For a number of years, I thoroughly enjoyed going to see as many box office movies as I could; but over the last couple of years, I have severely reduced how many movies I see at the Cineplex each year. The main reasons are cost and the proliferation of people who simply cannot leave their cell phones in the car.
Despite those deterrents, I still like to go to the movies and among the 2014 films that I enjoyed most include the following: Veronica Mars, Belle, The Grand Seduction, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Divergent, Big Hero 6 and Guardians of the Galaxy.
I doubt that readers are really that concerned about what movies I enjoyed seeing this year and would rather know what were the top 25 movies for this year based on their overall gross. Here is the list based on the box office results for the entire year up through December 15:
1. Guardians of the Galaxy – 332 million
2. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 – 280 million
3. Captain America: The Winter Soldier – 260 million
4. The LEGO Movie – 258 million
5. Transformers: Age of Extinction – 245 million
6. Maleficent – 241 million
7. X-Men: Days of Future Past – 234 million
8. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – 209 million
9. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – 203 million
10. Godzilla – 201 million
11. 22 Jump Street – 192 million
12. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – 191 million
13. Big Hero 6 – 186 million
14. How to Train Your Dragon 2 – 177 million
15. Interstellar – 168 million
16. Gone Girl – 165 million
17. Divergent – 151 million
18. Neighbors – 150 million
19. Ride Along – 135 million
20. Rio 2 – 132 million
21. Lucy – 127 million
22. The Fault in Our Stars – 125 million
23. Mr. Peabody & Sherman – 112 million
24. 300: Rise of An Empire – 107 million
25. The Maze Runner – 102 million
I also compiled a list of the movies that were either a disappointment at the box office or simply had horrible-looking trailers (they appear in alphabetical order):
22 Jump Street
A Haunted House 2
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Annabelle
As Above So Below
Bad Words
Blended
Cuban Fury
Deliver Us From Evil
Devil’s Due
Dumb and Dumber To
Filth
Horns
Horrible Bosses 2
Let’s Be Cops
Mom’s Night Out
Neighbors
Oculus
Ouija
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
Ride-Along
Sex Tape
Tammy
The Interview
The Other Woman
The Purge: Anarchy
The Pyramid
The Quite Ones
Think Like a Man Too
Walk of Shame
What movies did you most enjoy seeing this year? Which movies were disappointments to you? Please share your thoughts and comments.
TOMORROW: Awards
PS: Merry Christmas!!!
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