[Summer '17] Fantasy Movie League!

[Skitch]

Also, note to Skitch:

The Mummy is tallied incorrectly on the spreadsheet for League B. The Week 4 total is off.

This has been corrected, thank you sir!

I encourage everyone to verify their numbers (and please look for my mistakes!).

[Skitch]

Skitch - Girls Trip - ~$105
Skitch - Spark - $0.196

You win some, you lose some lol

[transmogrifier]

What I learned: avoid R-rated comedies

[TGM]

What I learned: avoid R-rated comedies

I learned that the first time we did this thing.

[transmogrifier]

I learned that the first time we did this thing.

They have to get good reviews to even stand a chance. The House, Baywatch, and Snatched all whiffed quality-wise, and that was that. I was betting on them actually being... I don't know, decent? Silly me.

[Ezee E]

The House was Rated R?

[transmogrifier]

Yep...

[Skitch]

I have the same rule with R-rated comedies as unproven non-Pixar animated kids movies: one of each is a sleeper hit every year. Its okay to pick them, but don't bank on them.

[Henry Gale]

This has been a super abnormal summer for R-rated comedies, though. Both in them getting noticeably worse reviews than usual and instantly failing to connect at the box office. Baywatch, Snatched, The House, and Rough Night (the most well-received of them), all fall into this category.

The only breakout, both critically and commercially, has unexpectedly been Girls Trip, and on a smaller scale, The Big Sick. Also, Baby Driver isn't really a comedy, but considering it was somewhat marketed as one while having Edgar Wright's name on it, it should be noted it's a pretty massive success.

[Spinal]

Rough Night was hilarious. Not sure why the reviews were so bad.

[Skitch]

Every year its a different wave.

[Spinal]

This past weekend was the worst at the box office in 15 years.

This upcoming weekend will probably be even worse, as there are no wide releases scheduled, even though it's a holiday weekend.

[transmogrifier]

Just out of interest, here are the rankings so far by average Rotten Tomatoes score:

1. dreamdead - 70.75
2. Lazlo - 58.80
3. Spinal - 54.25
4. Ezee - 50.00
5. transmogrifier - 47.00
6. Ivan - 46.20
7. Winston - 44.60
8. Duke - 42.20
9. TGM - 40.75
10. Skitch - 36.75

I can't see anyone beating dreamdead, who still has Detroit, Dunkirk and Battle of the Sexes to come.

Here is the updated leaderboard (number of films left in brackets):

1. Spinal - 62.00 (4)
2. dreamdead - 61.50 (1)
3. transmogrifier - 60.14 (2)
4. Lazlo - 57.86 (2)
5. Winston - 52.13 (1)
6. Ezee - 47.86 (2)
7. Duke - 47.67 (3)
8. Ivan - 43.13 (1)
9. Skitch - 41.88 (1)
10. TGM - 38.50 (1)

I was wrong about dreamdead - Wish Upon and The Dark Tower more than cancelled out Dunkirk and Detroit.

[Spinal]

This season is winding down. Shall we prepare for the next? I'm happy to run the next season unless someone else was eager to do it. Who's in for next season? Answer by Sept. 12th at 5:00pm PST.

EDIT:

In for next season:

Everyone

[TGM]

I'm in.

[Spinal]

One more thing. Animal Crackers was supposed to get released on Sept. 1st and it doesn't look like that happened. It looks like this has been bumped. Anyone else have better info?

[Skitch]

I look into Animal Crackers. In for next season. I'll be updating league today.

[Lazlo]

In.

[Dukefrukem]

Of course I'm in.

[Skitch]

Update!

Short version:

Animal Crackers has been pushed back indefinitely. Duke you have one week to pick a replacement or select round average.

League A
Lazlo $612,608,977
TGM $468,916,349
Ezee E $679,996,055
Spinal $494,773,364
Winston $616,524,200

League B
Dukefrukem $528,508,771
transmogrifier $562,042,003
Skitch $601,080,234
dreamdead $537,836,882
Ivan Drago $616,053,408

[Dukefrukem]

Is the round avg divided by 4 or 5?

If 4, I'll take the round avg.

[Skitch]

I would say 4? Wouldn't be fair to add a zero score in there.

[Ivan Drago]

C'mon, Kingsman....

[Spinal]

C'mon, Kingsman....

I'm with you on this one.

You in for next season, Ivan?

[Ezee E]

In.