Tired of hearing about record-breaking movies

[ngkf7]

To begin, this is no way to say that Dark Knight doesn't deserve a place in history, or even Titanic for that matter.

My problem these days is that all of these news articles constantly being written about what movie broke which $ record. Sure Dark Knight has made tons of money, but if you look at it from a true economic standpoint, it's crap when you factor in rising costs of ticket prices and more importantly, inflation.

To begin, Titanic made almost $601 million at the box office. That was 1997. Today that would be almost $787 million. That's just dollar inflation. Ticket price inflation puts it over $900 million.

Now take an old classic like Gone With The Wind. It made over $198 million in its box office releases. Adjust that for monetary inflation and it's over $2 billion. Ticket price inflation puts it around $1.43 billion.


Check out http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm and look, TDK, while far better than a lot of movies on the list, has barely broken the top 50 when ticket price inflation is taken into account. The original Batman has theoretically brought in more.

I do hope TDK breaks more records, but I'm sick of the media and other people talking about how much money movies are making these days. Sure it's a ton, and it definitely is an amazing feat (especially given current economic woes), but still, there are so many other movies out there that did extremely well in their respective years too.