superflippy's Journal: Star Wars Still Tops

The movie industry likes to rank movies by box office gross, not counting for inflation, because this means the movie on top will always be a fairly new one.

However, using the Yahoo! list of top-grossing movies of all time and a handy inflation calculator to adjust all amounts to 2003 (the most recent year the calculator can do), the original Star Wars blows away the competition. It grossed $1,423,852,836.89 2003 dollars, compared to E.T.'s $839,840,340.63 or Titanic's $673,897,526.76

This better correlates with anecdotes I've heard about people who saw Star Wars forty times. With the advent of the VCR, who does that any more?

DVDs and Videos...

[johndiii]

If it's a movie that I want to see more than once (like the LOTR movies), I will see it once in the theater, then wait for the DVD to come out. I bought only one or two prerecorded VHS tapes (except for movies for our kids), but I'm buying far more DVDs.

I confess

[rdewald]

I saw, paid admission and all, Star Wars 17 distinct times during it's first run in theatres.