thismeintiel said:
DakonBlackblade said:
Saying that evidence of a backlash having any negative impact is that this movies is not managing to do the same number as the second greatest BO of all time and the bigest USA BO of all time is shortsighted to say the least. Ep VIII will likely end in the 1.3 - 1.5 bil neighborhood, and thats considering it had none of the anticipation built over the years of no Star Wars that ep VII had and that it is the second movie in a trilogy, wich is historicaly always the worst performer out of a 3 parter. If the backlash is affecting BO its is having no engative effect whatsoever, this movie is faring as well as could be expected, considering its second week overall numbers maybe even a bit better than that since it has already surpassed Rogue One in this short amount of time.
Just stop, there is no way to influence or to "buy" millions of critics from hundreds of different countrys around the world. This bulshit conspiracy theory has gone too far. Disney somehow always buy critics and yet Warner, Sony and other studios don't, its nonsensical to the extreme that anyone actualy believes that. Seriously ppl the answer here isn't some crazy scheme, it is the simple fact the movie is great. Is it different from the usual Star Wars film ? Ye it definetly is, very different Id say so. But all that aside, as a movie, evaluating solely what is being presented on screen, it is a fantastic piece of cinema.
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Except ESB did better that ROTJ WW, and would not have been down as much if it and ANH had the same time in theaters. Again, not excuses TLJ can use. What's really pathetic is this movie may just match ESB, inflation adjusted, even though the foreign and domestic markets have expanded so much. Something TFA took advantage of, but TLJ was just not good enough for it to matter.
But, you just keep those blinders on.
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Your new argument is that ESB did worse than New Hope so it doesn't make sense that Ep VIII is doing worse than VII is a bit hard to uderstand, who cares if ESB stayed longer or not than NW on theathers, it did worse end of history. And don't adjust to inflation that makes 0 sense, the world has changed dramatically, its stupid to asume a movie would have any kind of similar sucess in today's market and therefor just updatign the numbers is OK.
Ep VII BO's is not a parameter to any movie, it is as stupid as ppl using Avatar as a parameter to compare EP VII two years ago. Outliers are just that, you can't compare anythign to them.
