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1.The Hunger Games Catching Fire
2.X-Men Days of Future Past
3.Guardians of the Galaxy
4.How To Train Your Dragon 2
5.Captain America: The Winter Soldier
6.Thor: The Dark World
7.The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
8.The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
9.The Amazing Spider-Man 2
10.Saving Mr. Banks
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Avatar: The Last Airbender
Smallville
Lost
Battlestar Galactica
Once Upon a Time
Leave it to Beaver
The Office
The Walking Dead
The Brady Bunch
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Switched at Birth
Justice League
Legend of Korra
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Is that what they call disliking a film nowadays?
Both of which Man of Steel lack. Unless you mean depths of stupidity.
The pilot of Agents of SHIELD currently has 7.6 on IMDB.
Do you and I have different definitions of the words 'aren't digging it'?
You're welcome to have your own opinion, but when you go on a public forum and claim that 'Marvel is on strike 2' with a glaring MoS avatar, you'd damn well better be prepared to be called out on it. You can't just claim 'it's my opinion' without any argument backing it up and expect everyone to just go along with it.
I think it had much more than 'a couple of things' wrong with it
Hah. No it wasn't. If anything, it was a step completely in the wrong way and proof that WB have absolutely no idea what made TDK/Marvel so popular. The reason Marvel's movies work so well is because they get people who know the character and have a working vision for the movie and let them just get on with it, only interfering when necessary. Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy worked the same way. He had a vision for the character and just got on with it. However, Man of Steel isn't like that. Man of Steel was just WB trying to force a Nolan-style Batman movie with Superman, which just doesn't work because Batman and Superman are very different characters. And it felt forced as a result and turned out like a cheap Batman copy without any of the stuff that made Batman entertaining in the first place. And this isn't the first time WB have tried this. Green Lantern was an attempt to force GL into the 'Marvel formula' to try and simulate Marvel's success.
From the sounds of things, WB are trying to build their DCCU by forcing characters into Nolan-style 'gritty' movies, which just won't work for many of them, instead of giving them to people who know what they're doing and have interesting, working ideas for the characters. Hence, they're going in the wrong direction.
Again, you're the one who came on here claiming Iron Man 3 and Agents of SHIELD were 'strike outs', so don't suddenly try backing out when someone calls you on something you like.
I see your point, however your opinion of Man of Steel is still subjective, if you want to see statistics Man of Steel has 0.2 points higher then Iron Man 3. with 7.6 and 7.4 respectively, and over 200 thousand ratings and have both been out for months, while Agents of SHIELD just premiered last week and has a little over a thousand ratings. and i do agree to an extent that WB tried a little to hard to push MoS to DK tones, and is something they hopefully will work on in the future, and in fact up until Iron Man 3 came out, I was Marvel's biggest fan. I LOVED The Avengers when it came out, and thought their formula for the series was genius. but it's starting to feel from the last couple things marvel has to offer, to me and quite a few other people, that they are starting to feel artificial and generic. and they need to get more creative if they want to keep up their brand.
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Darker and more serious doesn't necessarily mean better. Especially when the moviemakers obviously don't understand how to use darkness to improve quality (like the people behind MoS). Honestly, I'd even struggle to call MoS a 'dark' movie. The darkest thing about it was the lighting. Occasionally throwing around pseudo-philosophical cr*p which falls apart under any close inspection isn't dark. Neither is levelling a city and promptly forgetting about it. Hell, the original Superman had darker moments than MoS. Lois Lane's death, for example (even if it was undone incredibly stupid).
Anyway, I consider Iron Man 3 to be at least 100x better than MoS. Then again, I consider Herpes to be about 4/5x better than MoS, so that's not much of an achievement. I'd also point out that IM3 and Agents of SHIELD are much higher rated by critics than MoS.
Well your obviously bias, against Man of Steel. and sure a film doesn't have to be dark to be good, but in order to be lasting and enduring it has to have depth and a story you care about, something Iron Man 3 failed to do for me. I personally think the story was kind of a mess, and I only saw it once, and I didn't HATE it. but it was a major let down for me. and as For Agents of S.H.I.E.D. a lot of people aren't diggin it look on IMDB, and just because Critics like something is better, Am I suppose to turn off my brain and follow blindly what they say? a good critic would want you to make your own opinion, and we are all our own critics and I'm not going to like or dislike something just because someone tells me to. and how could you compare a movie with a disease? Man of Steel is a movie and I do think it had some script issues and a couple other things wrong with it, I loved it overall, lots of people did. and thought it was a big step in the right direction, and trying to make someone feel to stupid just because they like or dislike it is just immature.
