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Trivial Pursuits => Arts & Entertainment => Topic started by: AugustWest on October 20, 2003, 03:11:26 am
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Top movies listed by admissions rather than $$$. (http://home.earthlink.net/~mrob/pub/movies/topadj.html) Usually you just see movies ranked by how much money they made, which can be kind of misleading, because today it costs like $48 to go see a movie while back in the 30's the studios would pay you a nickel to see their shows. This guy attempts to calculate how many actual butts were in the seats.
Some things I noticed: The original Star Wars series in a Nos 1, 12 and 13 (then Raiders at 14 and Phantom Menace at 18 -- George Lucas must have more money than God.) Spiderman at #34 was the first movie of the new millineum to make the list. Some favorite comedies made it: Blazing Saddles at #50, Animal House at #57, Its a madmadmadmadmadmad World at #71 and Young Frankenstein at #96.
The Wizard of Oz is #74 which indicates to me that this list rates the number of paid admissions to movie theaters rather than the total number of people who've seen a film, because god knows everybody has seen TWOOZ.
Odd movies that made the list: Castaway, Earthquake, Liar Liar, and Every Which Way but Loose (how can EWWBL be on the list, but not Car Wash?)
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Actually, I don't think that this is an accurate measure of the popularity of a film, either. It's closer than the money it made, but since the population increases over time (as the value of a dollar drops) I think it would be more telling to see what percentage of the total American population went to see a particular film.
Just my $0.02. This is pretty cool, though.
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Excellent point, JL, which makes GWTW's dominance at the top of the chart all the more amazing.
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What I thought was amazing was "The Four hossmen of the Apocalypse". I think it was 1921 - seems real early on in the development of the film industry. Maybe it was the novelty of the thing that got so many people in the seats.