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tyder21 posted...

Comparing movies across decades is a crapshoot anyway. "Inflation" is just one factor of so many that makes the comparison useless.

Number of movie theaters, availability of 3D/IMAX/etc tickets, exchange rates for international markets, the rise of streaming services, how fast before the movie is available for home watching, wider international releases (esp China), time movies would sit in theaters, ...

So I mean, sure, you can adjust for inflation. The overall numbers are still kinda meaningless. You just can't really know how an old movie would fare nowadays.

I mean, sure, you could consider every single factor that makes the two films different as a reason not to compare them, but if you are going that way you might as well stop making comparison between media altogether. Of course there are things that make them different, but we can accept that and then discuss the reasons it's different, while still acknowledging that more people saw Gone with the Wind than Avengers.

What is silly is to make the comparison for money, and then pretend currency has the same value across eras. It's dumb. It's like comparing values in different currencies as they are the same. Or saying Brazil is larger than USA by measuring Brazil's area in km and USA's in mi.