FrozenFan626

March: Grand Budapest Hotel 6/10 X-men: First Class (rewatch) 8/10 The Croods 6/10 Jack Reacher 6/10 How to Train Your Dragon 8/10 12 Years a Slave 8/10 Frozen (rewatch) 10/10 Saving Mr. Banks 7/10 Rush (rewatch) 8/10 The Count of Monte Cristo (rewatch) 9/10

So hot, even with the shaved head. I think I prefer the classic Natalie, however.

God I hope this movie isn't the highest grosser of 2014. Unfortunately that's looking like a pretty forgone conclusion at this point...

Well I think just about everyone here (myself included) always wanted to believe even your most bullish predictions mfantin but they also didn't want to set themselves up for disappointment if it didn't happen. Kudos to you for staying the course but I'm sure you recognize some of the reasoning behind the slightly more conservative estimates as well. Right now I'm just psyched about the real possibility of Frozen hitting #6 WW over that awful transformers movie but I'm still not gonna say it's completely locked just in case the worst should happen and it mostly falls off before Golden Week.

Shoot I forgot about Anastasia! I'm gonna have to tweak my list now.

Okay once we laid out the groundrules on Animated musicals it was surprisingly pretty easy to put together a list of 25. 1. Frozen 1a. The Lion King 3. Beauty and the Beast 4. Aladdin 5. Hercules 6. The Little Mermaid 7. Tangled 8. The Prince of Egypt (only non-disney in my top 10 so props to DreamWorks) 9. Mulan 10. Tarzan 11. My Fair Lady 12. Mary Poppins 13. The Hunchback of Notre Dame 14. Phantom of the Opera 15. Moulin Rouge! 16. Sleeping Beauty 17. Anastasia 18. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 19. The Nightmare Before Christmas 20. Robin Hood 21. Peter Pan 22. The Sound of Music 23. The Music Man 24. The Jungle Book 25. Pinocchio

SM2 7.5/10 SM 7.5/10 SM3 7/10 (I liked it, sue me) ASM 6/10

The top part of my list is very Disney heavy but then it starts to even out a bit. 1. Frozen (9.7/10) 1a. The Lion King (9.7/10) 3. Beauty and the Beast (9.5/10) 4. Aladdin (9.2/10) 5. Hercules (9/10) 6. The Little Mermaid (8.9/10) 7. Shrek (8.7/10) 8. Shrek 2 (8.7/10) 9. Tangled (8.5/10) 10. The Prince of Egypt (8.4/10) 11. The Incredibles (8.3/10) 12. Mulan (8/10) 13. The Emperor's New Groove (7.9/10) 14. How to Train Your Dragon (7.9/10) 15. Monster's Inc. (7.8/10) 16. The Hunchback of Notre Dame 7.6/10) 17. Tarzan (7.5/10) 18. Toy Story 2 (7.4/10) 19. Finding Nemo (7.4/10) 20. Toy Story 3 (7.2/ 10) Note: there are many animations that I have not seen that I'd imagine would have a good shot of making the list (Like Rataouille, Wreck-It-Ralph, Spirited Away etc.)

Okay so I guess we better enjoy this superb run while it lasts. Hopefully that price hike won't hurt it even more next week.

Are weekdays in Japan always pretty decent compared to other countries or is this going to fall really hard after the holiday is over?

Well I wasn't fully satisfied with the finale but I think it's pretty cool how the creators had this planned from the very beginning. That footage they used of Ted's kids must have been filmed like 8 years ago.

I'm going to limit this list to live action films because otherwise more than half would probably be Disney movies Here are some honorable mentions: Groundhog Day (1993), The Bourne Identity (2002), The Prestige (2006), LOTR: RotK (2003), Rush (2013), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Inglorious Bastards (2009), The Quiet Man (1952), The Godfather (1972), Jurassic Park (1993), Se7en (1995), The Usual Suspects (1995) 10. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 9. No Country For Old Men (2007) 8. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 7. The Last of the Mohicans (1992) 6. Troy (2004) 5. Braveheart (1995) 4. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 3. Gladiator (2000) 2. LOTR: TTT (2002) 1. LOTR: FotR (2001)

Welcome to the forums! I see the Hobbit as a pretty solid bet but yeah the overseas haul should get TF4 there too.

I think X-Men: DOFP will be a lot higher than people think. I mentioned a few factors that I think will help on the Frozen OS thread but I see $700m+ as a distinct possibility with a outside shot (like 10% chance) of getting to a billion.

