NightlyPoe said:
Yeah, goalpost moving. You can't rely on your original evidence, the film has stubbornly refused to behave like a movie rejected by the audience. Other than its second weekend it's behaved like a well-received movie. All you're left with are comparisons to the gross total of The Force Awakens, which is just silly, complaints about other people's arguments, some of which are quite valid, one reporter's high estimate, and an utterly baffling reliance on the foreign box office in countries that do not house large amounts of fans in the first place. I mean, seriously? China? Just admit that the second weekend drop did not mean there was a fan backlash. It's not difficult. |
It's behaved just like a movie rejected by much of its fanbase. Huge drop off no one expected and looks to finish 30%+ down from its predecessor, meaning it never really recovered. Director out pleading with fans to go watch it, they can always change what he did. Poor user ratings. And that wasn't one reporter's estimates. Why the blatant misrepresentation? If you were so sure in your argument, you wouldn't need to use that. That was the general consensus by Hollywood insiders. Even after the fall. Just the holidays, right? Same goes for the foreign market. Xmas isn't large everywhere, and SW has always done well at the foreign box office, yet you dismiss it having even larger drops there.
I'm just going to stop replying to you. You clearly can't see the obvious. To think that the sequel to one of most successful SW movies was going to finish below the Avengers movies is just ridiculous. In fact, Hollywood insiders agreed. And ESB finished at ~$1.5B, adjusting for ticket inflation, without the huge increases to both markets we have seen in the last 37 years since its release. Still haven't addressed that. So, good day.
Last edited by thismeintiel - on 05 January 2018
