top-grossing 'original' (non-sequel/remake/adaptation) movies of the 21st century

I'd love to see an Elf/National Treasure crossover.

Went with Ratatouille.

xp: Voting for "Elf, National Treasure"

hahaha oops

made the list w/ commas and then put in line breaks when i did the poll obviously

LOL, soooooo many 'toons.

What Lies Beneath is also Harrison Ford and Michele Pfeiffer's last hit, right?

i suppose the joke option will easily win the poll now huh

but i guess it won't skew things too much if the Elf fans AND the National Treasure fans share an option

xspost That said, Wall-E, easily. I contest Scary Movie's originality.

Indiana Jones 4 and Hairspray, respectively

Wall-E, easily

Scary Movie falls under the satire/parody caveat i made in the OP -- i mean it's not like Shrek is totally 'original' either

wait, Scary Movie made more than Scream???

oh wau, shine on you crazy Wayans'

34% cartoons btw!

Scary Movie DID make about 50% more money than Scream, but Scream isn't on this list because it came out in the '90s

there's like a 10-year period of my life that all feels like it was the same year, lol

Surprised Collateral didn't make the list ($215M worldwide).

i was going off of the domestic gross list (lowest movie here, Rio, is at $139 vs. Collateral's $101)

mr. and mrs. smith is a remake

pretty sure it doesn't actually have anything to do w/ the 1941 film of the same name

pretty sure its a remake of a crappy 90s tv show of the same name tho

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._%26_Mrs._Smith_(1996_TV_series)

nope, although it is funny how they have the same name and similar premises but no formal link

Cowboys vs. Aliens is "original"

voted Knocked Up

Grown Ups made a bunch of money? that's weird

haha id always thought it must be 'based on' the tv series. *shrug*

Cowboys Vs. Aliens is a comic.

anyways voted for the fast & furious cuz its o.g.

huh - had no idea

it's so stupid I figured it had to be original
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wtf is Paul Blart: Mall Cop. never heard of the film, or Kevin James for that matter.

do you live in america?

Cowboys & Aliens is adapted from a graphic novel btw

do you live in america?

no, that's it probably, but someone give me a 1 sentence description. i mean it has a 5 on IMDB yet apparently it's hugely succesful. Is it like Eddie Murphy talking with animals-style comedy, or something?

It's funny because I just read that article and did the same thing. But I looked at the inflation adjusted list which I think is a lot more illuminating. In the top 20, 8 of them are based on popular novels (GWTW, 10 Commandments, Zhivago, Exorcist, Snow White, Ben-Hur, Jurassic, Graduate), one musical (S.O.M), then of the 11 original stories, 7 are Lucas/Spielberg related, 2 Cameron, 1 Disney. So the only original story left over is The Sting!

no, Kevin James's new movie Zookeeper is his talking with animals one. Paul Blart is just a garden variety goofy family comedy.

ah. these comedians, always talkin' with animals.

shrek and how to train yr dragon are based on pretty prominent kids books, i think over the hedge is from a comic strip, and avatar is a remake of dances with wolves

well, i didn't use box office mojo's inflation adjusted list because it'd be a lot harder to sift through and find the most recent movies (although there's probably not THAT much difference inflation would make between 2000 releases and 2010 releases, i'm assuming)

my bad on the cartoons, i always forget that some of them are adaptions

kevin james was the star of the solid sitcom king of queens, he is in two other movies on the list also

btw if i'd done this poll correctly (made Elf and National Treasure separate options, took out Shrek and Dragon and Over The Hedge), the last 2 options would be The King's Speech and Dinosaur

And while it was a great article and I really enjoyed it there were some other odd things he glossed over. Creating a movie from the poster first has a long history, at least going back to Sam Arkoff, whose approach was of course made mainstream by Spielberg with Jaws. It's not an inherently bad idea.

Another interesting related topic is the idea of brands that aren't existing products or stories. Like "Bridesmaids" is a brand in a sense. Or "Mall Cop". or Easter. There's a good column about this by Terry Rossio where he calls the concept "mental real estate" http://www.wordplayer.com/columns/wp42.Mental.Real.Estate.html

I also thought his question of "who would you rather see running Hollywood, people who think Jaws is a classic or people who think Top Gun is a classic" would make an interesting poll. I'm not sure the answer is as clear cut as he seems to think.

well, i didn't use box office mojo's inflation adjusted list because it'd be a lot harder to sift through and find the most recent movies (although there's probably not THAT much difference inflation would make between 2000 releases and 2010 releases, i'm assuming)

But the interesting larger point I think is that this isn't anything new. It's always been the case that top grossing movies were based on popular novels or some other piece of existing headspace. At least now we get comic book movies instead of biblical epics.

