2014 Summer Blockbuster Movie Pool

[Matt D]

Box office mojo is predicting $24 million on the weekend for Guardians which would bring it to around $221 with a week to catch Transformers.

[S.K.o.S.]

I just checked The Giver early Rotten Tomato score.  Not looking good so far.  Damn you, Taylor Swift.

 

Geez, I don't know how big Meryl Streep's role in it actually is, but right now it's the worst rated Streep movie EVER.

[Control]

Man, I'm all over the joint.

[RIPPA]

The fact that HTTYD 2 is going to finish like 10th or 11th on the box office list still baffles me

[J.T.]

GoTG only being four million dollars behind TMNT's sophomore week earnings is fucking impressive.  It earned more than the first week releases in its third week out..

[EVA]

The new SIN CITY got a zero star review at Dissolve. I think that's the first time I've seen that.

[Niners Fan in CT]

Sounds like it's going to bomb too.

[RIPPA]

Its at 40% after like 87 reviews on RT

[Brian Fowler]

Which isn't good, but it's not TMNT level bad or anything.

 

I think the 9 year wait is going to do a lot more to kill business than the bad reviews.

 

23 year old me LOVED Sin City.  32 year old me is somewhat less enthused.  (But Eva Green.....)

[EVA]

Eva Green is straight dominating shitty sequels that are about 5 years too late this year.

[Elsalvajeloco]

I just read the Deadspin review so I'll just leave the correct version here.

 

Eva Green's boobs are straight dominating shitty sequels that are about 5 years too late this year.

[S.K.o.S.]

Rumblings are that someone at Box Office Mojo has chosen to spend the afternoon picking their nose rather than updating the website. 

[Death From Above]

Damn you Ray Subers!

[S.K.o.S.]

UPDATE 16 OF 21 - through August 21

 

Standings

1 [↑ 3] The Natural - 54 points (32/22, tiebreak 0.125)

2 [↑ 4] Chaos - 56 points (28/28, tiebreak 0.328)

3 [↓ 2] -MJ- - 56 points (30/26, tiebreak 2.634)

4 [↓ 1] hobo joe - 60 points (28/32, tiebreak 0.163)

5 [↑ 10] Ligerbusa - 60 points (32/28, tiebreak 2.625)

6 [- 6] The Erotic Terrorist - 62 points (32/30, tiebreak 0.128)

7 [↑ 9] Control - 62 points (36/26, tiebreak 0.657)

8 [↑ 13] RossWB - 68 points (36/32, tiebreak 0.062)

9 [↑ 11] Cameron Swift - 69 points (30/39, tiebreak 0.145)

10 [↓ 7] Suicide King of Spades - 70 points (28/42, tiebreak 0.538)

11 [↑ 12] pipGofern - 70 points (30/40, tiebreak 3.398)

12 [↑ 20] The Z - 74 points (42/32, tiebreak 0.05)

13 [↑ 17] Niners Fan in CT - 74 points (30/44, tiebreak 0.064)

14 [↑ 18] Rippa - 74 points (34/40, tiebreak 0.209)

15 [↓ 8] The Veeg - 74 points (32/42, tiebreak 0.599)

16 [↑ 25] CSC - 75 points (36/39, tiebreak 0.237)

17 [↑ 23] Paco - 75 points (43/32, tiebreak 0.245)

18 [↓ 14] Hoffman - 76 points (26/50, tiebreak 0.244)

19 [↓ 5] DreamBroken - 76 points (42/34, tiebreak 2.212)

20 [↓ 15] JRGoldman - 76 points (37/39, tiebreak 2.585)

21 [↑ 24] ivpvideos - 77 points (32/45, tiebreak 0.8)

22 [↓ 21] Dr. Bathroom - 78 points (34/44, tiebreak 0.063)

23 [↑ 26] Ultimo The Great - 78 points (41/37, tiebreak 0.197)

24 [↓ 16] Kevin Wilson - 85 points (42/43, tiebreak 0.213)

25 [↑ 29] jaedmc - 86 points (45/41, tiebreak 0.029)

26 [↓ 22] Lacelle - 86 points (39/47, tiebreak 0.84)

27 [↓ 19] Super Ape - 87 points (37/50, tiebreak 0.51)

28 [- 28] Mike Zeidler - 87 points (43/44, tiebreak 0.667)

29 [↑ 30] Raziel403 - 89 points (42/47, tiebreak 1.241)

30 [↑ 34] MushroomJones - 91 points (54/37, tiebreak 0.146)

31 [↑ 33] Elsalvajeloco - 92 points (62/30, tiebreak 0.048)

32 [↓ 27] blitzkrieg - 92 points (42/50, tiebreak n/a)

33 [↓ 32] The Damn Yeti - 97 points (46/51, tiebreak 0.351)

34 [↓ 31] caley - 99 points (54/45, tiebreak 0.202)

35 [↑ 37] Sublime - 115 points (34/81, tiebreak 0.274)

36 [↓ 35] Death From Above - 118 points (48/70, tiebreak 0.324)

37 [↓ 36] SorceressKnight - 126 points (68/58, tiebreak 0.439)

 

Box office

1 [↑ 3] Guardians of the Galaxy - $234,253,857 (21 days)

2 [↓ 1] Transformers: Age of Extinction - $231,752,475 (28 days)

3 [↓ 2] X-Men: Days of Future Past - $210,594,250 (28 days)

4 [- 4] Maleficent - $193,615,390 (28 days)

5 [- 5] Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - $192,851,280 (28 days)

6 [- 6] The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - $188,957,297 (28 days)

7 [- 7] Godzilla - $188,144,600 (28 days)

8 [- 8] 22 Jump Street - $165,261,139 (28 days)

