best blockbuster multi-movie franchise of the 2000's

i've only seen Jackass 2 but it was a blast

Bourne, narrowly over LOTR and Jackass. Jackass might have won but I haven't seen 3 yet.

Aw man no Hostel

am I the only person who didn't enjoy either Hellboy?

yes

just don't get the appeal I guess. tho both had some moments that were kinda cool.

that counts as enjoyment. u sir are a LIAR

Aw man no Hostel

― would like a calmer set (Eazy), Friday, December 31, 2010 5:20 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

'blockbuster' being the operative word here -- there might be some movies on this list that made less money than Hostel 2 but not many

wish nearly all of these were all on explosive nitrate stock

hahaha

I want to vote Crank even though I haven't seen Crank 2 yet. But I won't because of that reason.

I watched through the LOTR movies at most twice each. Basically once each. Anyways, I really like the books and I was dissapointed with the end of the third movie for not following the books better. Plus "happiness ensues" at the end of the third movie was really drawn out. So I won't be voting LOTR. I am very tempted to vote 28 Days Later

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am I the only person who didn't enjoy either Hellboy?

― O'Shea the Cubeman (San Te), Friday, 31 December 2010 22:25 (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yes

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no, but fear of crazy fanboys TOMBOT and sick mouthy forbid me form venturing further

Wise move

Fellowship of the Traveling Pants

Bourne vs. Jackass for me. Love the Ocean's __ films too, and the Legally Blondes.

Bourne, Jackass, Crank, Hellboy, Transporter, Final Destination all pretty decent

Legally Blomdes are p funny

this decade is the worst since Wilson was president.

^scientific fact!

voted Batman

also, I can't say too much about the career of a Mr. Oscar W.P. Jackson but I'm fairly confident the last movie he directed that wasn't watchable at best was the Fellowship of the Ring. Narnia & Harry Potter both shit all over LOTR (but Golem rules)...

well, the harry potters clearly dont, but the first narnia was pretty rad alright.

harold and kumar are the 'best' of these, but they aren't a blockbuster franchise; nor is jackass exactly, or a bunch of others

voted bourne but haven't seen all of them

voted spider-man, with love for kumar, crank, bourne, x-men, transporter and final destination

even if the spideys aren't as great as I remember them, I'd still feel that "best blockbuster multi-movie franchise" should go to which ever one put sam raimi atop a billion dollar enterprise

yeah the Spider-Man movies haven't aged well for me, or at least don't have much replay value at all. I ended up seeing the 2nd one last and after all the talk of it being the best I thought it was a total bore. plus Peter Jackson had a pretty similarly impressive low-budget-gore-to-hollywood-power-player career arc anyway.

ocean's 11, the fast and the furious, bourne identity are the ones I'm voting from

considered X-Men, makes for nice airplane watching but I dunno

feel like bourne is the 'right' choice to vote for but they are so virtuoso, it's hard to think about returning to them. think I'll go ocean's 11

"they are so virtuoso, it's hard to think about returning to them"

what does this mean? sounds like you're saying "they're too good to rewatch," which doesn't make any sense

in fact, that is exactly what I'm saying

huh

okay, 'virtuoso' was a bad word choice. 'intense' maybe? like you need to gear yourself up mentally before watching it. it's the same reason why I haven't bothered rewatching any of the godfathers. whereas you can always put on goodfellas no matter the scene.

also some of the tension is obviously deflated when you watch it the second time, which makes me not want to watch it as much

both the traveling pants movies are a lot of fun although the second one is markedly better imo

LOTR, bourne, batman in that approximate order. the hellboy flicks are good, occasionally great. the oceans movies aren't bad, and 28 days/weeks later are both pretty dope. the more i think about the crank movies, the more i kinda hate them. the transporter movies are better, but both of those franchises sometimes make me think statham is wasting his talent.

Transporter 3 is one of the worst movies I have ever seen, which is super upsetting given how much I love 1 and 2

I am scared of the newest Resident Evil movie because others who have seen it have said similar things about it as T3

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had a momentary urge to protest for Ali G Indahouse/Borat/Bruno but then I remembered how awful the first and last films were.

There seems to be a lot of stuff on the listwhere the first film is OK-ish (sometimes barely), with follow-ups declining in quality from a not-that-great start. I'm kind of tempted to vote for "shrek" b/c the second one, for all it was much worse than the first, still had plenty good laffs in it, and the cat and the donkey were great. Probably vote for LoTR though, although I agree w/onimo that the extended DVDs are draggy. I might be the only person here to have seen "Princess Diaries 2", I started a thread about it somewhere, it was atrocious, saccharine/twee overload, but on the list is a worse film still, "Tomb Raider 2"

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Mark Harris @MarkHarrisNYC ·
Number of 2014's ten highest-grossing movies that are not remakes, sequels, or adaptations of material for children: 0

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To those who are saying "What else is new?", through 2000, half of each year's top 10 movies were often originals aimed at adults.

Yeah, it's become pretty dire. The best film-news of this year might be the complete failure of Amazing Spider-Man 2, and the subsequent scrambling of Sony to save the franchise. A few more like that, and studios might be forced to (slightly) re-prioritize.

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― would like a calmer set (Eazy)

nice

The best film-news of this year might be the complete failure of Amazing Spider-Man 2

um

amazing spider-man 2 domestic gross - $202,084,843, worldwide gross - $706,342,322. sixth highest for the year domestic, fifth worldwide.

no doubt a 'disappointment'

It's a disappointment in that a lot of super-sequels have done better than the first installment, and this forced then to admit they really made spider-man 5 rather than The Dark Spider. But yeah nobody's going broke.

also, disappointed morbz didn't acknowledges Harris' next tweet, an RT of this: http://anthonyisright.tumblr.com/post/92930065294/original-movies-aimed-at-adults-that-made-the-years

o no doubt but not a failure. i'm not horrified by this weird recent sudden awareness that comic book and ya movies make money if only cuz if you look back twenty, thirty years at the 'movies for grownups' that were in the top ten highest grossing movies of the year it's stuff like tom clancy adaptations or police academy. even if you go back and look at highest grossing by year most of the #1s that are 'for grownups' are movies like ghost or they're movies for adolescents in sheeps clothing. it looks different pre-jaws but even then you still have disney dominating or yr king kongs etc. of the 'adult' movies left over it's by and large religious spectacle or adaptation of historical romance. i will say though if you haven't looked at the highest grossing films list in a while it might surprise you.

anyone who wishes there were more "original movies for adults" in the box office top 10 better go see lucy and make your voice heard!

top box office hits of 1981:

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Superman II
On Golden Pound (including '82 earnings)
Arthur
Stripes
The Cannonball Run
Chariots of Fire
For Your Eyes Only
The Four Seasons
Time Bandits

morbs longing for twenty years ago when an original movie for adults like pulp fiction could finish in the year end top ten grossers, 'why doesn't hollywood make more pulp fictions?'

man i forgot how much money that porn parody of on golden pond made, whatever happened to henry fondla

top box office hits of 1982:

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Tootsie (including '83 earnings)
An Office and a Gentleman
Rocky III
Porky's
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
48 Hrs
Poltergeist
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Annie