The Spielberg/Lucas/Cameron era was the real anomaly.

And in the next 20 of the inflation adjusted list, the only originals are Forrest Gump, Lion King, Ghostbusters, Independence Day, Home Alone, and Beverly Hills Cop. Maybe you could consider Butch Cassidy an original idea, but I don't think so. To me, the original ideas really stand out as some of the worst movies on the list!

No masterpieces here, although the first half of Wall-E comes closest. If Superbad had made the list I would have voted for it.

Superbad placing at #25 on the ilx films of the decade poll is still so o_O to me, that movie really ain't all that

thought Slumdog was based on a novel?

voted Paul Blart, obv, the movie that Superbad wished it could be

yeah slumdog was totes an adaptation

i voted for fast & fury but after recently seeing 2012 i wish i went with that

my bad, i had a feeling in the back of my head that Slumdog was an adaptation but i forgot to look it up

not bitching cos the list works anyway but i think Juno might've been based on some comic book too?

think the point still stands that most of these "original" ideas are effing terrible

shit actually my proper answer should prolly have been Finding Nemo, waaaaaaay my fave Pixar flick

juno won the oscar for best original screenplay iirc

saw the last half of Taken and it's a winner. violent, racist and stupid always a good look for an action movie

Wall-E, easily

― polyphonic, Friday, July 1, 2011 3:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you should redo it without animated movies in the poll

yeah you're right about Juno, think i mix it up in my head with Persepolis or something

Taken is the one with Liam Neeson, right? Is that any good? Sort of wanted to see that.

I've seen like 5 of these. Weird.

OK 13 but still fewer than I would have thought.

Taken is great in a v. stupid way

you should redo it without animated movies in the poll

― Ayatollah Colm Meaney (Princess TamTam), Saturday, July 2, 2011 8:02 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah if Pixar gets 80% of the votes or something maybe i will

Knocked Up, but I kinda want to give it to Ricky Bobby

I haven't seen like 90% of the cartoons but that's the kind of thing I figure I might as well hold off on until I have a kid.

taken is HILARIOUS in a totally unintentional way, mostly because of how straight-faced liam neeson's line-readings are.

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."

alright there, oskar schindler. calm down.

knocked up, btw. but my inner 13-year-old is punching me in the nuts for not voting fast and the furious.

i like the comedy evil Ay-rabs in Taken too

it is a v. progressive film that explores the two great american fears of our time: gibberish-talking arabs with guns/headscarves and pretty rich white girl gets kidnapped.

finding nemo, much as i'd like to vote for something that isn't an animated kids' flick.

if you take out the kid stuff, comedies and action-adventure-thrillers, you get:

The Sixth Sense
Cast Away
Signs
What Lies Beneath
Juno
Slumdog Millionaire

and if you take out horror movies, it goes down to just three films. one of which is a not-so-broad comedy, while the other two are crowd pleasing dramas in which someone overcomes something.

GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT

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u forgot sinister untrustworthy french dudes

so yeah the sequels and remakes and adaptations have (mostly) been excised which probably puts some of the remaining ones lower on the overall list, but some of these are so weird to me as "top grossing films of the decade." i know it'd probably be the same if i looked at a list for any decade but..."what lies beneath" and "bruce almighty"?

people really, really do love will smith. i know this, and yet somehow it always surprises me.

he's pretty charismatic when he's not on his dour a-man-is-an-island trip

i can see the appeal with Will Smith, he's a proper movie star and even now i know he's a wacky scientologist i still can't help liking him

actually the dour stuff was pretty solid until seven pounds or so too

i read the hilarious plot of Seven Lbs on Wiki so i never have to sit thru it. still kinda want to tho

something about him just bugs me. it's probably the dour thing.

keep in mind i'll watch the fresh prince any time i catch it on tv so i'm not quite sure when i turned against him.

that's more of a classic american ensemble piece, though.

actually yeah Hancock was pretty rank

god and that Omega Man verzh that i've forgot the name of

hang on he's been shit for years hasn't he and i'm just vibing on memories of the first Men in Black movie?

haha I just checked to see if he was still planning to remake Flowers For Algernon (cuz we obv haven't seen enough of Will as an isolated troubled messiah type) and it looks like that's been replaced with a movie called The Last Pharoah - which is at least a more dramatic display of his current shtick.

