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Highest Grossing Movies

Try to name the 40 highest grossing movies of all time based on worldwide box office gross.
Note: Due to a proliferation of sequels, you just have to guess the series, not the individual movie
Worldwide gross as of 4 January, 2024
Our original quiz is adjusted for inflation. This is not.
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Year
Billion $
Movie
2009
2.93
Avatar
2019
2.80
Avengers: Endgame
2022
2.32
Avatar: The Way of Water
1997
2.26
Titanic
2015
2.07
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2018
2.05
Avengers: Infinity War
2021
1.92
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2015
1.67
Jurassic World
2019
1.66
The Lion King
2012
1.52
The Avengers
2015
1.52
Furious 7
2022
1.50
Top Gun: Maverick
2019
1.45
Frozen II
2023
1.44
Barbie
2015
1.41
Avengers: Age of Ultron
2013
1.40
Frozen
2023
1.36
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
2011
1.36
Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows Part 2
2018
1.35
Black Panther
2018
1.33
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Year
Billion $
Movie
2018
1.31
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
2017
1.27
Beauty and the Beast
2018
1.24
Incredibles 2
2017
1.24
The Fate of the Furious
2013
1.21
Iron Man 3
2015
1.16
Minions
2003
1.16
The Lord of the Rings: The
Return of the King
2016
1.16
Captain America: Civil War
2018
1.15
Aquaman
2012
1.14
Skyfall
2019
1.13
Spider-Man: Far from Home
2019
1.13
Captain Marvel
2011
1.12
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
1993
1.11
Jurassic Park
2012
1.11
The Dark Knight Rises
2014
1.11
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2019
1.07
Joker
2019
1.07
Star Wars: Episode IX -
The Rise of Skywalker
2019
1.07
Toy Story 4
2010
1.07
Toy Story 3
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Level 72
Feb 4, 2016
Force Awakens still hasn't beat out Avatar?? I think I need to go see it again then.
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Level 82
Feb 4, 2016
It hasn't and never will. Not a chance.
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Level 12
Jul 25, 2017
Boy, have I got news for you. TFA beat out titanic and avatar for the title of highest grossing movie of all time.
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Level 82
Aug 13, 2017
No it didn't.
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Level 93
May 9, 2019
How about Endgame? It beat Titanic, and is hot on the heels of Avatar... :)
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Level 82
Apr 30, 2020
Endgame beat it just barely but they had to re-release it with a special campaign aimed at accomplishing this. Not that it didn't deserve to.
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Level 82
Feb 4, 2016
It's doubtful it will even catch Titanic.
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Level 41
Aug 14, 2018
it may have beaten avatar and titanic in US but this is WORLDWIDE
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Level 89
Feb 4, 2016
Unless it manages to earn $800,000,000 for the next couple months, I don't see it coming.
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Level 58
Jan 26, 2024
It really doesn't even deserve to be on this list. It is, but it shouldn't be!
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Level 90
Feb 4, 2016
OK, someone has to say it. Avatar is a terrible movie.
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Level 56
Feb 8, 2016
While I would never call it "terrible," I do think it was pretty unoriginal. Visually impressive, though!
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Level 31
Jun 3, 2016
It wasn't terrible. It wasn't great either. Bayformers are a terrible movies. The Third POTC was a terrible movie. Avatar was just... meh
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Level 28
Dec 31, 2022
I really like the third POTC movie :-)
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Level 82
Jan 30, 2017
Nobody has to say it. I will anyway. Avatar was a great movie.
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Level 89
Oct 1, 2017
Why don't I just go ahead and say it for everyone.

Avatar, Titanic, The Force Awakens, The Avengers, Frozen, Return of the King, Skyfall, Toy Story 3, Jurassic Park, Zootopia, and The Dark Knight are all really good movies. Jurassic World, Age of Ultron, Harry Potter, Iron Man 3, Civil War, The Dark Knight Rises, Rogue One, Finding Dory, and The Hobbit are pretty good for the most part, but not really that spectacular. Everything else is pretty much crap.

