A good movie question--updated with a new link!

David Ansen, the movie critic at Newsweek posed an interesting question in this week's issue: "Is anybody making movie's we'll actually watch in 50 years?"

You can read the entire article via this link.

I am also adding a related link to this Newsweek article via the new Entertainment Weekly blog, "Popwatch."

I just know that some of you readers out there have opinions on this topic.

To help fuel the fire more, the print article is accompanied with the following illustrations and captions.

Tom Cruise

• 26 movies made 26 [this number includes starring roles and significant supporting parts]
• 8 movies built to last ("War of the Worlds" "Collateral" "Magnolia" "Jerry Maguire" "Rain Man" "The Color of Money" "Top Gun" "Risky Business"
• .308 batting average

Julia Roberts

• 28 movies made
• 4 movies built to last
• "Erin Brockovich" "Notting Hill" "My Best Friend's Wedding" "Pretty Woman"
• .143 batting average

Russell Crowe

• 13 U.S. movies made
• 4 movies built to last
• "A Beautiful Mind" "Gladiator" "The Insider" "L.A. Confidential"
• .308 batting average

Johnny Depp

• 26 movies made
• 6 movies built to last
• "Pirates of the Caribbean" "Donnie Brasco" "Ed Wood" "Gilbert Grape" "Edward Scissorhands" "Nightmare on Elm Street"
  
• .231 batting average

Brad Pitt

• 22 movies made
• 3 movies built to last
• "Ocean's Eleven" "Fight Club" "Thelma and Louise"
• .136 batting average

Nicole Kidman

• 23 U.S. movies made
• 1 movie built to last
• "Moulin Rouge"
• .043 batting average

Betty Grable

• 29 movies made
• 0 movies built to last
• .000 batting average

Cary Grant

• 54 movies made
• 24 movies built to last
• "North by Northwest" "An Affair to Remember" "Notorious" "The Philadelphia Story" "Bringing up Baby" "Awful Truth" et. al.
• .444 batting average

James Dean

• 3 movies made
• 3 movies built to last
• "Giant" "Rebel Without a Cause" "East of Eden"
• 1.000 batting average

Now, I don't claim to know much about the last three people mentioned, but, I don't disagree with most of the rest of these--except for the Johnny Depp inclusion of "Pirates of the Caribbean." IT'S BASED ON A THEME PARK RIDE PEOPLE!!!!!! Sure, Depp "took a risk" (I guess) and I don't deny that the movie is enjoyable and fun to watch, but what exactly makes it pantheon worthy? And "Nightmare on Elm Street"? Really? Because you have to include a horror film? Can I get a ruling here?