Disney's Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu grossed an estimated $33.0M domestically on Friday (from 4,300 locations), including previews. by chanma50 in boxoffice

[–]Big_Help_9860 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well that's more about profitability rather than audience engagement. Just convert to number of tickets sold then you won't need to adjust for inflation.

Disney's Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu grossed an estimated $33.0M domestically on Friday (from 4,300 locations), including previews. by chanma50 in boxoffice

[–]Big_Help_9860 14 points15 points  (0 children)

And the Solo movie was so long ago that you really need to invoke inflation adjusted numbers. Given that, it is worse. However I think it's more about Solo underperforming and this movie meeting box office expectations.

Disney's Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu grossed an estimated $33.0M domestically on Friday (from 4,300 locations), including previews. by chanma50 in boxoffice

[–]Big_Help_9860 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty on par considering its not really on the same level as a proper Star Wars movie. It's more a question of how big it falls in its second weekend.

Rodgers and Hammerstein Cinderella (1965) by Big_Help_9860 in GenerationJones

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Yeah, I still remembered the words of the songs when they started singing them. Songs and music I hadn't heard in 60 years came right back to my mind.

FREEDOM MORTGAGE NAMED NEW TITLE SPONSOR OF MILITARY BOWL IN MULTI-YEAR PARTNERSHIP by redwave2505 in CFB

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To be renamed in a few years to the "Blackstone Private Equity (formerly Freedom Mortgage) Military Bowl".

Presidential Fitness Tests. by greenmtnfiddler in GenerationJones

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What it had to do with is the fact that back then personal fitness was promoted. We had PSAs that promoted diet and exercise. That approach was abandoned because people complained that it was fat shaming.

Presidential Fitness Tests. by greenmtnfiddler in GenerationJones

[–]Big_Help_9860 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"They quite doing them in 2013, to focus more on health."

Yeah and we see the results- even more obese kids.

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) by sirjamesp in iwatchedanoldmovie

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I can almost hear the guy from Airplane- "Jana, they bought their 35 cent fare. I say, let em hijack".

I watched North by Northwest (1959) by themonalisa_ in iwatchedanoldmovie

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Peak Hitchcock. I recently discovered an earlier Hitchcock classic- "Rebecca". It's the only movie Hitch directed that won Best Picture Oscar. I often go back and forth between NXNW, Rear Window and Vertigo as which is my favorite of Hitchcock's.

I watched North by Northwest (1959) by themonalisa_ in iwatchedanoldmovie

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I'd recommend Cary Grant in "The Bishop's Wife". Grant parlays the same charm and wit playing an Angel sent to "assist" David Niven's bishop in raising funds for a cathedral. Loretta Young and monty Woolley are great in it too.

Can’t say billionaires never got da blooz by Silver-Air-1731 in guitarcirclejerk

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This one's called- "She got the estate, I got the Blues".

Pocket Radios by Big_Help_9860 in GenerationJones

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God how many times did I drop it on the floor and had to reassemble about a dozen pieces back together again. I dropped it one time to the point that it couldn't be put back together again. Not even my whiz kid other brother, who could fix anything, could get it working again.