[Logan Lucky (2017)]

This was great. It wasn't quite what the trailers advertised it to be (for instance, Joe Bang was more rounded and grounded than it seemed in the marketing), but it shows Soderberg's really solid hand behind the camera. Tatum continues to show he's actually got chops, Driver does some amazing deadpan drops, and they're surrounded by a really solid supporting cast.

 

4/5

[Wonder Woman 1984 | Dec 16 2020 OS | Dec 25 2020 US and on HBO MAX]

On 2/15/2018 at 4:06 AM, StevenG said:

I am just curious about what led Heinberg not to be in the sequel; that's all. 

I wish we had a better idea of exactly what story input happened at which point. Like we know that Heinberg, Johns, and Fuchs all had input into the screenplay at various points. Was any of Heinberg's work after Jenkins came on board? I thought that it was mostly Johns who worked with her; Fuchs had an earlier pass. Or was Heinberg's work an adaptation of the aborted WW origin TV series Amazon that provided the broad swaths of what happened in the film, but the actual specifics were due to Jenkins and Johns doing the tinkering?

 

 

[Winter Game Week 18 - The Week Tele has been waiting for...]

On 2/20/2018 at 1:15 AM, chasmmi said:

Part A:

 

1. Will Annihilation Open to more than $12M? 1000 No

2. Will Annihilation Open to more than $15M? 2000 No

3. Will Game Night make more than $12M? 3000 Yes

4. Will Game Night make more than $15M? 4000 Yes

5. Will Game Night open at number 2? 5000 Yes

 

6. Will Black Panther make more than $85M?  1000 Yes

7. Will Peter Rabbit make more than $10M? 2000 Yes

8. Will The Cured have a PTA above $9,000? 3000 Yes

9. Will Every Day make more than $4M? 4000 No

10. Will 15:17 stay above Greatest Showman? 5000 Yes

 

11. Will 50 Shades fall more than 64%? 1000 No

12. Will Jumanji have a PTA above $2,000? 2000 Yes 

13. Will Maze Runner stay above The Post? 3000 No

14. Will Winchester drop more than 65%? 4000 Yes

15. Will Moral Kombat lose its crown as better Annihilation film this weekend? 5000 Does anyone really think that Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is better than American Ninja Four: Annihilation?

 

Bonus: 

 

9/15    5000

10/15   8000

11/15    12,000

12/15   16,000 

13/15    20,000

14/15    24,000 

 15/15   30,000  

 

 

Part B:

 

The top 3 predictions will score points as follows:

 

Closest:  Within 1% - 15,000,  Within 2,5% - 12000,   Within 5% 9,000, Within 10% - 6000  Outside 10% - 3000 points  

2nd Closest:  Within 1% - 12,000,  Within 2,5% - 10000,   Within 5% 7,000, Within 10% - 4000  Outside 10% - 2000 points

3rd Closest:  Within 1% - 10,000,  Within 2,5% - 8000,   Within 5% 5,000, Within 10% - 2000  Outside 10% - 1000 points

 

1. What will Game Night make for its 3 day? $18.37m

2. What will Black Panther's change be? -44.4%

3. What will Greatest Showman's PTA be for the Weekend? $2,468

 

 

Part C:

 

There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here:

 

2. Game Night

4. Annihilation

6. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

7. The 15:17 to Paris

10. Early Man

12. The Post

 

Because I realised bonuses are stupid...

 

1/6   4,000

2/6   10,000

3/6   18,000

4/6   25,000

5/6   36,000

6/6 - 50,000

 

[Question of the Week Winter Survival Thread - It's Here!!!]

Week 19 - No

[Tuesday Numbers (Feb 20): BP- 20.9 PR - 1.9 FSF - 1.6]

11 minutes ago, grey ghost said:

At what point could Avengers pull ahead of BP?

 

All I know is Avengers performed incredible on weekends with small drops every weekend.

 

Dropping 51% or much less its entire run.

 

Can BP stay ahead?

 

BP currently has 55 m lead, including Tuesday.

 

Avengers' 5-day gross is 244m

BP's is ~263m, so it has a 19m lead?

[BLACK PANTHER WEEKEND THREAD | Current Estimates - 202.4M 3-day / 242.6M 4-day | Record 40.167 Monday; more than TFA!]

14 minutes ago, a2knet said:

They did make TS3, imo Pixar's best or close, immediately after UP. But some B-tier movies peppered in between after Up with higher than expected frequency : Up, TS3, C2, Brave, MU, IO, TGD, Dory, Cars3, COCO

 

 

Brave is better than Dory. And TS3.

