Nerd Pride Radio

The Adjusted for Inflation Bureau is stolen from Poorpete (who first had the idea to make this a game here), who stole it from Doug Benson at Doug Loves Movies (which everyone should be listening to). Here's the rules:

1- Post up with a movie of Tom Cruise that you think has the highest domestic box office gross adjusted for inflation. Thus, even though the new Star Wars movie is the highest grossing domestic earner, if we adjust for inflation, the title actually goes to Gone With the Wind.

2- After you make a post- you can only guess again AFTER I HAVE TOLD YOU IF YOU ARE RIGHT AND HAVE AWARDED POINTS. Thus, if you make a guess- please don't guess again until I've acknowledged your guess.

3- Your guess must be done off the top of your head. No research. No googling. No referring to Imdb. Obviously, no referring to Box Office Mojo. Just use your brain.

4- This game is on the honor's system. But if you cheat, please understand that you're just ruining the game for everyone. There's nothing at stake. We're just all trying to have fun.

5- Points are awarded only for the top 20 movies of Tom Cruise, in reverse order of their place on the list. Thus, 1 point for the 20th movie. 20 points for the top movie.

I will try to periodically update this first post with all the guesses, points awarded and standings.

MOVIES:
1- Top Gun
2- Rain Man
3- Mission Impossible
4- Mission Impossible 2
5- The Firm
7- War of the Worlds
8- A Few Good Men
9- Jerry Maguire
10- Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
11- Interview with a Vampire
12- Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
13- Minority Report
14- Mission Impossible 3
15- Risky Business
16- Days of Thunder
17- Cocktail
19- Vanilla Sky
20- Born of the 4th of July

MOVIES (NO POINTS):
21- Tropic Thunder
24- Far & Away
25- The Color of Money
27- Edge of Tomorrow
34- The Outsiders
35- Jack Reacher: Never Look Back
39- Magnolia

STANDINGS:
Bluedevyl- 48
Mike- 42
Stan- 41
poorpete- 35
Phoebe- 20
Eli- 6

Is this theatrical run only or total revenue?

I'll start off: Top Gun.

When Doug plays it, it is U.S. theatrical run only based on the Adjusted for Inflation numbers at BoxOfficeMojo.

It does include re-releases. And I personally suspect that this throws the numbers off. Snow White has had numerous re-releases, but are the numbers adjusted for inflation based on the year of each re-release, or do they simply take the grand total and adjust it based on the year of original release? I suspect the latter, because movies with much later re-releases seem to have numbers far above what I would have suspected. But I have nothing to base this on other than my own amateur estimations.

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

It's domestic box office adjusted for inflation according to box office mojo. So that means theatrical and- as Mike suggests- includes re-releases. I'm going to wait until this evening to give scores to give other people a chance to jump in- so don't guess again yet, Mike and Stan.

Rain Man

Great. Now someone else is going to get Losin' It before my turn comes around again. Thanks, Kyle.

Risky Business

Top Gun: 1 (20 pts Stan)
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocal- 10th (11 pts Mike)
Rain Man- 2nd (19 pts Bluedevyl)
Risky Business- 15th (6 pts Eli)

Huh... I honestly didnt think Rain Man would've been that high, but these things generally end up with the older movies being higher on the list almost by default.

A Few Good Men

Magnolia!

Mission Impossible

Minority Report

Days of Thunder

Edge of Tomorrow

Mike- A Few Good Men- 8th (13 points)
Eliahad- Magnolia- 39th
Poorpete- Mission Impossible- 3rd (18 points)
Phoebe- Minority Report- 13th (8 points)
Stan- Days of Thunder- 16th (5 points)
Tahlvin- Edge of Tomorrow- 27th

MI:2

By the way- when we get 15 of the 20, I'll close it down.

The Color of Money