9 [- 9] How To Train Your Dragon 2 - $146,203,361 (28 days)
10 [- 10] Neighbors - $132,600,495 (28 days)

12 [↑ 12] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - $128,809,806 (14 days)

11 [↓ 11] Lucy - $110,235,270 (28 days)

13 [- 13] Edge Of Tomorrow - $87,227,625 (28 days)

14 [- 14] The Purge: Anarchy - $69,494,380 (28 days)

15 [- 15] Hercules - $69,086,296 (28 days)

16 [- 16] A Million Ways To Die In The West - $41,158,955 (28 days)

17 [NEW] The Expendables 3 - $20,918,177 (7 days)

18 [NEW] The Giver - $17,370,538 (7 days)

 

Rotten Tomatoes

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

2 [- 2] Guardians of the Galaxy - 204/222 = 92% (21 days)

3 [- 3] X-Men: Days of Future Past - 205/224 = 92% (28 days)

4 [- 4] Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - 213/235 = 91% (28 days)

5 [- 5] Edge Of Tomorrow - 211/235 = 90% (28 days)

6 [- 6] 22 Jump Street - 161/190 = 85% (28 days)

7 [- 7] Godzilla - 180/246 = 73% (28 days)

8 [- 8] Neighbors - 141/193 = 73% (28 days)

9 [- 9] Lucy - 106/166 = 62% (28 days)

10 [- 10] Hercules - 62/100 = 62% (28 days)

11 [- 11] The Purge: Anarchy - 65/113 = 58% (28 days)

12 [- 12] The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - 133/250 = 53% (28 days)

13 [- 13] Maleficent - 91/182 = 50% (28 days)

14 [NEW] The Expendables 3 - 48/138 = 35% (7 days)

15 [↓ 14] A Million Ways To Die In The West - 59/180 = 33% (28 days)

16 [NEW] The Giver - 33/107 = 31% (7 days)

17 [↓ 15] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 20/96 = 21% (14 days)

18 [↓ 16] Transformers: Age of Extinction - 29/168 = 17% (28 days)

[Matt D]

Go Natural!

[jaedmc]

Forget that, look at my ASCENSION.

[Death From Above]

Closing in on my rightful place at the bottom.

[_MJ_]

Holy was I ever off with my Expendables 2 tiebreaker prediction or what?  Those numbers should killed that franchise.

 

The last four movies (Sin City, TMNT, The Giver, Expendables) released in this game's timeline are just getting ripped apart by the critics.  Delicious.  The Natural is in the lead, but he put the Sin City sequel reasonably high on his Rotten Tomatoes list.  The bad guys still have a shot.

 

Also, Deadspin does movie reviews now?  Weird.

Edited August 24, 2014 by _MJ_

[Brian Fowler]

Man, GotG is like two more good review away from joining Toy Story 3 and Deathly Hallows in topping both lists.

[jaedmc]

If the website I write for makes it on to RT between now and next year, this game will dictate what I say.

[_MJ_]

Man, GotG is like two more good review away from joining Toy Story 3 and Deathly Hallows in topping both lists.

 

Screw this happening. 

 

In my completely unbiased opinion, How To Train Your Dragon 2 needs to come through on one front this summer.  These Marvel fanboys better not juke the stats.

[Brian Fowler]

(BTW, my math?  Totally wrong, because I didn't do the math.  It would actually need like 11 or 12 more fresh reviews, I think.)

[RIPPA]

I am still trying to figure out how I am moving up?

Is everyone elses list just shitter than mine?

And like Matt - I am kinda biased towards Natural winning the whole thing

[hobo joe]

Well, I had a nice run.

[S.K.o.S.]

I am still trying to figure out how I am moving up?

Is everyone elses list just shitter than mine?

 

 

Short answer: yes.  You had the Giver and Expendables 3 pretty low on both your lists (you left Giver off your RT list), which is where they belong.  Other people did not.

 

Long answer:

 

6 things happened in this week's update:

- Guardians moved up 3 spots on the box office list

- TMNT moved up 1 spot on the box office list

- Expendables 3 debuted on the box office list

- Giver debuted on the box office list

- Expendables 3 debuted on the RT list

- Giver debuted on the RT list

 

In this week's update, you moved ahead of The Veeg, Hoffman, DreamBroken, JRGoldman and Kevin Wilson.  The Z moved ahead of you.  5 people minus 1 person = you moved up 4 spots.

 

Last week you had 64 points.

- Guardians moved up 3 spots on the box office list: +2 points

- TMNT moved up 1 spot on the box office list: -2 points

- Expendables 3 debuted on the box office list: +2 points

- Giver debuted on the box office list: +4 points

- Expendables 3 debuted on the RT list: +4 points

- Giver debuted on the RT list: 0 points

This week you have 74 points.  Nothing huge happened with your list, no major disasters.

 

Everyone that you passed did have some major disasters.

The Veeg went from 52 points to 74 points.  He had Giver at #1 on his RT list, so he got 16 points from its debut on the RT list alone.

Kevin Wilson went from 63 points to 85 points.  He got 10 points from the Giver RT debut and 6 points from the Expendables 3 box office debut.

JRGoldman went from 60 points to 76 points.  He got 9 points from the Giver RT debut.

Hoffman went from 60 points to 76 points.  He got 8 points from the Expendables 3 RT list debut.

DreamBroken went from 48 points to 76 points.  He got 8 points from the Giver box office list debut and 8 more points from the Giver RT list debut.

 

The Z went from 66 points to 74 points.   He left Giver off both his RT and box office lists, so he got 0 points for that, and had Expendables 3 low enough on both lists that it didn't give him too many points.