Summer 2016 Recap and Fall Movie Predictions

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week's episode of the Cinema Geeks, we take a

look back at our summer predictions, and we take

a look ahead to what's in store for fall 2016.

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Hello, what's up? Not a lot the prediction guru

himself movie revolt Dan. Hello. Well, that's

a lot to live up to I mean and The the guy who's

trying to catch up for Lisa. Yeah Cuz obviously

you were not around the first episode or two

where we made our prediction, so you have a little

bit of ground to catch up on. But today we'll

be looking back at what our predictions were

for summer, which is June, July, and August as

we define it. I think that's how most people

define it. And for fall, we're going to look

ahead just at September and October. So just

those two months this time instead of looking

at an entire three month period. So before we

get into the prediction results, Dan. How was

the summer of 2016 for you? Uh, it was the term

lackluster, comes to the mind. Like, it was not

void of good movies. I, you know, enjoyed Civil

War and there were things here and there. But

overall, it was, uh, very forgetful, I would

say. And, um, some disappointments for sure.

Independence Day was a huge disappointment. Jason

Bourne, a movie I liked, but still wasn't up

to what I was hoping for. So, yeah, at the end

of the day, it's a very lackluster summer for

me. Amanda, there was a lot of blockbuster movies,

a lot of remakes, a lot of sequels, a lot of

big budget things. How did the summer work for

you? Disappointed or positive overall? Like Dan,

I had a few letdowns. I think there were some

things where I'm like, yeah, I liked it. But

there was a couple that I didn't think that I

would even like, and I still ended up liking,

like Tarzan. I really, really enjoyed that. Ghostbusters,

I knew I was going to like that, and it definitely

lived up to everything that I wanted it to. other

than like Suicide Squad, which I'm not even really

gonna get into a lot with that one, but I would

say it's kind of lackluster like what Dan said.

A couple really good ones, but you know, definitely

a couple bombs too for us. I don't think there

was any slam dunks that were like out there that

people just were like gung -ho and knowing that

they were gonna be great. I mean there was, this

summer was filled with a whole bunch of potential

bombs and question marks. I mean you look at,

we had stuff like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Warcraft, the revisiting of the Independence

Day franchise, Ghostbusters. And even some of

the other bigger budget ones like we talked about,

Tarzan, BFG, Pete's Dragon. There was a lot of

stuff that it was like, well, it could work,

but there's a lot going against it too and I

might just end up falling flat. So we'll have

to see how that impacted our actual predictions.

So let's start with the box office and let's

look at what we said. for the summer as far as

our picks to click. Dan, we'll start with you.

And your first pick to click for the summer,

as all of us picked, was Finding Dory. How are

you feeling about Finding Dory? You know, it

was an obscure choice, you know, one that I was

taking the leap with, but I think I feel confident.

So yeah, obviously all four of us decided to

jump on the bandwagon with Finding Dory and pick

that as a pick to click and it currently is in

the number one spot for 2016 the most money made

so far this year by any film and that's in a

year with a whole bunch of comic book films right

now it's sitting at 478 million top the box office

So we will all award ourselves one point for

Finding Dory Dan your second pick though was

Jason Bourne Confident or not about that one?

Not super confident, honestly, yeah. Looking

at the numbers right now, its budget was around

the 120 million mark and as of this weekend it

is now at 140. So it has made its budget back

just domestically and it is sitting right now

in the 12th spot out of all the films of 2016.

So I think you're just Easing that one in for

a point with Jason Bourne. I'm actually surprised

is that 12 that seems Surprisingly high for me.

But yeah, I'm all for it. Give me points And

Amanda your second pick was Warcraft. How are

you feeling about that now? Feeling that's so

good. I want it to be good though. Okay, how

about a budget of 160 million for Warcraft just

a slightly large budget and sitting currently

with a box office total domestically of 47. What?

Dollars? There's 47. 47 dollars out of its 160

million budget. Yeah, it has not even come close

to even getting to like a third of its budget

so far. Man, I thought that they were going to

be out in droves for that movie. Internationally,

I think it still did okay, but domestically people

were not digging The Warcraft. It did amazing

in China. It was like the biggest movie ever

shot in China, but yeah. So unfortunately, we're

going on domestic numbers here, so you're not

going to score a point for that one. Matt? As

a person who's played almost every Warcraft game

that's ever come out and was there launch week

of World of Warcraft, I could say that Warcraft

fans were not excited about that movie, so I

don't know who it was for. Why weren't they excited?

Because it looked terrible. I thought it looked

pretty legit, and I thought it looked like the

game. The game fans are disagreeing with you

apparently. Have I played it? No. It looks like

the game in that it looks like it's really bad

CG. Because it really looks so fake. Like, like...

Yeah. Ugh. So it didn't translate well in America,

at least. They shit it on the panda one, and

we'd have been good. Wait, here, do that. Skunk

food panda. But Amanda, you are not the only

one to take a misstep here in the second pick

for a pick to click, because I, unfortunately,

picked Independence Day, because that was before

any reviews had been written on it. And Independence

Day, with a budget of $165 million, only brought

in $102 million. You know I was really hoping

you were going to say mad fucked up. So better

than Warcraft. But not good still, so I will

take no points for Independence Day. The sequel...

Matt? How are you feeling about Ghostbusters?

