Top Grossing Movies of 2009 suck.

Here is a list of the top grossing movies of 2009 (limited to movies released in 2009, counting only income in 2009. Avatar would be much higher if factoring in 2010 income)

Star Trek was awesome. Harry Potter was enjoyable enough. And I have heard Avatar was actually pretty good (though I am decidedly waiting for the DVD).

Everything else sucks. Why do people pay so much money to watch such bad movies? Really? Sandra Bullock cracked the top 10?

P.S.: Michael Bay, if you are reading this, please stop. No, seriously, stop. For all of us.


Edit: Hey! Looks like I hit my 5 posts this month. Matt seems to be on pace to hit that mark, but Tom needs to kick it into gear or he can kiss his 50 American dollars goodbye.

Movie piracy makes kittens cry...

...but it makes studio executives tons of money.

According to the article Most Pirated Movie of 2009 ... Makes Heaps of Money, Star Trek, despite being pirated more than any other movie this year, is poised to make well upwards of 100 Million Dollars.

Couple that with the fact that twice as many movies were made in 2009 than 5 years prior (and if you factor in independent releases, even more), and the movie industry making record profits in a terrible recession and it suddenly becomes rather baffling what impact piracy is having at all.

It's a pretty interesting read. Also, I have never actually seen a kitten cry over movie piracy. They mainly cry when Metallica music gets downloaded.