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Level 47
May 10, 2018
hahahaah thx love people like that
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Level 48
Jan 6, 2024
How old are you, 12?
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Level 89
Jan 25, 2024
Not anymore. Why, are you?
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Level 73
Oct 1, 2017
Dumb story, impressive use of CGI. And, for a movie to pull in that kind of gross during the single largest economic recession we are likely to experience in our lifetimes, its box office take is even more impressive.
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Level 82
Oct 12, 2018
The story was fine. Yes, it's similar to Dances with Wolves or John Carter or Lawrence of Arabia or The Last Samurai (which came 10 years after Cameron first wrote the story); that makes it not entirely original it doesn't make it dumb. Good stories are often retold many different times in many different ways. But mostly the movie was a transportive event. That's why people kept going to see it a dozen times and why it made so much money. Same as Titanic. (and, also, that it wasn't offensively stupid or entirely vapid like a Bayformers movie and thus hard to watch more than once). Cameron is a master at doing what he does.
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Level 46
Aug 24, 2019
I agree, I think it got really high on gross because it was the first movie to feature 3D
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Level 82
Aug 27, 2019
It wasn't
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Level 58
Jan 26, 2024
Obviously, this list isn't about the quality of movies, only about how much money the made.

Some of the worst films ever are on this list, compared to them, Avatar was a pretty good movie.

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Level 75
Feb 5, 2016
Alice in Wonderland???
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Level 51
Feb 6, 2016
Now that WAS a terrible film.
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Level 89
Oct 1, 2017
The sequel was worse.
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Level 88
Nov 25, 2018
The adult classic?
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Level 92
Feb 10, 2016
Almost didn't guess Iron man, as I'd already guessed the Avengers, and both Return of the King and the 2 Hobbit movies were filled in with the guess of lotr...
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Level 37
Feb 29, 2016
The only reason avatar is still no.1 is because it was the first ever film to be shown in 3D so most people just went for the experience, not the film. Had avatar been released slightly earlier it would struggle to make this list
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Level 82
Jan 30, 2017
There are four statements in this comment. One is true, one is half true, and two are false.
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Level 67
Oct 1, 2017
But Avatar was the first released in 3D *because* of the way it was made. James Cameron spent 10 years developing those special cameras. The technology was indeed a large part of the draw, but it's not like Avatar was lucky or was randomly chosen to be the first 3D movie. Its whole process, from its inception over a decade before its release, was designed around its unique visual presentation.
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Level 75
Oct 4, 2017
And yet he lost the Oscar for Best Director that year to his ex-wife who won it for The Hurt Locker. (Deservedly so, IMO.)
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Level 88
Nov 25, 2018
Obviously no one remembers The Creature From the Black Lagoon.
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Level 79
Jun 1, 2016
Say what you will but Cameron's movies make bank.
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Level 82
Jan 30, 2017
He knows how to weave a compelling story, even one with a derivative plot. He knows how to take characters you've never met before and make you care about them. He knows how to tie their character arcs up in the drama on screen. He knows how to handle FX, better than anyone. He knows how to both adapt classic storytelling tropes and push the envelope at the same time. He knows how to direct an action sequence (something Bay has never been able to do, and they say that's his strength). He's a competent writer and an excellent editor. All around great filmmaker. Also, he's king of the world.
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Level 46
Feb 9, 2017
If you take ticket sales by their inflation rates the list goes like this:

1. Gone With the Wind

2. Star Wars

3. The Sound of Music

4. E.T.

5. Titanic

6. Ten Commandments

7. Jaws

8. Doctor Zhivago

9. The Exorcist

10. Snow White

Avatar isn't until 15 .. which is funny because 101 Dalmatians beats it by 3 spots.

Woah, 3 SPOTS..DALMATIANS (that was completely accidental btw)

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Level 84
Mar 26, 2018
Agreed that I wish they would report more honestly about pure ticket sales numbers and not dollars. Comparing eras is difficult because going to the theater was a bigger event decades ago and not as many competing entertainment options, but still would make it more interesting.
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Level 40
Jan 10, 2021
The actual list when adjusted for inflation is:

1. Gone with the Wind $3,706,000,000

2. Avatar $3,257,000,000

3. Titanic $3,081,000,000

4. Star Wars $3,043,000,000

5. Avengers Endgame $2,798,000,000

6. The Sound of Music $2,549,000,000

7. E.T $2,489,000,000

8. Ten Commandments $2,356,000,000

9. Doctor Zhivago $2,233,000,000

10. Force Awakens $2,202,000,000

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Level 65
Aug 13, 2022
Thanks, I had no idea that was the case.

