Box Office Flashback: 2000

[claws]

DOMESTIC GROSSES #1–20

01. $260,044,825 - How the Grinch Stole Christmas
02. $233,632,142 - Cast Away
03. $215,409,889 - Mission: Impossible II
04. $187,705,427 - Gladiator
05. $182,811,707 - What Women Want
06. $182,618,434 - The Perfect Storm
07. $166,244,045 - Meet the Parents
08. $157,299,717 - X-Men
09. $157,019,771 - Scary Movie
10. $155,464,351 - What Lies Beneath

11. $137,748,063 - Dinosaur
12. $128,078,872 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
13. $125,595,205 - Erin Brockovich
14. $125,305,545 - Charlie's Angels
15. $124,115,725 - Traffic
16. $123,309,890 - The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
17. $117,559,438 - Big Momma's House
18. $115,654,751 - Remember the Titans
19. $113,330,342 - The Patriot
20. $106,834,564 - Chicken Run

Didn't see half of the list, including How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Personal favorite: What Lies Beneath

[The Burgomaster]

I have no idea how the Grinch movie was #1 in any year.

[Mr. DS]

The Grinch movie...hmmmm...I think people often flock to a seasonal movie because no matter what the content its, you know, seasonal.  For me its not as insanely bad as people make it out to be.  Still, I think the world would have been fine without it.  

I did see Xmen in the theater and I think Scary Movie.

[akiratubo]

01. $260,044,825 - How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Missed the point of the story, IMHO.  The Whos looked hideous.

02. $233,632,142 - Cast Away
Never saw.

03. $215,409,889 - Mission: Impossible II
Never saw.  Tom Cruise.  John Woo.  No.

04. $187,705,427 - Gladiator
We're supposed to look upon the spectacle of slaves forced to fight to the death and say, "Cool!"  Kiss my ass, Ridley Scott.

05. $182,811,707 - What Women Want
Saw about half of it, seemed like a fairly harmless chick flick.

06. $182,618,434 - The Perfect Storm
Never saw.

07. $166,244,045 - Meet the Parents
I despised every character in this movie.

08. $157,299,717 - X-Men
Eh.

09. $157,019,771 - Scary Movie
Never saw.

10. $155,464,351 - What Lies Beneath
Never saw.

11. $137,748,063 - Dinosaur
Never saw.

12. $128,078,872 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Never saw.

13. $125,595,205 - Erin Brockovich
Never saw.

14. $125,305,545 - Charlie's Angels
Never saw.

15. $124,115,725 - Traffic
???

16. $123,309,890 - The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
No.

17. $117,559,438 - Big Momma's House
No.

18. $115,654,751 - Remember the Titans
???

19. $113,330,342 - The Patriot
Never saw.

20. $106,834,564 - Chicken Run
I really, really wanted to like it, but it was just not good.

Yikes, another bad movie year for me.

[Doggett]

Love M:I and M:I III and to this day I still haven't finished the second one.

Its awful.
Its really awful.
If the best thing about your film is the Limp Bizkit soundtrack, then you know you have problems.

[Jack]

I've seen Crouching Tiger, Gladiator and Charlie's Angels.  I might possibly have seen Mission Impossible 2, can't remember. 

[Psycho Circus]

Cast Away, Gladiator and Traffic are good, the rest are awful for me. I haven't seen every film the whole way through, but I saw enough to stay the hell away, left in utter puzzlement that people PAY to see crap like Charlies Angels??

[lester1/2jr]

Crouching Tiger was great.

[JaseSF]

DOMESTIC GROSSES #1–20

01. $260,044,825 - How the Grinch Stole Christmas - slightly better than I expected but no great shakes. Definitely shouldn't top this list.
02. $233,632,142 - Cast Away - O.K. but seriously overrated.
03. $215,409,889 - Mission: Impossible II - haven't seen
04. $187,705,427 - Gladiator - pretty solid entertainment. Has some cool moments...
05. $182,811,707 - What Women Want - thought it was a slightly better than average chick flick
06. $182,618,434 - The Perfect Storm - dumb and inaccurate movie but has some moments
07. $166,244,045 - Meet the Parents - I liked it. Dumb fun.
08. $157,299,717 - X-Men - saw this in theatre. Was happy it seemed true to the characters but was left wanting more...
09. $157,019,771 - Scary Movie - Haven't seen this
10. $155,464,351 - What Lies Beneath - This surprised me. Much better than I expected.

11. $137,748,063 - Dinosaur - Haven't seen
12. $128,078,872 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Solid entertainment, one of the better modern wire Kung Fu efforts.
13. $125,595,205 - Erin Brockovich - didn't care for it myself
14. $125,305,545 - Charlie's Angels - seemed even dumber than the TV series
15. $124,115,725 - Traffic - Haven't seen
16. $123,309,890 - The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps - just more of the same dumb fat jokes
17. $117,559,438 - Big Momma's House- Didn't like this at all
18. $115,654,751 - Remember the Titans - Haven't seen
19. $113,330,342 - The Patriot - Haven't seen
20. $106,834,564 - Chicken Run - I liked it but not as much as other efforts from those who gave us Wallace & Gromit

[BoyScoutKevin]

I only took the first 10 films from each year in the decade, but . . .

The '80's
Seen 25 or 25%. Liked 13 or 52%

The '90's
Seen 27 or 27%. Or about the same as the '80's. The difference is that I liked 20 or about 74%. Thus the '90's were a much better decade for films for me, then the '80's.

Though, both decades pale next to any of the previous decades, except for--perhaps--the '70's. The '30's thru the '60's. General audiences and I saw the same films and liked the same films. It was in the '70's that there was a divergence of opinion. I started watching fewer of the films that the general audience watched, and if I saw one of the films, I was less likely to like it, than the general audience.

[retrorussell]

I was thinking 2000 was a pretty crappy year in terms of good movies.  Looking at the list above I guess I was right.

[bob]

03. $215,409,889 - Mission: Impossible II - this is ok
04. $187,705,427 - Gladiator - this is ok, very overated
05. $182,811,707 - What Women Want - can't really look at this the same after what Mel Gibson did...the film was ok last time I saw it
07. $166,244,045 - Meet the Parents - this was ok
08. $157,299,717 - X-Men - this was ok
09. $157,019,771 - Scary Movie - the only funny ____ Movie
18. $115,654,751 - Remember the Titans - I remember really liking this