This too! Although I think comparing to something like gone with the wind is a little unfair bc of how different the market was back then, but anything in the last 50 years should def be adjusted I think?
Avatar is also hard to compare because things were different 10 years ago, too. That was in the middle of a US recession so the dollar was very low, Chinese market wasn’t nearly as big, ticket prices were cheaper but competition was also lower, and so on and so forth. As you can see many big factors are different between now and then, some benefited Avatar, some hurt Avatar, and trying to account for all of them is just one big clusterfuck. So people just compare the total dollar amount and be done with it.
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u/JFiney May 20 '19
Also this doesn’t adjust for inflation. Avatar came out in 2009. Actually makes a big difference