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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wayside" data-source="post: 2942056" data-attributes="member: 8394">First, I'm not looking for Superman to fail. Neither it nor X3 were the movies they should have been, and I expected their second weekends and general earnings to be much closer, with Superman probably in the lead.Second, the comparison between the two is completely natural since Singer was supposed to direct X3 but left the project for Superman. And then there's Ratner, whom everyone loves to hate. All the drama surrounding the films made them natural competitors.And finally, it's not sad. A lot of very vocal people went on and on about the sky falling when Singer left and Ratner signed on (they gave us a repeat performance when X3 finally appeared and wasn't to their taste). The numbers have more or less silenced those people. We could play the qualification game all day long. You see a generic date movie (or pretend to for rhetorical purposes), while I see a highly anticipated Vince & Jennifer movie that had an endless amount of publicity (more than X3, Superman and Pirates put together) over the past, what, year? Or longer?You see Pirates "doing" something to Superman? I see domestic box office top 12 totals of $129,197,589 for Superman's opening weekend and $209,881,552 for this past weekend. That's a difference of 80 million, which is 30 million more than Superman made in its opening weekend. You can conjecture that Pirates stole viewers from Superman, but all I see is Pirates drawing in viewers who simply wouldn't have gone to the movies if Pirates wasn't playing. Pirates drummed up its own business--it didn't steal Superman's.Possible, and meaningless. A movie can make 20 million one week and be in the top spot, while another movie can make 40 million another week and come in third. Being in the top spot doesn't make the first movie more successful than the second.And here we have a perfect example of why some people apparently take delight in Superman's weak Returns (pun intended)!</blockquote>

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