The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[dirtybenny]

I thought maybe it was less expensive to go to the movies in the 1960s regardless of inflation, that you have to take this into account as well. But perhaps I got this all wrong?

It's based on number of tickets sold worldwide. More people went to see Skyfall in the cinema than Thunderball.

Edit: oh, that's odd. I just looked at the table again, and it says that the estimated number of tickets sold for Skyfall is lower than either Thunderball or Goldfinger. I don't know, in that case.

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Thunderball outsold Skyfall, by a lot if I recall. Tickets cost a dollar in 1965 compared to $23 IMAX "experiences" in 2012.

[Count_Lippe]

So Skyfall earned more money, but more people went to see Thunderball in the 1960s.

[Kristatos]

So Skyfall earned more money, but more people went to see Thunderball in the 1960s.

Which shouldn't happen in an inflation-adjusted chart. Unless the premium prices made the difference, like you said.

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[Count_Lippe]

I'm surprised that Live and let Die is above The Spy Who Loved Me on the list, I read somewhere else that Spy was the biggest success of the series since Thunderball.

Spy and Moonraker was a comeback of the spectacular big budget Bond films of the late 1960s, and were huge successes, or so I thought.

[Kristatos]

John Cork's book James Bond: The Legacy reported an artificially inflated number for LALD's ticket sales, and this error has been reproduced in other charts that use it as a source. That could be what happened here.