Craig the Movie Geek

Inception was made by the team that brought you The Dark Knight, including director Chris Nolan, Cinematographer Wally Pfister, Composer Hans Zimmer, and Editor Lee Smith, as well as several of the Dark Knight actors. Nolan had been writing this script for about 10 years, and it’s easy to see why.

The number one movie at the box office this week was the Universal animated comedy, Despicable Me, with a respectable $60 million take.

The movie stars Steve Carell as Gru, a James Bond-style villain who plots to outdo his rival by stealing the moon.  His plans are complicated by three little orphan girls.

Forget Gigli and Ishtar --- here’s a list of movies that flopped hard, but are totally worth watching and in many cases have seen total redemption through cable and DVD.  Looking at this list, it’s actually funny how many of these would fall into a category called, “Craig’s all time favourite movies.”  Either I have bad taste, or like some of these movies, I’m ahead of the curve.  At any rate --- most of these are movies that prove that Box Office results don't mean diddly-squat.  Some people seem to equate popularity and ticket sales