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Says the guy with Man of Steel as his avatar.
so? I'm a huge superman fan, and Man of Steel had it's issues, but it was still 10x better then Iron man 3, and I like both DC and Marvel, but I think DC is heading in a better Darker more serious direction and I fear that Pretty soon Marvel is just going to be for kids...
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I mean come on Marvel! Iron man 3 was Strike one, this is Strike two.. Thor better be a hit or else..
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Pilot was AwwwFul.
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1) Will Gravity open to more than $37M? no
2) Will Gravity have an opening day of more than $14M? no
3) Will Runner Runner’s opening weekend gross be within $5M of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 weekend gross? yes
4) Will Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 drop less than 30%? no
5) Will Prisoners have a Saturday drop of more than 40%? no
6) Will at least 2 films drop less than 20%? no
7) Will Don Jon drop less than 45%? yes
8) Will The Butler stay in the Top 12? yes
9) Will Rush drop less than 25%? no
10) Will any film have a drop of less than 22% on Sunday? yes
8/10 Correct = 4,000 bonus points
9/10 Correct = 6,000 bonus points
10/10 Correct = 8,000 bonus points
Bonus #1) How much will the top 3 films gross (combined)? [4,000 points] $65,000,000Bonus #2) What will the combined percentage drop be for the two films that drop the least amount this weekend? (For example, if Prisoners & Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 have the best drops, and Prisoners drops -5% and CWACOM2 drops -2%, your answer would be 7%.) [4,000 points] 51%
Bonus #3) What will finish in spots:
#2)Cloudy 2
#6) Baggage Claim
#11) We're the Millers
[2,000 points each. If you get all 3 correct, you get 3,000 bonus points.] -
Top 15 Winter Grosses
1.Catching Fire $415,000,000
2.Thor: The Dark World $290,000,000
3.The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug $280,000,000
4.The Secret Life of Walter Mitty $175,000,000
5.Frozen $170,000,000
6.The Wolf of Wall Street $145,000,000
7.Twelve Years a Slave $130,000,000
8.Saving Mr. Banks $125,000,000
9.Anchorman The Legend Continues $120,000,000
10.Ender's Game $110,000,000
11.American Hustle $108,000,000
12.Gravity $105,000,000
13.Captain Philips $90,000,000
14.Delivery Man $85,000,000
15.Tyler Perry's a Medea Christmas $85,000,000
16.Jack Ryan $83,000,000
17.The Counselor $80,000,000
18.Bad Grandpa $70,000,000
Top 5 Opening Weekends:
1.Catching Fire $165,000,000
2.Thor the Dark World $110,000,000
3.The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug $82,000,000
4.The Wolf of Wall Street $43,000,000
5.Carrie $42,000,000
6.The Secret Life of Walter Mitty $40,000,000 ($70,000,000 with w & T)
7.Ender's Game $38,000,000
8.Tyler Perry's a Medea Christmas $38,000,000
10 Preseason Questions (100,000 points)
Note: For every film that you don’t give an answer for, you will automatically lose 7,000 points.
1. Will at least 3 films gross more than $85M dollars opening weekend (domestically)? No
Answer it correctly: 10,000 points
Answer it incorrectly: lose 5,000 points
Abstain: 2,500 points
2. Will at least three films gross more than $37.5M opening day? no
Answer it correctly: 10,000 points
Answer it incorrectly: lose 5,000 points
Abstain: 2,500 points
3. Will at least 2 films make more than $800M WW by the end of the game? yes
Answer it correctly: 10,000 points
Answer it incorrectly: lose 5,000 points
Abstain: 2,500 points
4. Will at least 3 films, listed as a comedy by Box Office Mojo make more than $100M dollars this winter? yes
(The films that qualify for this question include: A.C.O.D., Bad Milo!, Zero Charisma, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, Last Vegas, About Time, Best Man Down, A Case of You, The Best Man Holiday, Nebraska, Delivery Man, Inside Llewyn Davis, Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas, Anchorman: The Legend Continues, Her, Grudge Match, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, August: Osage County, and Ride Along)
Answer it correctly: 10,000 points
Answer it incorrectly: lose 5,000 points
Abstain: 2,500 points
5. Will the combined grosses of the top 2 films add up to more than the combined gross of films that land in spots #3 - #9? no
Answer it correctly: 10,000 points
Answer it incorrectly: lose 5,000 points
Abstain: 2,500 points
6. Of the following movies currently listed as being released in a limited amount of theaters, which will be the highest grossing? twleve years a slaveTwelve Years A Slave, American Hustle, or Saving Mr. Banks
Answer it correctly: 10,000 points
Answer it incorrectly: lose 5,000 points
Abstain: 2,500 points
7. Of the following movies currently listed as being released in a limited amount of theaters, which will be the lowest grossing? NabraskaHer, Nebraska, or Dallas Buyers Club
Answer it correctly: 10,000 points
Answer it incorrectly: lose 5,000 points
Abstain: 2,500 points
8. Will the November opening weekend record be broken by more than $25M? (The current record holder is The Twilight Saga: New Moon with $142,839,137.) abstain
Answer it correctly: 10,000 points
Answer it incorrectly: lose 5,000 points
Abstain: 2,500 points
9. Will the December opening weekend record be broken by more than $10M? (The current record holder is The Hobbit with $84,617,303.) no
