IFG Poll 20: Favourite Highest Grossing Films of All Time (Box Office Mojo)

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Sequels, Franchises, Spin-Offs, Superheroes, Spaceships and Dinosaurs.  Audiences love these films, but which do you think are the best.  Please vote for up to SIX of your favourite Highest Grossing Films of All Time.

Full List: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross/?area=XWW

 

By the end of October 2019: Don’t forget to send me your score for: Coming Soon: IFG 4: Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho, 2013)

By the end of November 2019: Send me your list of your favourite 50 films of all time for the Annual Poll: The annual end of year IFG Favourite Films of All Time poll

Note: Although your Top 50 films will not need to be in definitive order, weighted points will be allocated to each film, therefore: Top 1-10 = 5 points, Top 11-20 = 4 points, … Top 41-50 = 1 point.

 

39 thoughts on “IFG Poll 20: Favourite Highest Grossing Films of All Time (Box Office Mojo)”

  1. I think here it would be interesting to have a list that has top Box Office adjusted for inflation… I’ve literally only seen 3 of the films on this list because most of them are superhero films, Disney or Fast & Furious.

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      • Minions are a plague of supermarkets anywhere I think… I’ve literally no association with Incredibles other than some posters I saw. I watched about half of Frozen with a friend of mine who enthused that her (then 17-year-old) daughter and she loved that it was about “girl power songs” WTF absolutely dire IMO.

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      • I guess my opinion is that there are many, many films that I want to see that I do not want to waste my time on the likes of Minions which I cannot imagine will have any impact on me whatsoever. As you have probably noticed, my top 10 (films that I love) are all quite dark films, so kids films are quite low priority for me 🙂 I suppose girl power is one way of looking at Frozen… I am sure that the female characters’ impossibly perfect bodies could attract a counter-argument if one wished to play the devil’s advocate…

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      • Feels like new century’s film plague. I mean all those Marvel movies. And I’m not trying to sound as an elitist but everything Marvel related I’ve already watched was average at best imo!

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      • Hmm, well none of them are actually MCU movies (which lead to the avengers movies), except for Spiderman (if you mean the Tom Holland Spiderman which was introduced recently in the franchise anyway) and Hulk if you mean the Edward Norton Hulk (this was the first MCU movie, but it doesn’t connect too much to the rest of the movies in the franchise and the Hulk in the Avengers is played by Mark Ruffalo anyway). There is also an Eric Bana Hulk from 2003 which was not good indeed. I thought Venom was not that good either, but this is a Sony stand alone movie with no connection to the MCU. And X-Men are not part of the Avengers universe either. Did you see all the X-Men movies ? The first 2 are good, 3rd and 4th one pretty average. Then the first 2 with James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender are quite great (X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past).

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      • lol, it’s tricky I know. There are bad marvel movies, but those are mostly earlier movies which are neither big box office successes nor critically acclaimed. The ones that had big success at the box office are the ones from the MCU which was started in 2008 with Iron Man. Here’s the list with the MCU movies which include the big ensemble Avengers movies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Marvel_Cinematic_Universe_films#Films
        You should check this out in case you haven’t and who knows, maybe you might like some of them. 🙂
        At the moment it seems to me that you’re judging them based on some marvel movies you’ve seen that are either among the weaker ones or not connected to the main franchise at all. It’s like watching some average episodes from a spinoff tv series and then saying the main series is overrated, lol.

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      • You’re welcome! There are 23 so far. If you watch one per month you’ll catch up in 2 years, haha. 😛
        You should watch in order, but you could skip some of them, like The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor: The Dark World.

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      • Yeah I can’t connect to them at all; I’d say they’re for hyperactive teenage boys but at the same time the few I’ve seen seemed extremely long so I’m amazed people sit through them.

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      • Well I can assure you that I’m no hyperactive teenage boy, but I liked a lot many of them. Let’s not put tags so easily on things we don’t like. I can watch and enjoy just as easily a 3 hours Avengers Endgame as a 4 hours epic Laurence of Arabia.

        Recently they’re even starting to get more recognition from the Academy (who is known for not supporting this kind of movies), like Black Panther being a Best Picture nominee earlier this year, Logan being a best adapted screenplay nominee the year before.

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      • Sorry, Raz, didn’t mean to insult you; I know you’ve got broad taste in movies. My point (admittedly shaded by the fact that I dislike these movies pretty much on the sam level as westerns, where I also like v. few) was more along the lines that modern blockbusters have traditionally been targetted at teenage boys/college guys; the problem now is that, as Donny said, they have become so ubiquitous that they seem like a plague. Maybe it’s a sign of how powerless people – and especially the “str8 white men under attack” in the west – feel that they turn to movies where people (mostly str8 white guys though that’s improving) have super powers and are less restrained by social norms?

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      • Ok, but I don’t think that only teenage boys like these movies, many of the MCU movies and some DC movies (like The Dark Knight trilogy, or more recently Wonder Woman) were very well received by critics as well and that’s because they are well made action adventure films (many with sci fi elements too) with compelling stories and some even have quite a lot of heart too. That’s what most people (and I mean a variety of people, I often see a lot of families, lots of girls and some older people too in the theatre at these superhero movies) go and see at the cinema nowadays (they kind of have become the modern family movies) and why shouldn’t they if they are well made and well acted ? what’s wrong with superheroes or liking superhero stories ? I don’t think they could’ve been so financially successful if they were consistently of an average or below average quality.

