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    Summer Game Week 4 - Days of Future First Class Apocalypse Through the Looking Glass

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    1) Will Xmen make more than $67.5m this weekend? Yes

    2) Will Xmen make more than $80m this weekend? 2000 No

    3) Will Xmen make above $92.5m this weekend? No

    4) Will Alice make more than $47.5m this weekend? No

    5) Will Alice make more than $60m this weekend? No

    6) Will Alice make more than $72.5m this weekend? No

    7) Will Alice make at least 70% of the gross of Xmen this weekend? 3000 No

     

    8) Will Angry Birds stay above $20m? Yes

    9) Will Nice Guys' total gross pass Keanu's total gross by the end of the weekend?  2000 Yes

    10) Will Jungle Book drop more than 40%? YEs

    11) Will Civil War's PTA stay above $4,500? Yes

    12) Will The Darkness drop more than Ratchett and Clank?  Yes

    13) Will Neighbours remain within $7.5m of Civil War this weekend? 3000 Yes

    14) Will the two main new entries combine to more than $150m? No

     

    15) Will Money Maker drop less than 37% on Sunday? 2000 Yes

    16) Will The Wailing have a PTA above $6000? No

    17) Will Zootopia stay in the top 9? Yes

    18) Will The Huntsman have a PTA above $650? Yes

    19) Will Mother's Day stay above Barbershop? 3000  No

    20) Will the World End by Saturday? Yeah, this will be the way I spent one of the last hours of my life

     

    Bonuses

     

    15/20 - 2000

    16/20 - 4000

    17/20 - 6000

    18/20 - 9000

    19/20 - 12000

    20/20 - 15000

     

    Part 2 ~ The closest predictor for each question scores 5000 UOS

     

    1. What will be the gross of Alice be as a percentage of Xmen's? 58%

    2. What will The Boss make on Sunday? 90k

    3. What will Civil War's World Wide total be by the end of the weekend? 1.12B

     

     

    Part 3 ~ predict which film finishes in the places given.  (2000 per film)

     

    6. Jungle Book

    9. Love friendship

    11. Darkness

    14. Mother's Day

    16. Man who knew Infinity

    19. MBFGW2

     

    Bonuses:

     

    3/6 ~ 2000 points

    4/6 ~ 5000 points

    5/6 ~ 9000 points

    6/6 ~ 15000 points 

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    BOT Top 100 Movies of All Time: The Empire Strikes Back... Again... For the Third Time...

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    This years list has shaped up to be clearly the best one on these forums, at least since 2012. Many movies that were more popular than good and which used to place really high in earlier years have moved down or completely disappeared. And many good films which didnt use to make it or would make it very low have appeared quite high. A victory for the forums!

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    BOT Top 100 Movies of All Time: The Empire Strikes Back... Again... For the Third Time...

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    Saw T2 before seeing the first one many years ago. Couldn't get me interested at the start and ended up not paying attention to most of it. Maybe I should give it another chance sometime.

     

    Fury Road totally deserves its spot in my opinion. Maybe not in an ideal top 25 but absolutely in this one. Freaking amazing film.

     

    Inception is really good. I had it somewhere in my list. I don't really think its worth 23rd place though. 

     

    The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is just phenomenal! Love it. Watched it quite recently and it completely blew me. It is the first and only western I have watched yet though so maybe that helped it too. And I absolutely loved the soundtrack! Keep humming it all the time these days :D 

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    BOT Top 100 Movies of All Time: The Empire Strikes Back... Again... For the Third Time...

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    35 minutes ago, Telemachos said:

    I think 10-15% from any single creative entity is too much for the list, whether it be the collective Pixar brain trust or Spielberg or Hitchcock or whoever.

    Well the movies earned their place themselves, there are Pixar's still not on the list. If they happen to be from the same team, then that just speaks more about how that team is the single greatest and most consistent creative team to gift us with thir gifts.

     

    And you are putting down ALL of animation to the same grade as the filmography of a single director? Here's how it is. When one explains films of this world to an alien here's how he'd go. He'd say films are divided into two mediums. Animation and Live Action. And then he'll list the sub categories under them which will most be common to both. So you think that one of two mediums of film, that the very first branching level in the film tree, is on the same scale as any single director's filmography? When one opens his mind and considers that, 10-15% would seem actually quite low and clearly um.. anti-animation-ist of the general audience. Its true that less films are made of that medium than of the other one but that itself is anti-animation-ist of the film industry and anyways raw numbers has got nothing to do with it. It just shows that a greater percent of the films of that medium are great.

    BOT Top 100 Movies of All Time: The Empire Strikes Back... Again... For the Third Time...

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    9 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

    How many animations total, 20 ?

     

     

    There have been 12 by now and with the likes of almost all of Pixar's best and Lion King already out of the way, I can only think of Finding Nemo as another to make the list, although I highly doubt it.

