Weekend Thread - Insidious 29.6M, Jumanji 37.2M, TLJ 23.7M, TGS 13.8M, PP3 10.3

[narniadis]

3 minutes ago, redfirebird2008 said:

 

Numbers seem pretty good with the crappy weather. But it’s true yesterday was not a normal Friday. Deadline says 87% of colleges were off and 40% of K-12 schools were out. 

Yes as evidenced by the what would normally be meh % increases from the days before. Next Friday should be really fun 

[boomboom234]

6 minutes ago, baumer said:

 

It was Shawn's retirement post

Then I think it was Tele's post where he was mocking Ijack

Link to the second?

[FantasticBeasts]

7 minutes ago, baumer said:

 

It was Shawn's retirement post

Then I think it was Tele's post where he was mocking Ijack

I want a link to the second If it's easy to anyone!

[redfirebird2008]

Greatest Showman down only 22% from last Friday. Extremely impressive considering everyone and their dog was off work or school last Friday. And the weather is worse this week too. That movie is having one hell of a run. 

[baumer]

3 hours ago, FantasticBeasts said:

I want a link to the second If it's easy to anyone!

 

I don't know how to find that one.

[baumer]

3 hours ago, FantasticBeasts said:

I want a link to the second If it's easy to anyone!

 

Do you remember that long ass post Tele did where he just wrote a bunch of nonsense?

[That One Girl]

On 2/11/2013 at 6:59 PM, Just Tele said:

iJack:

 

 

I realize that everyone is entitled to his opinion, and I respect this. I also hope that you will all respect mine as you read this letter. Let us note first of all that the blatant ignorance and social maladjustment of Mr. Sam Raimi's magic-bullet explanations will deface property with racially and sexually derogatory epithets and offensive symbols any day now. Sadly, lack of space prevents me from elaborating further. Raimi relies heavily on "useful idiots", that is, people who unwittingly do Raimi's dirty work for him. Without his swarms of useful idiots, Raimi would not have been able to conceal the fact that he has long been getting away with achieving total world domination. I urge all of my beautiful and loyal fans to walk with me side-by-side as we march up the steps of justice to right this unconscionable wrong and prove to the world that you don't need me to tell you that Raimi's sick-minded dream is starting to come true. Liberties are being killed by attrition. Unilateralism is being installed by accretion. The only way that we can reverse these lickerish trends is to knock some sense into Raimi. To be precise, his fusillades may have been conceived in idealism, but they quickly degenerated into disorganized nativism.

 

Raimi may legitimize the fear and hatred of the privileged for the oppressed right after he reads this letter. Let him. In the near future, I will honor our nation's glorious mosaic of cultures and ethnicities. It has been revealed that he plans to hijack the word "contradistinctive" and use it to change the course of history. First reaction yields that perusing the membership of his coterie is like taking a tour of Dick Tracy's Rogue's Gallery. A little more thought leads to the more accurate conclusion that Raimi is trying to commit confrontational, in-your-face acts of violence, intimidation, and incivility. His mission? To infringe upon our most important constitutional rights.

 

I don't want to overstate this point, but Raimi is trapped in a vicious cycle. The more opposition to his suggestions he faces, the more dictatorial he becomes. The more dictatorial he becomes, the more opposition to his suggestions he faces. Just don't expect consistency from a man who is completely and unquestionably slimy. If Raimi could have one wish, he'd wish for the ability to ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas. Then, people the world over would be too terrified to acknowledge that Raimi's pals contend that the purpose of life is self-gratification. I say to them, "Prove it"—not that they'll be able to, of course, but because I shall be blamed by ignorant persons when I say that I avoid the most unconscionable storytellers you'll ever see like the plague. Cruel as that maxim may appear, his favorite tactic is known as "deceiving with the truth". The idea behind this tactic is that Raimi wins our trust by revealing the truth but leaving some of it out. This makes us less likely to discuss the advantages of two-parent families, the essential role of individual and family responsibility, the need for uniform standards of civil behavior, and the primacy of the work ethic.

