Welcome to the NEW Box Office Wizard, Player Affinity’s premiere movie box office prediction competition and your chance every week to feel like a flippin’ genius – nay – wizard. Entering is and always has been simple. You read through this post and leave a comment with, in order, what you think the top five box office finishers will be that weekend. Finish out 2011 on top and you will win something COOL.
Here at Player Affinity Movies, we follow the Oscar buzz all year long … some of us maybe to a fault, but hey, it’s cool. We predicted winners in all of the major categories/categories of interest. See how the seven of us voted, and decide for yourself who’s right.
Full of cars, guns and even the devil, Drive Angry 3D feels like a cinematic hodge-podge, like filmmakers/writers Todd Farmer and Patrick Lussier took elements from a number of other successful films, threw them together into one script and slapped a “NEW!” label on it.
No matter how “sophisticated” you feel your tastes in “humor” are, the Farrelly Brothers know how to get a laugh, period, and their work has inspired dozens of movies you’ve laughed at over the last decade or so.
Hall Pass, which comes out Friday, marks the brothers’ tenth film, which in blogging terms means we can create a Farrelly brothers “Top 10” list.
Will the found-footage genre be able to make a successful transition from horror to sci fi? Make your own decision as the skin-crawling outer space mockumentary Apollo 18 graces the Trailer Tracker universe this week, also serving as our featured trailer. For those looking for laughs over screams, Russell Brand does what he does best in the first clip for the remake Arthur about an immature playboy forced to grow up or lose his luxurious lifestyle. Continuing to bolster the standing of two of the biggest young stars (talents by the names of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Natalie Portman) Hesher, the Sundance darling, moves closer to a release with its first official trailer. Finally, those feeling the spring fever should swoon for Something Borrowed, another entry of the popular wedding-themed romcom. Please say “I do” – it’s Trailer Tracker.
I Am Number Four felt oddly familiar when I watched it on Friday. Sometimes this happens at the movies, this feeling of déjà vu. Actually, it happened to me again as I watched Unknown today, which owes The Bourne Identity some royalties. Movies often steal from other movies when you boil films down to their lowest common denominators
Welcome to the NEW Box Office Wizard, Player Affinity’s premiere movie box office prediction competition and your chance every week to feel like a flippin’ genius – nay – wizard. Entering is and always has been simple. You read through this post and leave a comment with, in order, what you think the top five box office finishers will be that weekend. Finish out 2011 on top and you will win something COOL.
Aw, what troubled times we live in. 2008 saw many an investor off themselves with the economic downturn. It was only a matter of time before filmmakers and Hollywood at large turned their attention towards the crisis. One of the films yielded from this is The Company Men starring Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, and Kevin Costner. I finally had the opportunity to see this after missing it at Sundance 2010 and having its release delayed a couple times. Ben Affleck plays an upper-middle-class salesman who finds himself among the thousands laid off from their jobs at that time. Jones is a higher level executive that believes company bonuses should go before the jobs of people that need them.
Do you know who you are? When were you born? What year is it? Well, even if you can’t answer these queries, hopefully you can still read, because Player Affinity will now take you through memory loss tropes in film. Memory loss, mistaken identity and amnesia-themed films are a convenient plot device, a crutch even, when filmmakers are looking for a quick way to materialize some danger, progress the zaniness of a rom-com, or craft a psychological thriller.Unknown, starring Liam Neeson, falls within some common trends in the genre as it finds a man who after awakening from a coma tries to piece together the truth of his immediate past while his entire existence is seemingly stolen from around him.
Unless you’ve been living under some sort of Internet-deprived rock, it should come as no surprise our featured trailer this week is X-Men: First Class fromKick-Ass director (in more ways than one mind you) Matt Vaughn. With a fresh cast, can this prequel live up to its mostly admired roots? Also, for you non-mutant lovers, we have the long-delayed sequel for the fairytale satire Hoodwinked!, now graced with the two in-title puns which result in: Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil. Horror fans can also get a taste of Darren Lynne Bousman’s 11-11-11, as can those who fancy drama with Oranges and Sunshine starring Hugo Weaving. Same for those who thirst for trashy exploitation with the interesting (to say the least) clip for Howlin’ For You. Must be a full moon, it’s Trailer Tracker.
