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I don't know if you're joking or not, and I doubt your point of view is popular, but I agree with this. I just watched BvS again today, and its FAR more meaningful than most CBMs. I think it will stand as an anomaly, however. It appeals to the 80s nerd in me that found something different in Watchmen and the Dark Knight, which makes it far less audience-friendly to the modern 4Q audience. Justice League will probably be a shadow of what BvS was. So far this year, the only comic-related movie I liked was Professor Marston. Too each their own, of course, but I'm glad there's at least one counter to the self-aware feel-good action comedy that's so pervasive in this genre. I'm hoping Generation Z will grow older, find a taste for BvS, and not just follow this current trend. One can hope...

I hope most people realize Kevin is probably a WB fan, and a DCEU fan in particular. He's a parody of a comic-book-movie hatemonger. He knows way too much about every WB movie, and in particular the DCEU ones. His username even references the CEO that presented the initial DCEU slate in 2014 and a movie Ezra Miller is the star in... I feel as if this forum's reaction to him is just playing along with his satire.

A vast majority of Americans should be able to understand what mother! is presenting within the first half hour or at least half way through. If you don't get it by then, you really can't enjoy the film in my opinion. I felt the movie wasn't subtle enough and Aronofsky was too straight-forward to make sure most of the public could understand quickly. I guess I was wrong?

I really enjoyed this movie. My wife did so as well. Wish there were more movies like this.

More Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street wouldn't be too bad with controlled budgets. I say go big or go home and go for a big-budget Attack On Titan movie. Yeah, the anime has waned in popularity, but you got kids training to face terrifying evil, fantasy settings and politics, and creepy giant monsters that eat people: it's like you jammed Harry Potter, Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, and It all into one. The US public is waiting for this movie...

I find all horrors to be rather silly, but my wife loves them so I go with her. Even if I'm rolling my eyes during the movie, it's not disturbing others. And even when I find the jump-scares and concepts to be lame, I still find it annoying when others in the theaters need to verbally comment how stupid it is. If you don't want to watch it, don't go. If you're going there for the benefit of another, have the decency to respect their experience and furthermore respect the rest of the audience as a whole. Even if you can't directly enjoy the experience, you can still benefit from the enjoyment of others. I appreciate that you will at least attempt to keep the chuckling at a minimal, and who knows...maybe chuckling will be appropriate at certain points in this movie.

Gotta agree with it being one of the best movies that I've seen this year: 1. Dangal 2. The Big Sick 3. Book of Henry 4. A Taxi Driver 5. Wind River 6. Lego Batman Movie 7. A Monster Calls 8. War of The Planet of The Apes 9. Baby Driver 10. Spider-Man Homecoming

WrathOfHan is 17? The whole point of being 17 is making mistakes and learning from experience. At that age, we were all pretty stubborn, and biased by whatever coming-of-age experience we've had so far in life. For Han, in terms of Box Office, that's been the last three years. Each WB film just reminds him of Jupiter Rising and Pan. No need to take his predictions personally. Grow older and grow wiser.

Annabelle 1 > Lights Out > Conjuring 1 > Annabelle 2 > Conjuring 2. Tough to appreciate horror movies when you're not scared of them, but at least Annabelle 1 had a protagonist going through med school while married to a neurotic wife. I can relate to the horrors of that situation. @Nova , you will soon grow to appreciate Annabelle 1.

If not the same person, then they could be soulmates. Take any of their WB predicts and multiply by 1.5+ and you may get an accurate figure. Those two may be the few that believe Mother! will have a greater affect on IT than the other way around.

Btw, WOM is something made up by the users here to explain a good multiplier without actually realizing other factors that are involved. Sure, good WOM can help a movie's run, but many other factors are also involved. Both Spider-Man and Wonder Woman could have achieved insane word of mouth, but the multiplier will be drastically different because even if both movies had fanboys ranting and raving about it, eventually, that great WOM will hit a limit and that's due to all kinds of other stuff. For instance, my buddy told everybody at work to watch SM:H because it was the best of an already very good series. Some of my coworkers, even though they adored the first two Spider-Man movies, and even though they believed this new one could be better...they didn't want to watch it because it was like the 6th film...I told them Wonder Woman was meh and I slept through it, but even though they don't watch Super-Hero movies, they still wanted to go because it was the first Wonder Woman movie. Yeah, anecdotal evidence, but you don't need the wildest imagination to believe such conversations happened across America.

