It's Almost Official Titanic>Star Wars: The Force Awakens ( Box Office )

[Lawlight]

Chris Hu said:

Lawlight said:

This doesn't make sense. You're saying that it grossed $2B is because there was nothing else to see? So people went to see it over and over again because there was nothing else to see? The same can be said of TFA.

I think you actually need to look up the movies that where released in 1998 again besides Saving Private Ryan there really wasn't much qualiy wise and that movie wasn't direct competion to Titanic since it was a R rated war movie.  The same can't be said for TFA since Deadpool and Kung Fu Panda 3 are already miles better then any movie that were released in early 1998.  The late 90s was still a time when all the shitty movies where released during the first quater of the year.  Plus TFA had went up against much better movies even earlier since the Revenant and The Hateful Eight where released around the same time as TFA.

I think you need to look up movies in general back then - not many movies made more than $500M back then. 

Don't bring up Deadpool or KFP3 as competition. By the time they were released, TFA was already ending its end - it made $10M this week worldwide. On top of that KFP3 basically flopped.