The Fans Have Spoken, Last Jedi Drops A Massive 68%

[SuaveSocialist]

thismeintiel said:

SuaveSocialist said:

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.

1.  The fact that you continue to ignore actual context

2. and bring up the poorest of examples, the Special Editions, is laughable. 

3. And that is the only response your post gets.

1.  I wonder what the actual context of "no matter how you look at it" is.  Have you Moved the Goal Posts again?  TLJ has the healthiest drop-off among inflation-adjusted middle films in a Star Wars trilogy (going by your own numbers and your own admission) and Empire had the largest slump when all your excuses are inapplicable.  Just going by the box office, that's a checkmate against your position.

2.  Care to explain why they are the poorest of examples?  The Special Editions performed when home video, inflation, ticket prices, time in theatres, piracy, etc, were pretty much equal.  If your "actual context" is somewhere in those excuses, the Special Editions decapitates your entire argument and that makes them the best of examples.

3.  A common reaction when one cannot Move the Goal Posts any further; the equivalent of knocking over your own King.