What's the lowest grossing of these movies? Soderbergh's two 2000 films gross almost $150 million apiece in the U.S.

if the last pharoah involves him as a superhero wearing egyptian garb and flying around zapping people with a staff, i'm in.

Isn't there already a movie of Flowers For Algernon?

it's called Forrest Gump iirc

lol anyway nm he said remake - sorry

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."

alright there, oskar schindler. calm down.

― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, July 2, 2011 8:30 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

if that scene didnt make you so stoked that you wanted to suplex the next person u saw, then smgdh @ u for bein a cold-ass lizard

cast away is pretty awesome tbh. i thought about voting for it

Pretty stoked to watch Taken this weekend seeing as how from the above descriptions I'm expecting it to be all kinds of awesome.

taken zzz'd off in the last half i thought

re: smith there's also this upcoming 21st century 'original' that is certain to make this list, what with smith, shyamalan, lil' karate kid and the plot of wall-e: Untitiled Will Smith/Jaden Smith/M. Night Shyamalan film SET IN THE YEAR 3000 Anticipation Thread

I voted for Elf, National Treasure, but for genuine Elf-admiring reasons.

(cornyfuxx opinion, but the first half hour or whatever of Wall-E was almost enough for me to vote for that)

i think what i liked best about taken was that it stressed that as an attractive white american once you are in europe you wont even be able to leave the airport before some skeezy french dude has you kidnapped and sold into sex slavery

not sure how the Cowboys vs Aliens discussion came up above, but the concept was sold to the studio based on a drawing, then the crap graphic novel was created after that.

And in the next 20 of the inflation adjusted list, the only originals are Forrest Gump, Lion King, Ghostbusters, Independence Day, Home Alone, and Beverly Hills Cop.

Gump is a book adaptation. And Lion King is more or less Hamlet.

Finally finished that Harris article and boy does it ever contain a faulty premise at the center of its argument:

"who would you rather see running Hollywood, people who think Jaws is a classic or people who think Top Gun is a classic"

Um, neither please because there's no appreciable difference - they're the same people! Love it or hate it, Jaws was the premier high concept film right down to its easily-reproducible-at-any-size poster. So all the elements that contributed to Top Gun's success (synergy, saturation booking, package deals, etc.) were in effect long before 1986 (and, in various contexts, long before Jaws as well). And with such a shaky foundation, Harris moves on to tons of other weak arguments. I (sorta) share his concern with blockbuster/franchise/sequelitis. But his article is definitely not my manifesto.

That said, of the choices above, easily Cast Away which I do think is a masterpiece.

I can't recall a single thing about these:

Wild Hogs
Over the Hedge
Megamind
Rio

inception didn't qualify for this list?

wall-e is maybe my favorite here, but i did like avatar for the most part and of course taken.

Bryan: [after electrocuting Marko] You either give me what I need or this switch will stay on until they turn the power off for lack of payment on the bill.

Bryan: [after punching Marko in the face] Wake up! I need you to be focused!

Bryan: [after stabbing Marko in the legs with metal rods] Are you focused yet?

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."

alright there, oskar schindler. calm down.

― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, July 2, 2011 8:30 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

if that scene didnt make you so stoked that you wanted to suplex the next person u saw, then smgdh @ u for bein a cold-ass lizard

― Ayatollah Colm Meaney (Princess TamTam), Saturday, July 2, 2011 8:57 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol @ the number of times i said a very particular set of skills in the weeks after seeing this movie

Ratatouille was an easy choice

its p funny but as a movie it doesnt really work, liam neesons character is basically just omniscient and omnipotent, theres liek no tension or w/e

voted UP btw, there are a bunch i like here, but thats the only one i feel strongly abt

in another 15 years they should just remake taken with statham. i assume our national fears will be roughly the same then.

