B J Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 1 minute ago, Obi-Wan Telemachos said: Do I look like I'm joking? yes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadAtGender Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 1 hour ago, DAR said: Avatar, Titanic, ET, Star Wars, Jaws pretty much every film that was the highest grossing film at the time has gotten a best pic nomination. 1) A sequel has never been the highest grossing film of all time, so it's under a very different consideration than those films. 2) The films the Academy tends to go for have changed quite a bit in that time. 3) All of those films were very much the vision of the filmmakers who made them. Cameron, Spielberg, and Lucas all had a strong guiding hand that was clear throughout the entire process. TFA may be a JJ Abrams joint, but it's got a hell of a lot more chefs in the kitchen, and that's abundantly clear. Way back when, the big blockbusters could very often be the result of director vision. That's become pretty rare, nowadays. Hence the reason you see most nominated films coming lower on the box office scale. It doesn't help that Abrams style is pretty much cribbing likes of Lucas and Spielberg, as well. So even if you go for what he does, it's not like he's bringing something new to the table. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Just now, B J said: yes 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggestgeekever Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 4 minutes ago, Obi-Wan Telemachos said: Half right. Oh I got it! Spoiler Man, 1993 was a hell of a summer. Spoiler Real guess: In the Line of Fire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadAtGender Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 3 minutes ago, Obi-Wan Telemachos said: Why did you assume THE FUGITIVE was the half-right? Hidden Content In the Line of Fire? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Blankments Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Wow I didn't realize In the Line of Fire was the same summer of The Fugitive and Jurassic Park. Those are three of my top five 90s blockbusters 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 1 minute ago, Blan Solo said: Wow I didn't realize In the Line of Fire was the same summer of The Fugitive and Jurassic Park. Those are three of my top five 90s blockbusters And a bit earlier in the year you had GROUNDHOG DAY and CLIFFHANGER. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokila Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 so was that it from Rth? Maybe he just needed the day off lol. It was a very early estimate, curious to see how it holds up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B J Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 JP crushes them other 93 blockbusters with relative ease, admittedly the fugitive and in the line of fire are awesome. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sagemode87 Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 43 minutes ago, Obi-Wan Telemachos said: JP doesn't deserve to sniff a Best Pic nomination and never did. And I love the movie too. I feel that way about Star Wars. TFA was a mediocre film to me. Not everyone is going to like everything equally. I personally think JP deserved the nomination. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAJK Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Alicia Vikandr in the Danish Girl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Just now, B J said: JP crushes them other 93 blockbusters with relative ease, admittedly the fugitive and in the line of fire are awesome. JP is JAWS-lite. It's fun, and the action scenes are great, but the rest of the movie is pretty bland, and it's all breezy and charming, but nothing there we haven't seen before (especially from Spielberg). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyLL Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 2 minutes ago, tokila said: so was that it from Rth? Maybe he just needed the day off lol. It was a very early estimate, curious to see how it holds up. Still pretty early for him. But since @Rth gave us an early update he might not be planning on coming back tonight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POTUS 2020 Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 2 hours ago, DamienRoc said: It's got a long way to go before it's more impressive than Titanic. It's closer than you think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 1 minute ago, Sagemode87 said: I feel that way about Star Wars. TFA was a mediocre film to me. Not everyone is going to like everything equally. I personally think JP deserved the nomination. I don't think JP was a mediocre movie. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadAtGender Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 3 minutes ago, tokila said: so was that it from Rth? Maybe he just needed the day off lol. It was a very early estimate, curious to see how it holds up. The actual is going to be $18,290,627 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daxtreme Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 2 minutes ago, DamienRoc said: The actual is going to be $18,290,627 That's... very precise. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokila Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 4 minutes ago, Darth AndyLL said: Still pretty early for him. But since @Rth gave us an early update he might not be planning on coming back tonight. ya but he gave that around 8 pm EST, margin of error on that would be fairly high. West coast was still in Matinee, and central was just hitting evenings. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadAtGender Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 1 minute ago, No Prisoners said: It's closer than you think What's it sitting at, ticket-wise? 55m or so? If so it needs to more than double its current gross to be in the same conversation as Titanic. And that's fine. TFA's run is astoundingly strong. Whether it ends up as the most impressive run in history or not won't change that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
