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A The LEGO Movie A- Chef How to Train Your Dragon 2 X-Men: Days of Future Past B+ 22 Jump Street Captain America: The Winter Soldier Edge of Tomorrow The Fault In Our Stars The Grand Budapest Hotel Neighbors B Godzilla Maleficent Million Dollar Arm Muppets Most Wanted Noah Non-Stop B- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Divergent Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Jersey Boys Rio 2 C+ 300: Rise of an Empire The Monuments Men Tammy C A Million Ways to Die in the West Ride Along

A live-action Dumbo? Oh lord, now that sounds like "really pushing it." Well, I'm certainly interested to see how it turns out, if nothing else. Ready to see "Pink Elephant on Parade" sequence reproduced in live-action form?

I think I'll stay out of threads like this for a while. It's not helping my "Internet Depression" whenever I come online.

It would have had tragedy not struck.

It's not like August is guaranteed to be a big month either outside of the first weekend (Guardians of the Galaxy will obviously do well and Get on Up could be a force to be reckoned with if it turns out to be of quality and given the slim pickings targeted directly at adults this summer). Again, just very poor scheduling.

I still don't know who in the hell decided these three should be the Independence Day weekend openers. Maleficent never should've moved from this weekend in the first place, it would've had no problem competing with Transformers. Just dismal, dismal, dismal scheduling all around this summer. So the answer to that Summer 2014: What Went Wrong thread is: people just aren't flat out refusing to go to the movies. They just don't want to see these movies. End of story.

Can't we all just get along? Actually, Michael Bay would want it this way. Carry on.

...And?

I still haven't seen Transformers 4 (and most likely won't even bother at this point). All these arguments over it are so foreign to me.

That's gotta be the oddest potential couple I've heard of in a while.

Ordinary People

I was actually not making fun of you there, just observing. Oh well. LOL.

LOL poor Telemachos. Next he'll be hearing questions about what it was like in the good old days living on the plantation.

LEAVE TELE ALONE! ew i can't believe I made a chris crocker reference

By the way: Backstreet Boys > 'N Sync. Yes.

LOL I can't believe I missed out on a 90s discussion. Go figure.

Watch yo back, Emma! Taylor's coming for Andrew Garfield next (just to write a break-up song about him, of course).

LOL I'm one of those people that no matter how much the movie sucks, I always stick it out until the end. Especially when I forked over the cash to see it in the first place. It's been 3 days since I've seen this, and maybe it's because of...other stuff...but this movie basically become one big blur to me. It's not good, it's not awful, it's just...there. The definition of instantly forgettable.

Best movie of the summer so far for me is Chef.

Thoughts: Expected drop for Transformers. Kind of softer than expected for Tammy but with a budget of only $20M it's already another winner for McCarthy. Very tepid openings for Deliver Us From Evil and Earth to Echo, neither of which was able to take advantage of a lack of horror and kid films on the market. Solid holds for Jump Street, Dragon, and (again) Maleficent. Jersey Boys also saw a pretty great hold. Kind of weak for America, thank god. Barf! Really good expansion for Begin Again, and look at Chef go still! I hope it makes it to $30M.

1. The Dark Knight 2. Inception 3. Memento 4. The Dark Knight Rises 5. Batman Begins 6. The Prestige 7. Insomnia

From Earth?

Yeah, it's going to turn a profit by the end of this weekend. Considering the combo of weak ads and the poor reviews, the fact that this will still make $70M+ shows McCarthy has nothing to worry about, for now at least.

What was the last movie Martin Lawrence was even in, anyway? The Death at a Funeral remake?

By overperforming I meant an $80M+ opening.