I was just checking in to make sure someone pointed out that Gone With the Wind is, and most likely will always be, the box office king.
I admit that I keep an eye on box office gross, but just because it's the only readily accessible way to feed my numbers fetish. But still, inflation really ruins the whole thing for me. What's interesting is that when you look at the chart of movies adjusted for inflation...take a look at The Phantom Menace. It was released in 1999, less than 10 years ago. Adjusting for inflation, that would ALREADY bump it's gross up 170 million! In 10 frikkin years...that's why box office gross is such a poor way to judge how well a film is doing compared to others.
We all heard the news about The Dark Knight breaking the opening weekend record, but if I'm not mistaken, I read that it didn't even sell more tickets in it's opening weekend than one of the Spider-Man or Pirates of the Caribbean movies(forget which one). Again, inflation makes box office gross almost meaningless.
About Titanic: what makes it so amazing is that it had massive legs during it's run. Very Brain Age-esque. Incredibly, Titanic only opened with 28 million in it's first weekend.
"I feel like I could take on the whole Empire myself."
