Something of a cross between a Charlie Kaufman exercise in surrealism and a darkly comical parable that has a Wes Anderson-style quirky touch (complete with literary voiceover narration), The Lobster certainly isn't a movie for everyone. Yorgos Lanthimos' film takes place in a dystopian future where single people must either find a romantic partner in 45 days or be transformed into a non-human creature of their choice. Not many films could manage to put together a funny and emotionally-resonant story about a suicidal man and his (literal) farting corpse of a companion, after all. However, for this category, we're giving the prize to The Lobster instead. With that in mind: it would be easy - and not altogether uncalled for - to declare Swiss-Army Man as being the best off-kilter (or, to use our lingo, WTF) indie film offering of the summer. Audiences who saw it seemed to mostly enjoy it (see the film's A- Cinemascore), while many critics gave it props for ambition - at the same time, taking it to task for being too big for its britches, in that same respect. However, while The Legend of Tarzan didn't become a huge hit, it wasn't at all a bomb, either. Pictures seemed to be setting itself up for another Pan-level failure with this particular attempt to re-imagine and revitalize a long-standing property on the big screen.
The Tarzan reboot then went through additional production delays before it began filming, only for additional reports of behind the scenes concerns to emerge during post-production.Īll things considered, Warner Bros. Craig Brewer had spent some time developing the project with the intention of directing it (he's credited as the film's co-writer), before David Yates took over as director instead, some years later. box office.Įxpectations surrounding The Legend of Tarzan headed into the film's theatrical release weren't especially high - and with fair reason. However, between The BFG facing stronger-than-anticipated opening weekend competition (more on that later) and being sandwiched between Finding Dory and The Secret Life of Pets while vying for the same family demographic, in hindsight it's really not a shock that Spielberg's latest couldn't even make back half of its $140 million budget at the U.S. Filmgoers who did see The BFG generally enjoyed it (see the movie's A- Cinemascore) and the worldwide turnout for the film was decent. However, it's always disappointing when a generally well-regarded big-budget film struggles to attract the moviegoing masses, as happened this past July with Steven Spielberg's adaptation of the beloved Roald Dahl novel, The BFG.Ĭritics applauded The BFG for Mark Rylance's stunning motion-capture performance (as the film's namesake) and how it reshapes Dahl's source material into a self-reflective work for Spielberg the aging storyteller. Nobody really bats an eye when a big-budget movie that earns a weak reception is also a bust at the box office - see this summer's Ben-Hur remake, for example. It's an unexpected end credits scene for certain, but given that Everybody Wants Some!! is something of an unorthodox creature (a funny and insightful character study disguised as a raunchy college comedy), perhaps it's fitting that it wraps up on an equally unorthodox and memorable note. (For those who missed it in theaters, you can watch the Everybody Wants Some!! end credits scene HERE.)
until the credits start rolling and the main characters all spend three minutes performing their own individual raps. The film chronicles the antics of a Texas college baseball team over the course of the final few days of the summer before the fall semester begins. This year's Ghostbusters, for instance, played a deftly-choreographed "cut scene" in the backdrop of its end credits for the viewing pleasure of those moviegoers who were still hanging around in the theater. And then you have Everybody Wants Some!!, writer/director Richard Linklater's followup to the Oscar-winning Boyhood and the "spiritual sequel" to Linklater's 1990s cult hit, Dazed and Confused. Outside of the superhero genre though, credit sequences typically take on the form of blooper reels or, on rare occasions, an epilogue or "bonus scene".