Applauding during movies...

[Arafys]

Seen TTT 3 times, First time was 11:59am showing, everyonr in there was quiet and respectful, everyone there *wanted* to see it.
Second time was a 5:30 pm showing. All was good until these two people sat right behind me and my friend, and discussed every plot point. Oh look that's Treebeard, Ooh... Its Gandalf... the whole thing. I woulda said something but they stopped about halfway through.

Went Tues night, to a 7:30pm show, and this ass in the front of the theater left his phone on. it rang 5 fucking times and he answered it 5 fucking times. After the 3rd time, someone told him to shut it off, he turned around, laughed and said "Merry Christmas" Then I said "No, really, turn it off". He turned and said "Fuck you" So the other dude gets up and goes to get the manager. The manager comes in and while he's talking to him, the people behind us have their cell go off.

Even better than turning the phone off, leave it in the fucking car. You're not that important. And if you need to be reached because you are that important(IE doctor on emergency call... Yeah, that's about it.) Don't go to the fucking movies. Ignorant bastards.

[Alluveal]

(edited: thought titanic had made 1 billion, but was wrong, here are the listings, according to what I found. If someone has different stats, let me know. Either way, after looking at the theatrical gross of these movies, Titanic is a little over halfway to a billion dollars. I imagine if you add in VHS/DVD, it may be near a billion.)

(quantity: in millions)
1. $601 Titanic
2. $461 Star Wars
3. $435 E.T.
4. $431 Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
5. $404 Spider-Man
6. $357 Jurassic Park
7. $330 Forrest Gump
8. $318 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
9. $313 The Lord of the Rings:
The Fellowship of the Ring
10. $313 The Lion King
11. $310 * Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
11. $309 Return of the Jedi
12. $306 Independence Day
14. $293 The Sixth Sense
15. $290 The Empire Strikes Back
16. $285 Home Alone
17. $268 Shrek
18. $260 Jaws
19. $260 How the Grinch Stole Christmas
20. $256 Monsters, Inc.
21. $251 Batman
22. $250 Men in Black
23. $246 Toy Story 2
24. $242 Raiders of the Lost Ark
25. $242 Twister
26. $239 Ghostbusters
27. $235 Beverly Hills Cop
28. $234 Cast Away
29. $229 * Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
30. $229 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
31. $227 * Signs
32. $226 Rush Hour 2
33. $219 Mrs. Doubtfire
34. $218 * My Big Fat Greek Wedding
35. $218 Ghost
36. $217 Aladdin
37. $216 Saving Private Ryan
38. $215 Mission: Impossible 2
39. $213 Austin Powers in Goldmember
40. $211 Back to the Future
41. $205 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
42. $204 Terminator 2: Judgement Day
43. $204 The Exorcist
44. $202 Armageddon
45. $202 The Mummy Returns
46. $200 Gone With the Wind
47. $199 Pearl Harbor
48. $197 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
49. $192 Toy Story
50. $190 Men in Black II
51. $189 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
52. $188 Gladiator
53. $184 Dances With Wolves
54. $184 The Fugitive
55. $184 Batman Forever
56. $183 The Perfect Storm
57. $183 What Women Want
58. $183 Ocean's 11
59. $182 Grease
60. $181 Liar Liar
61. $181 Mission: Impossible
62. $181 Jurassic Park III
63. $180 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
64. $180 Planet of the Apes
65. $178 Pretty Woman
66. $177 Tootsie
67. $177 Top Gun
68. $176 There's Something About Mary
69. $176 Ice Age
70. $175 "Crocodile" Dundee
71. $173 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
72. $173 Air Force One
73. $172 Rain Man
74. $172 Apollo 13

[Telrem]

Released in US December 19, 1997

Total US Gross $600,788,188

US Distributor 20th Century Fox

Production Budget $200,000,000

Worldwide Gross $923,509,054

MPAA Rating PG-13 for disaster related peril and violence, nudity,
sensuality and brief language

It was close...

[Bumbaz]

The Top Grossing Movies of All Time
at the Worldwide Box Office

Rank Title Total Box Office In IMDb
Top 250
1 Titanic (1997) $1,835,300,000 -
2 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) $968,600,000 -
3 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) $922,300,000 -
4 Jurassic Park (1993) $919,700,000 -
5 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) $860,200,000

[Bumbaz]

Here is another interesting aspect, top 10 films when adjusted to inflation: (only domestic figures)

Rank
Title
Studio
Adjusted gross
Unadjusted gross
Year

1
Gone With the Wind
MGM
$1,153,674,489
$198,655,278
1939

2
Star Wars
Fox
$1,017,062,887
$460,998,007
1977

3
The Sound of Music
Fox
$813,191,797
$158,671,368
1965

4
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Uni.
$810,829,930
$434,974,579
1982

5
The Ten Commandments
Par.
$748,010,000
$65,500,000
1956

6
Titanic
Par.
$737,742,055
$600,788,188
1997

7
Jaws
Uni.
$731,330,051
$260,000,000
1975

8
Doctor Zhivago
MGM
$708,813,451
$111,721,910
1965

9
The Exorcist
WB
$631,347,103
$232,671,011
1973

10
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Dis.
$622,390,000
$184,925,486
1937

[Alluveal]

Woo, thanks guys for the updates (world-wide and adjusted gross #'s, ect.)

