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

[Chris Hu]

Mr.Playstation said:

Chris Hu said:

People moved on to other movies because there are actually more then a few movies that are just as good or better then TFA currently playing in theaters.  Titanic on the other hand had little to no competition quality wise for most of its theatrical run.  I say it again besides Saving Private Ryan 1998 was a pretty lousy year quality wise. 

Here are the 50 highest rated movies from 1998 on imdb:

http://www.imdb.com/search/title?year=1998,1998&title_type=feature&num_votes=1000,&sort=user_rating,desc

Besides Saving Private Ryan and American History X pretty much all the movies on that list are pretty forgettable.

On top off all that 1998 was also a pretty lousy year music wise.

http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/bg_hits/bg_hits_98.html

Havent listed to any of those songs in a long time.

Titanic released in late 1997, if a movie released 7 months later couldn't remove a chunk of Titanic's market then clearly Titanic was a beast ( Unlike Star Wars which was destroyed before any huge movie even came out, it was barely keeping afloat pre-deadpool week ).  Titanic deserves its second place whether you like it or not.

Actually TFA is second place all time since you have to subtract the re release numbers from Titanic in order to make a fair comparision.  Just like the movie itself Titanic's legs are highly overrated since it took 189 days to make its final $100 million domestically.  TFA total domestic theatrical run will probably be less then 189 days so by the time its all said and done TFA will have made over $800 million more in its entire domestic theatrical run then Titanic did in its final 189 days.