Zoe Saldana: Avatar + Star Trek = Win

You mean that girl from the bus?

Not sure why that is sad. She's a decent actress, funny and damn cute.

The whole list is farked up. Most of the actors had no hits this year. And as said, if they're going by box office (Which would be the only reason Lebouf is on the list) then Zoe is #1.

Matt Damon? He was in two movies that both bombed. Bullock herself was in All about Steve, which was a bomb. Even Robert Downey Jr. isn't a huge draw in everything, as the Soloist failed.

The age of huge stars making a movie is long gone. A popular person may get someone to watch the trailer, but the movie itself is what will get people to come out.

Critch: The age of huge stars making a movie is long gone. A popular person may get someone to watch the trailer, but the movie itself is what will get people to come out.

and that's what scares the studios, they invest a lot in stars.

it shouldn't, just go raid the stage... if someone becomes too expensive drop em pick up fresh blood.

Top Ten Money Making Stars
2009 1 Sandra Bullock
2 Johnny Depp
3 Matt Damon
4 George Clooney
5 Robert Downey Jr.
6 Tom Hanks
7 Meryl Streep
8 Brad Pitt
9 Shia LaBeouf
10 Denzel Washington

2008 1 Will Smith
2 Robert Downey Jr.
3 Christian Bale
4 Shia La Beouf
5 Harrison Ford
6 Adam Sandler
7 Reese Witherspoon
8 George Clooney
9 Angelina Jolie
10 Daniel Craig

2007 1 Johnny Depp
2 Will Smith
3 George Clooney
4 Matt Damon
5 Denzel Washington
6 Russell Crowe
7 Tom Cruise
8 Nicholas Cage
9 Will Ferrell
10 Tom Hanks

2006 1 Johnny Depp
2 Leonardo DiCaprio
3 Will Smith
3 Denzel Washington
5 Tom Hanks
6 George Clooney
7 Will Ferrell
8 Tom Cruise
9 Dakota Fanning
10 Sacha Baron Cohen

2005 1 Tom Cruise
2 Johnny Depp
3 Angelina Jolie
3 Brad Pitt
5 Vince Vaughn
6 George Clooney
7 Will Smith
8 Reese Witherspoon
9 Adam Sandler
10 Tom Hanks

2004 1 Tom Hanks
2 Tom Cruise
3 Leonardo Di Caprio
4 Nicholas Cage
5 Jim Carrey
6 Denzel Washington
7 Julia Roberts
8 Will Smith
9 Brad Pitt
10 Adam Sandler
2003 1 Jim Carrey
2 Nicole Kidman
3 Jack Nicholson
4 Tom Cruise
5 Julia Roberts
6 Johnny Depp
7 Russell Crowe
8 Tom Hanks
9 Will Ferrell
10 Renee Zellweger

2002 1 Tom Hanks
2 Tom Cruise
3 Mike Myers
4 Reese Witherspoon
5 Leonardo Di Caprio
6 Nicole Kidman
7 Catherine Zeta-Jones
8 Denzel Washington
9 Mel Gibson
10 Vin Diesel

2001 1 Tom Cruise
2 George Clooney
3 Julia Roberts
4 Russell Crowe
5 Nicole Kidman
6 Denzel Washington
7 Will Smith
8 Brad Pitt
9 Ben Affleck
10 Jackie Chan

2000 1 Tom Cruise
2 Julia Roberts
3 George Clooney
4 Eddie Murphy
5 Russell Crowe
6 Mel Gibson
7 Martin Lawrence
8 Tom Hanks
9 Jim Carrey
10 Harrison Ford

What happened to Tom Cruise? Will Smith? Has Mel Gibson been gone that long already?

coco ebert: Why is that sad? Does a woman in her forties scare you, subby?

He's probably just butthurt that his beloved fembot Megan Fox was proven incapable of carrying a movie on her own this year with that Jennifer's Body stinker.

She's the top money maker because her production company produced at least one of her films.

Critch: The age of huge stars making a movie is long gone. A popular person may get someone to watch the trailer, but the movie itself is what will get people to come out.

No, that's not really true.

For instance, myself, and I'm quite certain many, many other people, would go see practically anything that looked half way decent that was starring Tom Hanks.

I mean it, I love Tom Hanks. I have no farking idea why and I even hate myself a little bit for it. But dammit, if there is a Tom Hanks movie on I will watch it. I've even watched Sleepless in Seattle when my wife puts it on. I've seen "You've got Mail" twice. TWICE MOTHERFARKER.

Why?!? It doesn't matter how shiatty the movie is, I just cannot bring myself to do anything other than like Tom Hanks.

Will Smith used to be the same way for me, but something changed with him recently. Now I could give a shiat less - so go figure.