Oh, I know it didn't do nearly as well as it

deserved for how good of a movie it was. I know

that's a fact. Budget? 144 million. Domestic

gross right now? 121. Yeah, that's a shame. It

did not make its budget back domestically, which

you know originally it came out a lot of people

were giving it some pretty good reviews and talking

about You know the future films and that franchise

etc But then it kind of just dropped off the

planet there and didn't make its domestic budget

back or budget back just based on domestic gross

and now people are Kind of doubting that they'll

continue with those so we'll have to wait and

see I thought it was better than it Did domestically

at least so no points for any of us except for

Dan with the second pick to click? Let's go to

our third picks Dan, you had The Purge. When

in doubt, go with a horror film that's very cheap,

so you know. Ten million dollar budget? Just

about to eclipse the 80 million mark. So, horror

film that's doing real well, so that is an easy

point for you in the horror genre. Amanda? I

wish I really did some research when I did my

picks, because I don't look into any of that.

Amanda, your last pick was Suicide Squad. Are

you aware of how Suicide Squad did at the box

office? Uh, not particularly, no. Okay, well

it had a budget of $175, and it's currently sitting

at the $227 mark for box office. So, Suicide

Squad doing fairly well, regardless of some of

the reviews that have come in for it, so you

and Matt will both score points because Matt

also had Suicide Squad. Myself, my last pick

was the Secret Life of Pets. Budget, $75 million.

Box office. So Dan, when in doubt, either go

with a horror film or an animated film. Exactly.

And if you get a horror animated film, you're

golden. Where's that at? Because I want to see.

Murder party coming out next fall. All right.

So Dan, you clean sweep of the picks to click.

All the rest of us lost one of our picks. So

that's where we're at for those. Moving on to

bet to bomb. Matt, we'll start with you. Your

first pick on bet -to -bomb was Star Trek Beyond.

Confident? Honestly, I've heard nothing but good

things, but I haven't heard a lot of things,

so I don't know how many people actually saw

it. Budget 185, current gross domestically 140.

So it is falling short of its budget domestically,

which is good enough for you to get a point for

Star Trek Beyond being a bomb. That surprises

me. Like, I thought I would do... Much better

than that considering it did give relatively

present their positive reviews. Yeah, it's kind

of like Ghostbusters It kind of did the same

thing They're both about you know 20 40 million

off of its budget and they both got relatively

well received right at first So it's kind of

surprising there My first bet to bomb was the

infiltrator Which I put on there only because

I knew it had a slightly larger budget than I

expected it had a 47 million dollar budget Which

seems odd and it only made 15 so way less than

half of its budget. What's the infiltrator even

about? I don't know, and that's why I voted for

it. That's a good sign, yeah. The marketing was

not out there. That's Bryan Cranston, I believe,

but I don't know. He's the cop that is undercover

trying to take down the Miami drug pen something.

Breaking Bad, the movie. No, it's not that. Amanda,

your first bet to bomb was Teenage Mutant Ninja

Turtles. Do you think you're getting a point

or not? Yes. You are getting a point because

that budget was $135 and it's only made $81.

So it might have got better reviews than the

first one. Still did not do that great at the

box office. I'll rent it. I'll give it a shot.

I'll rent it as well. Well, I'll let you rent

it. Yeah, I'll just go to the movie store on

Tuesday and come home with it. Dan, your first

bet to buy one was Legend of Tarzan. Are you

getting a point or not? I'm feeling pretty good

because that was a high budget and I don't think

it's even worth it. That was a high budget. We're

talking about a budget somewhere in the neighborhood

of 180 million. And it has done decently well.

I mean, it's at 124, but that's not that's not

180. So we'll give you a point for that one as

well. There was three of us. Myself, Matt and

Dan all went on to pick Ben Hur as one of our

bets to bomb. Now that has only had one weekend,

but I'm going to project this one out. Ben Hur.

budget is somewhere in the ninety to one hundred

million range and if you only do ten million

in your opening weekend i don't think you're

going to make your budget back so we might be

proven wrong with that over time but i'm gonna

go ahead and award all three of us with a point

for that because then which is that's pretty

unlikely that is going to a hundred if it's only

at ten yeah i'm gonna i don't see uh... legitimately

what uh... What percentage increase you would

need over the next? Yeah, so it would have to

be in the theaters for the rest of the year At

least um amanda your other pick. Uh, your second

pick was central intelligence Did the rock not

do so good budget central intelligence 50 million

dollars box office so far 126 So central intelligence

doing better than you thought it would so no

points for central intelligence Then let's go

to uh the last pick that all of us had Dan, you

had The Free State of Jones. Budget? 50 million.

Box office? 20. Nice. Yeah, I didn't think it'd

do well considering it was like a period piece

drama in the middle of summer. Yeah, and it didn't

really get great reviews out of the gate as well,

so that didn't help it either. Amanda, Nine Lives.

Scoring? Yes. Budget? 30 million. It's only got

a 30 million budget. Oh, shit. Box office? 14.

Yes. I don't even know how it got that high.

Honestly. My last pick was The Legend of Tarzan.

And that had, like Dan said, 180 box office for

that, 124. So I forgot that I picked the same

one as you, Dan. So we'll both get points for

that. Matt, your final pick, The Space Between

Us, which got bumped to a December release. Yay.