        You say that the problem is that they have become so ubiquitous, but it only feels so because being the most successful genre in recent years they are most talked and discussed and anticipated by a lot of people which makes sense, but they are in fact only 2-3 per year (if we count MCU movies or max 5 per year if we count the DC and X-Men movies as well), while there are obviously a lot more movies in a year from other genres, like comedies, dramas, or even horror.

        It feels that you have made up your mind about them too easily after seeing only a few of them, maybe some of the weaker ones too.
        I don’t think they are going away anytime soon and they are becoming more and more diverse too. Joker (being another movie about comic book character) is a good example as this is a very different movie, a lot more artistic, a character study, superbly directed and acted, a movie that makes you think about some of the society problems and this could be one that appeals more to you perhaps. 🙂

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      • I’m glad you like them – I just don’t ;-I ….and while there may be only 4-5-6 of whatever universe they – and thoser of other universes plus Disney princesses, Fast & furious, Star wars (Disney princes) etc. suck up oll the PR/marketing air. I’m amazed they last this long; I also don’t like westerns but they didn’t dominate the landscape for quite as long – which may be because the Internet now strengthens that effect – a lot of the people who like them are also the personality types who rank and comment on Internet forums so it enhances that effect. Nothing wrong with that, there’s lot of TV for those of us who don’t – I’m just amazed at the durabilty of this phenomenon.

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      • I watch a lot of tv show too. What kind of tv shows do you watch and which are the ones that you like the most at the moment ? 🙂

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      • The current shows I’m watching are Superstore and Mr Mercedes… most fo the time I seem to binge and with that I just finished Frayed and The politician. I think Succession and La casa de las flores are next – tho I really want to catch up on Mr Robot, too – on my desktop! You?

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      • Cool! I watch Mr Mercedes too, it’s really good. I love Succession, it’s among my favourites right now. I also watch Mr Robot, but haven’t started the lastest season yet. It’s the first time I hear of Frayed and The politician. I watch a lot of tv shows and I almost never binge cause I wouldn’t have time as I want to keep up with as many as possible and I also like to savour for a longer period of time the shows I like the most instead of binging them and ending them fast. Some of my favourites that I’m watching now are La Casa de Papel, Dark, Schitt’s Creek, Succession, Fleabag, Mindhunter, The Terror, The Good Place, The Handmaid’s Tale, but there are many other ones that I follow. 😛

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      • I love the X-Men prequels – I think they are great. The Thor films and the Captain America ones are good too. I outlined my problems with the Avengers films on another post, but briefly, I do not like Iron Man and I still have problems with a CGI Hulk 🙂 Growing up loving The Incredible Hulk on TV I really cannot get used to the CGI one 🙂

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  4. I’ve seen all of them, most of them more than once! 😀
    I liked most of them (actually 4 or 5 of them are gonna be in my all time top 50), but there are a few I didn’t like that much and those are Minions, Frozen and The Lion King (I’m not a big fan of the original animation either).

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    • Another one I dont get is Lion King and yes I mean the original! What’s supposed to be so great in it or in “Up” or in most top 250 animation films? I tend to find most of them severely overrated.

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      • I agree mostly on the animation films being quite overrated. I find The Lion King pretty cheesy and predictable which is why I don’t like it too much, the live action one from this year is worth a watch for the visuals only, otherwise it’s exactly the same as the original animation. Up I thought was just ok. My least favourite animations are the asian ones, there’s only one I kind of liked. There are some animations though that I do think are great, like Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Toy Story 3, but even those are not really among my all time favourite movies. I would recommend you to see Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse from last year, this is my favourite animation and by far the best Spiderman movie imo.

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      • Ok, I’ll give “Into the Spider-Verse” a try 😉
        Tonight I watched “Strangers on a Train”
        There’s not a single Hitchcock film I haven’t enjoyed

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      • I never got the Lion King either and how it’s supposed to be “Shakespearean” (not my standard for entertainment) parrtly because it has Jeremy Irons’ voice. Aladdin and Beauty and the beast IMO are the high of that particular Disney resurgence. The musical surprisingly is better due to the very creative director’s mise-en-scène. On the whole Disney animation went down the cliché road more and more after Lion King to cater to pre-teen girls and housewife moms dreaming about being princesses while catering to the dads’ superhero fantasies . To escape that watch Apartment Zero ;-).

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      • I’ve to say I like Apt Zero much better than Rope, which I find v. stagey… I love Strangers on a train prob my top 20. My best friend in college gave me a tie clasp exactly like the “bruno” one for graduation :-)…

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    • Generally I am not a fan of films aimed at kids – so the animations are the ones I have no interest in seeing. I am disappointed that there is not more DC representation in this list, as, I think I have said before, I prefer them! 🙂

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      • Yeah, I’m not a fan of films aimed at kids too, I prefer darker films, but when it comes to animation there are some that are ok for adults too and even those for kids I can still enjoy if they are well made. From this list though the animations are definitely my least favourites.

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