This is mostly a question to the younger set we have around here. Do any of you guys ever go to Box Office Guru and read the weekend wrap-up archives of the box office for a certain weekend? He has them all the way back to 1997. Since some of you were pretty young then, I think some of these would be a fascinating thing to read.

For instance, you can track the process of Titanic week-by-week or watch as There's Something About Mary became a leggy smash in the middle of the summer.

To me, it's a lot of fun to go back and read things over years later. Two years from now or so, I might go back to the very beginning of the KJ forums and look back on everything posted.

Remembering is the key to life, I think.

I read through the archives. It is fun to look back at what happened at the box office a few years ago.

Yup, in fact, last year I went through every box office weekend since 1982 in chronological order, haha.

Cool. Maybe I should try that sometime!

I've never gone through reports, but I have seen box office weekend grosses from years back. It's pretty interesting.

I read through BOM's old posts (before i left) and i read through Guru's also, not too far back, usually to about 2001, when Driven came out. But i might do that now Libs

Ive been reading Box Office Guru's reports since mid 1997 and recently found a bunch of printouts of his prediction reports which he doesnt archive. I still go back and re-read his reports for nostalgia.

Not that I'm in the young crowd that you directed this message at, but this reminded me of how I got involved/hooked with box office numbers and reporting. While in college I worked for Blockbuster and every week they would get an industry magazine which listed the week before's box office numbers. It fascinated me so I looked online and eventually ended up reading this site every Monday: http://www.einsiders.com/gross.php. I just looked and the archives go back to 1998. I didn't know who Guru was until the last couple of years, but this guy (Stephen Wong) does a good job of weekend wrap-ups too.

Yes, I do it all the time, I have em all printed out so that I can read them on the road (both from Guru and Mojo). I always read the articles that occured the same time last year, or the year before (like this weekend was the weekend when Passion dominated, Cradle to the Grave opened number one, WE WEre Soldiers topped the box office, the Mexican opens at number one, you see what I mean). I read over those articles, and look who has the biggest cume, and make prospects on if this weekend this year will top that record (for example, the 2000 Thanksgiving period and 2001 MLK weekend has never been topped). Since I am autistic, these numbers interest me (for what reason, who knows).