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Re the prizes, Rippa has purchased/pre-ordered copies of:

  • a Criterion dvd of the German movie PHOENIX
  • a Criterion blu-ray of DR. STRANGELOVE
  • a dvd of the Korean movie A HARD DAY

And I've been getting PMs from other people who want to contribute as well, so it looks like we have a very good chance of getting to the usual six prizes.

Thanks very much to Rippa and the anonymous-for-now others!

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So tough as always.. thanks again for running it!

Box Office
1. Captain America: Civil War (May 6)
2. Finding Dory (Jun 17)
3. Suicide Squad (Aug 5)
4. X-Men: Apocalypse (May 27)
5. Alice Through The Looking Glass (May 27)
6. Ice Age: Collision Course (Jul 22)
7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows (Jun 3)
8. Star Trek Beyond (Jul 22)
9. Central Intelligence (Jun 17)
10. Jason Bourne (Jul 29)
11. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (May 20)
12. The Conjuring 2 (Jun 10)
13. The Legend of Tarzan (Jul 1)
14. Now You See Me 2 (Jun 10)
15. The Nice Guys (May 20)

Rotten Tomatoes
1. Captain America: Civil War (May 6)
2. Finding Dory (Jun 17)
3. X-Men: Apocalypse (May 27)
4. Suicide Squad (Aug 5)
5. Star Trek Beyond (Jul 22)
6. The Conjuring 2 (Jun 10)
7. Central Intelligence (Jun 17)
8. The Legend of Tarzan (Jul 1)
9. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (May 20)
10. The Nice Guys (May 20)
11. Jason Bourne (Jul 29)
12. Alice Through The Looking Glass (May 27)
13. Now You See Me 2 (Jun 10)
14. Ice Age: Collision Course (Jul 22)
15. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows (Jun 3)

Tiebreaker: The Conjuring 2: $66,671,719

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I don't know what I'm doing. It's dangerous to go alone, jerkwad, take this Eridium.

BOX OFFICE

1- Captain America: Civil War
2- Finding Dory
3- Independance Day: Resurgance
4- X-Men: Apocalypse
5- Star Trek Beyond
6- Central Intelligence
7- Suicide Squad
8- The BFG
9- Ice Age: Collision Course
10- The Legend of Tarzan
11- Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
12- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
13- The Angry Birds Movie
14- The Conjuring 2
15- The Nice Guys

 

ROTTEN TOMATOES

1- Captain America: Civil War
2- Finding Dory
3- The BFG
4- The Nice Guys
5- Alice Through the Looking Glass
6- The Legend of Tarzan
7- Central Intelligence
8- Independance Day: Resurgance
9- Jason Bourne
10- X-Men: Apocalypse
11- Star Trek Beyond
12- The Conjuring 2
13- Now You See Me 2
14- Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
15- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

 

TIEBREAKER: Finding Dory: $280 million US of A dollars

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Civil War starts next weekend so I still have time.  Sooo.many blockbusters that will make lots of money but will get crap reviews and a kid movie that may underperform to mess with my ballot.

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It's been bit rough with personal family health issues recently (so far 2016 has been a shit year, imo), so I'm not sure if I'll have time to do an entrant this year with my usual - "I'm spend way too long on this movie list" - research method. 

I'm always up for talking box office and reviews though.  The box office race is quite interesting this year as there are a fair amount of previously high earning franchises in the race.  Where do you rank the Independence Day sequel when the last one was so long ago?  Do you think it has any type of Jurassic World nostalgia potential, or does it bomb without Will Smith's charisma? Fun.

Shout out to RIPPA and everyone else donating prizes to the game too.  Cool move.  I would play now even without them, but it still a nice incentive.

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BOX OFFICE

Captain America: Civil War

X-Men: Apocalypse

Finding Dory

Independence Day: Resurgence

Suicide Squad

Star Trek Beyond

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows

Ghostbusters

Ice Age: Collision Course

Alice Through The Looking Glass

Now You See Me 2

The Conjuring 2

The BFG

The Angry Birds Movie

The Nice Guys

ROTTEN TOMATOES

Finding Dory

Captain America: Civil War

X-Men: Apocalypse

Ghostbusters

Jason Bourne

Star Trek Beyond

The Nice Guys

The Conjuring 2

Alice Through The Looking Glass

Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising

Now You See Me 2

Independence Day: Resurgence

Ice Age: Collision Course

The Angry Birds Movie

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows

TIEBREAKER: Conjuring 2 - $117 Million

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Made one change on both list
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On 04/05/2016 at 6:19 AM, _MJ_ said:

It's been bit rough with personal family health issues recently (so far 2016 has been a shit year, imo), so I'm not sure if I'll have time to do an entrant this year with my usual - "I'm spend way too long on this movie list" - research method.

Best wishes, man.

