Weekend box office~ The end of Summer

   Well it's that time of year again the last week of Summer. More importantly the last two movies of Summer. The two last summer movies coming out this week are the Sinister 2 and America Ultra a Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart spy-stoner comedy movie. Currently because next week is the start of the new school year I will not be seeing a movie this weekend but rather preparing to for school this coming Monday but expect to see a review for Man from Uncle coming in it's place.

   I have never seen the last Sinister film because I don't traditionally tend to watch horror movies that much. Yet the trailers for the film make it look good and not as jumped scared filled as it might appear to be. It will probably make a good amount of money since Horror movies are typically cheap to produce and their is always a fan base to go see these movies although to me they would probably make more money if they waited and released this in October in time for Halloween.

   Now the other film American Ultra from the trailers alone the film doesn't look that interesting despite the premise, it actually just looks like your run of the mill stoner comedy with Spy movie elements it looks like it doesn't know what to do with. Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart acting wise look fine in it, while I don't like Kristen Stewart as a person too much you can't say she's a bad actress because she isn't, she just keeps getting stuck in bad movies.


   Anyway here's my prediction.

Sinister 2
Budget: N/A
Weekend box office:$15-$20 million
Domestic box office:$25-$30 million
International box office: $20-$25 million
World wide box office: $45-$55 million
   
      Horror movies while do make a lot in comparison for what they cost to make but in terms of what movies normally make nowadays it's pretty small.


American Ultra
Budget: $12 million
Weekend box office: $10-$20 million
Domestic box office: $20-$25 million
International box office:$30-$40 million
World wide box office:  $50-$65 million

      I expect this out of the two movies to be the one that sells the most since a lot more people like to laugh at a movie than be afraid at one and while I may not be interested other people might be and it pretty much cost nothing to make in Hollywood terms.

Weekend box office
1.) Straight outta Compton
2.) American Ultra
3.) Rouge nation
4.) Sinister 2
5.) The man from uncle
6.) Fantastic Four
7.) The Gift
8.) Ant-man
9.) Vacation
10.) Minions

That's my weekend box office prediction and hopefully I'll see you Friday or Saturday for some sort of new post (maybe.)

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Weekend box office- I'm back

   I just got back from visiting my grandparents house and now I'm back on the internet so I can hopefully get back to my usual schedule which I plan to do this week. Maybe. I know I promised three movie reviews and only did one of them sorry I forgot after posting the Rouge Nation review I was leaving the next day.

    Any the weekend box office is official and the movie that one was the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton (haven't seen it yet but I want to) with Mission Impossible Rouge nation and Man from uncle (Which I did see over my visit- maybe expect something this Sunday.) Now while the N.W.A and it's music were way before my time I love biopics and I hope to see Straight Outta Compton this soon. It's sad to see Man from Uncle not do as well or even get second place because (as you might see soon) even though I'm half and half on the movie I do want to see a sequel and unless it stays consistently in the top 3 it might not get it.


Weekend box office
1.)Straight Outta Compton- $60 million
2.) Mission Impossible Rouge nation- $17 million
3.) Man from uncle- $13 million
4.) Fantastic Four- $8 million
5.) The Gift- $ 6 million
6.) Ant-man- $ 5.4 million
7.) Vacation- $5.18 million
8.) Minions- $5.14 million
9.) Ricki and the Flash- $4 million
10.) Trainwreck- $3 million

      That's last weekend box office and hopefully I see you all Wednesday for my prediction for what will be in the top ten next week.


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Mission Impossible Rouge Nation review

 
  First off sorry about the hiatus last week I was in California for my Summer vacation. I'm being serious I was in California for the last week or so, which is why I haven't been able to update the blog and I'm getting ready to go to my grandparents house due to other events so this week so I won't be near a computer for a while so I'm calling a hiatus from my normal schedule but so that way I don't leave you guys without anything for another week this week your getting three movie reviews (Trainwreck, Rouge Nation and Ant-man.) Today will be Rouge Nation.

   Anyway last Sunday I saw the latest installment in Mission Impossible franchise Rouge Nation. In this movie Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is investigating a mysterious international crime syndicate known as... The Syndicate. However recently the IMF has been shut down due the amount of dangerous stunts, innocent lives lost and unnecessary damage that has been caused (mainly by Ethan) and so Ethan goes rouge so now while trying to investigate The Syndicate he also has to evade the CIA who want to capture him and he's going to need the help of his friends William Brandt (Jeremy Renner), Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), Luther Stickwell (Ving Rhames) and the Femme Fatal double Agent Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson.)


   Going in I was very excited, I've always been a fan of the mission impossible series even more so than the Bond Franchise. I liked Mission Impossible I and II, I love Mission Impossible III and liked Ghost Protocal. I got even more excited when I saw the reviews for this movie and people were praising it calling it the best action movie of the summer and how it was more exciting than the last. I was pumped for this movie! Then... I saw the movie and was thoroughly disappointed with it.

