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lilmac
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Found them! Ancient online boxoffice discussions
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!overview type in the search ‘tnd vs titanic’ (my fave) or ‘titanic boxoffice 1997’ or ‘phantom menace boxoffice’ or ‘sixth sense boxoffice’ or whatever you want to search for. I had no idea during the 1990s that these communities existed. At the time I frequented a couple of actual online forums. The Apollo 13 threads, in particular, really resonate with me as that was the first film that inspired my interest and that I started tracking.
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MadGez
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Re: Found them! Ancient online boxoffice discussions
Thanks for posting! I missed these too and only managed to get on relevant forums around 98. So reading these should be fun.
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lilmac
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Re: Found them! Ancient online boxoffice discussions
Enjoy!
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Sat Jul 07, 2018 12:21 pm |
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lilmac
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Re: Found them! Ancient online boxoffice discussions
I enjoyed this one:
The Phantom Menace Will Never Beat Titanic's Box Office. Here's why: 6/1/99Chris Pierson
In article <37eeff86....@news.earthlink.net>, Nimrod <nim...@earthlink.net> wrote: >So you're telling us why more folks went to see TITANIC than will go >see THE PHANTOM MENACE, right? You've told us why you think >one will be more popular than the other, right? In other words, >this is a popularity contest, right? > >Well, by those standards one or two things must be made very clear.... > >The biggest box office film of all time is GONE WITH THE WIND. >It has sold more tickets than any other movie. > >The original STAR WARS is in second place, far ahead of TITANIC. > >Only a fool fails to take inflation into account when measuring >box office success. Of course, to be fair, one should take into account that, when GWTW was out, entertainment options were much more limited than they are today. No TV, no VCRs, no net, no video games, etc. It was pretty much books, theater and radio. Would GWTW have been _as_ successful if there had been as many diversions in its time as there are today? No. Would it have still been up there? Probably, but not at #1, given that Star Wars, which had much more competition, is less than $100 million behind it in the adjusted-for-inflation list. The problem is, the whole box office issue is _way_ too muddy to make many genuine, empirical statements about how "successful" a film is. -- Chris Pierson ** "Now my body is in tumult. It is a colossal moment of joy. ** I would like to be Jupiter and kidnap everybody and lie Author ** down in the firmament making love to everybody." Game Designer ** -- Roberto Benigni, Best Actor & World's Most Exuberant Man
_________________ 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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El Maskado
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Re: Found them! Ancient online boxoffice discussions
The alt-binaries were very hard to sort but very intriging
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Sat Jul 07, 2018 12:43 pm |
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lilmac
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Re: Found them! Ancient online boxoffice discussions
‘Titanic vs tomorrow never dies’
Type that in the search. Awesome.
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Flava'd vs The World
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Re: Found them! Ancient online boxoffice discussions
Titanic is gonna flop. I’ll eat a hat if it even comes within $25M of Bond’s total.
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lilmac
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Re: Found them! Ancient online boxoffice discussions
Flava'd vs The World wrote: Titanic is gonna flop. I’ll eat a hat if it even comes within $25M of Bond’s total. That’s essentially what I thought back in 1997. :-)
_________________ 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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