Barnack

Sadly.... being a visual medium.

Not has high on MC too, when you look that ranking: http://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-movies-of-2017 vs http://www.metacritic.com/feature/film-critics-list-the-top-10-movies-of-2017 It is overperforming expectation big time. 84 Metascore is good, but around #40 of the year critical reception.... you need to go to a divisive Blade Runner at number 9 to find a lower metascore in the top of the year list. Movie and Metascore # 1st Place # 2nd Place # Other Points 1 84 Get Out 34 17 147 288 2 94 Lady Bird 18 28 125.5 240 3 93 Call Me by Your Name 30 24 81 222 4 92 The Florida Project 23 12 106 202 5 94 Dunkirk 12 16 106 177 6 86 The Shape of Water 22 12 64.5 156 7 92 Phantom Thread 13 14 70.5 139 8 87 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 13 16 53.5 127 9 81 Blade Runner 2049 6 6 55.5 88 10 84 A Ghost Story 3 9 53 81

Goon 1-2 (the first Goon is really really good), if you add the Québec market you add quite a bit of them: Les Boys (1,2,3,4) The Rocket (Maurice Richard movie) Lance et Compte Les Pee-Wee Ça sent la coupe Junior Majeur

They're was a link between loving really bad movie and being particularly intelligent, I imagine it is a bit of an hipster think to like The Room, Sharknado, etc... and have that kind of interest: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/enjoyment-of-trash-films-linked-to-high-intelligence-study-finds-a7171436.html Trash films are for the elite.

Who will take a very expensive movie pass from the theater chain too ? MoviePass impact will be to put a giant pressure on those price if theater chain want to put it away (could be cheaper to buy them out)

Many do have them (at least in Canada), but at much higher price obviously. At MoviePass price point, it would be hard to compete with it.

Not sure we know WW budget or Ant-Man budget very well or if you guys are talking gross or net, but lower budget than some other of the genre (Captain america first avenger budget was around 196million or around 220m 2017 dollar for example) was apparent on WW SFX and set piece quality, and they had a 300k lead characther actor, low price director and is not necessarility an easy example to follow.

Do they go around the Internet voting the movie 1/10 too ? That is 2 different conversation people are having one over the others, no one is saying people that do not like the new Star Wars movies are from the alt-right or hardcore star wars fans or DC fans getting around revenge for the BvS reception..... But among people that go around the web taking time to vote and vote 1/10 ?

Some did talk about it in interview, they did in the pass (superman had a long list of big name candidate in the 70s), from what people said it is not only to save a good amount of money but because of the level of control studio tend to want do not match what big name director like to have.

It is a bit mysterious, the company claim that they are selling movie habbit from the moviepass user to the studios and other interested, but it does seem a bit thin revenue and not scaling well by the clients base expand. Look like a possible long term strategy could be to create a very low price movie going habbit to a large enough client base the industry feel will loose it they stop that they will achieve to get a rebate on the ticket prices. They will put enough pressure on all price movie wise (selling a bluray to someone used to pay 2$ to see a movie in theater every week become harder) that the industry will need to buy them to stop them....?

Every movie released 5 year's before and 5 after, all in a similar era, that all didn't had Netflix, short theatrical windows, android box, etc.... A box office run can pretty much only be judged by how much it did versus others movies from that era and by how much it did beat the other average top 5 movies of the time will tell us (with the variance of the time), how much a similar phenomenon would look like today. To be fair, lot of distributor moved title away post-release to avoid Titanic phenomenon.

Many serious cinephile has that movie in their top 250 and it is in the 2000 most acclaimed movie of all times. I think it is a really brilliant piece of art (including is marketing) and would happily defend it. The Phantom menace give some idea, I mean there were hundreds and hundreds of movies released in that era, how much Titanic dominated them vs how much Avengers and JW dominated their era is a good way to compare run. We do not know how much Crosby would have scored point exactly in Greztky/Lemieux time when the nhl was a much more offensive league, but safe to say it would have been less than them.

I do not think it cost that much to reshoot a movie, far from the double, like when Fincher said when he did quit a project for what sounded a small amount of money vs the announced budget, there is a lot of fixed cost on a movie that do not change regardless of the actual principal photography, so loosing 7 million on a 100 million budget is not necessarily close to 7% less stuff on screen. Lot of pre-production, above the line, post production, SFX, scoring, etc... are not spent 2 times even if the movie is shoot 2 times.

At is height Harry Potter had the biggest opening weekend of all time, and only behind Titanic for the second biggest movie unadjusted ever of the world. Every Potter entry were either the biggest movie of the year or the second biggest, except for Part 1, that was number 3. Fantastic beast was out of the top 5, it is a step below Harry Potter.

