Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[CoasterMatt]

Watched 'The Blues Brothers' and 'Chinatown' back to back last night on HD...

[innerSpaceman]

In money news, the 5-film Harry Potter franchise just edged out the money made by the 6-film Star Wars franchise, and is narrowly behind the 22-film James Bond franchise.

[Alex]

Raw dollars or inflation adjusted?

[innerSpaceman]

Raw dollars.

It's not a measure of popularity, or even of how much wealth at any particular time. It's dollars pure and simple.


I'd be interested to see how many paid admissions for each of those franchises, but I'm not even sure such numbers are available.

[Alex]

You can find some sites that guesstimate it since average ticket price numbers are available for each year, but it gets fuzzy with matinee vs. full price, adult vs. tickets.

[Gemini Cricket]

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Seen it a million times.
Love it.
Schmaltzy, but I tear up every time.

[xharryb]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Seen it a million times.
Love it.
Schmaltzy, but I tear up every time.

I recently watched that one (gasp!) for the first time. I loved it!

I've actually been watching a lot of old movies lately. Perhaps to balance out all the summer blockbusters I've gone to see in theaters. The most recent film I watched was Charley's Aunt. The stage play was the very first community theater production I got involved with 15 years ago, so it's got a special place in my heart. This month a DVD was released of the film version starring Jack Benny, and it was fantastic.

[CoasterMatt]

Last night, I finally got to see 'Enter The Dragon' (Have I mentioned how much I love HD Movies?)

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by xharryb

I recently watched that one (gasp!) for the first time. I loved it!

I've actually been watching a lot of old movies lately. Perhaps to balance out all the summer blockbusters I've gone to see in theaters. The most recent film I watched was Charley's Aunt. The stage play was the very first community theater production I got involved with 15 years ago, so it's got a special place in my heart. This month a DVD was released of the film version starring Jack Benny, and it was fantastic.

Ooh! Heading to netflix now, I have not seen this in ages and I simply adore Kay Fwancis! Thanks for the tip!

[Babette]

Finished L4yer Cake with Daniel Craig. It was an interesting drug lord tale. I was a little confused in some parts because of their strong British accents and there are so many offscreen characters they refer to, but it all came together.

If you liked movies like Traffic, Blow and Snatch, I think you'll like this one.