Posted May 6, 201411 yr Apologies if this has been posted before but this is the US Mojo Box Office "Bums On Seats" all-time Top 100 movies, with ticket prices adjusted to reflect current average ticket prices. So despite all of the htperbole everytime some new (3D) movie breaks box office records...they usually haven't, it's just cash generated with inflation that has been boomed. These are the REAL all-time successful movies AT THE CINEMA - not counting DVD or video sales or subsequent TV popularity. 1 Gone with the Wind 1939^ 2 Star Wars 1977^ 3 The Sound of Music 1965 4 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial 1982^ 5 Titanic 1997^ 6 The Ten Commandments 1956 7 Jaws 1975 8 Doctor Zhivago 1965 9 The Exorcist 1973^ 10 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937^ 11 101 Dalmatians 1961^ 12 The Empire Strikes Back 1980^ 13 Ben-Hur 1959 14 Avatar 2009^ 15 Return of the Jedi 1983^ 16 Jurassic Park 1993^ 17 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999^ 18 The Lion King 1994^ 19 The Sting 1973 20 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981^ 21 The Graduate 1967^ 22 Fantasia 1941^ 23 The Godfather 1972^ 24 Forrest Gump 1994 25 Mary Poppins 1964^ 26 Grease 1978^ 27 Marvel's The Avengers 2012 28 Thunderball 1965 29 The Dark Knight 2008^ 30 The Jungle Book 1967^ 31 Sleeping Beauty 1959^ 32 Shrek 2 2004 33 Ghostbusters 1984^ 34 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 35 Love Story 1970 36 Spider-Man 2002 37 Independence Day 1996^ 38 Home Alone 1990 39 Pinocchio 1940^ 40 Cleopatra (1963) 1963 41 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 42 Goldfinger 1964 43 Airport 1970 44 American Graffiti 1973 45 The Robe 1953 46 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2006 47 Around the World in 80 Days 1956 48 Bambi 1942^ 49 Blazing Saddles 1974^ 50 Batman 1989 51 The Bells of St. Mary's 1945 52 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003^ 53 Finding Nemo 2003^ 54 The Towering Inferno 1974 55 Spider-Man 2 2004 56 My Fair Lady 1964 57 The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 58 National Lampoon's Animal House 1978^ 59 The Passion of the Christ 2004^ 60 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005^ 61 Back to the Future 1985 62 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002^ 63 The Dark Knight Rises 2012 64 The Sixth Sense 1999 65 Superman 1978 66 Tootsie 1982 67 Smokey and the Bandit 1977 68 West Side Story 1961 69 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2001 70 Lady and the Tramp 1955^ 71 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977^ 72 Lawrence of Arabia 1962^ 73 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 74 Rocky 1976 75 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 76 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 77 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001^ 78 Twister 1996 79 Men in Black 1997 80 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 81 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 2009 82 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963 83 Swiss Family Robinson 1960 84 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 85 M.A.S.H. 1970 86 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984 87 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2002^ 88 Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 89 Aladdin 1992 90 Toy Story 3 2010 91 Ghost 1990 92 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 2013 93 Duel in the Sun 1946 94 The Hunger Games 2012 95 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 96 House of Wax 1953 97 Rear Window 1954^ 98 The Lost World: Jurassic Park 1997 99 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 100 Monsters, Inc. 2001^ 101 Frozen 2013
May 7, 201411 yr Interesting, if predictable list. I'd say 'The Exorcist' being so high is a shock given it's subject matter and shock factor especially in the US at the time, but then i guess that's precisely why it got so many bums on seats in the first place :lol: (and the fact it's the pinnacle of horror cinema of course).
May 7, 201411 yr 'The Exorcist' is the only horror film I won't ever watch again. It's horrifying (I know, it's the point) but it's so terrifying that I really can't watch it anymore. I'm a big horror fan too, and can just about do everything else, but just a NO to that one. 'Finding Nemo' higher than I thought it'd be *.*
May 7, 201411 yr Harry Potter being the most visited out of all seems a bit odd? (Lion King outside the top 10 tho :cry: )
May 7, 201411 yr Author 'The Exorcist' is the only horror film I won't ever watch again. It's horrifying (I know, it's the point) but it's so terrifying that I really can't watch it anymore. I'm a big horror fan too, and can just about do everything else, but just a NO to that one. 'Finding Nemo' higher than I thought it'd be *.* Snap! I saw it at a College screening when I was 21 and it disturbed my sleep badly afterwards. Exorcist, that it. Haven't watched it since :o
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