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- lukeydukey, on 02/25/2008, -4/+268Losing money to piracy my ass.
- Plughie, on 02/25/2008, -5/+147This has to be one of the most intuitive data visualizations I've seen in a long time.
- YahtzeeG, on 02/25/2008, -1/+118the graph is cooler than the information it gives.
- rudy23, on 02/25/2008, -4/+82wtf. national Treasure book of secrets was a top earner?
- inactive, on 02/25/2008, -1/+72Wow, Titanic is off the chart.
- burgerboy06, on 02/25/2008, -9/+51NATIONAL TREASURE WTF?
Anyone else think that's ***** CRAZY!? - shark72, on 02/25/2008, -0/+35The page states "Here's a look at how movies have fared at the box office, after adjusting for inflation."
- caffiend, on 02/25/2008, -1/+32WTF? "Cheaper By The Dozen" sold that many tickets?
- elliotys, on 02/25/2008, -0/+26Y'arrgh!! Raise the sails, and load the cannons, theres plenty of treasure for all!!!
- ThrasherC, on 02/25/2008, -1/+25It would be a lot more intuitive if I could zoom out to see more than 8 months. I would love to see the larger trends to determine whether my opinion that movies suck much more than they used to is supported by this graph.
- redjuly, on 02/25/2008, -1/+24Beautiful work by the NYT. I must agree with Plughie...amazing visualization!
- guywhodoesstuff, on 02/25/2008, -1/+23I never thought I'd say this but...
This is an awesome chart. - inactive, on 02/25/2008, -1/+21At first I thought it was intuitive as well. And then I realised that the height of the peak relative to a baseline was not the actual measure of box office sales. it's more the width of the thing at the particular point. A bit more tricky to compare.
- inactive, on 02/25/2008, -2/+21Am I the only non-gay male who thought titanic was actually pretty good? The one scene where all the people were running up the side of the sinking ship was worth the price of admission alone I thought. I've never seen a shot like that in any movie, ever, that was 100% not computer generated...
- elnerdo, on 02/25/2008, -0/+17But they still can't figure out how to use apostrophes!
- wedges, on 02/25/2008, -2/+17two questions. 1) is there a name for this type of graph? 2) how the hell did National Treasure 2 make that much money?!
- Todash19, on 02/25/2008, -2/+17Dugg. Amazed by the graph, Disgusted by the data.
- aralls, on 02/25/2008, -0/+14Where's Aquaman?!? It had the biggest opening weekend ever - $116M.
- apc3161, on 02/25/2008, -0/+11If I could digg myself down I would do so. Thanks.
- battletrax, on 02/25/2008, -0/+11National treasure sold that well in box offices? Didn't see that one coming.
- ieatsmurfs, on 02/25/2008, -0/+10The longevity of Jurassic Park is pretty crazy.
- inactive, on 02/25/2008, -1/+10*Titanic, aided by James Bond, Scream 2, and others. The total height is the sum of revenue for the week. Each individual movie's revenue is simply in it's little section. Titanic itself doesn't begin until halfway down. That's a lot, but not off-the-chart-all-on-it's-own a lot.
- insertAliasHere, on 02/25/2008, -2/+10***** you, Rick Astley.
- pinstripewizard, on 02/26/2008, -0/+8...that looks like a hundred vaginas.
- inactive, on 02/25/2008, -0/+7Disney + Sequel = Success
- postalblowfish7, on 02/25/2008, -0/+7oOOOOoooo it's... INTERACTIVE!!!
- devereaux, on 02/25/2008, -0/+6Home Alone, Forrest Gump, and Titanic probably had the longest successful runs of all the movies on this graph. I remember Home Alone being in the theatres for like eight months because it was so successful.
The success of "Cheaper by the Dozen" really surprised me. - diggerphelps, on 02/25/2008, -3/+9Godfather III made more money than Goodfellas?
- SuperHyperKid, on 02/25/2008, -1/+7Because Top Gun was amazing?
- exronin, on 02/25/2008, -0/+6wtf.. National Treasure 2 did 4 times better than American Gangster
- lukemandese, on 02/25/2008, -0/+6It hurts my eyes
- wdfadude, on 02/26/2008, -0/+6Too bad Pirates 2 and then Spidey 3 beat it in '06 and '07, respectively.
Vincent Chase rules! - candafilm, on 02/25/2008, -1/+7Box office goes up while quality goes down.
- gmm4life, on 02/25/2008, -0/+6Meet The Spartans did as well as Rambo? WTF?!
- inactive, on 02/25/2008, -0/+5I think 'Departed' was Scorsese's first movie to actually break $100million at the box office. Astounding if you consider that he created about 7 out the 8 greatest movies made in the last 20 years, in my opinion.
- mrmulan, on 02/25/2008, -1/+6Crocodile Dundee has the longest tail. (Even longer than Titanic).
MBFGW has a huge build in the middle. It might be even longer than Crocodile Dundee.
I would have thought Pulp Fiction would have started of skinny then gotten fatter. I remember it playing at the Angelika Film Center in NY a while before it hit the major theaters.
Why would Top Gun have such a long tail? - inactive, on 02/25/2008, -0/+5Wow just watch it expand vertically as you go from the mid 80s to now
- sevenora, on 02/25/2008, -0/+5check out "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" one of the more interesting entries
- dyreschlock, on 02/25/2008, -0/+5Forest Gump has a lot of legs too.. Same with Saving Private Ryan
- pe5t1lence, on 02/26/2008, -1/+6Loosing money to overpaid actors and CGI special effects artists.
- inactive, on 02/26/2008, -0/+5I thought it was great. In fact, it brings a good point. Theres no way in hell Titanic became such a success without people buying tickets to see it. So often people shun things in public, but privately really like them. Titanic was a fantastic mixture of storytelling against a historical backdrop. I remember the first time I saw it, and when they hit the iceberg, I couldnt believe it - for a moment I *actually forgot this was a movie about a sinking ship*. The music was incredible and couldnt have been matched up better with the visuals. Nay sayers are just closet fans taking too much testosterone pills. Titanic was an incredibly well done film, and it will be quite awhile before anything outdoes it.
- ThePerkins, on 02/25/2008, -6/+11I made one of those graphs once after a night of heavy drinking.
- hollywoodphony, on 02/25/2008, -3/+7Ooh, pretty colors! What is that? A chart or something?
- surian, on 02/25/2008, -1/+5This graph depresses me... Soooo many ***** movies doing so well and soooo many good movies that get no notice at all. I'm gonna go eat peanut butter until I feel whole again.
- PxCxG, on 02/25/2008, -1/+5This should be done in terms of number of tickets to be more accurate, because movie tickets have risen at rates higher than inflation. Also, international sales are probably more significant in later years, so maybe only domestic should be included.
- YoctoYotta, on 02/26/2008, -0/+4I almost dug you down, that's clearly thousands of vaginas.
- inactive, on 02/25/2008, -2/+6At what point did you "never think you'd say that?" The chart was awesome from the beginning....
- danbedford, on 02/25/2008, -0/+4anyone else find that chart either disgustingly gross or strangely delicious? it's either the trail left behind a big brown slug, or someone spilled a bucket of dulce de leche pudding. awesome chart none the less ; )
- anagoge, on 02/25/2008, -0/+4I'd call it a seismic graph.
- scitz0frenic, on 02/25/2008, -1/+5The hardest part of this graph to believe is that it came from the NY times
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