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ROC Theatrical and DVD Sales Totals
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09-23-2009, 10:38 AM
Rocky
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Lord Norin
Rocky! first you get props for poking fun at yourself, I respect anyone who can laugh at themselves.
#2 I was just pointing out that in the world of Hollywood, that Box office results and profitablity are not necessarily related!
#3, Like I said I am not a ROC hater, I did not like or hate the film, in fact I plan on buying it on Blu-Ray as soon as it becomes available.
#4 What is there to debate, the facts are the facts, Look at the LOTR trilogy, it was insanely successful at the box office but the powers that be and hollywood accounting tried to show it as less successful in an attempt to deny Peter Jackson his share of the back end.
#5. Dude I believe in calling a spade a spade, if you are acting slow (look up the definition of retarded) I am gonna call you on it, you are the one who called me a troll.
So take it easy, this is a supposed friendly forum and there really is nothing to debate, ROC has made nearly 300 million in 2009 dollars. Other films have made more and less in inflation adjusted dollars. I don't believe any of these facts were being contested. So what is to debate.
My point again was the inaccurate comparsion of ROC totals and past films (as they were not adjusted for 2009 dollars) and Hollywood's "creative" accounting procedures. Where is the hate for ROC in any of that?
Well maybe i jumped on you to fast. Its just that pretty much everything you said has been said before....sigh....... We know all this! You obviously know all this!
Yes, Hollywood has the most shady business practices ever. Well excluding the American Government. Now with that said I am not going to even play with the idea that we should adjust the films dollars based on lower ticket sales or what-knot.
Its like comparing an athlete of today to yesteryear where certain rules were more laxed and or not as stringent. You name a sport and I can name at least five rules that have changed since their inception to the year 2009. But when comparing athletes we don't say hey he broke this record but you need to adjust it for X,Y and Z. That would be to taxing on the mind and its not very fun.
We are celebrating the raw numbers provided by Box Office Mojo.....that's it. Easy, plain and simple math. Something a slow person could follow..... :-)
My point is that if you would have read through the whole thread which you did not you would see that these issues have been argued back and forth since the film debuted on August 7th. Its been unofficially agreed that these things should be argued on the Debate thread. I would suggest you go there. I certainly will follow and lay down my two cents..... Here we like to keep it as a celebration of what ROC had made. So we are not worrying about the behind the scenes of who is screwing over who. We are going with what mainstream America is looking at or thinking about. Mom and Pop who dont follow the close doings of hollywood is going to say: "Wow..... GI JOE made 300 million dollars. Good for them...."
So in short:
We know the books are cooked.
We know the numbers need to be fixed for inflation.
We know that in Hollywood that movies never make a profit.
We know that Peter Jackson sued the crap out of New Line.
We know that certain studious combine Production and marketing costs and other studios do not.
We know that some studios have based sequels on DVD sales as well as theatrical sales.
We know that until they start shooting the sequel its not happening.
We all know Headman is crazy!
We know that people love and hate the film and you love it.
We know that the government spent $300.00 on a hammer.
Hell, we even know you are going to buy it on Blue-ray and not DVD!
So lets just move on, agreed?
On a different note how do you like living in Portland? I am moving there in two weeks. The Pearl District...are you familiar with it?
On a serious note regardless of the definition please be a man and refrain from using the word Retard. There are people here on the Tank that have handicapped children. Thanks.
Rocky
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