I was wondering what people think of the films in the 1-21 bracket? Any real surprises? I guess that pretty much any film with a children's demographic is going gross well. After all what else do you do with the little rug-rats on a Saturday afternoon? So if we remove the obvious family outing films from 1-21, or films with an obvious spectacle slant, and since I could imagine comedies getting a boost due to the lowest common denominator factor, we're now left with:
Walk the Line,
Flightplan, and
Saw II. I'm a little surprise that these did as well as they did since they weren't that good or popular, and particularly Flightplan & Saw II were both pretty crappy and were reviewed badly by critics and the general public alike (in Australia anyway).
In all, I'm incredibly happy that BBM did so well. I have to keep reminding myself that not so long ago it would have never entered my mind that a gay-themed film would become so popular that it gets into the top 100 films for the year, let alone number 22, and become the consciousness shifting revolution that it has. And if we ever get hit with another Crash was a better picture remark, we can calmly explain to them: "maybe it was and maybe it wasn't, but there were 26 films that people went to see in preference to Crash, like the thought provoking Sahara and the uplifting Herbie Fully Loaded. And we mustn't forget that more people had a life changing experience watching Bewitched and Sky High than they did with Crash".
Hmmm, did I take one b*tchy pill today, or two???
Here's the list 1-50:
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1. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith ($380,270,577)
2. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ($291,651,564)
3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ($290,013,036)
4. War of the Worlds ($234,280,354)
5. King Kong ($218,080,025)
6. Wedding Crashers ($209,255,921)
7. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ($206,459,076)
8. Batman Begins ($205,343,774)
9. Madagascar ($193,595,521)
10. Mr. & Mrs. Smith ($186,336,279)
11. Hitch ($179,495,555)
12. The Longest Yard ($158,119,460)
13. Fantastic Four ($154,696,080)
14. Chicken Little ($135,386,665)
15. Robots ($128,200,012)
16. Walk the Line ($119,495,386)
17. The Pacifier ($113,086,868)
18. Fun with Dick and Jane ($110,332,737)
19. The 40-Year-Old Virgin ($109,449,237)
20. Flightplan ($89,707,299)
21. Saw II ($87,039,965)
22. Brokeback Mountain ($83,043,761)
23. Monster-in-Law ($82,931,301)
24. Are We There Yet? ($82,674,398)
25. Cheaper by the Dozen 2 ($82,540,432)
26. The Dukes of Hazzard ($80,270,227)
27. March of the Penguins ($77,437,223)
28. The Ring Two ($76,231,249)
29. Constantine ($75,976,178)
30. The Exorcism of Emily Rose ($75,072,454)
31. Four Brothers ($74,494,381)
32. Sin City ($74,103,820)
33. The Interpreter ($72,708,161)
34. Guess Who ($68,915,888)
35. Sahara ($68,671,925)
36. Coach Carter ($67,264,877)
37. Herbie: Fully Loaded ($66,023,816)
38. The Amityville Horror (2005) ($65,233,369)
39. Sky High ($63,946,815)
40. Bewitched ($63,313,159)
41. Jarhead ($62,658,220)
42. Cinderella Man ($61,649,911)
43. The Family Stone ($60,062,868)
44. Red Eye ($57,891,803)
45. Memoirs of a Geisha ($57,010,853)
46. White Noise ($56,386,759)
47. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit ($56,110,897)
48. Be Cool ($56,046,979)
49. Crash ($54,580,300)
50. Yours, Mine and Ours ($53,412,862)
