Top Grossing Movie Meme

[sistermagpie]

OMG, another movie meme! I have seen practically everything in the Academy Awards Best Picture list at this point, except for 3 or 4. I have a feeling I'll do terribly on this one, which are the top-grossing movies of all time. Gakked from jlh.



Here's the meme: Bold the ones you have seen, italic the ones you haven't seen yet, but want to, strikethrough the ones you never want to see.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Dark Knight
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Shrek 2
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spider-Man 3
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Finding Nemo
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Spider-Man
Shrek the Third
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Spider-Man 2
The Da Vinci Code
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Matrix Reloaded
Transformers
Ice Age: The Meltdown
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Kung Fu Panda
The Incredibles
Hancock
Ratatouille
The Passion of the Christ
Mamma Mia!
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Casino Royale
War of the Worlds (I assume we're talking about the remake here.)
Quantum of Solace
I Am Legend
Iron Man
Night at the Museum
King Kong (Again, I'm assume this means the most recent remake. I have seen the original and the 70s one!)
Mission: Impossible II
The Day After Tomorrow
Madagascar
The Simpsons Movie
Monsters, Inc.
WALL-E
Meet the Fockers


Hmmm. I've bolded the ones I've seen and...I don't really have any I particularly want to see or don't want to see. I mean, these are all pretty recent, and if I'd really wanted to see them I would have? But I was either "meh" or just not interested enough to make the effort. But likewise there's none that I refuse to see on principle or am really turned off by. So you can probably take the unmarked ones as either a strikeout or an italics, probably leaning more towards strike-out. (Like, while I could imagine seeing Night at the Museum since I love the AMNH so much, or the King Kong remake, but not so much Meet the Fockers.

I am currently watching The Ghost and Mrs. Muir--the movie, btw.

Comments

[malsperanza.livejournal.com]

It would makes sense if the list metrics were adjusted for inflation and population growth. Proportionally, The Sound of Music undoubtedly had more financial wallop than Kung Fu Panda. Not to mention Titanic. For that matter, any one of Chaplin's films probably had bigger adjusted gross value in the 1930s.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

It's not actually all time—it's global grosses of the 2000s. I'm the one she got it from and hopefully I didn't mislabel, but that's what it actually is.

Box Office Mojo has all time domestic gross adjusted for inflation and top ten is GWTW, Star Wars, Sound of Music, ET, Ten Commandments, Titanic, Jaws, Dr. Zhivago, The Exorcist and Snow White. I'm not seeing silents on this list but I think that's because a lot of the older films got their huge grosses from re-releases, and silents didn't tend to get re-released.

[malsperanza.livejournal.com]

Ah, that makes sense.

My guess is that box office grosses weren't recorded very carefully before the 1930s, so one can only guess what the total revenues of a worldwide megahit like The Kid or The Gold Rush pulled in.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Heh--it would be depressing if these were the top of all time with adjustment, wouldn't it? I was relieved when I saw what Clio explains below too--just the 2000s, without adjusting etc.

[desultory6.livejournal.com]

There are only four I haven't seen. And I thought that I wasn't watching movies much anymore.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

It's funny how movies like this sneak up on you. I'm surprised I haven't seen more of them.

[lucky-guess.livejournal.com]

Lemme put in a plug for Pixar -- The Incredibles and Wall-E are two pretty amazing films. Wall-E on its lonesome is definitely worth a look -- it's an amazing character study. The first third of the film, there are almost no spoken words -- it's amazing. The ultimate example of "showing not telling."

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty pro-Pixar in general. The movies of theirs I've seen I've liked. I feel like I've probably planned to see both of those and then just got distracted by something else.

[ladymirth.livejournal.com]

Dude, you have to see Transformers II. It's like a "Spot-the-Cliche" amusement park mixed with CRACK HEAVEN. I haven't laughed that hard at anything.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

LOL! That's the best reason to see it I've heard so far!

[slinkhard.livejournal.com]

God, I think I've seen all of those except LOTR, Transformers, and Bond. Highlighting the ones that were good would be a quicker task, though...

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

LOL! I'd be interested to see that list.

[mariannec.livejournal.com]

I am currently watching The Ghost and Mrs. Muir--the movie, btw.
Ooh, Rex Harrison <3 And Gene Tierney is so beautiful in it (but then she was beautiful and every movie I've seen of hers).

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

She definitely is. I've just seen a number of her movies--I think Netflix must have been recommending me more with her in them. But they make such a great couple in that movie.

[montavilla.livejournal.com]

It's definitely quicker to bold the ones I haven't seen than the ones I have. It's pretty much just the Ice Age films and Iron Man. I should probably put the Iron Man dvd on hold just so I can say I saw it. I do like Robert Downey Jr.

[marionros.livejournal.com]

You've just *got* to see 'Finding Nemo'. Very good movie.

I just came home from seeing 'Avatar'. God, what a godsawful movie!! I knew the plot and script stunk, but thought, "what the hell, it's eye-candy", but seriously, although I usually am able to enjoy pretty and amusing crap, this two-and-a-half hour crapola-fest was such a painfully pile of cliches, I couldn't sit through a single minute without cringing.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Oh god, that movie sounds so terrible. I have no doubt Finding Nemo is so much better.