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Hulk dogs are fine, Nick Nolte is great.

Watched the Ang Lee Hulk for the first time in ages and shit, it's pretty good. I remember being bored to death last time I watched it but it's genuinely a really interesting and rewarding movie. Good stuff. Jennifer Connelly has really nice eyes.

Imagine rooting for someone who is not Richard E. Grant.

I just have trouble seeing a Singer film gaining much traction in this day and age.

Planting the flag was a bit of a fumble and generally an awkward procedure. It's a fair enough cut if they want to focus on other aspects of the landing (which it sounds like they do, as @antovolk described, and he's actually seen the goddamn movie). Just watch the footage: Unless you want then to actually rewrite history by making him plant the flag all lickety split or whatever, it seems totally logical to trim down that part of the moon landing. Not showing that one aspect isn't rewriting history, and I think at this stage that it's pretty clear that they do show the flag in the film considering how many people who have, y'know, seen it have said as much. Anyway, Armstrong's speech is far and away the most iconic part of the landing. Not them putting a flag down. One small step for man and all that. Kinda rich of you to be getting all "fuck this movie" over a totally reasonable creative decision made by the filmmakers and then complaining about how oversensitive people are.

Legitimately impressed by how incredibly stupid this whole flag kerfuffle is. Great response from Armstrong's son, though.

January 6th - Star Wars: The Last Jedi (IMAX) 7th - Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri 13th - Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 19th - The Shape of Water 20th - The Post 26th - I, Tonya 27th - Darkest Hour February 3rd - Phantom Thread 11th - Lady Bird 15th - Black Panther 18th - Black Panther 20th - Black Panther 22th - Game Night March 22th - Pacific Rim: Uprising 29th - Ready Player One April 6th - A Quiet Place 25th - Avengers: Infinity War (IMAX) 29th - Avengers: Infinity War May 13th - Avengers: Infinity War 17th - Deadpool 2 24th - Solo: A Star Wars Story (IMAX) June 3rd - Upgrade 21st - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 26th - Ocean's Eight 26th - Tag 30th - Incredibles 2 July 1st - Incredibles 2 7th - Ant-Man and the Wasp 8th - Ant-Man and the Wasp 17th - Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation 20th - The Equalizer 2 20th - First Reformed (NZIFF) 23rd - Shoplifters (NZIFF) 23rd - Madeline's Madeline (NZIFF) 24th - Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again 24th - Searching (NZIFF) 27th - Leave No Trace (NZIFF) 27th - American Animals (NZIFF) 28th - Burning (NZIFF) August 2nd - Mission: Impossible - Fallout (IMAX) 8th - Mission: Impossible - Fallout 21st - BlacKkKlansman 23rd- 2001: A Space Odyssey (IMAX) 28th - The Meg Total ~ 44

Week 19 - No.

Part A: 1. Will Operation Finale open to more than $4M for 3 day? Ye 2. Will Operation Finale open to more than $6M for 3 day? Ye 3. Will Ya Veramos open to more than $900k? Ye 4. Will Ya Veramos open to more than $1.3M? Nah 5. Will any new entry enter the top 3? Ye 6. Will Crazy Rich Asians drop less than 5%? Ye 7. Will Happytime stay above Mission Impossible? Nah 8. Will Mile 22 stay above Alpha? Ye 9. Will Blackklansman Drop less than 10%? Nah 10. Will The Meg have a PTA more than $2,650? Ye 11. Will AXL have a bigger weekend drop than The Spy Who Dumped Me? Nah 12. Will Incredibles cross $600M? Ye 13. Will Slenderman stay in the top 12? Nah 14. Will something in the top 12 in more than 2000 theatres increase more than 40%? Nah 15. Will I ever be free of Summer and Winter Games? Don't forget, you're here forever. Bonus: 9/15 5000 10/15 8000 11/15 12,000 12/15 16,000 13/15 20,000 14/15 24,000 15/15 30,000 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 1. What will Operation Finale make for its 3 day? $7.69M 2. What will Crazy Rich Asian's percentage change be? -4.69% 3. What will Christopher Robin's PTA be for the Weekend? $1,969  Part 😄 There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 2. The Meg 4. Christopher Robin 7. Mile 22 9. The Happytime Murders 12. Incredibles 2 15. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Because I realised bonuses are stupid... 1/6 4,000  2/6 10,000 3/6 18,000 4/6 25,000 5/6 36,000  6/6 - 50,000 

