the top 3 = best ghost, best kiss and what else?
― meryl streep post-brazilian (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, those are the awards that Pirates of the Caribbean shit deserves
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Unless I've missed something, "National Lampoon's Animal House" is the first movie on this list that wasn't nominated for an Oscar.
― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
biggest suprise on the adjusted list: The Sting at 15!
didn't know that was so huge, love it
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, January 6, 2010 3:53 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
best animals
― meryl streep post-brazilian (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
The Sting is kind of a windup toy of a movie. I remember seeing Robert Altman ridicule it on "60 Minutes." "There were no people in it," or some such.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
this from the dude who made O.C. and Stiggs
― .81818181818181818181818181 changed everything (jjjusten), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
morbs made OC and Stiggs?
― lazy cold meat and chocolate seasonal mentality (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
how is avatar already adjusted for inflation?
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i was going to say
― .81818181818181818181818181 changed everything (jjjusten), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
inflation happens
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
more like deflation amirite?
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
inflation is just economic poppage
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
buck-want
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahaaa
― .81818181818181818181818181 changed everything (jjjusten), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think I've ever made it more than halfway through "Gone with the Wind." Are re-releases accounted for in that adjusted list?
What I'd really like to see is a list of number of tickets sold, if only as a vital reminder that the vast majority of the world couldn't give a fuck what an "Avatar" is.
The 3-D surcharge is only cheating because it's "competing" against films that didn't have that financial leg up (and like I said, it's so far between $150 and $200 mil bonus - minus the 3-D cash it wouldn't be in the top 20 grossers yet). I couldn't fathom sitting through "Avatar" in 2-D any more than I could watch the (equally awesome in 3-D) "Beowulf" in 2-D (and I tried that shit but could barely make it 15 minutes into a movie I enjoyed immensely in theaters). Supposedly a huge number of the global ticket sales are for 2-D screenings, FWIW. What a bunch of suckers.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link
couldn't give a shit about the 3d it was the IMAX that made it for me
― dome plow (gbx), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
So far int'l gross is 2x domestic. Or am I missing something?
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Conceding that the list is meaningless without inflation adjustment, it's worth noting that out of the 20 top grossers, exactly 3 were not based on existing properties. Those three:
TITANIC (nom'd for seemingly everything except Best Original Screenplay)AVATARFINDING NEMO (nom'd for Best Original Screenplay)
tb totally fair "titanic" is kind of an existing property
― max, Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i was gonna say
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
though it only exists now in the briney deep, holding close to her bosom those 1522 poor souls
I just meant that of the 300 million people in the US (for example), how many will see "Avatar?" And globally as well, a fraction of a fraction, and that includes the film's apparently massive success in China!
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118013377.html?categoryid=3599&cs=1&nid=4758
$4.8 million opening day record, y'all!
Anyway, just some perspective that by talking about gross we always gloss over how few people (relatively speaking) even bother flocking to the movies. I've always wondered how many people (not how much money) it takes to make something a seemingly huge hit.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:12 (fourteen years ago) link
it's just a way to make the movies seem like bigger hits than they actually are, to an extent. which is why movies deal with $$$ when talking about success as opposed to people talking about how many people bought a copy of an album.
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:18 (fourteen years ago) link
2007 - JUNO2006 - LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE2005 - CRASH
u all r arguing abt this fn award - im confiscating yr 3d glasses
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:23 (fourteen years ago) link
actually max, the two major Titanic productions from Hollywood before Cameron didn't think of adding teenage puppylove as the crucial ingredient. So it WAS original.
The reason GWTW will never be caught in tickets sold is that practically everyone DID go to the movies then.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link
*~now we're alone at last~*
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:29 (fourteen years ago) link
i meant less that it had been made before than that its kind of a story that everyone knows already so calling it "original" is a little bit of a stretch u know
― max, Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:31 (fourteen years ago) link
There are about six basic plots, young one.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:36 (fourteen years ago) link
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 6, 2010 8:27 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i wonder how this formulation looks w/emerging economies added and population growth figured - a much smaller percentage americans go to the movies than in 1939 but many more asians and south americans must be going right - and there are just so many more people now
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:44 (fourteen years ago) link
was thinking max meant the boat the titanic was the original property myself
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
max is misunderstood
like the Ark of the Covenant? xp
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:48 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah indiana jones is a real guy right
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:51 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah sorry let me be clear: "titanic" is not really an orig. property in the same way that "avatar" or "finding nemo" are
― max, Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:58 (fourteen years ago) link
because it is named after a boat
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 7 January 2010 02:01 (fourteen years ago) link
and another thing do movie tickets cost the same in inflation adjusted dollars as they used to - how abt foreign tickets hows that work
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 7 January 2010 02:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I may have to disagree with you, max, since I am overhearing ordinary joes say that Avatar is a routine Western.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 January 2010 02:05 (fourteen years ago) link
avatar is nothing short of a revolution in movie magic fyi
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 7 January 2010 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i hope the blue ppl of pandora see it and are inspired to incite a ~real~ revolution
― dome plow (gbx), Thursday, 7 January 2010 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link
titanic was a boat
― meryl streep post-brazilian (s1ocki), Thursday, 7 January 2010 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
that sounds a boat right
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 7 January 2010 02:36 (fourteen years ago) link
get outta here with that ship
― lazy cold meat and chocolate seasonal mentality (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 January 2010 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
*gets sinking feeling*
― meryl streep post-brazilian (s1ocki), Thursday, 7 January 2010 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
there was such a drastic split in titanic, the first half sank pretty quickly, the second half stayed afloat better
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Thursday, 7 January 2010 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
*grosses 1.2 billion adjusted dollars*
― lazy cold meat and chocolate seasonal mentality (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 January 2010 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
take it to the poop deck
― Player is killed, but they are resurrected, and the 45 Revolver glow gold (dyao), Thursday, 7 January 2010 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
nrq upthread:
the 3-d is annoying and distracting. would probably need to know about perceptual psychology to say why, but imo in most instances it does nothing interesting and draws attention to irrelevant things. more damagingly it splits the image, quite brutally, into separate panes. why do this? it also dulls the colours.
wtf? what does "splits the image into separate panes" even mean?
fwiw i'm ambivalent about the 3d. It makes shit look real, totally real! I felt I could just reach out and touch things in the film. But movies don't need to look totally real to be good, so it's still a gimmick, albeit a great one.
― CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Thursday, 7 January 2010 10:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I think he means the focal plane but I'm not sure
― Player is killed, but they are resurrected, and the 45 Revolver glow gold (dyao), Thursday, 7 January 2010 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link
― CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Thursday, January 7, 2010 10:50 AM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark
say there are three people in the shot, one closest to us, one behind, one further back. shoot this in 2d and (i reckon) yer brain will basically see this as it would irl, i.e. in 3d. in 'avatar', though, i felt that the effect of the 3-d technology was to put three people in three definite planes, in a weird way flattening them out. it felt abstract and jarring to me but ymmv.
― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Thursday, 7 January 2010 11:31 (fourteen years ago) link
still read that as a latin 'yummy'
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 January 2010 11:33 (fourteen years ago) link