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  1. There's only 14 movies in that Rotten Tomatoes list.
  2. Death From Above is entrant #12, so we add THE CRASH REEL to the available prizes.
  3. I'm going. Ted Reeve is a hockey arena, so you have the seats behind the hockey glass which are general admission, and then they set up the ring and folding chairs on the rink surface (sans ice, obviously). I would assume that "corner seats" means you're gonna be facing a ringpost.
  4. Last year when I unofficially finished second, I was taking past movies that seemed similar to the current crop and basing it on how those did. I also had a general rule that August movies do poorly (but this year it seems like most of what I'd want to see is in August).
  5. Rippa, for the tiebreaker, I need a movie to go with the $55 million.
  6. Need a tiebreaker. You've also got Godzilla on your box office list twice, at 7 and 12.
  7. I know the Orton skeleton is supposed to be doing that pose of his, but it looks like he's listening to Hip Hop Hooray or something.
  8. Hopefully this revelation prepared people for the Black Sox scandal in 1919. Also, seriously, the guy who wrote this article was "Sol Plex"?
  9. They announced Toronto matches for the NJ guys. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Shinsuke Nakamura & Jado AJ Styles & Karl Anderson vs. Kazuchika Okada & Gedo Takaaki Watanabe vs. Michael Elgin Forever Hooligans vs. Time Splitters vs. Young Bucks
  10. On the "this year is much tougher than last year" tip: Last year we had 32 people enter the pool (33 if you count my entry). 4 different movies showed up at #1 on people's box office lists (the vast majority put Iron Man 3 at the top, but some people also had Star Trek 2, Fast & Furious 6, and Man of Steel) and 7 different movies showed up at #1 on people's Rotten Tomatoes lists (Monsters University, Star Trek 2, Iron Man 3, Man of Steel, Despicable Me 2, Great Gatsby, Elysium). This year, we've only had 8 people enter so far, and there are already 5 different #1 movies on the box office lists and 7 different #1 movies on the RT lists.
  11. I think there's an commentary track on a dvd somewhere where someone involved with the movie says he was so sure that they were giving the twist away with that scene. Meant to look that up last night to get the specifics, but forgot. I saw Shyamalan's first three, then nothing else until The Happening, then Devil. You know, The Happening is of course a terrible movie, but that jump scare with the life-size doll in the bed is a really, really good one. It certainly flipped out a whole bunch of people in the theatre when I saw it. (At the time, it actually made me hate it more because I was thinking "Oh, it's not bad enough that this entire movie sucks, now I'm being tortured with jump scares too?")
  12. MushroomJones, you need the tiebreaker too.
  13. I believe Tim Donst, Sugar Dunkerton and Saturyne are all gone. Donst tweeted about it a while back. Other than that... don't know. If they can sell out shows without announcing matches then I guess they're not in a particular hurry to announce any of the upcoming cards.
  14. SBMP Hall of Fame: In 2008, 9 people entered, and the top 3 got prizes: 1. Evil Ash 2. Nathan Davis 3. Brocklock In 2009, 28 people entered, and the top 6 got prizes: 1. SoopArr AE 2. The Erotic Terrorist 3. RossWB 4. Genesis 5. Nathan Davis 6. MushroomJones In 2010, 39 people entered, and the top 6 got prizes: 1. -MJ- 2. RossWB 3. Pavel6969 4. Brocklock 5. SoopArr AE 6. shoogbear63 In 2011, 42 people entered, and the top 6 got prizes: 1. Hobo Joe 2. scraylo187 3. -MJ- 4. Hail Sabin 5. shoogbear63 6. The Erotic Terrorist In 2012, 39 people entered, and the top 6 got prizes: 1. blitzkrieg 2. IVPvideos 3. jesseewiak 4. DreamBroken 5. Patty1369 6. TrevL In 2013, 32 people entered, and the top 6 got prizes: 1. The Damn Yeti 2. RossWB 3. Genesis 4. Death From Above 5. The Erotic Terrorist 6. -MJ-
  15. This horrible banner means it's that time of year again! Below are 20 movies set to be released this summer. You need to make two lists: List 1: Choose 15 of the 20 movies and rank them from highest to lowest according to the domestic box office gross you think each movie will make through its first 4 weeks (28 days) of release. Note that you're not trying to leave out the 5 movies you think will do the worst; just leave out the 5 that you feel least confident about ranking. Also, you don't need to guess how much money they'll make - just rank them. I'll be using boxofficemojo.com as the source for how much money each movie makes. List 2: Choose 15 of the 20 movies (doesn't have to be the exact same 15 as your first list) and rank them from highest to lowest according to the rating you think each movie will have on rottentomatoes.com after it's been out for 4 weeks. Again, you're not necessarily trying to leave out the five worst movies. Scoring: Your two lists will be compared with the actual ranks of the 15 movies, and your score will be the sum of the absolute values of the differences between the rank you gave to each movie and its correct rank. LOWEST score wins. Tiebreaking: In addition to your two lists, pick any one of the twenty movies and post exactly how much money you think it'll make domestically, in dollars, in its first 28 days of release. If two or more people end up with the same number of points, the person whose dollar figure is closer to correct (on a percentage basis) will be ranked ahead of the other. If that still results in a tie, then the person who posted their entry earlier will be ranked ahead of the other. Also, if two or more movies end up tied in box office gross right down to the dollar (pretty much impossible, but just in case), or end up with the exact same rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the ranking of those two movies will be set to whatever is more favorable for each individual person. The movies: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (May 