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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jay Verkuilen" data-source="post: 7776456" data-attributes="member: 6873517">Well I guess it depends on one's viewpoint. IMO most modern movies are essentially set on 1.25x speed. I feel like I never get a breath in before something else is happening. It's the pacing equivalent of a song mastered post "loudness wars" compared to ones that have actual dynamics.   As I said elsewhere, I'm trying to consider things beyond just dollars, although that is, of course harder to quantify. In terms of raw dollars, it's hard to make any kind of comparisons over time. I know Hollywood loves to report on raw dollars, but anyone with any knowledge of how money works knows it's necessary <a href="https://www.imdb.com/list/ls026442468/" target="_blank">to adjust for inflation</a>. By that score, you're right, Avatar still wins, though of course it benefits from a much more global-sized audience, but in terms of cultural impact, not even close.  Modern Star Wars is, in my view, very different than old Star Wars of the late '70s. Modern Star Wars is a giant machine. It is very much in the belly of the beast.  At the time, the Star Wars trilogy were a cultural phenomenon in a way that few movies since have been but in many ways it came out of the underground. Partly this is because of the culture of the time, which was much more homogeneous. I was just a little kid then and only barely remember seeing it in the theater. I wasn't totally gaga over it for a bit... probably just too young, but it hit fairly quickly. There really wasn't anything like it before and, for better or worse, the kind of crossover toys, music, etc., just hadn't really existed before. In a lot of ways I liken it to Elvis or The Beatles in terms of influence. In terms of gross earnings, neither compare to artists today. If you look on the linked IMDB page above, the original Star Wars cost $11 million, so in terms of bang for the buck it's right up there with Gone With the Wind. While Titanic and Avatar made more, they also cost a lot more.</blockquote>

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