SM:H did better than "good", "adequate", "nice". However it wasn't "legendary", "astonishing", or "uncanny". Obviously, it falls in the range of "very good", "great", and "amazing".

6th Movie for a Comic-Book Character: Batman Begins or The Dark Knight: 207 m or 535 m and thought to be a success by Marvel fans, DC fans, and general audience Man of Steel: 291 m thought to be a failure by Marvel fans, thought to be a success by DC fans Spider-man Homecoming: ~300 m thought to be a success by Marvel fans, thought to be a failure by DC fans Take away the bias. Take away the RT-tinged glasses. Consider the box-office numbers, the merchandising, the marketing partnerships, the association with sequels and other tie-ins...all screams success to me... Btw, I enjoyed Spider-man Homecoming much more than I did Wonder Woman, but I am very glad BOTH are successful movies. Too bad the best movies of the summer excluding these two, when their box office numbers are all combined, will be just a fraction of the super-hero take. I thought Apes was better than both.

@Nova congrats on med school. If you want Ortho, you're going to have to remain in the top 10% of your class AND the whole idea of ortho is not just what you know but WHO you know; network, network, network. Having an athletic background helps as many programs are described as bro-clubs. Enjoy your final two summers, but you'll still have the time to enjoy cinema and box office discussions. Start studying for Step-1 once school starts because you need 260 min to get into an Ortho program, probably. Good luck!

Woah, this is going to be so fun.

I have never read these books so I have no expectations for this movie at all. That's a good thing, because this trailer sure looked exciting to me...

The worst part about Disney's success? The other studios are taking the same approach. Last year, the two most franchise-heavy, least-original studios made the most money. Can you really blame these studios, though? When Disney, Warner, Universal, or Fox try something original and spend a lot on the budget, you get the biggest-flops-in-history list. The top IP companies, Disney and Warner made the most money by far. Also, Zootopia (even though it might have been stolen) and Inside Out were two of the freshest movies in the last several years, imo. Makes up for carbon-copy B&tB which I still enjoyed, Episode 7 remake of Episode 4, and the recycling Marvel movie told with different costumes. In the end, blame the audiences. They're willing to give a new idea a chance if it's free and easily accessible at home, but they want to bet on the sure-thing/seen-it-already/RT-fresh at the box office, and they trust the Disney brand which is almost always fresh on RT. A studio should represent its audience. Mass appeal laziness for all and for the have-nots, they're just as lazy as many are just trying to ape Disney's success. If this is not to your liking, support what you find is creative and if movies are bankrupt; read a book or explore foreign movies! A few things I've enjoyed: The OA on Netflix, A Monster Calls, Korea's Train to Busan, or Korea's Handmaiden.

200m? So it'll look amazing! I can understand why people care about the budget because they want the movie to begin a franchise and continue to prosper. That said, why not just live in the moment and enjoy the heck out of all the great production value for the movie coming out soon. I have to admit to not really enjoying the first Blade Runner, but I'm hoping I really dig the new movie. Google Image Ana De Armas. Blade Runner 2049 has a very pretty female lead...

I'm far more excited for those than I was for Lego Batman.

Lol. The biggest draw for me co-starred in Hands of Stone.

Deakins and Vlleneuve are major draws for most people who frequent these forums. I could mention those names to my friends and they'd have no understanding. Heck, I could mention Christopher Nolan and they wouldn't understand. Elder Ford doesn't seem like such a big draw out of the context of Han Solo. I'm excited about the cinemacon reactions though. I'm not in love with the original Blade Runner, but the talent behind this one is just so great. I'm betting the RT scores will be twice GitS at least, but I consider RT scores to be very low on the box-office influence scale.

These Lego movies have been great. As long as they're cheap enough to produce, I hope they keep on doing what they're doing. Would be a shame if these were dumped for an Ice-Age type appeal to appease the foreign masses...

I don't get what they heck they're going for with this movie. I do want to support anything sword and sorcery, though. It's just so weird. The sword-fighting CGI is pretty unique for a movie though; looks like a live-action Smash Brothers with Marth, Link, and Metaknight.

I wonder how Blade Runner 2049 will do in comparison. Naked-Scarjo/Anime-inspired/PG-13 I would have thought had an advantage over Gosling/80's-nostalgia/R. I can't imagine Blade Runner 2049 looking better than this movie.

I'm not big on horror films and I thought Conjuring 2 was very overrated. I thought Annabelle was better than Conjuring 1. I guess I do not really understand this genre...