# Which of these summer movies are you interested in seeing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146 "2014-04-28T02:07:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146/121 "2014-08-15T21:07:13Z")
Here are this week’s movie releases: **90%** for _Frank_, a comedy about a band with a very eccentric but charming and talented lead played by Michael Fassbender, who keeps his handsome face hidden inside a papier-mâché head throughout the movie; **87%** for _The Trip to Italy_, another travelogue with Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan traveling through Italy, seeing the sights, eating a lot of great food and possibly practicing a few Michael Caine impersonations along the way; **75%** for _Dinosaur 13_, a documentary about “[Sue](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_(dinosaur)),” the fossilized T. rex and the legal fight over her; **73%** for _Jealousy_, a French film about a man who leaves his family, winds up with another woman and then has to ponder issues about fidelity and infidelity; **57%** for _Ragnarok_, a Norwegian adventure about an archaeologist and ancient runes; **54%** for _The Zero Theorem_, Terry Gilliam’s probably very stylish but hard to follow movie about a computer hacker trying to find out the truth while being sabotaged by “the Management;” **42%** for _Life After Beth_, a black comedy about a young woman who dies and comes back as a sort of zombie; **34%** for _The Expendables 3_, in which a bunch of old guys shoot stuff; **33%** for _Coldwater_, about a teenage boy in a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness; **27%** for _The Giver_, in which a teenage boy is chosen to learn the truth about his mysterious Utopian community; and **12%** for _Let’s Be Cops_, in which two guys pretend to be cops. Have a great weekend! ---
**Author:** ![CodeB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85e7bf/32.png) [@CodeB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CodeB)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146/122 "2014-08-16T01:20:35Z")
I want to see edge of tomorrow but I missed it in theaters. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146/123 "2014-08-16T01:25:40Z")
I think maybe _Edge of Tomorrow_ was the best movie I’ve seen this summer (okay, I haven’t seen _Guardians_ yet). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146/124 "2014-08-16T02:11:32Z")
I think _[Fury](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKu5lGfRBxc)_ may be the first Shia LaBeouf movie I’m actually looking forward to. ---
**Author:** ![CodeB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85e7bf/32.png) [@CodeB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CodeB)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146/125 "2014-08-16T02:51:52Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > I think maybe _Edge of Tomorrow_ was the best movie I’ve seen this summer (okay, I haven’t seen _Guardians_ yet). Edge of Tomorrow or Guardians are probably the best as well. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146/126 "2014-08-22T17:07:57Z")
Here are this week’s movie releases: **96%** for _Love Is Strange_, in which two gay men (Alfred Molina and John Lithgow) in a long-standing relationship get married, and the many repercussions of that; **96%** for _Metro Manila_, a Filipino film about a farmer who goes to Manila to find work; **83%** for _To Be Takei_, the autobiographical documentary about _Star Trek_ actor and gay rights activist George Takei; **78%** for _The One I Love_, about “a couple in a struggling marriage escapes for the weekend… and end up facing an unusual dilemma,” to quote Wikipedia. **64%** for _14 Blades_, a Chinese martial arts period adventure movie that looks pretty wicked cool; **41%** for _If I Stay_, a movie about a teenage girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) who is a promising young musician and has to choose between her boyfriend and her education at Juilliard when a car accident puts her in a coma, and she has to choose whether to live or die; **41%** for _Sin City: A Dame to Kill For_, which, while having a great title, looks horribly violent and sad; **20%** for _When the Game Stands Tall_, because high school football is the most important thing in the world; **4%** for _Are You Here_, with Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis and Amy Poehler in a road trip comedy. I have six more titles with No Score Yet: _Another Me_, with Sophie Turner and Jonathan Rhys Meyers: “A teenager finds her perfect life upended when she’s stalked by a mysterious doppelganger who has her eyes set on assuming her identity.” Some kind of ghost mystery/thriller? _Kabbalah Me_, a documentary about a man’s exploration of Kabbalah; _May in the Summer_, about a Jordanian woman who is about to get married to her Muslim fiancé whose family is falling apart; _The Possession of Michael King_, a horror movie about the possession of Michael King; _The Prince_, an action thriller with Jason Patric, Bruce Willis and John Cusack; _Salvo_, an Italian crime drama about a Mafia hitman who meets a woman who changes his life. Have a great weekend! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146/127 "2014-08-22T20:32:33Z")
_X-Men: Days of Future Past_ and _Edge of Tomorrow_ are probably tied as my favorite movies of the summer. _Lucy_ and _Guardians of the Galaxy_ were a little bit of a letdown - just something missing. I still want to see _Calvary_ and _A Most Wanted Man_; trailers look great. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146/128 "2014-08-22T21:28:43Z")
Really? I was very pleasantly surprised by GOTG. I had expected something too silly and awkward but they really pulled it off. Great movie. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146/129 "2014-08-24T01:59:26Z")
Well… I liked it but it just didn’t hit the mark for me. My top superhero movies remain _Superman, X-Men, The Incredibles_ and _Iron Man_. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146/130 "2014-08-24T02:15:51Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > I would love to see _Boyhood_ but it’ll never come here. Just saw it, and loved it. Oscar time for Mr. Linklater, methinks, to go with his “discovery” Matt McConaghey’s from last year. A good decade for Texas cinema. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146/131 "2014-08-29T17:24:59Z")
