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HappySqurriel on 24 January 2010
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MontanaHatchet said:
HappySqurriel said:
oldschoolfool said:
HappySqurriel said:

When you factor for inflation, Gone with the Wind saw (roughly) 3 times the ticket sales that Avatar currently has

http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm


inflation doesn't matter. Nobody's going to say that Avatar is number one,but technically because of inflation Gone with the Wind is.

Actually, I know of several people who have become increasingly annoyed by these records being broken because movie when it can mostly be attributed to movie theaters charging $15 for a movie. If you want something that is not as easily manipulated you should look at total ticket sales, which (in all reality) no movie will ever beat Gone with the Wind.

Gone With the Wind also saw multiple re-releases and had very little competition as far as movies go. It's like discrediting Wii Fit for its high gross because the game cost $90. Avatar is more expensive, sure, but that also is negated by the decreased number of people who will buy the ticket. And it's obvious that Avatar hasn't sold the most tickets. What's the point of mentioning that? This isn't a "Avatar sells the most movies tickets ever" thread, but rather one for it being the highest grossing. All in all, I'm getting annoyed by this really snobby attitude.

And where are theaters charging $15 for a ticket, exactly? Where I live, ticket prices are on the high side, and even then they're not $15.

You can argue multiple releases for Gone with the Wind, but movies like Jurrassic Park still grossed more when factoring in for inflation than Avatar and had a single theatrical release. The $15 ticket price was a Canadian figure.

By the way, how can it be impressive to gross more money than another movie unless you factor in for inflation ... If the United States had hyper-inflation like Zimbabwe and a coffee cost $10,000,000,000,000 would a movie that grossed the most money ever be all that impressive if it didn't make the adjusted for inflation list?