Went to a 3:15pm showing of Jumanji with the family today. The theatre was absolutely packed. Great flick, glad to see it doing well.
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I'm still reading these takes where people think TLJ and TFA are prequel tier.
What on Earth. In Box office news I'm feeling 110m opening for Black Panther.
I mean I usually shut my brain at that point. People putting prequels higher on their list because of their birth year and prequel nostalgia I can understand, but fanboys who put TLJ and TFA at the bottom of their list are unhinged and or simply aren't grading it on quality, but fan service levels and or their feelings about Mara Jade and Admiral Thrawn.
And TLJ subverts a lot of expectations. A follow on viewing to judge it on its own merits makes a difference; the OT is filled with people liking more on second watch.
I saw some shit on TLJ, then rank AotC as the best Star Wars movie. Which is something.
I've seen people praising R1 for being the best and then saying TFA AND TLJ suck while praising the "different-ness" of R1.
LOL wat
Really hope Jumanji keeps creeping on TLJ and maybe surpasses it, its a great movie and should make studios not so afraid to go up against the comic book and Star Wars juggernauts.
The only real bummer for me is that the way Disney structured their Star Wars deals means the best theaters around me - the Dolby Digital, IMAX ones -- only have shown Star Wars for the past few weeks and for the next 2 or 3 weeks as well. I enjoyed Jumanji in the regular theater, but man, I would have LOVED to see it in Dolby ATMOS.
The only real bummer for me is that the way Disney structured their Star Wars deals means the best theaters around me - the Dolby Digital, IMAX ones -- only have shown Star Wars for the past few weeks and for the next 2 or 3 weeks as well. I enjoyed Jumanji in the regular theater, but man, I would have LOVED to see it in Dolby ATMOS.
Unless something weird happens, Jumanji won't until much later, if ever.
Hell, it might get to $300 million domestic without ever being #1, which is frankly weird as hell.
That would make it the highest grossing film of all time to never do so, beating out Sing's $270m.
Damn, I totally forgot about Sing. That did make a ton of money without ever hitting the top, didn't it?
Not quite as high-grossing, even inflation adjusted, but Good Will Hunting made $138 million and As Good As It Gets made $148 million while Titanic maintained total dominance over them in 97/98.
Insulting a former member of this community isn't acceptable, especially when they are not here to defend themselves.
If you wouldn't like someone to say it about you, don't say it in here at all.
If you wouldn't like someone to say it about you, don't say it in here at all.
Welp, I was going to make a Jimmy page joke, but this one is better
"At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At last we will have our revenge."
Now think of the crazy shit Cameron and Weta will pull off after a decade of advancements.
The CGI from Pirates of the Caribbean 2 & 3 still looks incredible.
Zathura.
Which should be on the docket now that Jumanji is a success.
TBF a lot of Avatar is more like a CGI movie than live-action with CGI. Not that it's not impressive, but it's easier to be believable when you're not mixing live-action and CGI together as much.
I watched it a couple days ago. The second half dragged because the story split into 2. The Jenny Lind part was meh because you kinda knew how it would end while the movie started to ignore the colorful circus crew.
Just saw the greatest showman myself with some friends, we all loved it. The songs were pretty solid but the cinematography and choreography was insanely good. I was in awe watching some of those scenes. Story was okay but the visuals sold me so hard.
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Since the year is pretty much over, I thought that it would be interesting to share report cards of the 2017 films that we have managed to see to date. We did something similar in these threads about 6 months ago.
Here's my list so far:
Lady Bird - A
Dunkirk - A
Blade Runner 2049 - A
The Shape of Water - A
Wind River - A-
Get Out - A-
John Wick Ch 2 - A-
Star Wars: The Last Jedi - A-
Logan - A-
Coco - A-
Baby Driver - A-
A Ghost Story - A-
Your Name - A-
Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri - B+
Logan Lucky - B+
Thor Ragnarok - B+
Spider-Man Homecoming - B+
It Comes at Night - B
Free Fire - B
Wonder Woman - B
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - B
The Lego Batman Movie - B-
Captain Underpants - B-
My Little Pony - C
Alien Covenant - C
Cars 3 - C
The Boss Baby - C-
Justice League - C-
Ferdinand - D+
Despicable Me 3 - D+
I've watched 30 releases this year. I think that 25 of those were in theatres, but I am trying to catch up on what I missed now that a lot of the year's films are on home video.
I feel like 2017 was surprisingly good. A lot of my lower rated films are animated movies that I took my daughter to because she wanted to see them. Most of those were a bust this year, but at least we got Coco. JL and Alien Covenant probably didn't need big screen viewings, but I knew what I was in for.
I might give Your Name the most surprising film of the year award to date. I don't watch much anime, and I wasn't really expecting to like it. Most of the films above it were things that I expected to enjoy going in.
Here's my list so far:
Lady Bird - A
Dunkirk - A
Blade Runner 2049 - A
The Shape of Water - A
Wind River - A-
Get Out - A-
John Wick Ch 2 - A-
Star Wars: The Last Jedi - A-
Logan - A-
Coco - A-
Baby Driver - A-
A Ghost Story - A-
Your Name - A-
Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri - B+
Logan Lucky - B+
Thor Ragnarok - B+
Spider-Man Homecoming - B+
It Comes at Night - B
Free Fire - B
Wonder Woman - B
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - B
The Lego Batman Movie - B-
Captain Underpants - B-
My Little Pony - C
Alien Covenant - C
Cars 3 - C
The Boss Baby - C-
Justice League - C-
Ferdinand - D+
Despicable Me 3 - D+
I've watched 30 releases this year. I think that 25 of those were in theatres, but I am trying to catch up on what I missed now that a lot of the year's films are on home video.
I feel like 2017 was surprisingly good. A lot of my lower rated films are animated movies that I took my daughter to because she wanted to see them. Most of those were a bust this year, but at least we got Coco. JL and Alien Covenant probably didn't need big screen viewings, but I knew what I was in for.
I might give Your Name the most surprising film of the year award to date. I don't watch much anime, and I wasn't really expecting to like it. Most of the films above it were things that I expected to enjoy going in.
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