somebody85 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 It's been a pretty weak summer critically for movies so decided to go and compile all of them to see how bad it actually is. Fresh: Captain America: Civil War Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising The Nice Guys Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping The Conjuring 2 Central Intelligence Finding Dory The Shallows The BFG Rotten: The Darkness Money Monster The Angry Birds Movie Alice Through The Looking Glass X:Men: Apocalypse Me Before YouTMNT: Out Of Shadows Now You See Me 2 Warcraft Free State Of Jones Independence Day: Resurgence The Legend Of Tarzan The Purge: Election Year Is this one of the worst summer blockbuster seasons ever?http://screencrush.com/2016-worst-summer-movie-season-ever/ " Limiting myself to just the average Rotten Tomatoes scores of $100 million budget movies, I found a much wider range from year to year — and that 2016 is, thus far, the second worst summer in a decade. But it’s still not the worst; that dubious honor belongs to 2009, the year of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Angels & Demons, Terminator Salvation, Land of the Lost, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, G-Force, and G.I. Joe." https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/is-2016-the-worst-summer-blockbuster-season-in-091827635.html Man I hope things get better from here because it's not looking good. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Old Tele Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Plenty of good stuff on the indie/niche level. Just ignore the studio movies. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somebody85 Posted July 2, 2016 Author Share Posted July 2, 2016 5 minutes ago, Free State of Tele said: Plenty of good stuff on the indie/niche level. Just ignore the studio movies. Agree, just speaking in terms of actual blockbusters/studio releases. Still really excited to see Swiss Army Man and The Lobster. Any recommendations? I've been waiting for that Ex Machina this year and haven't gotten it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somebody85 Posted July 2, 2016 Author Share Posted July 2, 2016 I just can't remember another summer that's been this bad with big releases with a lot looking to possibly disappoint in the coming weeks including Star Trek: Beyond (marketing is telling the story - and I really hope not), Jason Bourne (will it be pointless?) and Suicide Squad (another I hope is awesome). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Old Tele Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 2 minutes ago, somebody85 said: Agree, just speaking in terms of actual blockbusters/studio releases. Still really excited to see Swiss Army Man and The Lobster. Any recommendations? I've been waiting for that Ex Machina this year and haven't gotten it. I thought EYE IN THE SKY and THE WAVE were great. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goffe Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 27 minutes ago, Free State of Tele said: Plenty of good stuff on the indie/niche level. Just ignore the studio movies. I would if movies without explosions or big special effcts were actually shown in any of my city's theaters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 (edited) It should be weighed by box office, not by budget And as one of the bigger defenders of RT here I find it interesting that people so readily use it as an indicator of how "good" a year or season is Edited July 2, 2016 by tribefan695 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Omg how embarrassing. Only nine movies are fresh. Even fewer that have the certified fresh logo with them from RT. Captain America Finding Dory Popstar The Shallows The Conjuring 2 The Nice Guys Gotta hand it to these movies. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shayhiri Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, Free State of Tele said: Plenty of good stuff on the indie/niche level. Just ignore the studio movies. Don't try and sugarcoat this, Tele. The terrible truth is we had "studio movies" the rank of MM Fury Road as early as the second fucking week of summer last year. And what have we got now? Fucking orcs is the best we're getting... this is where the Shay burst into unmanly tears and turns off his comput... Edited July 2, 2016 by shayhiri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Napoleon Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Hopefully Ghostbusters, Star Trek and Suicide Squad will save it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrosepsisFace Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 This is matching the ongoing trend. Fresh Disney Blockbusters Fresh Indie Limited Release movies that don't make much money Fresh rated R and horror-type movies that don't make much money Rotten everything else that make more money than most of the fresh movies, but has a muted BO, probably due to being Rotten. Thank goodness for SLOP to buck the trend next week, hopefully... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrosepsisFace Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 12 minutes ago, shayhiri said: Don't try and sugarcoat this, Tele. The terrible truth is we had "studio movies" the rank of MM Fury Road as early as the second fucking week of summer last year. And what have we got now? Fucking orcs is the best we're getting... this is where the Shay burst into unmanly tears and turns off his comput... Unfortunately, Fury Road isn't getting a sequel any time soon and didn't make enough money for the risk that it took. We should start some kind of crowdfunding to convince Miller to make another movie in that scope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somebody85 Posted July 2, 2016 Author Share Posted July 2, 2016 1 hour ago, Free State of Tele said: I thought EYE IN THE SKY and THE WAVE were great. Awesome. Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shayhiri Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 (edited) 3 minutes ago, UrosepsisFace said: Unfortunately, Fury Road isn't getting a sequel any time soon and didn't make enough money for the risk that it took. We should start some kind of crowdfunding to convince Miller to make another movie in that scope. Actually Tele and I had offered our firstborn children to Lord Miller even before the movie was released. I honestly don't see how much more we can do. Edited July 2, 2016 by shayhiri 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kowhite Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Just now, shayhiri said: Actually Tele and I had offered our firstborn children to Lord Miller even before the movie was released. I honestly don't see how much more we can do. Do you have 200 million dollars? That'd do it. Plus your first born. Get on it Shay. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 5 minutes ago, UrosepsisFace said: This is matching the ongoing trend. Fresh Disney Blockbusters Fresh Indie Limited Release movies that don't make much money Fresh rated R and horror-type movies that don't make much money Rotten everything else that make more money than most of the fresh movies, but has a muted BO, probably due to being Rotten. Thank goodness for SLOP to buck the trend next week, hopefully... You don't think the Conjuring 2 and The Purge are making money? Both films are going to be some of the highest grossers of the summer season. Plus The Purge was certified rotten. The only two horror like films with a "fresh" rating are The Conjuring 2 and The Shallows and the latter you could argue is more of a man vs nature film than a horror movie. And the former is going to make more than $100M domestically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kowhite Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 The Conjuring 2 and Purge 3 are def making money. Conjuring 3 and Purge 4 are coming. I suspect Purge May last longer though...Conuring is more expensive and Wan isn't going to stick with that forever. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Old Tele Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 5 minutes ago, shayhiri said: Actually Tele and I had offered our firstborn children to Lord Miller even before the movie was released. I honestly don't see how much more we can do. I'm this close to showing some FURY ROAD clips to Tele Jr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shayhiri Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 2 minutes ago, kowhite said: Do you have 200 million dollars? That'd do it. Plus your first born. Get on it Shay. It's actually doable. I am on the verge of international breakthrough and it is entirely possible I have $ 50 million by the end of the decade. And there's not a single thing in the world I'd like to invest them in more than the new MadMaxes. So we just wait. And long live Lord Miller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrosepsisFace Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Just now, Nova said: You don't think the Conjuring 2 and The Purge are making money? Both films are going to be some of the highest grossers of the summer season. Plus The Purge was certified rotten. The only two horror like films with a "fresh" rating are The Conjuring 2 and The Shallows and the latter you could argue is more of a man vs nature film than a horror movie. And the former is going to make more than $100M domestically. The $100 M isn't bad and the Shallows will turn a profit, but if you add those two up, you'll end up with a WW total under Warcraft or a DOM total similar to X-Men. The highest rated wide-release movie of the summer outside of Disney has made less money than half of Alice or Turtles. That's so depressing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
