My buddy, who should be, could be and I think will be a blogger, has put his mastery of Excel into use to put together an inflation adjusted Top 100 movies by box office. I will reprint his Top 10 here. Also, for fun, he put together a list of movies post 1972. Why? Our gaggle of friends was born that year, so therefore nothing of consequence happened before then.
All Time Top 10
Gone with the Wind: $1,293,085,600
Star Wars (I refuse to write any other qualifiers, it is Star Wars for crying out loud!): $1,139,965,400
The Sound of Music: $911,458,400
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: $907,867,700
The Ten Commandments: $838,400,000
Titanic: $821,413,700
Jaws: $819,704,400
Doctor Zhivago: $794,466,900
The Exorcist: $707,639,500
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: $697,600,000
Post-1972 Top 10
Star Wars
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Titanic
Jaws
The Exorcist
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The Sting
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jurassic Park
Update: In my on-going effort to convert all of my friends to bloggers I will tease another friend with this. The above analysis is similar to what Kate McMillan (who Mark Steyn so eloquently discribed as "The Western Standard's star blogger) did with the price of oil. Or to put her post into the Pop-Culture venacular for the post-1972ers referenced above - a generation is always dumber than their parents...(is that even possible?)
I can't wait to update this
with a guest rant.