[BLACK PANTHER WEEKEND THREAD | Current Estimates - 202.4M 3-day / 242.6M 4-day | Record 40.167 Monday; more than TFA!]

Just saw BP for the third time today. Might be the most rapid I've seen a movie this many times from release. 

 

(MMFR and WW might beat it). 

[Black Panther (2018)]

miiiight be the best MCU film yet.

 

5/5

[Winter Game SOTM 13 - Give it up for the little guy... Deadline Thursday 15th 11:59pm]

Abstain. Too much thinking.

[WInter Game Week 17 - The last big weekend arrives]

Part A:

 

1. Will Black Panther Open to more than $125M? 1000 Yes

2. Will Black Panther Open to more than $175M? 2000 

3. Will Black Panther make more than $150M? 3000 Yes

4. Will Black Panther's biggest single day make more than the 2nd-5th placed films' combined 3 day totals? 4000 Yes

5. Will Black Panther make more than 38% of its gross on Friday? 5000 Yes

 

6. Will Early Man make more than $4M?  1000 Yes

7. Will Early Man make more than $6M? 2000 Yes

8. Will Samson make more than $4M? 3000 Yes

9. Will Samson make more than $6M? 4000 No

10. Will Samson make more than Early Man on Sunday? 5000 No

 

11. Will 50 Shades fall more than 64%? 1000 Yes

12. Will Jumanji have a smaller percentage drop than Greatest Showman? 2000 No

13. Will Winchester stay above The Post? 3000 No

14. WIll Hostiles stay above 12 strong? 4000 No

15. Will Matt Damon show up to protect Wakanda from dragons? 5000 There's no more than *spoiler* in the film who are *spoiler* that actually *spoiler* and even then *spoiler* so it's really only *spoiler* and one of those is *spoiler* which means that *spoiler* thankfully Matt Damon is *spoiler* and there's really only so much *spoiler* that can be said about that. It's not really a point of concern because *spoiler* *spoiler* *spoiler* *spoiler* which means that any ex post facto presence of dragons can be *spoiler*. Now if we were talking about *spoiler* instead, hoo boy, that would be something of a discussion. I mean, what *spoiler* means as a presence and what commentary can be made about it with regards to *spoiler* is really something. Even the *spoiler* used provides some interesting, if not exactly nuanced commentary, that has some depth on the state of *spoiler*

 

Bonus: 

 

9/15    5000

10/15   8000

11/15    12,000

12/15   16,000 

13/15    20,000

14/15    24,000 

 15/15   30,000  

 

 

Part B:

 

The top 3 predictions will score points as follows:

 

Closest:  Within 1% - 15,000,  Within 2,5% - 12000,   Within 5% 9,000, Within 10% - 6000  Outside 10% - 3000 points  

2nd Closest:  Within 1% - 12,000,  Within 2,5% - 10000,   Within 5% 7,000, Within 10% - 4000  Outside 10% - 2000 points

3rd Closest:  Within 1% - 10,000,  Within 2,5% - 8000,   Within 5% 5,000, Within 10% - 2000  Outside 10% - 1000 points

 

1. What will Black Panther make for its 3 day? $193.6m

2. What will Peter Rabbit's change be? -24.8%

3. What will Shape of Water's PTA be for the Weekend? $,1947

 

 

Part C:

 

There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here:

 

4. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

5. The 15:17 to Paris

7. The Greatest Showman

9. Maze Runner: The Death Cure

11. The Shape of Water

12. Winchester

 

Because I realised bonuses are stupid...

 

1/6   4,000

2/6   10,000

3/6   18,000

4/6   25,000

5/6   36,000

6/6 - 50,000

 

[Question of the Week Winter Survival Thread - It's Here!!!]

Week 18 - Dr Strange

[WINTER GAME IS HERE!!! - Premium George WINS!]

[WINTER GAME IS HERE!!! - Premium George WINS!]

SOTMs (and forgetting 2 weeks) are killing me. 

[Classic Conversation Thread]

It was fun.

[Classic Conversation Thread]

Review thread for The Cloverfield Paradox is up in the review forum, for all of your hottest of takes.

[The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)]

Discuss.

[BOTs Top 25 Movies of 2017 | NOLANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN]

Oldman was great 

[BOTs Top 25 Movies of 2017 | NOLANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN]

I doubt my late list made a big difference in the overall ranking. I did forget one film though. 

 

Only found one entry in the top 25 to be egregious, even if there's several I disagree with. 

