Second-guessing which films got the BBFC the most complaints in 2019

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After years of releasing their annual reports every July, 2018's BBFC annual report was instead released in late May. As I really love testing my BBFC senses on a yearly basis, to see how good I am at reading the general public's perception of what BBFC ratings for films ought to be, I thought I'd guess which films got them the most complaints in 2019!

Note, when I refer to a '2019 release', this actually means any film that came out in cinemas in the UK in 2019. So The Favourite, although a 2018 film by American release dates (and eligible for the 2019 Oscars and BAFTAs for that precise reason), didn't hit UK cinemas until January 2019, and is thus a 'UK 2019 release'. 

My guesses:

01. Joker

The Dark Knight has already set 8 records...

1 - Largest number of opening theatres with 4,366 (more than the 4,362 debut theatres of pirates of the caribbean: at world's end in 2007).

2 - Biggest midnight preview gross with $18.489 million in 3,040 theatres (beats star wars episode iii: revenge of the sith and its $16.9 million in 2,915 theatres in 2005).

3 - Biggest imax midnight previews set an new record with $640,000 (included in the $18.489 million preview number).

4 - Biggest single-day gross in box-office history with $67.850 million (bests the $59,841,919 set by spider-man 3 in 2007).

5 - Biggest opening weekend gross in box office history with $155.340 million (bests the $151,116 million set by spider-man 3 in 2007).

6 - Biggest opening weekend gross for an imax release in box office history with $6,214,061 million in 94 theatres with $66,107 per theatre. (bests the $4.7 million set by Spider-Man 3 in 2007.) Imax showing at full capacity $1.9 million on Saturday alone.

7 - Biggest opening weekend of 2008 with $151.340 (beats Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull's $101.137 million from may 23-25, 2008)

8 - Biggest July opening ever (beats Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest's $135,634,554 on july 7, 2006).

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Damn, that's a lotta numbers.

As Heath Ledger's character might say: