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[J_Viper]

Reeves about to drop the best trilogy in the last 20 years.

Yeah can't wait for his Court of Owls trilogy

 

[kswiston]

Best blockbuster trilogy of the past 20 years was Lord of the Rings. Nolan Bat-trilogy is probably my runner up. TDKR has its issues, but it wasn't trilogy ruining like Spider-Man 3. Toy Story would have a good claim if the first film wasn't slightly too old. I am also partial the the three Cap films, but those are more uneven, and Civil War was a sequel to multiple films.

If we aren't restricting things to blockbusters, you have Park Chan-Wook's Vengeance trilogy. The Before trilogy is in a similar spot as Toy Story, where 2 of the three were in the past 20 years, but the first film is slightly too old to qualify.


LOTR would fair well on a list of best trilogies of all time.

 

[BronsonLee]

I'm counting Before Trilogy in it and it wins

Everything else is playing for second

 

[DeathyBoy]

Best blockbuster trilogy of the past 20 years was Lord of the Rings. Nolan Bat-trilogy is probably my runner up. TDKR has its issues, but it wasn't trilogy ruining like Spider-Man 3. Toy Story would have a good claim if the first film wasn't slightly too old. I am also partial the the three Cap films, but those are more uneven, and Civil War was a sequel to multiple films.

If we aren't restricting things to blockbusters, you have Park Chan-Wook's Vengeance trilogy. The Before trilogy is in a similar spot as Toy Story, where 2 of the three were in the past 20 years, but the first film is slightly too old to qualify.


LOTR would fair well on a list of best trilogies of all time.

It'd be third to Evil Dead. Shift from full on horror to the third being a medieval horror comedy.., Raimi is the real King.

Romero wins. Night, Dawn, Day. Fucking perfection.

 

[broncobuster]

I appreciate how Nolan's Batman trilogy is just three movies and that's it. I'm sure WB begged him to continue past it, or do an Alfred prequel, or whatever. Just like they beg Nolan to make Inception 2.

That said, it's not like The Hobbit takes away from LOTR or Before ____ in 2022 takes away from the Before trilogy.

 

[kswiston]

Anyone know if they did advance screenings for Transformers 5? I'm curious when reviews will pop up. The film launches in 2 days.

 

[Toa TAK]

Anyone know if they did advance screenings for Transformers 5? I'm curious when reviews will pop up. The film launches in 2 days.

Tomorrow at 7pm PDT.

Yup.

 

[BronsonLee]

Anyone know if they did advance screenings for Transformers 5? I'm curious when reviews will pop up. The film launches in 2 days.

The advance screenings are tonight.

Review embargo is tomorrow night. An hour later they're doing OPTIMUS PRIME TIME screenings.

O/U for T5 is being set at 30% fresh. If you win, you get to pick the avatar Bronson wears for a week.

1: no you do not
2: I have avatars turned off so nyah

 

[BumRush]

O/U for T5 is being set at 30% fresh. If you win, you get to pick the avatar Bronson wears for a week.

 

[DeathyBoy]

O/U for T5 is being set at 30% fresh. If you win, you get to pick the avatar Bronson wears for a week.

23% for me.

 

[Slayven]

Is Biggest still doing the podcast? I want to guest star, to counter Bronsonlee

 

[J_Viper]

O/U for T5 is being set at 30% fresh. If you win, you get to pick the avatar Bronson wears for a week.

I'm going with 40%

 

[GabeTheGrouch76]

Also, just realized TF5 comes out on Wed and there's zero reviews on RT. When's the review embargo up?

Tuesday at 7PM EST.

So what's the chances of The Last Knight being saved (somewhat) by the Star Trek Movie Curse (odd-numbered TF films > even-numbered TF films), compared to the chance of TLK being eviscerated as the outright worst TF film?

e: Calling an O/U of 15% for TLK.

There's a lot of play when you're working with a follow up to a $937M gross.

