If you want to talk about the hottest movie at the end of the year, I think it is "Joker".
As of last Sunday, the film has grossed more than $980 million worldwide, making it the biggest box office for R-rated films in film history.
It is expected to break the 1 billion mark this week, becoming the sixth work in Warner's history to achieve this box office result.
The previous five films were Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 2) ($1.341 billion), Aquaman ($1.148 billion), Batman: The Dark Knight Rises ($1.081 billion), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ($1.017 billion, the latter two parts are also 958 and 956 million, respectively), and Batman: The Dark Knight ($1.004 billion).
Batman: The Dark Knight Heath Ledger Version Joker
Due to the existence of a rating system abroad, to watch R-rated films, under the age of 17 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian to enter, so compared to PG-13 films, the audience will naturally be affected, not to mention the adult NC-17.
Among the top 10 R-rated films in the world at the current global box office, Joker will (and will be) the only one to break $1 billion at the box office, and none of the next nine will even break through $800 million.
Of the 10 films, there are 5 action films, 4 comic adaptations, 4 mainland films, Bradley Cooper and Ryan Reynolds starring in two of them, and Todd Phillips directing two of them.
Ryan Reynolds
Among them, 8 are very pure commercial genre films, 1 is a war-themed work based on a biography of a true story, and the other 1 is a bit surprising that it is a religious theme.
Let's take a look at what films are in this Top 10 list.
<h1>10th</h1> place
American Sniper (2014)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Bradley Cooper / Sienna Miller
Douban:7.6 IMDb:7.3 MTC:72 Rotten Tomatoes:72%
Worldwide box office: $547 million
The war-themed action film directed by Clint Eastwood for 14 years, based on the autobiography of the famous American sniper Chris Kyle, "American Sniper", tells the legendary story of the sharpshooter who joined the Navy SEAL at the age of 30 after "911". In today's flashback biographical films, the film's flat narrative is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Chris Kyle, who went to Iraq to fight in the war four times, during which he shot a total of 160 enemies, but at the same time he was also deeply affected by PTSD, fell into a struggle, and finally ended in tragedy. In the film, Mr. Dongmu once again showed his skillful directing skills, and the gunfight in the sandstorm in the film was particularly wonderful.
<h1>9th place</h1>
Teddy Bear Ted (2012)
Director: Seth McFarland
Starring: Seth McFarland / Mark Wahlberg / Mira Kunis
Douban:7.1 IMDb:6.9 MTC:62 Rotten Tomatoes:68%
Worldwide box office: $549 million
Seth McFarlane is a self-written R-rated comedy starring Mark Wahlberg, and the director also voices the cute but very dirty-looking teddy bear in the film. A bear and a 35-year-old otaku, with a variety of colored and colorless strips, with no cover and no discipline, can be said to have fulfilled the childhood wish of many people to watch teddy bears on the screen, but also ruined the pure childhood of many people. Although the film is very routine and has various problems, it has interesting characters and extremely entertaining stories, which are both popular and popular. But the sequel launched in 15 years, the same routine did not work, and the box office shrank by 60%.
<h1>8th place</h1>
宿醉2 The Hangover Part II (2011)
Director: Todd Phillips
Starring: Bradley Cooper / Zach Galivanakis / Ed Helms / Lee Chun
Douban:6.8 IMDb:6.4 MTC:44 Rotten Tomatoes:33%
Worldwide box office: $586 million
"Joker" director Todd Phillips directed the famous series, although the better reputation is the first, but the better box office is the second (the first and third parts sold 467 million and 362 million each), the three series of more than 1.4 billion US dollars worldwide box office revenue, can be said to be very successful. The first two parts of the series are based on the routine of falling into a crisis after a hangover, and a group of good friends must retrieve their memories and resolve the crisis, and the whole process is full of jokes and yellow paragraphs. In addition to this series, Todd Phillips' other works such as Arms Dealer and Due Date (starring Robert Downey Jr.) are also similar types of comedies, very hilarious.
<h1>7th place</h1>
耶稣受难记 The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Director: Mel Gibson
Starring: Jim Caviezer / Maya Morgan Stern / Monica Bellucci
Douban:7.9 IMDb:7.1 MTC:47 Rotten Tomatoes:49%
Worldwide box office: $610 million
At the time of the filming, Mel Gibson had not yet been banned by Hollywood for his drunken "anti-Semitic remarks". At the age of 39, he won the Oscars for best picture and best director for "Braveheart", and he is one of the few people who can combine actors and directors and succeed at the same time. Based on the New Testament and biographies written by numerous disciples, the film tells the story of what happened in the last 12 hours before Jesus' martyrdom. In the West, which has a broad religious basis, such religious theme films are actually not very accepted, and after their release, they must coexist with controversy, but they have been a great commercial success (costing only 30 million US dollars), and such a hard and profound religious theme film can achieve such a box office.
