Quality, again, doesn't signal value to the consumer. The three Evil Dead films have grossed ~38 mil profit (IIRC). The first film cost $375,000 to make, but p

Quality, again, doesn't signal value to the consumer. The three Evil Dead films have grossed ~38 mil profit (IIRC). The first film cost $375,000 to make, but pulled in ~2.5 mil on its initial release and has now made considerably more, about $30 mil by last figures (2006). Essentially it made ~80 times its budget, compared to the ~10 times Titanic has made. Consider that The Shawshank Redemption barely made over double its budget, but is the #1 IMDB movie with nearly half-a-million votes. Titanic, by comparison, doesn't even appear on the top 250 by a considerable margin (lowest rated is 8.0, Titanic has a 7.3, the bottom 51 movies are all 8.0, assuming the same trend of ~50 titles per .1 (doubtful) it wouldn't even hit the top 500). If the producers knew Shawshank would be the best made movie ever, they would undoubtedly have charge more for admission than Titanic, which would likely have made it tank.