  Mission Impossible Rouge Nation to me was a boring, rehash of Ghost protocol that attempts for great things yet never follows through with them with boring main characters and a super anti-climatic ending. I know I'm going to get a lot of heat for this especially considering how almost universally acclaimed this movie has been so far (I'm getting deep flashbacks to my X-men Days of future past review.) But this is my review and thus my opinion and this is how I feel.

  Before I go into the negatives I will go into the positives because while I was overall disappointed with the movie that doesn't mean that they're weren't some things I liked. First off the movie is extremely funny and the comedy is clever without being overbearing or distracting from the plot, the best jokes are given to Simon Pegg who is basically the heart of the movie. Speaking of Simon Pegg he, Jeremy Renner and Ving Rhames do a great job in their roles with Simon Pegg stealing the show, Ving Rhames acting as a great straight man and Jeremy Renner being a great counter-balance to Tom Cruise. All of them add a lot of dimension and color to very standard characters and are great to watch. The villain was well acted and Sean Harris did a good job with what little he was given.

   On a technical level the cinematography is a highlight of the film with good angles, great shots of different action scenes and the choreography for all said action scenes are done well. Probably the best action sequences in the movie where Ethan swimming and holding his breath while trying to turn off an electrical system and the knife fight Ilsa has at the end of the movie. Both those sequences were the best because unlike the rest of the movie both scenes had a lot of suspense, tension and a realness to them that the other scenes didn't have.

   Now to the bad.

   To me this movie was actually kind of boring. Besides the two actions scenes I mentioned the action scenes were subpar or kind of forgettable. The plane sequence was shown so much in the trailers that it lost a lot of it's excitement and it was really short and it had nothing really to do with the rest of the movie so it was pointless. The motorcycle sequence was the same nothing really wowing, the opera fight had potential but didn't really do anything until the end and the other action scenes I can barely remember. Nothing really happens at the end of the movie and it kind of ends on a weak note, they try to do something clever but that doesn't work that well because you forget why it's supposed to be clever.

   Now while I liked everyone else in the movie the two people who I didn't like were the two leads Ethan Hunt and Ilsa Faust. Ethan Hunt has always been my least favorite part of these movies, I always found him just another boring generic action hero and the most interesting I've ever found him in was Mission Impossible III. They try to make him interesting in this film with saying that his methods are not the best and he ends hurting more people than helping them and might even be slightly insane at this point but like Ghost Protocol any potential character development with him is negated. Ilsa Faust has little to no personality other than being a badass femme fatal and like Ethan they try to make her interesting yet they never go anywhere with it and I had no clue how by the end of the movie she came to like Ethan romantically. 

   The last but biggest problem with this movie is how it under develops it's plot and villain. The plot is basically Ghost Protocol and the first movie smashed into one with the IMF being dissolved (Ghost Protocol) and Ethan going on the run (Mission impossible I) but they try to add a corrupt government plot and what they can do to the people working for them but the thing is they never go all the way with it and it doesn't get fully developed. You don't have to have a theme or message in your movie but if you do you better go all the way with it because the moment you touch on a good idea and don't do anything with it, it might as well have never been in the movie in the first place. On that same note while I like Sean Harris as the villain, his characters is never given any development and when certain things about him are mentioned they are so vague that it leaves you wanting more but not in a good way.

   Mission Impossible Rouge Nation is not necessarily the worst movie of the year but to me it's a disappointing one. I do hope another one comes out because I do not want this to be the last one in the series and the send off to Tom Cruise.

I give this movie a 6.5/10~ A movie with a lot of potential, laughs and good actors and side characters that misses the mark and wastes a lot of it's potential.

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Weekend box office prediction~Anything but Adam Sandler please!

    So the two movies coming out this week are Pixels and Paper town. Pixels is the newest Adam Sandler comedy about aliens finding a NASA time capsule with classic video games inside and turning them into the real thing so now a bunch of 40-year old nerds with some of the best classic video game skills are commissioned by President Kevin James to take them down.  Paper Town however is another John Greene adaptation about a high school senior named Quentin "Q" Jacobson trying to find and the uncover the mystery behind his neighbor and long-time crush Margo Roth Spiegleman.