 

Statements like, "Raimi's virtual absence of intellectual self-critique may be a source of his insistence that war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength" accurately express the feelings of most of us here. Since Raimi claims to know more than the rest of us, I'm sure he's aware that people often get the impression that pea-brained, appalling nincompoops and Raimi's apparatchiks are separate entities. Not so. When one catches cold, the other sneezes. As proof, note that many of the ribald parvenus I've encountered are convinced that it's illegal to establish democracy and equality—or, if it isn't illegal, then it ought to be. This view is self-centered by any stretch of the imagination and reflects how many people respond to Raimi's footling, spleenful prophecies in much the same way that they respond to television dramas. They watch them; they talk about them; but they feel no overwhelming compulsion to do anything about them. That's why I insist we report as best as possible the facts and circumstances surrounding Raimi's impulsive views.

 

I receive a great deal of correspondence from people all over the world. One of the things that impresses me about all of it is the massive number of people who realize that unlike Raimi, when I make a mistake I'm willing to admit it. Consequently, if—and I'm bending over backwards to maintain the illusion of "innocent until proven guilty"—he were not actually responsible for trying to acquire power and use it to indoctrinate philopolemical, sneaky Zoilists, then I'd stop saying that Raimi makes a living out of classism. I call this tactic of his "entrepreneurial classism". Raimi and his comrades have certainly raised entrepreneurial classism to a fine art by using it to pander to our worst fears. I have seen what Raimi is capable of, and I am afraid. I am very afraid and I am very angry. He doesn't want us to do something good for others. He would rather we settle for the meatless bone of presentism.

 

Raimi wants you to believe that representative government is an outmoded system that should be replaced by a system of overt ruffianism. You should be wary of such claims. Be aware! Be skeptical! Think! Do not be diverted, deceived, or mesmerized by Raimi's temperamental, fatuitous expedients.

 

When I look back I think, "Raimi's arguments don't even prove his point." Now let's go back to what I was saying earlier about how my life's work is to draw a picture of what we conceive of under the word "individualistic". As I previously stated, in asserting that human rights can best be protected by suspending them altogether, Raimi demonstrates an astounding narrowness of vision.

 

We can never return to the past. And if we are ever to move forward to the future, we indeed have to debunk the nonsense spouted by Raimi's loyalists. Were he alive today, Hideki Tojo would be Raimi's most trustworthy ally. I can see Tojo joining forces with Raimi to help him take us all back to the Stone Age. For heaven's sake, he looks down upon the rest of us. From Raimi's perspective, we are blind so he must tell us what to see; we are deaf so he must tell us what to hear; and we are mute so he must tell us what to say. Such views may fool acrimonious, repressive idiots, but I maintain that Raimi should stop protesting against his weaknesses and shortcomings. Rather, he should forgive himself for them and seek to strengthen himself by facing his crapulous, malicious fears. Then, perhaps, Raimi would stop distorting the facts.

 

Raimi should pay for his mistakes. But there is a further-reaching implication: If his plan to base racial definitions on lineage, phrenological characteristics, skin hue, and religion is to be discouraged then the wisest course of action is to move as expeditiously as possible to help people break free of Raimi's cycle of oppression. Before we start down that road I ought to remind you that his calumnies are not pedantic treatises expressing theories or extravaganzas dealing in fables or fancies. They are substantial, sober outpourings from the very soul of triumphalism.

 

While some of Raimi's maneuvers are very attractive on the surface and are unequivocally entertaining, they ultimately serve to make bigotry respectable. Raimi insists that he is a voice of probity. This fraud, this lie, is just one among the thousands he perpetrates. When people see balmy wisenheimers behaving like balmy wisenheimers they begin to realize that according to Raimi, we should all bear the brunt of his actions. He might as well be reading tea leaves or tossing chicken bones on the floor for divination about what's true and what isn't. Maybe then Raimi would realize that we doubtlessly can't afford to let him focus too much on one side of the equation and not enough on the broader perspective of things. What I'm suggesting is that we address the legitimate anger, fear, and alienation of people who have been mobilized by Raimi because they saw no other options for change. That's the key to supplying the missing ingredient that could stop the worldwide slide into sciolism, and it's the only way that most people will ever learn that we've all heard Raimi yammer and whine about how he's being scapegoated again, the poor dear. Now that I've said what I had to say, I should remark that this letter may not endear me to some people. Indeed, it may even cost me a friend or two. However, friends do not let friends get trampled by daffy liars and cheats like Mr. Sam Raimi. The truth is the truth and we pay a steep price whenever we ignore it.

 

[baumer]

3 hours ago, boomboom234 said:

Link to the second?

 

Sorry, no idea how to find it.

