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Piss off ghost! Very very: A

Top 10: 10 Arrested Development 9 Deadwood 8 Fargo 7 Rick and Morty 6 Game of Thrones 5 Angel 4 Seinfeld 3 Battlestar Galactica 2 Buffy 1 The Wire

I'll have to see it again before I cement my opinion, but I suspect this might end up being my favourite Marvel movie. TWS is tighter from start to finish, but this is much more emotionally powerful and much more funny. Plus the airport scene is pure bliss. The only real negative I can think of - other than the Sharon Carter kiss that came out of nowhere - was the shaky cam in the first half hour. Seriously, unless you're Paul Greengrass cut the fucking shaky cam out! A

EPVIII: The Force Takes A Nap EPVIII: The Force Gets Out Of Bed

Cheers Baumer. I visited a couple times at the end of last year to predict 1bn dom for TFA... which turned out to be way, way optimistic. But it's good to see the community still going strong!

Given the ecstatic buzz coming out of Marvel and the great trailer I can't see any way this does under 400m. And Baumer: forget about this being a sequel to WS - it's an Avengers film in all but name, and it's likely to be orgasmically received by fans and the public. AOU is the floor, IMO. I'll put in $10. But I won't be paying out.

The Daily Mail: Spewing hate and bile since 1896.

To be honest I didn't even realise he was doing the narration. Which I guess is a good thing as it didn't pull me out of the movie (like his every cameo does).

Not getting enough attention at home?

I enjoyed this a lot. After reading some reviews I was expecting a nihilistic, misanthropic hate film... and I didn't find it that way at all. It was ultimately about a brother's love for his sister and a black man and white man finding common ground and mutual respect. OK, and some nihilism and misanthropy thrown in. Plus it was a relief that Tarantino didn't give himself another hideous cameo, with or without an "Australian" accent.

I think we're probably going to see something similar to The Avengers here. People who naturally focus more on the story of a movie will complain about TFA, while people who naturally focus more on the characters will enjoy it a lot. Personally I'm way more interested in character arcs than plot and I thought the new characters were all emotionally engaging... so I really liked the film. Unlike the prequels, I cared about what happened to these characters. They felt like real people, the locations felt real, the conflicts felt real. That all earns TFA a lot of goodwill - so I can ignore that it's basically lifting the entire plot from ANH. But I'd add that while it's fine to reset the saga like this with a loose remake of Episode 4, Episode 8 needs to be original. If they play the same card twice people will be a lot less forgiving. Also, I hope they never ever, ever, ever do another Death Star plot ever again. Ever.

OK, I'm gonna update my numbers. No guts, no glory. 271M OW 1.055B DOM 3.1B WW

295M OW 910M DOM 2.55B WW

Final prediction: DOM: 0 WW: 0