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Oops, I meant to do that the other day, will do it tonight. x

Yeah, I googled Waltz to see who he is - I just haven't seen any of his films. Thanks for explaining about the acronym. How do you know it stands for that? Is it established in previous films (if so, I don't remember it)? Cause I can't see it in the announcement.

Andrew Scott is a good actor, don't know Christoph Waltz though. I think I'll pass on this. I have very little interest in Bond, it's just a bunch of silly, sexist action spectacle movies. Why does everyone keep referring it to SPECTRE and not just Spectre?

I accept all 4 bets.

Ooh, I want to watch Boyhood now...

I got to the top 10 and then was like, "Oh my god, Moon isn't on this list." Thankfully it was. I didn't put The Prestige on my list as I only watched it after voting, but it deserves its place there. I don't think Inception should be #1 but it's still a great film. The only one I really, truly disagree with on this list is Gravity. I thought it was a pretty bad film, and doesn't deserve a place in the top 25, let alone #5. Also, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes should so be on here, shame we couldn't vote for 2014 films. Thanks for doing this stingray.

Dec 5-7: 1. Mockingjay $19.2 million 2. Penguins of Madagascar: $10.7 million 3. Big Hero 6: $8.5 million 4. Interstellar: $7.2 million 5. Horrible Bosses 2: $5.9 million The Pyramid: $2.8 million Join my club! Fifty Shades over 100M OW http://forums.boxofficetheory.com/index.php?/topic/16857-fifty-shades-over-100m-ow/

Pleased to see Gone Girl crack $160M. Most interesting thing for me this weekend is that Mockingjay hasn't suffered from WoM, it's got the same drop as Catching Fire. (Though the weekdays did proportionally slightly worse) It's a Marvel film featuring a group of superheroes...

Got Guardians of the Galaxy earlier this week. It was a good transfer but not perfect; it had a few colouring issues which surprised me. And I swear, the sound mixing was screwed up, I couldn't hear parts of the dialogue over the sound effects. That may just be my TV, or perhaps my ears. I just ordered Star Trek, Man of Steel and In Bruges on Amazon, so will watch those over the next few weeks.

Transformers was easily the worst of this year that I've seen. It was just painful to watch. Lucy was pretty bad, Godzilla was poor, as was Amazing Spider-Man 2, but all were at least watchable. TF4 was the only one where I wanted to walk out - I would have, but I watched it to pass some time as I was stuck in town for a few hours. I also hated Neighbors, but that was more just that it's not my thing. It wasn't a bad movie per se, I just don't like "dick jokes", that sort of 'comedy'. Those are the only bad ones I've seen this year. I expected Dracula Untold to be god-awful, I just watched it because I was with friends and nothing else was on, but it was surprisingly good.

With Orci directing, I could not care less about this. (Though I'm sure I will watch it) As for Cumberbatch - he's great wherever he goes, whatever he does. He could play every single character and it'd be great.

Holy crap. I couldn't care less about wrestling or boxing or whatever that is, but that really is an amazing transformation.

"They’re gonna be bitchin’. You will shit yourself with your mouth wide open." That made me laugh waaaayyy too much! Also, looking at the writers: while the Silver/Jaffa writing combo is good, and Josh Friedman seems decent enough (I guess), Shane Salerno?! The man behind such classics as Armageddon and Ghost Rider? Could Cameron really not get anyone better?

Meh, they really should have called it "Now You Don't". I hope they change the name. This reminds me though, NYSM is the one blu-ray I have that I can't find. I've lost it, it's somewhere in my house... (or maybe in Paris)

This is the seventh film in a series that has been pumping out one film every 2 or 3 years. I understood the growth from 5 to 6, but I don't see why that would happen again. FF6 was already a hit in China, so there won't be huge amounts of growth there. Sure, it'll gross more, but that's not going to cover the $150-200m extra it needs to make $1b. Paul Walker's death won't make much of a difference, by the way. He wasn't a well established actor outside of this series, so his fans will show up either way - and although his death did get the film some awareness, that was 1.5 years before the movie comes out.

This is a really strange topic. Posted today, after the release of Interstellar, MJ1 and BH6? We already know that those three can't do $1b. And why not include Furious 7 / Avengers 2? The Hobbit may do it (probably will) but if not, then the next one will be Avengers. Furious 7 will not have that much growth.

The film is probably the best popcorn flick of last year, but it had so many fucking stupid names. Raleigh Becket Stacker Pentecost Newton Geiszler Hermann Gottlieb Hercules Hansen All of whom were from English-speaking countries. I think del Toro may have been high when he came up with the characters. As for actors: as much as the focus is on the Jaegers and kaiju, it is the actors who drive the film, so I would like some better ones for the next movie.

Antarctica?

Am I the only person who found the tagline of "Experience the untold story" ironic?

The first trailer I saw kinda put me off the movie, but I'm back on with this. Looks pretty funny, shame it comes out in February here though.

I agree that the split was justified to an extent, since it was the finale of a decade-long story. They wanted to go out with a bang, so did the audience, and splitting it in two allowed for a more detailed adaptation of the book. I think they executed it well. However, it's nonsense that "the story could not have fitted into one 3 hour film". They managed to adapt Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince into 2-hour films, and those books are both longer than Deathly Hallows. I'm glad they didn't do it, but it was definitely doable.

reminds me of this video I saw earlier.. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=4961054880917&set=vb.1735412067&type=2&theater

Rise was a great film but Dawn did what every good sequel does, expanding and improving what was there. As far as I'm concerned, Dawn was a perfect blockbuster movie, right up there with the very best, like Star Wars and Jaws.

Thanks for the clarification.

I know, I just thought it was an exception... maybe... It physically hurts me to think that someone could believe Transformers is a perfect film.