movies you watched today

**carole** · 01-22-2010, 04:18 AM

She has the video of titanic , had it some time as you can imagine it is not a dvd lol, she loved that movie.

Did you all know that the producer of Avatar based the language the aliens spoke in Avatar on the maori language here, he was in NZ and heard it and decided to use it as a basis for the aliens language.

I was wrong about the popularity of it here, it is doing well boxed 10 million so far.

There is a little bit of kiwi in a lot of movies these days lol.

**RICHARD** · 01-22-2010, 04:14 PM

Originally Posted by carole

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I was wrong about the popularity of it here, it is doing well boxed 10 million so far.

There is a little bit of kiwi in a lot of movies these days lol.

Glad you brought this up! Some of the critics were/have always brought this point up about sales and money when a new film debuts.

Let's say that a movie in 1985 makes 12 million dollars during it's run.

(Let's throw out inflation and all the other factors?)

And lets set the ticket price @ 6 dollars. So we get a 2 million people to see the movie.

Let's take the same 12 mil and apply that to Avatar.

Now, ticket prices are 12 bucks- and higher for the Imax and 3D movie houses.

Only one million people will see it.

I have seen some sites that have compared box office numbers for a 1985 flick and a current release, adjusted for inflation and ticket prices.

So, even tho AVATAR is approaching all-time box office sales? When you take into consideration the factors involved? It makes more money, but less people see it.

I just typed in some keywords....

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm

**carole** · 01-22-2010, 04:45 PM

Ah you only pay 12 bucks to get into a movie, we pay 18 here, time you pay for two add a few eats you looking at having spent $50 that is why we hardly ever go to movies and i am real picky about the ones i pay to see lol we usually end up hiring dvds out instead,they come out on dvd so soon these days anyhow.

**Genny** · 01-22-2010, 05:16 PM

I haveen't been to the movies in a few weeks-last one I saw was Brothers...ad that's been awhile now that I think about it ;/ I rented Pandoram (sp?) lastnight but haven't watched it yet...my brother watched half of it and said he couldn't watch the rest that it was boring...so I dunno...I'm gonna watch it later anyways!