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Box Office:

1. Captain America: Civil War

2. Finding Dory

3. Independence Day 

4. X-Men

5. Suicide Squad

6. Ghostbusters

7. Alice Through The Looking Glass

8. Jason Bourne

9. Neighbors 2

10. Star Trek

11. TMNT

12. The Legend of Tarzan

13. Now You See Me 2

14. Central Intelligence

15. Warcraft

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RT:

1. Captain America: Civil War

2. Nice Guys

3. Finding Dory

4. X-Men: Apocalypse

5. Ghostbusters

6. The BFG

7. Suicide Squad

8. Star Trek

9. Jason Bourne

10. Alice

11. Independance Day

12. Neighbors 2

13. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

14. Angry Birds

15. Warcraft

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Tie Breaker: Ghostbusters 150mill

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BOX OFFICE

  • Captain America: Civil War
  • Finding Dory
  • X-Men Apocalypse
  • Suicide Squad
  • Independance Day - Resurgence
  • TMNT - Out of the Shadows
  • Jason Bourne
  • Alice - Through The Looking Glass
  • Ice Age - Collision Course
  • Warcraft
  • The Legend of Tarzan
  • The BFG
  • Ghostbusters
  • Central Intelligence
  • The Nice Guys

ROTTEN TOMATOES

  • Finding Dory
  • Captain America - Civil War
  • Suicide Squad
  • X-Men Apocalypse
  • Star Trek Beyond
  • Alice - Through The Looking Glass
  • The Legend of Tarzan
  • Ghostbusters
  • Now You See Me 2
  • The Conjuring 2
  • Central Intelligence
  • Warcraft
  • Neigbors 2
  • Angry Birds
  • TMNT - Out of the Shadows

Tie Breaker - The BFG - $83 Million

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J.T., The Purge sequel is not one of the 20 movies in the first post, so you gotta take those off your lists and put some other movie in.

Will send a PM as well to make sure you're aware.

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Could've been worse.  I'm reminded of the year that someone put The Incredibles 2 on one of their lists and I was thinking "Not only did I not mention that movie, it doesn't even exist!"

Took me a bit to figure out that they meant The Expendables 2.

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Box Office:

  1. Independence Day: Resurgence (Jun 24)
  2. Captain America: Civil War (May 6)
  3. Suicide Squad (Aug 5)
  4. X-Men: Apocalypse (May 27)
  5. Ghostbusters (Jul 15)
  6. Star Trek Beyond (Jul 22)
  7. Warcraft (Jun 10)
  8. Ice Age: Collision Course (Jul 22)
  9. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows (Jun 3)
  10. Finding Dory (Jun 17)
  11. The BFG (Jul 1)
  12. The Angry Birds Movie (May 20)
  13. Alice Through The Looking Glass (May 27)
  14. Jason Bourne (Jul 29)
  15. The Conjuring 2 (Jun 10)

My thinking was that ID:R comes out at the perfect time and has that big blockbuster feel and mind numbing special effects that a traditional summer hit always has. Maybe Cap is coming out a tad too early to capitalise on that.

Suicide Squad comes out a full 3 months after any other superhero movie and as we saw with Deadpool more mature rated comic movies have the potential to do well, I think this could be the sleeper of the year. It's going to be heavily marketed during the busiest time of the year for movies. 

I think X-Men comes out too close to Cap to do well. Ghostbusters is going to make a sickening amount of money the first week, then drop off a cliff, same with TMNT and Alice and Conjuring.

RT:

  1. Captain America: Civil War (May 6)
  2. X-Men: Apocalypse (May 27)
  3. The BFG (Jul 1)
  4. Finding Dory (Jun 17)
  5. Suicide Squad (Aug 5)
  6. Ice Age: Collision Course (Jul 22)
  7. Star Trek Beyond (Jul 22)
  8. Independence Day: Resurgence (Jun 24)
  9. Jason Bourne (Jul 29)
  10. Warcraft (Jun 10)
  11. Ghostbusters (Jul 15)
  12. The Conjuring 2 (Jun 10)
  13. The Angry Birds Movie (May 20)
  14. Alice Through The Looking Glass (May 27)
  15. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows (Jun 3)

With this, everyone seems to splurge over Marvel films and it does look enjoyable so I can see Cap being over 90 easily. X-men pre-sequels have been traditionally rated higher than most comic movies. 

BFG is the sleeper here as it's another Spielberg adaptation of a childhood memory of mine and a lot of other people. Tintin was ungodly amazing, I expect this to be of the same ilk. 

The last 5 movies will all be terrible and deserve to be where they are on the list. 

Tiebreaker: Suicide Squad - 365,000,000.

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4 minutes ago, RIPPA said:

Oh God Dammit - I confused BFG with that Jonah Hill/Miles Teller movie.

gonna have to edit when I get home

Yeah, I can't think of two movies on more opposite spectrums than War Dogs and The BFG.

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I did no research so when I saw the list my brain went "oh BFG is that war comedy"

I blame Todd Phillips

EDIT - because I went BFG = Big Fucking Gun

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