Amph The 2017 Box Office Bloodsplatter

Can you please use a different term? Blacks and Hispanics have enough problems in the age of Trump without you blaming us for Bayformers, too.

 

Anyone who's seen a recent Michael Bay movie will understand why it's sometimes necessary to place limits on freedom of expression, but at least the reviews of the new Transfomers movie help justify the first amendment. My personal favorite: "an exhausting marathon of complete nonsense."

 

I think he's blaming the Asians.

 

Yeah, basically said the same thing about the film when I described in a word: nonsense, and the further elaborated that is basically one random action scene after another.

 

i'm surprised Cars 3 hasn't made more

 

It makes it real money through merch.

 

War for the Planet of the Apes is yet another sequel coming in above 90% on RT. $800 million worldwide would be a cakewalk for this movie but for it being sandwiched between the equally well-reviewed Spider-Man, and the tantalizing and heavily marketed Dunkirk.

http://www.slashfilm.com/dunkirk-reviews/

 

It'll be interesting to see how much SMH drops against Apes. It is a fairly well liked movie so let's say 60 million 2nd weekend at the very least, so Apes may scrape by it.

Transformers 5 is an interesting case study, it's clearly doing worse everywhere else except China. And "worse" means half of what TF4 made but them China box office loves it. So is China Box office enough to keep a franchise going? That seems to have not worked out for Warcraft or Terminator: Genisys.

I do want to see the Bumblebee movie, though, cuz the guy who is directed it made Kubo and the Two Strings, and Hallie Stienfeld and it's freakin' Bumblebee. so great shot at that. And probably won't cost as much as Bay's movies. After that? who knows.

 

War for the Planet of the Apes War for the Box Office.

And the pinnacle of Steve Zahn's career, as he steps out as "Bad Ape".

 

I got my tickets to 70mm IMAX Dunkirk for next Friday. I'm no unconditional Nolan fan: Interstellar and Inception are both godawful wastes of big special effects budgets. But I'm hopeful and optimistic about Dunkirk. As always, those are my watchwords: optimism and hope.

 

And you're a big Harry Styles fan. No doubt you'll be viewing the film wearing your "Mr. Styles" shirt.

 

I dream of a Dunkirk/This Is Us double feature. Everything after that would be known as the "post-entertainment" era.

 

I saw the seven minute IMax preview of Dunkirk when it played before Rogue One, and it was a spectacular seven minutes as it mostly (IIRC) featured Tom Hardy's character in his fighter plane. The visual airplane sequence reminded me alot of the great dog fighting cinematography in Top Gun. I hope to see Dunkirik on IMax, but during the big budget blockbuster summer season, most films in my neck of the woods usually gets the IMax screen on their opening weekend.

 

Did Nolan make a movie under 2 hours and 10 minutes yet? (which he hasn't since, what, The Prestige?) Or like all WWII movies is this pushing 2:30 to 3 hours?

 

Why are you asking a question and answering it? Because you're Big Fail.

 

I'll be curious to see how much Spider-Man: Homecoming drops off in its second week and will War for the Planet of the Apes draw enough ticket sales to take the number one spot at the box office. I'm rooting for both movies to do well.

 

I was pretty pleased with War, but I want it to do badly, so they don't make any more of them. Not horribly, just not "guaranteed cash cow, let's milk this!" level. On the other hand, that might give producers the idea that all expensive movies have to be light schlock to be successful. Between a rock and a hard place here... I suppose it's all riding on Dunkirk to do well, then.

 

Dunkirk is an hour and 46 minutes! Holy hannah, you rock Nolan!

 

It seems likely that War and Homecoming hurt each other pretty significantly this weekend and should not have opened back to back.

Dunkirk review embargo lifts tomorrow.