Ben Adams, Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather take a break from the current movie season to look back at the top grossing films of 2003, 1993, 1983… and 1913.
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I saw Tupac: Resurrection in the theatre the day I got a job in said theatre. It was not surprising for a movie showing to be empty aside from me and my five friends who worked at the theatre and saw movies for free. Shockingly, that theatre closed in 2004, but I saw a lot of movies for free in that time period.
Seann William Scott was very good in Goon. Also, American Reunion did indeed come out in theatres. You are thinking of the 57 direct-to-DVD American Pie sequels that came out between American Wedding and American Reunion.
Wasn’t Lincoln Lawyer a legal thriller? That’s the most recent I can think of.
The nonprofit theater in the town I went to college at always does double-features so if you get there early you get a second movie for effectivly free. I ended up catching Tupac: Resurection there before something I don’t remember and was pleasantly surprised.
YOU GUYS
The IMDB page for “Traffic in Souls” is an unending font of joy. Just an idle scroll-through has revealed to me that they made a spoof just one year later, 1914’s “Traffic in Soles.”
Unless that was added by one of the Overthinkers…
My company had flown me and two other guys out to a small town in Utah for work the week Revolutions came out. It being Utah in the winter I wore my black leather trench coat whenever I went outside. We saw it and I remember being very disappointed.
So the Monday after my co-workers and I went to a restaurant for dinner. When our waitress saw us her eyes lit up.
“Have you seen Revolutions?” she asked us. I imagine her thinking: these are guys in their twenties, one is wearing a trench coat, they must have seen and loved it. Finally there are people I can talk to about this movie!
I gave a disappointed: “Yeah.”
She walked us to our table and handed us menus. “Best trilogy ever, is all I’m going to say.”
“I didn’t think it was that great,” I said. She didn’t mention it again, the connection was lost.
My family has made a Christmas tradition out of watching the Dennis Leary vehicle “The Ref” (1994). Very underrated.
I have one very specific memory of Gigli. (never saw it)
I took my two nephews to the theater to see Pirates of the Caribbean. We paid for our tickets and were pointed down a corridor which proclaimed in bright letters “Gigli Pirates”.
Immediately I thought “Wow this may be the best movie ever!” followed by “I wonder if my nephews can walk home from here?”
To my surprise it turns out that it was not the best titled movie ever, just a corridor leading to 2 theaters.
So on the tenth anniversary of this event I vow to complete my half-finished screen play!
“Jiggly Pirates!” will be a feast for the eyes as well as a feast for the eyes!