| rocketpig said: Agreed. Mordred just doesn't realize how insane Episode I was before its release. It made the cover of Newsweek and the front page of the LA Times (I lived in LA at that point, can't speak for other cities), for crying out loud. You couldn't walk anywhere without being assaulted by the hype surrounding that movie. Over half the theatre screens in my area were dedicated to that one film. Every showing was sold out a week before it released. It was ridiculous and honestly, set the movie up for failure because nothing would have lived up to the media blitz. It also didn't help that the movie wasn't very good. Avengers didn't get this kind of hype: |
Not only that, but people camped out for days for that Midnight showing, which they already had tickets to. Now if the movie was a great film, it might be in the top three grossing films of all time right now. Unfortunately, many of my generation hated what the movie did to the francise.
But I guess if I was 8 when the film came out, I may have loved it.
