What Movies Have You Seen Lately?

Quote: Evenbob

Box Office: Steven Spielberg Has Disastrous Opening With “The BFG”

I said awhile back this would be a dog,
I couldn't even watch all of the trailer.
It looked like an awful movie.

In EvenBob's world, bad box office = bad movie.

Quote: Evenbob

I said awhile back this would be a dog,
I couldn't even watch all of the trailer.
It looked like an awful movie.

It's not for you, Bob. It's a kid's movie. No one cares what you think...you're an old man.

Quote: zippyboy

It's not for you, Bob. It's a kid's movie. .

LOL! Apparently it's not for anybody, it's
a sinking ship at the box office. I thought
the trailer was frightening, some huge
giant guy wandering around harassing
kids.

Rotten Tomatoes ranked it in the bottom third for a Spielberg movie.

1.  98% E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 1982
2.  97% Jaws 1975
3.  96% Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
4.  96% Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
5.  96% Catch Me If You Can 2002
6.  96% Schindler's List 1993
7.  93% Jurassic Park 1993
8.  92% Saving Private Ryan 1998
9.  92% Bridge of Spies 2015
10.  91% The Sugarland Express 1974
11.  91% Letters from Iwo Jima 2006
12.  90% Minority Report 2002
13.  90% Lincoln 2012
14.  88% Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989
15.  88% The Color Purple 1985
16.  88% Poltergeist 1982
17.  87% Duel 1972
18.  87% All the Way 2016
19.  85% Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984
20.  83% Empire of the Sun 1987
21.  82% Super 8 2011
22.  78% Continental Divide 1981
23.  78% Munich 2005
24.  77% Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2008
25.  76% Gladiator 2000
26.  76% Cape Fear 1991
27.  76% Amistad 1997
28.  76% War Horse 2011
29.  75% Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 1989
30.  75% The Adventures of Tintin 2011
31.  74% War of the Worlds 2005
32.  74% Monster House 2006
33.  73% A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001
34.  73% Flags of Our Fathers 2006
35.  71% The BFG 2016
36.  70% The Land Before Time 1988
37.  70% The Goonies 1985
38.  69% Disturbia 2007
39.  68% The Hundred-Foot Journey 2014
40.  65% Twilight Zone---The Movie 1983
41.  64% *batteries not included 1987
42.  61% The Terminal 2004
43.  56% Just Like Heaven 2005
44.  51% The Lost World - Jurassic Park 1997
45.  47% The Money Pit 1986
46.  45% An American Tail - Fievel Goes West 1991
47.  44% Harry and the Hendersons 1987
48.  35% Memoirs of a Geisha 2005
49.  33% I Am Number Four 2011
50.  32% 1941 1979
51.  31% Poltergeist 2015
52.  30% Hook 1991

I guess they will have to add an F to the name. Big F...... Giagantic Flop

I hate to always be a contrarian but I recently saw BFG and it was an EXCELLENT children's movie.

Quote: Pacomartin

Rotten Tomatoes ranked it in the bottom third for a Spielberg movie.

Which means nothing BO wise. The 2nd
Jurassic Park movie made money, as did
Goonies and Money Pit. I think Harry and
the Hendersons even did well. ET at the
top sucks so badly I have yet to see more
than the first hour. I walked out of the
theater in 82 and last year I made it 40 min
before I was disgusted. I hate puppet
movies.

Quote: Pacomartin

Rotten Tomatoes ranked it in the bottom third for a Spielberg movie.

1.  98% E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 1982
2.  97% Jaws 1975
3.  96% Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
4.  96% Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
5.  96% Catch Me If You Can 2002
6.  96% Schindler's List 1993
7.  93% Jurassic Park 1993
8.  92% Saving Private Ryan 1998
9.  92% Bridge of Spies 2015
10.  91% The Sugarland Express 1974
11.  91% Letters from Iwo Jima 2006
12.  90% Minority Report 2002
13.  90% Lincoln 2012
14.  88% Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989
15.  88% The Color Purple 1985
16.  88% Poltergeist 1982
17.  87% Duel 1972
18.  87% All the Way 2016
19.  85% Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984
20.  83% Empire of the Sun 1987
21.  82% Super 8 2011
22.  78% Continental Divide 1981
23.  78% Munich 2005
24.  77% Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2008
25.  76% Gladiator 2000
26.  76% Cape Fear 1991
27.  76% Amistad 1997
28.  76% War Horse 2011
29.  75% Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 1989
30.  75% The Adventures of Tintin 2011
31.  74% War of the Worlds 2005
32.  74% Monster House 2006
33.  73% A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001
34.  73% Flags of Our Fathers 2006
35.  71% The BFG 2016
36.  70% The Land Before Time 1988
37.  70% The Goonies 1985
38.  69% Disturbia 2007
39.  68% The Hundred-Foot Journey 2014
40.  65% Twilight Zone---The Movie 1983
41.  64% *batteries not included 1987
42.  61% The Terminal 2004
43.  56% Just Like Heaven 2005
44.  51% The Lost World - Jurassic Park 1997
45.  47% The Money Pit 1986
46.  45% An American Tail - Fievel Goes West 1991
47.  44% Harry and the Hendersons 1987
48.  35% Memoirs of a Geisha 2005
49.  33% I Am Number Four 2011
50.  32% 1941 1979
51.  31% Poltergeist 2015
52.  30% Hook 1991

This is an odd list, because many of these movies were not directed by Steven Spielberg....

Any thoughts on "The Giver"? I see it's on Netflix for the time being.

Quote: ams288

This is an odd list, because many of these movies were not directed by Steven Spielberg....

I chose movies where he was a Producer, but rejected movies where he was just an EXECUTIVE producer.For example he was an EXECUTIVE producer on the Transformers movies, but it clearly isn't the primary creative energy.

The following list is worldwide gross for just directorial films

1. $1029.20 Jurassic Park - 6/11/1993
2. $786.60 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 5/22/2008
3. $717.00 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial - 6/11/1982
4. $618.60 The Lost World: Jurassic Park - 5/23/1997
5. $591.70 War of the Worlds - 6/29/2005
6. $481.80 Saving Private Ryan
7. $474.20 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
8. $470.70 Jaws
9. $374.00 The Adventures of Tintin
10. $358.40 Minority Report
11. $354.00 Raiders of the Lost Ark
12. $352.10 Catch Me If You Can
13. $333.10 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
14. $321.30 Schindler's List
15. $300.90 Hook
16. $288.10 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
17. $275.30 Lincoln
18. $235.90 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
19. $219.40 The Terminal
20. $177.60 War Horse
21. $165.50 Bridge of Spies
22. $130.40 Munich
23. $92.50 1941
24. $74.10 Always
25. ------------- BFG

One interesting item is that Spielberg who will be age 70 this December, is widely credited with creating the modern movie business with it's emphasis on summer blockbusters. But he never really moved into the latest age of global blockbusters that Christopher Nolan inhabits.

Even BFG is a perfect example. He knew going in that the movie was only aimed at the very young and was never going to be a blockbuster. But he seems to be following personal goals.

Not that Christopher Nolan doesn't have intellectual goals as well. The themes of many of his movies are very thought provoking.

1. $1,084.90 The Dark Knight Rises
2. $1,003.00 The Dark Knight
3. $825.50 Inception
4. $675.10 Interstellar
5. $372.70 Batman Begins
6. $113.70 Insomnia
7. $109.70 The Prestige
8. $39.70 Memento