Avatar Becomes Most Succesful Film Ever Made

[zak_mckraken]

[citation][nom]noonethere45[/nom]Take the dollar sign away and tell us which movie sold the most tickets. There's your #1 movie of all time.[/citation]
Yes and no. The number of tickets sold might tell you which movie is the more popular, but it won't tell you which one is the more succesful. The success of a movie is based on the money it made. Considering that the price of tickets are not the same everywhere, the final number might change considerably. But, yeah, that's dumb to compare gross money to a movie that was made 12 years ago. I know, let's compare it to The Jazz Singer (1927), when a movie ticket costed $0,25.

 

[cknobman]

boxofficmojo has the domestic results adjusted for inflation:
1 Gone with the Wind
2 Star Wars
3 The Sound of Music
4 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Uni.
5 The Ten Commandments Par.
6 Titanic
Avater ranks all the way down at #26

 

[C00lIT]

Avartar as it doesnt have any Celine Dion Song...
😛
(And I am a French Canadian)

On a serious note, I seriously like Avatar a hole lot more then the Titanic... I know it was a sad fact... but I enjoy the world of fiction quite a bit more then historic stupidity.

 

[Ciuy]

great movie !!!!!

 

[tayb]

Gone with the Wind and Star Wars Episode 4 are the two most "popular" movies of all time in terms of ticket sales. Titanic isn't even in the top 5 and Avatar isn't even in the top 25 when you adjust domestic box office gross for inflation. Avatar has made a pretty penny worldwide but that's pretty easy to accomplish when the average cost of a ticket has gone up $7 since the 1970's.

If you weren't alive in 1977 when Star Wars: A New Hope was released ask your parents about it. People saw it over and over and over again. Dozens of times. People who didn't even like the movie would go see it again because of how visually stunning it was. Avatar was a good movie but I wouldn't pay to see it again, at least not the $8+ that 3d cinema's want to charge. The story really isn't that original people.

 

[TeKEffect]

money needs to play a factor....its easy to sell tons of tickets when they dont cost much. a movie able to get people to pay $15 or more to get a ticket should get credit for doing that. and the movies still going strong so its a little early to debate numbers

 

[obiown77]

JACK!!! JACK!!! PLEASE DON'T GO!!! JACK!!! JACK!!!!....... HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Too bad sharks didn't come and eat him.

(this is no offense to the real victims, this is directed at Dicaprio)

 

[thackstonns]

avatar would probably be number one if it wasnt for piracy./sarcasm I mean think about it. Isnt 1.6billion dollars a little on the low side for what a movie should bring in?/ more sarcasm.

Thing is if Hollywood would quit making crap movies people would spend money. Also I am not spending 18 bucks to watch the movie in the theatre, and then drop another 30 bucks on the blueray. If I pirate I get a file I can play on pc, tv, and mobile. Adjust you distribution channel.

 

[tayb]

[citation][nom]tekeffect[/nom]money needs to play a factor....its easy to sell tons of tickets when they dont cost much. a movie able to get people to pay $15 or more to get a ticket should get credit for doing that. and the movies still going strong so its a little early to debate numbers[/citation]

Oh boy. Do you know why the tickets didn't cost much? Because the dollar had much more value 30 years ago than it did now. Sure a movie ticket seems cheap but so was everything else because you made less money. $60,000 a year now is a decent amount of money for a single person to be making in 2010 but in 1970 $60,000 a year made you a very wealthy person.

 

[zak_mckraken]

[citation][nom]c00lit[/nom]Avartar as it doesnt have any Celine Dion Song...(And I am a French Canadian)On a serious note, I seriously like Avatar a hole lot more then the Titanic... I know it was a sad fact... but I enjoy the world of fiction quite a bit more then historic stupidity.[/citation]
+1. I'm also french canadian and I'm glad more than half the United States thinks she's american! 😉

Also, the only thing historical in Titanic is that the ship sinks. Oops, guess I should have wrote *** SPOILER ALERT *** ?

 

[starryman]

Not enough T & A in the movie. Just kidding. Avatar is/was a good movie in its own right. Titanic is also a great movie. Much better than Dude Where's My Car.

 

[maestintaolius]

[citation][nom]blackened144[/nom]Does it matter? I still fell asleep 2 watching this "masterpiece".[/citation]
I was bored too, there was no point in the movie where I didn't know what was going to happen next.

Also... unobtanium... really? They couldn't think up anything better? The plot was just garbage in this movie.

 

[scryer_360]

I'd agree with noonethere45, that the real "most successful movie" should be based on tickets sold, not dollars made. But also, in 1997, there were less people in the world than in 2009-2010. So we need to adjust for population differences as well.

 

[viper_11]

Hmmm well i say TITANIC:

1) where i live we have only one cinema avatar was playing just for 2 weeks and the last day they had a lot of empty seats when the same cinema kept titanic for 4 weeks and the last day it was still packed!!!

2) Even if Avatar sells more tickets have in mind that more countries/cities/villages have cinemas when in 1996 they did not have.

3) I don't know a single person here that didn't go and watch Titanic but i know a lot didn't watch Avatar and they are not willing to.

 

[viper_11]

4) As mentioned above population more people now compare to 1996 + now you see even 8y old children to go and watch this films when in titanic the youngest I've seen was about 12

5) Internet. More poeple have access today and it's easier to advertise or just let them know about the film.

So Titanic hands down is the most selling movie ever

 

[Guest]

Did anyone mention that there was probably a lot less pirating back in the days of Titanic LOL

 

[Guest]

titanic is better

 

[RooD]

most successful at raping wallets maybe

 

[mjello]

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Movie Admissions
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1 Gone with the Wind 283,100,000
2 Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs 225,300,000
3 Star Wars Fox 176,900,000
4 E.T. 158,000,000
5 101 Dalmatians 143,100,000
6 Bambi 140,800,000
7 Titanic 130,900,000
8 Jaws Universal 128,600,000
9 The Sound of Music 119,300,000
10 The Ten Commandments 117,800,000
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[Nexus52085]

Avatar is just a better movie than the Titanic. I'm not saying Avatar is the best movie of all time, but definitely better than the Titanic. Titanic was a good love story, I suppose... but Avatar was a better movie experience. As far as best movie of all time, Gone With the Wind was such an iconic movie with absolutely some of the best film music in history that I have to give the number one spot to it.
On another note, remember that the Titanic was out for many more weeks than Avatar. Avatar still has loads of time to make more money.