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thismeintiel on 20 February 2018
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chakkra said:

I don't think the fans have spoken yet. I think the effects of this mess will be really felt on EP 9.  I have heard way too many people saying that they are not interested in knowing where the story is going anymore.  And I know I cannot speak for everybody but I'm sure as hell not watching any other installment of this saga.  At least not in the theaters.

I will wait until the spinoff written by the Game of Throne's writers.

It'll be interesting to see if Ep 9 drops, again.  I'm guessing it will, seeing as it doesn't have the conclusion to the Vader story that Ep 3 had going for it.  Adjusted for inflation, ROTJ dropped ~22%.  If Ep 9 drops the same amount, that would put it at $1.04B.  Which would be $10M less than RO, a spinoff.  Pretty pathetic end for the new trilogy if that is the case.  Even without the advantages of the HUGE movie market of today, ROTJ and ROTS still made ~$1.2B, adjusted.

SuaveSocialist said:
thismeintiel said: 

OG Trilogy

ANH - DBO: $1.28B/FBO: $1.31B/WW: $2.59B
ESB - DBO: $707.4M (-44.7%)/FBO: $837.5M (-36.1%)/WW: $1.54B (-40.5%)
ROTJ - DBO: $726.4M (+2.7%)/FBO: $476.8M (-43.1%)/WW: $1.2B (-22.1%)

Prequel Trilogy

TPM - DBO: $760.9M/FBO: $975.2M/WW: $1.74B
AOTC - DBO: $466.6M (-38.7%)/FBO: $522.9M (-$46.4%)/WW: $989.5M (-43.1%)
ROTS - DBO: $532.1M (+14%)/FBO: $655.6M (+25.4%)/WW: $1.19B (+20.3%)

Disney Trilogy (So Far)

TFA - DBO: $969.8M/FBO: $1.17B/WW: $2.14B
TLJ - DBO: $621.1M (-36%)/FBO: $711.8M (-39.2%)/WW: $1.33B (-37.9%)

 

1.  So, while the percentages obviously increased, it doesn't tell the whole story. 

2. The main point, of course, is that no matter how you look at it, TLJ greatly underperformed. 

1.  And yet the title of your thread includes a percentage that supposedly tells the whole story.  That TLJ made it into the Top Ten instead of fizzling out like BvS kind of ruins your narrative.  

2. Well, given that TLJ has the healthiest drop-off percentage for the middle of a Star Wars trilogy, and that's just looking at your own numbers, it actually over-performed.  The fans have spoken, indeed.

Make all the excuses you want about the amount of time movies had in their theatrical run or the nature of cinema/home video for their times, if you want.  I'll see all those excuses and raise you Empire Strikes Back Special Edition vs A New Hope Special Edition.  Witness how Empire performs on an even playing field.

The fact that you continue to ignore actual context and bring up the poorest of examples, the Special Editions, is laughable.  And that is the only response your post gets.

Last edited by thismeintiel - on 20 February 2018