The Panda

I disagree with it being interesting, but this is coming from somebody who never really cared about Ebert.It seems if you are an Ebert fan you'll like the movie, if you're not you'll leave the movie wondering why you should even care about everything you saw.

Godzilla worse than TASM2 or Trans4mers?That's funny.

1) Will GOTG make more than 75 mill? Yes 2) Will GOTG make more than 80 mill? Yes 3) Will GOTG make more than 175 mill WW? No 4) Will GOTG make more than 5 mill for Thurs previews? Yes 5) Will Get on Up make more than 7.5 mill OD? No 6) Will Get on Up make more than 20 mill OW? No 8) Will Lucy fall less than 58%? No 9) Will Hercules fall more than 58%? No 10) Will any film fall more than 20% on Thurs? Yes 11) Will any film fall less 1% on Thurs? No 12) Will any film increase more than 75% on Friday? Yes 13) Will Purge make more than Planes? No 14) Will Transformers increase more than 53% on Saturday? Yes 12/14 4000 13/14 6000 15/15 10,000 What finishes in spots 9 Boyhood 11 Trans4mers 12 Sex Tape 13 Tammy Bonus 1: What will GOTG gross on Friday? 31.2m Bonus 2: What will Sex Tape gross on Friday? 820,000 Bonus 3: What will the gross be for the films that finish in spots 6-10 16.75m

1) Which film will gross more between Monday July 28th and LD Monday? Lucy, Herc or Apes? Lucy 2) Will Transformers make more than 1.05 billion by the end of the game? Yes 3) Will Expendables 3 open to more than 25 million? No 4) Will Expendables 3 make more than 250 mill by the end of the game (WW) No 6) Will GOTG open to more than 60 million? Yes 7) Will Tammy reach 90 million by the end of the game? No 8) Will Godzilla make it to 200 mill? Yes 9) Which film will gross more between Monday July 28th and LD Monday? 22JS 10) Will The Purge make more than 62 mill by end of the game? Yes

If I enjoyed Snowpiercer (well loved, gave it an A+) will I likely enjoy this?

I just realized when this year is over I can make my top 25 movies of the half decade.

The Empire Strikes Back vs. The Godfather

Looks good to me.

A's Boyhood Dawn of the Planet of the Apes The Fault in Our Stars The Grand Budapest Hotel The LEGO Movie Snowpiercer X-Men: Days of Future Past B's Bad Words Bears Captain America: The Winter Soldier Edge of Tomorrow Godzilla How to Train Your Dragon 2 Neighbors Noah Oculus C's About Last Night That Awkward Moment Divergent Life Itself Maleficent God's Not Dead The Monument's Men Muppets: Most Wanted D's 300: Rise of An Empire The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Deliver Us From Evil Endless Love Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit A Million Ways to Die in the West Need For Speed Non-Stop Ride Along RoboCop F's I, Frankenstein Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones Pompeii Trans4mers: Age of Extinction Winter's Tale

Perfectly fine except you put Noah on there twice.

1.Crimson Peak 2.Tomorrowland 3.Star Wars: Episode 7 4.Inside Out 5.The Avengers: Age of Ultron 6.Kung Fu Panda 3 7.Pitch Perfect 2 8.Jurassic World 9.Inferno 10.The Good Dinosaur

Yeah the musical Phantom of the Opera is the same story, I find it very difficult to think that Universal would make a Phantom movie without it being a musical remake

So movie 2 is Singing Gerard Butler vs a Giant Raging Monkey?

But the point is that it's not the big moments in your life that make you, but the many small ones. Yeah, I saw it and really have to disagree strongly. The movie's biggest theme was that life isn't just a series of milestones, it's the daily interactions, it's the small moments, that are random and sporadic yet somehow still meld into a complete picture in the hindsight. The more I think about it, the more this movie was a solid A+ this year, my third so far. (Other two were the LEGO Movie and Snowpiercer, three completely different movies. I can't really say which is my favorite because they are all so different)

Technically, nothing in 2016 is truly set yet.

WarCraft is also an original movie if you are counting Tarzan and Angry Birds. (For that matter so is Zootopia, Shazam, The Sandman, and Giants)

Now that 2016's line up is coming into play here are my initial predictions for it's top 15 1.Finding Dory - 540m 2.Avatar 2 - 525m 3.Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - 475m 4.Star Wars Spin Off - 370m 5.Captain America 3 - 270m 6.Disney's Giants - 260m 7.Doctor Strange - 245m 8.Planet of the Apes 3 - 240m 9.Warcraft - 230m 10.Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - 225m 11.Shazam - 210m 12.X-Men: Apocalypse - 205m 13.Disney's Zootopia - 180m 14.The Sandman - 175m 15.Skull Island - 170m

The general audience likes McCarthy.

I will if I have the points to.

Yeah Hercules definitely surprised me there with that opening.I'm really curious to see how large the two of those drop.

Lucy is going to drop like a rock next week, WoM looks terrible in all of the outlets I have seen.

I wouldn't say animation is underperforming this year,1.LEGO Movie was a huge hit2.The Nut Job over performed for what it was.3.Was anybody expecting Peabody and Sherman to gross over 115m? I felt like that was its expectation4.Rio 2 nearly matched the first, it did very well for what it was.5.HTTYD2 definitely underperformed but that's a single movie6.Planes 2 underperforming? Should we be shocked? That speaks more of how audiences are finally getting tired of the franchise. (Each one has dropped from the predecessor)I think we can say animation is underperforming this year if three of these happen1.Big Hero 6 fails to hit 200m2.The Book of Life fails to hit 100m3.The Boxtrolls fails to hit 50m4.Penguins of Madagascar fails to hit 150m

Yeah, but does King Kong have this?

Eh, I don't really like Berg as a director. Friday Night Lights was pretty good, but everything else he has made so far has been a miss for me. He can direct some good war action though, so I would love to see him get his hands on a good war movie that can focus more on the action without losing out on the real importance of the story, like with Lone Survivor, that focused way to much on the battle and credited his survival mostly to his teammates, where in actuality the book focuses much more on the man who housed him and protected him. The film breezes past that, which is a shame given how that's the most interesting part of the story with the most commentary on the real situation in the Middle East. Lone Survivor should have been a drama with action, not an action with dramatic parts that didn't seem to fit. It was more about patriotism than the actual story. Anyways, I think Berg (Despite showing some potential as a director) would be a bad choice for this, monster movies definitely dont fit his niche.