X-Men: Days of Future Past is getting a 93% Certified Fresh score from Rotten Tomatoes! They are hoping for an opening weekend take of $100 million, so get out there, folks! ($250 million budget)
The Amazing Spider-Man 253% has grossed $176 mill in three weeks, which you might think is a lot of money but it is still in the red with a $200 million budget – yeowza!
Godzilla73% has grossed $117 million (one week) from a budget of $160 million.
I heard in a documentary about screenwriting that a movie can still be considered a failure if it cost $100 million to make and made only, say, $102 million. It has to make maybe $150 million or more… and that’s pretty hard to do.
If I had to pick one, it’s going to be Guardians of the Galaxy.
But I’m also watching:
X-Men: Days of Future Past,
Maleficent,
Edge of Tomorrow (I’m hearing Cruise is good in this, plus I like Emily Blunt),
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (My daughter will demand it),
Jupiter Ascending (Looks amazeballs, will have to see about Channing Tatum…)
and the aforementioned Lucy (Besson doing SciFi is always good)
It’s 50% now, but 75% of Users liked it. It might be somewhat of a crowd-pleaser no matter what the critics think. I’m on my way to see it now so I can judge for myself.
I didn’t vote because my answer would be “Most of them.”
That doesn’t belong on this list since it’s not si-fi/fantasy, but yes, do! I’ve seen it twice already and I’m sure it will be in my Top 10 at the end of the year (along with Only Lovers Left Alive and Under the Skin).
I’ve seen Spiderman 2, like 1 better and X-men, which was fantastic.
I plan to see How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy, might grab a matinee of Transformers if I’sufficiently bored at being home all the time.
Edge of Tomorrow is getting a 90% positive score from Rotten Tomatoes.
The Fault in Our Stars is getting an 82%.
There is a documentary called The Case Against 8, about California’s Proposition 8 (the same-sex marriage ban) and the resulting Supreme Court fight, that opens in limited release today. It’s also getting an 82% positive score.
I saw that at a film festival a few months back and it’s very, very good. A well-crafted mix of the personal, the political and the legal dimensions of Prop 8. Here’s the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyyQu-uZ4ZE
Bound was critically acclaimed, The Matrix series was quite successful for all that it fell apart at the end. The only real flop I know of is Speed Racer. Was Cloud Atlas bad? I only read the book.
Based on the trailers I really wanted to see Jupiter Rising. I’m really disappointed it got pushed back. I console myself with the thought that it might be studio caution about an SF film that’s not based on a comic book or an existing successful franchise. You know how Hollywood hates originality.
How to Train Your Dragon 2 is getting 92% from Rotten Tomatoes.
22 Jump Street is getting 85% (no thank you).
Something called The Rover with Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson in some “set in a world ten years following the collapse of society” story is getting 67%, not bad.
Some science fiction horror quarantine story with Laurence Fishburne and a bunch of young actors I don’t know is getting only 53%.