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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 16643" data-attributes="member: 221">I don't know about how many foreign investors invest in most movies so I woun't touch that point, but...c'mon Edena... You make it sound like most Americans hate this film or something.  The fact is, most people who see it are going to enjoy it and more people have gone to see it than go to see many films that are made.Theatres may have their problems but the response to LotR has been pretty good IMO.  So only 10% of Americans have seen the movie - so what.  What exactly is your point?  You think that 50% of Americans should watch it? 60%?  I predict that by the time it has been around for 10 -20 years nearly every American within the right age range will have seen it and that it will be, in its own way, just as big as Gone with the Wind.  But as far as going to see it in a Theatre, no - you will never get a majority of Americans IMO to go see any one movie in a theatre.  Take the profits from Star Wars during the first 2 or 3 months and figure out the percentage of Americans that went and saw it - I bet its not a majority.  What percentage of Americans actually watch the Super Bowl and look how big that is (I have incidentally never seen a Super Bowl in my life).  Point is, revenue is what matters, not "percentages of Americans viewing", and revenue wise, LotR is probably making P.Jackson ecstatic.</blockquote>