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The Neverending Story II and III. I will never understand why I thought I liked those as a kid, because they are absolutely pathetic.

Ghost made pottery sexy for a brief period.

I sort of agree with you, in the sense that even though I do not care for the show, I do not vocally hate on it. I have seen so little of it to begin with. If something doesn't look interesting to me, or if it looks like I won't enjoy it, or if I don't enjoy what little I see, I just ignore it. (Same with Home.)

I was going to say this, but you beat me to it. My friend despises the show, and he used that exact phrase. I have no interest in it, simply because what little I saw turned me off. The characters were smug and whiny, it wasn't funny to me, and I don't much care for sitcoms anyway.

I keep hearing "beloved" get thrown around in reference to this film or that. "XYZ is beloved, so XYZ2 will be a big hit." I've never figured out how people are able to determine whether or not a certain film from only a few years ago is "beloved." I've heard that term applied to Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, Star Trek '09, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Anchorman, yet none of their respective sequels broke out domestically the way they were "supposed" to. (On the flip side, I don't recall hearing Despicable Me being referred to as "beloved", and yet DM2 broke out to the tune of over $350 million domestic.) The Panda may have a point, just because the original is a hit doesn't necessarily mean the GA is chomping at the bit for anything beyond that one stand-alone story. For example, maybe audiences just wanted the story of a boy befriending a dragon and convincing his village that they are not creatures to be feared. Maybe they weren't clamoring for an epic saga. And this is coming from someone who enjoyed HTTYD2 and is looking forward to HTTYD3. (Which reminds me, I don't care if Home is good or bad, I'm still glad to see it succeed so that they can stay in business long enough to complete HTTYD3. I am not going to root for a movie to fail, and more people to potentially lose their jobs, in the vain hope that it will "teach" the executives a "lesson" that they should make "better" movies. Because from what I can tell, things never actually work that way in Hollywood.)

Fully animated. No connection to the previous two.

Well, they ARE the fiercest killers in the insect kingdom

I'm not sure it's that it's going to save DWA, so much as it's not going to kill them like some predicted. DWA has been bleeding money, they had to cut their production schedule, close their Redwood City studio, sell their main studio facilities (they're leasing them back to use), lay off over 500 people. Some thought this might be the film that would seal their doom.

I was actually aware of that, it was a joke. I just got distracted while editing the post to add a j/k clarification. So I will do it now. j/k, people still bag on Cleopatra as a cinematic disaster, but put it up against more modern big-budget disasters like Pluto Nash and Battleship and suddenly you realize that Cleopatra really wasn't very bad at all.

I think we all want to forget Cleopatra.

The longer cut of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (it's on the Criterion Blu-Ray)

The director says he is trying to make it as close to the original comics as he can. He has a Tumblr about the project.

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and A Shot in the Dark are great choices. I will also suggest The Great Race. One of my favorites.

Evening Shade wasn't until 1990. I guess any of them could have worked.

Also surprised they didn't go with Selleck as Tony Stark. (And was Burt Reynolds actually still big in 1985? I thought his career was cratering in the mid-80s, his IMDB entries from the time bear that out.)

My dad loves Get Shorty. It's one of those movies he talks and talks about but I've never taken out the time to sit down and watch for myself. I do really want to, I'm just too busy (or too lazy, take your pick).

Charade is awesome. I agree with a lot of people that it's the best "Hitchcock movie" that wasn't actually made by Alfred Hitchcock.

Well, the Lumiere data is only from the introduction of the Euro onward. I'd love to know admissions info from earlier. I know Insidekino has some German historical admissions for the all-time biggest; Jurassic Park's total 9.4 million admissions comes out to $55m now, but using the 2014 average ticket price and converting at today's exchange rate, it'd be $81.8 million. Also, I discovered that Japanese ticket prices have actually DEflated in local currency since the early 90s, on top of the exchange rate change. (For example, Jurassic Park, which had 8.55 million admissions, is $90 million USD now, down from $120 million.) Possibly has something to do with the early 90s recession and "Lost Decade"? So it's best to figure out the average price per country now, multiply the historical admissions by that, and then apply the exchange rate. (Thank goodness Europe has always recorded admissions, so you don't need to know anything about the pre-Euro currencies.) Unfortunately, a true all-time list would be impossible because of all the older movies with missing data and so forth.

