If ever you need incontrovertible proof that there's very little similarity between what film critics think makes a good film and what people actually watch at the cinema, then a list of the public's top films usually does it. 

Don't get us wrong though, as critics we've still got a God-given right to turn up our noses at anything that doesn't have elongated metaphors for the frailty of love and life itself in, but it just means that no-one listens to us when we're telling them about it. Heathens. (Although, having said that, we did like Harry Potter and it's number 1 on the list, while we hated Tree of Life and BAM, it's not there. WE ARE THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE)

Anyway, as you can see below, 2011's favourite film topics (according to Vue Cinemas' extensive poll) included magic, rape, insanity, monkeys, booze, fighting and Colin Firth. AND THAT WAS JUST OUR VOTES.

No, seriously, it was all the votes.

1) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2) The King’s Speech
3) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
4) Bridesmaids
5) The Inbetweeners Movie
6) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
7) Black Swan
8) Rise of the Planet of the Apes
9) Hangover Part II
10) X-Men First Class
11) Tangled
12) The Help
13) Paul
14) Drive
15) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
16) Senna
17) Transformers: Dark of the Moon
18) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
19) Fast and Furious 5
20) Thor
21) The Adventures of TinTin
22) Super 8
23) The Fighter
24) Jonny English Reborn
25) Hugo
26) True Grit
27) Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
28) Puss in Boots
29) Cars 2
30) One Day
31) Crazy Stupid Love
32) Kung Fu Panda 2
33) Midnight in Paris
34) Moneyball
35) Jane Eyre
36) The Skin I Live In
37) The Ides of March
38) Paranormal Activity
39) TT3D: Closer to the Edge
40) Life in a Day