Saturday, November 28, 2009

Chillax

Thanksgiving weekend is usually one of those weekends when one gets tired of fulfilling all their familial responsibilities and so they retreat to the nearest cine-plex to clear their mind.
I usually favor smaller and more interesting (to me) movies that don't generate much box office revenue.
For this list, the criterion is that a movie cannot have made more than 40 million dollars in domestic box office.
(Compiling such a list is more work than it would seem.)

The Best Movies A-Z (Which didn't do a lot of domestic box office).
American Psycho - $15 mil.
Blade Runner - $27.5 mil.
Cinema Paridiso - $12 mil.
Do The Right Thing 27.5 mil.
El Mariachi - $2 mil.
Fight Club - $37 mil.
Grand Canyon $33.2 mil.
Heathers - $1.1 mil.
Inkwell - $8.8 mil.
Juice - $20.1 mil.
Kung Fu Hustle - $17.1 mil.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - $3.8 mil.
Mirror Mask - $0.9 mil.
No Way Out - $35.5 mil.


Oldboy - $0.7 mil.
Pi - $3.2 mil.
Quick and the Dead - $18.6 mil.
Run Lola Run - $7.3 mil.
Snatch - $30.3 mil.
Trainspotting - $16.5 mil.
Usual Suspects - $23.3 mil.
V (No movies qualify.)
What the (Bleep) Do We Know - $10.9 mil.
Y (No movies qualify.)
Zebrahead - $1.6 mil.

2 comments:

FreeMan said...

I liked the Inkwell and you might include Cloverfield and Blade 1 didn't do so well but became a rental hit.

You might like this website.
http://movies.tanjectory.com/

uglyblackjohn said...

But Blade did $70mil. and Cloverfield did $80mil. in domestic box office.
There are a lot of movies I liked better - but few that "failed" at the box office.