Best Summer Blockbuster of 2014 Showdown!

[crocodile 8,017]

Well? The title is pretty self-explanatory.

One thing: Captain America: The Winter Soldier is technically not a summer film (it was released in early April), but it still can be treated as such.

Second thing: I might have missed something. Let me know.

Karol

[Quintus 5,399]

I've only seen one of the movies on the list and I'm thinking I probably picked the best one this summer anyway.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Due to global warming, the summer has been widened to April.

[Thor 7,517]

My favourite "blockbuster" and, in fact, favourite film of the year isn't even on the list -- Luc Besson's LUCY.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Is it really a blockbuster?

[Wojo 2,453]

I've only seen three, and Maleficent and HTTYD2 don't make the cut.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

None of these movies have reached $300m domestic. Are movies this year making less money than previous years? Or are there more movies being released and their revenue is eating into one another more than before?

[crocodile 8,017]

I enjoyed many of them to various degrees, but the one I had most fun watching was Edge of Tomorrow. It was the most consistent one quality-wise as well.

Karol

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

None of these movies have reached $300m domestic. Are movies this year making less money than previous years? Or are there more movies being released and their revenue is eating into one another more than before?

It's because it was a really weak summer blockbuster blockbuster season.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

None of these movies have reached $300m domestic. Are movies this year making less money than previous years? Or are there more movies being released and their revenue is eating into one another more than before?

It's because it was a really weak summer blockbuster blockbuster season.

What was weak about it? There were so many good movies.

[Quintus 5,399]

How many territories has Guardians opened in by now? All of them? If so, surely execs and industry commentators consider it to be a commercial failure. Even Marvel don't have the Midas touch.

[crocodile 8,017]

It is expected to reach 300 million, actually.

Karol

[Quintus 5,399]

Domestically or worldwide? It cost over half that to make.

I hope it does make a handsome profit in the end. Well, whatever it takes to keep the silly expectations of the whining shareholders happy anyway.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

No domestic. Right now its on 250 domistic, nearing 500 million international.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Even Marvel don't have the Midas touch.

Doesn't! Marvel is singular.

[crocodile 8,017]

No, silly. It made $489,484,000 worldwide and $251,884,000 domestically. As of today.

Karol

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

But Lee is right that 2014 didnt really yield a 1 billion+ mega hit.

[Jay 37,370]

Godzilla and GOTG are the only one on the list I've seen! My how times have changed.

Lucky should be on the list for sure.

[crocodile 8,017]

Transformers 4 made $1,065,125,000.

Karol

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

But Lee is right that 2014 didnt really yield a 1 billion+ mega hit.

Worldwide, Transformers IV did. But domestically it underperformed compared to the previous ones.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

There was a fourth film?

[crocodile 8,017]

Hehe yeah.

I have to say, there were quite a few decent titles this year.

And yet...

I don't really want to see any of them again.

Karol

[Romão 2,274]

I only watched X-Men in the theatre and Captain American on a flight. The first was fun. The later was utterly forgettable, like most Marvel fare

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

What is left of 2015 as "The Mother Of All Blockbuster Years"?

Jason?

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

They say Captain America 2 is The Dark Knight of Marvel movies.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Well...

It's a bit darker then the other ones. But eventually the final act is about the big CGI battle in the sky. Just like the last 4 or 5 Marvel titles

[Jay 37,370]

Why isn't Lucy on the list?

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

It's an obscure piece of French cinema?

Do there Luc Besson films really count as proper blockbusters?

[Romão 2,274]

Well...

It's a bit darker then the other ones. But eventually the final act is about the big CGI battle in the sky. Just like the last 4 or 5 Marvel titles

it still is as by the numbers as most of the other Marvel films. I'm surprised it was as well received as it was

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Some by the numbers films are less by the numbers then others. Marvel's 2014 crop is a good example of that.

[Romão 2,274]

Still haven't seen Guardians of the Galaxy

[Dixon Hill 4,234]

A number of these were good. Only one really had heart.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Still haven't seen Guardians of the Galaxy

You will think it is overrated my friend.

[mstrox 6,651]

Of the four I've seen from the list (Captain America, X-men, Spiderman, Guardians), Guardians edges just ahead of Captain America and the other two are somewhere much lower. I'll catch Godzilla and POTA (and Lucy) on Redbox, might sample TMNT on HBO if I'm in a mood, and have no interest in the others.

[Romão 2,274]

Still haven't seen Guardians of the Galaxy

You will think it is overrated my friend.

I keep watching these acclaimed Marvel movies hoping one of them turns out to be actually good. The only one I enjoyed was the first Iron Man. I loved Ang Lee's Hulk, but that doesn't fit into Marvel's current slate.

I'll check it out this week. At least it does not have that "more of the same" feeling from the trailers

[publicist 4,643]

I only saw GODZILLA and voted thus.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Godzilla would be a great film is I at any point gave a damn about the human characters.

[publicist 4,643]

I really didn't care. I came for carnage, i got carnage.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

True. It's a great monster movie.

[Quintus 5,399]

I'll have to take your word on it.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Oh come one man! take a punt on it.

[Quintus 5,399]

I can't. Heisenberg gets killed off. Which is fine, but I know about it.

[publicist 4,643]

It's a total non-issue. He's just white noise.

[Quintus 5,399]

I must stand by my loose principles.

[publicist 4,643]

Let's say before you watch FAST & THE FURIOUS 7.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

It's a totally forgettable role anyway.

[Quintus 5,399]

I haven't watched a single Fast and Furious movie in my life. Can't watch those sorts of racing thrillers.

[nightscape94 965]

I've only seen two films, Godzilla and Guardians. Godzilla wins out big time.

P.S. Sin City should not be on here. The first one wasn't a blockbuster (nor is it meant to be), and the second one tanked.

[Jay 37,370]

Yea I don't think of Sin City 2 as a summer blockbuster type movie either. But Lucy definitely is.

[crocodile 8,017]

One of the things about blockbusters is that they're expensive. Lucy was 40 million, Sin City cost almost twice that.

Karol