top-grossing LIVE ACTION original movies of the 21st century

It's not perfect by any means, but I honestly think Inception is the most entertaining of the ones I've seen.

5 Adam Sandler movies
4 Will Ferrell movies
4 Vince Vaughn movies
4 Kevin James movies (!)

uh this is pretty hard

i have it down to hangover/bridemaids/wedding crashers/talladega nights. i don't think there's a drama i would consider voting for.

amazingly even though i've seen at least a few minutes of virtually all of these (except for the 2 most recent ones and a couple really dire-looking ones like Wild Hogs and Bringing Down The House) i'm really at a loss for a clear favorite. maybe i will struggle to come up with a POX.

ones i have probably watched the most but don't necessarily love: Wedding Crashers, Signs, Knocked Up, Elf

watched appreciatively and chin-strokingly but have no real attachment to: Inception, Inglourious Basterds

lol i got paid to review this shit: Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Click, Four Christmases

lol i paid to see this in the theater: Avatar, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Gladiator

so fuckin overrated/played out: The Hangover, Meet The Parents, Superbad

thinking one of enchanted/superbad/cast away

had the most fun watching superbad so that

What Lies Beneath. Easy choice, surprisingly.

I voted Juno. fu

fu!

still voting Paul Blart, am gonna try to avoid arguing anti most of this inexplicably liked cack

lol missed Inglourious Bees

amazed 'inglorious basterds' is in there

superbad

its supergood

!

:)

Superbad is a sight better than the other movies it's been lumped with, it doesn't deserve any kind of backlash.

superbad is amazeballs

Inglourious Basterds and it's not even remotely close.

amazed 'inglorious basterds' is in there

― would s*m*a*s*h 1994 (history mayne), Sunday, July 10, 2011 10:07 AM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

why?

bc it's shit but also just feels kind of minor-league next to the rest imho... though i guess 'blades of glory' is in there so.

i'm kind of indifferent to IB but it made a ton of money and definitely seemed v successful at the time (especially compared to most recent Best Picture nominees). MUCH more surprised to see Four Christmases or Farenheit 9/11, etc.

Went with Elf, as that's the one I've seen more than once.

enchanted

score 1, house of mouse

voted superbad

erin brockovich is p good other than lol everyday is a winding road over the end credits. i had no idea it made so much $

Enchanted, all the way.

yeah goin enchanted

elf has animation in it

redo the poll

so does Enchanted obv

Click better get zero votes.

isn't Avatar like 70% animation? I haven't seen it so I'm just guessing %.

this poll is a lie

never been to disneyworld or whatever but feel that pirates of the caribbean is probably not less original than many of these movies. presumably erin brockovich is based on a non-fiction bestseller. and im sure pearl harbour was a thing.

yea but the pirates of the carribean like, didn't actually happen

that's what im saying. it's original. these other films stole from reality.

and the ride, before the movies came out, was a pretty fun family thing where you rode in a boat in the water and watched pirates pillage, burn shit, shoot cannons and chase women around, kinda creepy imo

the first and second half of my sentences seem to be in conflict

Superbad or Erin Brockovich.

Voted for Ricky Bobby.

IB is a string of scenes ranging from crappy to amazing (opening scene is the best) that don't really hang together as a movie.

I've seen 33 of these films.

Tempted to vote Gladiator just to spite people because I think it's a great piece of melodramatic entertainment that gets overly hated on by people taking it too seriously. Also tempted to vote Knocked Up to spite Morbs (I did enjoy it).

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never been to disneyworld or whatever but feel that pirates of the caribbean is probably not less original than many of these movies. presumably erin brockovich is based on a non-fiction bestseller. and im sure pearl harbour was a thing.

― would s*m*a*s*h 1994 (history mayne), Sunday, July 10, 2011 2:04 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

Brockovich and Pearl Harbor are based on real events but there was no book or anything used as the basis for the screenplays. Pirates was an existing title/'intellectual property' even if the plot/characters were pretty much invented for the movie.

did they change the pirates of the caribbean ride at disneyland after the movies came out?

no they just made 'johnny depp: the ride' an additional attraction

Tossup between the Hangover, Superbad and Inglorious. I need to watch Hangover and Inglorious again to decide.

