Skimming through BoxOfficeMojo.com's All Time Rankings reveals quite a few oddities. Here are some that jumped out at me just now:
The most recent Transformers movie, "Dark of the Moon" (whatever that means) is now #4 all-time, behind only Avatar, Titanic, and the last Harry Potter movie. Dear lord. It's no surprise that three of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies hover just inside and outside the top ten all time money-makers. You might think you know which of the four is missing from that elite group, but you're likely wrong. The first one--generally considered the best of the four--isn't among that august collection of cash cows. Where do we find "Curse of the Black Pearl?" Way down at #53! We all agree that the third Spider-Man movie was the worst, right? So you'd be seemingly safe in guessing that it must have performed relatively poorly at the box office, since the result was an immediate rebooting of the franchise. Hmm. Yeah. It made more money than either of the other two. No X-Men movie makes the top 100 box office films worldwide. But of course the highest ranking one, down at 114, is the generally reviled X-Men 3: The Last Stand. And here's a bonus weird factoid: Iron Man 2 made more money, both worldwide and in the US, than Iron Man. The obvious trend is that sequels outperform originals, but the interesting thing to me is that even sequels that the fans generally despise, dislike, or at least don't think measure up to earlier installments, still make more money. --Van Sent from my iPad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
