Next time Michael Bay brags about how much money his movies make, check out this list. Adjusting for inflation is a bitch. Few of the movies are truly surprising, although seeing “Blazing Saddles” at #47 warms my cynical little heart. What’s also interesting is how many of the movies on the list are dramas “aimed” at adults. (“The Sting”, “The Graduate”, “Love Story”?). This is practically a forgotten genre for mainstream cinema nowadays. I guess studio honchos figure mature adults have better things to do – and they may be right. The top grossing movies of 2008 has “Horton Hears a Who” at #10 for crissakes. But which came first, the dumbing down of cinema or the mass exodus of mature adults?

