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2024 discussion threads
This is a graph of how much people spend to watch each movie. If it was a graph of how Hollywood relies on sequels, it should show how much money they spent per movie.
All this shows is that people are spending their money on sequels. If people want that to change, they should spend their money on originals.
Wouldn't Endgame be more of a Part 2 than a sequel?
All of the MCU movies are sequels to the first Iron Man
Even the ones that don't include Iron Man?
These are loose definitions of "sequel". This would mean that every story is a "sequel" to the Epic of Gilgamesh.
That's a lot of sequels.
What's the difference?
Did you miss Marvel's The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron?
No, I enjoyed both of those. But since neither of those were actually labeled on the chart as a sequel, I brought up the one movie that was.
What does the vertical axis display?
Each column is the top 10 films of a single year. They seem to increase in box office takings as you go up the column.
entering data is beautiful mode ...
It's not a basic 2D graph. And honestly it generally works, especially as the bubble size gives a clear enough sense of the actual box office takings.
It could be 2D though, with the vertical axis representing box office, and that'd probably work too, but it wouldn't be as aesthetically pleasing.
Wait till they get to Isekai levels of naming…
2013 and 2017 seemed particularly bad ...
From box office mojo, the listings were (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2013/?grossesOption=calendarGrosses)
2017
2013