LOTR, Return of the Bet

Felix, any time you want to redo our bet on the Lord of the Rings movie, this time for the third installment, let me know.

3 thoughts on “LOTR, Return of the Bet”

Felix on December 17, 2003 at 4:21 pm said:

I’m not as sure that this one won’t win Oscars as I was about Part 1, mainly because the competition this year is thinner, and because Peter Jackson has now become a bona fide Hollywood megastar.
That said, LOTR 2 outgrossed LOTR 1 by $26,641,321, and if we extrapolate the same growth to LOTR 3, we come to a gross of $367,120,219 — which is significantly higher that Jurassic Park, albeit not in real terms.
So how about this? Jurassic Park might be #6 on the all-time list, but it’s only #17 on the adjusted-for-inflation list. I’ll bet you a BVC that LOTR 3 doesn’t overtake Jurassic Park on the inflation-adjusted list. Or if BVCs are too inconvenient w/r/t people living thousands of miles apart, I’m sure we can come up with something else.

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Stefan Geens on December 17, 2003 at 8:41 pm said:

I’ll consider that a moral victory, then.

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lotr on October 27, 2004 at 12:31 pm said:

I am just curious to know how your bet went. I guess it was pretty clear that LOTR movies will be the best. I’m just wondering whay it happened. Isn’t it because Peter Jackson is the best director?

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