(LOTR) American filmgoers and LOTR

[Bran Blackbyrd]

Two of my friends and I saw FOTR for three dollars each, so you can add that to your statistics.

I imagine that many people will pass on watching FOTR because they don't like fantasy oriented movies.

As far as it being a foreign film is concerned; That's like calling Star Wars a British or Tunisian film. Foreign investors do not make a film foreign, and filming on location doesn't make a film foreign. Regardless of any of those facts, even if it was considered a foreign film it would not have affected theater attendance in the US because, I would say, 99.9% of the people who knew about those foreign investors and whatnot were fans that decided they were going to see all three movies as soon as they heard they were being made. Nobody else would have bothered to find out.

Truth be told, when someone says the term, "Foreign Film", most people would think you were talking about some art piece from Europe with subtitles and if you tried to tell them that FOTR was a foreign film they would greet you with a blank stare.

Hyperbole On: It's only a foreign film if Sophie Marceau or Jackie Chan is in it. Unless the Chan movie has been redubbed, then it's not a foreign film anymore. Hyberbole Off
You get the idea.

 

[GravyFingerz]

Geez Edena, I've seen the movie 4 times and I still feel about about not seeing it enough because of your rant

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

Check out the news from Denmark, folks.
It's on TheOneRing.net.

Over 1 million people from that country have now gone and seen FOTR in the theaters there.

That's 20% of the entire country, according to the article.
Not 20% of possible filmgoers.
20% of the ENTIRE population of Denmark.

Whereas about 5% of the population of the United States (America) has gone to see FOTR, so far.

A big thumbs up to the Danes. In Denmark, they know a good film, and they put their money out for great art.

(And before anyone claims they have it easy in Denmark, remember what someone from Denmark said on these very boards:
In Denmark, when you buy one car, you pay for three cars. Gasoline is around $5 dollars a gallon or so.
Even in Denmark, they must somehow get to the theater, and it is the dead of winter in Denmark right now.)

Now, if 20% of Americans had gone to see FOTR, that would be $7 times 60 million people = $420,000,000 dollars.
More like what the film should have taken in here, so far (grumbles.)