SHINAN'S PROFILE

Ardennes Offensive

The cutoff date is the cutoff date. It's always something to take into account when making the list, if a movie that opens in August has enough time to make it into the top10.

And it makes it more exciting because given time it's obvious Ant-Man is going to beat Solo and The Meg beat Mamma Mia. And a couple of other things. (given enough time MI6 might beat Solo also)

(it also makes things less exciting I guess since you're going to win no matter what...)

That is the connection everyone sees.

I'm pretty sure Teen Titans GO! To the Movies won't even have a theatrical release here.

Now. There's only one weekend left before the wager ends and...

Nothing has changed since my last post.

However, things might still change
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/seasonal/?view=releasedate&yr=2018&season=Summer
Mission Impossible 6 is unlikely to pass Ant-Man 2 the gap is 20million and MI6 only caught up about 10 million over the last week.
BUT The Meg is closing in hard on Mamma Mia 2, the difference right now is 10 million which is a bit less than The Meg caught up last weekend. Considering an average drop of 50% per week it'll be a close call.

However that said. No matter what happens with The Meg and Mamma Mia it seems kentona is still the winner. Again. It's clear that kentona has all the movie knowledge and is a god of the movies.

The only way kentona won't win is if in fact Mission Impossible 6 overtakes Ant-Man. Then I will win instead. So... Go Mission Impossible!

EDIT:
I didn't notice that Ant-man 2 is only 2mil away from Solo, so if it managed to overtake Solo all kinds of crazy stuff could happen that I did not account for.

The one story that always comes to mind is one whhile we were playing a cyberpunk game (Neotech 2). A weirdly fun part of that game is in the detailed wound system so sometimes we'd just do an alleyway shootout to see all the grisly concequences. So this was the kind of system that was so deadly we hardly ever had the courage to get into fights in the actual game. (except with sniper rifles against unarmed and unaware opponents)

Anyway.

The PCs got into an elevator and went up some floors carrying SMGs (one uzi in each hand obviously). I don't even remember what the mission was, taking out some corporate guards or maybe it was just regular gang warfare. The elevator doors opened and they stood face to face with said guards and raised their weapons. As did the enemies.

A nice little standoff going with the fun bit of thinking I had (The GM) that the elevator doors would close and there'd be a staircase chase or... you know, whatever would come up.

Now an automatic weapon fire at point blank range is superdeadly, so one of the PCs had the (completely reasonable) idea of shooting first. Possibly taking down most of the enemies and making it out with at most a scratch.

The dice were rolled. And it was a critical failure. The critical failure table determined that the magazine fell out of the weapon as the PC tried to shoot. There was still a bullet in the chamber that went off but it had a 1/6 chance of hitting anything.

Then the enemies opened fire and rarely has there been such a shredding of PCs. We rolled all those lovely wounds and then we imagined the slow-motion movie scene version of it where the guys were standing still, staring at each other and the magazine falling out of the weapon and the spray of automatic fire.

When the elevator doors finally closed all but one of the PCs were dead and the one alive was bleeding to death.

Then we laughed about it and rewound the tape to before the PCs entered the elevator.