So it will not come out. until the winter so

no points rewarded awarded by default for the

space between us moving on there's more space

is what you're saying is that yes there is more

space between us and when that movie comes out

wild card picks matt we'll start with you your

first pick was that batman versus superman would

beat suicide squad overall currently batman versus

superman sits at 330 And Suicide Squad sits at

227. Now, Suicide Squad may gain some on it in

the next couple weeks, but if it got 100 million,

that'd be pretty darn surprising in the next

month. So I think you're gonna be safe on that

one. I'm not. I'm gonna hold my breath, because

my guy from work, I don't know if I've told you

about this, who makes really bad bets, he's certain

that Suicide Squad's gonna have a resurgence,

that it's gonna beat out Captain America this

year. He would like to bet you on that. Oh I

did My first pick was all the animated films

in order I said Finding Dory then Secret Life

of Pets then Ice Age then Kubo and the Two Strings

and then the Little Prince We'll just sum that

up very shortly by saying I was right So Finding

Dory sits number one Secret Life of Pets number

five and then on on on down it all works out

unless Kubo has some type of massive run here.

It maybe could get up to ice age was it seeming

Well, I mean that depends you count like little

prints into the Netflix movie like every subscription

to Netflix does that All add up all the Netflix

money Amanda Your first pick Mike and Dave need

a wedding date. I believe is the title of that

film. You said that would beat out war dogs What

do you think Not feeling so good about it now.

Um, right now we're going to give you the point,

but War Dogs did just come out. So there is a

chance that they could catch it, but I just based

that off of kind of both how they started and

what they would have to get up to. So I think

you're going to get that one right, but we'll

have to wait a little bit and see. Dan, you had

Ice Age Collision Course being the worst film

of the franchise. Ice Age Collision Course brought

in 59 million. The lowest ice age film before

that Brought in 161 Wow, that's a It's not even

close it is way worse than all the other ice

age films from the box office now they can stop

so Alright as for our second round of picks Matt

back to you old Ghostbusters beats new Ghostbusters

Yeah, I don't know if they go that one old Ghostbusters

121 million New Ghostbusters was 229. Yeah. So

you're good there. Old Ghostbusters still holds

the title as the best box office Ghostbusters

film. It was a dumb pick though, because I had

picked New Ghostbusters to do really well, so

like... You're hyping your bets. You're gonna

get one of those points right. That's how you

catch up. Amanda, Independence Day resurgence

beats Legend of Tarzan. Yeah. Not good. Independence

Day 102 million, Tarzan 124. So not a huge gap,

but you got the wrong one on the wrong side of

that. So no points for you. I'm not doing so

good on this. Dan, Pete's Dragon beats the BFG.

We are going to call this one absolutely too

close to call at this point because they both

made the exact same amount in their first week.

And that's all that Pete's Dragon's been out

so far. So. We're going to have to wait and revisit

that one a little bit because right now they're

just about even as far as if you took the same

time frame of how long they've been out. So if

Pete's Dragon continues to get good reviews,

I think it has a chance of beating the BFG, but

we'll have to wait and see. How do you think

that's going to turn out? They both did about

12 million or 21 million camera, which number

it was in the first week. I think it has potential

because there's really not much coming out in

the next few months. So it could be one of those

films that lingers. Kids want her parents on

the bring their kids to see something and I think

it's a kids film I haven't seen it, but I would

assume so and it's a dragon So people might just

go in by mistake. So let's keep it up And looking

at my number there's not much to compete with.

Oh, yeah Yeah, we'll definitely get to that.

And my last pick for the wild card was that Suicide

Squad over our summer movie months, June, July,

and August, would have the most weeks at number

one. Now, Finding Dory did its best. to upset

me there because i was sure that it would lose

out on one of its week because at second week

it was going against independence day and i didn't

realize it was going to be such a bomb and then

it's uh... next week it was going against a whole

bunch of films legend of tars and bfg the purge

etc finding dory uh... did end up on top i believe

three weeks however suicide squad The way this

one breaks down is it comes down to the final

weekend of August, which has not happened yet.

If Suicide Squad holds off all the competition

in its final week of August, it will have more

weeks at number one or be tied for the most weeks

at number one. So I don't know how that will

work down. I guess I said it would have the most.

So if it ties for the most, that's not really

the most. So we'll wait and see how that breaks

down in the final week. But there's really nothing

going against it in the final week. So it would

have to be something that's already out leapfrogging

over it. So we'll wait and see on that one as

far as a ruling for points there. So Dan, you're

adding one, two, three, four, five, six, seven

points and a possible eight point if Pete's Dragon

beats BFG. So you got nothing wrong at the box

office. There you go. So that's why I called

you the box office guru. I should have I should

have played the lottery this weekend. If only

if it was only real a way to make money off of

this for real. Right. A talent that is legitimately

useless. Amanda, you're going to add five points.

You got one wrong in each category. Matt, you

are going to add one, two, three, four, five,

six points. So you're going to gain one on Amanda,

and I will add six points if Suicide Squad does

not end up beating and finding Dory for the summer

months. All right. Let's take a look at just

how all these films did. Obviously, I gave away

that Finding Dory is currently sitting at number

one for the entire year at 478 million. Anybody

have a guess as to what summer film is the second

best summer film as far as the box office goes?

Suicide Squad. Suicide Squad would be third.

Civil War? Well, we counted Civil War as a spring.

Spring film. So we have Finding Dory, then one

other film, and then The Suicide Squad. Secret

Life of Pets. Secret Life of Pets. So we have

Finding Dory at 478, Secret Life of Pets at 346,

Suicide Squad at 262, and then Star Trek Beyond

at 146. They all are in the top 10 for the year.