What about Gina Davis? Didnt she used to be in movies?

Critch: The whole list is farked up. Most of the actors had no hits this year. And as said, if they're going by box office (Which would be the only reason Lebouf is on the list) then Zoe is #1.

Zoe, sadly, didn't play the lead in either movie, which is my guess as to why she doesn't count. If they were counting actors other than leads, then the entire casts of Avatar, Star Trek, and Harry Potter would take up the whole list.

She's never been milfier.

(Sorry for double post) I am surpriesed that Sam Worthington isn't on there. He had both Avatar and Terminator 4. You would think that would be enough.

Flapjack727: (Sorry for double post) I am surpriesed that Sam Worthington isn't on there. He had both Avatar and Terminator 4. You would think that would be enough.

Yeah but he's Australian so they probably paid him with 5 sausage rolls and a case of Crownies.

I've never seen a movie starring Sandra Bullock that I enjoyed, but I think she's very lovable.

All About Steve
"this film earns its place in history for being a misguided mess of a film with one of the worst protagonists in modern history. Sandra Bullock plays Mary Horowitz, a woman one cat removed from being a crazy cat lady. She is obnoxious, wantonly unlikable and completely unhinged. And she's also the heroine of the film. When set up on a blind date with a stud-ly reporter named Steve (Bradley Cooper) she, upon seeing him, sluts it up hardcore, attacks him in a manner that would be considered date rape if their roles were reversed and complete freaks him the hell out. Steve bolts and makes up an excuse about needing to go on a job. So Mary stalks him.

Every time Bullock is off-screen the movie is fine, tolerable even. It's Bradley Cooper, Ken Jeong and Thomas Haden Church running around together as a dysfunctional news crew. It's not that bad. But every time Bullock reappears it is positively horrifying. The movie goes out of its way to set Mary up in a situation in which all of her insanity and social retardation puts her in just the right place to be the movie's hero. She even learns that she probably shouldn't have stalked Steve - AFTER of course Steve realizes what a special, delicate creature Mary really is. So, you know, the stalking all worked out for the best. Classically irresponsible and completely mystifying, the film will baffle you from beginning to end with just how delightfully bat-shiat insane Mary can get; including inexplicable shots of her bedroom complete with a black power poster and John Holmes centerfold. No reason. Just because."

Really, claiming anyone is the biggest box office draw is like claiming the articles are why men pick up a Playboy.

Will they ever come up with a vehicle for Ellen Cleghorn?

raccoon2k: Zoe Saldana: Avatar + Star Trek = Win

too bad she's a terrible actress. Avatar sucked blue balls, but it was "pretty"

Should be the winner every year.

Hetfield: I've never seen a movie starring Sandra Bullock that I enjoyed, but I think she's very lovable penisable.

FTFM.

Hetfield: I've never seen a movie starring Sandra Bullock that I enjoyed, but I think she's very lovable.

I enjoyed Demolition Man, but I think I'm reaching.

I'll just put these right here.

Sandra Bullock is HAWT!

Link (new window)

ranak: Should be the winner every year.

It said "Most draw at the box office", not "Most pulls at home".

Hetfield: I've never seen a movie starring Sandra Bullock that I enjoyed, but I think she's very lovable.

It depends if you consider it having starred her but I thoroughly enjoyed Crash.

Plus, Speed is kind of a classic action movie, IMO.

LouDobbsAwaaaay: Using "the Avatar defense", Sandra Bullock is the greatest actress of all time. Money = talent. If anyone disagrees, just smugly point to the money she's making.

Worthington's Law.

BalugaJoe:What about Geena Davis? Didnt she used to be in movies?

I feel about Geena Davis the same way TwistedFark feels about Tom Hanks...

After I saw the dvd of 'Beetlejuice', I rented every movie that she was in.
I really enjoyed 'Stuart Little', and pirate Geena of 'Cutthroat Island.'
Go figure.


/but did not watch 'Commander in Chief'
//or West WIng - if I want to see annoying gov't types, I'll go to my town meeting

notmtwain: Has Mel Gibson been gone that long already?

He'll soon have a film out called Edge of Darkness. Anyone familiar with the Beeb series of the same name? Yup, it's an adaptation of that.

Cndn Bacon: It depends if you consider it having starred her but I thoroughly enjoyed Crash.

Yeah, I did too. While I do believe Brokeback the better film, I sure did think Annie Proulx sure showed her sandy side when she commented on that.

she is smoking hot! speaking of box, anybody got any pix of hers?

PizzaJedi81: Clarence Potter: Cndn Bacon: It depends if you consider it having starred her but I thoroughly enjoyed Crash.

Yeah, I did too. While I do believe Brokeback the better film, I sure did think Annie Proulx sure showed her sandy side when she commented on that.

