KOTCS tops international b.o. for 2008

[lazypadawan]

While The Dark Knight was the top grossing film for 2008 in North America, KOTCS was the top grossing film in international markets (though TDK's domestic and international gross combined still tops KOTCS). Indiana Jones raked in $469 million overseas, $4 million more than Batman. Not bad for a movie from a series dormant for 19 years and starring a 65-year-old guy. No wonder Lucas is thinking about another one.

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[ashmh.livejournal.com]

All right George!

[krpalmer.livejournal.com]

Maybe the juxtaposition interested me more than it should have, thus betraying my frequent problem that, having taken lumps (upon myself?) for liking some things in the face of broad disapproval, when I see something get widely and forcefully praised before I've had a chance to form my own opinions on it my hackles go up... Still, I can see "Palpatine and Vader" resonances in The Dark Knight, for all that I still prefer Star Wars's treatment of the theme.

[may-child.livejournal.com]

Not bad at all.

I found it quite interesting that initially Darth Media's reaction to KOTCS was positive (the critics who gave it a positive review credited it all to Spielberg, completely ignoring Lucas), but somewhere in there they did an about-face, and started mocking KOTCS, saying it was "empty" and "forgettable."

Then there was the controversy over the leaked Darabont script, aka "the best script ever written" or whatever. Lucas was immediately blamed for "all the cutesy, Jar-Jar-Binks-y parts" in KOTCS.

Then there was the episode of South Park in which a cartoon Lucas and cartoon Spielberg sexually assaulted a cartoon Indiana Jones, as a way of expressing the SP creators' disapproval of how Lucas and Spiel had "destroyed" Indy. "TV Guide" ran a poll asking if readers thought SP "had gone too far." And -- surprise! -- the poll results were overwhelmingly "No."

Amidst all that bitching and moaning from Darth Fanboy and DF's representatives in Darth Media, that KOTCS was a splendid box office success, in the U.S. and internationally, got completely ignored. But I guess that shouldn't be all that surprising; in 2005, Darth Media was too busy concocting reporting on the "box office slump" to give more than cursory notice to the record-setting box-office run of "Revenge of the Sith."

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

The revisionist opinion on KOTCS was mighty quick, wasn't it?

I was really upset about that SP episode. Sometimes I really like the show but this time, it's off for good.

[darth-pipes.livejournal.com]

[i]I found it quite interesting that initially Darth Media's reaction to KOTCS was positive (the critics who gave it a positive review credited it all to Spielberg, completely ignoring Lucas), but somewhere in there they did an about-face, and started mocking KOTCS, saying it was "empty" and "forgettable."[/i]

I've noticed this myself. This is exactly how the reaction to Indiana Jones has gone. We hear all the time about how people "hated" the film yet it made almost $800 million around the world. That's a whole lot of hate!

[nic]

That makes me very happy. :D

I want to see fun, feel-good movies at the top of the box office and Indy was definitely one of those!