it is a p succinct encapsulation of the neocon worldview

particularly in that it makes you go 'lol really, thats what u think'

wot i got, see, is a very specioloized set uv skills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-zKDiGFIM

btw i watched the new liam neeson goes buck in europe one w/january jones the other day, it maybe relies a lil too heavily on neeson wandering around looking befuddled in germany for my tastes, to its credit the plot was p outlandishly left field but it just never really came together, i honestly have no idea what compels me to view these ridiculous films but as soon as i saw the comercial for this one i knew it figured in my destiny

ice cr?m otm, though, about lack of tension becuz neeson is just an arab-killing robot. it's basically like point blank, except instead of lee marvin as the ultimate emotionless get things done hardman it's liam neeson alternating between being emo over his kidnapped white daughter and killing "terrorists" with all the elan of taking the recycling out in trash night.

i think ive seen like every 'thriller' released in the last 20 years

it's a disease. if there's a british guy with a gun getting things done, i am powerless.

what's with the sudden incarnation of Liam Neeson as Charles Bronson with box office clout?

btw i watched the new liam neeson goes buck in europe one w/january jones the other day, it maybe relies a lil too heavily on neeson wandering around looking befuddled in germany for my tastes, to its credit the plot was p outlandishly left field but it just never really came together, i honestly have no idea what compels me to view these ridiculous films but as soon as i saw the comercial for this one i knew it figured in my destiny

― ice cr?m, Saturday, July 2, 2011 7:57 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

preferred this to taken (less torture) tbh but i saw it on release so have therefore forgotten every last minute of it

the girl was pretty

yeah january jones is ridic, tho

SPOLIERZ SPOILERZ
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they p unceremoniously blew her the fuck up didnt they, hold on just gotta reach into this wall brb

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END IMPORTANT SPOILER

was prob punishment for her 'acting'

throwing the ladies a bone

to be fair, alfred, charles bronson would have had better taste than to star in "chloe."

id 'star' in this 'movie' *nudge nudge*

http://www.beyondhollywood.com/uploads/2010/02/seyfried-moore-chloe-movie-12.jpg

haha if you've seen it you know it doesn't really....deliver on the promise.

yeah i only made it like five minutes in before i was like 'this is just not worth it'

it tries to turn into "obsessed" in the last 20 minutes but its safe to say that julianne moore is no beyonce when it comes to going off.

would star

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/090730/Beyonce-Ali-larter_l.jpg

man beyonce in chloe wouldve been dope

i cant remember if idris elba actually cheated in that but i hate those movies where the protagonist is innocent but nobody believes him. i just want to climb into the tv and calmly explain everything as a disinterested third party so everyone can get on with their day.

50 percent of "erotic thrillers" seem to have plotlnes ripped off from old flintstones episodes

All he was guilty of was being hot.

poor guy

I love Cast Away, and think it's legitimately a great movie, not just in this company. I'm actually surprised it's on this list considering the ending isn't exactly a total crowd-pleaser.

that fuckin scene where wilson drifts away and hanks is yelling for him would be kind of awesome and pathetic if it wasn't for the corny swelling music, if a movie ever needed to avoid trad movie music in order to best make it work, it was this one.

dudes above otm about taken's lack of tension, neeson is too imposing in this movie, he just kinda rips through europe and kills everyone w/o trouble and gets to his daughter, it's like watching a nintendo master play super mario bros for the 1000th time and getting through to the princess in 10 min. still good times though.

most Seagal movies are like that for me tho, i end up feeling sorry for the bad guys

Avatar

it's ratatouille

Zach's right, the Cowboys & Aliens comic came ten years after slimeball Scott Rosenberg sold the film rights to his amazing concept. When it still hadn't been written or made and the rights lapsed, Rosenberg hired some people to write and draw a comic, since he still had exactly no creative concept beyond "cowboys vs aliens," then literally paid comics shops to take it, then re-sold the rights by going "hey look this is the number-one selling graphic novel, Hollywood."

And Lion King is more or less Hamlet.

The Lion King is more or more a complete fucking theft of Kimba, The White Lion

^^^

on the other hand, the tezuka estate makes enough money every year that i don't feel like some starving mangaka got his shit jacked by disneyco

Best thing about Taken is that Neeson's daughter and friend are going to Europe TO FOLLOW U2 AROUND ON TOUR. Also, Holly Valance is in it.

hahaha totally forgot about the u2 angle.

going on tour w/u2 in western europe: EXTREME DANGER

lol

actually now i'm revising my above statement to "they should remake 'taken' with bono."

but he has to wear the macphisto outfit.

i just found something amazing: http://www.austu2show.com/Merchandise.htm = Macphisto bust

Limited edition bono pretty good too as are the classical syle U2 busts. All sculpted by the frontman of an Australian U2 cover band btw.

well great i was GOING to pay my rent this month but christ now what do i do

Dude sort of looks like bono tbh. Do you wind up the lead singer of a U2 cover band because you look like Bono or do you wind up morphing into Bono once you've been living the dream for a while. I wonder.