Avengers to Age of Ultron drop? - $690M
The Dark Knight to TDKR drop? - $785M
Star Trek to Into Darkness drop? - $830M

Hehehe. On the other hand...

The Dark Knight increase - $1.485B
Austin Powers 2 increase - $2.645B
Terminator 2 increase - $4.059B

Can someone explain to me how these sequel drops / gains are calculated?

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Anyone know if they did advance screenings for Transformers 5? I'm curious when reviews will pop up. The film launches in 2 days.

I have some friends who saw an industry screening a little bit ago, and it is apparently a giant incomprehensible mess. Like, Revenge of the Fallen level ridiculous.

It was always going to review poorly, but this apparently is just a whole bunch of what in the living fuck not even kicked into any discernable shape.

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

Just like they beg Nolan to make Inception 2.

Honestly while the plot and writing wouldn't be that interesting for a second, they have so much they could do with the concept.

 

[NealMcCauley]

I have some friends who saw an industry screening a little bit ago, and it is apparently a giant incomprehensible mess. Like, Revenge of the Fallen level ridiculous.

It was always going to review poorly, but this apparently is just a whole bunch of what in the living fuck not even kicked into any discernable shape.

When I was drunk watching AoE last night I was struck by how much it sets up everything seen in the TLK's trailers. Like if that movie isn't fresh on your mind nothing in TLK would probably make sense.

 

[Freeza Under The Shower]

O/U for T5 is being set at 30% fresh. If you win, you get to pick the avatar Bronson wears for a week.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/search/?search=transformers

*raise eyebrow*
I would advise against such action, Captain.

And critics have been getting into the evisceration game too lately, and for good reason, so I'm putting 25% down as the ceiling, but I'm going for 15%.

I have some friends who saw an industry screening a little bit ago, and it is apparently a giant incomprehensible mess. Like, Revenge of the Fallen level ridiculous.

It was always going to review poorly, but this apparently is just a whole bunch of what in the living fuck not even kicked into any discernible shape.

It could have been edited down from three hours to two and a half, like I mentioned in the previous thread. If that happened, it was never going to be 'discernible' from anything, much like BvS was.

 

[TheTylerDurden]

I have some friends who saw an industry screening a little bit ago, and it is apparently a giant incomprehensible mess. Like, Revenge of the Fallen level ridiculous.

It was always going to review poorly, but this apparently is just a whole bunch of what in the living fuck not even kicked into any discernable shape.

If that's true, it makes me really wonder what Anthony Hopkins was on as he was praising the script, etc during the promos for this movie. He goes out of his way to lavish praise.

As he was interviewed in tandem with Wahlberg present, HE seemed a lot more hyped than Wahlberg himself. It just seemed SO odd that an actor of his calibre is lavishing praise on a transformers movie. Made me think for a microsecond that maybe the movie IS good?

But nah?

 

[kswiston]

Can someone explain to me how these sequel drops / gains are calculated?

Sequel / first film * 937 (TFA's domestic gross)


So for Avengers and Age of Ultron

459 / 623 * 937 = $690M

 

[BumRush]

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/search/?search=transformers

*raise eyebrow*
I would advise against such action, Captain.

And critics have been getting into the evisceration game too lately, and for good reason, so I'm putting 25% down as the ceiling, but I'm going for 15%.

30% seems to be a good jumping off point, no? That's the over under.

 

[Batjag]

Honestly while the plot and writing wouldn't be that interesting for a second, they have so much they could do with the concept.

Yes, if it wasn't for WB's deference to Nolan, they would probably be at least 3 movies into the Inception franchise by now.

 

[ryutaro's mama]

Transformers saddens me because Jablonsky created some really good scores for that series.

Arrival to Earth and Prime fucking incredible as examples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H0JDomv8ac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frADyjHdiKE

That series didn't deserve him.

 

[kswiston]

Yes, if it wasn't for WB's deference to Nolan, they would probably be at least 3 movies into the Inception franchise by now.

