MovieMan89

So glad Smurfs didn't turn into another undeserving Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise. Really thought audiences wouldn't care that it was crap like they didn't the first, but happy to be proven wrong. Of course the thriving kids market this summer probably contributed to it also. Epic, Turbo, MU, and DM2 have already grossed 750m+ combined.

All questions worth 1000 UOS All questions pertain to top 12 UOS Due Regular time All questions pertain to 3 day UOS 1) Will 2 Guns open to more than 37.5 mill? NO 2) Will Smurfs 2 drop more than 25.5% on Thurs? NO 3) Will Smurfs 2 5 day be more than 5 mill more than 2 Guns OW? NO 4) Will Wolverine fall more than 55%? NO 5) Will Pac Rim fall more than 21% on Sunday? YES 6) Will Turbo, DM2 and MU all fall less than 42.5%? NO 7) Will Fruitvale stay in the top 10? YES 8) Will NYSM gross higher than The Great Gatsby? YES 9) Will The Heat finish with more than Red2? NO 10) Will Pac Rim stay in teh top 10? NO 11) Will GU2 fall less than 39.5%? NO 12) Will Wolverine + The Conjuring= more than Smurfs 3 day + The Heat? YES 13) Will RIPD fall less than 50%? NO 14) Will MOS stay in the top 20? NO 11/14 3000 12/14 4000 13/14 5000 14/14 8000 What finishes in spots: 5 DM2 6 Turbo 7 GU2 12 Pac Rim 13 Blue Jasmine 2000 each 4000 bonus if all 5 correct Bonus 1: What will the top 10 cume be? 124.225 Bonus 2: What will Smurfs 5 day total be? 33.550 Bonus to end all bonuses. This is the last one like this for the year. I will make the bonus points significant but the penalty will be more severe. This will not help you take over the lead in the game, but if you are successful, you could have a nice jump. But it will come at a huge price if you go for it. I'll make the questions fair but challenging. Keep in mind I have never offered this kind of bonus in any year of the game. It's an experiment. Good luck to anyone who goes for it. Bonus 3: Worth 30,000 if right and if you are not successful, u lose 15,000 for the week. There are 4 questions. You must get them all correct to get the bonus. 1) Will Blackfish have a theater average of more than $7300? NO 2) Will GU2 have a Saturday increase of more than 29.5%? NO 3) Will The Way Way Back have a Saturday increase of more than 41.2? YES 4) Will at least one WB film in the top 75 fall more than 55% and will at least one WB film in the top 75 fall less than 25%? NO

1. Toy Story 3 2. Spirited Away 3. The Lion King 4. WALL-E 5. Beauty and the Beast 6. How to Train Your Dragon 7. Up 8. Princess Mononoke 9. Finding Nemo 10. The Nightmare Before Christmas

Wow, that's a way better hold than FC's first Tuesday. That decreased 7%.

True. MU, MOS, and DM2 should hopefully all hit 700.

Is it just me or do the WW grosses seem really underwhelming this summer, of course excluding IM3?

It also would be way too easy if Gellar had been a figment of Travis' imagination back in season 6. Sure glad they didn't take that route.

And I believe that avatar should die for our sins. Now switch it back dammit!!!

You should put the real blame on Singer for being a total idiot and ditching X-Men before he finished what he started. It's like if Nolan had just decided he was gonna do the Spiderman reboot and handed TDKR over to someone else. So stupid, and Singer's career has never been the same either since he did that.

Yep, the characters were very easy to get interested in, and that's not an easy feat at all for horror. You nailed what my one and only complaint would be. The doll felt just kind of tacked on for a few additional scares, and it didn't have much connection to the story it seemed. I guess except maybe just to show how the demons can use certain objects as conduits, like the music box was.

Wow, just saw this and I have to say what a masterfully crafted supernatural horror movie. Everything was just executed so wonderfully, it really helped pull you into the movie's atmosphere and make the scares actually effective even when they weren't super original. I love that the story was relatively simple too, and Wan didn't feel the need to add cheap twists or get too corny with the scares. Like for example, the ending was perfect because you're waiting for the boy to pop up in the mirror and scare you, but instead it just cuts to black and I found that so much more effective than if they had gone the expected route. And it was refreshing for once to see one of these demon movies that didn't end with that "dunn..dunn...DUNN!!" it's not over moment that sets up a possible sequel (even though I hear there is already a sequel in the works). Overall I think this movie works so well because it had the perfect amount of setup to pull you in without getting too boring, and then the payoff delivered on all of it. That exorcism scene..one word: INTENSE. My whole entire theater felt like we were collectively holding our breath that whole time. And I actually felt my heart racing when it was done. Awesome, since I can't remember the last time that happened to me in a horror movie. This one really lives up to the hype, and it deserves all the success it gets. My favorite wide release of the summer so far, hands down, and I never would have expected to say that. Grade: A

Somehow I doubt even those who enjoyed it will remember it in 10 years, especially once its awesome VFX are dated. I'll be sure to ask you what you think of it in 2023.

So are you implying you're a pretty loser then? Seriously though, I'm not even trying to single anyone out on PR at this point. Just more reveling in the fact that I no longer have to argue with people for why my reasons it won't do well actually hold water.

Exactly. It's not that I feel the need to "pick on" the Rimmers to be a bully, but it got tiring arguing the reasons why it looked like a flop for months on end and having(some) fanboys insist those reasons were invalid. It's just nice to finally not have to argue with that anymore.

In terms of straight up multis yes, but NYSM isn't a horror movie that opened to 40m+. For TC to break 3x under those circumstances is phenomenal, in summer no less.

MOS deserves it. It's literally all style and no substance, which is Snyder down to a tee so I'm not surprised.

Eh, at least I'm in good company.

Elysium being an R is perfectly fine for its WOM. It's an adult appealing action film anyways, like District 9 or Matrix, which got great multis.

Wolverine beats IM3 by a relatively small margin for me due to the great first hour and a half. Gotta echo critics and say that last half hour or so dings it down a bit as a great and unique setup gives way to generic and cliche payoff, but there's lots of patches of greatness in it that IM3 and definitely MOS don't have.

Except Elysium, and that could be a real WOM stealer.

Hope it can land on the high end of the range and make a run for 60. From that FC's multi would put it at 160m.

I think an FC run is in store for Wolverine. It's the most unique comic book movie in a summer of fairly generic ones, and I think audiences will respond warmly to that.

Wan is the king of horror WOM apparently. The genre can almost never get 3x multis, yet he's on his way to his third 3x multi horror flick.

Pretty crazy that a horror movie could have one of the strongest multis of the summer. Congrats to James Wan on another horror movie success. We can just pretend Dead Silence didn't happen.

Lol at that puny 29% Friday increase for PR. Another 55%+ weekend drop coming for the WOM event of the summer.