Just don't know why you guys have to revise history. That movie probably had among the highest expectations in the history of popular cinema, possibly only matched by Star Wars 1 & 7. In general it delivered and hit pretty hard for the audience, those who waited 2-3 weeks to see if knew what happened at the end anyways, because it was impossible to exist in the world without knowing.
And of course there is a difference between people sitting in actual silence and people shuffling around making white noise, everyone has heard real silence and knows the difference.
The fact that a growing number of people have not enjoyed the offerings over the past 5 years has little impact on how that movie hit at the time.
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