THe Hoard Potato: IMDb's Top 25

[athelind]

This is IMDb's top 25 all-time box office hits. Bold the ones you saw in theater, italicize the ones you saw some other way instead, and leave the unseen ones alone. Put asterisks beside ones you weren't impressed with.

1. Titanic (1997) $600,779,824
   
2. Star Wars (1977) $460,935,665
   
3. Shrek 2 (2004) $436,471,036 * (Not Enough Dragon)
   
4. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) $434,949,459 *
   
5. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) $431,065,444 *
   
6. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) $423,032,628
   
7. Spider-Man (2002) $403,706,375
   
8. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) $380,262,555 *
   
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) $377,019,252
   
10. Spider-Man 2 (2004) $373,377,893
    
11. The Passion of the Christ (2004) $370,270,943
    
12. Jurassic Park (1993) $356,784,000
    
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) $340,478,898
    
14. Finding Nemo (2003) $339,714,367
    
15. Spider-Man 3 (2007) $336,530,303 *
    
16. Forrest Gump (1994) $329,691,196
    
17. The Lion King (1994) $328,423,001
    
18. Shrek the Third (2007) $320,706,665 *
    
19. Transformers (2007) $318,759,914
    
20. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Philosopher's Stone (2001) $317,557,891
    
21. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) $313,837,577
    
22. Iron Man (2008) $311,708,133
    
23. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) $310,675,583 *
    
24. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) $309,404,152
    
25. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) $309,125,40

So... I've seen 15 20 in the theaters (and of course I saw Star Wars more than once), 18 23 total, and I've been unimpressed by 7 of'em.

And to answer the inevitable comments of "Lucas really suckered you if you saw all three prequels when none of them impressed you":

1. I'm married.
   
2. To be fair, when we got all six movies in the Star Wars saga and watched them in a row, 1-6, I really enjoyed them as a whole.

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Edited for bad maths.

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Comments

[terminotaur.livejournal.com]

The last point is something I've been wanting to have the time to do because I think it would really change the way I view the set of pictures.

(I've seen 24 of those 25 movies btw. Want to guess which one I didn't see?) :)

[leonard-arlotte.livejournal.com]

1. Titanic (1997) $600,779,824
2. Star Wars (1977) $460,935,665
3. Shrek 2 (2004) $436,471,036
4. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) $434,949,459
5. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) $431,065,444
6. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) $423,032,628 *
7. Spider-Man (2002) $403,706,375
8. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) $380,262,555
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) $377,019,252
10. Spider-Man 2 (2004) $373,377,893
11. The Passion of the Christ (2004) $370,270,943
12. Jurassic Park (1993) $356,784,000 *
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) $340,478,898
14. Finding Nemo (2003) $339,714,367
15. Spider-Man 3 (2007) $336,530,303 *
16. Forrest Gump (1994) $329,691,196
17. The Lion King (1994) $328,423,001
18. Shrek the Third (2007) $320,706,665 *
19. Transformers (2007) $318,759,914
20. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Philosopher's Stone (2001) $317,557,891
21. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) $313,837,577 *
22. Iron Man (2008) $311,708,133
23. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) $310,675,583 *
24. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) $309,404,152
25. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) $309,125,40


What can I say? I'm a movie junkie. I also tend to go into movies with low expectations already. I can enjoy movies most people say are awful. My catchphrase when going to movies is "At least it wasn't as bad as Shark Boy and Lava Girl".

[breimh.livejournal.com]

I didn't see:

Titanic
Forrest Gump
or Jurassic Park

in the theaters.

Many of the others were good, some were movies I only saw because I was trying to appease my wife's enjoyment of them or her curiosity.

I saw the original Star Wars movie (1977) in the theaters a total of 87 times. (Yes, I was young and impressionable, an my dad was nuts.) But while I liked Empire Strikes Back, I just found I couldn't enjoy the other movies.

The best part of Return of the Jedi, to me, was when Darth's mask was removed and my 3 year old brother said in that loud childly voice of his "He's a Conehead!" }:=*D Sometimes you gotta love the things little ones notice.

[dutchmouse.livejournal.com]

1. Titanic (1997)
2. Star Wars (1977)
3. Shrek 2 (2004)
4. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
5. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
6. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)*
7. Spider-Man (2002)
8. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
10. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
11. The Passion of the Christ (2004)
12. Jurassic Park (1993)
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
14. Finding Nemo (2003)
15. Spider-Man 3 (2007)*
16. Forrest Gump (1994)
17. The Lion King (1994)
18. Shrek the Third (2007)
19. Transformers (2007)
20. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Philosopher's Stone (2001)*
21. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
22. Iron Man (2008)
23. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
24. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) *
25. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)

[dutchmouse.livejournal.com]

In reply to my reply I didn't see Transformers. And I probably won't. Not sure how you get the bold-type to work...

-Dutch