 

Ask Tele, maybe he has it saved.

[baumer]

@That One Guy how did you find that?

[That One Girl]

Just now, baumer said:

@That One Guy how did you find that?

 

I know how to use the search bar  

[The Futurist]

4 hours ago, boomboom234 said:

Looking at RT tlj dropped from 93 to 90% a few more rotten,sure to come, and it’s at 89%. Not that important but it shows a slight reversion even among the critics

Only visionary movie goers knew what was up with the Last Jedi from the get go.

I ve been explaning it to BOT since 12/13/2017, 2 days before americans saw the film.

[baumer]

2 hours ago, That One Guy said:

 

I know how to use the search bar  

 

Yes, so do I lol...but I wouldn't even know what to look for.  What did you put in the search to find it?

[IronJimbo]

That one detective can find any post you want, no posts proves a problem to him.

[MrGamer]

3 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

 

Did iJack hack into Tele's account and write this?

[That One Girl]

2 minutes ago, baumer said:

 

Yes, so do I lol...but I wouldn't even know what to look for.  What did you put in the search to find it?

 

I found the thread by typing the keywords "sum set posts" and then searched within the thread for the word "iJack"

[TigerPaw]

Deadline has another update:

 

http://deadline.com/2018/01/insidious-the-last-key-last-jedi-jumanji-weekend-box-office-1202236009/

 Saturday AM: 

1. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle  (SONY), 3,801 theaters (+36) / $10.8M Fri (-39%)/3-day: $35.8M (-28%)/Total:$244.1M/ Wk 3
2. Insidious: The Last Key (UNI), 3,116 theaters (0)/ $12.7M  Fri/3-day: $25.9M/ Wk 1
3. Star Wars: The Last Jedi(DIS), 4,232 theaters (0)/ $6.7M  Fri (-65%)/3-day: $23.6M  (-55%)/Total:$572.5M/ Wk 4
4. The Greatest Showman  (FOX), 3,342 theaters (+26) / $4.1M Fri (-22%) / 3-day: $14.1M (-9%)/Total: $77.2M/Wk 3
5. Pitch Perfect 3  (UNI), 3,458 theaters (-10)/ $3.3M  Fri (-50%)/3-day: $10.5M (-37%)/Total: $86.2M/ Wk 3
6. Ferdinand  (FOX), 3,156 theaters (-181) / $2.3M Fri (-47%) /3-day: $8.9M (-22%)/Total: $71.6M/ Wk 4
7. Molly’s Game (STX) 1,608 theaters (+1,337)/$2.3M Fri (+193%)/3-day: $6.6M (+187%)/Total: $13.8M/ Wk 2
8. Darkest Hour (FOC), 1,733 theaters (+790)/ $1.8M Fri (+6%) /3-day: $6.1M (+13%)/ Total: $28.1M/ Wk 7
9. Coco(DIS), 1,894 theaters (-210) / $1.6 M Fri (-45%)/3-day: $5.7M(-22%)/Total: $192.2M / Wk 7
10. All The Money in the World (Sony) 2,123 theaters (+49)/ $1M Fri (-40%)/3-day: $3.6M (-34%)/Total: $20.2M/Wk 2
11. The Shape of Water  (FSL), 804 theaters (+48)  / $828K Fri (-25%) /3-day: $2.8M (-20%)/Total: $21.3M/Wk

[baumer]

3 hours ago, That One Guy said:

 

I found the thread by typing the keywords "sum set posts" and then searched within the thread for the word "iJack"

 

[SLAM!]

If Insidious really does beat Jumanji this weekend, then Jumanji will be high on the ranking of films that never reached #1 I'm the box office. We'll see how the weekend differs from Friday's gross.

[mikee11]

14 minutes ago, redfirebird2008 said:

Greatest Showman down only 22% from last Friday. Extremely impressive considering everyone and their dog was off work or school last Friday. And the weather is worse this week too. That movie is having one hell of a run. 

OUT OF TOUCH critics almost killed the buzz for this movie. Deserves way better reviews. Like any movie based on real life events is accurate. They review movies on their biases first merit second.

[baumer]

3 hours ago, slambros said:

If Insidious really does beat Jumanji this weekend, then Jumanji will be high on the ranking of films that never reached #1 I'm the box office. We'll see how the weekend differs from Friday's gross.

Insidious has 0% chance of beating Jumanji this weekend.