The best movie of all time is Beverly Hill Cop with Eddie Murphy. The first one. It doesn't get that much respect in terms of the annals of cinema, but critics did like it at the time. It holds up too, even watching all these years later in 2008. So I was happy to see this chart on BoxOfficeMojo, which offers the all-time box-office standings inflation-adjusted. With all the talk about how The Dark Knight is closing in on Titanic, for kind of the domestic box, it's worth throwing some cold water. In fact, TDK is 39th all time. And look who it's behind.
You could also argue that the Beverly Hills Cop figure should be inflation adjusted... thus it probably blows away Dark Knight if adjusted to 2008 dollars.
Posted by: Vincent | August 18, 2008 at 09:58 AM
Oops, my apologies, it has been inflation adjusted. I found Dark Knight quite good, but was surprised by its performance. Then again, while Beverly Hills Cop is a great movie, I think if you weren't told if its success beforehand then most people, even after seeing it, would be unlikely to place it in the top 10% percentile of all movies. I guess there is a lot to film success than just the movie itself, but I'll stop here since I'm treading into territory I know little about!
Posted by: Vincent | August 18, 2008 at 10:03 AM
The number on the left for Beverly Hills Cop is inflation adjusted to 2008 dollars. Unless I'm missing your point.
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