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1 hour ago, The Natural said:

Looking back, I'm surprised there's a good chunk of entries without Once Upon a Time in Hollywood on RT lists.

Seeing the trajectory of his last few flims' RT scores suggests some potential wisdom and stepping around that particular trap. 

Also, you ought to get around to both of those flicks since you so clearly want to. Maybe Hateful Eight gets you on the Goggins bandwagon with the rest of us, and Death Proof is short and light by Tarantino standards. 

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65% is pretty bad by early review standards.  It will either sink like a rock by release or stabilize.

I suspect that it will either stay fresh in the low sixty percentile or be slightly rotten in the low to mid fifties.

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15 minutes ago, J.T. said:

And it's now at 60%

Of other depressing interest to me, Brightburn is currently at 64%.  Ouch.

I read the summary - this seems totally justified

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I'm in.  

Box Office:  

1. The Lion King

2. Toy Story 4 

3. Spider-Man Far From Home

4. The Secret Life of Pets 2 

5. Hobbs & Shaw 

6. Godzilla: King of the Monsters 

7. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

8. Dark Phoenix 

9. Rocketman 

10. Men in Black International 

11. Shaft

12. Stuber 

13. Playmobil: The Movie

14. Child's Play 

15. Dora & the Lost City of Gold

 

Rotten Tomatoes: 

1. The Lion King 

2. Toy Story 4

3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 

4. Rocketman 

5. Spider-Man Far From Home 

6. The Secret Life of Pets 2 

7. Playmobil: The Movie  

8. Dora & the Lost City of Gold

9. Godzilla: King of the Monsters

10. Hobbs & Shaw 

11. Shaft 

12. Men in Black International

13. Stuber

14. Dark Phoenix

15. Child's Play

Tie Break:  Spider-Man Far From Home $270,000,000

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On its opening day - Aladdin sits at 61% with 181 reviews so you pretty much know where it is gonna be now

Super early as in 11 reviews in - Secret Life of Pets 2 is at 91%

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Finally ready to post the prizes.  4 Criterion dvds and 4 normal dvds.  Top 2 finishers get to pick two (but only one Criterion at most), 3rd place through 6th place gets to pick one each.  And there's a booby prize for last place.

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HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (Criterion - Rippa)
After falling in love with an army sergeant, a boy named Hansel undergoes a sex-change operation to legally marry his beloved. But the operation is botched, leaving the boy less than a man, but not quite a woman. Deserted in a Kansas trailer park, the boy/girl, now named Hedwig, reinvents himself/herself as a rock star.

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POLICE STORY & POLICE STORY 2 (Criterion box set)
Packed wall-to-wall with astoundingly acrobatic fight choreography, epic explosions, charmingly goofball slapstick, and awesomely 1980s electro soundtracks, Police Story and Police Story 2  set a new standard for rock-’em, sock-’em mayhem that established Jackie Chan as a performer of unparalleled grace and daring and would influence a generation of filmmakers, from Hong Kong to Hollywood.

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MULHOLLAND DRIVE (Criterion)
Two beautiful women are caught up in a lethally twisted mystery - and ensnared in an equally dangerous web of erotic passion.

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THE PRINCESS BRIDE (Criterion)
The Princess Bride is staged as a book read by grandfather (Peter Falk) to his ill grandson (Fred Savage). Falk's character assures a romance-weary Savage that the book has much more to deliver than a simpering love story, including but not limited to fencing, fighting, torture, death, true love, giants, and pirates.

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BIG FISH & BEGONIA (Rippa)
From ancient Chinese legends comes an exciting tale of myth and magic. Under the ocean is a mystical race of beings. One of these beings, a 16-year-old girl, travels to the human world in the form of a dolphin and forms a connection with a human boy.

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FREE SOLO
Free solo climber Alex Honnold prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: scaling the 3,200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without a rope.

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BORDER
A border guard with the special ability to smell human emotions meets a mysterious man that confounds her detection, forcing her to confront disturbing insights about herself.

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AMERICAN ANIMALS
The unbelievable but true story of four young men who brazenly attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in U.S. history.

And the booby prize:

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PINOCCHIO
Academy Award winner Roberto Benigni (Best Actor, Life is Beautiful, 1999) brings one of the world's most beloved characters to the screen with this delightful live action adaptation of Carlo Collodi's classic story.

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I actually wanted to pick The Avengers (the Uma Thurman, Ralph Fiennes one) but DVD stock is debatable at best.

So instead you get another live action Disney movie

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10 minutes ago, RIPPA said:

I actually wanted to pick The Avengers (the Uma Thurman, Ralph Fiennes one) but DVD stock is debatable at best.

So instead you get another live action Disney movie

Just to show how out of the loop I am, when you sent "Big Fish & Begonia", I thought it was the Tim Burton movie + something else I didn't know.