wow these are some shitty movies

this list makes me want to vomit on society

erin brockovich
inglourious basterds
fahrenheit 9/11
meet the parents
the day after tomorrow

those are good

5 Adam Sandler movies
4 Will Ferrell movies
4 Vince Vaughn movies
4 Kevin James movies

I know there's overlap there but bleurgh. several too many ben stiller films in there as well.

wanted to go and see bridesmaids last night - which i imagine might have been in the running - but was sold out so ended up at the tree of life instead. torn b/w the fast & the furious, king's speech, fahrenheit 9/11, superbad and gladiator.

first pirates of the caribbean movie totally a ripoff of "the secret of monkey island" iirc

seen maybe a dozen of these, IB actually the best of them.

did they change the pirates of the caribbean ride at disneyland after the movies came out?

they added three johnny depp animatronics + one geoffrey rush one, but all the classic tableaux are the same so w/e

I quite like Sweet Home Alabama. I mean, it's obviously not a Good Film, but it's very watchable.

Hated Gladiator, mainly because of mumbmlmmumbllemumbegrrmumble.

99% of the ferrell movies here > 99% of the others.

(counting wedding crashers in that, obv it's a vaughan/wilson thing but ferrell's cameo in it is one of the best things he's done.)

Have only seen Night At The Museum off this list and that's only cos my kids made me.

It was shit btw.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

amidst stiff competition, tempted to give this the gong for biggest HOOBASTINKER

it delivered as promised, y'know?

Inception was my write-in choice in the last poll but here I'm gonna plump for IB which I really enjoyed. The quality of this list is not high.

Of the 22 movies on the list I haven't seen, the only ones I want to are Bridesmaids (lol marketing works) and The Fast & The Furious which I think I would probably enjoy (I didn't mind XXX...)

wedding crashers was pretty good too if i'm being honest

On the Disney World version of the ride, you can hear Depp's voice throughout.

meet the parents or inglorious basterds are a clear top 2 for me, then superbad & some will ferrell movies

pineapple express is still my favorite apatow gang one but oh well

also would've voted for any bourne film, had one made it

haha i was shocked that the 'bourne' movies had made less money than a bunch of stuff itl but then realized theyre adaptations

anyway would vote for the fast & the furious over inglorious but i think a bunch of these are 'ok'. the only ones here that ive seen & hated were 'what women want' and 'click'

if i'm filtering by the rigorous critical process of "movies i might at some point watch again for pleasure" then uh

Knocked Up
Taken
The Fast & The Furious
Superbad
Inglourious Basterds

the only ones i'd probably stump for as "good" movies would be knocked up and ib. though my love for vin diesel racing a car, drinking a corona, and staring enigmatically into the middle distance is pure and true.

i know i've seen Taken, but all I remember is of it being just one long chase/fight scene. Was I tripping, or is that it?

2012
Scary Movie
Bridesmaids
Erin Brockovich
Inglourious Basterds

I'd vote the last one, pretty easy.

i watched 2012 recently and it was very satisfying dreck

i still haven't seen 2012 yet but after legion i feel like i'd had my fill of cgi'd-to-fuck-all apocalypse films for a while

also this is hilarious to me for some reason: "Emmerich has announced that the film will be his last involving disasters.[4]"

roland nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

i cant wait for his shakespeare movie

The only movie on this list that I've see and outright despised was "Cast Away"

dan if you have seen and not outright despised some of these other movies then idk

cast away ruled!

yeah i just wanna reemphasize that 'what women want' is the worst movie itl

oh I have enjoyed some movies that will make your skin crawl

xp: not "What Women Want" tho, purposely didn't see that

or rather, not all of it; saw enough to know changing the channel was the only right thing to do

kinda depressed at how many of these i've seen

wait, hanks or madonna?

there is basically nothing i won't sit through on pay cable if i've got two hours to spare

voting Cast Away, by a long shot.

xp: how was Jason Lee in "Alvin and the Chipmunks", anyway

you laugh, but i've seen alvin and chipmunks and still haven't seen avatar.

what women want is a weird mix of watchable and repulsive

there is basically nothing i won't sit through on pay cable if i've got two hours to spare

haaa the combination of working long hours and having hbo/comcast on demand meant i watched so many of these dead tired eating indian take out until i fell asleep on my couch...

living the dream

"Fern Gully in Space" "Avatar" was super flimsy but entertaining.

yeah for me it's late nights when i need to unwind but don't have the mental wherewithal to read, or hungover saturday/sunday mornings.

like there's a certain feeling of revulsion at one's own life when i realize how much i loathed juno and yet i've also sat through jennifer's body

of the ones I've seen I'd have to say Wild Hogs.