Also Taken is not available instantly on Netflix and I'm mad. I get so mad when something isn't available instantly these days. I WANT EVERYTHING AND I WANT IT ALL RIGHT NOW DAMMIT. hmpf.

Stupid Netflix.

should i recommend something equally inane?

Please do!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Drive_(film)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank:_High_Voltage

^^ actually a masterpiece

wait...WE HAVE A WINNER

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_From_Home_(1989_film)

yeah if u havent seen the cranks or for that mater the transporters do yrself a favor erica

I haven't seen eihter! Hmmmmm. Thanking u.

with all due respect to noble failures like taken, crank 2 should be future of all action filmmaking imho

So Crank 2 is available instantly but the first is not. Am I correct in assuming I won't exactly be lost if I just dive right in to the 2nd one here?

its a p deep plot but u should be able to handle it

k

might just watch this myself now

lol http://i54.tinypic.com/2nktg0l.png

:)

was kinda bummed when those guys dropped out of directing jonah hex which was an unmitigated bag of shit but at least had michael fassbinder as some kinda 19th century riddler.

i think transporter is better than crank tbh

i think the thing that really makes taken a fascist masterpiece is that u can read it as an allegory for us macroeconomic policy where liam neeson's white virgin daughter represents us treasury bonds

it just works on a lot of different levels yknow

was kinda bummed when those guys dropped out of directing jonah hex which was an unmitigated bag of shit but at least had michael fassbinder as some kinda 19th century riddler.

― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, July 2, 2011 10:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

they're doing Ghost Rider 2 now, which is going to be amazing

i can forgive taken's tensionlessness because its just delivering on its promise - which is that this guy has a particular set of skills and he will find u and kill u - and i love movies that deliver with relish, such as drag me to hell - it does hold the movie back from being truly great though

thats kinda how i feel about gone in 60 seconds

E you should TOTALLY WAIT to see Crank 2 after Crank!

Transporter 2 you can watch before the first one though - Trans2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Transporter 1 (but 1 is rly good)

so crank 2 is just as amazing as i recalled

loool

I fell asleep but plan to watch it today. I will report back.

btw for anyone who doesnt want to go to the trouble of downloading two torrents of what is essentially the same move 'ITA' in the title refers to the fact that the film is dubbed into italian

Everything I've read about Tree of Life makes me think it is the sequel to Crank 2.

Taken is basically the post-Bourne Commando

I'm a little surprised Inception isn't on the list, I thought it was a pretty substantial hit.

it made more than despicable me

btw for anyone who doesnt want to go to the trouble of downloading two torrents of what is essentially the same move 'ITA' in the title refers to the fact that the film is dubbed into italian

― ice cr?m, Sunday, July 3, 2011

can't lie, would watch crank 2 in italian.

Loved:
Cast Away
Up
The Hangover
Meet The Parents
Elf

Liked:
Gladiator
Knocked Up
Shrek
The Sixth Sense
Wedding Crashers
Taken
Night At The Museum
Signs
What Lies Beneath
Slumdog Millionaire
Monsters, Inc.
Ratatouille
Juno

Meh, worth a rental:
Hitch
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
The Fast & The Furious
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
The Day After Tomorrow
Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby
Scary Movie

Disliked:
Cars

Hated:
Avatar
Bruce Almighty

Didn't see:
the rest

Finding Nemo has a lot of charm but also a lot of annoying stuff in it, like Albert Brooks's anxious-dad thing and the surfer turtles, ugh. But I love Willem Dafoe in that.

6th sense is 1999

Inception should be in the list (between Up and Hangover assuming it's in order)

also Kung Fu Panda somewhere

I fell asleep but plan to watch it today. I will report back.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Sunday, 3 July 2011 16:04 (6 hours ago)

E you should TOTALLY WAIT to see Crank 2 after Crank!

― undeɹrated ærosm?th b∞tlegs I have pwned (sic), Sunday, 3 July 2011 12:26 (9 hours ago)

monsters inc

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Pixar's gonna dominate this.

Pixar's gonna dominate this.

Quoted because I was going to say the same.

What's the lowest grossing of these movies? Soderbergh's two 2000 films gross almost $150 million apiece in the U.S.