So after that it would go Jason Bourne, Central

Intelligence, Tarzan, Ghostbusters, Independence

Day. and The Conjuring 2. It's kind of weird

that Star Trek Beyond is in the top 10 for the

year but currently it has not made its budget

back. The science fiction film being somewhat

expensive I guess to make it has a little bit

more to go to do that but yeah I agree and then

like we said a couple films that got decent reviews

but Star Trek and then Ghostbusters not doing

very well either. I'm bad broke that Secret Life

of Pets is doing better than Zootopia because

Zootopia was amazing and Secret Life of Pets

was very boring looking to me. Yeah, I haven't

seen it so I can't say but I am a little surprised

too I didn't think it would be that but especially

when fighting Dora was someone out at the same

time as it Yeah, so I did see it and I could

say it I think it took it exists just so we don't

take Pixar for granted It's like this is what

anime movies could be so we have a bunch of those

coming out in September We don't have to worry

about that All right, so let's move on to our

fall predictions, this is looking at September

in October, just at the box office here. So,

Matt, we'll let you start. What do you want to

start with? A pick to click, a bet to buy him,

or a wild card? Um... Let's do the wild card.

Go for it. What is your wild card pick for these

two months? I'm going against, uh, uh, my nature

of saying something against Batman v Superman,

just because nothing in this month, two -month

period really, like, it's... It's not a good

couple of months. And it wouldn't be fair to

be like, Sully won't beat Superman vs. Batman.

Of course he wouldn't. So I'm going to say that

Sully will not do as good as Tom Hanks' previous

Captain Phillips. Those are comparable to me.

So Captain Phillips beating Sully. Yeah, I think

that one. Nice, nice. Alright. Amanda? Well,

I actually was going to do something with Sully.

But since Matt went there, I'm going to change

it and say Medea's Halloween is going to be the

lowest grossing Medea movie. All right. Medea's

Halloween makes less than any other Medea film.

You guys are thinking creatively here. Dan, wild

card? Well, I went back to last year and the

highest grossing movie weekend, I should say,

for... September and October was the Martin with

like 54 million and looking at this slate of

films I don't see anything getting close to that.

So I'm gonna say no the biggest weekend of September

and October will be less than 50 million dollars

So nothing getting above 50 million for September

and October of this year. So bleak bleak outlook

for the next two months but you may be absolutely

right and because This time of year is usually

when we get an influx of horror films. And you're

going to see that because we have Rings, we have

Ouija. Ouija's already out. The Origin of Evil.

Grand Request. That must be like a, that's probably

like a direct release. No, it's a, it's going

to be a theater release. Yeah. Is this like a

sequel to Ouija that just came out? Uh, 31. The

new Rob Zombie movie. Rob Zombie film. We have

Friend Request, like Matt was saying. We have

Dan, you talked about it when we did our last

segment of previews, Yoga Hosers. And we have

the next Blair Witch film. So there's a lot of

horror films coming out in the next two months.

And I'm going to go ahead and say, I'm going

to try to predict the highest grossing one. And

I think it's going to be Blair Witch. I think

it'll recapture some of the magic of the first

one, and I think it's going to make more than

any other horror film in these two months. It's

funny that you say magic because it's about a

witch. Ba -dum -dum. Alright, back to Matt. Bet

to buy on or pick to click? Oh man, I get to

do all of the work. Well, since you just mentioned

Blair Witch and I know I put it on my thing...

Did you just skip me? No, you talked about Madea.

Okay. Are you okay? I'm gonna go with the exact

opposite for my September bet to bomb. I'm gonna

say Blair Witch is gonna bomb. Alright, so you're

gonna say against me. You're going right against

me and say Blair Witch is gonna bomb. Amanda,

what's gonna bomb for you? One of your two picks.

I'm gonna say Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar

Children only because I'm super mad that they

changed a bunch of shit already I know this from

the book. So you think the book fans being angry

that it's not faithful are gonna cause it to

bomb? Yeah. Alright, no love for Miss Peregrine.

Dan, what are your bets to bomb? I'm actually

gonna go with Jack Reacher, Never Go Back, because

it's not a great title for your sequel, isn't

it? And the first one didn't really do all that

well, so I'm gonna say Jack Reacher, Never Go

Back is gonna bomb. Alright, I also had that

on my list, so I'm gonna echo Dan's sentiment

about Jack Reacher never going back. Matt, your

other pet to bow. Alright, um, like middle school

worst years of my life. I don't have to do like

anything to like set it up. I don't think that

one's gonna do particularly well. No love for

the middle school years, huh? Oh, I loved my

middle school years. I'd go back in a heartbeat.

But no love for the movie. No. Alright. I don't

know if that's going to resonate with people

or not. Amanda, what else do you have bombing?

Masterminds. Masterminds? Yes. I think it looks

funny, but I don't know. Got an interesting cast,

that's for sure. All right, Dan, what else do

you have bombing? I'm actually going to go with

Snowden. I think that's going to bomb. I'm going

with it because I'm thinking of like the fifth

estate that came out around the same time Not

not same subject with similar subject matter.