Yet, when you look at them: BvS: 164m JL: 131m (has of yet) How much of the bigger multiplier is simply due to a smaller weekend because people were less excited....

Pretty much this. I thought the first act was also ok (enough to earn a D, I achieved to watch all of it after all), but when the fight sequence in the strip club happened I told myself, oh if that made the final cut we are in for an hard time and then yes it became a long series of non sense and bad action set piece.

In kingsman 2 they are not even going to west virginia when it is used if I remember correctly.... Was not even close better in Logan Lucky imo.

The events portrayed in Age of Ultron are directly rooted in the very reason the conflict between avengers are happening in that movie no ? Follow pretty directly, it is much more an Ultron sequel than Jurassic World is a sequel of Jurassic Park.

Not sure I fully agree with Rogue One reception here (was not my feeling from my part of the world or my crowd when I saw it), Avengers 2 was meh, Civil War took a drop. Star Wars has mostly solid film but relied quite a bit on the established lore and nostalgia has of now, that could affect the toys selling quite a bit (and that what those movie are also if not mostly about, a giant publicity for other products). Thor 3 success was linked to Guardian of the Galaxy success imo, something Star wars cannot necessarily do as easily. But Star Wars is the biggest and maybe most robust of them all, a well received SW 9 inventing an interesting new toy and everything could settle in, video games sales and merch pick up etc....

People speculating about a possible Disney disappointment surrounding Star wars past performance do not have the absolute box office number in mind that much (at least certainly not domestic). It is more about what it will be doing WW versus what it could have (video game, merch, blu ray, sequels). That why people are looking in worlds markets legs more than the actual box office, there is no worry TLJ will be vastly profitable, but did it add or removed value to the franchise going on versus a reasonable to except reception, is what people are speculating about. Star Wars is particularly robust in some market, it went throught the prequels not too damaged, that is saying a lot, but if Disney had plan to open the franchise to new market, and will for the sequels there is also an under what Force Awaken expectation set. There seem to have been a shift of expectation created by Awaken level of success (that probably lead to change about what they wanted for Rogue One and bringing a new writer/director to do it), that will not necessarily be met here, future will tell. A bit like Warner Brother firing after BvS, it was not the box office total that was particularly worisome and loose your job worthy, certainly not Suicide Squad box office, it was those movie reception.

Have not seen it but is Jumanji better than MadMax, Blade Runner, Creed, etc.... Look what happen when you take a recognizable IP and make one of the worst blockbuster of all time with it (Suicide Squad) or mediocre passable movie (spider man homecoming), not much different result between all those 3. Good help over bad for sure (Jumanji 58 MC score certainly help versus a 35 it could have got if it was bad), but would be curious to see how big is a factor versus good trailer vs a bad trailer and the other important element like the genre, 4 quadrant target audience, aiming for the lowest common dominator possible in all aspect.

If this is not a typo and PT is already below Hostiles, that a really hard and strange fall, could get lower than Inherent Vice instead of lower than the Master ? I imagine it is in reality 80k with a 16k PTA, right ?

Ended up the highest grossing comedy of that bunch also: Most Anticipated Summer Comedy: 1. Ghostbusters 2. Central Intelligence 3. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising 4. The Nice Guys 5. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates Actual ranking Ghostbuster: 128m Central Intelligence: 127m Neighbors2: 55m Mike and dave: 46m Nice guy: 36m Almost the same order than that poll, it did miss a not anticipated movie success like Bad Mom, but among aware the correlation between fandango anticipated pool and box office is huge.

Jurassic Park did it 3 times too (not all by big margin, just 2), nice competition. Spielberg itself has an argument for the biggest opener (could be missing some), some of is movies that appeared on that list: Jaws (biggest ever) E.T. Jaws 3-D Indiana Jones temple of doom (biggest ever) Indiana Jones last Crusades (biggest ever) Jurassic Park (biggest ever) Jurassic Park Lost World (biggest ever) Non directional entry (producer or otherwise): Batman 1989 (biggest ever) Back to the future 2 Men In Black Star wars Revenge of the Sith Jurassic World (biggest ever) Spielberg directed 5 times an opening weekend record breaker and produced 2 others. Not sure if anyone else directed 3 or more opener record in the post Jaws era. And Jaws 2 record is a bit because of him I guess. Be curious too list how many of those movie are scored by John Williams...

I am not sure what political interest you have in mind (is there a less political movie than Force Awaken...). Sometime americans would call political stuff no one else on earth call political like are you talking about diverse cast ? If so, you need to consider how much of those choice are made purely by a company trying to boost has much has possible is box office with this franchise, they didn't cast big Asian stars in Rogue One for others reason than trying to install the franchise in new Asian market, woman because it was the movie weakest quadrant, etc... There is a reason Force Awaken did so much and got close to a billion.