[BOTs Top 25 Movies of 2017 | NOLANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN]

I suppose I can start my top 25 countdown. There are a few films I haven't seen, but they wouldn't upset the order much 

[BOFFY VI: Return of the Jedi - Ballots (pick one for each category, only rank Best Picture) Due 3/2 at 11:59PM EST]

27 minutes ago, Chewy said:

 

Neither Blade Runner film deserves the adulation tbh

 

The new one is just... unremarkable in my memory. I barely remember what happened. It looks pretty, and I enjoyed it at the time, but *shrug*

[Winter Game SOTM 12: It's time for Oscar to shine - Deadline Thursday 1st: 11:59pm]

1. The Shape of Water

2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

3. Coco

4. Darkest Hour

[Winter Game Week 15 - Time to start thinking about the Win... Chester]

Part A:

 

1. Will Winchester Open to more than $9M? 1000 No

2. Will Winchester Open to more than $12M? 2000 No

3. Will Maze Runner make more than $11M? 3000 No

4. Will Maze Runner make more than $14M? 4000 No

5. Will Maze Runner stay in 1st place? 5000 No

 

6. Will Jumanji drop more than 22%?  1000 Yes

7. Will Hostiles stay above the Post? 2000 No

8. Will  Greatest Showman finally drop below its OW total? 3000 Yes

9. Will 12 Strong stay above Den of Thieves? 4000 Yes

10. Will Paadmavaat stay in the top 10? 5000 No

 

11. Will Star Wars' PTA stay above $2000? 1000 No

12. Will Paddington increase more that 215% on Friday? 2000 Yes

13. Will Shape of Water increase more than 150% on Saturday? 3000 No

14. Will the top 2 films make more than $25M? 4000 No

15. In a shock twist, will Winchester turn out to be a Cloverfield spinoff? 5000 Helen Mirren does need to be in more franchises.

 

Bonus: 

 

9/15    5000

10/15   8000

11/15    12,000

12/15   16,000 

13/15    20,000

14/15    24,000 

 15/15   30,000  

 

 

Part B:

 

The top 3 predictions will score points as follows:

 

Closest:  Within 1% - 15,000,  Within 2,5% - 12000,   Within 5% 9,000, Within 10% - 6000  Outside 10% - 3000 points  

2nd Closest:  Within 1% - 12,000,  Within 2,5% - 10000,   Within 5% 7,000, Within 10% - 4000  Outside 10% - 2000 points

3rd Closest:  Within 1% - 10,000,  Within 2,5% - 8000,   Within 5% 5,000, Within 10% - 2000  Outside 10% - 1000 points

 

1. What will Winchester make for its 3 day? $8.64m

2. What will Jumanji's change be? -28%

3. What will Paddinton's PTA be for the Weekend? $1,847

 

 

Part C:

 

There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here:

 

1. Jumanji

3. Winchester

4. The Greatest Showman

6. The Shape of Water

9. Den of Thieves

11. Star Wars: The Last Jedi

 

Because I realised bonuses are stupid...

 

1/6   4,000

2/6   10,000

3/6   18,000

4/6   25,000

5/6   36,000

6/6 - 50,000

 

[Question of the Week Winter Survival Thread - It's Here!!!]

Week 16 - No

[BOFFY VI: Return of the Jedi - Ballots (pick one for each category, only rank Best Picture) Due 3/2 at 11:59PM EST]

The forum has a hard-on for Bladerunner that the film really doesn't deserve.

 

Also, while I'm guilty of it, too, more people clearly needed to see I, Tonya. Maybe not BP material, but both Robbie and Janney deserved noms.

[Winter Game SOTM 11: Another day at the Races: Deadline Thursday 25th 11:59pm]

Below you will see 6 matchups between two films. Each film will be given odds of winning. You can bet up to 10,000 points on each matchup (in multiples of 1000 points), If you pick the winner you win the points, pick the loser you lose the points. You can bet on any number of matches.

 

(Everything is based on grosses at the end of the game. Final total scores will be round up to the nearest 1000 points)

 

1. Jumanji  (5.2)  vs  Guardians of the Galaxy 2  (1.4) 10,000

 

2. Greatest Showman  (2.4)  vs War For The Planet of the Apes  (1.7) 10,000

 

3. Black Panther  (1.3)  vs Justice League  (4.1) 10,000

 

4. Maze Runner  (1.4)  vs  Insidious Last Key  (3.1) 10,000

 

5. 12 Strong  (2.2)  vs  Den of Thieves  (1.8) 10,000

 

6. Peter Rabbit  (1.9)  vs Paddington 2  (4.8) 10,000

 

 

So if you bet the 10,000 points on Jumanji winning, you will get 52,000 points if you are correct. If you are incorrect you lose 10,000 points.     

 

There is no abstain, you can just choose not to bet. 

 

Deadline Thursday 25th 11:59pm