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Wkd BO 04•14-16•17 - Can't fight fate, Baby: F8 leaves WW B.O. opening record in dust

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I feel like anything really worthwhile would require a larger effort on my part, and ideally some statistical modelling that I never bother doing beyond simple stuff.

Here, I can throw out my opinions, be wrong on some of them, and it doesn't really matter.

I have started to save some of the longer derived charts that I have posted here in the past year or two though. If I ever decide to write something more in-depth than a GAF post, there are a few ideas in there that I would start with.
 
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Freeza Under The Shower

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I would personally argue that creating the generic formulas is more important, since the actual data is imported (queried) from BOM anyway. So you'd basically only have to make a relatively simple script-based website to apply those formulas (or relevant parts) to the already existing BOM database (which you'd obviously copy towards a local storage as to not overload theirs with your traffic, but newer data tables would still need to be regularly imported).

Though I'm not much a webdesigner (which is probably obvious from how I phrased the above), that thought had occurred to me the other day.

Most "adsense" sites have a similar scheme. Which is basically: 'pull data from other location, mildly rearrange, puts ads on it'. Legally, things might not be that easy though. But I can't really imagine imdb being 'on it' as far thinking of it as a resource goes, otherwise they'd already done it themselves.
 
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ZeoVGM

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I'm surprised some people doubt Pirates 5 making a billion when On Stranger Tides, the worst in the series after a third that many people were already disappointed with, has the second biggest box office total in the series.

Personally, I think it's going to do better than On Stranger Tides did in the US, which should help keep it above a billion if the international market is still there.

(I'm also biased because my fiancee is day 0 for anything with Johnny Depp and I'll be there at midnight with her. So I could be wrong.)
 
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jett

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Guzim said:
Me. You. DM. Sculli. Jett. Speeding.

Let's do this!!!
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Gentleman Jack

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Bobby Roberts said:
Buddy.

Buddy no.

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C'mon.

(The Batman Soundtrack is low-tier Prince, too)
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Ya know what I recognize that people love that, but I didn't really connect with it. I get it's a classic but I never watched Supes in theaters and it was Batman that got rented on VHS like 5 times at my house, instead. Call it sentimentality.
 
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Pop-O-Matic

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All of DC's super hero soundtracks are trash. None of them can live up to the majesty of the greatest cape kino score of all time: Daredevil 2003.
 
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Prompto

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Pop-O-Matic said:
All of DC's super hero soundtracks are trash. None of them can live up to the majesty of the greatest cape kino score of all time: Daredevil 2003.
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BRING! ME! TO! LIIIIIIFE!

Gentleman Jack said:
Ya know what I recognize that people love that, but I didn't really connect with it. I get it's a classic but I never watched Supes in theaters and it was Batman that got rented on VHS like 5 times at my house, instead. Call it sentimentality.
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Yeah I hear the Superman theme and just feel nothing. But that's probably because I've never seen the earlier Superman movies at all.
 
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Bobby Roberts

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What is this "kino" shit

I've seen it a couple times over here and I don't get it.

What is "Cape Kino"

What kid came up with some weird word for a thing we already have words for
 
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Bobby Roberts

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kswiston said:
2015 was the year of the decades later sequel that didn't suck.
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It really is crazy. That trilogy of Fury Road, Creed, and TFA (and the quality slightly decreases in order of release) is kinda nuts for having happened at all, much less having all been great-to-very good in quality.

Like, one of the three best action movies ever made, the best Rocky film ever made, and the best Star Wars movie since 1980, bang bang bang.

2015 was fucking nuts.
 
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BronsonLee

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Ya it really made no sense, that year was the big franchise revival year

Like shit, Mad Max should've never even come out, much less set the world aflame. Apply that to Creed and TFA too
 
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Bobby Roberts

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numble said:
Creed and TFA are not decades later.
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TFA
2005-2015 = decade. Unless you wanna consider it a direct sequel to Return of the Jedi (which it is)
1983-2015 = THREE decades!

