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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
The Avatar thread got me thinking about how bizarre it is that people discuss movie box office takes. It’s weird because it doesn’t really indicate anything qualitative about a movie, it’s just… how much money it did/might make. Is it one of the only things where we track sales of something that has nothing to do with us as a point of pride? Maybe sporting events or other events?
It’s not even from a perspective of “why do other people care about that.” I saw Top Gun and thought it was really good and saw how much money it made and thought “Wow, glad it made that much money” but… why? That feels like a dumb thing to think in retrospect. Why did I care at all that it made a bunch of money. I guess if you really want a sequel you’d care about it making enough to encourage a sequel, but beyond that?
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You might be confusing discussion with weight of importance. It's a fun nothing to talk about. People talk about someone hitting a bunch of home runs too, it's essentially the same thing.