I think it'd be really interesting to learn about how 'movies' have changed in popularity over the years.

I think it'd be interesting to see the point when globalization hits.

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Level 12
Jul 25, 2017
Apparently Hawkeye and Loki lose out to a group of ppl who don't know how to create paddock doors that close faster.... Sad.....
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Level 46
Jul 25, 2017
Inflation is everything.

To put into perspective: 101 Dalmatians beats out Avatar.

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Level 43
Oct 21, 2017
Audiences have an awful taste in movies. Not even one single great film among those
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Level 84
Mar 26, 2018
Wow, love the smugness. I happen to think that The Return of the King and Dark Knight were both great movies from this list, but maybe it's better that I look down on anyone who decides not to agree?
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Level 41
Jun 3, 2018
Almost each of those movies are great, how can you not enjoy at least one of em?
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Level 69
Aug 18, 2018
The Dark Knight, Return of The King and Jurassic Park are all sensational films. Sure you have your garbage like Bayformers, Alice in Wonderland, Minions and the later Pirates movies but to say that there isn't a single great film on this list is pretty questionable, even from an indie-lover like myself.
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Level 76
Nov 19, 2018
But how can you be smug and feel superior to other people if you admit that?
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Level 82
Oct 12, 2018
11 great movies by my count, and several others that were at least enjoyable. But a lot of garbage, too.
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Level 41
Jun 3, 2018
Infinity war is at nearly 2 billion right now, The quiz may have to be updated.
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Level 69
Nov 15, 2018
It'll be interesting to see how the second one (name still a secret as of this writing!) fares on this list, especially given that Deathly Hallows Part 2 kicked its predecessor's butt. I'm guessing that if a two-parter has great ratings and ticket sales plus a compelling cliffhanger, it's got itself set up pretty well. I doubt the Russo brothers are likely to screw it up. (Yeah, I'm a Marvel fangirl. SO SHOOT ME.)
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Level 57
Jan 10, 2021
It did pretty well, wouldnt you say...
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Level 82
Mar 13, 2019
I must admit I'm happy the only one I missed on this iteration of the quiz was frickin' Bayformers. Hopefully I will forget those things ever existed soon.
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Level 37
Mar 13, 2019
Of all of these, I've seen three: "The Dark Knight", "Titanic" and "Jurassic Park." - (Might have seen "Skyfall", but I keep getting it confused with "Spectre"). None of the others held the slightest interest for me. Movies today are either a rehashing of old plots or have so much technological wizardry as to make the movie's plot meaningless.
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Level 62
Jan 6, 2020
Wow aren’t you clever hating on good movies that most people enjoy (probably as they aren’t so far up their own a***s to have a bit of fun)
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Level 40
Jan 10, 2021
I am proud to say I have seen 39 of the movies on this list and almost every single one was great.
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Level 79
Sep 6, 2023
Uh oh, you better not admit on Jetpunk that you enjoy these movies that were extremely popular and successful for very good reason. Enjoying entertainment that the masses also enjoy makes you dumb and uncultured, don't ya know?
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Level 34
May 7, 2019
What about Captain Marvel and Avengers Endgame?
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Level 89
Jul 19, 2019
At the time of this comment, Endgame is about $4 million away from surpassing Avatar. I guess once it officially finishes its theatrical run that’s when they’ll update it.
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Level 89
Aug 26, 2019
So I think it was right after I left this comment when the news broke that Endgame passed Avatar. Either the source I looked at was slightly outdated or it managed to make $4 million in less than a couple hours.