Creed
2006-2015 = aaaaaaalmost a decade. Until you realize it's ALSO a sequel to Rocky IV.
1985-2015 = THREE decades!

Mad Max: Fury Road
1985-2015 = THREE decades!

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PhoncipleBone

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People in here saying they feel nothing when presented with the single greatest super hero theme ever composed? What is wrong with you all!?

It set the standard for superhero themes in the 70s, and it has still yet to be matched.

It is majestic and grand, exactly what you would expect Superman to be like. Some other superhero themes have come close to this level, such as Elfman's Batman theme, but no one has joined this theme in the sun.

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you all!?
 
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Gentleman Jack

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PhoncipleBone said:
People in here saying they feel nothing when presented with the single greatest super hero theme ever composed? What is wrong with you all!?

It set the standard for superhero themes in the 70s, and it has still yet to be matched.

It is majestic and grand, exactly what you would expect Superman to be like. Some other superhero themes have come close to this level, such as Elfman's Batman theme, but no one has joined this theme in the sun.

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you all!?
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Superman was boring to me when I was 11, in my adult life I haven't really felt strongly compelled to go back to it. I'm sure the score is a gold standard. But it's attached to a film I don't give a shit about.
 
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Bobby Roberts

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I mean, I didn't watch Superman: The Movie in theaters either but that doesn't stop its score from being an all-timer in film history, not just Superhero movies.
 
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Gentleman Jack

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I'm running out of ways to say "I'm not disagreeing with folks who really, really, really like that particular movie score and I don't plan on fighting with them about where it ranks on all-time lists. But without any emotional connection to the movie that it's tied to, it's really not distinguishable to me from his other work and doesn't resonate as strongly as the other soundtracks I was exposed to during my VHS-rental days." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
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PhoncipleBone

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Bobby Roberts said:
I mean, I didn't watch Superman: The Movie in theaters either but that doesn't stop its score from being an all-timer in film history, not just Superhero movies.
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Same here. The only old Superman film I remember seeing in theaters was Superman IV. I may have seen Superman III in theaters and not on VHS, but the PTSD from this scene might be clouding my memory.

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Gentleman Jack

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PhoncipleBone said:
Same here. The only old Superman film I remember seeing in theaters was Superman IV. I may have seen Superman III in theaters and not on VHS, but the PTSD from this scene might be clouding my memory.

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This legit gave me nightmares for weeks. At first I was like "h-hey I like Richard Pryor! He's a fun guy! Haha, tar! Oh look it's actually kind of silly, maybe this is a comedy!" But soon it was "Wait, what is happening to that lady?! OH JESUS WHAT."
 
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Fancyarcher

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Pop-O-Matic said:
All of DC's super hero soundtracks are trash. None of them can live up to the majesty of the greatest cape kino score of all time: Daredevil 2003.
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Lol. Revell's work on that film is inferior to his Mighty Morphin Power Rangers score, which actually is pretty good.

As for other superhero score, Williams is still top-notch for most people, but there are a lot of lesser superhero films that have great themes too, they're mostly from the 80's and 90's though. Heck I'd include Howard The Duck among them (yes I'm serious).

As for recent themes, I like Silvestri's Cap, Elfman's rendition of The Avengers theme (it's great), Doyle's Thor, & Zimmer's Superman theme (most of the rest of the score is noise to me), but they all pale in comparison to those 80's and 90's superhero scores, back when Hollywood still loved memorable themes, so characters like The Shadow and The Rocketeers could have fantastic scores, mostly all the way through.
 
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Fancyarcher

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BTW saw Fate of The Furious yesterday. Pretty fun film. I especially had the pleasure of watching it in 4Dx in Seattle, so the theater was constantly shaking and we were getting water sprayed on us. You could truly say I was truly on the edge of my seat.

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Justice League or Justice League Unlimited theme?
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Jusice League Unlimited, it gets me pumped up everytime I hear it.
 
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