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Star Wars $220M @ box office -- how angry does this make reptiles?
| awkward sweet tailpipe | 12/18/17 |
| up-to-no-good range | 12/21/17 |
| Diverse zombie-like place of business generalized bond | 12/21/17 |
| Blue Temple Mood | 12/18/17 |
| awkward sweet tailpipe | 12/18/17 |
| Spruce Keepsake Machete Son Of Senegal | 12/18/17 |
| heady base | 12/18/17 |
| Spectacular mad cow disease corn cake | 12/18/17 |
| awkward sweet tailpipe | 12/18/17 |
| lilac painfully honest personal credit line | 12/18/17 |
| Chestnut bateful garrison | 12/18/17 |
| up-to-no-good range | 12/18/17 |
| awkward sweet tailpipe | 12/18/17 |
| heady base | 12/18/17 |
| lilac painfully honest personal credit line | 12/18/17 |
| awkward sweet tailpipe | 12/18/17 |
| Milky stubborn parlour death wish | 12/18/17 |
| Diverse zombie-like place of business generalized bond | 12/18/17 |
| up-to-no-good range | 12/26/17 |
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Date: December 18th, 2017 8:20 AM Author: awkward sweet tailpipe (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: up-to-no-good range 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: Diverse zombie-like place of business generalized bond (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3832778&forum_id=2#34975142) |
Date: December 18th, 2017 8:22 AM Author: Blue Temple Mood 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: awkward sweet tailpipe 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: Spruce Keepsake Machete 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: heady base (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: Spectacular mad cow disease corn cake Angry? Not at all.
It confirms our views. |
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Date: December 18th, 2017 8:54 AM Author: awkward sweet tailpipe 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: lilac painfully honest personal credit line 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: Chestnut bateful garrison (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: up-to-no-good range 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: awkward sweet tailpipe 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: heady base (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: lilac painfully honest personal credit line 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: awkward sweet tailpipe ? (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: Milky stubborn parlour death wish 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: Diverse zombie-like place of business generalized bond Lol Bigly |
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Date: December 26th, 2017 9:40 AM Author: up-to-no-good range 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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