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Level 62
Jul 29, 2019
When 90% of the list is from the 2010s.....
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Level 70
Aug 22, 2019
Inflation my dear daffy
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Level 82
Aug 16, 2019
Man you guys are good at this. I only missed Zootopia after the update but that's still worth only 4 points.
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Level 78
Aug 22, 2019
My unimportant two cents: 1 great movie (The Dark Knight), 7 clearly above average (LOTR, Skyfall, Frozen, Jurassic Park, Toy Story 3, The Dark Knight Rises, Titanic), Jurassic World and the Transformers stuff are garbage. The rest I haven't seen or it was uninteresting. Avatar has bland characters, forgettable dialogue, rather unexciting action sequences coming from the director of Aliens and T2, and while its use of 3D is inventive, it doesn't really have a lasting effect after the "wow" we all had the first time.
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Level 67
Aug 22, 2019
I think they're releasing something like three separate Avatar sequels in the next few years. Very curious to see how those movies do because it's been ten years since that movie came out and I don't know anyone who felt the need to see it a second time. I really don't think anyone is clamoring for a sequel, and certainly not for three of them.
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Level 82
Aug 23, 2019
3 sequels might be overkill, but just because you don't know anyone who didn't want to see it a 2nd time obviously means nothing. Tons of people went to see it a 2nd time. And a 3rd time. And a 4th time. and a 5th time. That's how it climbed to almost 3 billion dollars worldwide. You can't do that on the strength of hype or a big opening weekend or even 3D IMAX premiums. I don't get why people are in such strong denial about how successful and well-liked this movie was. It smashed box office records, played in theaters forever, and got nominated for Best Picture. Honestly what's the deal?
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Level 76
Aug 20, 2020
Avatar is almost exactly the Disney movie Pocahontas. It is uncreative and uninspired and the fact that it was played largely in IMAX 3D accounts for its large box office on a smaller number of ticket sales. Not to mention what everyone has been saying about it only being a gimmick and once you watch it in 2D you realise just how bad it is.
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Level 82
Sep 2, 2020
First point addressed above and irrelevant. Subsequent points inaccurate both in general and specifically for explaining the film's total monster box office take. The movie was playing in 2D regular cinemas for 6 solid months. And people kept going to see it. You just didn't like it.
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Level 67
Aug 13, 2022
I have nothing against Avatar. I saw it and thought it was fine. I appreciate the work and innovation that went into the visual presentation. I'm just saying, of all the people I've ever talked movies with (and it's a lot), I just don't recall anyone expressing special appreciation for Avatar. Not when it came out and not since. I'm sure you're right that in order to earn as much as it did, people had to see it multiple times. I'm saying that fact, albeit supported by Avatar's numbers, runs entirely counter to my experience with the movie. I have never heard anyone say they absolutely loved it or saw it multiple times. That's all I was saying. I am not really offering an opinion as much as I am sharing my experience with the movie.
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Level 82
Aug 14, 2022
I loved it. So did my mom, my cousin, one of my best friends, and some other people I know. Not my favorite movie, but, amazing cinematic experience, great all around film, that predictably broke all box office records? Yeah, for sure. I saw it originally at a cinema in Dubai where the audience was clearly very into it (guy next to me openly sobbing when the tree got blown up, probably thinking of some mosque in Iraq that got bombed, the allegory was a bit on the nose), and then I went back to see it in cinemas I think 3 or 4 times in Bahrain and later in the USA during the re-release with added footage.

So.... now you know someone.

