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Yeah, I have. The whole adjusted for inflation thing is bogus though. It's like trying to predict that some of those movies would have done as well today as they did in the past.

It doesn't have anything to do with the hypothetical current popularity at all, acually. It's just adjusting the buying power of the dollar in those days to be comparable to what it is today. It's kinda like adjusting the ticket prices in 1939 to current levels -- about $9 a pop -- for the Gone with the Wind statistic.

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It doesn't have anything to do with the hypothetical current popularity at all

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Sure it does. No one can predict whether Gone With the Wind would have made what it did if tickets were sold at $9 a pop in 1939 or if were released today. It's a guessing game.

It's not a guessing game at all. The prices they paid back then were equivalent to what a $9 ticket costs now. Gas at 10 cents a gallon or whatever it was back then is like the $2.50 or so we are paying now. The value of whatever a movie costs to see back then, say 25 cents, is equal to the nine dollars it costs in todays terms. If you don't adjust for inflation no old movie can ever compete, and all of the Stars Wars will be out of the top 10 in 65 years, because movies will cost $20 to go see, or whatever inflation brings it up to by then. It has nothing to do with if people would go see the movie if it were released today.

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It's not a guessing game at all. The prices they paid back then were equivalent to what a $9 ticket costs now.

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Really?? So, movies are made and cost the same to make now as they did back then? Commercial theaters haven't been upgraded over the last 66 years to properly take advantage of new technologies? What's the cause of the tickets general rise in price levels then?

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Gas at 10 cents a gallon or whatever it was back then is like the $2.50 or so we are paying now.

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I'm sorry, but this is a flaccid arguement. We are talking about entertainment, not a state of being force by circumstances. I'll play along though. Did the rising cost of gas cause people to car pool or be more conservative with how much driving they did back then? Did the prices of tickets, and the short window for a movies video release, cause people to go see a movie once, or completely skip a movie, back then? What about bootlegging? Man, I could go on, but the fact is there are too many variables. Movies are a product of their era.

Anyway, feel free to start a thread on this topic, but lets get this thread back on its.

The EPIII DVD has also gone up for preorder at SWS.com. I'm hoping that I'll be able to get mine from my supplier a few weeks in advance. Either way, it can't come soon enough.

Yes, let us all bow before Star Wars: ROTS, the highest grossing film ever if you don't pay attention to inflation. C'mon...

Ken: Thank you for your contribution to this thread.

Just agreeing with everyone but you.

Thank you sir; but, if you have nothing left to say "on topic" feel free to troll somewhere else.

Regards,

Luis

I'd say it was on topic. And I'll post what I please where I please, thank you very much.

How's this: I support everyone else's argument that when you're looking at these stats, you have to look at the inflation adjusted numbers, not merely the dollar gross. By the dollar gross, ROTS will easily be surpassed in a few years by whatever new trendy movie comes around, which I imagine will not make you very happy.

Sincerely,
Ken