Avengers: Endgame Is The Top-Grossing Movie Of All Time - With One Caveat

@stage4saiyan: It would be a $10,000 guitar if you sold it again for that. It's not at the moment, I agree.

@stage4saiyan: Not to mention, at today's prices, would people have gone to Avatar? They say the same with Gone With The Wind. But that assumes everybody who saw it then would have at today's prices. I doubt that. if you have to adjust for inflation, you've got nothing.

@stage4saiyan: It's not retarded, thinking that "adjusting for inflation" is retarded is retarded.

$1 fifty years ago isn't the same as $1 today. $1 in 1950 can buy you lots of things as on average you would only make $0.75, yes, 75 cents, a day. Today on average you make $10 an hour.

A $200 guitar 50 years ago would be an extremely expensive purchase as it is the equivalent of 267 days of work, and probably costed more than some second hand cars. A $200 guitar today would only be the equivalent of maybe 2 days of work.

@stage4saiyan: Agreed. It's usually something idiots say to try to defend crappy business practices like paid online multiplayer and what not.

@Poodger: sure the plot was forgettable but the special effects and the world James Cameron created were astounding from a visual standpoint. And the generic and done-before plot was backed up by good actors and not-horrible dialogue. The plot being recycled didn’t really get noticed until after the first few weeks. yeah it’s not cool or original to recycle stuff but I never felt scammed out of my $15. I’ve had some terrible meals for $40+ but at least at the end of the day I got fed, you know? If Cameron thinks he can pump out 4 more sequels tho, he’ll be in for a rude awakening if he doesn’t back it up with a decent plot this time.

@Poodger: It's nothing refreshing when that forgettable mediocrity was replaced by another forgettable mediocrity.

I find it a little sad that such incredibly boring and monotonous CGI-action crapfests battle it out almost at the 3 million $ mark, while something like Blade Runner 2049 flops, for example.

The average movie-goers taste sure goes to shit more and more.

@Poodger: Hey, now! Avatar had mech battles. Not very many of those around.

@gotrekfabian: Producers do. That's what the box office is, a figure for the production companies to latch on to and define success. Ticket sales would be great, for us. Not for the people who want to make money. They want to see the numbers.

@RevRockwell: Adjusted for inflation shows the TRUE impact/effect and cultural phenomenons that the top films were, not what they do now. The list as it is now, did not have the impact/effect like the adjusted flicks! All of those in the top ten stayed on people's minds decades are they were released. The only except/deception, was The Force Awakens, which only made money on hype and using the original cast.

@RevRockwell: best advice ever!!

@Elranzer: If inflation counts, Avatar isn't even the top movie anymore though. So it's a null point.

@bigdavex: Gone With the Wind is the biggest movie if you adjust with inflation, it's around 3.7 billions.

Also, I am pretty sure if you don't count the rereleases that Titanic, Avatar and Endgame got, Avengers Endgame definitely beat the other 2.