DARTH POWER
Senior Member
Originally posted by Firefly218
Relax with that tired argument. DVD sales don't mean shit. For all we know, the people who bought a majority of those DVDs didn't see the movie in theaters. Or maybe they had family that hadn't seen the movie. A person deciding to buy Man of Steel DVD is not a demonstration of preference to all other movies ever made. Just because I bought Hot Fuzz on DVD doesn't mean I prefer it to all the other movies that I potentially could have bought instead. The interpretation of DVD sales is all very subjective. And for all we know, the MoS DVDs could have had better marketing and promotion.
LOL Your really stringing to straws here.
Fact that MOS outsold IM3 on Blu-Ray and Dvd, a movie which did twice the sales of MOS at the box office says a lot.
I'm sorry this fact hurts you, but it's the truth, and any smart film producers would look at these little facts before going off in the same direction for the sequel.
Speaking of which, you can tell by this statement that even Kevin Feige can see shit went wrong with IM3:
http://comicbook.com/blog/2014/08/26/marvels-kevin-feige-praises-x-men-days-of-future-past/
"I've been thinking about Days of Future Past a lot, which I had nothing to do with, in terms of the resurrection of a franchise. I think they did a very good job with that," Feige said. "On Iron Man 3, I thought a lot about [X-Men: The Last Stand] and Spider-Man 3 and I thought a lot about Toy Story 3, and how to avoid falling into threequelitis, which is why we went down a lot of the roads we went down on that movie."
He clearly feels he has to justify the unorthodox route they took in IM3. Trust me they'll be learning from their mistakes with that shit.
Originally posted by Firefly218
An objective measurement of GA preference is their review score. According to reviews on average, MoS roughly equaled IM3 and Thor 2. So the real BS here is you saying, "Thor 2 and IM3 can't touch MoS".BTW, MoS only made 30 million more than IM3 in DVD sales. IM3 made like 700 million more in box office.
LOL Of course Box Office does vastly better business than DVD Sales especially in the days of downloads. But the fact that IM3 made more than double MOS at the box office, yet still got OUTSOLD on Dvd and Blu-Ray sales says pretty much everything really.
MOS didn't outsell Avengers on DVD. You know why? Because Avengers also vastly outsold MOS at the box office, but people also preferred Avengers to MOS. So stop making excuses.
Many people watch a movie in theatres which THEY DON'T LIKE OR THEY HATE. People won't buy that movie on DVD or Blu-Ray though.
I'm a prime example. Saw IM3 on opening weekend, took 3 friends with me, was proper hyped for the film. But no way I'm buying that crap.
However I saw MOS with just one friend, and bought it as soon as it was released.
Sorry Hater, but that's the objective truth of the matter. I know it hurts, but it's ok. You and Quan can cry together.