General Discussion

Week 8 then... That happened. Look, Hollywood, I know that next week is The Dark Knight Rises, but I'm fairly certain that you don't need to clear the entire weekend previous to it! People will still see films if they're exciting or interesting enough! Nevertheless, this week, roughly everything performed as expected, bar one extremely amazing performance for a very sh*t looking film. However, there are big points being distributed this week, despite the lack of films and competitors. Here come the results! Reminder: it's 1 point for being closest and 2 points for being dead on.

So, interesting weekend, then. Sadly, @alexpiercey's tremendous bet of $1 for The Obama Effect did not yield him a point. Shame. @Acura_Max picks up a crucial point in their challenge for the top and @Red has finally, after all of these weeks, gotten a point. In fact, make that 2 points! Yes, for the first time in forever, somebody got a prediction dead on! Congrats to @Red and @VioletEyedDragon for that achievement! In fact, keep those congratulations going for @VioletEyedDragon who is literally coming from nowhere to become a very serious contender for the crown! 5 points in 2 weeks! @RockinKemosabe must be quaking in their boots! But don't count out @dOm_CaTz, who is doing some surging of their own. We're in for the quite the finish in the coming weeks, lemme tell ya!

With three weeks remaining, let's go to the board!

That brings Week 8 to a close. Next week, The Dark Knight Rises. Can @VioletEyedDragon continue their unstoppable rise? Can anyone actually topple @RockinKemosabe? Can @obscurefan finally earn a gorram point? And just how wrong are we all going to be when it comes to predicting The Dark Knight Rises? Find out on Wednesday with Week 9! Until then, comment away on proceedings here!

Well shit...

awesome.

also, I can't believe THE OBAMA EFFECT did that well. i mean it isn't a fantastic opening, but seeing as watching the trailer didn't even convey whether it was pro or anti Obama i think it is a pretty big surprise.

YES! YES! YES!

I can't wait for this week 9. Finally, I get to use the really big numbers (The Amazing Spider-Man did not count since it was a 6 day total). This will be an interesting week.

@VioletEyedDragon: That was probably a significant reason why the movie did well. Picking a side would have alienated some movie goers and divided their gross.

@Acura_Max said:

I can't wait for this week 9. Finally, I get to use the really big numbers (The Amazing Spider-Man did not count since it was a 6 day total). This will be an interesting week.

@VioletEyedDragon: That was probably a significant reason why the movie did well. Picking a side would have alienated some movie goers and divided their gross.

I guess you're right. it looked pretty unfunny, and in ways that both Democrats and Republicans agree on.

Hell yeah. Tied for 9th place. I'm coming for you, @jackanderson and @dOm_CaTz:

This fucking sucks. =(

Son of a bitch! I almost want to give up. Six goose eggs. T_T >_<

But I know that I'm still only one point behind. I've got this... Or do I?