why are the harry potter films decreasing in boxoffice numbers

Why does everyone keep saying that it went up against spiderman2? It did not go up against spiderman2. POA went up against van helsing and shrek2, and the other shit of the sumemr movies. I wouldnt call harry potter a fad either. It is an impact Harry potter books have been around almost 7 years, and is stil popular as ever. The kids who started with the potter books,and movies are still the ones keeping it strong, they will always be there untill the ned of the series, as will a diverse attraction of other ages. The only reason it diddnt do as well is because of what cinemaddiction pointed out, it was released in the summmer months and had to compete with shrek2

In my opinion (and ive read the five books), the movies aren't really that great anyway. They all fail to bring the fantasy to life, and while its on the improve as the movies progress, I still don't find them particularly great. Most people went to see the first movie as a curiousity, after all there was a heck of a lot of hype. My theory is that as the movies keep coming in, people begin to realise more and more that once you've seen one, you've pretty much seen em all.

Yes, the movies are awful. That fundamental truth has been thoroughly established in this thread.

well actually the movies have more vision and story than most other movies

The increase in piracy is one thing affecting the takings, not just from harry potter but other movies too.

Because the 3rd movie sucked and people didn't want to see it again-I'm not against Harry Potter, I just prefer the books.

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Well that just goes to show the standard of movies these days anyway.

yea now that u got harry potter w/a broken up voice and their lead coming into puberty it looses much appeal, and i think most likely the further they go the darker and as someone mentioned less children audience whom brought much of the $$ in the past 2 films even w/ a death i hear from someone later in the books, i guess maybe harry potter just cant cut it

it seems w/ each sequel the grossings is decreasing 100 mill each time

the movies dont suk its the time between the movies that suk... we are always waiting more for another hp movie..it gets quite annoying

I use to be a HUGE Harry fan, but now I've rather gone off Harry. I think the second was the best, I went off the books because they took too long to come out and my interest changed to other, exciting things. I lost interest in the movie because Chris Columbus wasn't directing it. The left WAY too much out of the third movie. But frankly, I like it better when they make the movies darker.

The had thier chance of making the fans come crawling back to Harry, but they screwed up, they took to long and made sacrifices of choosing kids that were older then they were meant to play, which has now come back to bite them in the ass.

I thought Order of the phoenix wasn't as good as the rest, the books were better, but now I think Harry Potter sucks.