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UPDATE 12 OF 21 - through July 24

 

Thursday's box office numbers are trickling in.  I don't have the updated number for Transformers 4 yet, but it's #1 on the box office list regardless, so I'll just throw this up here and fix the Transformers number later today.  Also, everyone's point totals now include the points for Jupiter Ascending.

 

Standings

1 [ 2] hobo joe - 20 points (11/9, tiebreak n/a)
2 [ 1] Suicide King of Spades - 21 points (11/10, tiebreak 0.544)
3 [- 3] Lacelle - 25 points (9/16, tiebreak n/a)
4 [- 4] Chaos - 26 points (12/14, tiebreak 0.328)
5 [ 11] Control - 28 points (15/13, tiebreak 0.657)
6 [ 12] Ligerbusa - 28 points (14/14, tiebreak n/a)
7 [ 8] The Natural - 28 points (16/12, tiebreak n/a)
8 [ 6] The Z - 29 points (16/13, tiebreak 0.05)
9 [ 5] The Erotic Terrorist - 29 points (18/11, tiebreak 0.465)
10 [ 7] The Veeg - 30 points (20/10, tiebreak 0.599)
11 [ 9] DreamBroken - 32 points (18/14, tiebreak n/a)
12 [ 14] Niners Fan in CT - 34 points (8/26, tiebreak 0.06)
13 [ 15] Paco - 34 points (18/16, tiebreak 0.269)
14 [ 10] -MJ- - 34 points (16/18, tiebreak n/a)
15 [ 18] Cameron Swift - 36 points (16/20, tiebreak 0.145)
16 [ 13] Rippa - 36 points (14/22, tiebreak 0.329)
17 [ 22] Dr. Bathroom - 36 points (14/22, tiebreak 0.573)
18 [ 17] Super Ape - 39 points (11/28, tiebreak 0.516)
19 [- 19] JRGoldman - 40 points (20/20, tiebreak n/a)
20 [ 16] pipGofern - 40 points (18/22, tiebreak n/a)
21 [ 28] RossWB - 42 points (20/22, tiebreak 0.062)
22 [ 21] Death From Above - 42 points (18/24, tiebreak 0.136)
23 [ 20] Kevin Wilson - 42 points (18/24, tiebreak 0.217)
24 [ 25] Hoffman - 42 points (12/30, tiebreak 0.27)
25 [ 29] blitzkrieg - 42 points (22/20, tiebreak n/a)
26 [ 32] Elsalvajeloco - 43 points (31/12, tiebreak 0.18)
27 [ 24] Mike Zeidler - 46 points (26/20, tiebreak n/a)
28 [ 23] The Damn Yeti - 47 points (18/29, tiebreak n/a)
29 [ 35] Raziel403 - 48 points (22/26, tiebreak n/a)
30 [- 30] jaedmc - 49 points (20/29, tiebreak 0.029)
31 [ 26] caley - 49 points (20/29, tiebreak 0.198)
32 [ 27] CSC - 51 points (22/29, tiebreak 0.281)
33 [ 31] SorceressKnight - 54 points (26/28, tiebreak 1.417)
34 [ 36] Ultimo The Great - 55 points (31/24, tiebreak 0.197)
35 [ 34] MushroomJones - 56 points (29/27, tiebreak n/a)
36 [ 33] ivpvideos - 57 points (16/41, tiebreak n/a)
37 [- 37] Sublime - 62 points (22/40, tiebreak n/a)

 

Box office

1 [- 1] Transformers: Age of Extinction - $231,752,475 (28 days)

2 [- 2] X-Men: Days of Future Past - $210,594,250 (28 days)

3 [- 3] Maleficent - $193,615,390 (28 days)

4 [- 4] The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - $188,957,297 (28 days)

5 [- 5] Godzilla - $188,144,600 (28 days)

6 [- 6] 22 Jump Street - $165,261,139 (28 days)

7 [ 9] Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - $155,688,629 (14 days)

8 [ 7] How To Train Your Dragon 2 - $146,203,361 (28 days)

9 [ 8] Neighbors - $132,600,495 (28 days)

10 [- 10] Edge Of Tomorrow - $87,227,625 (28 days)

11 [NEW] The Purge: Anarchy - $41,376,145 (7 days)

12 [ 11] A Million Ways To Die In The West - $41,158,955 (28 days)

 

