Predicting the Movie Hits and Bombs of 2018

That's my favorite sequence from the film.

 

Hey Gorts: please reopen the Roma thread.

 

Odd that it would be closed?

 

There was a lot of silly sniping back and forth that’s hopefully getting cleaned up.

 

Not as long as Peter Pan. And they never seem to stop making those.

 

Maybe it's time?

 

Except for their well-known hits, I was never a Queen fan ever since my friend sequestered me in his basement and made me listen to something like "the battle of the troll and the ogre" or something like that and pointed out how the crashing guitars represented the beasts and I kinda sat there saying "Uh huh" thinking what kind of nonsense is this? Hahahha. Of course, it was the 70s and there was weed involved, so, by not fault of Queen's, that kinda soured me on them. After that I thought they were silly and Brian May's guitar always sounded like an ogre special effect to me.

 

Yeah. The Captain Marvel trailer was just vague. I watched the whole trailer and it was so generic I had zero idea what kind of movie it was until "Captain Marvel" came on the screen at the end. That was part of my puzzlement. "What the hell is this movie about? Oh.... another second-tier superhero movie."

 

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I just watched one from 2003 and it was pretty good. Probably the best Pan I've seen on film. It's such a weirdo story.

 

Actually the Marvel Universe is just that. All of the films have a story line link is some manner. Every film adds a piece to the whole story so this will be a big movie.

Of course not everyone is into these, but Marvel is very smart how they link all these stories together.

 

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it was about 30 m8 utes too long though

 

SEE KONG, THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD, ICE SKATE!

 

Yeah that was just dumb. I showed my wife the classic original and we compared it to the remake and it's the exact same plot padded to justify the cost.

 

I don't think it's padded to justify the cost - I think it's padded because that's what Peter Jackson does.

Why make a 2-hour movie when you can stretch it to 3 hours?

Why make an appropriate length "Hobbit" - maybe 125 minutes - when you can stretch it to three long movies?

Jackson ain't exactly known for tight filmmaking!

 

I really think that they should have waited until after IX, before doing projects like Solo.

Let them finish with the original series before starting another offshoot.

Whether you like Fantastic Beasts or not, at least they are being released after the original HP series came to a conclusion.

If they had waited until a year or TWO after IX, they would have a chance to develop Solo into it's own mini franchise.

They stretch out the main SW franchise over thirty two years! Which is like an average of three and a half movies a year and then they rush to put this other stuff out.

The core SW audience never wanted this, what they want is to see the original series finale.

Then...

 

Note that the new Men in Black reboot is scheduled for 2019.

Meanwhile, here's a new list of the Worst Films of 2018 by the Hollywood Reporter:

10. 'Suspiria'
9. 'A Wrinkle in Time'
8. '7 Days in Entebbe'
7. 'Kings'
6. 'The Nutcracker and the Four Realms'
5. 'Venom'
4. 'Life Itself'
3. 'Fifty Shades Freed'
2. 'Robin Hood'
1. 'Gotti'

Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 10 Worst Films of 2018

Very hard to argue with any of them, and I think the critics' comments are well-articulated. Several of them were enormous bombs and got horrific reviews, though I know a few people who worked on Gotti over the last couple of years -- for some reason, it took a long time to make -- and I'll probably wind up seeing it anyway.

 

You forget that there are plans for Episodes 10-12, so there won't be a period without a trilogy...

 

Looking back to the beginning of the 2018 thread, a lot of remakes/sequels but the list was mostly little to get excited about.

I think that the 2019 list is coming out of the gate much stronger!

There are so many that you know are going to be hits at the box office. You can also get a good idea that while many of them may not be super hits, that yhey will still be successful and turn a profit at the box office.

 

Yes, but I don’t believe the Rian Johnson trilogy or the Benioff and Weiss series will carry the episode numbers, and they were both announced as having nothing to do with the Skywalker saga, so they can market Episode IX as being the last film in the Skywalker saga.

 

STOP! I didn't know that there were plans for Episodes 10-12! Enough with the WS already!

 

"WS"?

 

I know the next trilogy won't be Skywalker-involved, but I thought it'd still be touted as Episodes 10-12.

My point remains that there will (apparently) always be trilogies in Disney's "Star Wars", so spinoff films can't wait for a trilogy-free period...

 

your opinion?

 

I look forward to each and every one!