Wrath

Just saw it for a second time. Absolutely fantastic, deserves and Oscar nod or two.

I'm still bitter about never finding a Remains of the Day lunch box. Edit - 1993 was an outrageously good year for movies. The Matrix might have been right about the '90s being the peak of human civilization. Normally with these lists, "What were the best, or at least, good, movies of the year?" lasts to about #15-ish and then it slides into "What movies were the least bad/least embarrassing to list?" with a few joke entries at the end. With 1993, its steak all the way through. 1. Jurassic Park 2. Schindler’s List 3. Groundhog Day 4. Mrs Doubtfire 5. Falling Down 6. Tombstone 7. In the Name of the Father 8. Demolition Man 9. The Piano 10. Dave 11. The Sandlot 12. Philadelphia 13. Short Cuts 14. The Firm 15. Carlito's Way 16. The Fugitive 17. Much Ado About Nothing 18. The Nightmare Before Christmas 19. The Age of Innocence 20. What's Love got to do with it? 21. In the Line of Fire 22. Benny and Joon 23. Addams Family Values 24. Menace 2 Society 25. Farewell, My Concubine 26. True Romance 27. Hot Shots! Part Deux 28. Sleepless in Seattle 29. So, I Married an Axe Murderer (in a wild coincidence, I was living in SF when it was filmed and they filmed the butcher shop scene in Meats of the World, a butcher shop literally a block away from my apartment) 30. Remains of the Day (Ok, I never saw it, but I still want my lunch box)

This was a tremendous write up and I had fun reading it and catching up on how the game's twists and turns ended up. GL with your personal decisions with your faith. A very personal thing and you have to do what feels best.

Wow! Agafin again with the defensive stands, and Jack with the secondary defensive stands! When I wished everyone a good game, what I REALLY meant was that I *curse* the Goombas to failure and destruction! Muahahahah. Retroactively.

Ah, nope, would have been Sparrow then. The funny thing is if Sparrow had also voted for you, then you 100% would have gotten to pick who was kicked out.

Wow! What a dramatic finish! Avenge me, Ethan! Thanks for the fun game, Slam!

I saw Soul on a plane flight and I remember thinking it was excellent. Might have been the one most screwed over by Covid, since it ended up getting a streaming release with minimal marketing support.

Well, 44% in my case. Which turned out to be enough! I knew it'd be a busy week so I threw together some super-fast predicts really early on Monday or whatever, just so that I'd have SOMETHING down. Figured I'd come back and revise them later in the week. Never ended up getting a chance, so I'm glad I at least got those in!

I dunno. Among Pixar's first 15 movies, A Bug's Life was probably the worst performer and it still did 162DOM and 330WW. And that was the WORST. Their next 6 were incredibly up and down at the box office, Good Dinosaur and Finding Dory, Cars 3 and Incredibles 2, Coco (which was fine but not huge) and Toy Story 4. So their numbers were overall still good, but the critical reception was clearly down from their earlier stuff, which, other than Cars 2, was basically immaculate. But their last 5 movies... Sure, Onward, Luca and Soul all got hosed by Covid at the box office, their critical reception was mostly very good (with Onward being a little worse and Lightyear worse than that) and Turning Red got streamed instead of a regular release. But none of them had any kind of cultural impact. The last Pixar movie that was huge because it was spectacular rather than because it was a sequel of something spectacular was, at best, Coco and really was probably 2015's Inside Out. After 20 years of being nearly perfect, they've now gone 8 years since their last year triumph. I personally would not bet on them re-achieving that past glory.

Team right in the middle and my score right in the middle. Going exactly according to plan. Ethan being poisoned is a bonus...

Oh my. Is that good? That seems good.

Agreed. I WANT this movie to pull out the unlikely win, and the WoM is just good enough that, given perfect circumstances it might have done it. If this was 2 months ago and its biggest upcoming competition was Knock at the Cabin, 80 for Brady, and Magic Mike's Last Dance, it might have stabilized early and overachieved with great legs. But, A. 2 months ago Hasbro was in the midst of a HUGE fight with the D&D community and the marketing hadn't seriously started so it would have opened to like $9M, and B. It has the opposite of a perfect field as Super Mario launches this week and looks like an break-out hit. I think "epic bomb" is over stating it, but I do think it peters out a little under $100M and is viewed as a disappointment.

