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lilmac
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Joined: Wed May 25, 2005 12:07 am Posts: 3225
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 Poll: How old are you?
My guess is that the population here is older than the Boxoffice forums. Well, let's see...
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David
Pure Phase
Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am Posts: 34865 Location: Maryland
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 Re: Poll: How old are you?
23 for a couple more weeks.
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Chippy
KJ's Leading Pundit
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:45 pm Posts: 63026 Location: Tonight... YOU!
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I would guess most users here are 25-29.
26.
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Brian
Ocarina of Time
Joined: Mon Aug 02, 2010 1:21 pm Posts: 7951 Location: Hyrule
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24 
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1. Super Mario Bros Movie 2. Rebel Moon 3. Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1 4. Oppenheimer 5. The Flash 6. Elemental 7. Aquaman 2 8. Dune Part 2 9. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 10. Blue Beetle
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Brian
Ocarina of Time
Joined: Mon Aug 02, 2010 1:21 pm Posts: 7951 Location: Hyrule
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Who the fuck is 70? lol
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movies35
Forum General
Joined: Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:53 pm Posts: 8627 Location: Syracuse, NY
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lilmac
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Joined: Wed May 25, 2005 12:07 am Posts: 3225
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 Re: Poll: How old are you?
Almost 35. I am utterly shocked. I really am. These posts are significantly more thought out, insightful, and informative than the Boxoffice forums which are faster paced and more informal. In other words, you guys write like 55 year old guys/gals with 30 years of boxoffice tracking experience.  Magnus, my original boxoffice forum was the Time.com Pathfinder boards in the late 90s (tracking Titanic was so much fun). Last remaining refugees are here: http://aboutfilm.lefora.com/
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Chippy
KJ's Leading Pundit
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:45 pm Posts: 63026 Location: Tonight... YOU!
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 Re: Poll: How old are you?
I would say the majority of us have been tracking box office for 8+ years.
(I'm at 10 years)
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Wed Dec 04, 2013 3:18 pm |
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lilmac
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Joined: Wed May 25, 2005 12:07 am Posts: 3225
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 Re: Poll: How old are you?
I hit 20 years this year but online tracking...1996. I'll never forget the time when a poster in October 1997 predicted Titanic would make $540 million. We all laughed at her. Most of us had $250m tops.
This was the OP: [Velouria] - created 12:59pm Oct 31, 1997 EST Original Topic Description: Movie overboard! At more than $200 million, James Cameron's Titanic is the most expensive movie ever made. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, who are both good young actors but hardly box office gods. Do you think Cameron can repeat the blockbuster success he had with Terminator 2 and True Lies or is this lavish liner doomed to sink into the Abyss?
_________________ I believe in God as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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matatonio
Teh Mexican
Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:56 pm Posts: 26066 Location: In good ol' Mexico
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On the 17th i turn 28... inching to 30 
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Wed Dec 04, 2013 5:21 pm |
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Thegun
On autopilot for the summer
Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:14 pm Posts: 21899 Location: Walking around somewhere
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I've been following box office since early 1997 when the SW re-releases did huge numbers, then Lost World broke the opening record by a lot, and then of course Titanic's run.
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Wed Dec 04, 2013 5:29 pm |
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Algren
now we know
Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm Posts: 68383
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Almost 28.
Following box office for 13 years since Get Carter.
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Wed Dec 04, 2013 6:23 pm |
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MadGez
Dont Mess with the Gez
Joined: Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:54 am Posts: 23386 Location: Melbourne Australia
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I'm 35.
Following Box Office for 20 years now - since Jurassic Park.
Read Variety in the mid 90s for my BO fix until like lilac the net became my main source in 1996 - just in time for Twister/MI.
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jmovies
Let's Call It A Bromance
Joined: Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:22 pm Posts: 12333
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Joined BOM right after my 13th birthday so 8 years here.
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BJ
Killing With Kindness
Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:57 pm Posts: 25035 Location: Anchorage,Alaska
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25
I became interested in Box Office in 1998 (9 years old) after Titanic lit the world on fire. Sometimes checked weekly updates in the news paper until 2001 (12 years old) when Potter1 opened. From that point on I monitored BO performances and lurked at BO sites. Joined BOM in 2004 (15 years old), I have since then been ac active poster. Going on 10 years now.
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Wed Dec 04, 2013 9:07 pm |
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Mister Ecks
New Server, Same X
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:07 pm Posts: 28301 Location: ... siiiigh...
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27.
Am I really older than the average user here?!
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MGKC
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Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:42 pm Posts: 11808 Location: Kansas City, Kansas
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25, along with BJ and Magnus. I'll take it. 
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Wed Dec 04, 2013 11:22 pm |
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Caius
A very honest-hearted fellow
Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:02 pm Posts: 4767
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I am 30 but I feel like a young 35.
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Wed Dec 04, 2013 11:38 pm |
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publicenemy#1
Extraordinary
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:25 am Posts: 19447 Location: San Diego
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22. I was on BOM when I was like 12 lol
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lilmac
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Joined: Wed May 25, 2005 12:07 am Posts: 3225
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 Re: Poll: How old are you?
BJ wrote: 25
I became interested in Box Office in 1998 (9 years old) after Titanic lit the world on fire. Sometimes checked weekly updates in the news paper until 2001 (12 years old) when Potter1 opened. From that point on I monitored BO performances and lurked at BO sites. Joined BOM in 2004 (15 years old), I have since then been ac active poster. Going on 10 years now. Cool timeline there. 1993- 1996 (Tuesday edition of my local paper which had top ten for the weekend) 1996 - 2001 (Time Pathfinder boards) 2001-2003 (BoxofficeReports.com) 2003-2012 (BOM mostly, WOKJ) 2012 - Present (Boxoffice forums, WOKJ)
_________________ I believe in God as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
I was blind, but now I see.
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Riggs
We had our time together
Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 4:36 am Posts: 13299 Location: Vienna
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Joined BOM in 2002, following box office numbers since 1996 or 1997.
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Thu Dec 05, 2013 1:48 pm |
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Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm Posts: 92093 Location: Bonn, Germany
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I started looking at box-office numbers in May 2000. Joined BOM on January 2nd 2003.
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Thu Dec 05, 2013 1:56 pm |
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batnanna
Da Bears
Joined: Thu May 04, 2006 2:15 am Posts: 2802 Location: Springfield, Missouri
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I guess teenagers are just interested in other things now. Different generation. It s interesting that when most of us were still at BOM jmovies was definitely about the youngest one then. And now he's still the youngest. I am 24 now, I believe I was 16 when I first joined BOM and started following the box office.
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A dispute with a classmate over what the highest grossing movie was lead me to box office in 1997. As a 10 year old I had strong feelings that calling Star Wars the #1 movie of all time with the 460mil figure was bullshit, as it took a number of releases to get there--and that Jurassic Park made more in one go. Yes, E.T. also, but Jurassic Park having grossed more was very important.
Good times.
My first forums experience was BoxOfficeReport in 2001, though, as before then I didn't really have any home internet access time.
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Sat Dec 07, 2013 9:36 pm |
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Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm Posts: 92093 Location: Bonn, Germany
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That's so weird, in a way...like at least half of us was just a bunch of teens when we started at BOM and moved on to WOKJ.
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