Movie Moan - The Winter 2012 Predictions Power Hour (Or Two)

As promised a few weeks ago, Phil, Jamie, and the master of predictions Mr. Shawn Robbins of BoxOffice.com have returned to do battle once more in an epic show which we are proud to present in our classic Movie Moan format of full-on video enhanced glory.

I'm sure you folks know the drill by now (and I explain it all again in the show anyhow).  We've cast our eyes at 15 of this Winter's biggest film releases, covering November and December, and will each make our prediction on each film's US domestic gross.  For some reason, Phil thought this would be a tighter show than the summer version; fat chance of that.

So don't forget to join in too.  Leave your predictions in the comments section below and if you could present it in a nice little list like the one you see below it would be a big help to me when collating the results for February's follow up.  If you want to skip to a specific prediction then here are the cliff notes:

5:10 mins - Wreck It Ralph
14:35 mins - Flight
21:40 mins - Skyfall
36:10 mins - Lincoln
46:25 mins - The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
56:15 mins - Rise Of The Guardians
64:50 mins - Life Of Pi
71:10 mins - Red Dawn
75:15 mins - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
92:40 mins - Monsters Inc. 3D
97:55 mins - Zero Dark Thirty
101:10 mins - Jack Reacher
106:40 mins - This Is 40
107:20 mins - Django Unchained
112:50 mins - Les Miserables

NOTE: Shawn is so deseperate to win on his crazy Hobbit prediction that he emailed me after we recorded to qualify his answer further.  So here it is:

"The Hobbit goes as Howard Shore goes. I'm a believer in strong musical scores either carrying an otherwise mediocre movie and/or elevating a great movie to an even higher status. Without him, as great as LOTR is, it would lose a lot... and I think a similar principle applies for the Hobbit movies. He's the John Williams to this franchise's Star Wars. The question is how strong his new score will be."

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Movie Moan - The Dredd Of Being A Master Looper

It fills me with pride this week to introduce Movie Moan's second ever British participant, filmmaker, writer and journalist for 'HeyUGuys.co.uk' Mr Ben Mortimer (who you can also catch on Twitter right here).

And it's a good old wannabe critics roundtable this week as we spent 100 mins on back to back reviews of some of 2012's most interesting and divisive films to date.  So join me, Ben, Capt. Ed Hocken and Jamie Williams to discuss:-

3:30 mins - 'Looper'; not the action packed blast of fun that a lazy critic poster quote would have you believe or a film that everybody loves.

34:35 mins - 'Dredd'; since it was really Hocken's review that we all wanted to hear, join him and Ben as they spew more love on 2012's biggest surprise.

51 mins - 'The Master'; Jamie and Hocken talk us through the latest acquired taste from Paul Thomas Anderson.

70:50 mins - 'Bond 50'; Phil gives you the lowdown on whether the ultimate Blu Ray 007 boxset is worth upgrading from the previous thousand times you've bought all these bloody films.

87:10 mins - 'The Perks Of Being A Wallflower'; Hocken works some overtime as he squeezes in one last little review.

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Movie Moan - Raiders Of The Unexpected Journey Into Darkness

As we announced at the end of last week's show, Movie Moan is changing format slightly so no full-on regular video shows at the moment.  However, for those of you who prefer to listen to us at your computer, the good old Blip TV version is still available above each week.  Please forgive the no-frills version this week as we're still figuring out exactly what the presentation of the show is going to be from now on.

As the fall 2012 season of Movie Moan begins, we kick things off with the wonderfully welcome re-appearance of writer, producer, director, Robert Meyer Burnett as he joins Phil and Jamie to discuss:

1:45 mins - Bragging that Robert and Phil get to see 'Skyfall' on October 26th (together) and Jamie doesn't.

10:40 mins - Jamie and Phil review 'Dredd', a four star piece of fried gold that deserved to make a lot more money than it did.

37:10 mins - What does Robert, one of the few people we've talked to who didn't enjoy 'Star Trek' (2009), think of its sequel's rather odd title 'Into Darkness'?

63:45 mins - New 'The Hobbit' trailer, new 'The Hobbit' rant.  Well it's been a while hasn't it?

83:10 mins - As 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark' returns to the big screen and the 40 inch plasma screen with its blu ray debut, we look back on its impact and legacy back from a time when we had to wait more than three months for a film to come out on home video.

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The Summer 2012 Predictions Results Show

Sorry TDKR, your time is up and the books are closed. 

Back in April, Kristina, Jamie, Phil and Shawn Robbins of BoxOffice.com placed their bets on the specific domestic box office grosses of the Summer 2012 movies (or at least the ones we though bore mentioned, which embarrassingly did not include 'Ted') and it's time to see who has won, and who was so badly beaten that they will never do this again.

But your imaginary money is on the line too because YOUR predictions have been tallied up as well and we have picked a 'Web Winner' for each film.  Enough stalling; let the games begin: 

6:05 mins - The Avengers
13:35 mins - Dark Shadows
21:45 mins - The Dictator
25:05 mins - Battleship
29 mins - Men In Black 3
33:45 mins - Snow White & The Huntsman
39:35 mins - Prometheus
48:55 mins - Rock Of Ages
53 mins - Brave
58:45 mins - G.I.Joe Retaliation
61:20 mins - The Amazing Spider-man
69:30 mins - Ice Age: Continental Drift
71:40 mins - The Dark Knight Rises
78:35 mins - Total Recall
80:10 mins - The Bourne Legacy
89:40 mins - The Expendables 2

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Movie Moan - The Summer Ends With An Urp

You'll all be doing it tomorrow.

Tom Hardy's performance in 'Lawless' is at once brilliant and captivating, and also apparently the source of the next internet meme as he is unable to end a single sentence without burping like a frog. 

On top of Jamie explaining what the hell that's all about, we end the summer in a big way with our final pieces on the summer blockbusters of old by giving you three of them in one show.

7 mins - How Marvel Studios turned a prop into a piece of merchandise into a lawsuit.

11:35 mins - Kristina and Jamie review 'Lawless' aka 'The Good, The Bad & The Urp'.

24:45 mins - Jamie chooses his final classic summer movie of the season - 'Die Hard 2: Die Harder' (1990).

44:15 mins - Kristina follows up with her final choice - 'Terminator 2: Judgement Day' (1991).

72:15 mins - Ed ends the summer with his choice - 'X2: X-Men United' (2003).

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