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[shadowkat]

1. Big Bang Theory Finale -- better than expected. Sort of surprising. My biggest take aways from it, was that it was in some respects less sexist than most of the series to date, and instead of Star Wars, Star Trek, Game of Thrones, or various male centric superhero comics -- the shout out was to...Buffy the Vampire Slayer and in particular to Buffy herself as a cult icon.

And Sheldon's Nobel Peace Prize instead of being shared with the fellas, was shared with his wife, brilliant scientist and collaborator, Amy.

Best line?

Sheldon standing up on the podium, getting the Nobel Peace Prize, then looking at his friends, then seeing Sarah Michelle Gellar sitting next to Raj in the crowd. "Wait, is that Buffy the Vampire Slayer?"
Interesting.

2. Discovery of Witches had a mean cliff-hanger ending. Good thing it's being renewed or I'd be pissed.

3. Laying back and not doing all that much this weekend. Went for a couple of walks, and been doing some writing. Nothing worth reporting on.

4. Hmm...here's the list of top box office films of all time.

* Box Office All Time World Takes

Here's another, better link... Box Office Hits of All Time

And.. Worldwide Box Office Records 

Rank	Released	Movie	Worldwide Box Office	Domestic Box Office	International Box Office
1	2009	Avatar	$2,776,345,279	$760,507,625	$2,015,837,654
2	2019	Avengers: Endgame	$2,677,857,736	$798,557,736	$1,879,300,000
3	1997	Titanic	$2,208,208,395	$659,363,944	$1,548,844,451
4	2015	Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens	$2,053,311,220	$936,662,225	$1,116,648,995
5	2018	Avengers: Infinity War	$2,048,134,200	$678,815,482	$1,369,318,718
6	2015	Jurassic World	$1,648,854,864	$652,270,625	$996,584,239
7	2015	Furious 7	$1,518,722,794	$353,007,020	$1,165,715,774
8	2012	The Avengers	$1,517,935,897	$623,279,547	$894,656,350
9	2015	Avengers: Age of Ultron	$1,403,013,963	$459,005,868	$944,008,095
10	2018	Black Panther	$1,348,258,224	$700,059,566	$648,198,658
11	2011	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II	$1,341,693,157	$381,193,157	$960,500,000
12	2017	Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi	$1,316,721,747	$620,181,382	$696,540,365
13	2018	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom	$1,305,772,799	$417,719,760	$888,053,039
14	2013	Frozen	$1,272,469,910	$400,738,009	$871,731,901
15	2017	Beauty and the Beast	$1,259,199,706	$504,014,165	$755,185,541
16	2018	Incredibles 2	$1,242,521,342	$608,581,744	$633,939,598
17	2017	The Fate of the Furious	$1,234,846,267	$225,764,765	$1,009,081,502
18	2013	Iron Man 3	$1,215,392,272	$408,992,272	$806,400,000
19	2015	Minions	$1,160,336,173	$336,045,770	$824,290,403
20	2018	Aquaman	$1,146,894,640	$335,061,807	$811,832,833

Comments

[cjlasky7]

My favorite scene in the finale, and one I'd been waiting to see for a long time:

SHELDON: You call those friends? They're leaving us.
AMY: They're leaving because you broke their hearts!
S: I...didn't mean to.
A: You never do! That's the only reason people tolerate you!
S: Even you?
A: Sometimes....yeah.

Sometimes, you can only show how deep the love is if you show how deep the pain is.

In general, I was very happy with the finale. TBH, I wanted Raj to end up with Anu (the hot concierge), but his status as singleton of the group doesn't feel off, either.

Kripke, Stuart and Cinammon got their final bows, and the elevator came back on line in a perfectly timed gag.

I wish we could have had one subplot near the end where Penny rethinks her hard line attitude toward kids, so the announcement here wouldn't have been so jarring--but you can't have everything.

On the biggest stage of his life, Sheldon expresses true humility. That's a great ending.

[shadowkat]

I will admit I cried during Sheldon's speech to his friends. So they earned the moment, for what it's worth.

[ex_inklessej388]

I've always wondered, and maybe you know the answer, do those box office numbers take into account the fact that ticket prices has more than doubled since say Titanic was on the big screen? Factor in inflation, and they've almost tripled in price.

They are probably adjusted for inflation, but one ticket to Titanic would look like 1/2 of what Avengers: End Game cost and that would skew the numbers.

[shadowkat]

I think the list with Gone with the Wind on it -- does. The others not so much. The one that I included the listing of movies, including Titantic -- no, it's not adjusted for inflation. That's the actual numbers. (It stated it at the bottom of the charts on the link above the table -- "Note: Not adjusted for inflation."

But it is a valid point. I mean, the ticket to see Endgame was $21 as opposed to Infinity War at $15, and Star Wars Force Awakens at $14, and Avatar at $10. There's a huge difference. Not to mention Titantic at maybe 5-10 dollars. I think I might have paid $8 for Titantic, which is a lot less than $21 for Endgame.

Keep in mind, the movie theaters only make money off of the concessions. The ticket price pays them to show the film. So the ticket price is going to the film makers, and the concessions to the movie theaters.

[ex_inklessej388]

I wonder if there is a set "ticket price" that is used, sort of like how we value products using the manufacture's suggested retail price and not what so-and-so store is selling it for. It would be interesting to know what the delta between a MSRP for a movie ticket it against what the movie theaters are charging people per ticket.

Without even getting into the cost of concessions, a single movie ticket price has increased considerably over the last 15 years.

[shadowkat]

I don't think so, although the list that does adjust for inflation is interesting in that it exhibits how many more people saw movies in the 1930s than now. Honestly that makes sense -- more people went to the movies back then.
Because there wasn't much else out there -- think about it? There was no television when Gone with the Wind was released. And relatively little when Sound of Music came out. They had radio and movies. No video games, no cell phones, no internet, no television, and no distractions during movies.

So it's not really a fair comparison? Titantic to The Avengers, sort of is, because we did have a lot of those advances by the time Titantic aired but not all of them. We didn't have Netflix back then, or Amazon. We had blockbuster videos. And the internet was nothing like it is today.

Ticket prices have partly gone up due to the lack of people going to the movies. And to get more people to come -- they've changed the experience. There's movie theaters that provide you with food and cocktails like a restaurant throughout the movie (drove me nuts, I do not understand how others do it), Eye Pick -- which is basically a movie theater where you sit in your own private little cocoon, with blanket and a pillow and a place for popcorn and a drink and complete privacy from other movie goers (I've never been to it, but its apparently in NYC somewhere), and the reserved seating, and the IMAX, 3d and now 4d experiences....all to bring more people into the theater and away from their 55-85 inch television sets. I mean I can basically see a movie in my home, on about the same size scree and same experience as in the theater. So that alone affects ticket sales.