Musta missed that...what did she say?

From the Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_reception_of_Brokeback_Mountain#Post-Acad e my_Awards_reaction
"The people connected with Brokeback Mountain, including me, hoped that, having been nominated for eight Academy Awards, it would get Best Picture as it had at the funny, lively Independent Spirit Awards. We should have known conservative heffalump Academy voters would have rather different ideas of what was stirring contemporary culture. Roughly 6,000 film industry voters, most in the Los Angeles area, many living cloistered lives behind wrought-iron gates or in deluxe rest-homes, out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with their own segregated city, decide which films are good. And rumour has it that Lions Gate inundated the Academy voters with DVD copies of Trash - excuse me - "Crash" a few weeks before the ballot deadline. Next year we can look to the awards for controversial themes on the punishment of adulterers with a branding iron in the shape of the letter A, runaway slaves, and the debate over free silver."

Sapper_Topo: Sandra Bullock is HAWT!

Link (new window)

gotta better mask your url's if you want to trick anybody
michael-jackson-p01.jpg

/still a link checker after the rick-roll days

There has to be a Sandra Bullock/Zoe Saldana flick. Please?

This reminds me, I need to get back to work on my "Demolition Man" iRiff for Rifftrax.com; I'm more than halfway finished writing the thing. My friend and I should have it recorded and done by next week now that our schedules are more open.

/Coming up after that: "Catwoman" and "Valentine" for February

Clarence Potter: PizzaJedi81: Clarence Potter: Cndn Bacon: It depends if you consider it having starred her but I thoroughly enjoyed Crash.

Yeah, I did too. While I do believe Brokeback the better film, I sure did think Annie Proulx sure showed her sandy side when she commented on that.

Musta missed that...what did she say?

From the Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_reception_of_Brokeback_Mountain#Post-Acad e my_Awards_reaction
"The people connected with Brokeback Mountain, including me, hoped that, having been nominated for eight Academy Awards, it would get Best Picture as it had at the funny, lively Independent Spirit Awards. We should have known conservative heffalump Academy voters would have rather different ideas of what was stirring contemporary culture. Roughly 6,000 film industry voters, most in the Los Angeles area, many living cloistered lives behind wrought-iron gates or in deluxe rest-homes, out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with their own segregated city, decide which films are good. And rumour has it that Lions Gate inundated the Academy voters with DVD copies of Trash - excuse me - "Crash" a few weeks before the ballot deadline. Next year we can look to the awards for controversial themes on the punishment of adulterers with a branding iron in the shape of the letter A, runaway slaves, and the debate over free silver."

I remember everyone bashing Crash and praising Brokeback at the time. Now that I've finally seen them I have to ask. . . what the hell is wrong with people? Crash is one of the best movies I've ever seen and Brokeback is simply good at best.

RemyDuron: Clarence Potter: PizzaJedi81: Clarence Potter: Cndn Bacon: It depends if you consider it having starred her but I thoroughly enjoyed Crash.

Yeah, I did too. While I do believe Brokeback the better film, I sure did think Annie Proulx sure showed her sandy side when she commented on that.

Musta missed that...what did she say?

From the Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_reception_of_Brokeback_Mountain#Post-Acad e my_Awards_reaction
"The people connected with Brokeback Mountain, including me, hoped that, having been nominated for eight Academy Awards, it would get Best Picture as it had at the funny, lively Independent Spirit Awards. We should have known conservative heffalump Academy voters would have rather different ideas of what was stirring contemporary culture. Roughly 6,000 film industry voters, most in the Los Angeles area, many living cloistered lives behind wrought-iron gates or in deluxe rest-homes, out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with their own segregated city, decide which films are good. And rumour has it that Lions Gate inundated the Academy voters with DVD copies of Trash - excuse me - "Crash" a few weeks before the ballot deadline. Next year we can look to the awards for controversial themes on the punishment of adulterers with a branding iron in the shape of the letter A, runaway slaves, and the debate over free silver."

I remember everyone bashing Crash and praising Brokeback at the time. Now that I've finally seen them I have to ask. . . what the hell is wrong with people? Crash is one of the best movies I've ever seen and Brokeback is simply good at best.

I tend to flip them the other way, but the thing of her comment that just bothered me is that... geez, get a life. Her comments seemed more like something I'd find here than something quoted for attribution.

PDXBishop: This reminds me, I need to get back to work on my "Demolition Man" iRiff for Rifftrax.com; I'm more than halfway finished writing the thing. My friend and I should have it recorded and done by next week now that our schedules are more open.

/Coming up after that: "Catwoman" and "Valentine" for February

I prefer Joel.

/jk

If you go back farther Paulie Shore would be dominating lists.