Every Highest Grossing Film Since 2000 Ranked
Worth the money or not?
It's surreal to think that, back in 2000, Titanic was the only billion dollar movie considering that club now consists of 33 movies. This is a reminder of how much bigger blockbuster revenue is getting and how important the big-budget tentpole is in modern cinema, but are any of those movies worth our money?
One would think all these highest-grossing films are duds. It's usually said Hollywood has lost its way and that audiences are always spending money on terrible tent-pole flicks. Among these 18 highest-grossing films, only one is original, two are adaptations and all the rest are sequels, so it's easy to fear the worst.
That being said, here's something to restore your faith in general audiences and in Hollywood: These movies are, on the whole, pretty darn good.
The majority of them deserved the ridiculous amounts of money, and shows that evidently audiences - and Hollywood - aren't as dumb as everyone assumes. But which of them comes out on top and which deserved to bomb? Time to find out...
18. Mission Impossible II
Year: 2000
Rest Of The Top Ten:
Gladiator, Cast Away, What Women Want, Dinosaur, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Meet the Parents, The Perfect Storm, X-Men and What Lies Beneath.
So, the countdown begins at, interestingly enough, the first year of the century. So, the year 2000's biggest hit was... Mission Impossible II. Seriously? This was the highest-grossing film of 2000? What a terrible year that must have been!
Anyway, did MI2 deserve to be the year's biggest hit? Absolutely, 100% no.
After all, why should people pay their hard-earned money to see a plot-less film that consists entirely of Tom Cruise doing bland stunts? Sure, you can have a bit of fun watching the stunts, but mostly you'll just be waiting for something meaningful to occur. Spoiler alert: nothing meaningful does. This truly is a film which says and does absolutely nothing.
Not so much a bomb as a flaming car wreck flying off the edge of a cliff, MI2 will have been an unsatisfying waste of money for all but the least-demanding film-goers. Out of the five Mission Impossible films to date this is easily the weakest and a terrible waste of director John Woo's talents.