Channel 4 top 100 Films.

[Lonelymum]

Were you watching last night? Do you intend watching tonight? Which film do you think will be No. 1?

Should be Gone with the Wind! But I think it will be Grease - only because I can remember people saying how everyone queued round the block and saw it lots of times

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Is it going to be the one the most people paid to see?

Yes Janh, I think it's based on box office receipts. So it'll be Jurassic Park maybe? Lion King? Titanic? Or am I way behind? It's always Citizen Kane when people are voting isn't it? I've never seen it and keep meaning to!

Why oh Why is it never the TOWER INFERNO????? I LOVE IT AM I THE ONLY ONE????

Thanks, www - Gone With the Wind must be in with a chance then - it had a huge re-release in about 1968 (which is when I saw it in Leicester Sq) on top of its original release.

More recent ones may have raised a lot of money but I bet fewer people saw them.

OK, I wanted to know so just looked it up but haven't checked it's a reliable source, and may not be based on same things as this prog. look away if you don't want to know:

Titanic
Star Wars episode IV
Shrek 2
ET
Star Wars episode 1
Spiderman (didn't expect to see that there!)
LOTR
Spideman 2, (really surprised at this one)
Passion of Christ
Jurassic Park

How could I have forgotten Star Wars? Durrr!

Those will be takings, won't they, not bums on seats?

Oh, well, if it is money it has nothing to do with how many people saw each film, is it? They all paid about 6d in 1940!

Yes, I reckon based on box office takings, not no of people. I wonder whether they adjust the older films to take account of the amount it would be today? Can't really compare I suppose though since there are millions of screens now and only a few back then.

Gone with the wind is there at no 59! sorry, didn't post a link, here it is!

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Oh they must adjust to make it fair.

Yes there are more screens now, but each holds about 100 people? From my dim and distant recollections, cinemas used to hold about 1000 - they were huge - 20 seats each side of the aisle and at least 20 rows, maybe more. And circles in some.

WWW - That site is for US figures. Channel 4 is for the best British.

Ah, so they may well be slightly different then. Thanks furball.

No I think it is done by number of admissions, bums on seats stuff. I reckon it will be something really obscure from the 1940s when more people went to the cinema.

Well I just looked at the Ch 4 page for this and the preview section - from the top 100 - includes The Dambusters, The Third Man, The Blue Lamp and Carry On Nurse. I don't think any of those will have figured in WWW's US chart!

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Results are Here

Love, Actually beats My Fair Lady????

Ain't no justice.

Thanks for that, Furball!

If WWW hadn't said GWTW was no 59 I would have been able to guess it would be No 1. Still, I was partially right. I said it would be a film from the age before tv!

Socci - the only thing I remember them saying about it was the usual stuff about Vivien Leigh - how she beat well-known stars to take the lead and how she never again achieved such cinematic glory and died of TB.