But I thought it was doing terrible?
Lol.
There has never been a film in the Star Wars universe that performed ‘terribly’ at the box office; even the PT films all made money with TPM performing the best of the 3 and breaking the billion dollar threshold.
My original point was in regards to claims of Rotten Tomatoes reviewers purposely giving TLJ poor ratings out of spite for Star Wars; my suggestion was that the percentage of second weekend drop would be a better indicator of the general public’s opinion of the film. The drop was 67.5% which I stated was BvS territory. Wook made a good point about the holiday being partially to blame and sure enough, the next week saw an uptick in movie ticket sales.
All in all, it will finish 2nd overall in the series behind TFA (with unadjusted gross) and Disney will be happy. And I know that you don’t care about box office numbers, but studios do and often times sequels to films are made or sh#t canned due to box office performance. Truth be told, I am kind of a box office nerd, so for me it is just interesting to see how films perform or don’t in some cases…