lilmac Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 (edited) https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!overview type in the search ‘tnd vs titanic’ (my fave) or ‘titanic boxoffice 1997’ or ‘phantom menace boxoffice’ or ‘sixth sense boxoffice’ or whatever you want to search for. I had no idea during the 1990s that these communities existed. At the time I frequented a couple of actual online forums. The Apollo 13 threads, in particular, really resonate with me as that was the first film that inspired my interest and that I started tracking. Edited July 7, 2018 by lilmac 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 It doesn't work for me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilmac Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 1 minute ago, baumer said: It doesn't work for me. Sigh. Yea. Those links were just my personal faves anyway. Start by searching in the Search field, ‘tnd vs titanic boxoffice’ and you’ll get hooked. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnack Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 20 year's ago the movie paid by itself with ads, no that big x amount was in free advertising for the movie not actual cash online talk was already made, could have been only copy pasted.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxmatrixdt Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 (edited) . Edited February 20, 2019 by Slave Animal Rights 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilmac Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 I’m sorry but the last two posts confused me. I read both multiple times. 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium George Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 This is great. Even then star wars fan were butthurt ones. Thanks for this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Gittes Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 Time is a flat circle. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilmac Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 @Jake Gittes @Premium George I like this one: The Phantom Menace Will Never Beat Titanic's Box Office. Here's why: 6/1/99Chris Pierson In article <37eeff86....@news.earthlink.net>,Nimrod <nim...@earthlink.net> wrote:>So you're telling us why more folks went to see TITANIC than will go>see THE PHANTOM MENACE, right? You've told us why you think>one will be more popular than the other, right? In other words,>this is a popularity contest, right?>>Well, by those standards one or two things must be made very clear....>>The biggest box office film of all time is GONE WITH THE WIND.>It has sold more tickets than any other movie.>>The original STAR WARS is in second place, far ahead of TITANIC.>>Only a fool fails to take inflation into account when measuring >box office success. Of course, to be fair, one should take into account that, when GWTW was out, entertainment options were much more limited than they are today. No TV, no VCRs, no net, no video games, etc. It was pretty much books, theater and radio. Would GWTW have been _as_ successful if there had been as many diversions in its time as there are today? No. Would it have still been up there? Probably, but not at #1, given that Star Wars, which had much more competition, is less than $100 million behind it in the adjusted-for-inflation list. The problem is, the whole box office issue is _way_ too muddy to make many genuine, empirical statements about how "successful" a film is. -- Chris Pierson ** "Now my body is in tumult. It is a colossal moment of joy. ** I would like to be Jupiter and kidnap everybody and lie Author ** down in the firmament making love to everybody." Game Designer ** -- Roberto Benigni, Best Actor & World's Most Exuberant Man Sign in to rep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...