<h1>6th place</h1>
Wolverine 3: Deadly Battle Logan (2017)
Directed By: James Mangold
Starring: Hugh Jackman / Patrick Stewart / Daphne Keane
Douban:8.3 IMDb:8.1 MTC:77 Rotten Tomatoes:93%
Worldwide box office: $619 million
In order to make it R-rated, in this "Wolverine" curtain call, Hugh Jackman self-paid (the first two films are 20 million levels) starred. And the superhero genre is placed in the atmosphere of the Western, the degenerated Wolverine, the elderly and sick Professor X, and the few mutants left, all set off the sad feeling of the hero's twilight and farewell, in addition to making people bright, but also more substitutionary, strong as mutants, but also like ordinary people to experience life and death, suddenly become real. Compared with the final chapter of this year's real "X-Men" series, but the big mess of "X-Men: Dark Phoenix", it is more sad.
<h1>5th</h1> place
Joker Returns It (2017)
Director: Anders Muschetti
Starring: Bill Skarsgaard / Jayden Martell / Sophia Lilith / Finn Woofad
Douban: 7.4 IMDb: 7.3 MTC: 69 Rotten Tomatoes: 86%
Worldwide box office: $700 million
Based on Stephen King's novel of the same name, it is a reboot of the 90s version of the horror film of the same name. A group of children with the theme of ghosts and growth, the movie seems to be a combination of "Stranger Things" and "Walk with Me", and hiding behind the red balloon, and then slowly revealing a clown face full of evil gas, is definitely one of the most impressive movie scenes in 17 years, which makes people unforgettable and lingering. The film cost only $30 million, but it sold well worldwide, becoming a blockbuster film with a double harvest at the box office, which is really rare for a horror film genre.
<h1>4th place</h1>
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Director: Lily Wachowski / Lana Wachowski
Starring: Keanu Reeves / Lawrence Fishbourne / Kerry-Ann Moss / Hugo Viven / Monica Bellucci
Douban:8.5 IMDb:7.2 MTC:62 Rotten Tomatoes:73%
Worldwide box office: $742 million
The Wachowski brothers, the directors who made this sci-fi classic series, have now become sisters after a period of sisterhood and brotherhood. With this work, Keanu Reeves, the star who became the top Hollywood movie star, was repeatedly teased by fate in the next 10 years of life, sinking into various mediocre films and bad films, until the "Fast And Furious" series (3 also R-rated) that began in 14 years, it was the second spring of his career, and recently a new love affair was revealed. Although the third film has a poor reputation abroad, the three works in the series have sold more than 1.6 billion US dollars in total, and it is also one of the most successful series of films in film history. If you count inflation in the past 20 years, it is far more than 1.6 billion today.
<h1>3rd place</h1>
Deadpool Deadpool (2016)
Directed By: Tim Miller
Starring: Ryan Reynolds / Morena Bakarine / Ed Scrin
Douban: 7.7 IMDb: 8.0 MTC: 65 Rotten Tomatoes: 84%
Worldwide box office: $782 million
In the "X-Men" series of spin-off movies, Ryan Reynolds plays "Deadpool" Wade Wilson, who is genetically modified by mutants in despair due to cancer, and after being cured, he evolves but disfigures him and obtains the superpower of regeneration. Before starring in the spin-off movie, Ryan Reynolds had appeared as Deadpool in Wolverine and even starred in DC's Green Lantern (which was later brought to the movie for spitting). After the film was released at the time, the style was unique among a number of PG-13 Marvel movies, very yellow, Ryan Reynolds portrayed Deadpool as a character with both mean and talkative attributes, very deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and thus got the nickname of Little, and all kinds of fancy spits that broke the fourth wall appeared endlessly, which was very stunning.
<h1>2nd place</h1>
Deadpool 2: I Love My Home Deadpool 2 (2018)
Director: David Rydge
Starring: Ryan Reynolds / Josh Brolin / Julian Dinisson / Sagitte Baez
Douban:7.3 IMDb:7.7 MTC:66 Rotten Tomatoes:84%
Worldwide box office: $785 million
After the first film received a good response at a cost of $58 million and won a return of $782 million at the box office, the sequel completely changed the style of the previous work, in addition to continuing the fancy spit that broke the fourth wall, it was also directly made into an Easter egg movie, which was very entertaining and very fun, but also weakened the sense of cinema, without the freshness of the first one. The doubling of production costs, overall not as good as the texture of the previous low-budget B-grade film, Pitt and Dumb cameos are also a surprise. Although it feels that there is no need to make a sequel, but such a profitable project, Disney will certainly not give up easily, it is said that the third part will be made into a PG-13 level family movie.
<h1>1st place</h1>
Joker (2019)
Starring: Jacqueline Phoenix / Robert De Niro / Sagitte Baez
Douban: 9.0 IMDb: 8.8 MTC: 59 Rotten Tomatoes: 69%
Worldwide box office: $994 million (temporarily)
Cloaked in comic book adaptation, this work, which was actually independently developed and has nothing to do with the DC Universe, tells the origin story of the Joker. Since its release worldwide in October, it has so far won more than $980 million at the box office, and is about to become the first R-rated film to break 1 billion, the sixth in Warner's history, and the only non-Disney/Marvel movie to break $1 billion this year. Regardless of the plot, the film can be said to be completely dependent on Jacqueline Phoenix's anti-heaven performance achievements, and discussing this movie, it is impossible to avoid it. We will also wait and see how we can perform in the next awards season.
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Author: Hui-Movie