Blockbuster Pick-ems is the fiercest film competition on the internet. We compete at predicting the top 5 highest grossing films of the box office every weekend by ranking them and providing predictions on just how much money they make. 4, self proclaimed film gurus, are striving to be top dog in this 17 week season, so stay tuned every week to find out who the winners and losers are of Blockbuster Pick-ems! Check out BlockbusterPickems.com

The weekly gross results and official box office rankings can be found at BoxOfficeMojo.com

Winning the game is simple: score the most points each week by ranking the top 5 highest grossing films in the box office. Scoring is broken down into 3 parts:

Scoring

• Name
• Rank
• Gross

Name

This one is easy, simply put the top 5 films in any order and win 5 points for each film correctly predicted. A perfect score in this category gets you 25 points

Rank

This one is pretty self explanatory: guess the correct film and place it into the correct rank and gain 5 points. A perfect score in the Rank category also gets you 25 points.

Gross

This is the hardest prediction (if you can consistently get this category right each week, then you might as well work for a studio). If we can get the correct dollar amount within .1 of the total gross, we are rewarded with 10 points. A perfect score(which will never happen, but whatever...) in this category is 50 points!

Example

On the weekend of September 2nd 2016 these were the official top 5 grossing films:

1.) Don't Breathe $15.8m
2.) Suicide Squad $9.9m
3.) Kubo and the Two Strings $6.3m
4.) Pete's Dragon $6.3m
5.) Sausage Party $5.1m

As an example I submit the following rankings:

1.) Don't Breathe $14.7m
2.) Suicide Squad $9.8m
3.) Sausage Party $7.8m
4.) Morgan $6.9m
5.) Kubo and the Two Strings 5.0m

Scoring is as follows:
1.) Don't Breathe receives 5 points for being in the top 5. I get another 5 points for being the correct ranking. I did not, however, guess the correct gross.
2.) Suicide Squad gets the same as Don't Breathe; it was in the top 5 (5pts) and in the correct rank(5pts). But because I guessed the correct gross within .1, I get an additional 10 points for this one.
3.) Sausage party gets only 5 points for being in the top 5. I did not guess the correct rank, nor gross.
4.)Morgan gets a 10 because it wasn't in the top 5 at all, but it did guess the correct gross.
5.) Kubo and the Two Strings gets the same as Sausage Party: It was in the top 5, but did not get the correct rank nor gross.
The total for this entry would be: 45pts

Troy Williams of Skyline Home Loans is on a mission. He wants you to have your dream home, and he is willing to stop at nothing to obtain financing. Watch as the 007 of Lending takes on his new mission.

Written by Matthew Sanford
Directed by David Case
Cinematographer Alex Van Brande

DiCaprio has done it, he's won the Oscar! The internet has obtained a bitter-sweet victory; sweet because all the Leo fans have had their cries heard, but bitter because it means the death of the meme.

No more can we laugh at Leo's made up desperation to win an Oscar.

No more can do we have to make up excuses as to why he just didn't win last year!

No more can...

You know what? It doesn't matter anymore. He won, enjoy the victory and congratulations Mr. DiCaprio. Trust me when I say we won't chalk this up to something seemingly controversial but, completely trivial. I can only speak for myself in this case because there is this, an article from rogerebert.com claiming Leo winning would be bad for acting. The author claims that academy award worthy performances are more about what the actor went through, rather than the performance that actor delivered.

Some people, including this author, would have you believe that film awards have taken a dark turn away from true acting and instead down an avenue of suffering and body shaming. Awards are given to men and women for "more acting," as opposed to "good acting." Leo's win embodies that attitude and that ideal. His suffering through the filming of The Revenant is the reason why the Academy picked him to win the Oscar for best performance by a male in a leading role.

This notion is pathetic to say the least. Many people who feel this way also think DiCaprio is this rabid beast of a man, foaming at the mouth for his chance to win the coveted Oscar, put it in his mouth and thrash it around on the forest floor like a wild bear! Too soon? Anyway, Leonardo DiCaprio is hardly that self centered. How can a guy who chooses roles like Jay Gatsby, or Cobb in Inception be solely interested in himself and winning an Oscar. All of Leo's characters wrestle their inner demons and deal with multiple flaws. Jay Gatsby was willing to go to any length to change who he was so that the woman he loved simply loved him back. Cobb from Inception was coping with the loss of his wife and mistakenly lets that get in the way of his mission further endangering his colleagues and friends. The way he chooses his characters and plays them is a testament to who DiCaprio really is. He knows he isn't perfect, he knows he isn't the best, but he embraces his responsibilities as an actor to deliver realistic performances.

Some people might say, "well he just knows how to play the game," as if Leo's primary objective is to win an Oscar. This guy doesn't sit in front of the mirror and say, "you deserve an Oscar," as the internet would have you believe. He is just an actor who loves his job and takes his career seriously. As far as The Revenant is concerned, sure DiCaprio may have been in life threatening conditions, but any logical human being wouldn't vote for him to win an Oscar simply because he suffered more. It's like if I vote for the worlds greatest fruit and base my judgments entirely on which fruit was grown in the harshest conditions; does that really f**king matter? No, No it doesn't (it's the Dragon Fruit, by the way, because it's got a cool name.).

