Rueben's Ramblings

My goal each year is to attempt to see at least 25 movies at the theatre; sometimes I surpass that total and sometimes I don’t. This year I saw nearly 30 movies and out of all of those the movies I have enjoyed the most this past year include: Hidden Figures, Beauty and the Beast, Wonder Woman, Thor: Ragnarok and The Greatest Showman.  But I know that readers don’t care about what movies I saw throughout the year or which ones I liked best.

Let’s take a look at the top 30 biggest box office winners from this year (through the weekend of December 16 and December 17):

1. Beauty and the Beast – 504 million
2. Wonder Woman – 413 million
3. Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 2 – 390 million
4. Spider-Man: Homecoming – 334 million
5. It – 328 million
6. Thor: Ragnarok – 307 million
7. Despicable Me 3 – 265 million
8. Star Wars: The Last Jedi – 242 million
9. Logan – 226.3 million
10. The Fate of the Furious – 225.7 million
11. Justice League – 220 million
12. Dunkirk – 188 million
13. The LEGO Batman Movie – 176 million
14. Get Out – 175.4 million
15. The Boss Baby – 175 million
16. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales – 173 million
17. Kong: Skull Island – 168 million
18. Cars 3 – 153 million
19. Coco – 152 million
20. War for the Planet of the Apes – 147 million
21. Split – 138 million
22. Transformers: The Last Knight – 130 million
23. Girls Trip – 115 million
24. Fifty Shades Darker – 114 million
25. Wonder – 110 million
26. Baby Driver – 108 million
27. Annabelle: Creation – 102 million
28. Kingsman: The Golden Circle – 100 million
29. Murder on the Orient Express – 98 million
30. Daddy’s Home 2 – 97 million

On the other spectrum are the movies that were either a disappointment in the box office due to poor ticket sales or, more importantly, had a horrible trailer that made me completely disinterested in seeing them. They appear in alphabetical order below:

47 Meters Down
A Bad Mom’s Christmas
A Cure for Wellness
Annabelle Creation
Baywatch
Bye Bye Man
CHIPs
Daddy’s Home 2
Father Figures
Fist Fight
Get Out
Girls Trip
Happy Death Day
How to be a Latin Lover
It
Jigsaw
Mother!
Rings
Rough Night
Snatched
Split
Suburbicon
The House
Wish Upon

What movies did you most enjoy seeing this year? Which movies were disappointments to you? Please share your thoughts and comments.

TOMORROW: The Envelope Please… (Awards)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!