Titanic

Originally posted by alic88
ya the 1 thing that incredibly surprises me bout titanic is 1.8 BILLION DOLLARS. DUDE THAT IS SO SO SO SO SO SO MUCH MONEY. I MEAN RETURN OF THE KING HASNT EVEN MADE A BILLION!!! so i think titanicz record is 2 MUCH. as for 11 academy awards all i can say is WTF?

but literally every1 in the world watched this movie coz of kate winslet's boobs i think

Originally posted by Ushgarak
ROTK has made a billion now, I think.

But yes, Titanic's money intake was ludicrous. Mind you, inflation adjusted it is only sixth best selling of all time.

Here is the top ten. it is US takings only, because international takings are only really a factor of the last 15-20 years. Note that in 90% of cases films rate internationally in order the same as the US (a notable example of exception, though, would be Spiderman which had an amazing US performance but only a very good international one, so in a list like this would be disproportionately high)

1 Gone With the Wind (MGM) 1939- $1,187,690,000
2 Star Wars (Fox) 1977- $1,026,700,000
3 The Sound of Music (Fox) 1965- $824,100,000
4 E.T. (Univ) 1982- $815,000,000
5 The Ten Commandments (Para) 1956- $758,100,000
6 Titanic (Para) 1997- $747,400,000
7 Jaws (Univ) 1975- $741,100,000
8 Doctor Zhivago (MGM) 1965- $700,700,000
9 The Jungle Book (BV) 1967- $626,800,000
10 Snow White & 7 Dwarfs (RKO) 1937- $615,200,000

Originally posted by Kes
No way! You can see boobs in basically every movie!

But this was different the movie was pg13 and more people could go see it for the boobs 🙂 I know I did 🙂

Oh, yeh. Americans are really strict on that.

Plus someone mentioned to me that it made alot of money because less people downloaded movies back then ,but I dont think thats why.

there is one reason why Titanic made sooooooooo much money, IT HAD MASS APPEAL. People from every country saw that movie, love storiesplay to a wider audience anyday. Think about it, did you aunts and grandmothers( and their friends) go to see LOTR, or Star Wars, or E.T?????????? My guess would be no, so a much wider audience saw Titanic, and a lot more pockets were empitied seeing it TOO.

The movie wasn't that great, but it was WELL made. I went to see the damn thing sink , and that they did really good.
The gooey love story was better than most out there ( i have to endure a lot of those when i go to cinema with my mom, me a good child and carry out my mom when she wants to), and it was weaved in pretty ok with the movie ( mind you that floating on the door in cold water scene was overkill)

i seen it 3 times for the boobies 😄

do you think that the effect of the soundtrack on this movie can make a person like it more???? because that probably why i liked it........it was so dumb when rose dumbly and lazily threw the stupid necklace in the ocean....if she really wanted to waste like a million $ she could have donated to the like, "Jack Dawson Foundation" or something

i loved this movie.

Again dont get me wrong I like the movie.And fini maybe your right thats a pretty good theory 🙂

i think mos people were just dragged there by thre firnds and family who wanted to see it, the thing is rotk had as good proabably even better sfx and set design and all that seamless cgi, but it also has everything else titanic didnt have, a great story (thanx to tolkein) best music TOP NOTCH ACTING well thought out diologue and all that stuff which titanic was only average, and yet look at the difference in money and on 11 accademy awards for rotk, come on titanic got 11, rokt shouldhave got 14

maybe people dont want a movie with everything, just the best at one bit but the rest just average, maybe movies like lotr had too muchbfor people to comprehend

one thing i want to add that i noticed is titanic as first was greatly lovre and stuff but then recieved a huge backlash fomr peopple, and now look at you, same a bit with rotk, some people in my class arnt ass excited as they should be about the trilogy

Was anybody into movies back then that can tell us why everybody was going to see it?Because I wasnt into movies back then.

Well as I said previously,I myself went back to see it mainly to look at Kate and was also really impressed with the special effects.I like movies that are historic also.a co -worker of mine who I went and saw it several times with,he told me he liked it so much also because of the special effects and that it was a historic event.

Yeah the SPFX where pretty cool .

Originally posted by fini
there is one reason why Titanic made sooooooooo much money, IT HAD MASS APPEAL. People from every country saw that movie, love storiesplay to a wider audience anyday. Think about it, did you aunts and grandmothers( and their friends) go to see LOTR, or Star Wars, or E.T?????????? My guess would be no, so a much wider audience saw Titanic, and a lot more pockets were empitied seeing it TOO.

The movie wasn't that great, but it was WELL made. I went to see the damn thing sink , and that they did really good.
The gooey love story was better than most out there ( i have to endure a lot of those when i go to cinema with my mom, me a good child and carry out my mom when she wants to), and it was weaved in pretty ok with the movie ( mind you that floating on the door in cold water scene was overkill)

^ very well said. in pakistan even the people only watch arnold or stallone movies. but they still watched titanic. coz of the massive appeal

Yah alot of people from different countries saw it to.

yeah .. i guess so ..

Personally I thought this movie sucked.....
Not even the boobs bit or the special effects could get the echo of "Jack"....."Rose" , which were permanently chiseled into my head thanks to the downright rotten script.

The reason why it made so much was the wider audience that it appealed to and also the simplicity of the story. It also helps that almost everyone in the world has heard of the "Titanic".

OK.....so here is the million dollar question...........

How much more would Lord of the rings make if it showed Liv Tyler's boobs ?