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By Brian Marder, Hollywood.com Staff | Sunday, May 25, 2008

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For us mere mortals, Memorial Day is the last Monday of each May, when we honor those who have died in the military; for movie studios, it’s the Monday following the release of (usually) the year’s biggest movie. Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull won the coveted slot this year--duh!--but what were the Mem-Day movies of the past decade like? Quite the mixed bag, to say the least...and we ranked them on our preferences.

10. 1999
Notting Hill (5/28/1999): $116 million
On Memorial Day weekend, nobody wants to sit through a movie about a bookstore and its owner (Hugh Grant)--unless it explodes and he illogically turns into a superhero. Sure, Notting Hill made loads of money by romantic-comedy standards, but…it’s a romantic comedy! Perhaps Universal mistook Memorial Day for Valentine’s Day.