16. Fifty Shades Of Grey
Chart Position: 11th Worldwide Gross: $570,489,358 Proving nearly as popular as E.L. James novel of the same name, Fifty Shades Of Grey has been riding high all year, ending 2015 at #11 in the worldwide charts. This was wholly predictable, the swaths of people who inexplicably bought James awful, awful book no doubt making up the majority of Fifty Shades the film's fan-base. Fair enough, it offers a bit of escapism for bored, white, middle-aged women, and fair enough its all pretty harmless, but it remains blood-boiling that people are seeing the book and film as some sort of extreme titillation, some sort of boundary-pushing sexual exploration. Its not. Its tame and vanilla and in no way representative of any sex or relationship that any human has ever had ever. Its portrayal of BDSM is misjudged (for a far better example see Secretary, or Peter Stricklands The Duke Of Burgundy, or even Nymphomaniac), and the film ends up as a pretty milquetoast affair, barely registering a mark on cinemas sexual history. Last Tango In Paris it aint.