In the past three years we have heard daily talk of debt and recession. Our economic situation regularly gets compared to the Great Depression. During this same period of time movie goers have flocked to theaters in record breaking numbers. A variety of genres from Batman: The Dark Knight (2008 over $533Million), Avatar (2009 over $760 million), Toy Story 3 (2010 over $414 Million) to the current Harry Potter (2011 over $318 Million and going strong) have racked in extraordinary amounts of money.
How does this jive with our financial crisis? Is this just a sign that we need an escape every now and then, or do people in this country set entertainment higher on their priority list than other items? Perhaps it’s something entirely different.
What’s your opinion?
