I'll predict box-office no problem, I feel pretty comfy guessing, based on marketing and buzz and that sorta shit, what general audiences are curious enough about to drop coin on for the first three days of release. That seems within reach to me, and fun in its own way.
Trying to predict what people, a large majority of whom I have never read are going to think of a movie I haven't watched based on incomplete knowledge of both what the movie actually plays like, and no real sense of the predilections of hundreds of writers watching the thing I haven't seen?
Nah. Can't get in on this. Too weird.
Like, maybe if it was at least Top Critics, it'd be more manageable, seeing as there are a metric fuckton of hack dimbulbs who have RT accreditation - but I've at least read a fair amount of the Top Critics before. But even then I still bump up against the fact I'm trying to guess an aggregate score based on the combined hot takes of 40 different writers based on a movie none of us have actually watched yet.
I dunno. I think it'll make somewhere between 175-185 mil on opening weekend. Worst case scenario, it ends up being comparable to Jurassic World?
Maybe?