tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post6318718353580270355..comments2024-03-26T19:52:25.909-04:00Comments on PT Dilloway: Box Office Blitz Week 20PT Dillowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09394481476862013009noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-20222334831097022882013-11-22T21:42:44.143-05:002013-11-22T21:42:44.143-05:00I hope you managed to have a special Birthday even...I hope you managed to have a special Birthday even though so much distraction was happening around the country.stephen Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17659054447637207734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-65949500703573676302013-11-22T20:40:46.684-05:002013-11-22T20:40:46.684-05:00Hunger games 2 - $142m
Thor 2 - $16m
Best Man - $1...Hunger games 2 - $142m<br />Thor 2 - $16m<br />Best Man - $10mChristopher Dillowayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06023270085538720029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-62247774986497264332013-11-22T16:07:48.638-05:002013-11-22T16:07:48.638-05:00Happy Birthday, I had no idea, Briane told me. But...Happy Birthday, I had no idea, Briane told me. But to be honest, without people reminding me, I wouldn't even know when my birthday came around.<br /><br />Catching Fire: $130 mil <br />Thor 2: $17 mil<br />Best Man Holiday - $16 milRusty Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09887821877521181811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-56638531214937744972013-11-22T13:28:05.637-05:002013-11-22T13:28:05.637-05:00Happy birthday! (I knew without Briane telling me)...Happy birthday! (I knew without Briane telling me)<br />And I agree about the impression of Split Infinity on middle schoolers.<br /><br />1. Catching Fire: $155m<br />2. Thor 2: $16m<br />3. Best Man Holiday: $15mAndrew Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13964775673414653644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-6933485107334887022013-11-22T12:55:58.650-05:002013-11-22T12:55:58.650-05:00So I get 100 bonus points for everyone who gets it...So I get 100 bonus points for everyone who gets it right!<br /><br />Happy Birthday. I was going to buy you a present but I haven't yet found one within my budget. All those free links are meant to sort of be a present.<br /><br />First picks:<br /><br />1. Hunger Games 2: Hunger Boogaloo. (That joke never gets old): $80mil.<br />2. Dallas Buyer's club $20 mil<br />3. 500 Vince Vaughns: $10 mil.<br /><br />As for all the other stuff:<br /><br />I only just now realized that EVERY YEAR OF YOUR LIFE has been marked by Baby Boomers talking about the death of a mildly-effective president who likely would have gone down in history with the rep LBJ has had he not been shot. JFK, like Kurt Cobain, benefited from his early demise because it elevated him to legendary status without needing to actually, you know, BE LEGENDARY. <br /><br />JFK also benefitted by being the favorite president of a giant cohort of AMAZINGLY self-involved people. The Baby Boomers have spent their life being told how interesting they are, and then spent their life telling themselves how interesting they are, and they can get away with it because they're the largest blip ever in consumer culture, so what they like is what gets sold.<br /><br />But was JFK more interesting/effective as a president than Obama? Reagan? Reagan had nuclear scares. Obama energized the young people. You could argue that Worst President Ever was more worthy of repeated study than JFK. And I already made the point on Twitter today that only the Boomers go nuts over a dead president: In 1931 I bet there were few "A Look Back At The Day Garfield was shot" articles. <br /><br />You, my friend, are like Butters on "South Park." His birthday was 9/11. I feel bad for you.<br /><br />Now: Hunger Games 2: I heard this morning that they send them back to a second hunger games. WHY? ASSUMING that the "hunger games" dystopia is in any way a working structure for a society, it would still have to follow logical rules, and if the leader simply changes those rules at any time, you have an additional instability built into the system that makes it less likely to work. Hunger Games is the worst kind of dystopia/futurecrap: a setup made up just to be interesting or to serve the plot, rather than imagining a future that might exist and then having the story derive from that.<br /><br />At least in "Star Wars" -- perhaps the most slapdash of now-mythologized scifi -- the Empire as it turns out grew out of an actual crisis that led to the consolidation of power (much like WWII is said to have been born in the punitive sanctions that killed the Weimar Republic.)<br /><br />Teens will buy any junk now. When I was a teen *puts on old-man glasses, squints at paper, worries about kids being on his lawn* I wanted scifi that made SENSE, even if it was weird. Piers Anthony's "Proton" from the Split Infinity books, for example, had people working as naked serfs for 20 year stints, but explained that by pointing out that they earned enough in that 20 years to retire on another planet, and by pointing out that the "Game" and the promise of a new citizen being added each year, were big draws for serfs. THAT was a dystopia you could set your watch to.<br /><br />(Plus, there was a naked lady robot programmed to please the main character and that made a HUGE impression on my 8th-grade mind.)Brianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01616494058636881575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-23985433850829620822013-11-22T11:42:37.067-05:002013-11-22T11:42:37.067-05:00It's been a very interesting year for Abercrom...It's been a very interesting year for Abercrombie & Fitch (talking about this because you brought it up in your post). The stock YTD is among the worst performers and the CEO recently got put on the "Wall of Shame" on CNBC's "Mad Money" along with other horrible Chief Executive Officers that have driven their companies into the ground. Apparently, the brand A&F is so disliked that if the company doesn't completely restructure, it may go the way of Linens & Things. Funny how fashion is all the rage one year and is completely dead the next. I do agree with the Wall Street analysis of A&F. "They were cool in the late 90's and early 2000's but the company has lost sight of what teens and those in their early twenties want to wear. The CEO needs to be replaced with someone under 30 that isn't a creepy pedophile-type person. And 'cool' is not what people were all excited about ten years ago."<br /><br />Also Happy Birthday.<br /><br />Here are my picks for today:<br /><br />1) The Hunger Games $110 million<br />2) Thor $21 million<br />3) The Best Man Holiday $18 million<br /><br />Briane Pagel sent out an email to your close blog followers like myself to let us know it was your birthday. So that may break the rules on your bonus 100.Michael Offutt, Phantom Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557969104886174930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-40643030197489720142013-11-22T11:26:37.742-05:002013-11-22T11:26:37.742-05:00Happy day of your birth!
1. The Hunger Games: Cat...Happy day of your birth!<br /><br />1. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire $180M<br />2 .Thor: The Dark World $18M<br />3. The Best Man Holiday 15M<br /><br />I agree with Maurice it should stay up to at least #3.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06208969934278199592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-92061554541809359202013-11-22T09:28:02.138-05:002013-11-22T09:28:02.138-05:00I was going to hit Wikipeda till your brother chim...I was going to hit Wikipeda till your brother chimed in. I'll have to see the movie, but I'm guessing it would be like trying to kill Will Smith. Everyone would notice. I hope Best Man 2 stays in the top ten because it's a great moment in Black cinema.<br />1. Hunger Games 2 $98M<br />2. Thor: The Dark World $23M<br />3. Best Man Holiday $16M<br />Maurice Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15338165486757095191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-29953325326991781552013-11-22T09:23:19.667-05:002013-11-22T09:23:19.667-05:00perchance is it the day you were born? I win!! :pperchance is it the day you were born? I win!! :pChristopher Dillowayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06023270085538720029noreply@blogger.com