Definitely an eye opener.

[NightGod]

Originally posted by aychamo_aycono
There is a difference of being rude, and being emotional... But it would be great to rent out the theater, total silence, and sit in the dead center..> wow!

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
Waited about 3 weeks after release and went to a theater in the small city (20Kish people) I live in on a Wednesday for the 9PM showing.

I was literally the only person in the entire theater-damn that rocked.

[Iannis]

Originally posted by Eomer
I dunno, I never go to a movie to "socialize" or to "interact" with people. If I did, I would go to whatever that gay show from the 70's that people go to in costume (I don't have a problem with that, just for sure not my thing). You are in a darkened room with a big screen and speakers around you. The idea is to watch the moving pictures and listen to the sound, not hang out with the other people in the theatre.

Rocky Horror Picture Show?

..............GREAT SCOTT!!!

[Stridar]

I hate kids and noise more then anything. But can't say the clapping and cheering at appropriate times bothers me. I'm not one to do that. But it isn't really a pet peeve of mine when other's do. Of course there are only 3 movies that I have been to that this has occured.

LoTR: FoTR-midnight showing
Star Wars: Attack of Clones-midnight showing
LoTR: TTT-10:30 Wednesday night

I watch tons of movies at the theatre and only those 3 have I ever heard anyone clap or cheer. But it has never been some little shit teen that was doing it. Normally it is the 30+ crowd that have been waiting to see these movies for a long time and now they are really enjoying the movie and it is just a natural reaction coming out.

If some one has a home theatre that is set up better then Movie Theatre's out there today then they have to be loaded. I watch movie's at about 4 different places. All of them are damn nice with stadium, reclining seats, great sound systems and they keep them damn clean. Sure I can go to some shitty $1 movie that sounds awfull and is nasty as hell. But if you live in a decent size town these days you should be able to find a nice theatre to watch movies in.

Noise other then clapping and such drive me fucking mad. Actually had to go watch Spiderman with a couple that is friends with my wife and I. They brought their two kids that are 4-8. WHile the 8 year old was pretty good since he loves spider man. The damn 4 year old drove me nuts. She kept jumping down in the floor then climbing in my lap, then in her dads then in her moms then her own seat. Then crying because the "Green guy is scary daddy." I almost lost it. Told my wife we'd never go watch another move with them unless it something from Stephen King.

We did have some jerk in TTT who's phone rang a few times. It even rang when they had the little thing on the screen about being polite and turning your phone off. Then went off right before the big battle. About 10 people shouted at him to get the fuck out.

Going to watch TTT again this weekend, see if people are still cheering or if it only the first showing die hards that cheer and hollar.

[Bumbaz]

First off, I don't mind a bit of clapping or cheering during a big movie, you go to the movies for the fun experience. If it goes on for 10 minutes than yah thats too long, but i doubt it has ever happened. MAYBE and a HUGE MAYBE is at the end credits it may have happened at some movie, but doubtfull.

Anyhoo, I wanted to comment about the Home Theater thingy. It is true that its possible to get a very good sound system, one that is even better than a theater as we have in my house. We have Dolby Digital EX and DTS ES which is higher quality than all theaters in my area except like 2 screens I think. BUT unless you have a reel to reel in your home with a theater projector you won't be getting the screen quality. DVD currently is about 550 lines of resolution, there is no HDTV format except DVHS which is very new and very expensive and has very few movies on it. And even HDTV format still isn't as good as a photo image produced in a frame of film.

Anyhoo, I don't expect a home format to take over for theaters, at least not in the near future (read 40 years).

[SamLowry]

what bothers me is the motherfuckers that comment on little things to their buddies every once and a while. in catch me if u can these dumbasses behind me kept going OH MAN! and laugh their fucking ass of at parts that werent funny. im also sick of people laughing at retarded commercials and trailers that are no where near funny,then hearing someone go - well i GOTTA see that one ! its pathetic they can just laugh and laugh when none of it is funny.they clapped when the credits rolled in catch me if u can as if it fucking matters. who the living shit are they clapping for?