I think that WB would have a pretty hard time getting DiCaprio on board. Especially without Nolan. He's never done a sequel in his entire career.

No Nolan + No DiCaprio = What's the point?

 

[BronsonLee]

Transformers saddens me because Jablonsky created some really good scores for that series.

Arrival to Earth and Prime fucking incredible as examples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H0JDomv8ac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frADyjHdiKE

That series didn't deserve him.

Arrival to Earth is one of my favorite movie tracks ever

 

[Sgt. Kabukiman]

I have some friends who saw an industry screening a little bit ago, and it is apparently a giant incomprehensible mess. Like, Revenge of the Fallen level ridiculous.

It was always going to review poorly, but this apparently is just a whole bunch of what in the living fuck not even kicked into any discernable shape.

Yes. Yes!
There's a dark part of me who is incredibly excited by this.

 

[Toa TAK]

I have some friends who saw an industry screening a little bit ago, and it is apparently a giant incomprehensible mess. Like, Revenge of the Fallen level ridiculous.

It was always going to review poorly, but this apparently is just a whole bunch of what in the living fuck not even kicked into any discernable shape.

Just like the last one, then.

Damn.

I hope that Bumblebee movie has a good story.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

If that's true, it makes me really wonder what Anthony Hopkins was on as he was praising the script, etc during the promos for this movie. He goes out of his way to lavish praise.

He apparently gets to give a ton of speeches. It's probably just that.

 

[broncobuster]

All I hope is for Transformers 5 to be ridiculously over the top violent again but the MPAA OKs a PG-13 'cause they're robots.

 

[BronsonLee]

Prime's gonna kill the kid

GIVE ME YOUR FACE

 

[Toa TAK]

Transformers saddens me because Jablonsky created some really good scores for that series.

Arrival to Earth and Prime fucking incredible as examples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H0JDomv8ac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frADyjHdiKE

That series didn't deserve him.

Seriously. I anticipate every movie just for his scores. It's a bummer they won't renew his scores for the 3rd and 4th on iTunes (the 1st and 2nd and the 4th's EP are the only ones on there).

Even this current film's score is just sitting there on his desktop waiting for a release.

 

[kswiston]

Revenge of the Fallen is the only $400M+ domestic film which I have not seen. Other than Beauty and the Beast, which hasn't been out long enough to really count.

 

[Bizazedo]

Arrival to Earth is one of my favorite movie tracks ever

Argh, I'm agreeing with Bronson. Bobby, send help.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I don't know that I've ever paid attention to the Transformers soundtracks by Jablonsky so I can't even help. They might be good. He might be right. I may be crazy

BUT IT JUST MAAYYY BEEEE A LOOOOONATIC YOU'RE LOOOOKIN FOOOOOORRRR

 

[Toa TAK]

I don't know that I've ever paid attention to the Transformers soundtracks by Jablonsky so I can't even help. They might be good. He might be right. I may be crazy

BUT IT JUST MAAYYY BEEEE A LOOOOONATIC YOU'RE LOOOOKIN FOOOOOORRRR

What are you doing here

Go listen to them

 

[BronsonLee]

Bobby can't help you

Embrace the Light

 

[Freeza Under The Shower]

Revenge of the Fallen is the only $400M+ domestic film which I have not seen. Other than Beauty and the Beast, which hasn't been out long enough to really count.

you didn't miss anything. Seriously, I watched this in actual theaters at the time. We didn't have an intermission due to a late screening, and so at I believe the 'scrotum' part, my brother literally did this:

took a half hour+ toilet break, came back, said "what did I miss?" and I completely blanked on trying to answer that question. "Uhm.. *look at screen realizing I have no idea* .... shit this is bad".

We did not see another one after that.

 

[NealMcCauley]

Yeah I saw the midnight show of ROTF tipsy and high as a kite, and when the Air Force or whatever dumped Prime's body on the tarmac I accidentally loudly said "This is just stupid" to the shock of everyone around me.

