Baronlando said:Is it possible Lucas was actually expecting a significantly bigger opening? All his company's practices seem to be operating on the premise that there's this "silent majority" of good ol' regular folk and their families out there that are the ones that have kept Star Wars going the last 10-15 years and loved Jar jar etc.. If that was the case, shouldn't Clone Wars have been like one of those "Wild Hogs"/Are We there Yet" family pieces of shit that make way too much money?
I don't think Lucas was expecting opening numbers for a typical SW movie: 70-90 million, but I think they are shocked it finished 3rd, and it goes to show that the PT gushers are a true minority. If I never went on SW boards, I would have never known that there are actually people who like the PT movies, as every SW friend I know feels the same way about them, OK to bad. Now they don't hate the PT and dont have the venom that populates the internet, but they have moved past them, and all of them feel in the end, ANH & ESB are the classics, and ROTJ is a good enough ending, and SW should have ended there.
I always felt that TFN was a louder voice for PT gushing then it deserved, as I felt many of those people there would log on with their multiple socks just to jack up a thread to make it sound like more people like the PT. When you hear people start saying that TPM & AOTC are better then ANH, you start to wonder who these people are.
But this weekend numbers showed that they are niche fanbase and a small one at that, cause 15 million is pretty pathetic for a SW movie, even if it is a cartoon. As I said, I don't know one person who saw this movie this weekend, and all of them feel the same way about the PT, so that shows me that Lucas is missing the OT fanbase to really get a great opening weekend.
I think Lucas has lost the majority of OT fans and now you just have that niche fanbase which will watch the series and continue on with whatever crap Lucas puts out, and of course there are always kids who enjoy SW, but even those kids couldn't help the boxoffice this weekend, as those kids usually propel any good Pixar Movie to atleast 40+ million. Sadly, SW is a shell of itself, and I am still happy the fanbase sent Lucas a message.
Now just gives us the OOT remastered on BluRay so we can move on from SW and not have to post on these types of message boards anymore George:)