A Look Back At The `00s!

[Drizzle]

Scrubs! 01-Present!

Still going strong the longest active non-animated sitcom.

Wasn't Cheers the longest running non-animated sitcom? Granted, if Scrubs goes on for two more years, it could break that record.

 

[Warhammer]

A Batman movie that actually grossed over 1 billion dollars?

 

[Sawyer]

So now that we've covered the pointlessness of Twitter.... how 'bout that nifty death penalty?

 

[Kane52630]

how 'bout that nifty death penalty?

nothing new about that in Texas

 

[Catman]

A Batman movie that actually grossed over 1 billion dollars?

Something to be proud of. However, this decade belongs to Potter, LOTR, Spider-Man, and Pirates of the Caribbean. And...I guess...Shrek to some degree.

 

[Catman]

Just for reference sake, top 10 grossing movies of the decade:

Domestic
1. The Dark Knight - $533.3 million
2. Shrek 2 - $441.2 million
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - $423.3 million
4. Spider-Man - $403.7 million
5. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - $402.1 million
6. Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith - $380.2 million
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - $377 million
8. Spider-Man 2 - $373.5 million
9. The Passion of the Christ - $370.7 million
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - $341.7 million

Two of the movies had the word "revenge" in it. What's up with that?

Worldwide
1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - $1.1 billion
2. Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest - $1,066,179,725
3. The Dark Knight - $1,030,418,342
4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - $974.4 million
5. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - $960.9 million
6. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - $938.2 million
7. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - $929.3 million
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - $925.2 million
9. Shrek 2 - $919.8 million
10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - $895.9 million

Other countries LOVE Harry Potter! 4 installments in the top 10. Easily the biggest franchise of the decade.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

Oh, so you are actually here!

Yes, and you still refuse to actually learn about something and spout off like a dumbass. It's not new for you, but when you actually have to go out and deal with smart people who are worth talking to, you should probably at least make an effort to know what you're talking about.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

This thread should be called...

"A look back at the noughties"

 

[Sawyer]

Yes, and you still refuse to actually learn about something and spout off like a dumbass. It's not new for you, but when you actually have to go out and deal with smart people who are worth talking to, you should probably at least make an effort to know what you're talking about.

Not you.... never you.

 

[Catman]

THE 10 BEST SELLING ALBUMS

1. No Strings Attached, *NSYNC
2. Confessions, Usher
3. The Eminem Show, Eminem
4. Come Away With Me, Norah Jones
5. Human Clay, Creed
6. Oops! I Did It Again, Britney Spears
7. The Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem
8. 1, The Beatles
9. Supernatural, Santana
10. Country Grammar, Nelly

THE TOP 10 SINGLES:

1. We Belong Together, Mariah Carey
2. Yeah!, Usher featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris
3. Low, Flo Rida featuring T-Pain
4. How You Remind Me, Nickelback
5. I Gotta Feeling, The Black Eyed Peas
6. No One, Alicia Keys
7. Boom Boom Pow, The Black Eyed Peas
8. Let Me Love You, Mario
9. Gold Digger, Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx
10. Apologize, Timbaland featuring OneRepublic

10 MOST SUCCESSFUL OVERALL
1. Eminem
2. Usher
3. Nelly
4. Beyonce
5. Alicia Keys
6. 50 Cent
7. Nickelback
8. Britney Spears
9. Destiny's Child
10. Jay-Z

10 BIGGEST ONE-HIT WONDERS

1. Bad Day, Daniel Powter
2. Lean Back, Terror Squad
3. Butterfly, Crazy Town
4. This Is Why I'm Hot, MIMS
5. Laffy Taffy, D4L
6. You're Beautiful, James Blunt
7. Crazy, Gnarls Barkley
8. Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!), Blu Cantrell
9. Inside Your Heaven, Bo Bice
10. He Loves U Not, Dream

 

[DX]

Wow, it feels like yesterday when we were coming into the 21st century.

How time flies.

 

[DX]

Something that hasn't been mentioned in this thread: 9/11.

 

[Hobgoblin]

Yeah, we're skipping over all of the crap that happened in the past ten years. That may be ok, since we've been drowning in it.

9-11
The Afghan War
The Iraq War
Hurricane Katrina
the Indian Ocean tsunami
the worst recession in decades

It was a lousy decade personally, too. My mother died, I was diagnosed as manic depressive and I cant find a real job to save my life. I found out some friends werent really friends.

On the plus side, I graduated college and have a job that isnt satisfying but keeps me employed. Thats more than some people can say. I survived all the BS and keep on truckin.

Oh and all the comic book movies. Thats been a godsend. Yes, even the bad ones. At least they werent as bad as Batman and Robin. (Well, Catwoman was, but who cares about that?)

 

[Paradoxium]

Beginning of the second Great Depression. t:

 

[Hobgoblin]

Beginning of the second Great Depression. t:

I keep hearing that. I was talking with my comic shop owner last night and he was going on about how the unemployment rate is going to stay at 10% because no new jobs are being created. He even said that the rate is closer to 20%, after factoring other numbers. I thought "Damn, thats nearly Great Depression level unemployment."

I have no head for economics so I dont know how much of what he said is true but it made sense.

 

[Paradoxium]

The 17% unemployment is actually from the government, BLS (Bureau of Labor and Statistics)'s U6. The one you hear on the news is U3. U3 is sugarcoated. U6 includes people who gave up looking for jobs, or in menial part-time jobs wanting to get better ones. Like an engineer working at McDonalds flipping burgers with giant outstanding debts. Even U6 is a bit sugarcoated.

The BLS actually acknowledged they screwed up with their birth and death models. Come this February when the make the corrections, the numbers are going to be atrocious. I suppose they did not want to give out the bad news this soon into the Christmas season.

But yea they do cook their books, and it's not limited to America. Many governments in the world do this. Realize that Hurricane Katrina "helped the economy" because it raised the "GDP", but to the common person this is nonsense. Something like two thirds of America's GDP is based on spending; this is a imbalance. You rebalance it by exporting goods out to bring back capital. The opposite has been happening; the trade deficit is an all time high. The only thing that America really exports are t-bills. The majority of jobs in America are service jobs, that is servicing itself of its goods.

 

[Catman]

It was a lousy decade

Indeed it was. Let's cross our fingers for the `10s.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Yea this decade has definitely been ******. It started off so well, for me at least, then it just fell apart.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

Some dude threw a brick at me this decade. =/

 

[Ace of Knaves]

A bloke threw a brick at a gal?!? Tsk tsk.

He should of thrown a tomato

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

A bloke threw a brick at a gal?!? Tsk tsk.

He should of thrown a tomato

Apparently you don't defend another country's decision not to enter war with a country you're currently in.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Apparently you don't defend another country's decision not to enter war with a country you're currently in.

You talking about France?

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

Oui.

Down here in NM, they didn't take kindly to me saying, "Maybe France just doesn't see the point of them participating in a war they don't believe in on a developmental country your country heavily outclasses."

Later that day, one of the dudes threw a brick at me. That's when I knew it was time to go home for a while. =/

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Pricks. Where is NM?

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

Southwest USA.