Interesting list. Combining this with inflation-adjusted DOM totals (adjusting to 2014 avg, not BOM's current 2015 avg which is just the Q4 2014 avg and is thus too high) here is how your list orders when taking U.S. inflation into account (and I know there are films missing, I just did the ones in your list) This gets a little bit closer to my impossible dream of determining an all-time worldwide admissions ranking, at least because all OS grosses are adjusted to the same USD exchange rates (though ticket price inflation in other countries is still not accounted for) #. FILM: Original OS - Original DOM - Original WW ==> New OS - New DOM - New WW 1. Titanic: 1.528b - 659m - 2.187b ==> 1.435b - 1.107b - 2.542b 2. Avatar: 2.027b - 760.5m - 2.788b ==> 1.666b - 794.6m - 2.461b 3. Star Wars: 314.4m - 461m - 775.4m ==> 314.4m - 1.455b - 1.770b(there are not available data to adjust) 4. E.T. The Extra-terrestrial: 357.8m - 435.1m - 792.9m ==> 357.8m - 1.159b - 1.517b(there are not available data to adjust) 5. The Avengers: 895m - 623m - 1.518b ==>745m - 627.2m - 1.372b 6. Jurassic Park: 626.7m - 402.5m - 1.029b ==> 545.7m - 751m - 1.297b 7. The Phantom Menace: 552m - 474.5m - 1.027b ==> 524.4m - 737.8m - 1.262b 8. The Lion King: 564.7m - 422.8m - 987.5m ==> 486.7m - 728.3m - 1.215b 9. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: 657m - 317.6m - 975m ==> 745.5m - 456.8m - 1.202b 10. The Return of the King: 742m - 377.8m - 1.119b ==> 665.9m - 503.6m - 1.170b 11. Frozen: 873m - 400.7m - 1.274b ==> 740m - 400.7m - 1.141b 12. Deathly Hallows II: 960m - 381m - 1.341b ==> 745.7m - 392m - 1.138b 13. Iron Man 3: 806m - 409m - 1.215b ==> 688.3m - 398.8m - 1.087b 14. Fellowship of the Ring: 556m - 315.5m - 871.5m ==> 635.9m - 447.7m - 1.084b 15. Pirates of the Caribbean 2: 642.9m - 423.3m - 1.066b ==> 543m - 528m - 1.071m 16. The Two Towers: 583.5m - 342.5m - 926m ==> 593m - 471.6m - 1.065b 17. Transformers 4: 846m - 245.4m - 1.091b ==>767m - 245.4m - 1.012b 18. The Dark Knight Rises: 636.3m - 448.1m - 1.084b ==> 541.4m - 470.6m - 1.012b 19. Transformers 3: 771.4 - 352.4m - 1.123b ==> 644.9m - 361.6m - 1.007b 20. Shrek 2: 478.6m - 441.2m - 919.8m ==> 422.4m - 580.5m - 1.003b 21. Spider-Man: 418m - 403.7m - 821.7m ==> 429.4m - 567.7m - 997.1m 22. Finding Nemo: 555.9m - 380.8m - 936.7m ==> 493.5m - 503.5m - 997m 23. Independence Day: 511.2m - 306.2m - 817.4m ==> 430.8m - 565.9m - 996.7m 24. Chamber of Secrets: 617m - 262m - 879m ==> 625.2m - 367m - 992.2m 25. Skyfall: 804.2m - 304.4m - 1.109b ==> 679.3m - 308.9m - 988.2m 26. The Dark Knight: 469.7m - 534.9m - 1.005b ==> 361.7m - 608.3m - 970m 27. Toy Story 3: 648m - 415m - 1.063b ==> 530.3m - 426.5m - 956.8m 28. The Hobbit 3: 700m - 255m - 955m ==> 672.8m - 255m - 927.8m 29. Goblet of Fire: 606.9m - 290m - 896.9m ==> 552.7m - 369.1m - 921.8m 30. Pirates of the Caribbean 3: 654m - 309.4m - 963.4m ==> 534.7m - 367.4m - 902.1m 31. Revenge of the Sith: 468.5m - 380.3m - 848.8m ==> 416.7m - 484.7m - 901.4m 32. Alice in Wonderland: 691.3m - 334.2m - 1.025b ==> 551.2m - 343.4m - 894.6m 33. The Hobbit 1: 714m - 303m - 1.017b ==> 582.3m - 309.1m - 891.4m 34. Despicable Me 2: 602.7m - 368.1m - 970.8m ==> 505m - 383.1m - 888.1m 35. Order of the Phoenix: 647.8m - 292m - 939.9m ==> 528.4m - 346.8m - 875.2m 36. Spider-Man 2: 410.2m - 373.6m - 783.8m ==> 368.0m - 491.5m - 859.5m 37. Spider-Man 3: 554.3m - 336.5m - 890.8m ==> 452.5m - 399.6m - 852.1m 38. Pirates of the Caribbean 4: 804.6m - 241.5m - 1.045.7b ==> 605.2m - 244.5m - 849.7m 39. The Hobbit 2: 702m - 258.4m - 960.4m ==> 585.1m - 257.5m - 842.6m 40. Half-Blood Prince: 632.5m - 302m - 934.4m ==> 508.4m - 330.6m - 839m 41. Deathly Hallows I: 664.3m - 296m - 960.3m ==> 535.2m - 302.2m - 837.4m 42. Transformers 2: 434.2m - 402.1m - 836.3m ==> 392.7m - 440.4m - 833.1m 43. Prisoner of Azkaban: 547.1m - 249.5m - 796.7m ==> 489.0m - 328.3m - 817.3m 44. Catching Fire: 440.2m - 424.7m - 864.9m ==> 367.5m - 417.6m - 785.1m 45. Inception: 533m - 292.6m - 825.5m ==> 462.3m - 300.7m 763m 46. Ice Age 4: 715.9m - 161.3m - 877.2m ==> 586.5m - 169.3m - 755.8m 47. Shrek 3: 476.2m - 322.7m - 799.0m ==> 364.3m - 383.2m - 747.5m 48. Ice Age 3: 690.1m - 196.6m - 886.7m ==> 528.5m - 215.3m - 743.8m 49. Mockingjay I: 415m - 337.1m - 752.1m ==> 384.9m - 337.1m - 722.0m 50. Guardians of the Galaxy: 441m - 333.2m - 774.2m ==> 386.4m - 333.2m - 719.6m 51. Twilight - Breaking Dawn 2: 537.4m - 292.3m - 829.7m ==> 420.5m - 296.7m - 717.2m 52. Indiana Jones 4: 469.5m - 317.1m - 786.6m ==> 346.4m - 360.8m - 707.2m 53. Fast & Furious 6: 550.0m - 238.7m - 788.7m ==> 462.6m - 232.7m - 695.3m 54. Interstellar: 484.7m - 188.0m - 672.7m ==> 464.8m - 188.0m - 652.9m

