The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread: Electric Boogaloo

[grim22]

We are in for a great weekend of movies I guess

Spy who dumped me lifted its embargo but hasn't had critics screenings in most cities, all media screening in a number of cities is Thursday evening

Darkest Minds lifts the embargo at midnight

Christopher Robin embargo lifts at 10pm Eastern, 4 hours after previews begin

and the other wide release is Death of a Nation.

 

August is here.

[That One Girl]

35 minutes ago, grim22 said:

 Darkest Minds lifts the embargo at midnight

 

 

...then how does it have reviews?

[grim22]

18 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

 

...then how does it have reviews?

Through the magic of timezones.

[YLF]

The critics are trying to take TDM down, dont trust the reviews folks! 

Edited August 2, 2018 by YLF

[Joyous Legion]

Audiences loved The Darkest Minds but critics don’t want you to see it… The question is why??? Who would you trust more? Yourself or a troll behind a keyboard?

Edited August 2, 2018 by Thanos Legion

[Litio]

55 minutes ago, Thanos Legion said:

Audiences loved The Darkest Minds but critics don’t want you to see it… The question is why??? Who would you trust more? Yourself or a troll behind a keyboard?

Critics hate YA movies. Its kind isn't mature and intelligent like Ant Man and the Wasp.

+: Good WOM will be useless if there aren't enough people who watched to spread it.

[That One Girl]

48 minutes ago, Litio said:

Critics hate YA movies.

 

[Litio]

19 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

 

2013. Try again. And only masterpieces like HG franchise get raves reviews in the genre. Meanwhile we see generic superhero movies without depth having 90% + approval... 

Edited August 2, 2018 by Litio

[Joyous Legion]

1 hour ago, Litio said:

Critics hate YA movies. Its kind isn't mature and intelligent like Ant Man and the Wasp.

+: Good WOM will be useless if there aren't enough people who watched to spread it.

The problem is not that Ant-Man and the Wasp is mature and intelligent, while rando YA fare is not.    

 

The problem is that of the two genres, both of which are often not aiming to be mature and intelligent, one tends to be a thoroughly enjoyable theater experience and one does not. Shockingly, the movies that critics feel happier to have spent their time watching tends to get better scores.

[That One Girl]

 

22 minutes ago, Litio said:

2013. Try again

 

[Litio]

3 minutes ago, Thanos Legion said:

The problem is that of the two genres, both of which are often not aiming to be mature and intelligent, one tends to be a thoroughly enjoyable theater experience and one does not. Shockingly, the movies that critics feel happier to have spent their time watching tends to get better scores.

I agree, but a "enjoyable" movie that has visible problems in the script does not deserve a high score. Why is it harder for a generic  YA movie to have decent reviews than a generic superhero movie to have a rave, for example? Try to read the reviews for YA movies. Prejudice is visible.

[Litio]

4 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

 

 

Under Thor Ragnarok and sMH. Sorry,  not good.

[That One Girl]

2 minutes ago, Litio said:

I agree, but a "enjoyable" movie that has visible problems in the script does not deserve a high score. Why is it harder for a generic  YA movie to have decent reviews than a generic superhero movie to have a rave, for example? Try to read the reviews for YA movies. Prejudice is visible.

 

Why are critics having opinions?  What’s wrong with this world when a critic can’t give a review without staying 100% neutral and giving no thoughts on the film they’re supposed to be reviewing?

[Brainbug]

26 minutes ago, Litio said:

2013. Try again. And only masterpieces like HG franchise get raves reviews in the genre. Meanwhile we see generic superhero movies without depth having 90% + approval... 

 

 

Im happy for everyone that can enjoy the Hunger Games films but they are....they are not good, no imo.

[That One Girl]

Just now, Litio said:

Under Thor Ragnarok and sMH. Sorry,  not good.

 

[Brainbug]

Just now, That One Guy said:

 

 

Harry Potter is the only YA franchise that i consider to be truly great. Everything else is just so incredibly forgettable, bland and just plain bad in that subgenre for me tbh. Im excluding films like The Edge of Seventeen as that is more of a Coming-of-Age film (and a great one at that).

[Joyous Legion]

Don’t worry. Sooner or later we can settle all this fueding when the MCU decides to make a YA flavored trilogy next decade. It will star Cassie Lang and have a 93% RT.

Edited August 2, 2018 by Thanos Legion

[MCKillswitch123]

17 minutes ago, Litio said:

I agree, but a "enjoyable" movie that has visible problems in the script does not deserve a high score. Why is it harder for a generic  YA movie to have decent reviews than a generic superhero movie to have a rave, for example? Try to read the reviews for YA movies. Prejudice is visible.

Because usually generic YA movies are bores with their self-serious and gritty identities, while generic SH movies are at least watchable and entertaining as a result of being lightweight and comedic fluff? That's the difference. Also, the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer is not a "high score" in the sense that "this is the quality percentage of the film according to critics". It's a calculation of, amongst every critic who submitted their review of a film to RT, how many of them would recommend watching it to the audience. That doesn't mean the movie is a literal 90/100 or anything like that, that's what the average rating (below the Tomatometer, runs from 0/10) is for. RT has done a really poor job educating people on their system, it seems.

Edited August 2, 2018 by MCKillswitch123

[aabattery]

Guys, this really isn't the thread for this YA debate.

[Boxofficerules]

Didn’t this all start off by someone mocking the Gotti marketing?