    Out of the two the movie I am seeing this weekend is Paper Town because I am-
          A.) Genuinely interested in seeing the movie
          B.) Made plans weeks in advance to go see this
          C.) I can't stand to see another Adam Sandler film ever again after Grown Ups 2 where I contemplated burning the theater down and taking a hot knife to my eyeballs

         It will be hard to tell which movie (Ant-man, Paper Town, and Pixels) will take the #1 place but if I had to put money on it I think Ant-man will keep it's position (if by a slight margin.) Now before you call me a Marvel Fan girl hear me out. Paper Town while it is getting hype after how successful The Fault in our Stars was but unlike Fault in our Stars, Paper Town isn't getting the same amount of attention but reviews have been good and people are excited to see it so it will probably be #2. Pixels will most likely take #3 because while it does look better than his most recent films I think people are finally done with Adam Sandler and the reviews have been horrendous for this movie so that adds to it.

Pixels
budget: $88-$90 million (Pretty good for the amount of CGI in that moment)
weekend box office: $20-$30 million
Domestic box office:$45-$55 million
International box office: $60-$75 million
Worldwide box office: $105-$130 million

Paper Town
Budget: $12 million
Weekend box office: $40-$45 million
Domestic box office: $65-$75 million
International box office: $75-$80 million
World wide box office: $140-$155 million

Weekend box office
1.)Ant-man
2.) Paper Town
3.) Pixels
4.)Minions
5.) Train wreck
6.)Inside Out
7.) Jurassic World
8.) Terminator Genisys
9.) Magic Mike XXL
10.) The Gallows

That's the weekend box office prediction and we will see whether or not I could do anything for tomorrow.

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Weekend box office~ Still good

  This week Marvel (surprisingly) takes #1 at the box office (If at a pretty low sum) this week. Trainwreck took #3 place but at a pretty good sum despite it's placing. Both movies fell way under my expectations but neither did poorly necessarily especially Trainwreck, they will still both make enough to surpass (especially trainwreck) their relatively budgets due to word of mouth as both movies have been well received and are loved by anyone who sees them. You can tell for Ant-man the Edgar Wright stigma still holds while Trainwreck's smaller scale despite it's big marketing campaign did trip those movies a bit but they still did alright.

Weekend box office
1.) Ant-man~$58 million
2.) Minions- $49 million
3.) Trainwreck- $39 million
4.)Inside Out- $11.5 million
5.) Jurassic World- $11.4 million
6.) Terminator Genisys- $5.4 million
7.) Magic Mike XXL- $4.4 million
8.) The Gallows- $ 4 million
9.) Bajarangi Bhaijaan- $ 2.62 million
10.) Ted 2- $2.6 million

    I'm surprised how far Minions fell from $115 million to $49 million as that's a little over a 50% drop in under a weekend which is expected considering while the hype was huge the response that came from word of mouth ranged from "it's entertaining" to "Don't waste your money on it." I have no idea what Bjarangi Bhaijaan is but from the name it's most likely an Asian or Indian foreign film and I'm surprised it made it into the top ten without much buzz (or awareness of it's existence.) Not much to say as everything else just went down one slot so it was uneventfull every where else.


Tomorrow is my review of Ant-man and the reason I didn't get it up earlier was because of the fact on Sunday I got home really late, on Monday blackout that went on in my street and I'm trying to get my sleeping schedule back in order so I try not to stay up too late. So I'll try to get it out tomorrow but no promises.

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Weekend box office prediction~ Second is the best!

A/N: I know about Yesterday, I got really distracted


    So this weekend is the two movies coming out are Marvel's Ant-man and the Amy Schumer vehicle Trainwreck. Out of the two I am seeing Ant-man to review but I do want to see both because both look pretty good in all honesty. Ant-man because it looks funny, exciting and I love origin stories and Trainwreck because like Ant-man it looks funny, it has an interesting story and I love Bill Hader.

  While I think Minions will still be at the #1 spot I think Ant-man will do well because of the fact comic book movies are still everywhere and Marvel is still Marvel so even though Ant-man had a lot of production troubles it looks good and so far has been getting good reviews but it could be hindered by the Edgar Wright scandal that still lingers on the movie so close to release. Not to mention while I really liked Age of Ultron (8/10) many didn't and thought it was one of the weaker Marvel movies (not bad Marvel has not had an outright bad movie yet) so the stigma from that could leak into this film as well.

   Trainwreck has a chance of maybe upsetting it because the reviews have been even better for Trainwreck and the marketing has been huge for this movie which could be a good thing or a hindrance. On one hand the marketing for this movie has been so great and so numerous a lot of people know about it and can make up their minds about whether or not to go see it. Yet because their has been so much marketing for this movie with different clips from the movie they may have revealed a lot of their best jokes and best gags in the trailers so if their aren't more or even better material in the movie word of mouth will come swiftly that you don't need to watch the movie just watch the trailers.