'super flimsy but entertaining' is a pretty good description of sb system

I'm tempted to vote "Mr & Mrs Smith" just to annoy ppl

Inglourious Basterds is the only thing on this list I like wholeheartedly but not gonna front I've only seen like 1/3 of the list

Real Answer: Inglourious Basterds

There are other enjoyable movies here but I thought that I Basterds was really great.

i actually feel better at having seen some of these since they've now been determined to be the TOP GROSSING LIVE ACTION MOVIES of whatever. can chalk it up to sociological studies or some shit. whereas there is no possible excuse for having watched when in rome or something.

Basterds no contest

this list makes me want to vomit on society

also this

oh come on, you can't deny the artistic triumph that is "Bruce Almighty"

(nb: I never saw "Bruce Almighty")

kinda surprised the Other Guys did so well...? seemed like it disappeared without a trace. I lol'd tho, good rental.

"bruce almighty" isn't the worst

x-post - oh c'mon there are some good movies in there

it's something that's nice to nap to

bruce almighty has some p ok jokes, is mostly competent. really most of this is just shit you can turn yourself off while watching and still enjoy and every once in awhile something like 'enchanted' will have some real substance

bruce almighty is when i decided that i hate morgan freeman

Night at the Museum was based on a book. So stop voting for it, everyone!

lol

voting for night at the museum now

can't hate morgan freeman but this is pretty much unacceptable:
http://www.adturds.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/more-than-freeman.jpg

i mean the advertising campaign that that mock-up represents.

Sixth Sense and Cast Away hold up pretty well, despite various backlashes. All in all, an eclectic list with much total crap but with some surprise outlier exceptions.

signs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sixth sense

Wrote that Avatar was a dumb, pandering piece of shit, but i don't see it here and maybe i accidentally put it in some other thread.

Anyways, yeah.

Signs is wonderfully creepy, regardless of shit ending (see also War Of The Worlds).

avatar's problem is that while it lived up to and imo exceeded its billing as a visual landmark, all of its pleasures were tied up in those visuals, so it has exactly zero merits as a film to re-watch at home, unless you're a billionaire w/ a 3D IMAX in your house

BRIDESMAIDS

erin brockovich is compulsively watchable but it's also ridiculous, like it cuts to a close-up of julia roberts's face and her quivering lip about 97 times.

def considered Bridesmaids but had to go with Basterds in the end

haha J0rdan OTM

"Avatar" is the best tech demo I've ever seen

i still haven't seen basterds

aaron eckhart is improbably dreamy in erin brockovich. he seems like an insane persin irl.

its fun, hs!

It's really good.

I have never seen Erin B.!

person wtf

and, yeah, fun

aaron eckhart seems normal to me

i really wanted to see basterds and then i never got around to it what with all the seasons of police procedurals i have to catch up on.

it is probably my favorite of his after jackie brown now.

i am surprised by how many tarantino movies i actually own on dvd.

i saw aaron eckhart on letterman or something one time? maybe he was just high. he seemed sooooo actor-y, like super-hyper and nothing he was saying was making any sense. it's too bad he's not that chilled-out biker with a heart of gold in real life.

I think it's ny favorite now but followed by Jackie Brown. That changes often though so idk.

i caught e.b. on tv a while back after having not seen it since it came out and eckhart kinda freaked me out given where his career's gone since

and by "career" i mean "his face"

i saw aaron eckhart on letterman or something one time? maybe he was just high. he seemed sooooo actor-y, like super-hyper and nothing he was saying was making any sense. it's too bad he's not that chilled-out biker with a heart of gold in real life.

― horseshoe, Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:25 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

haha i know what you mean by actor-y and i hate when you find out someone you think's cool is like that

he had a crazy face to start with

HORSESHOE OTM

his face looks the same as ever!

eckhart definitely looks like a cool chill dad bro, but i think he's totally a dude w/ dark secrets

dark gross prostitute secrets imo, but i'm speculating

yeah but like burly chilled out biker dude to harvey dent, district pretty boy is not a career arc i could have envisioned

i feel like i tend to assume actors i think are great are smart in some normal-person way? and then they say nonsensical things and it's like what happened? i am confused.

the things Aaron Eckhart's done, only he and Kelsey Grammar know

i would buy that J0rd! did he used to be mormon or am i just over-associating him with labute?

pretty much anyone who desires to be looked at by that kind of mass audience has to be a little cracked imo

when i think of 90s eckhart i think of him in 'in the company of men' so yeah j0rdan otm

he was very good in that but fuck that movie

^^^^

The guy playing Jaime Lannister in GoT still reminds me so much of Eckhart.

