Titanic appealled to everyone:  Women for the love story, men for the
effects, young because of the actors, old because of the history.

Star Wars will be seen by fans of the originals, mostly men (and the women
they manage to drag along).  The argument is not "which one will be better,"
because I look forward to Star Wars more than I did Titanic.  But it's hard
to imagine a more widely appealing movie than Titanic.

Ender wrote in message ...
>same goes for 'el mariachi' (i'm not spanish/mexican so this is prob.
spelled
>wrongly) made for $7000 (film + development) and also made millions. But
nothing
>gets close to Star Wars: low budget film that spawned more merchandising
then
>anything ever seen (even Disney was jalous) and has idiots (among them: me)
seeing
>it over and over (i'm now for each film somewhere in the 400-s) and of
course:
>sequels/prequels (something Titanic can never do...:)). Besides, Titanic
rode on
>the 'pretty' face of this DiCrappio-guy and if something is a bad
foundation, then
>it's young girls adoration - where as Star Wars has a broader foundation.
Also
>we're comparing a big budget box-office hit (titanic needed to be big in
the
>box-office with the amount of money spend.) with a low budget box-office
surprise
>(lucas didn't even want to be close to the premiere and went to Hawaii (or
>something) with Spielburg to think up "indiana jones")....
>
>Also I think this whole discussion is kinda sad - do you think so many
idiots will
>be in so many newsgroups on Titanic in 20 years as there are obviously now
in
>swng-s? Money is not of any importance in this, why are you lot so obsessed
by it?
>"The phantom Menace" (still hoping this won't be the title) will be the
biggest
>film next year and it will be the deciding factor in the whole sw-shit:
maybe
>Lucas will fuck up (bad story, not that good fx, 9-year old guy (is lucas a
>pedophile or something...?), horrible title...) and sw will be gone... (or
the old
>fans will just ignore it) or it will be a great starter for the next series
(let's
>hope so). I'm not joining this tread anymore and removed the ng's where i'm
>subscribed to in the answer....
>