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rougewench. In bold are the ones I actually contributed to the box office take on (i.e. saw them in the theater and someone paid.). Italics indicate that either I've seen it on the small screen, or on my PC monitor, or that I snuck into the theater or somehow otherwise watched it without having paid for it.

Titanic (1997 - $1,835,300,000)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001 - $968,600,000)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999 - $922,300,000)
Jurassic Park (1993 - $919,700,000)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002 - $905,700,000)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002 - $866,300,000)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001 - $860,200,000)
Independence Day (1996 - $811,200,000)
Spider-Man (2002 - $806,700,000)
Star Wars (1977 - $797,900,000)
The Lion King (1994 - $783,400,000)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982 - $756,700,000)
Forrest Gump (1994 - $679,400,000)
The Sixth Sense (1999 - $661,500,000)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002 - $648,200,000)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997 - $614,300,000) (and boy was I disappointed :( )
Men in Black (1997 - $587,200,000)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983 - $572,700,000)
Armageddon (1998 - $554,600,000)
Mission: Impossible II (2000 - $545,300,000)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980 - $533,800,000)
Home Alone (1990 - $533,700,000)
Monsters, Inc. (2001 - $528,900,000)
Ghost (1990 - $517,600,000)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991 - $516,800,000)
Aladdin (1992 - $501,900,000)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989 - $494,700,000)
Twister (1996 - $494,700,000)
Toy Story 2 (1999 - $485,700,000)
Saving Private Ryan (1998 - $479,300,000)
Jaws (1975 - $470,600,000)
The Matrix (1999 - $456,300,000)
Gladiator (2000 - $456,200,000)
Shrek (2001 - $455,100,000)
Mission: Impossible (1996 - $452,500,000)
Pearl Harbor (2001 - $450,400,000)
Ocean's Eleven (2001 - $444,200,000)
Pretty Woman (1990 - $438,200,000)
Tarzan (1999 - $435,200,000)
Men in Black II (2002 - $425,600,000)
Die Another Day (2002 - $424,700,000)
Dances with Wolves (1990 - $424,200,000)
Cast Away (2000 - $424,000,000)
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993 - $423,100,000)
The Mummy Returns (2001 - $418,700,000)
The Mummy (1999 - $413,300,000)
Batman (1989 - $413,100,000)
Rain Man (1988 - $412,800,000)
The Bodyguard (1992 - $410,900,000)
Signs (2002 - $407,900,000)
Gone with the Wind (1939 - $390,500,000)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991 - $390,400,000)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981 - $383,800,000)
Grease (1978 - $379,800,000)
Ice Age (2002 - $378,300,000)
Beauty and the Beast (1991 - $378,300,000)
Godzilla (1998 - $375,800,000)
What Women Want (2000 - $370,800,000)
The Fugitive (1993 - $368,700,000)
True Lies (1994 - $365,200,000)
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995 - $365,000,000)
Notting Hill (1999 - $363,000,000)
Jurassic Park III (2001 - $362,900,000) (there was a Jurassic Park III? Wow.)
There's Something About Mary (1998 - $360,000,000)
Planet of the Apes (2001 - $358,900,000)
The Flintstones (1994 - $358,500,000)
Toy Story (1995 - $358,100,000)
A Bug's Life (1998 - $357,900,000)
The Exorcist (1973 - $357,500,000)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002 - $356,500,000)
Basic Instinct (1992 - $352,700,000)
The World Is Not Enough (1999 - $352,000,000)
GoldenEye (1995 - $351,500,000)
Back to the Future (1985 - $350,600,000)
Se7en (1995 - $350,100,000)
Hannibal (2001 - $349,200,000)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988 - $349,100,000)
Deep Impact (1998 - $348,600,000)
Dinosaur (2000 - $347,800,000)
Pocahontas (1995 - $347,100,000)
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997 - $346,600,000)
Top Gun (1986 - $344,700,000)
Minority Report (2002 - $342,000,000)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000 - $340,400,000)
American Beauty (1999 - $336,000,000)
Catch Me If You Can (2002 - $335,800,000)
Batman Forever (1995 - $335,000,000)
Apollo 13 (1995 - $334,100,000)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984 - $333,000,000)
Back to the Future Part II (1989 - $332,000,000)
The Rock (1996 - $330,500,000)
Rush Hour 2 (2001 - $329,100,000)
Crocodile Dundee (1986 - $328,000,000)
The Perfect Storm (2000 - $325,700,000)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 - $325,500,000)
X2 (2003 - $324,100,000)
Schindler's List (1993 - $321,200,000)
The Mask (1994 - $320,900,000)
Fatal Attraction (1987 - $320,100,000)
Lethal Weapon 3 (1992 - $319,700,000)

Hrm... Well, I seem to be achieving my aim of detatchment from the popular media - there were three films on this list that I hadn't even heard of (Jurassic Park III, Dinosaur, What Women Want) and one that I didn't realize was a film (Goldeneye - I thought it was solely a video game title). Either I'm a zen master, or I'm culturally ignorant - you make the call.

I am troubled, however, with the nagging feeling that I've perhaps seen one of the other James Bond films on this list, but I can't remember anything concrete about it, or even which one it might have been, so I'm not counting it.

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You're a zen master.

After a while, Bond films start to run together. I mean, they've only been around since the Swinging Sixties. One may tend to recall a little detail here and there but, unless one was the Bond equivalent of a Trekkie, one is unlikely to be able to rattle off plots. It's like a chinese dinner ... you may recall that the Golden Dragon had a great crab rangoon or that the Warrior's Wok had a really spicy General Tso's Chicken, but you won't necessarily recall the meal.

Yeah, and that's the thing. I think I saw the one in which James Bond inexplicably had a BMW, but I haven't any idea which one that was, or if it was the same one in which Denise Richards was the Bond Girl (tm). Or alternately, I may have had a long and involved discussion with someone about the fact that Bond had a German car, wasn't that odd, and not actually seen the film at all. I remember that I did see the one with Denise Richards, though, and I think I marked it. Unless I'm confused :)

The one with Denise Richards was THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, which was the most recent one until DIE ANOTHER DAY was released. Haven't seen it, though I know it got slammed. I'll eventually end up ading it to my DVD collection, as my obsessive-compulsive collector's instinct would not allow me to collect the rest of the Bond DVDs (including dogs like OCTOPUSSY and A VIEW TO A KILL) without collecting that one. Besides, it does have Sophie Marceau ...

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