The Dark Knight Rises v Pirates Of The Caribbean 2The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring v Skyfall Titanic v The Avengers Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King v Inception Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 v The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Jurassic Park v Toy Story 3 Shrek 2 v Finding Nemo Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince v The Dark Knight Despicable Me 2 v Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers Frozen v The Lion King NOOOO!!! WHY MUST YOU DO THIS TO ME! I literally go back and forth on these two on a daily basis. Neither of these films remotely deserves to be ousted so early! Forgive me Simba

I hope Jackson can get it together too but neither of these first two movies resonated with me much at all. Like you said the action was way over the top and the movie felt cartoony at points due to the excessive overuse of CGI. Imo films have been boated to this point because the little 300 page book clearly didn't have enough material to fill 3 quality movies but maybe they can still salvage this last one. The gritty realistic style of LOTR is also missing and I fear that trend will continue. As a diehard Rings fan it is somewhat sad to say but I would much rather re-watch Frozen (for me the 8th time) than see either AUJ or DoS ever again. Here's hoping the finale is vastly improved but there is still almost no way it'll beat this imo.

The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers are quite possibly my favorite movies of all time and in addition to the LOTR trilogy I have read the Hobbit and The Silmarilion at least twice so I'm a huge tolkien freak too but I have to say I have been quite disappointed with this Hobbit trilogy especially since it is my favorite book in the series. Unless There and Back Again goes back to the way the LOTR movies were I will not be rooting for it to pass Frozen. I'll still see it at midnight pretty much no matter what but I will be sad if it sucks which I think is probably a forgone conclusion at this point

I agree on the Hobbit. Transformers I think will crack 1b only because of expanding international markets and so many Asian countries love any big budget movie about robots. Hopefully there will be enough of a domestic decrease to prevent this one from getting into the top 10 though. Mockingjay pt. 1 is doubtful for me. The foreign haul will definitely increase and there is a quite a lot of goodwill built up from the first two films but I think Lion's Gate may have hurt their chances of a billion dollar movie when they opted to split this one up especially since the book is easily the weakest in the trilogy. WOM from part 1 may hurt Part 2's chances but probably not enough to stop that one from crossing the billion dollar threshold in 2015. Intersteller has a outside shot too but it could just as easily gross half that imo and WOM will be a huge factor. Also, X-Men: DoFP is an interesting wildcard. If it gets an Avengers type bump (which is possible given the huge cast tie-ins and multi-faceted nature of this sequel/prequel) then it should at least contend for the spot of number 1 superhero movie of the year which may be enough to push it over 1 Billion if all of the overseas markets also over-perform (although it will still probably fall a little short). Remember the highest grossing pre-Avengers tie-in Movie was Iron Man 2 which only hit $623m so the bump to over 1.5 billion was about 143%. A similar increase from X-Men: First Class would yield a worldwide haul in the $860m range. Of course it remains to be seen if this assemblage of X-men Franchises will even be treated with the same type of event status that The Avengers was. Ultimately, I hope that none of these movies come close to passing Frozen because I don't see any of them being nearly as good although X-Men has the potential to be pretty solid. If Transformers passes it I will be especially disappointed

Avatar vs. Inception Titanic vs. Twilight: Breaking Dawn part 2 The Avengers vs. Transformers 2 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 vs. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith Iron Man 3 vs. Catching Fire Transformers 3 vs. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Lord of the Rings: Return of the King vs. Ice Age 4 Skyfall vs. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets The Dark Knight Rises vs. Ice Age 3 Pirates of the Caribbean 2 vs. Spider-Man 3 Toy Story 3 vs. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Pirates of the Caribbean 4 vs. Shrek 2 Jurassic Park v The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Star Wars: the Phantom Menace vs. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Alice in Wonderland vs. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey vs. Finding Nemo The Dark Knight vs. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Frozen vs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1 The Lion King vs. Pirates of the Caribbean 3 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone vs. Despicable Me 2

my guess at this point would be $290m dom + $485m int. = $775m WW

Brandon Routh was a better superman than Henry Cavill.

Star Wars: Rise of the Planet of the Jedi

I agree for the most part but there are still some boring parts. Some bits with Dany and Tyrion in book 5 are rather monotonous imo and Cersei's and Samwell's sections in AFFC were just agonizing at certain points. Luckily, there are almost as many Jaime chapters in book 4 which somewhat offset the dull moments

GoT + Frozen = Best Thing EVER! I may have to steal this pic and use it for my avatar or something if that's cool Here's another Frozen/GoT crossover thing I just put together

Yeah and if Martin can get tWoW published by sometime next year then that would still give him 3 years to write A Dream of Spring which is more time than it took for him to write aCoK and aSoS. Definitely doable as long as he stops all his other little side projects and cuts some of the extra appearances he does to promote the show. Besides, it made sense to expand aSoS into 2 seasons because that was the longest and most critically acclaimed book but I would still like to see at least the original 1 book/1 season pattern continue from here on out.