skyjedi2005 said:

i'm not too sure, but that looks like to me to be a false domestic take since it looks like it includes all the numerous re-releases as well as the 97 special edition. it should be adjusted to reflect only the 1977 gross adjusted.

Plus if we are talking about not readjusted gross titanic is still number 1 and no star wars film ever beat it. Sad but true and no movie has yet to break its record of #1.

Return of the King and Revenge of the Sith made valiant efforts, even rotk tied titanic for number of oscars.

Why should it reflect only 1977? No major plot points were changed until 1997. So I'm with you that it shouldn't include the SE, but every rerelease until that point is fair game. Unfortunately, I don't think there's any way to differentiate them.

I was comparing the Star Wars movies to each other. I'm aware that no Star Wars movie, unadjusted, has ever beat Titanic. I'm also aware that the top two movies of all time, adjusted for inflation, are Star Wars and Gone with the Wind (I didn't even need to look that one up :P). My whole point was that adjusted for inflation, the prequels didn't do well at all. Even unadjusted, Star Wars did better than all the prequels. In fact, if you look at that list, you'll see that TPM did the best, with ROTS coming in second. That's probably because TPM was the first Star Wars movie in 16 years. AOTC didn't do as well, probably due to the bitter taste from TPM. ROTS did second best, again, probably because "this is the one we've been waiting for" as some people put it.