Ant-man
Budget: $130 million
Weekend box office:$85-$95 million
Domestic box office: $130-$180 million
International box office: $270-$420 million
Worldwide box office:$400-$600 million


Train wreck
Budget: $35 million
Weekend box office: $60-$80 million
Domestic box office: $60-$80 million
International box office: $80-$90 million
World wide box office:$140-$170 million

Weekend box office
1.)Minions
2.) Ant-man
3.) Train wreck
4.) Jurassic world
5.) Inside out
6.)The Gallows
7.) Terminator Genisys
8.) Magic mike XXL
9.)Ted 2
10.) Self/less

  So that's my weekend box office prediction and maybe see you Friday (no guarantees.)

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The Minions review

   
        The Minions movie is a spin-off of the Despicable Me movies about the corn pop shaped henchmen to Guru and their origin story. I loved the first Despicable Me movie it was funny, charming, heartwarming and a movie I used to watch on repeat until I grew absolutely sick of it. The second Despicable movie however while I liked it and it wasn't a bad movie held many problems and I didn't really enjoy as much as the first movie and how I feel about the second Despicable Me movie is how I feel about the Minions movie. I liked it and it wasn't necessarily a bad movie but it had many problems and I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought. I was pumped for this movie going in and when I came out I just felt 'meh.'

        The minions movie is about the minions before they met Guru trying to find a more permanent evil master to serve. Three minions Kevin, Stewart and Bob (all played by Pierre Coffin) embark on a journey to find their tribe a master and come across Scarlett Overkill (Sandra Bullock) who hires them but makes them try to steal the queen of England's crown in order to prove themselves and of course the minions being the minions mess it up and shenanigans ensue.

      This at it's heart and sole is a comedy movie meaning it's main motivation is jokes and funny characters not so much in terms of plot and message which is ok. One of my favorite movies of last year was Penguins of Madagascar and it was mainly about funny jokes than a logical plot. If comedies were judged on plots a lot of comedies wouldn't be as well reviewed.

  Yet the thing about the minions movies is that for the most part it's only half the time funny and while the other half isn't boring or cringe-worthy it's kind of unspectacular. That half of the movie didn't even have me chuckling or giggling it was just there. (If it sounds as if I'm being vague about this movie is because since comedy is the main thrust for a comedy movie it's hard to talk about one without giving most of it away.) Now that doesn't mean there weren't moments that had me crying in my seat as quite a few jokes especially in the beginning had me doing that. For the most parts kids will laugh more than anyone over the age of thirteen and if you want a time waster for the kids on a hot long summer day kids would definitely appreciate the movie.

   Now that I've talked about the comedy what about the characters and while the comedy is a mix bag they're for the most part pretty good. While the minions as much as I love them they're better in small dosages but they held up the movie really well and especially our leads the determined and leader Kevin, the lazy and musically inclined Stewart and the optimistic and super cute Bob (he's my new favorite minion) were all fun to watch and were good leads with a solid motivation of wanting to get a new master for the minion tribe.

   The new villain this time around is Scarlett Overkill and I loved her. She was funny yet different from Guru in a sense that's she's more black and white evil than him and I'm glad they didn't do a Guru rehash. They did give a her a backstory in a very subtle and clever sort of way that made you understand where she was coming from yet didn't make you sympathize with her. I also liked her demeanor and personality throughout the movie and that while she was way more evil she had a very cheerful, easy-going and slightly gentle way about her and Sandra Bullock did a great job and was very charismatic in the role. Jon Hamm as Herb Overkill was fun to watch and while he didn't have much to do he did a good job with what he was given.

   Yet the ones who really stole the show for me were the Nelson's a family the minions meet on the way to villain- con and I don't want to give much away about them because they have about 50% of the gut busting funny jokes in the movie and I would just smile and laugh every time they came on screen.

    The animation is also really good with a lot of bright colors and shapes and I love the sixties era setting of this movie. If your a huge sixties era nerd you'll definitely like this movie because they're are a lot of sixties era references that was well done.

    A problem of this movie is pacing. The pacing is very fast and fast pacing in comedies could be either the death of or the salvation of comedies. While it's not the death of the movie it doesn't give you time to enjoy the movie and it makes the movie feel rush and almost incomplete. For example, on the day I saw this movie I went out to dinner but because of how long it took the waiter to bring my food and what time the movie was at I basically had to speed eat my food only to feel unsatisfied and still hungry. That's the same problem Despicable Me 2 had the pace was so fast the jokes all came one after another so you couldn't enjoy it all.

  Another problem was charm like Despicable Me 2 it didn't carry the too much charm. The characters were charming but nothing in the movie touched you. I don't mean in terms of intense sadness or anything you associate the phrase "it hit me in the feels" but in terms of joy and lasting impression. While Despicable Me 1 hit you in the feels it also hit you in the smiles.


I give this movie a 6/10~ good animation, setting and characters yet it the comedy was 50/50,  pacing was horrible and wasn't that charming.


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