I think you know it I feel like movies that tend

to Cover like political scandal that when you're

very close to it tend to not do very well Especially

I think people are kind of getting sick of politics

with everything going on So I feel a lot of people

are just gonna stay away from it and it's Oliver

Stone who hasn't had the greatest track record

in the last few years so because of that I think

it's gonna bomb. I promise that just because

Dan got all of his box office picks right on

the summer preview I'm not just copying him.

I have Snowden and Jack Reacher written down

on my sheet of favor so we'll have the same bomb

picks. I'll go first then just to make sure that

for picks to click and I am going to say that

and I'm probably gonna be so wrong on both of

these but I'm gonna go with my first pick to

click to actually be in Sully. I think this is

just something that the middle -aged to elderly

crowd is gonna go crazy for and they're all gonna

want to see it because they remember seeing it

on the news and this and the other and they love

Tom Hanks so I'm gonna say that a lot of people

are gonna go see Sully and there's not a lot

of competition so Dan what's your first pick

to click? I'm actually gonna go with one that's

been mentioned. I'm actually gonna go with Madea.

Say what you will, even if that doesn't make

as much money as the other ones. It doesn't have

a huge budget to really overcome. So I'm gonna

say Madea makes whatever movie it is, something

Halloween. Tyler Perry needs a new house. There's

an exclamation mark in the title after boo. In

the middle of the title. It makes no sense. We're

not even gonna try anymore, so I'm gonna, yeah.

We're just gonna put the name of D on it. She's

just gonna be handing out candy from a prison

cell. Amanda. Pick to click? Yes. The Magnificent

Seven. That comes out on September 23rd, doesn't

it? It just so happens it comes out on my freaking

birthday, so it's gonna have to be lucky. Alright,

Magnificent Seven, Denzel's gonna get some love

at the box office, huh? He's my boy. To the name.

Alright. So picking Magnificent 7 to click. Matt,

what's your pick to click? I'm also not following

in Dan's footsteps with my Madea pick. It just

seems like the obvious one. Like, if you look

at the Madea movies, the lowest grossing one

was $50 million, and the highest, most expensive

one was $20 million. That's a pretty easy pick.

All right. Trying to go for the softball there.

For my other pick to click, I could be way off

because this could be Coming out at the absolute

wrong time and not when the the fad was going

on with these books But the other two films did

fairly well, so I'm gonna go with Inferno And

just hope that the whatever gap 10 15 year gap

between the films isn't gonna cost it too much

But I think I guess I'm just doubling down on

Tom Hanks Inferno, I didn't realize I did that

but I just did so that's my two picks to click

Dan. What do you got? See, I almost went with

Inferno with the bomb and defeated, but I just

stayed away. I'm gonna, like I said, when in

doubt, go with a horror film, so I'm gonna go

with Player Witch. I guess, or they're just calling

it Player Witch. I don't know what they're calling

it. I think that's right. So, Amanda? Man, I'm

not so sure about this one now, because this

might have a huge budget, I'm not sure, but keeping

up with the Joneses. I think some people are

going to go see that. You think some people are

going to go see that? I think it's going to be

a date night movie. And people are going to be

like, dude, it's Wonder Woman. And they're going

to go see it. Dude, it's Wonder Woman. What other

date night movie is coming out? What other date

night movie? That might be a good argument. I

just saw that preview and wanted to kill humanity.

There's like, The Light Between Oceans will be

the only other, like, good. That's a rough one,

isn't it? Date night movie. We were watching

Keeping Up With The Joneses. the trailer for

it in the theater, and it was like... You know,

he was like, if they say Keeping Up with the

Joneses, I'm gonna kill myself. And then they

did. I was like, if the title of this movie is

Keeping Up with the Joneses, I'm out of here.

And then it came out. Is that the Bridget Jones

one? No. Oh, okay. Equally terribly looking film.

Actually, I kind of did a similar thing when

we saw Pete's Dragon, if you can believe it.

There was a trailer for Monster Trucks. I got

like 10 seconds into it and he's like, we're

going to need more trucks. And I'm like, this

movie is going to be goddamn named monster trucks,

isn't it? And then it was. They showed that preview

when we went and saw Kubo and the two strings

as well. So yeah, that was an awful looking trailer.

Matt, what's your other pick to click? Also copying

someone. I'm going to go with the Magnificent

Seven. Mostly because I want it to do well because

it looks amazing rather than I have it. I believe

it has the legs. It just looks good. I want it

to do good, too. I like the cast and there's

not a lot of other things coming out this season

that I'm gonna look forward to, so I guess it's

the best that there is to offer for some of these

weeks. All right, so those are our predictions

for the fall. That means it's time to shift our

attention to Rotten Tomatoes from the summer

and look back at what we decided or what we thought.

films were going to rate as far as the Rotten

Tomatoes score. Starting off with the certified

fresh picks. Dan, your first certified fresh

pick for the summer was Jason Bourne. Yeah, no.

Good or bad? Not so good. Not so good, unfortunately.

Yeah, not so good. Jason Bourne coming in at

a 57 percent. So you might have got all of your

box office picks right, but you're starting off

with a wrong pick for Rotten Tomatoes. Yeah,

I had too much faith. The trailer looked great,

but. Yeah, we're going to do. Amanda, your first

Rotten Tomatoes pick, as well as mine, was The

Founder, which we reported on halfway through

the summer when it got pushed to November or

December release. So we can't score any points

on that. It hasn't come out yet. It was lost.