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UPDATE 3 OF 19 - through May 23

Standings

1 [ 14] King Leonidas of Sparta - 0 points (0/0, tiebreak 0.174)
2 [ 8] gatling - 0 points (0/0, tiebreak 0.527)
3 [ 1] The Natural - 0 points (0/0, tiebreak n/a)
4 [ 3] ivpvideos - 0 points (0/0, tiebreak n/a)
5 [- 5] The Z - 0 points (0/0, tiebreak n/a)
6 [ 9] Rippa - 0 points (0/0, tiebreak n/a)
7 [ 10] EVA - 0 points (0/0, tiebreak n/a)
8 [ 12] West Newbury Bad Boy - 0 points (0/0, tiebreak n/a)
9 [ 13] JRGoldman - 0 points (0/0, tiebreak n/a)
10 [ 15] Kuetsar - 0 points (0/0, tiebreak n/a)
11 [NEW] Niners Fan in CT - 0 points (0/0, tiebreak n/a)
12 [ 2] SorceressKnight - 2 points (0/2, tiebreak n/a)
13 [ 4] Paco - 2 points (0/2, tiebreak n/a)
14 [ 18] Phantom Lord - 2 points (0/2, tiebreak n/a)
15 [ 7] The Unholy Dragon - 2 points (0/2, tiebreak n/a)
16 [ 11] Hail Sabin - 2 points (2/0, tiebreak n/a)
17 [ 16] DreamBroken - 4 points (0/4, tiebreak n/a)
18 [ 17] J.T. - 4 points (0/4, tiebreak n/a)
19 [ 6] RossWB - 4 points (0/4, tiebreak n/a)
20 [ 19] Ace - 4 points (2/2, tiebreak n/a)

Box office

1 [- 1] Detective Pikachu - $102,822,622 (14 days)
2 [NEW] John Wick 3 - $76,638,941 (7 days)
3 [ 2] Long Shot - $27,128,097 (21 days)

Rotten Tomatoes

1 [NEW] John Wick 3 - 89% (7 days)
2 [ 1] Long Shot - 80% (21 days)
3 [ 2] Detective Pikachu - 66% (14 days)

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Looks like Rotten Tomatoes has changed their site so that people can no longer tell exactly how many fresh reviews a movie got, unless they want to go through and count them all by hand.  This could be a problem if two movies end up showing, say, 66% Fresh, and I want to figure out the exact percentages to see which one is actually ahead.

It's also possible that maybe I just can't see the exact Fresh/Rotten count because of the browser I'm using? (Internet Explorer - I'm on my work computer, it's not my choice.)  Gotta check this when I get home tonight.

The internet continues to find new and exciting ways to make my life difficult.

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10 minutes ago, Ace said:

I did not know there was a Princess Bride criterion. I need that and the Hedwig one badly. 

Hedwig doesn't come out till the end of June FYI

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13 minutes ago, S.K.o.S. said:

Looks like Rotten Tomatoes has changed their site so that people can no longer tell exactly how many fresh reviews a movie got, unless they want to go through and count them all by hand.  This could be a problem if two movies end up showing, say, 66% Fresh, and I want to figure out the exact percentages to see which one is actually ahead.

It's also possible that maybe I just can't see the exact Fresh/Rotten count because of the browser I'm using? (Internet Explorer - I'm on my work computer, it's not my choice.)  Gotta check this when I get home tonight.

The internet continues to find new and exciting ways to make my life difficult.

All you have to do is click on the more info button on the movie title and it shows you the difference

Like John Wick right now is 264 reviews - 236 Fresh/28 Rotten

It is entirely possible that depending on your browser the feature doesn't work. But it works for me in Chrome

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3 minutes ago, RIPPA said:

All you have to do is click on the more info button on the movie title and it shows you the difference

Like John Wick right now is 264 reviews - 236 Fresh/28 Rotten

It is entirely possible that depending on your browser the feature doesn't work. But it works for me in Chrome

Ah!  It does work in IE.  I didn't see the button because I was looking for numbers.

Thanks!

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6 hours ago, RIPPA said:

On its opening day - Aladdin sits at 61% with 181 reviews so you pretty much know where it is gonna be now

I totally lied to you all

207 reviews - down to 58%

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22 minutes ago, RIPPA said:

All you have to do is click on the more info button on the movie title and it shows you the difference

Like John Wick right now is 264 reviews - 236 Fresh/28 Rotten

It is entirely possible that depending on your browser the feature doesn't work. But it works for me in Chrome

I didn't even see this until now.

 

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4 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said:

I didn't even see this until now.

 

I think it only rolled out today.

I noticed this morning when I went their and saw the whole thing about how audience reviews have to be "verified" that you actually went and saw the movie

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