So this is a take on a thread you see all over the place, however with more discussion! The idea being, post up the last movie you watched along with a 1-10 score and a little bit of info about why you felt that way about it, then we can discuss said film.

I'll get it started.

Into the Wild (2007) ›› ( 8.0/10 )
I had wanted to watch this when it frirst came out, there was a lot of buzz around it but it was lost in my backlog. They recently added it to Netflix so I finally gave it a watch over the weekend. It was an interesting story, a character study more than anything. The disjointed narrative was a nice touch. It was a nice film.

Honestly, I watched that late last year and found it to be pretty eh. I know there was a lot of talk about it bing original and all that jazz but I thought it was pretty bad. I think I already had this talk with Fevian lol, he was the one talking it up that made me consider watching it.

The story. lol.

It's apparently not doing quite as well at the box office as was expected, though iit still may pull out $100 million in it's 4 day opening run (strong numbers from today and tomorrow are a must for this, seems unlikely). Numbers from Thursday and Friday were pretty far off the expectation though.

I dunno man, the last one didn't really do that well over seas. Star Trek isn't traditionally a strong worldwide brand. It will surely still get like $80 million four day, but I had seen that the studio was estimating $100-$110 million or something, so clearly they were wrong. Even if it doubles it's foriegn haul from the last one, which it probably will do, it's going to have trouble recouping that budget.

That won't cover it though. The general rule of thumb is Production Budget x2 (to account for advertising budget, which is generally about the same as the production budget, though this can vary. With major films like this one, sometimes it's more) Which is why It's going to have a tough time being profitable. That being said, in the long run it should be since they will make a good sum on Blu-Ray/DVD sales (with a movie like this you can usually expect anywhere between $50-100 millon in that area) and licensing to networks (like HBO, etc).

Still from what I see it looks like unless it has a strong hold next weekend and boosts it's numbers over seas that it will have a hard time being super profitable (Like Iron man for instance) and might find a 3rd entry less likely of happening.

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The beginning started off slow and then got kind've messed up at certain points.. but ofcourse this is nothing compared to what goes on later lol. Honestly the segments are all very messed up, one of them being kind've dumber but still crazy. I got scared not gonna lie lol.. it's all found footage type stuff so if thats not your thing you might not like it.. however don't just not check it out. It truly is scary as shit and goes from being fun to fucked up in the most brutal of ways in an instant. FREAKY MOVIE!!

The Hangover Part III - Very quick overview here. Pretty much what I expected. They went away from the formula of the first two and did something else. Really, it was more of an action-comedy than anything. It was okay. Not as memorable as the first two, but pretty consistently funny. Still, there were some things that weren't that great (as expected). Despite that, I sorta like how they ended it all, though moreso in theory than execution. 6.0/10

Yeah, this one might be a little better than the second one, but it doesn't have as many memorable lines/moments in my eyes. But, then again, I don't really care about that much in the first place.

Pretty much my feelings on The Dictator. Only part I really though was funny was the “splish splash, takin' a bath” part.