Posts Tagged ‘Planet of the Apes’

Flickchart Staff’s Current Interests, Loathings, & Favorites – Summer 2012

25, Jun 2012
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Some of the regular writers here on the Flickchart blog have decided to list a few things that are on our collective radars on a semi-regular basis for your reading pleasure. We’re here to talk about what’s cool, and what’s not – from movies to music to games to tv to anything else that’s worth mentioning. We’ll start the conversation, but we’d love to hear your current interests, dislikes, and favorite recently watched movies too in the comments!

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The Guilty Pleasures: “The Omega Man”

23, May 2012
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I’m going to describe a movie.  It’s a sci-fi movie from the early seventies.  Charlton Heston is in it.  He is the last man on Earth.  He wears a track suit and speeds around post-apocalyptic L.A. in a convertible, battling albino zombie mutants with a machine gun.

Sounds awesome, right?  It is.  The movie is called The Omega Man, and it will blow your mind.

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Dark Shadows: A Flickcharter’s Movie Review

10, May 2012
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Ever since the release of Sweeney Todd five years ago, I’ve been worried about the future of Tim Burton. Sweeney Todd was yet another bid of hopeful Oscar consideration on his part that sadly went unnoticed, and with his last film Alice in Wonderland, I decided to just avoid it. It never interested me all that much, and at the time I had never done that ever to Burton. With his newest film Dark Shadows, I was actually looking forward to it, thinking it could be a return to form for Burton (I got a vibe of Beetlejuice almost immediately), and the biggest surprise for me: It’s actually a really entertaining black comedy.  Read the rest of this entry »

Weekend Box Office Results: August 5th – 7th

8, Aug 2011
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weekend box office - July 15 - 17

Movie Weekend $ Total $ Times Ranked Add to Flickchart
Rise of the Planet of the Apes $54.0 Mil $54 Mil 394 rank it against the best movies of all time
The Smurfs $21.0 Mil $76 Mil 166 rank it against the best movies of all time
Cowboys & Aliens $15.8 Mil $67 Mil 1434 rank it against the best movies of all time
The Change-Up $13.5 Mil $14 Mil 42 rank it against the best movies of all time
Captain America: The First Avenger $13.0 Mil $143 Mil 5119 rank it against the best movies of all time
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 $12.2 Mil $343 Mil 8071 rank it against the best movies of all time
Crazy, Stupid, Love. $12.1 Mil $42 Mil 613 rank it against the best movies of all time
Friends with Benefits $4.7 Mil $49 Mil 562 rank it against the best movies of all time
Horrible Bosses $4.6 Mil $105 Mil 2919 rank it against the best movies of all time
Transformers: Dark of the Moon $3.0 Mil $344 Mil 3973 rank it against the best movies of all time

Source: Box Office Mojo