Matt, your first pick out of left field was Florence

Foster Jenkins. How are you feeling? Honestly,

it still looks like the heartwarming movie that

people are going to love. Rotten Tomatoes score

for Florence Blaster Jenkins for the summer was

86%. Yeah, that's a good one. That is enough

to score you the first Rotten Tomatoes point

of the day. Dan, your second pick was Kubo and

the two strings, and that is currently sitting

at a 96%. There you go. Wow. So that is killing

it right there. I guess the person who gave it

a bad score was dead inside, so there you go.

It had 100 for a while. I think it's gotten either

one or two bad reviews. And I don't know what

those people were smoking because that movie

is pretty darn good. Amanda, you and I doubled

up on our second pick as well and we went with

Free State of Jones. I was still riding that

wave when I had it as one of the most anticipated

films of the year. I liked it better than most,

but not enough to make it a certified fresh film.

It's sitting at 42%. So no points again. for

us on that one. Matt, you also had Free State

of Jones, so you're eliminated for your second

point there. Eliminated. Eliminated. The third

pick for everybody. Dan, you had Ghostbusters.

Yeah, I, you know, I bit the bullet and said

maybe it'll be good. How much does this hurt?

Ghostbusters currently sitting at a 73 percent.

What does it need to be around 75? Yeah, 75.

Let me go write a review real quick. We need

one more somebody out there write a good review

for Ghostbusters. Give Dan another point. Amanda,

your final pick was the Purge election year.

Any idea? No. Alright, the Purge election year

currently sits at a 54%. No points for you. My

other pick was the Neon Demon and that is at

a 51%. So no love for the Neon Demon out there.

Matt, your last pick was Captain Fantastic. Was

it a Fantastic pick? I don't know. You tell me.

79%. Hey, that's enough. 79%. So only three points

awarded for Certified Fresh. Dan, you're taking

one for Kubo. Matt, you're taking two for Florence

Foster Jenkins and Captain Fantastic. Who is

this guy? Making a move. I gotta catch up somehow.

That should put you, I believe, out of last place

on there. So you should be, if we're just looking

at certified fresh, I think that puts you in

enough to pass either Amanda or myself. We'll

have to total it up here in a little bit. As

far as certified run, Dan, your first pick was

yoga hosers. That is currently sitting at a 30%.

So close. So close, but not quite there. Really?

Yeah, just just enough. Kevin Smith, you disappoint

me. Kevin Smith had enough fans out there to

write some good reviews, so Amanda and Matt,

you both had absolutely fabulous the movie. I

can't believe it's this high, but not high enough

to get you guys a point. 61%. 61%. Only doing

1 % better was my first pick, Bad Moms, doing

62%. Much better reviews than I thought Bad Moms

was gonna get. I liked it. Yeah. A lot of people

saying good things about bad moms, so apparently

I was off my rocker when I said it was going

to be certified rotten. All right. Let's see

if we can get points anywhere here. Dan, you

and I both went with Nine Lives. Currently, Nine

Lives has a 7%. There you go. That is the worst

film of the summer. Nice. Rotten Tomatoes wise.

So we got that one right on the nose. Amanda,

you also had Bad Mom, so you're not going to

get that point either. Dan, your last pick was

The Space Between Us, which, like we mentioned

before, got booted to December. My last pick

was Mechanic Resurrection, which comes out this

weekend. So apparently, normally when a film

comes out, it actually has Rotten Tomatoes score

like a week or 10 days, two weeks before it comes

out. Apparently nobody is trying to see this

film early because it has zero reviews so far.

There's no press screenings, which is a good

sign for you. So no critical take on if people

should go see Mechanic Resurrection or not. So

I don't know. Matt, your final pick was Warcraft.

What do you think? I think that it didn't do

well, but I don't know if it didn't do well enough.

The mark is 25 percent. It needs to be 25 or

lower. Warcraft currently 28. Oh, man. Can I

write a review on the GCRN and that will be good

enough to review? Oh, man. No, no. Absolutely

not. Amanda, your last pick was Ice Age Collision

Course. And? What do you think? I think it was

pretty good. Ice Age Collision Course currently

11%. So that is good enough to score you a point.

There was only two movies possible to pick to

get this point. Nine Lives and Ice Age Collision

Course. So Dan and myself got Nine Lives. Amanda,

you got Ice Age. Nobody else could have scored

points on anything else. When in doubt, choose

the talking animal movie. It's hard to get the

certified rotten picks. There's usually not a

lot to choose from. So we've said what a bunch

of the percentages were. I will say, though,

there was a lot more options to score points

on Certified Fresh. We had 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 films you could

have picked for certified fresh. Anybody have

any guess on what any of those are? Finding Dory.

Finding Dory, 94%. We already talked about Kubo

being 96%. Florence Foster Jenkins at 86 % and

Captain Fantastic at 79%. Anything else out there,

Matt or Amanda or Dan, that you think might have

been fresh? That's a good question. Some of them

are going to surprise you. Is Pete's Dragon fresh?

Pete's Dragon is also fresh at 87%. Currently,

the highest rated one that came out during the

summer is Hunt for the Wilder People at 99%.

And the second highest, which just has been released

recently, I believe, Hell or Highwater, is at

98%. As far as the major ones that we talked

about, or at least ones that we've... talked

about at some point during the summer review.

