It's not all bad. Our nation's economy is in shambles, and a once-measly 200,000 albums sold can now send a recording artist to the top of Billboard's Hot 100, but, somehow, Hollywood is still cranking out $200-million-plus blockbusters. The explanation seems obvious, really. In uncertain times, people love to say goodbye to reality, and films are a great form of escapism. That being said, there's no accounting for taste. Uptight film experts flipped their lids last year when that lifeless Transformers sequel made 25 times more than The Hurt Locker, which was equally accessible and critically preferred, but that's just how it goes.
2010 was no different; for example, Let Me In, one of our favorite films of the year, made a puny $12 million, while M. Night Shyamalan's comically bad The Last Airbender pulled in $132 mil. What can we say—shit, just like unfair box office intakes, happens. Interestingly enough, the year's 10 highest grossing films are as diverse in genre as they are in quality. Pop culture cynics that we are, we decided to break down the box office to see how many of the top 10 moneymaking movies of 2010 sucked.
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