PT Found them! Ancient online PT boxoffice discussions

For boxoffice enthusiasts like myself this is a gold mine.

You can search through old online prequel era boxoffice discussions here:

Just type within the search field: ‘phantom menace boxoffice’ or ‘phantom menace vs titanic’ or whatever. Enjoy!




Here’s one comment from a TPM era discussion:


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.
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@Seagoat Enjoy!

 

I mean they were right in the end. Titanic did make more money.

 

Even Lucas knew they couldn't beat Titanic.

 

As much as I anticipated TPM, even I would have been surprised if it beat Titanic.