Movies (and occasionally face slaps) (Part 1)

Arts & Entertainment
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If you go to Box Office Mojo you can see the all time box office adjusted for inflation. It also shows estimated tickets sold which should be the metric.

Here is the top 20:

Rank Title Adj. Lifetime Gross Lifetime Gross Est. Num Tickets Year

1 Gone with the Wind $1,850,581,586 $200,882,193 202,286,200 1939
2 Star Wars $1,629,496,559 $460,998,507 178,119,500 1977
3 The Sound of Music $1,303,502,105 $159,287,539 142,485,200 1965
4 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial $1,297,730,421 $436,281,364 141,854,300 1982
5 Titanic $1,240,054,754 $659,363,944 135,549,800 1997
6 The Ten Commandments $1,198,431,667 $65,500,000 131,000,000 1956
7 Jaws $1,172,447,655 $260,758,300 128,159,700 1975
8 Doctor Zhivago $1,135,632,932 $111,721,910 124,135,500 1965
9 The Exorcist $1,011,798,348 $233,005,644 110,599,200 1973
10 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs $997,168,333 $184,925,486 109,000,000 1937
11 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens $989,072,973 $936,662,225 108,115,100 2015
12 One Hundred and One Dalmatians $914,076,766 $144,880,014 99,917,300 1961
13 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back $899,035,076 $292,753,960 98,273,100 1980
14 Ben-Hur $896,965,723 $74,432,704 98,046,900 1959
15 Avatar $890,220,657 $760,507,625 97,309,600 2009
16 Avengers: Endgame $871,551,653 $858,373,000 95,268,900 2019
17 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi $860,486,744 $309,306,177 94,059,400 1983
18 Jurassic Park $839,814,255 $404,214,720 91,799,700 1993
19 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace $826,205,195 $474,544,677 90,312,100 1999
20 The Lion King $815,540,983 $422,783,777 89,146,400 1994
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Yeah I should have watched that. I saw the first Chris Pratt Jurassic Park in theaters and thought it was pretty good, but I wasn’t into the latest 2 hour dinosaur chase movie. Maybe I just needed to see this one in the theaters too.

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Dudes will do anything to try and get laid. If the wife/gf wants to go see Titanic again, so be it.

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Anybody seen Internal Affairs? Is it good?

Also, lol Criterion Collection drama escalates quickly:

https://twitter.com/bickle514/status/1559936087354646528?s=21&t=h9Jj7ZLP27ZnQbQVlQae2g

https://twitter.com/laptop_lasane/status/1559936495057862656?s=21&t=h9Jj7ZLP27ZnQbQVlQae2g

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fyp

It’s basically The Departed. Most everyone I know who has seen both thinks it is at least as good.

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It’s clearly better IMO.

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I used to play King Lear, amazing.

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https://twitter.com/MintzPlasse/status/1559922075556511747?t=FuNmFcZpYnQ4CZVOzXdplQ&s=19

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The departed is almost a shot by shot remake

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My students in China were fucking obsessed with Titanic…in 2011.

That movie had (probably has) insane staying power there.

You mean The Departed is basically Infernal Affairs.

The creator of Infernal Afffairs has to be pissed that his movie wasn’t even nominated for Best Foreign Language Film while the Scorsese remake won Best Picture.

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That was…that was something alright…

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bodies, bodies, bodies.

A gen z whodunnit. Really good. Great cast all around except Pete Davidson who has to have been some kind of saint in a past life to earn his fame in this one. He might be the most talent-free actor on earth.

Otherwise a really fun ride that is unpredictable.

A24 score again.

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Source Code is an underappreciated little sci-fi flick with a great cast, currently available on HBOMax

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Is that the one with Jake Gyllenhall?

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  • A habitually single 55 year old career navy captain doesn’t have a credit card that can handle a $300 charge.
  • Captain doesn’t know that his credit card will decline a $300 charge.
  • Captain does however have access to a wad of bills next day to pay it off.
  • The bar he’s at has a small-text plaque that says “if you put your cell phone on the bar we’ll ring this bell and everyone gets a round on you” because that’s absolutely something that a bar in america will have and no one will a problem with it and instead will just grin and say “ya got me! here’s my credit card!”.
  • 12 of the military’s top recruits will have no idea who a 5’5" man wearing a bomber jacket with a patch on it that says “soandso captain at elite military training place” (why is this patch there?? why?) on the front of it is, and will throw him out of the bar.
  • They also don’t know that he’s one of the most famous fighter pilots of all time and recently broke the record for fastest human ever, which would have been massive news.
  • Their reaction when, shockingly, he walks in during their training introduction is, of course:

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This was also my reaction to this movie. And yes, I am fun at parties.

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I’m going to assume you’re posting this mid-watch, because your suspension of disbelief is going to be considerably more strained by the end.

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You are right we turned it off 80 minutes in

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Did they actually say it was only $300? I thought it would be much more than that, and I am willing to believe that Lt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is not a good money manager.

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Saw this eith a friend. I told her I thought it was good but then she said

What happened to the other guy’s soul now that Jake Gyllenhaal is inhabiting his body?