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Teeqoz on 30 December 2017
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thismeintiel said:
Teeqoz said:

There is no counter argument to make. The movie isn't meeting your sky-high financial expectations. Of course it isn't. The Force Awakens was the first Star Wars movie in 10 years. The Last Jedi is the first Star Wars movie in 12 months. The Force Awakens was the first Star Wars movie after the generally looked down upon prequel trilogy, The Last Jedi is the first Star Wars movie after the critically acclaimed (and praised by audiences) Rogue One.

How you were expecting TLJ to match TFA to begin with is the real question here. Surely you see why it is unreasonable to expect that? Don't you?

Sky high?  LOL.  You're not serious, are you?  To expect a sequel to do at least 85%-88% of the first one is not sky high.  The Avengers:AOU actually did 92% of The Avengers BO.  Trust me, Disney was not planning on this being down so low.  And had it been a great film, I bet it could have at least done 90%, maybe even 95%, of TFA's total.  Hell, if it had only been a good film it would have fallen into that 85%-88% range.  Sadly, most of this film was filler and quite a few of the fans rejected it, refusing the same repeat viewings they gave TFA.

Had this been any sequel I'd agree, but in this case, it was the sequel of the most succesful movie of the last decade. Age of Ultron got lucky thanks to explosive growth of western movies in China between the two releases giving it an advantage over The Avengers. Otherwise, it would've ended up at 1.2 billion, about 20% behind The Avengers.TLJ doesn't enjoy the same advantage over TFA, so its drop will be larger than AoU.

Sure, Disney might have expected an extra 100 million at the box office, but it's hardly a major problem.