The Wicker Man Truck Stop Patron

his finest role imo

Intellectual property that should be Hollywood movies:

Funyuns
The House on the Rock
Chicago Metra
Flowbee
McGruff the Crime Dog
Winkers pants
Hot Topic
K-Mart's Mr. Bluelight
The Rio Hair Naturalizer System
Wacky Packages (esp. Drowny)
Chip Clips
Mr. Whipple
Valley of the Dolls (a film that follows the brilliant novel more closely and gives us the Showgirls-esque masterpiece we deserve)

P.S. Signs was M's worst until this Airbender shit.

P.P.S. The Break-Up is the 2nd best film on this list, Enchanted 3rd.

how the hell did anchorman not make this list but blades of glory did

also, voting superbad

also, basterds is garbage

greetings from challops corner i know, but man i hated that movie

blades of glory grossed $60m more xp

i bet you anchorman's dvd sales are off the charts tho

anchorman really ended up being a kinda cult hit, it makes sense that the movies that followed it did better in theatres

oh i guess j0rdan got there first...

that movie is prob the most quoted movie of the past 15 years but the thing w/ a movie like that is ppl need to see it a few times to catch all the great lines etc & also anchorman was just a huge word of mouth movie

i remember practically everyone i knew who saw it in theaters (granted we were 16 or w/e) didn't like it all + didn't really get it & then a year or so later everyone was collectively like "wtf were we thinking..."

aaron eckhart is neil labute's greatest creation

this list is wow bad, of the movies on it i've seen there's not one i'd call good w/o major qualification.

i'm stuck between bridesmaids and superbad, probably gonna go superbad

i loved it in the theater but i went with a group of, like, 15 people which i think helped.

anchorman, that is

i never saw superbad either

yeah totally, anchorman belongs up there w/ like zoolander and freaks and geeks as comedies that needed time to find its audience but ended up being really popular

i think im going w/ bridesmaids but superbad a strong contender

also inglorious besterds

those are probably the only 3 movies i genuinely liked on the list

maybe inception too and the bat-man movie

50 first dates is a deeply weird movie

its a shame forgetting sarah marshall didnt make the list considering how much better it is than any of the other apatow comedies, bridesmaids excepted

that movie is prob the most quoted movie of the past 15 years

*cough* Crapolean Dynamite *cough*

its a shame forgetting sarah marshall didnt make the list considering how much better it is than any of the other apatow comedies, bridesmaids excepted

^^^this, altho I haven't seen Bridesmaids yet

Bridesmaids is fucking hilarious

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the fact that people enjoy Inglorious Basterds is just so weird to me

I'm with you on that. Meh is being generous.

i was meh about Basterds upthread but i rewatched it the other night and enjoyed it a lot more the 2nd time around

avatar's problem is that while it lived up to and imo exceeded its billing as a visual landmark, all of its pleasures were tied up in those visuals, so it has exactly zero merits as a film to re-watch at home, unless you're a billionaire w/ a 3D IMAX in your house

― J0rdan S., Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:19 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

imo Avatar didn't look that special, if nobody told me how much more it cost than every other sci-fi opus i never would've guessed and there were like two or three bits of imagery the entire movie that i thought were especially memorable or novel. if anything i was surprised that the plotting was at least average and it didn't totally feel like a video game cut scene.

It looked nice, but it didn't take my breath away like the first time I saw the Jurassic Park T-Rex, or the LOTR battle scenes.

yeah admittedly i didnt see it on THE BIG SCREEN so i can only go by my small screen impressions of the various commercials and making-of clips on entertainment shows and internet things but it looked like a swank video game to me.

on the other hand i am not at all ashamed to admit i had a couple sharp intakes of breath during the first five minutes of fellowship of the ring alone.

or ten. whenever the armies charged and sauron started kicking everyone's ass.

yeah chap otm. i love top shelf FX eye candy as much as anyone and Avatar was ultimately at best maybe the third shelf down.

yeah admittedly i didnt see it on THE BIG SCREEN

then you didnt see it at all maaaaaaaaaaan

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