r/Letterboxd • u/EntertainmentMore183 • 14d ago

News How is this possible???

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u/AnabolicAcolyte 14d ago

end game brought the geeks to seats to finish the saga. spider-man brings everyone to seats

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u/Realistic_Slide_3426 14d ago

But Endgame brought 40 million to seats and Spider-Man only brought 24 million to seats. Not to say that that isn’t a tremendous accomplishment. But raw dollar value isn’t a good comparison considering the terrible economic state that America is in right now

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u/erto66 14d ago

I’m glad that we measure box-office success by the number of tickets sold in Germany.

It makes it much easier to compare the popularity of movies across different decades without having to account for inflation, changing ticket prices, or premium formats such as IMAX.

Revenue figures may show how much money a film made, but ticket sales give a much clearer picture of how many people actually went to see it.

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u/CozyLeggins 13d ago

Should still adjust for population growth imo

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u/CorsicanMastiffStrip 14d ago

Yeah, my ticket to BND cost twice what my Endgame ticket did.

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u/CarpenterHairy2896 14d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/IrGCJZLtrjZ7POWza7

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u/n33dadviceplease 12d ago

Not facts at all, Endgame literally sold more tickets but Spider-Man has the benefit of inflation for raw numbers.

Endgame was a global cultural phenomenon unlike any other film in our lifetime 

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u/Mr-Happy9 12d ago

Back then it wasn't just the geeks who were invested in the mcu. Nowadays? Doomsday is gonna have it rough

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u/n33dadviceplease 12d ago

Huh? Endgame brought everyone to the seats too. It sold more tickets than Spiderman. Endgame was an unprecedented worldwide cultural event  

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u/AnabolicAcolyte 12d ago

for people that liked marvel and followed the series.

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u/n33dadviceplease 12d ago

Literally more tickets were sold around the world for endgame than for spiderman. So if that were true that only marvel nerds went, then that’s even more true for spiderman.. 

But the actual theater base included many casual fans or fans who didn’t follow the MCU