Rotten Tomatoes

1 [- 1] How To Train Your Dragon 2 - 132/143 = 92% (28 days)

2 [- 2] X-Men: Days of Future Past - 205/224 = 92% (28 days)

3 [- 3] Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - 202/222 = 91% (14 days)

4 [- 4] Edge Of Tomorrow - 211/235 = 90% (28 days)

5 [- 5] 22 Jump Street - 161/190 = 85% (28 days)

6 [- 6] Godzilla - 180/246 = 73% (28 days)

7 [- 7] Neighbors - 141/193 = 73% (28 days)

8 [NEW] The Purge: Anarchy - 50/91 = 55% (7 days)

9 [ 8] The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - 133/250 = 53% (28 days)

10 [ 9] Maleficent - 91/182 = 50% (28 days)

11 [ 10] A Million Ways To Die In The West - 59/180 = 33% (28 days)

12 [ 11] Transformers: Age of Extinction - 29/168 = 17% (28 days)

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To be fair, Superman Returns was much better received by critics than audiences.

 

I did not dislike Superman Returns to the degree that others did either.

 

I thought the issues with that movie really had more to do with it pulling from the existing movie franchise.

 

I have always disliked how those films have portrayed Lex Luthor.

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I actually really really loved Returns, but I understand what people hated about it. "Art-House Superman movie where he doesn't throw a single punch and it's mostly about his complex relationship with his ex" isn't exactly an easy sell.

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I actually really really loved Returns, but I understand what people hated about it. "Art-House Superman movie where he doesn't throw a single punch and it's mostly about his complex relationship with his ex" isn't exactly an easy sell.

 

The plane sequence is one of the cooler visual sequences in film of all time. I used to have the poster for that film hang in my room back in my Movie Gallery Days, and it was from that sequence.

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To be fair, Superman Returns was much better received by critics than audiences.

 

It's the opposite for Man of Steel. Weird. I don't think I'm going to let anything cloud my judgment on whether to see Guardians or not. It looks plenty good enough to spend my $12 on and shit, what else is even left this summer? Ninja Turtles? Ehh..  nah. Expendables? probably a Netflix watch. Sin City? I'm not sold on that either..

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I think it's a movie where you were either really excited to go see it or not. If they had some semblance of a plot I'd like the series a lot more. The "comedy" is Transformers bad. Someone says something REALLY fucking stupid and then Sly and co. sit around laughing like maniacs. Terrible.

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So nobody is beating me in a tiebreaker right? At least I have that going for me :/

What, you mean do you have the best tiebreaker guess OR Yay, you're beating the other two guys with 34 points? 

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My box office is actually pretty decent but Rotten Tomatoes is killing me. Maleficent as the number one slot on my RT list? WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING.

 

Don't feel bad, I put at number 1 also.

 

Those first couple trailers made it look so amazing.

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So Lucy made $17 million on Friday will make at least $43 million for the weekend and could make up to $47 million (and will be #1 at the box office)

 

Thank God it doesn't have any of those dirty women in the leading role... oh wait...

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It's an ensemble action film, he had to see it to come up with that critique?

 

I'm not sure what to make of it from trailers. I mean, the look is almost retro, very heavy on physical costumes. I actually like that since it does stand out. I'm not sure I've seen much in the way of content beyond that though. Even after a few commercials it's still a halfway mystery film to me.

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FYI Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' box office is another one that's following the same pattern as Spider-Man 2 and Godzilla.

 

At the 16-day mark these three movies had made:

Godzilla = $171.0 mill

ASM2 = $167.3 mill

Apes = $167.1 mill

 

But we're currently at the 19-day mark for Apes, and it's now pulled ahead of where those other two movies were at that point.

Apes = $177.1 mill

Godzilla = $177.0 mill

ASM2 = $175.0 mill

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I'm at this weird point with Guardians.  I'm very excited to see it, yet have no idea why.  I never knew them from anything Marvel-related, and don't know much if anything about the story.  Yet there's something about it that draws me in.  Part of it is the cast, part of it is Rocket Raccon paired with Groot.  Hell, part of it is just because it's wacky enough to amuse me.  Either way, I'm sure I'm going to enjoy it.

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Guardians is down to 89% on RT. I have a feeling as the rest of the Thursday Reviews trickle in that it will probably fall somewhere in the mid-80s, so maybe placement on my list wasn't too bad after all.

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