I haven't seen TMNT2, but it can't be any worse than TMNT3. That one was not only stupid, it was FUCKING BORING. As a kid I think I got all the way through Turtles 3 a grand total of ONCE. Who thought it was a good idea to send the Turtles back to 1600s Japan, and get involved in cliched political intrigue? Yawn...

Remember that Tangled was actually produced by Disney, and Gnomeo wasn't. It was just distributed by Touchstone.

OK, I wasn't sure how much a part the exchange rates played, I thought that started getting bad in December but I forgot it was happening in November too. Anybody know how Dragon 2/BH6 admissions compared in Australia? I'm not aware of how the AUD/USD exchange rate has changed.

Interesting that BH6 has seemed to underperform in quite a few of the markets where Dragon 2 did well, and vice versa. Dragon 2 did much better in Europe and Latin America, BH6 has done much better in most of Asia (save for South Korea).

The original Peabody wasn't "wacky" in the way the trailers for the movie looked to me. It seems like the people who adapt the Jay Ward stuff mistakenly assume that the Jay Ward humor was wacky for wacky's sake. It's like how fairy-tale parodies like Shrek try to crib off Fractured Fairy Tales, but often replace the witty satire of Ward's stuff with mean-spirited contempt. But I digress. None of that has to do with Peanuts.

Rocketeer is boss. You watch it and you understand exactly why Joe Johnston was tapped for the first Captain America. (I saw Rocketeer first, and CA1 was actually the first Marvel movie I saw, specifically because it was the director of The Rocketeer doing a WWII Cap movie.) And I haven't seen The Aviator, but if/when I do, I don't think DiCaprio will change my opinion that Terry O'Quinn gave the best portrayal of "younger and not yet completely insane" Howard Hughes ever committed to film.