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Star Wars $220M @ box office -- how angry does this make reptiles?
| Greedy address | 12/18/17 |
| mahogany site sandwich | 12/21/17 |
| Purple home | 12/21/17 |
| 180 sticky stage | 12/18/17 |
| Greedy address | 12/18/17 |
| yellow university son of senegal | 12/18/17 |
| Aphrodisiac chapel | 12/18/17 |
| Fantasy-prone jet-lagged lay death wish | 12/18/17 |
| Greedy address | 12/18/17 |
| orchid chest-beating codepig | 12/18/17 |
| big gaping striped hyena | 12/18/17 |
| mahogany site sandwich | 12/18/17 |
| Greedy address | 12/18/17 |
| Aphrodisiac chapel | 12/18/17 |
| orchid chest-beating codepig | 12/18/17 |
| Greedy address | 12/18/17 |
| Brilliant Twisted Kitty Box Office | 12/18/17 |
| Purple home | 12/18/17 |
| mahogany site sandwich | 12/26/17 |
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Date: December 18th, 2017 8:20 AM Author: Greedy address (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3832778&forum_id=2#34947303) |
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Date: December 21st, 2017 11:27 AM Author: mahogany site sandwich Tuesday box office down 42% off TFA. L,jl at starcucks shilling for this trash. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3832778&forum_id=2#34975133) |
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Date: December 21st, 2017 11:28 AM Author: Purple home (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3832778&forum_id=2#34975142) |
Date: December 18th, 2017 8:22 AM Author: 180 sticky stage america is full of retarded libs who do whatever GC tells them to, old news (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3832778&forum_id=2#34947308) |
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Date: December 18th, 2017 8:25 AM Author: Greedy address I can feel your reptile rage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3832778&forum_id=2#34947317) |
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Date: December 18th, 2017 8:25 AM Author: yellow university son of senegal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3832778&forum_id=2#34947318) |
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Date: December 18th, 2017 8:24 AM Author: Aphrodisiac chapel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3832778&forum_id=2#34947314) |
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Date: December 18th, 2017 8:26 AM Author: Fantasy-prone jet-lagged lay death wish Angry? Not at all.
It confirms our views. |
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Date: December 18th, 2017 8:54 AM Author: Greedy address Let the hate flow through you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3832778&forum_id=2#34947402) |
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Date: December 18th, 2017 8:57 AM Author: orchid chest-beating codepig 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3832778&forum_id=2#34947415) |
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Date: December 18th, 2017 8:59 AM Author: big gaping striped hyena (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3832778&forum_id=2#34947422) |
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Date: December 18th, 2017 8:55 AM Author: mahogany site sandwich Sorry libs but no one is surprised that TLJ made a killing in its first week. What matters is the long-term success of the series which if Disney keeps making these bizarre decision will soon be DOA. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3832778&forum_id=2#34947405) |
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Date: December 18th, 2017 8:56 AM Author: Greedy address Lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3832778&forum_id=2#34947408) |
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Date: December 18th, 2017 8:58 AM Author: Aphrodisiac chapel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3832778&forum_id=2#34947417) |
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Date: December 18th, 2017 8:55 AM Author: orchid chest-beating codepig Trumpmos have no prestige. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3832778&forum_id=2#34947407) |
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Date: December 18th, 2017 3:08 PM Author: Greedy address ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3832778&forum_id=2#34950120) |
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Date: December 18th, 2017 3:13 PM Author: Brilliant Twisted Kitty Box Office It’s another sign of the overwhelming consumer confidence in the Trump economy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3832778&forum_id=2#34950172) |
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Date: December 18th, 2017 3:16 PM Author: Purple home Lol Bigly |
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Date: December 26th, 2017 9:40 AM Author: mahogany site sandwich The scale of the catastrophe that is Star Wars: The Last Jedi is difficult to comprehend without comparing it to major, historic natural disasters. Because no other movie has come anywhere close to the picture’s $151.5 million 2nd weekend box office razing, there’s no movie comparison that gives its record-obliterating failure proper context.
To begin to appreciate the epic nature of the Last Jedi catastrophe, consider the 9.2 magnitude megathrust 1964 Good Friday earthquake near Anchorage, Alaska. That was such a massive catastrophe that it killed Oregonians and Californians more than 1,000 miles away.
Or contemplate the current natural disaster in Southern California, the Thomas Fire, which has burned 281,000 acres and destroyed 1,063 structures at a cost of billions of dollars to the state. The $171 million expense of fighting the fire is fairly close to the amount it cost Disney/Lucasfilm (NYSEIS) to produce The Last Jedi.
It may seem odd to compare a movie that has earned nearly $400 million in domestic box office receipts to such giant calamities, but that total represents a tremendous shortfall relative to expectations. The important numbers to look at are the measures of the movie’s collapse. That $400 million looks good only if we ignore the results of every previous Star Wars movie. But a closer look at the numbers reveals what a debacle The Last Jedi truly is.
It’s not just the movie’s 69 percent 2nd weekend plunge that underscores its troubles. True, it’s an enormous decline, but a dozen other big-budgeted, heavily marketed studio tent-pole movies (out of the thousands Hollywood has produced) have seen similarly sized percentage declines. They include Fifty Shades of Grey, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and three of the Twilight Movies.
It’s more the absolute number, the $151.5 million plunge from its $220 million debut to its $68.5 million second weekend, that staggers the imagination. Only three movies—The Last Jedi, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, and Batman v Superman have ever shed $100 million or more in box office totals from one weekend to the next.
But even the 2nd biggest collapse, that of the Harry Potter film, was more than 20 percent smaller than The Last Jedi’s fiasco.
Turning back to natural and man-made disasters, the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge offers a useful visual metaphor. The expensive and badly engineered bridge completely failed to take into account the forces in its environment, and not long after it opened to the public it was literally gone with the wind. Its collapse was so unprecedented, so unimaginable, that it had a lasting effect on science and engineering.
Just as bridge designers have long studied the Tacoma Narrows bridge, so movie industry executives will analyze The Last Jedi for insights into the ways a movie can go so tragically, historically wrong.
Early in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader says his underling Admiral Ozzel is “as clumsy as he is stupid,” and then proceeds to use the force to choke him, crushing his windpipe as he utters the immortal line, “You have failed me for the last time.”
Libs? Care 2 comment?
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