he seems like he was a great guy.  i enjoyed watching him.

It’s more that it was tone deaf and self-aggrandizing and lots of rich, famous people at the time were saying the pandemic was the great equalizer but like didn’t have to ride public transportation to an unsafe work environment every day. Way to go to bat for those poor wealthy people 

Yeah, fair point. It was a middle-budget action flick that was probably considered low-risk/moderate return when made.

It’s pretty amazing that the “happy” endings for films like this come after millions to billions of people have been killed in these disasters.

Day After Tomorrow?

This list should be renamed, “Behold the power of international box office.” The bulk of these movies made solid, but not spectacular box office domestically but made 75 percent or more of their total gross overseas.

Between this listicle and the one yesterday about “hit songs that you didn’t know were covers”, the BuzzFeed-ifying of the AVClub is becoming ever more apparent. I hate this kind of shit.

Exactly. Tell me you weren’t born yet in 1982 without telling me you weren’t born yet in 1982.

Don’t forget Avatar.

Also:

Also, We’re the Millers is one of the funniest comedies of the 2010's (especially the unrated version).  It’s on basic cable pretty consistently as well.

This just seems like a kind of random list of movies.  Nobody forgot Con Air.

If you want to talk about forgotten, you know what movie came out a few months before that and made even more money? Crocodile Dundee.

Nobody remembers Con Air?

What’s really interesting is that they’re dumping the important part of their name and keeping a name that invokes Cinemax, which was never really considered a “prestige” brand at all.  It was the “after dark” channel.

Yeah it’s really weird.  It’s like if Coke decided to change its name to Fanta.  Why would you drop “HBO?”  It’s iconic.  What the fuck is “Max?”

I think the dumb decision gets bonus points for changing from HBO Max to just Max, despite not including any Cinemax material even though HBO owns Cinemax, and the Cinemax channels are now actually just called Max.

I don’t want interesting from Seinfeld. I want funny. And it was not.

Yeah, that in itself should have made it number one on this list.

The name Zaslav sounds like a second-rate DC/Marvel villain.