"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
All lists of the highest-grossing ANYTHING don't factor in inflation (i.e. the highest grossing comedy on Labor Day, the biggest opening for an R-rated movie, etc.).
Face it, for all intents and purposes, and underserving as it is, MAMMA MIA is the third highest grossing movie musical.
I don't get how some people are so offended at the fact that MAMMA MIA! has become the third highest grossing movie musical in film history. As if it were some crime against humanity or Julie Andrews, or both. LMAO.
I don't get how some people are so offended at the fact that MAMMA MIA! has become the third highest grossing movie musical in film history.
Because MAMMA MIA! is a crime against film history. To me (hold back your spears, fans).
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
I take no offense, I was just trying to pass along some information. It is not the third highest grossing musical film in history. No matter what anything says. It's not even the 5th, 6th, 7th or 8th. I already posted what the top musical films were. If you want to say that Mamma Mia is the third highest grossing musical film in history, go right ahead, but you're wrong. And what does Julie Andrews have to do with it?
Bustopher, go ahead. If it makes you feel better, just pretend it said that Mama Mia was the third grossest movie musical of all time. There. Better now?
JohnBoy, I really don't care. It's really not that big of a deal. It makes no difference to me, the money ain't going in my pocket. I just find the reactions hilarious. Updated On: 8/22/08 at 09:12 PM
Yes, technically, The Sound of Music is the highest grossing movie musical, but since we are talking about 1974 till now and not counting inflation, then Grease is number one, followed by Chicago, then Mamma Mia! (I loved it by the way). But if someone did ask me randomly "What is the highest grossing movie musical?", I would honestly answer Sound of Music. It's like saying that Titanic is the highest grossing movie of all time, but technically it's Number 6. The highest is Gone With the Wind, followed by Star Wars, then Sound of Music.
Julie Andrews must be blessed or something to have her third and first movie as the first & second highest grossing movie musical of all time (adjusted to inflation).
1974 to now? What a stupid list! Why don't we just talk about movies released on a Thursday, with the letter "W" in them?
Face it. It means nothing.
The real stupid part is that the movie industry is the ONLY industry that counts money instead of number of units sold and/or audience size. Music, TV, books, theatre, all are concerned with how many people are buying or watching.
Movies look at dollars. Because tickets now cost $9-15 each, and cost $.35 when Gone With the Wind came out, it's ridiculous to throw out terms like "all time biggest" or "record breaker."
If you broke it down, you'd see that attendance is severely down from what it used to be, even 30 years ago, let alone 60.
So... this has nothing to do with Mamma Mia. And Mamma Mia has nothing to do with all-time, record-breaking anything.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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