franchises now, which overall isn't healthy for creativity. The Marvel formula isn't going to stop working because they overuse it but because too many studios try the same thing.

Guardians wouldn't have been on my list, Avengers I put on around 90 due to the achievement aspect and to represent MCU. I don't really want this to be a hardcore cinema list but there comes a point where enough is enough. You can't put Avengers above Raiders in any world.

No, there is no excuse for avengers being above those two movies.

I bet 50 points 2 people guardians increases this weekend.

I could justify the avengers making it around 90 or so but TWS has no place on this list.

1.Guardians of the Galaxy 2.The Avengers 3.The Dark Knight 4.Iron Man 5.X-Men: Days of Future Past 6.Batman Begins 7.Spider-Man 2 8.Superman II 9.Batman Returns 10.Superman

I agree, while in some ways I enjoy the barrage of superhero movies, in others I want other blockbusters too.

The Dark Knight is in the top 10, just as long as it isn't number 1 I guess.

Wow, The Avengers at number 11?? I don't even think id rank it that high in a best of the decade list (2010-2014) And Toy Story 3 is definitely way too high. What's even sadder is both Raiders and Shawshank missed the top 10.