In other news Baby Driver is getting the RPX screen here when it opens.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

This was the review that got me a (rightfully) short-lived and ill-defined gig as the movie guy (sorta) at Cracked (until I realized I was trying too hard to fit their percieved voice and just kinda wandered away to nobody's remorse).

An excerpt:

The film opens with a beautifully disorienting action sequence featuring the Army working in tandem with The Autobots, (good bots) climaxing in an alien robot truck (Optimus Prime) parachuting out of a bomber and onto the face of wheeled alien robot thing blowing up Singapore for the Decepticons (Bad bots.)

An alien robot devil (The Fallen) wants to suck all the energy out of the sun , and so he sends alien robots to find a shard of the all-spark, last seen being shoved into an alien robot jet (Megatron) to kill him. They then shove their shard back into Megatron, which (logically) resurrects him.

Sam, aided by his pet Alien Robot car, enlists alien robots Stepin and Fetchit, aka Car Car Binks, to pick up John Turturro and his hairy bananahammocked ass (rethink your IMAX ticket now) to find an Alien Robot Jet (Jetfire) who will teleport them to Egypt where Sam can decipher the alien symbols infesting his mind after touching his All-Spark Shard. From there, he will find The Matrix of Leadership, which will help Optimus Prime defeat The Fallen, ensuring Sam survives to hump his girl on the hood of his pet car yet another day.

Other things that happen include everything.

Gay dogs dominating each other. An RC truck doing a Buscemi impersonation humping Megan Fox's leg. John Turturro escapes being peed on but spends a considerable amount of time being dwarfed by Robotesticles. There's a Camaro crying. A jet farting a parachute. A boy goes to robot heaven. A woman eats a bag of weed cookies and tackles ultimate Frisbee players. Green Day.

That movie is almost 10 years old, btw. The first one actually IS 10 years old this year, isnt' it?

 

[El Topo]

Yeah, you got rightfully thrown out for that review. That makes the movie sound way, way, way too much fun. Except for the Car Car Binks pun.

Spoiler

You're awesome nonetheless.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Yeah, you got rightfully thrown out for that review. That makes the movie sound way, way, way too much fun.

No, that's the review that got me in. I wrote that for AICN & Jack called me a week later, I think.

I completely fucked that whole opportunity up. What's funny is that it never once occurred to me to pitch them on a podcast. Which I was already doing successfully.

So I fucked that opportunity up TWICE, basically.

 

[kswiston]

Actuals are in.

Most of the holdovers are up. The Openers are down, except for Cars 3 which increased a bit.

Pirates 5 dropped 16% this weekend.

 

[Toa TAK]

I feel.. old.

I was 13 at that time the first came out.

 

[BronsonLee]

I feel.. old.

I was 13 at that time the first came out.

You ARE old

 

[El Topo]

No, that's the review that got me in.

Wait, let me start again.
Yeah, you rightfully got the gig for that review. It makes the movie sound really, really, really fun. Except for the Car Car Binks pun.

I feel.. old.

I was 13 at that time the first came out.

You are young.

 

[Toa TAK]

You ARE old

No I'm not.

I'm the fountain of fuckn youth, man

 

[NealMcCauley]

I feel.. old.

I was 13 at that time the first came out.

I just graduated high school when it came out. Imagine how I feel.

 

[Toa TAK]

I just graduated high school when it came out. Imagine how I feel.

I forgot what thread I was posting in for a second...

 

[El Topo]

Anyone under 30 is not to be trusted anyway.

 

[ryutaro's mama]

Billy Joel quotes in a BO thread.

We are truly becoming our own community now.

Pop and BCT on notice.

 

[BronsonLee]

Anyone under 30 is not to be trusted anyway.

I'm the most trustworthy person in this entire thread

Pop and BCT on notice.

We already have freaking Nolan and Yates stans