So before you think that acting is now ruined and the Academy will only pick the most horrifying of circumstances by which someone played their part, please think again. Furthermore, if you think that this will not change, well, you're probably right. Nothing will change, actor will continue to gravitate toward roles that are shocking, brave, and interesting. If you really don't like that fact, then stop blaming the actors and instead blame the filmmakers for picking such stories to tell, although, lets be honest, they are way more interesting and make way more money.

I live a double life. In my free time I try to spend every moment bettering my business, while 40 hours a week I work inside a Target selling cell phones. Because I work at Target, and in the Electronics Department no less, I see my fair share of gamers coming in to buy the new Fallout 4 (and the last bottle of Nuka Cola, which we don't, sorry) Naturally, I felt the temptation to buy Fallout 4, and so I did, effectively (probably) ending my 3 month roll of Rocket League.

Like most people, I got Rocket League for free through the Playstation Network PS Plus account, which is awesome for the consumer, but not awesome (I presume) for the developer, Psyonix Inc. But, I'm just being greedy thinking that the developer could have squeezed every penny out of this cash cow. I'm certain Psyonix is either rolling in dough, or rolling in popularity, which is cool either way.

When the game came out I was a little skeptical. Sometimes I'm intimidated by skill games because I know some kid in Korea is going to kick my ass at it, and my ego couldn't have that. My brother had played the previous game, Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, which I copied and pasted from Google because I really didn't remember the name (see title for details). Anyway, my brother had been a big fan of the game so when Rocket League was made free on PS Plus he rose to the occasion. I digress.

Like I said before, I was weary to try the game out. Perhaps I subconsciously knew it had a very addictive quality to it. So one day, I arrive at Brad's house where he and David were playing Rocket League. I was excited because they were trying a new game, but also a little bummed out because I knew this may be the end. There were shouts of anger and screams of joy as I watched my two cohorts battle it out in a vehicular gladiator arena. The blood thirsty audience was chanting and cheering at every boost and rocket thrust.

When their game ended, I instinctively shouted, "I got winner!" and David handed over the sticks. Before ever playing Rocket League or it's prequel, I was a natural. You could probably say that after watching my brother play it a couple times, I already had an understanding of the physics and the tactics. I've been playing Rocket League on a regular basis since then and I can genuinely say it's been a fantastic ride. With most skill games, I find myself getting bored in a relatively quick period of time. The mini-game feel drives me away after I've had my fill. But with Rocket League, each game is as exciting, if not more exciting than the last.

The best part about my Rocket League experience is that it has been entirely shared. David became just as addicted as me to the point where he would call me in the morning before he went to work to get in a quick game. We made quite the team, mostly because we were in the same room. Most people online were playing by themselves, paired with another player, so communication was always lacking. Despite our advantage, we would often times lose, but it didn't hinder our drive. We lived by the motto, "end on a high note!" meaning we couldn't put the controller down until we had that great, decisive win.

David and I had a great dynamic. David is a casual gamer, where most of his gaming time is spent on the classic Madden 13. I am more of a hardcore gamer, always have been, always will be. David and I quickly found out the hard way, that our personalities were going to clash. I've rarely played a game where you would be forced to rely so heavily on your teammate. In the 2v2 matches, one mistake could cost you a goal and in a lot of cases, the match. If David missed the ball or screwed up, he would hear about it. If I missed the ball or screwed up, I would deflect the blame and try to find an excuse to blame David. This is not a fair evaluation of course because I'm deflecting my mean spirited nature by blaming my "hardcore gaming" mentality. I think I'm just and A-hole and he's not.

Either way, it's been quite a journey. We've won some and lost some but come away closer than ever. It's like in Friday Night Lights when the white kids end up liking the black kids because they won the football championship together and have been through a lot (that's a terrible analogy, but I'm sticking with it, I mean come on, it was like the 1950's, that was a very important theme in the 50's). And maybe we got mad at each other because we would go on a 3 game losing streak, but before every new game we would look at each other and say, "we got this." Sometimes we did, sometimes we didn't; it was about 50-50.

If there is one thing Rocket League was successful at, it was the revival of Couch Co-op. In this day in age, we can connect with our friends without them having to come over, which changed gaming in a big way. But, for some of us older folk, who remember a time when we could play Super Mario, or Smash Bros with our friends on the couch, this is a big deal. Playing video games online with strangers, no less, can be fun and it is definitely a cool concept. But playing with your buds on a big screen, and mopping up the floor with our enemies is all the sweeter. So thank you Rocket League! Thank you for bringing a fun and exciting game back to couch and giving me 3 solid months of cooperative mayhem.

Now, I have a settlement of survivors to tend to in Fallout 4.