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, July 2, 2011 8:53 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

as I said upthread, "lowest movie here, Rio, is at $139," and Traffic and Erin Brockovich each made about $125 mil domestically (also Traffic was an adaptation)

btw sorry for boneheadedness of not including Inception in the poll options, when it was obv partially the inspiration for the thread

like i'm almost tempted to have the thread locked and re-do the options (and totally would if there was enough support for that idea)

i still think pixar would spank inception so

have only seen 9 of these so maybe shouldn't vote, but i doubt there's anything on here i'd like more than "knocked up," so "knocked up."

my no.2 would be "gladiator" believe it or not -- the joaquin phoenix show has gone on so long and gotten so strange that one forgets he was really good in this movie -- complicated in a way that big summer action movies are rarely allowed to be.

should be "that villains in big summer action movies are rarely allowed to be."

joaquin is dope in gladiator but otherwise god do i hate that movie

otm

Also i dunno how complicated 'tantrums with relish' is, but yeah he's still great

Otherwise, it's subprime stuff, one of crowe's least charismatic turns imo

i didn't like it, but it's better than, like, american gangster, robin hood, that one film with leo...

which one, agree on the others tho

It was.....competent

gladiator is amazing fuiud

id, furb

action scenes in Gladiator are CGI-d to buggery, i just wanna see some gladiating at a sensible well shot pace so i know what the fuck's supposed to be happening instead of that Yakety Sax shite

the hell, i've only seen two of these? this actually kind of bothers me, i didn't realize i was quite so ignorant.

Monsters Inc, but What Lies Beneath a surprisingly strong contender in this lot

gladiator is amazing fuiud

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, July 5, 2011 2:07 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

o_O

c'mon that's not exactly out of character

i don't even know anymore but that's a terrible movie

o fine well i guess this is just one of those message bords where everyone hates gladiator except me

as I said upthread, "lowest movie here, Rio, is at $139," and Traffic and Erin Brockovich each made about $125 mil domestically (also Traffic was an adaptation)

I have seen Rio twice now -- it's pretty good! If you can get over an avian Will.I.Am.

o fine well i guess this is just one of those message bords where everyone hates gladiator except me

no way, I like "Gladiator" too

thirded

dan, cr?m, and i will off being dudes while y'all can go watch funny animal cartoons or something

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sOoTvdpNkxk/SFA5CztYdfI/AAAAAAAAACU/PgxP07z1VMk/s400/fist_bump.jpg

I liked Gladiator too!

this is like when i went to gladiator with my sisters and made fun of it the whole time and then it turned out they liked it and were mad at me, even though i was the one who was betrayed!

HS I feel asleep during it.

i saw Gladiator in the theater and enjoyed it but that was after L.A. Confidential and i was vaguely pro-Russell Crowe, after i saw Gladiator on tv/DVD way too many times and RC had become the most insufferably boring actor Hollywood had willed into ubiquity i just couldn't stand the shit

<3

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i too felt asleep during much of high school

haha wait horseshoe

"this is like that time I talked through a whole movie and the people I was with got mad at me"

GAH! YOU KNOW WHAT I MEANT!

i can't believe some people insist that i'm the asshole in that story! my sisters agree with you

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that happened with titanic too

well titanic was a colostomy bag of a movie, i agree

lol I fell asleep during that too.

i don't think they liked titanic either tbf they're just better behaved than i am and were embarrassed

lol i love you E

It was too long and boring. I did, however, wake up in time to see the ship go down and that part was OK.

have we done a "movies you fell asleep during in the theater" thread?

the action movie part of "Titanic" was a lot of fun

the love story part, not so much

Those are actually the only two movies during which I've fallen asleep in the theater.

haha i think the only movie i ever fell asleep during was rainbow brite and the star-stealer

Oh wait - also snoozed during The Hulk but I'm pretty sure it's just been those three.

boy was my face red when i read the critics top tens that year

i fell asleep during amelie. i think that's the only one.

Was enough of a Titanic (the ship) buff that I was able to coast through the lame love story part on the strength of the production design.

I think Batman & Robin may still be the only movie I slept through in theaters.

I'm not sure I've ever fallen asleep in a movie theater -- I usually fight the urge -- but I got pretty fucking drowsy during the first LOTR.

