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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 16851" data-attributes="member: 2020">Heh.  All good points.  Well, we can wish for the stars, but we will not reach them just by wishing, I suppose.  I thought FOTR was extremely good.  So good that I wish every American who could have gone to have seen it, would have done so.  Heh ... I'm willing to bet a greater part of them would not have regretted the time and effort!  1 out of 10 Americans who could have gone, did.    I say, 10 out of 10 Americans who could have gone, should have gone!  But, I'm a Tolkien Fan, and I liked the film, and I dragged the folks to it, so go figure.  I might wish that 10 out of 10 would have gone, but then again, I can wish for the stars too.  - - -  By the way, I ran across a figure that stated that FOTR needed to make $225 million just to break even.  Considering FOTR cost $93 million to make, I wonder where that extra $132 million came from??  I suppose that if FOTR needed $225 million to break even, then TTT will need $225 million, and ROTK will need $225 million.  Or, $675 million, just to break even.  Now, FOTR has already grossed $587 million, so if my scenario (worst case?  I don't know how it works in films, folks!) is true, then FOTR has already almost paid for the entire trilogy.  But I must wonder where $132 million came from.  That's a lot of money, to come out of the blue like that, even considering the cost of films nowadays.</blockquote>