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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 631685" data-attributes="member: 2020">Ok, ok (grins) (rueful look)  You guys and girls know who won the Oscars.  But nobody else I know does!  Not my family, at least!  Why Spider-Man?  Not because it's a bad film:  Spider-Man was a great film.  Because, Spider-Man is the most recent film to beat out Fellowship of the Ring's take.  Spider-Man is the most recent film higher up on the All-Time List from Fellowship.  A little friendly rivalry here.    If you really want to look at it, you need to consider Fellowship and Two Towers as one film, which happened to be broken into two parts because they could not release a six hour film in the theaters (much less the nine to ten hour total theatrical cut, much less the eleven to twelve hour extended cut.)  If you take these two films at face value as being one film, the film Lord of the Rings has a current gross of about $614 million dollars.  Still well short of Star Wars Episode Four or Titanic, much less Gone With the Wind, but it's getting up there.    If the three films combined can take in more than $1.1 billion, I would argue Lord of the Rings is the single biggest grossing film, adjusted for inflation, in American history.</blockquote>