Comments on: Vince Vaughn is the Actor that Offers the Best Value for Your Money

By: Andrew James

Andrew James — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:29:53 +0000

I’m surprised Tobey Maguire didn’t request an obscene amount of money for Spidey 3. Although maybe he did and it didn’t skew the number at all because of how much frakkin money that movie made.

I agree with Kurt on one hand: the list is a bit hard to quantify and maybe a ludicrous and ultimately pointless. But I still think it’s kinda interesting and worth mulling over for curiosity sake.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:18:47 +0000

Wasn’t this already done about 4 or 5 months ago? (Matt Damon was #1 on that occasion. Meh.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:52:26 +0000

To be honest, it doesn’t interest me that much, but this particular chart is ludicrous enough to make me come out of the woodworks and comment (or pass along more thought-out commentary over at MovieCityNews).

By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:43:25 +0000

People come to the certain movies for a lot of different things. In todays high-concept multiplex world, the “Star System” is far from the only factor (actually, the more I think about that, the more I think, same as it ever was).

There is still a whole risk element to things, and not enough rational statistics to turn something as fickle as entertainment & pop-culture into something predictably quantifiable.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:31:17 +0000

They do seem to be randomly picking and choosing which movies they included in their calculations, but I guess the thing that should make us most suspicious is the fact that there are no unknowns or independent films on the list. Surely something like Juno (budget: $7.5 million, worldwide gross: $229 million) offered a MUCH bigger return than The Break-Up.

Still, it’s an interesting idea for analysis, even if there’s no good way to measure it.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:18:05 +0000

Most arbitrary $$$ comparison ever. Their selection criteria and other factors (including back-end Gross points, etc.) make this whole exercise kinda ludicrous.

More detailed take-down of this ‘research’ here:

http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/archives/2008/07/hot_button_forb.html