Amph The 2016 Box Office Bloodshower

The Alice films hold little appeal to me beyond what bit of outlandish vfx Burton can conjure up.

My vote for biggest fail this Summer has to be Tarzan. It just looks dreary. Yates' movies have the color palette of an ashtray.

 

Alice and Xcrapolypse seem to have somewhat restrained production budgets relative to recent summer tentpoles, which should limit the damage.

Legend of Tarzan looks to be the most expensive Tarzan movie ever made, so strong potential for major commercial disaster.

 

Yeah, that's what I said last year. William Wyler's Ben Hur is the quintessential Bible epic and one of the highest pinnacles of the golden age of Hollywood, so, no. Just no. No.

 

I agree. Wyler's Ben Hur is still a standard for Biblical epics and this remake just looks like it doesn't add anything to what has already been done.

 

Unless it's Disney-branded live action remake of one of their cartoons, anything dipping into the "classics" seems doomed to fail. But I think Tarzan will do worse than Ben Hur if only because I'd wager Tarzan cost more $ to make.

As for X-Men beating Alice, I figured as much but there's a part of me that wondered if Alice 2 would suddenly have this huge opening because of the last one but I guess people collectively realized they only went to see the first one because we as audiences were coming down from Avatar and were hungry for another 3D spectacle, which has worn off as a hook by now.

I haven't read any reviews of Apocalypse yet, most I saw was a headline of Drew McWeeny at HitFix giving it a B-, which honestly doesn't sound too bad. I thought both First Class and Days of Future Past are really, really good, I'd find it hard to think they'd just completely swing and miss on a third outing considering it's basically the same crew. Although First Class had Matthew Vaughn / Cold War twist and DoFP had a nifty time travel hook to keep it going. Still, the cast is pretty great in this series, which is a huge aspect of having a good X-Men movie.

 

Ender Sai have you noticed how easy it is to ignore his awful posts without the ignore feature?

 

You mean the weakness blanket?

 

I can't believe the Australian government destroyed Johnny Depp's marriage with Amber Heard over a dog. Australia should be ashamed of itself.

 

A pretty craptastic Memorial Day weekend at the box office. I don't know how well the top ten did overall relative to last year, but X-Men will be a disappointing $80 ish million over the 4 day holiday, and Alice will be something like $34 million.

 

Excited about seeing South Korean horror hit "Goksung"/"The Wailing" in Chicago tonight.

yes. I'm genuinely excited to see a movie.

 

Can anyone explain the deal with Alice: Through the looking glass?

How much was Tim Burton involved? He didn't direct it did he?
Was it actually popular?
I saw it on DVD, it was okay I guess. The highlight being Anne Hathaway (yes I'm a fan of hers).

What actually is it?

 

You saw a film that's been out a week on DVD?

Are you mixing up films?

 

He's pirating! He's a pirate!

 

Baned

 

Yeah, I meant the first one.

 

Can you prove it?

 

sorry, but I Are The Internets is right. Once you've textually confessed to watching a DVD of the movie now out in theaters, the procedural rules of evidence for the JCC require you to demonstrate by a preponderance of the evidence that you in fact intended a different movie. It's not looking good for you.

 

I think it's time Coruscant made another tribunal thread since it's been almost a year. We have your victim.

 

This is correct. Darthmaul208 the burden is upon you to prove you do not own a pirated DVD of Through the Looking Glass.

 

Yes, it divorces us all from the discussion at hand.

 

Well I got it, The2ndQuest!

 

Warcraft!

an unsurprising 18% RT score with nearly 50 reviews in.

I guess this movie was dropped into the path of Finding Dory and Independence Day: Resurgence as some kind of sacrifice. Seems more like the kind of thing that should have been punted to February, but if it's 100% critic proof I suppose it will be fine. It's hard to tell, since I wouldn't watch this movie even if were free and on the back of an airplane seat in hour 5 of a 9 hour transatlantic flight.