sometimes a movie comes along thats just light years ahead of what the audience is ready for. Example Fight Club, its Domestic gross is only $37 Mil, (yeah in everyones mind we'd think it was a $100Mil+ movie) the first week it came in 3rd behind Double Jeopardy and The Best Man, wow 2 movies I've never even seen before! HAHA. I guess word of mouth was really bad on it, because the next weekend it dropped to 5th place with House on Haunted Hill number 1? I'm just blown away by that.
My point being B.O. has no bearing on the quality of the film, look at the lasting influence of Fight Club, its a modern day classic, everyone knows what a fight club is now, and everyone talks about the rules of fight club. Who talks about The best man?
I remember defending Fight Club that weekend and telling everyone to go see what an incredible experience it was and its a can't miss film but everyone else telling me I'm a fool, and I'm a idiot, and David Fincher is a Hack, his career is over, he sucks! Blah blah blah, well who now thinks David Finchers Career is over after Zodiac, huge success of Benjamin Button, and this years media Darling The Social Network?
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