Answer it correctly: 10,000 points
Answer it incorrectly: lose 5,000 points
Abstain: 2,500 points
10. Which combination of movies will gross the most amount of money during the game?
A. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Twelve Years A Slave, All Is Lost, & Old Boy
B. The Hobbit: the Desolation of Smaug, Gravity, Captain Phillips, Last Vegas, & The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
C. Thor: The Dark World, Anchorman: The Legend Continues, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas, & Frozen C
Answer it correctly: 10,000 points
Answer it incorrectly: lose 5,000 points
Abstain: 2,500 points
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but um where do we post our answers?
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sounds cool I'm in.
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well, through Netflix, IMDB and other Online Sources I've been watching tons of shows right now
Legend of Korra
Once Upon a Time
Sleepy Hollow
The Office
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Switched At Birth
Just watched Episode 17 of Arrow, last available through IMDB and was not watching for a while I want to watch season 2 though
Getting Ready for Season 3 of Walking Dead when it hits netflix next week!
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Just watched the first two episodes for "Sleepy Hollow" very impressed so far. only other new shows I plan on watching this year are "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland" and maybe "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. I don't get tv so everything I watch I have to watch online or Netflix.
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any way to watch it online? I'm not super excited for it, but it's marvel and I watch pretty much anything with that brand, personally more excited for "Agent Carter"
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cool list.. too bad I didn't see it until it was finished superman probably would have made the cut
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1# The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 10/10
2# The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 10/10
3# Thor: The Dark World 10/10
4# X-Men Days of Future Past 10/10
5# Guardians of the Galaxy 10/10
6# How To Train Your Dragon 2 10/10
7# Captain America: The Winter Soldier 9.5/10
8# The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 8.5/10
9# Saving Mr. Banks 8/20
10# The Amazing Spider-Man 2 8/10
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January 2nd Parental Guidance B
March 2nd Jack the Giant Slayer C-
March 16th Oz: the Great and Powerful B
April 9th The Host A-
May 2nd Iron Man 3 B
May 17th Star Trek Into Darkness A+
May 25th Star Trek Into Darkness A+
June 14th Man of Steel A+June 16th Man of Steel A+
June 23rd Man of Steel A+
July 3rd Despicable Me 2 A-
July 6th The Lone Ranger B-
July 27th The Wolverine A
August 17th Elysium C
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1# The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 10/10
2# The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 10/10
3# X-Men Days of Future Past 10/10
4# Guardians of the Galaxy 10/10
5# How To Train Your Dragon 2 10/10
6# Thor: The Dark World 9/10
7# Captain America: The Winter Soldier 9/10
8# The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 8.5/10
9# Saving Mr. Banks 8/20
10# The Amazing Spider-Man 2 8/10
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A+
1.Man of Steel
2.Star Trek into Darkness
3.Pacific Rim
A
4.The Wolverine
A-
5.Mud
6.The Host
7.Despicable Me 2
B+
8.Warm Bodies
9.G.I. Joe: Retaliation
10.Safe Haven
B
11.Iron Man 3
12:Oz: The Great and Powerful
B-
13.The Lone Ranger
14.The Call
C-
15.Jack the Giant Slayer
D+
16.Identity Thief
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Sleepless in Seattle A-
The Fugitive B+
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(Very good year for Films)
Inception A+
How To Train Your Dragon A+
Tangled A
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 A
Despicable Me A-
The King's Speech A-
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World A-
Tron: Legacy A-
Kick Ass A-
True Grit A-
To Save a Life B+
Alice In Wonderland B+
Iron Man 2 B+
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader B+
Eclipse B+
Megamind B+
Gulliver's Travels B+
Robin Hood B+
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Jack the Giant Slayer.. C- Actually the only truly "Bad" movie I've seen this year..
Add "Identity Thief" to that "D+"
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Tom Hardy, Michael Fassbinder, Jennifer Lawrence, Hugh Jackman, Michael Cain, Ian McKellen, Kurl Urban, Sigourney Weaver, Ewan McGregor, Henry Cavill, Steve Carell.
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but STAR WARS RULES!
The Marvel Universe will be star wars of this generation
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the only other Star Wars of this Generation will be "Star Wars VII"