You are only eligible for these questions if you have missed a week at some point during the game. If you have never missed a week, do not answer these... Part A: 1. Will Kin open to more than $4M for 3 day? 1000 Nah 2. Will Kin open to more than $6M for 3 day? 2000 Nah 3. Will Searching make more than $3.5M? 3000 Ye 4. Will Searching make more than $5M? 4000 Ye 5. Will Searching make more than one of the Openers in a higher theatre count? 5000 Ye 6. Will Meg increase? 1000 Ye 7. Will Slenderman stay above AXL? 2000 Nah 8. Will Will at least 7 of the top 12 increase on Sunday? 3000 Ye 9. Will Teen Titans Drop less than 10%? 4000 Nah 10. Will Mamma Mia have a PTA more than $1,000? 5000 Ye 11. Will Mission Impossible have a bigger weekend pecentage drop than christopher Robin? 1000 Ye 12. Will The Equallizer cross $100M ON Saturday? 2000 Nah 13. Will Happytime Murders stay in the top 3? 3000 Nah 14. Will anything in the top 15 drop more than 20%? 4000 Ye 15. Will Spaghetti rig the Boffys so that Survivor wins best forum game ? 5000 Never trust pasta. Bonus: 9/15 5000 10/15 8000 11/15 12,000 12/15 16,000 13/15 20,000  14/15 24,000 15/15 30,000 Part B: No Part B FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!! NO NO NO!!!!! Part 😄 There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 3. Mission: Impossible - Fallout 6. Searching 8. Alpha 11. Kin 14. The Equalizer 2 16. Ant-Man and the Wasp Because I realised bonuses are stupid... 1/6 4,000 2/6 10,000 3/6 18,000 4/6 25,000 5/6 36,000 6/6 - 50,000 

Hello I'd like a ticket to the Ad Astra train.

TOP 4-DAY LABOR DAY WEEKENDS 1982–Present Rank Title (click to view) Studio Weekend Gross % of Total Theaters / Avg. Total Gross** Date^ 1 Halloween (2007) MGM/W $30,591,759 52.5% 3,472 $8,811 $58,272,029 8/31/07 2 The Sixth Sense BV $29,271,146 10.0% 2,775 $10,548 $293,506,292 8/6/99 3 Guardians of the Galaxy BV $22,906,851 6.9% 3,462 $6,617 $333,176,600 8/1/14 4 The Possession LGF $21,078,840 42.9% 2,816 $7,485 $49,130,154 8/31/12 5 Lee Daniels' The Butler Wein. $20,201,272 17.3% 3,330 $6,066 $116,632,095 8/16/13 6 Transporter 2 Fox $20,104,608 46.7% 3,303 $6,086 $43,095,856 9/2/05 7 The Help BV $19,881,571 11.7% 2,843 $6,993 $169,708,112 8/10/11 8 Don't Breathe SGem $19,707,927 22.1% 3,051 $6,459 $89,217,875 8/26/16 9 One Direction: This is Us TriS $18,472,875 64.0% 2,735 $6,754 $28,873,374 8/30/13 10 Jeepers Creepers 2 UA $18,365,222 51.5% 3,124 $5,878 $35,667,218 8/29/03 So, could Crazy Rich Asians be #1?

Rewatched 12 Angry Men and who woulda thunk, it's still the best.

Gotta wonder how high it can actually go with a number like that. The closest comp is probably The Help but this hold is miles better than that and this has the bonus of Labor Day in it's third weekend rather than it's fourth. Would be extra fun if it could try take the title from Big Fat Greek Wedding, but that might be a bit out of reach.

A bond stronger than blood.

@antovolk

Part A: 1. Will Happytime Murders open to more than $12M? 1000 Ye 2. Will Happytime Murders open to more than $16M? 2000 Nah 3. Will A.X.L open to more than $1.5M? 3000 Ye 4. Will A.X.L open to more than $2.0M? 4000 Nah 5. Will Pappilon have a higher PTA than both the other big new openers? 5000 Nah 6. Will Crazy Rich Asians stay at Number 1? 1000 Ye 7. Will Slender Man stay above Hotel Transylvania? 2000 Nah 8. Will The Meg cross $100M ON Saturday? 3000 Ye 9. Will Mission Impossible Drop less than 40%? Ye 10. Will Christopher Robin have a PTA more than $1,850? 5000 Ye 11. Will Blakklansman have a bigger weekend drop than Antman? 1000 Nah 12. Will Alpha drop more than 30% Sunday? 2000 Nah 13. Will Mile 22 increase more than 45% on Saturday? 3000 Nah 14. How many films will have a weekend above $10M? 4000 Three 15. How many happy endings will Happytime Murders have? 5000 Sixty nine. Bonus: 9/15 5000 10/15 8000 11/15 12,000 12/15 16,000 13/15 20,000 14/15 24,000 15/15 30,000 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 1. What will Happytime Murders make for its 3 day? 13.69M 2. What will Ant Man's percentage change be? -30.69% 3. What will The Meg's PTA be for the Weekend? $3,269 Part 😄 There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 1. Crazy Rich Asians 2. The Happytime Murders 4. Mission: Impossible - Fallout 6. Mile 22 9. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation 11. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Because I realised bonuses are stupid... 1/6 4,000 2/6 10,000 3/6 18,000  4/6 25,000 5/6 36,000 6/6 - 50,000