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Every
single box office chart goes on about just how much each movie
makes. Why is this important to any movie goer? Never on any
of these charts do we see mention of how many people have
actually gone to see the movie in question.
Add
into the equation the biggest grossing movies ever and you
will never know what was the most watched movie ever.
As
film fans should we take any interest in how much money a
movie makes ? I say no. What we should really care about is
how many people went to see the movie. Or if I am really being
daring, if the movie was any good at all and was worth seeing!
The
Cinema is the only entertainment industry I know that bases
its charts on cash rather than copies or numbers. Even the
music charts, which are not exactly the cleanest uncorruptible
things in the world base themselves on how many copies.
Also
getting back to the higest grossing movies. Surely this is
utterly pointless. Have they never heard of a thing that affects
us all every single day, inflation? In a few years from a
movies release the amount will be superseded by a movie that
may not have had the same amount of people watching it so
the comparison is not fair at all.
Personally
I would love to see the charts made up by number of people
who actually see the movie, but the studios just love to talk
about the money and they probably prefer to hide the amount
of people that actually went to see their latest multi part
franchise.
Tall
Guy
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