     

    Really, while their sudden onslaught has made many think animation and pixar has overcome the list, we have only 12-13 of them in the top 100 with 8-9 of them being Pixar's.

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    BOT Top 100 Movies of All Time: The Empire Strikes Back... Again... For the Third Time...

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    I've said this before but TS2 is indeed the best of its trilogy.

     

    Also, so Finding Nemo is either the top Pixar on the list or not at all on it? Well I personally think its the best Pixar and infact the very best american animated film ever so it nothing could be better for me than the former. The later would suck bad. 

     

    Also, I just realized it but monsters Inc. Didnt make it on the list? Sad.

    Chas' Box Office Summer Game | We Have a Winner: Congratulations to DamienRoc on a game well Played. Special mention to darkelf as the runner up and Chewy into 3rd (had a fantastic pre-season score!) | Ya all come for the winter game ya here!

    in Chasmmi's Infamous Box Office Game

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    On 2/24/2016 at 1:31 PM, Infernus said:

    In. 179m OW, 425m Dom

    On 5/18/2016 at 0:35 AM, Infernus said:

     

    I got the OW one spot on and looks like my Dom might be really really close too! :) 

     

    If only I had stuck on them for the Summer Game :( 

     

    Changed it to 475m Dom and 194m OW :'( 

    Summer Game Week 3 - Nice Birds Rising Angry Sorority Guys

    in Chasmmi's Infamous Box Office Game

    Posted · Edited by Infernus

    Part 1 ~ answer yes/no unless otherwise stated (UOS) and are worth 1000 points each UOS. They also only refer to the top 12 UOS.

     

    1) Will Angry Birds make more than $40m this weekend? Yes

    2) Will Neighbours 2 make more than $40m this weekend? 2000 Yes

    3) Will any film make above $50m this weekend? No

    4) Will at least two new entries open above Civil War? Yes

    5) Will The Nice Guys make more than $15m this weekend? Yes

    6) Will Civil War become the number 1 film of 2016 by the end of Saturday? No

    7) Will The Jungle Book overtake BvS's domestic total by the end of the weekend? 3000 No

     

    8) Will Zootopia remain in the top 8? Yes

    9) Will Huntsman increase more than 72% on Saturday? No

    10) Will Mother's Day drop down to 10th place or lower? Yes

    11) Will Money Monster drop more than 53%? 2000 No

    12) Will The Darkness drop more than Ratchett and Clank?  3000 No

    13) Will Barbershop have a better Friday increase than Keanu? Yes

    14) Will the three main new entries combine to more than $100m? No

     

    15) Will Greek Wedding 2 drop less than 37% on Sunday? 2000 Yes

    16) Will Jungle Book's weekend gross be within $24m of Civil War's? 3000 Yes

    17) Will Sing Street remain in the top 12? No

    18) Will The Boss have a PTA above $650? No

    19) Will Deadpool stay above Kung Fu Panda 3 this weekend? No

    20) Will all three films involve scenes that show the unwitting imbibing of urine? Yes

     

    Bonuses

     

    15/20 - 2000

    16/20 - 4000

    17/20 - 6000

    18/20 - 9000

    19/20 - 12000

    20/20 - 15000

     

    Part 2 ~ The closest predictor for each question scores 5000 UOS

     

    1. What will be the gross of the number 1 film of the weekend? 44m

    2. What will the top three new entries combined Saturday gross be? 30.4m$

    3. How far away from $1B Worldwide will Zootopia be by the end of the weekend? 21m

     

     

    Part 3 ~ predict which film finishes in the places given.  (2000 per film)

     

    1. Angry Birds

    3.  Civil War

    6. Money Monster

    9. Huntsman

    11. Keanu

    15. The Meddler

     

    Bonuses:

     

    3/6 ~ 2000 points

    4/6 ~ 5000 points

    5/6 ~ 9000 points

    6/6 ~ 15000 points 

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    BOT Top 100 Movies of All Time: The Empire Strikes Back... Again... For the Third Time...

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    14 minutes ago, langer said:

    I haven't submitted a list so I can't really complain about the countdown so far.  I guarantee that Good Will Hunting would have made the top 100 if I hadn't been lazy and submitted a list...

     

    I also don't know if I would have submitted my top 100 favorite movies (taste)...or my top 100 best movies (technical, cultural impact, etc...), probably a bit of both.   

    Personally I wouldn't agree to cultural impact or influence or enduring legacy being a factor for a 'best' films of all time list.  In my opinion they should rather be included in a 'greatest' films ever list. Neither would I consider the time when a film was released , i.e, how superior, technically and such, it was to other films of its time. For a pure 'best' films 'of all time' list I would say it should be the film itself, and no other external factor, that should determine its place. 

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