Top 10 Box Office Hits
While researching the Top 10 box office hits, we discovered it was also like taking a trip down memory lane and it might as well been a practice run for playing Trivial Pursuit. This list features movies we all remember and have grown to love over the last 70 years dating back to Gone With The Wind and Snow White dating back to the 1930’s.
With this list you’ll most likely catch yourself saying “oh yeah, I remember that movie.” But we also know there are too many great flicks like these to list and it was difficult choosing just 10 out of a growing list of box office hits. One great thing about this list is that it includes a wide variety of movies ranging from classic musical “The Sound of Music” to the household names like Spielberg’s E.T. and the Star Wars Trilogy including the original three.
This list is a comprehensive look into the movies of our time that, in a way, have changed our lives and our imaginations.
The classic all-time movie from 1939 that just about everyone has seen or at least viewed a portion of it once in their lifetime is the epic love story set in Civil War times. The DVD cover is a brilliant show of a glowing sunset in a rural setting that is enough to draw almost anyone’s attention and at least read the brief description of the movie.
As much as Star Wars has been in our lives for the last 30 years, this Trilogy box set is all one needs to take a trip down memory lane and re-visit the original three movies of the famous series that has finally concluded it’s nearly 30 year saga at the theaters. This is a must have if you’re into George Lucas’ work. The three blockbusters which have all become household names in the latter part of the 20th Century: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi will have you glued to the TV in your favorite chair or sofa for hours reliving one of the greatest sci-fi space thrillers of all time.
Perhaps the most popular musical of all time, The Sound of Music, is where almost every song is stuck in many peoples faded memory and is easily helped by Julie Andrews twirling around a grassy-topped Austrian Alp. Listeners woul’t be able to help sing the theme song “Climb Every Mountain” if there on a long road trip into the mountains. This is a must have for the movie collection especially for its 40-year anniversary in 2005.
Perhaps known as the “tear-jerker” of all time, Spielberg’s blockbuster E.T. is definitely a movie that many of us will remember for years to come. The famous full moon image with the young Henry Thomas and E.T. on the bicycle is as famous as it gets. This fascinating story about the loveable yet abandoned alien that we have all grown to adore as one of our own children becomes homesick and the story to get him home will have you tingling all over again for the first time.
It was like getting a Sunday school education in three-plus hours as this epic Biblical tale depicts one of the greatest stories ever told. The image on the DVD cover is enough to make you want to get the popcorn and snuggle up in your favorite comforter. Charleston Heston is at his best as he plays Moses and everything from the burning bush to parting the Red Sea can all be witnesses from the comforts of home.
Many people read reviews of this blockbuster before it hit the big screen and were anticipating a much different approach to it and the plot line. There were a lot of reviews saying it was too much of the love story than a detailed history of what happened but the movie was as still breathtaking as the event itself. The image cover depicts the love affair that accompanied the perilous plot of the movie and the story told by the lady that owned the Blue Jewel of the Sea was absolutely amazing.
The image on the DVD cover was hauntingly close to the scale of the enormous killer great white shark that plagued a small Massachusetts beach community in the 1975 thriller Jaws. The Blob, The Thing and The Fly may have been the best “monster” movies of the 50’s but Jaws definitely owns the 1970’s “monster” movie title.
This popular story about a poetic doctor set in revolutionary Russia is well worth watching over and over again. The image on the DVD cover illustrates a wide variety of events going on and may actually entice the viewers to settle in and watch it again and again.
This movie is still discussed as one of the best horror movies and the DVD cover could easily remind one of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Instead, Exorcist Director William Friedkin worked well with actress Linda Blair who acted as a possessed young girl whose spirit is consumed by a terrible evil spirit that actually claims the life of a priest that frees her. Viewers may also find it interesting that events like this actually happen in real life.
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
The Disney classic film Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs is one to keep forever and one to watch no matter how old you are. Where else can you get seven uniquely different characters (the dwarfs) each with his own personality all trying to please Snow White. This animated story is one for the ages for decades to come.
