Dont like "apologists". Well then, I will give you guys a new label. "The Excuse Crew". You guys come up with every excuse possible why this film failed.
1. "It was a bad idea to release it on the 4th weekend" Never mind that there have been many films that made bank being released on that date and that studios argue to have their films be the ones released on that date.
2. "It has placed high on internet polls and RT." So what, there are a lot of box office flops that did well in internet polls and RT. Serenity?
3. "Chick flicks never make money." Titanic9Highest money maker of all time). Hitch. Ghost. Hell, Terminator is really a chick flick if you look at it. A guy who comes back into time to save the women he fell in love with from a photograph he was given in the future.
4. "It had bad marketing." Never mind that SR was everywhere before it's release. These same people will say that the first preview had the highest hit count on the hype, and it was mentioned on Stern. Everyone knew that SR was coming out.
5. "Box office doesn't mean anything." From the same guys that were prediciting 400 million box office domestic. It was going to beat Spiderman 2. Now that it hasn't even made it's own damn budget back, all of a sudden the box office doesn't mean anything.
You guys make excuses for a film that is not recieved well from the general Audience based on it's box office, and the fact that it does not have legs. Yet you guys fail to look at reality and constantly quote stupid internet polls because you have to have something to justify your arguements. I will take the box office, which is the true, and only, indicator of how this film is doing.