We have Kubo 96, Finding Dory 94, The Little

Prince, even though it was basically straight

to Netflix type thing, 93%. Then Pete's Dragon,

87. Florence Foster Jenkins, 86. Star Trek Beyond,

83. Wow. Sausage Party, 82. The Conjuring 2,

80. Then Captain Fantastic, like you said, 79.

Lights Out, the horror film, 76%. I did not expect

that. Popstar, never stop, never stopping. Certified

fresh, 77%. Not based on its name. The Shallows,

76 % and the BFG, 75%. Any surprises there, Dan?

Someone with the BFG and I guess with Popstar

because I heard very mixed things with it. Like

I heard people who loved it and I heard people

saying it was awful. So I'm surprised that that

made. Yeah, I'm surprised that the two horror

films Conjuring 2 and Lights Out being up that

high as well as Sausage Party I didn't think

people would review that. I really like the first

Conjuring and I know James Wan was coming back

So I thought the second one would do pretty well,

but Lights Out I did not have any expectations

for whatsoever Yeah, you did not have a good

reaction to the trailer for Lights Out Amanda.

Are you surprised that that one got his? No,

I was terrified by the trailer. Oh, you were

terrified. I thought you thought it was that

no good When I saw it, I thought it was decent,

but I'm not surprised that it's sitting where

it's at. I think it's deserving the air. I really

don't see anything that's striking me as surprising,

honestly. The ones that were just outside the

realm there, Seek Your Life A Pet sits at a 74

currently, Ghostbusters at a 73, Cafe Society

at 70, and Central Intelligence at 68. Now, we

already talked about the only two picks you could

pick for Rotten being Ice Age at 11 and Nine

Lives at 7. Does anybody want to guess the other,

let's say the lowest five outside of that? Percentage

-wise, Matt, got a guess? I already guessed two

of them on my certified Rotten, right? Which

ones? Ben Hur and Warcraft? Yes, Ben Hur and

Warcraft both at 28%. There's three other ones

down there towards the bottom. Dan, any guesses?

Yoga hosers or whatever? Nope, not. What do the

yoga hosers have? 30 -something? No, that's a

little bit high enough to just miss that group.

We also have... Suicide squad currently at 26

percent. Dang. And we had like we like Matt mentioned

Ben Her and Warcraft at 28 and Independence Day

resurgence at 32. Wow. So those are the other

lowest ones. So Yoga Hosers was 30, I guess.

So I guess that is in that group. So you're right.

I didn't have that listed with the rest of them.

So yeah, not good for those guys. And then it's

the likes of Now You See Me 2, Legend of Tarzan,

Mike and Dave Need a Wedding Date, and Teenage

Mutant Ninja Turtle 2, also all in the 30%. So

not a lot of those box office big budget films

finding its way into the Certified Fresh, most

of those down at the bottom of the list. So all

right, let's make our way into the fall predictions

then. What films are going to do good? what films

are going to do poorly when it comes to Rotten

Tomatoes for September and October. Dan, fresh

or rotten, where do you want to start? Well,

let's start with the bad so we can end with the

good, I guess. I'll go with what's going to be

rotten. I'm going to go with Bridges Jones' Baby

because why is this a movie that needs to exist?

So I feel pretty confident in that one. Yeah,

that is awful. It might have the same actress,

but she does not look like the same person anymore.

I don't know if anybody that looks more has done

more of a transformation, because if you held

up a picture of her, I would not be able to tell

you that that's Renée Zellweger. It's bizarre.

Amanda, rotten pick? I'm gonna go with Snowden.

Snowden? Are we doing only doing one, or? Yeah,

well, we're doing two for each of these, so that's

your first pick. So Snowden will be your first

one. Yeah, like Dan was saying, with the box

office, it might not go over too well. Matt,

certified rotten pick for you. Um, I'm gonna

go with, like, what feels like the obvious choice

of the wildlife. Um, what the heck is that movie

doing? Is that the animated one? That's one of

those animated ones that's coming out. There's

a whole bunch of non -descript animated films

coming out. Am gonna go with I'm gonna go with

keeping up with the Joneses Because I think if

Dan's picking Bridget Jones, I should pick keeping

up with the Joneses It just seems like they should

both be bad. So Dan, what's your second pick?

I'm gonna go with inferno again going with the

the sequel it is so we've been having and Know

the first two didn't work great with what and

tomato so the third one years after the last

one and another book Wasn't really well -received

either. So I'm gonna go with Inferno. All right,

Amanda your second round pick 31 I don't think

people are too hyped for Yeah, it's a good choice

everyone hates rub coming movies. I forgot about

that one Matt your other pick. I want to hate

on children this fall and go with Max steel I

had Max Steel as one of my possibilities, too.

It's on the list. But I'm going to go with Friend

Request as my other one, just to make it different.

But I think you might be on to something with

Max Steel there. All right, shifting it to certified

fresh. Amanda, we have more of a chance of getting

these right. What's your first pick? The Light

Between Oceans. There's no way that movie can

fuck up. It's good. They don't, they don't. Nobody's

going to score the Fassbender low? No. Alright,

so the light between oceans for Certified Fresh

for you. I'll go with my first pick, which is

The Birth of a Nation. I know he's getting some

not -so -great press, but I still think that

film's going to be received well like it was

in the festival circuit. Dan, what do you think?

I'll say Ditto, and I will also put that as my

Certified Fresh. It's probably one of the first

films we'll see that has a good chance of being

nominated for Best Picture just based upon its

perception and all the different festivals and

whatnot. So I'm pretty confident in that one.

