{"id":82248,"date":"2016-12-28T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=82248"},"modified":"2017-01-03T05:37:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T13:37:47","slug":"poll-2016-blockbuster-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/poll-2016-blockbuster-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Favorite Blockbusters of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8216;Kung Fu Panda 3&#8217; in January to &#8216;Rogue One&#8217; at year end, a lot of movies in 2016 made a lot of money at the box office. Not all of them were actually well liked by the audiences that paid for them, but let&#8217;s not dwell on the negatives today. What were your favorite blockbusters of the year?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For the purposes of this poll, I&#8217;m defining a &#8220;blockbuster&#8221; as any movie that grossed over $100 million domestically. Some of these films were brutally panned by both critics and viewers, and may have even lost money relative to their inflated budgets, but we need to assign an arbitrary cut-off point and that will have to do. Which of these movies have you seen? More importantly, which did you enjoy?<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-784\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_784\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/blog\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_784_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"2790aef654\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"784\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_multiple_ans_784\" name=\"poll_multiple_ans_784\" value=\"25\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>What Were Your Favorite Blockbusters of 2016?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-784-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-13904\" name=\"poll_784\" value=\"13904\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-13904\">'Angry Birds'<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-13905\" name=\"poll_784\" value=\"13905\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-13905\">'Bad Moms'<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-13906\" name=\"poll_784\" value=\"13906\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-13906\">'Batman v. 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The movies on this list I've seen all sucked.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-13931\" name=\"poll_784\" value=\"13931\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-13931\">I didn't see a damn one of these.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(784);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(784); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-784-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n<p>I am in desperate need to catch up with most of these movies. 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