Do you think any movie will beat Titanic box office record on the next decade

Titanic is running almost three hours, Gone With The Wind if you adjusted on inflation rate is the highest gross movie of all time running 3 hours! Even The Dark Knight running 2,5 hours. I just thinking on the opposite of you thoughts, the ingredients for box office smash is it has to be long duration, but people won't feel they watching a 2 hour+ movie because they're so into the movie. I feel that when watching Titanic or Dark Knight or Spiderman 2(which also a 2hour + movie). But I agree with you it must be appealing to any gender and age to create a box office hit.

Hmmm, I'm quite disagree with your opinion about the DVD downloads. If the movie is great, people will flunk into the theatres, and strong word of mouth will urge even the disinterested audience to come because of curiousity. Remember, at the time, Titanic hold the record as the most expensive movie ever made, $200 million, and many rumors regarding its financial difficulties because of James Cameron wanted perfection of every details in the movie. When it opened, it only gross around $30-40 million, I forgot, and at the time I think many movies in the past before Titanic era, has surpassed those opening week numbers. I agree with you though that it is the most commercial movie at the time, and also generated by 14 nominees in Oscar for the movie itself. I analyse a big big box office hit had an X factor, for Dark Knight is because Heath Ledger, for Gone With The Wind (which still hold the record as inflation-adjusted no. 1 movie of all time) it's because the insanely popular novel, Star Wars because it is so futuristic and groundbreaking at the time. Thanks for sharing your opinion!

Hi, I sort of disagree with your point that "if a movie is great people will flunk into the theatres", as there are a lot of great films which don't get the box office takings which they deserve but hit greatness when they are released on DVD with "The Shawshank Redemption" being a great example of this.

But I do agree that "strong word of mouth" and media hype "will urge even the disinterested audience to come because of curiousity". I can think of several recent movies which in my opinion are not that great but because of over hyped media attention they have become the must see film and so of course will get the person on the street saying that you should see it purely on the basis that it is the mass opinion. Take for example "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" which is in essence a one trick pony of a movie. But because there was so much media hype about it and the oscar nominations that people went to see it and preached it's virtues as it was the thing to do.

Many people agree with you of the overrated Titanic. But I am the one who think Titanic is a masterpiece. It told us the classic story of love, which is why everyone can related to that. Plus, the Titanic event itself and all those lush of early 1900 era made it more attractive. Besides, it catapults Kate Winslet and Leo DiCaprio to fame and stardom, when I was watching it,I thought Kate even won't get an Oscar nominee but Leo did. I was wrong, Leo didn't get it but Kate did. Looking forward to 2009, both artists has carried itself really-really well. It is amazing to see Kate has 6 Oscar nominee being just 30 years old and won one already, meanwhile Leo has 3 Oscar nominees. I do think Leo's best performance were in Revolutionary Road last year though, I wondered why he even did not get a nominee for that.

syangku, Ice Age is far away in beating Titanic record, it needs to rack 500 million more to beat Titanic, and now the movie has already have declining figures in box office. I think for any animation movie, it is hard to beat a live-action movie, mainly because it may not appeal many adult moviegoers. Thanks for the response