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Level 36
Feb 20, 2020
Last Jedi was 2017
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Level 64
Dec 29, 2020
To be fair it came out in late December of 2017
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Level 64
Dec 29, 2020
What about Joker?
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Level 40
Jan 10, 2021
They haven't updated it since about 2/3 through 2019
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Level 55
Mar 20, 2021
Needs an update, Avatar overtook Endgame after it was re released in China
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Level 55
Sep 8, 2021
Could you accept 'Civil War' for 'Captain America: Civil War' please? Update it in January as I think a couple of movies might squeak onto this list as theatres are coming back to life.
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Level ∞
Sep 10, 2021
Civil War will work now
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Level 46
May 12, 2021
Ok no Frozen II.. surprising, it has grossed 1.5B USD tho
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Level 71
Nov 19, 2021
Most of these movies are what I would call 'Children's Movies'. They must appeal to the masses in some way I guess to be so popular, but to call most of them great movies I find comical.
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Level 65
Aug 13, 2022
My guess is that a children's movie get's additional purchases of a parent/guardian and/or siblings. And may be viewed additional times.
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Level 82
Aug 13, 2022
Some were great. Some weren't. But if you won't give them a chance because you think they're for kids that's your loss if you miss or don't appreciate the great ones.
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Level 32
Mar 21, 2022
avatar has passed endgame again
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Level 52
May 20, 2022
Update is required...
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Level 82
Aug 13, 2022
Pretty soon Chinese movies are going to start showing up here. They've already come very close. Are you going to add a caveat that this is for English-language films only, or start listing Chinese films?
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Level 68
Aug 13, 2022
If you are an adult and watch Star Wars and capeshit then you are a manchild.
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Level 82
Aug 13, 2022
Says the person who leaves comments with made-up words you might expect to overhear on the playground behind your nearest elementary school, like "capeshit"... yeah... you really sound like the type who smokes cigars in his study while listening to Bach and discussing Proust with his very mature grown-up friends, all congratulating themselves on their newest pair of big-boy pants... kudos, man. You get a gold star.
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Level 67
Aug 13, 2022
If you are the kind of person who judges the character of adults based on their movie-watching choices, then you are...well, this site's rules prohibit me from finishing that sentence.
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Level 82
Aug 14, 2022
exactly. Not a mature thing to do.
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Level 75
Aug 21, 2022
I typed Fast and Furious and it gave me Furious 7 but not Fate Of The Furious (Furious 8). Just throwing that out there.
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Level 75
Aug 21, 2022
Wait.......no Team America: World Police?!?!?! This list is ridiculous.
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Level 18
Jun 13, 2023
It's #2,942
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Level 62
Jan 25, 2024
But how the heck did Captain Marvel get here?? What next? Eternals?
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Level 51
Oct 27, 2022
plz accept "bayformers" for "transformers"
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Level 65
Dec 29, 2022
It seems Avatar 2 has just joined the club.
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Level 45
Nov 13, 2023
Please update this quiz :)
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Level 77
Jan 4, 2024
Wow, almost all children's films.
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Level 88
Jan 4, 2024
@Remster - Many of these could be considered "children's films", but many are decidedly not. I've noticed similar comments from you on other quizzes, so I suppose you get some satisfaction in smugly disparaging popular media. Perhaps you think that makes you look cultured and superior, but I find your thinly-veiled negativity to be tiresome.
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Level 89
Jan 4, 2024
Exactly. Most of these movies are rated PG-13, not exactly children's movies by the most popular definition.
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Level 77
Jan 6, 2024
Vermicious Kind - You're close. I get mild satisfaction from making fun of adults who enjoy children's films. While you enjoy children's films, I enjoy children's humour. Horses for courses.
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Level 48
Jan 6, 2024
Are you a patron of r/movies?
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Level 77
Jan 6, 2024
Of what, now?
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Level 62
Jan 25, 2024
r/movies is the reddit tagline for the 'movies' subreddit, methinks. the 'r' being reddit, ofc
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Level 84
Jan 5, 2024
Inconsistency alert: you have the episode number in the title for The Rise of Skywalker, but not The Force Awakens or The Last Jedi.
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Level 57
Jan 25, 2024
Surprised the Spider-Verse movies aren't here. There was so much hype around them.
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Level 55
Jan 25, 2024
Great films but they have a lower budget so not all general audiences see them. Maybe the 3rd one can squeak its way to a billion but seems unlikely
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Level 89
Jan 25, 2024
If last year taught us anything, having a higher budget doesn't necessarily equal higher box office numbers.
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Level 41
Jan 26, 2024
Oh my. There are some awful movies on here. Shame on you if you spent money on any of the vapid Disney live-action remakes, Star Wars-killers, or Transformer mistakes.

Those of you who paid money to see Top Gun or Joker: you will go to heaven.

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Level 66
Jan 27, 2024
Wow the Pirates movies have finally been pushed out