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Lust, Caution is interesting. It's very well made, but at times Ang Lee tends to play things a bit too reserved, which holds back the film, I think. (Hulk had a similar problem.)

My desire to see things somewhat exceeds my ability to actually watch them. The queue accumulates.

I'm watching Lust, Caution. I figure it's about time, since it's been sitting in my Netflix queue for a couple years.

Ooh. Glen Keane's still got it.

It looks like I have one good prediction, and that's Godzilla at 195. Everything else is crap so far.

Mobile. On the iPad. It's not quite that bad. Thankfully.

Ugh.

I'm playing a game for work because I need to learn it. Unfortunately, it isn't very good.

Cool. I can just read the title.

I just woke up and y'all are already in posting overdrive. Did anything important get said over the past thirty pages?

So, uh, I finally got to do something.

Oh, yeah. You're correct. I misread the calculator.

Madagascar 2 was better than Free Birds. It was worse than Madagascar 3, though. I really dig the main motif in the score though. It sounds vaguely familiar, like another movie had a similar motif.

From (Wednesday) and {last Thursday} HTTYD2 3.1 (-12%) {-34%} 22J 2.9 (-17%) {-47%} Malef 1.7 (-12%) {-30%} TLAM2 1.7 (-09%)

Uhh. That word is pretty offensive.

Now I'm watching Madagascar 2. Um. The score is pretty good.

Well, okay then. Free Birds is probably completely forgettable. Almost nothing in it that hasn't been done better elsewhere. Not offensively bad, though. It's just sorta there.

So, this movie is both really anachronistic, even beyond the time travel elements. It's also dated in its humor. And really derivative.

Okay, I'm going to skip the several pages of Free Birds liveblog. But since it seems to be the thing to do tonight, I'll give it a watchthrough myself. I've seen plenty of bad animation. I can do this.

1) Will Transformers make more than 8 mill on Thurs/midnight? YES2) Will Transformers open to more than 100 mill? NO3) Will Transformers open to more than Godzilla? YES4) Will Transformers make at least 35 million on Friday (including Thurs)? YES5) Will Transformers decrease by more than 10% on Saturday? YES6) Will Transformers decrease by more than 32.4% on Sunday? NO7) Will Transformers make more than 250 mill WW? YES8) Will Transformers make more than 80 mill OW in China? YES9) Will Transformers make more than 10 mill OW in Australia? NO10) Will Transformers have at least an A- cinemascore? YES11) What film finishes second? How to Train Your Dragon 212) Will any film increase more than 65% on Friday? YES13) Will any film increase more than 55% on Saturday? YES14) Will Fault in our Stars fall less than 39%? YES15) Will Chef stay in the top 10? YES16) Will ASM cross 200.5 mill? NO17) Will any film increase more than 2% on Thurs? YES18) Will TLAM2 fall less than 50%? NO19) Will Jersey Boys fall less than 35%? NO20) Will Blended make more than Neighbors? NO16/20 300017/20 500018/20 600019/20 700020/20 12000What finishes in spots (2000 each/3000 bonus for all 5 right)6 Jersey Boys8 Edge of Tomorrow10 Chef13 Neighbors14 BlendedBonus 1: What will Transformers gross WW (only Sunday estimates will count) 5000 263.5Bonus 2: What will the Friday gross be for 22JS? 5000 5.432Bonus 3: Add the % drops for Maleficent, DOFP and HTTYD, what is the total? (so your number might be 150%....)5000 98.6Bonus 4: Add the Friday numbers for Edge of Tomorrow, Chef and Fault, give me the total. 5000 3.849Bonus 5: Top (best) three answers will get points: What will Transformers gross in China this weekend? 83.9

Good release date choice, too.

They probably wouldn't want to, in most cases. Why bother with the added hassle when they can let others run the risk of failure while the studios still collect the profit. It's kinda like big agriculture. Companies like Monsanto own basically everything in the supply chain, from seed patents on up. The only thing they don't do is the actual farming, letting individual farmers and such run the risk of crop failure and have to deal with things like the weather. From a company perspective, that's a risk they don't need to take.

Just watched Black Hawk Down. Pretty good.

Holy crap, dude. Have you seen anything?

You should. It's fantastic comedy. Eartha Kitt, man. She's absolutely amazing.