The Toymaker

3.5m for Liz & Dick is not a lot.

Killing Them Softly I was quite looking forward to this, and I don't know why because I should have known that being from the same director as The Assassination of Jesse James it was going to be dull. Well, I wouldn't call it dull it such. It was just ... uneventful. There's a lot of chatter, much of it with names that aren't really at the forefront of your mind just yet. James Gandolfini is in it, but I'm not sure why his character is even there, he does nothing apart from get drunk and swear. Pitt is Pitt, so nothing remarkable from him. It's all over very quickly, I was waiting for another scene or two regarding Pitt getting his extra $5,000 per hit, but it just ended. Weird. The start was odd too. The titles came up one word at a time whilst cutting off a news broadcast being made by Obama. You'll have to see it to understand what I mean, but it just wasn't very clean. It was sloppy. I know they were trying to go for that edgy, different, indie feel, but it just didn't work because it cut in the middle of Obama was saying so it made no sense. It was kind of a pointless story with nothing inbetween to make it interesting or exciting. A card game gets knocked over, Brad is called in, he kills 3 guys, end of movie. The talk with Gandolfini in the bar was very boring. For me this is in the same league as The Grey, Assassination of Jesse James, and Syriana....serious, adult, mature movies that look really cool by the trailer/poster, but are just quite boring and don't live up to even the lowest of expectations. It didn't even have a cool soundtrack that could make up for it. The movie was obviously a metaphor for the current state of America, but this was the wrong movie to showcase that idea. I didn't like that aspect at all. The constant news clips of Obama and Bush, while good to have some real-life storyline within the film, were just annoying and far too pushed. Unneeded. Ray Liotta takes a beating, and the killings in it are pretty good. Brad doesn't feel like a character, though, he feels like Brad Pitt just with a goatee. Possibly the biggest let down of the year. C+

You don't know what 'racist' means. Calling someone 'black' when they are 'black' is not racist.

Seems like this board has been infected with the politically correct bug. That title wasn't how I left it.

All opinions in this thread will not be true.

The Lords of the Rings: The Return of the King.

This is impossible. None of them are believeable in the slightest. To choose a most believeable is just too hard to do. It'd be like choosing between an orange and a lemon for which is most like a vegetable.

So this entire poll and discussion was pointless because all of us knew that The Dark Knight would win, and 99% of us could have picked all of the other titles in the top 10.

A 1. Life of Pi A- 2. The Expendables 2 3. Ted B+ 4. Total Recall 5. Dredd 3D 6. The Bourne Legacy 7. Due West: My 3D Sex Journey 8. The Amazing Spider-Man 9. How I Spent My Summer Vacation B 10. Looper 11. Safe House 12. Cold War B- 13. Taken 2 14. Mirror Mirror 15. The Avengers 16. The Dark Knight Rises C+ 17. The Grey 18. Killing Them Softly D 19. The Hunger Games D- 20. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance F 21. King of Fighters 22. The Cold Light of Day 23. The Woman in Black 24. The Kill List

Well I guess that's why SARFT block big US movies from opening at this time. A $26m opening week is crazy for that type of non-descript film.

Life of Pi Fantastic film. This is the type of film my gran would adore, and I hope she's going to see it - she may already have! The scenes with the tiger are great, and the scenes with the monkey are funny, all the animal scenes are just really intriguing. But it's the sentimental scenes that gripped me. If I took down my defences a little bit more I would have cried just as older Pi cried when he was telling the 2nd story at the end. I didn't think there was any need to say "so the zebra was the sailer ... and you were the tiger" because I already made that connection without having the white guy say it - but I suppose that was for less knowledgeable people in the audience. Beautiful movie. Deserves Best Picture, Best Cinematography, and Best Actor for younger Pi, he was sensational. Ang Lee deserves Best Director too. The 3D wasn't needed apart from a few scenes, which it was amazing. Possibly my best film of the year. It's such a pure magical adventure, and I've been dying to see a film like this in years. It just took me out of my situation and life circumstances and transported me into Pi's world - I needed that. I wouldn't say I enjoyed more than The Expendables 2 as such, but now I totally understand what people mean when they object to comparing films of different styles and genre. It's just too hard to do. I expected more from TE2, but it still gave me an incredibly fun ride, whereas with Life of Pi, I expected a great movie but it totally blew me away, and it came along at the right time as recently I have been down. A - It's the best film of 2012.

Russia's latest, from Oct 14th was 2,778,730 admissions, so your final figure is wrong. Your Germany and France totals are correct, though.

I have accounted for $226,050,819. I'd love to know how The-Numbers came up with that figure, not that I disbelieve it, but just because hey must have some grosses that I do not/why hasn't BOM got that update.. Weird.

Yeah, that's not Algren.

Yeah, I'm still going in expecting it to be laughable. I just want some entertainment really.

How about Jack Reacher? I know I've asked before, but I forgot and now I can't find the first time I asked.

Hope TE2 goes up. That's a lame gross for first week in discounts.

Ok, I'm sold. I'll go and see this soon. I've been putting it off because it looks awful, but if you say it's 7/10, then I'm going to go tomorrow. Tuesday is the cheap day in China

Only the $1.2m second weekend estimate that Corpse posted. Nothing else yet.

In the Name of the King I watched this the other night. I had to turn it off. It's complete junk. I didn't even know it was directed by Uwe Boll, but after hearing his name every time followed by a myriad of colourful language, I can see why this was no good. Jason Statham cannot rescue it, and it's by far his worst movie ever (even worse than Ghost of Mars). The fights are ludicrous, and the story starts without any lead up or introduction whatsoever. I'm not even ready for it and the story is being laid out infront of me. Weird. Ray Liotta is in this crap too. As is Matthew Lillard, Ron Pearlman and Claire Forlani. Oh, and that tart from Joyride. How they ever got all of these to star in this crap-fest is beyond me. It cost $60m, and while I can certainly expect not much to have been spent on the talent involved, why then were the effects and script so utterly poor? Must be Uwe Boll. The fighting is actually funny more than anything. Monsters and people get hit with axes or swords and they fall down on to the soft grass like in an episode of The A-Team. It's so shit. No blood, no effects, nothing. I think that Uwe Boll used the whole $60m on the special effects, or the visual effects, or the cast....whichever one it is, he got ripped off. This film believes it is The Lord of the Rings, it seriously does. It takes itself so seriously. But it turns out being like an episode of Merlin. I seem to have used that example a lot recently, but it's true with this. Liotta and Statham are so out of place. How this got a sequel, I WILL NEVER KNOW. The sequel stars Dolph Lundgren, and is directed by Uwe again. This has kind of made me intrigued to see how much worse it can get. F PS: Sorry baumer that I got you to open this thread for me to just berate this movie, but it's important that people know how bad this shit is. I am doing my fellow man a service here.

You, sir, should post more.

11 years.

A- 1. The Expendables 2 2. Ted B+ 3. Total Recall 4. Dredd 3D 5. The Bourne Legacy 6. Due West: My 3D Sex Journey 7. The Amazing Spider-Man B 8. Looper 9. How I Spent My Summer Vacation 10. Safe House B- 11. Taken 2 12. The Avengers 13. The Dark Knight Rises C+ 14. The Grey D 15. The Hunger Games D- 16. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance F 17. The Cold Light of Day 18. The Woman in Black

The Cruise-meister.