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<blockquote data-quote="MechaPilot" data-source="post: 6796343" data-attributes="member: 82779"><p>They're falsely equating revenues with quality, or lower revenues with a lack thereof. They're probably doing it to validate their own preferences, but I often see it used in more of a "rubbing it in someone else's face" context.</p><p></p><p>For example, Man of Steel. I thought it was a great Superman film. However, it did have a mixed reception (and it, like every other film in history, wasn't perfect), and I've seen people claim that the revenues for the film prove that it's not very good compared to other films. One of the common comparisons is that MoS didn't earn as much as DKR, which was by most accounts the weakest entry in the Nolan Batman trilogy. Therefore some people cite the revenues and claim that MoS is worse than DKR. They completely fail to take into account that the final movie of a trilogy tends to get a larger viewing audience than the origin story film does, especially when the second film did as well as Dark Knight (and MoS actually beat Batman Begins in revenues, which is a more honest comparison but really doesn't prove much of anything.).</p><p></p><p>Now please don't take this as my attempting to start a MoS argument. I'm not. I'm simply pointing out the most common context in which I see the revenues of films used by fans online: instead of using it to validate their own preferences, they use it to cut down the preferences of others. As a note, fans in real life have never mentioned film revenues to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MechaPilot, post: 6796343, member: 82779"] They're falsely equating revenues with quality, or lower revenues with a lack thereof. They're probably doing it to validate their own preferences, but I often see it used in more of a "rubbing it in someone else's face" context. For example, Man of Steel. I thought it was a great Superman film. However, it did have a mixed reception (and it, like every other film in history, wasn't perfect), and I've seen people claim that the revenues for the film prove that it's not very good compared to other films. One of the common comparisons is that MoS didn't earn as much as DKR, which was by most accounts the weakest entry in the Nolan Batman trilogy. Therefore some people cite the revenues and claim that MoS is worse than DKR. They completely fail to take into account that the final movie of a trilogy tends to get a larger viewing audience than the origin story film does, especially when the second film did as well as Dark Knight (and MoS actually beat Batman Begins in revenues, which is a more honest comparison but really doesn't prove much of anything.). Now please don't take this as my attempting to start a MoS argument. I'm not. I'm simply pointing out the most common context in which I see the revenues of films used by fans online: instead of using it to validate their own preferences, they use it to cut down the preferences of others. As a note, fans in real life have never mentioned film revenues to me. [/QUOTE]
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