Yeah. Matt, what do you got as your first pick?

I'm yes anding that because that is what I had.

So three picks for the birth of a nation. Amanda,

what's your second pick? I'm gonna go with the

girl on the train. I think it has potential All

right girl on the train interesting premise interesting

cast as well for my second pick. I'm gonna go

with a monster calls The Liam Neeson tree monster

movie just because that trailer was awesome.

So hopefully the movie is as well Dan What's

your second pick? I'm actually gonna go with

one that uh, like I feel like going with an obvious

one So I wanted to challenge myself and get one

for that I'm not 100 % positive on but I think

it has a chance and that's deep water horizon

Just because maybe it'll be, I'm not saying it's

gonna be great, but I think it'll maybe be just

a well -made action thriller of some sort. So

I'm considering that and people like Mark Wahlberg,

why not? There we go. Matt? I'm gonna go with,

forgive me if I Kevin this up on my pronunciation,

The Queen of Catway? Do I pronounce a lot of

stuff wrong? You always like, I'm gonna pronounce

this wrong, you always like say that before.

Even if you've got it down, you still say it.

Yeah, the King of Quietway, we just saw the preview,

the trailer for that yesterday as well, so I

could see that one being received well. It's

got a nice cast as well. Alright, so those are

our picks for our fresh and rotten picks. Let's

take just a quick look at the films overall and

get your guys' thought. I know you guys have

kind of tipped your hand a little bit to what

you feel like as far as the September and October

films. So looking ahead here are some films that

maybe didn't get named, just so we'll kind of

throw out those. Sea of Trees is supposed to

come out sometime in September. We talked about

The Light Between Oceans. There's Sully, of course,

a slew of animated films with the wildlife. Storks.

as well as, I thought there was one more. Maybe

those are the main two. Then we got Blair Witch,

Snowden, Bridget Jones Baby, The Magnificent

Seven, Queen of Catway, Miss Peregrine's Home

for Peculiar Children, Deepwater Horizons, Masterminds,

Girl on the Train, The Birth of the Nation, The

Middle School Film, Friend Request, we didn't

talk about mascots or Ben Affleck and the accountant,

Desierto. Max Steele, Jack Reacher 31, Keeping

Up with the Joneses, Tyler Perry, Medea Halloween,

A Monster Calls, Weegee, Origin of Evil, Inferno,

Rings, and American Pastoral. What are you most

looking forward to and what is the fall going

to end up, what's going to be the theme when

we're done with this, when we look back at what's

going to be our reaction band? It's not looking

great. I think there are some decent ones there

like I'm really looking forward to the life between

oceans and the birth of a nation but beyond that

I don't know it's gonna it's gonna be a good

time to catch up on the movies that I've not

seen so far and missed so Absolutely, I agree

with you. I'm very much looking forward to the

light between the oceans and the birth of a nation

I am intrigued by the girl on the train that

was on one of my most anticipated films list

at the beginning of the year. The accountant

intrigues me as well, so I'm waiting to see kind

of what that holds for us. And like I said, I

was really impressed by the trailer for A Monster

Call, so those are kind of the ones that I'm

most looking forward to. Amanda, what do you

think as far as the fall season? Are you excited,

or are you just waiting to get to Star Wars?

Well, ugh. Man, everything that you guys have

said, I want to see. Like between oceans, a monster

calls, a girl on the train, definitely. Mrs.

Peregrine, even though I think it's going to

get fucked up, I still think it would definitely

be cool to see, because that's what intrigued

me about the whole series in the first place,

was just the look of it. Now, you're a huge horror

fan. This is a month full of horror films. Will

you let me finish? What do you think? I was able

to see every single horror movie possible. So

we'll see what the full husband's door for horror.

Which one are you most looking forward to out

of the horror films coming out? Probably Blair

Witch. Or are you a big fan of the first one?

Yeah, there's also some good stuff coming out.

I'm not sure if it's in the fall, though. Don't

Breathe looks pretty cool. I don't know when

that's coming out pretty soon here. That's actually

coming out this weekend, I believe. Oh, really?

Okay, yeah. So that's the Suicide Squad competition.

It was a mechanic resurrection at Don't Breathe.

Okay. Yeah, I'm probably going to see all of

them, even the Rob Zombie 31. Matt? I'd love

to see Magnificent 7. And I would see Mrs. Peregrine's.

Like it's one of those things where it's like

if I see a trailer I'm like less enthused and

then I saw a trailer in the theaters and I was

way more enthused. So I think if I'm going to

see that one I want to see it in theaters. Yeah.

Alright. So like we said, maybe a good time to

catch up on a lot of stuff that we've talked

about previous that came out in the summer, the

spring, etc. Or hey, TV seasons are about to

start so maybe a good time to start some TV series

or something like that. But that's a look ahead

at the fall. Dan, anything else you want to talk

about as far as the summer, the fall, or anything?

Or are you just ready for winter films and the

award season? I'm just ready for good movies.

So whenever they want to start putting those

out on the regular, I'll be happy. All right.

Awesome. Thanks, as always, guys, though, for

tuning in to the Cinema Geeks this week. You're

going to have to let us know what you think about

our picks if we're way off. or if we're right

on the nose, we'll also put on the episode post

an updated standing so far through the summer

predictions. So we'll total all those up and

give you guys who's winning so far in most of

the categories. We know Dan's winning at the

box office, but we'll have to do some math for

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