2) Neighbors (May 9) Godzilla (May 16) X-Men: Days of Future Past (May 23) Maleficent (May 30) A Million Ways To Die In The West (May 30) Edge of Tomorrow (Jun 6) 22 Jump Street (Jun 13) How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Jun 13) Transformers: Age of Extinction (Jun 27) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Jul 11) The Purge: Anarchy (Jul 18) Jupiter Ascending (Jul 18) Hercules (Jul 25) Lucy (Jul 25) Guardians of the Galaxy (Aug 1) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Aug 8) The Giver (Aug 15) The Expendables 3 (Aug 15) Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (Aug 22) Deadline: The last day you can post your lists is May 29th, 2014, but any movie that has already premiered must be left off your lists. So, for example, if you enter after May 2nd, you can't put Spider-Man 2 on either of your lists because it'll already be in theatres. Editing lists: You may edit your lists after they're posted, but only up until the release of any movie that appears on at least one of your lists. Since time of entry is a tiebreaker, if you edit a list, make a new post stating that you've edited. "The Adjustment Bureau" rule: Movies' release dates are not set in stone. If a movie's release date gets moved past September 30, 2014, and you have it on a list, it gets removed, and you get an additional number of points equal to your average points per movie on that list, rounded to the nearest whole number. Prizes: The prize pool will consist of three Criterion dvds (or maybe blu-rays? Pretty much everyone can play blu-rays now, right?), GODZILLA, 3:10 TO YUMA and SCANNERS, along with copies of three of my favorite movies from 2013, THE CRASH REEL, OMAR and GIMME THE LOOT. (One movie was added to the prize pool when we hit 12, 15 and 18 entrants.) The first-place finisher will get to choose their prize out of all the available movies, second place will get to pick from what's left, and so on. Good luck! In so far: MushroomJones Ligerbusa Super Ape Sublime Cameron Swift The Veeg The Natural The Z SorceressKnight Control Rippa Death From Above ivpvideos hobo joe Dr. Bathroom Niners Fan in CT JRGoldman DreamBroken The Damn Yeti RossWB caley jaedmc Mike Zeidler Ultimo The Great Kevin Wilson blitzkrieg Elsalvajeloco CSC Raziel403 Paco pipGofern The Erotic Terrorist Hoffman Chaos Suicide King of Spades -MJ- Lacelle
  16. A few reviews are rolling in for Proxy (65% on RT with 17 reviews), and the reaction is really something. Seems like an extremely polarizing movie. Here's an example. Read the review and then read the comments section: http://thedissolve.com/reviews/720-proxy/ The reviewer loves it, and then everyone in the comments who's seen it really hates it. The acting is mostly bad, the characters' motivations are non-existent or laughable, but there's a very distinct feel to it via the aesthetics and the score, and (apparently) it has a serious statement to make.
  17. It was going to be The Giver. Last I looked it was in the lead with 5 votes (and it's still there as of this post) Edit: The plan is for the actual pool thread to go up either tomorrow or Wednesday.
  18. Cover of today's Toronto Sun: Hiyooooooooo
  19. Here's a link to it! http://pmd.fan590.com/podcasts/pts/pt_20140416_191423--Prime-Time-Sports--April-16---6pm.mp3 It's about the first 15 minutes or so.
  20. Toronto probably would've preferred to play Washington, but there was that stretch in January when Brooklyn started to get hot, they went 0-2 against the Raptors while going something like 10-0 against the rest of the league. So I'll just focus on that. Hoping Casey can use "they intentionally dropped to the 6th seed because they don't respect us" as extra motivation.
  21. "All You Need Is Kill" was the working title for the movie. I thought it sounded a little inappropriate for something starring Tom Cruise. Makes sense now.
  22. Ah, this is more of a Chuck Taylor story, but I got to see the effect his schtick actually has on kids. There was a guy with two kids, a boy and a girl, sitting in front of me at some indy show, it was a tag match with Chuck on the apron, and the guy's daughter just randomly goes "You suck, Chuck Taylor!" Chuck turns around and goes, "I will KILL you, little girl. I will MURDER you until you DIE." And after that, she REALLY hated him and yelled all kinds of stuff at him. After intermission, the family came back to their seat and the girl had a signed Chuck Taylor photo. So I guess the dad wanted to show her that Chuck didn't really want to kill her or whatever.
  23. A Million Ways To Die In The West has over three times as many votes as the next closest movie, so it's pretty clear that it belongs in the pool list. I'm going to take it out of the poll.
  24. Here's the thing: There is no struggle. If Davey tried to hit a second superplex, Eddie fought him, and the reversed it... I could give that a pass. But there's no fighting in this 'fighting spirit' spot. There's just "Superplex, get up, other guy hits a suplex." That, to me, is the problem, more than the sequence of moves itself. You can do "fighting spirit" spots, or "social dance" sequences... but when you combine the two, that's when things really fall apart. There is a vertical suplex spot where one guy is on offense and you think he's going to do the suplex, and then, surprise, the other guy does it. I know I've seen it in several matches - to cite one in particular, it was in the Chris Hero vs. Masato Tanaka match last weekend. I get the impression that in general with that spot, there isn't supposed to be a struggle, because the whole point of it is the shock of the unexpected suplex. Of course, when you put that spot immediately after a superplex, it looks more than a little ridiculous.
  25. Looks like Pixar actually has nothing coming out in 2014 (but you got me to double-check). Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur are both scheduled for 2015.
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