| Wonktonodi said: The point of adjusting for inflation is to try and get a better comparison of ticket sales and not just dollar amounts the price of movies tickets while not a constant compared to the dollar hasn't flucuated so widely that they aren't comparable. So saying if they cost what they do now people wouldn't go makes no sence. They cost less that a quater when GWTW came out but EVERYTHING cost less and people were making less, and no Gone with the Wind isn't at 5 billion when adjusted it's about 3.4 billion wolrd wide. want to hear something crazy? The movie that is listed as number 2 is Avatar with a little over 3 then star wars with 2.8 and Titanic with 2.5. So while hard milestones to reach, they are harldy undoable and the coparisons are fair. While people in the some contries wre going to much more movies then, the movies had more competition from other movies then, plus movies today have a much bigger market than back then, the US population was 130 million back then so 200 million fewer people than now and the world population has more than trippled in adition to more people seeing movies now in some contries than ever before. |
Sorry but it is unrealistic, I might be wrong about the 5 billion but its almost 1.7 billion on USA alone, it doesnt get more unrealistic than that. Ppl make more money nowadays but in comparision they dont make so much more that a movie theater ticket became cheaper compared to what ppl make, it became more expensive, and theres way more competition from everything, even from other movies, on Gone With The Wind days we had 1 movie x nothing else for ages.