For my last post in this thread, here are this week’s movie releases: **98%** for _Starred Up_, a British drama about a teen transferred to his dad’s prison; **91%** for _Patema Inverted_, in which two kids are separated by opposite gravities; **75%** for _The Congress_, in which Robin Wright, sort of playing herself, gets uploaded into a computer; **64%** for _The Notebook_, about twins working together to survive World War II; **60%** for _Life of Crime_, something about Jennifer Anison getting kidnapped; **43%** for _The Calling_, some kind of _The Exorcist_ meets _Fargo_ supernatural crime thriller with Susan Sarandon as a police officer; **34%** for _The November Man_, some kind of Pierce Brosnan action thriller; **33%** for _The Last of Robin Hood_, with Kevin Kline as an aging Errol Flynn; **29%** for _As Above, So Below_, more “found footage in enclosed, dark spaces” nonsense, this time taking place in the Paris catacombs. And that’s it for summer, folks! Have a wonderful three-day weekend! ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146/132 "2014-08-31T04:02:19Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > \*I still want to see _Calvary_ and _A Most Wanted Man_; trailers look great. I saw _A Most Wanted Man_ last Wednesday, it was very good. Very tense spy thriller that doesn’t rely on car chases and explosions. Phillip Seymour Hoffman is outstanding, with top notch support from Rachel McAdams and Willem Dafoe. Highly recommend. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146/133 "2014-08-31T15:47:56Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > I think maybe _Edge of Tomorrow_ was the best movie I’ve seen this summer (okay, I haven’t seen _Guardians_ yet). I saw something unusual. For some reason, _Edge of Tomorrow_ is being released on dvd as _Live Die Repeat_. I’ve seen movies have their titles changed for dvd release before but it’s very unusual for a major feature like this to be retitled. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146/134 "2014-08-31T19:00:16Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I saw _A Most Wanted Man_ last Wednesday, it was very good. Very tense spy thriller that doesn’t rely on car chases and explosions. Phillip Seymour Hoffman is outstanding, with top notch support from Rachel McAdams and Willem Dafoe. Highly recommend. Thanks! Hollywood just had its poorest summer box office returns since (gulp) 1997: [Film Industry Has Worst Summer Since 1997 | HuffPost Entertainment](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/29/film-industry-worst-summer_n_5739828.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146/135 "2014-09-23T17:56:32Z")
A list of this year’s big movies and their profitability. This is the amount of money they’ve made (domestically) divided by their production budget. In other words, for every dollar that was spent making the movie how many dollars did it earn? God’s Not Dead - 30.40 The Fault in our Stars - 10.40 Neighbors - 8.34 The Purge: Anarchy - 7.96 Heaven is for Real - 7.62 Ride Along - 5.37 Let’s Be Cops - 4.54 If I Stay - 4.34 The LEGO Movie - 4.30 Tammy - 4.22 About Last Night - 3.89 22 Jump Street - 3.82 Lucy - 3.12 Think Like a Man Too - 2.72 The Hundred-Foot Journey - 2.34 The Other Woman - 2.10 Guardians of the Galaxy - 1.85 Non-Stop - 1.83 Divergent - 1.78 Captain America: The Winter Soldier - 1.53 The Nut Job - 1.53 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 1.48 Maleficent - 1.33 Rio 2 - 1.28 Godzilla - 1.25 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - 1.22 How to Train Your Dragon 2 - 1.21 Transformers: Age of Extinction - 1.17 X-Men: Days of Future Past - 1.17 Planes: Fire & Rescue - 1.17 The Monuments Men - 1.11 Muppets Most Wanted - 1.02 300: Rise of An Empire - 0.97 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit - 0.84 Noah - 0.81 Mr. Peabody & Sherman - 0.77 Hercules - 0.72 RoboCop - 0.59 Edge of Tomorrow - 0.56 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146/136 "2014-09-23T18:08:12Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > A list of this year’s big movies and their profitability. This is the amount of money they’ve made (domestically) divided by their production budget. In other words, for every dollar that was spent making the movie how many dollars did it earn? Why are you limiting it to the domestic take? The latest TRANSFORMERS flick grossed only $245 million hereabouts on a $210 million budget, but isn’t the _real_ story that it pulled in $835 million overseas to break the billion-dollar mark? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146/137 "2014-09-25T22:21:04Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Why are you limiting it to the domestic take? The latest TRANSFORMERS flick grossed only $245 million hereabouts on a $210 million budget, but isn’t the _real_ story that it pulled in $835 million overseas to break the billion-dollar mark? As Mason said to Dixon, you’ve got to draw the line somewhere. And studios don’t consider foreign gross to be the same as domestic gross. Domestic gross is clearly preferred. When a studio sells tickets in other countries, there are often had delays and difficulties in getting the income back to the studio. One rule of thumb I’ve heard is that one dollar in domestic gross is considered to be the equivalent of two dollars in foreign gross. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146/138 "2014-09-25T22:44:25Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > studios don’t consider foreign gross to be the same as domestic gross. Domestic gross is clearly preferred. When a studio sells tickets in other countries, there are often had delays and difficulties in getting the income back to the studio. One rule of thumb I’ve heard is that one dollar in domestic gross is considered to be the equivalent of two dollars in foreign gross. If so, then why not do the summary as Domestic + 1/2 of Foreign? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146/139 "2014-09-26T00:34:58Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > As Mason said to Dixon, you’ve got to draw the line somewhere. > > And studios don’t consider foreign gross to be the same as domestic gross. Domestic gross is clearly preferred. When a studio sells tickets in other countries, there are often had delays and difficulties in getting the income back to the studio. One rule of thumb I’ve heard is that one dollar in domestic gross is considered to be the equivalent of two dollars in foreign gross. Preferred, but not required. “Transformers” is a clear example of a film where they’re counting on foreign box office. > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > If so, then why not do the summary as Domestic + 1/2 of Foreign? That makes sense to me. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146/140 "2014-09-26T03:44:00Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > If so, then why not do the summary as Domestic + 1/2 of Foreign? Because that would have involved about three times as much work as what I actually did. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-summer-movies-are-you-interested-in-seeing/687146.md?page=8)