It is a card game, and I’m not super familiar with it, but there is quite a bit of lore and characters.

I think we all guessed the same thing for you…

I want a “sadly agree” emote.

Yeah, I was looking at Hasbro's financials not that long ago and was shocked at how big a chunk of it was Wizards of the Coast. Which is more Magic than D&D, but even so, Hasbro is *dying* to grow and better monetize D&D. But the movie needs to either break out to GA or get good enough word of mouth that there's a sequel and *it* breaks out to justify part of the budget as marketing.

OH, DAMMIT! We're idiots, all of us. If we'd just correctly guessed our own, and then guessed that EVERYONE else chose Oppenheimer...

That's kind of an interesting point. It had an unusually robust pre-release viewing slate, and I wonder if that'll skew the ratios at all.

Nuts! I had Covid and missed the first week's questions. Well, I guess I'm shooting for 6th anyway so that's probably just as well. Edit - Might want to lock the thread.

Oh, also: 5. How many films will gross less than 50M? a) 5 or fewer b) 7-8 c) 9 or more This is total movies released during the game's duration, not just films in the top 10 DOM or whatever, right?

So, GotG3 officially opens on Friday. Its 4/4 BO will likely be significant and technically is rolled into the Friday number, but we'll all know what it is. Are you considering GotG3 entirely out of the scope of the game or is that initial Thursday fair game?

Been catching up on some films I'd missed and was thinking about this. I check back in and *a new game is about to start*? Crazy. Unless I'm distracted by a shiny object, I'll replace this with some answered questions in a few days. Edit - 6th place has my name on it. Edit2 - And so it begins. Edit3 -

Part A: December 10th Weekend 1. Will West Side Story open to more than $16M? 1000 YES 2. Will West Side Story open to more than $24M? 2000 NO 3. Will West Side Story open to more than $20M? 3000 NO 4. Will National Champions open to more than $4M? 4000 YES 5. Will National Champions open to more than $7M? 5000 NO 6. Will Encanto stay in the top 2? 1000 NO 7. Will Christmas with the Chosen stay above Eternals? 2000 NO 8. Will Eternals Total Box OFfice overtake No Time To Die? 3000 YES 9 Will Ghostbusters drop more than 57%? 4000 NO 10. Will Red Rocket have a PTA above $27,500? 5000 NO December 17th Weekend (but deadline is still this week) 11. Will Spiderman open to more than $220M? 1000 12. Will Spiderman open to more than $250M? 2000 NO 13. Will Spiderman open to more than $190M? 3000 14. Will Will Spiderman's Total gross after Friday be enough to overtake Encanto's Total gross? 4000 15. Will Resident Evil Open stay in the top 11? 5000 16. Will Nightmare alley open above $4M? 1000 YES 17. Will Clifford drop more than 57%? 2000 YES 18. Will Eternals have a weekend total above $1M? 3000 NO 19. House of Gucci have a PTa above $750? 4000 YES 20. Will Dune's Total gross be more than 50% of Venom's? 5000 YES 21, Will the combined Percentage Drop of Encanto and Eternals be higher than 120%? 5000 NO Bonus: 11/21 2000 12/21 4000 13/21 6000 14/21 9000 15/21 12000 16/21 15000 17/21 18000 18/21 22000 19/21 25000 20/21 30,000 21/21 35,000 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 10th Weekend 1. What will West Side Story make for its 3 day OW? 2. What will Resident Evil's percentage drop be? 17th Weekend 3. What will Spiderman make for its 3 Day OW? 4. What will House of Gucci's percentage drop be? Part C There will be many films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: December 10th 2. 3. 5. 7. December 17th 3. 5. 8. 11.

I'm pleased to see my fake son doing well, but I should probably answer some questions myself to shake the rust off before the summer game starts. Plus, the field is small so maybe I'll come in 9th or something that'd be helpful for Bingo.

Excuse me, I need to report something being wrong. I'm somehow winning despite having missed the deadline on everything up to now.