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

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