One of my friends falls asleep during nearly every single movie she sees in a theater. I think it's just sitting still in the dark that does it to her but the most impressive time was when she started snoring during Hot Fuzz which was one of the loudest movies I can remember seeing. I couldn't believe she didn't wake up.

oh wait i fell asleep during that awful michel gondry movie too

(you can pick which one)

lol

i fell asleep during tree of life for a while, ive fallen alseep in plenty of movies, sometimes im tired

weirdly titled thread but apparently it exists: Movies That You Fell Asleep On

that just sounds uncomfortable

Was enough of a Titanic (the ship) buff that I was able to coast through the lame love story part on the strength of the production design.

― ephendophile (Eric H.), Tuesday, July 5, 2011 12:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

if you're such a Titanic buff then it should've driven you crazy that the pipe fittings in the movie were welded steel instead of being flanged and threaded!!!! once i noticed that i could never take the movie seriously again

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Write-in for Inception

seriously i'm still tempted to lock this thread and do it over w/ the Inception option before the results come

the poll is happening inside inception #duh

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see you on the next level guyz

sd is juno btw

i don't even know what that means -- is that revenge for me outing you as jesse camp?

yes u_u

i think he's saying you're ellen page in inception and i haven't even seen that movie. you've been sort of tuomas lately, some dude.

lol sorry -- juno IS on this list and i forgot she was in inception

honestly i'd like Inception a lot more if most of the cast wasn't dour former child stars

quick recast inception with the principal cast of boy meets world!

nah that wouldn't work -- shawn hunter was pretty dour in cabin fever

i am deeply embarrassed for you atm

i am deeply embarrassed for you aam

haha i want to hear your boy meets world insights, al

i'll let you know when the book and companion academic course are ready

http://img.poptower.com/pic-50705/stephen-tobolowsky.jpg?d=600

i am deeply embarrassed for you aam

its hard to believe this could be true and still leave you enough time for your extensive work on your boy meets world fansite/oral history (haha xp!)

lamp is so relentlessly dour i wonder if he used to be on 3rd rock from the sun

http://www.nndb.com/people/815/000108491/french-stewart-1-sized.jpg
lamp, ca. 1998

i am actually zach from the suite life of zach & cody, i just wanted to be left alone to post my thoughts on pavement rarities and underrated romantic comedy 'the proposal'. thanx for making life so hard for me asshole

damn figured you for a cody type

haha FX's lastest 'FX has the movies' montage ad prominently features the "a very particular set of skills" speech from Taken

really wanna drop a modified version of that on my next job interview

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."

modified? how about verbatim

writing/editing job market is getting pretty fierce after all

underrated romantic comedies i have condoned

that'll be the end of it

telltale brogue here iirc

i'm torn between this and the robert shaw monologue from jaws

i guess i could drop that when they ask why so long between jobs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdgEq9b-Iog

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you. Also proficient in powerpoint"

"I have a full, clean driver's licence"

http://www.popcritics.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/liam_neeson.jpg

"I have had many years experience in frontline customer service, as well as experience in supervisory roles"

http://imstars.aufeminin.com/stars/fan/liam-neeson/liam-neeson-20090202-489548.jpg

"I am a motivated self-starter"

http://www.thisblogrules.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/RobRoyLiamNeeson.jpg

"If I am not successful in this application I will find you, and I will kill you"

http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2011/04/liam-neeson-taken.jpg

"I have a very particular set of skills"

http://www.beersteak.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/liam-neeson-piss-pants.jpg

Lilo & Stitch, it's one of the best Disney movies of all time. Also, while I think Pixar especially has made great use of computer animation, I'm still sad that traditional animation is slowly becoming an obsolete medium (in the West at least), and Lilo & Stitch felt like a swan song to that. (Until Princess & the Frog, obviously, which was good, but not as good as L&S.)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

y'all like some forlorn robots.

Well done to the solitary "Wild Hogs" voter

y'all are like some forlorn robots.

y'all like some forlorn robots.

^^^

ILX's love affair with Wall-E perplexes me

Half of Wall-E is great. Up is total shit though.

ILX's love affair with Wall-E perplexes me

Yeah but everyone loves Wall-E

I guess people liked Knocked Up. Pretty mediocre IMO.

Glad to see somebody else voted for Paul Blart

Support Wall-E, but think Ratatouille is better.

Also Wall-E was just as good in its second half.

no

Ratatouille = smdh
The Incredibles = rmde

and yeah ratatouille and monsters inc both work better over the full story