Venom now has a stand alone film, according to the studio.

[ludovica]

movies like BP & WW are rare tentpoles for making most of their money stateside, which implies something clearly resonated with domestic attendees.
not sure what any of this has to do with Venom, though, lol.

It has nothing to do with it, other people brought WW into this to somehow dismiss Venom's international success.
Well, I was just pointing out they were reading the data all wrong and I tried to make exactly the same point you make about domestic audiences.
But again, Venom and BP, regardless of the international percentage of their total box office, breaking through 600 overseas clearly indicate what constitutes a big hit outside the US, which WW wasn't.

 

[Iceman]

That was not my intention, seeing how Venom does not really need propping up.

But since when is Western Europe more patriarchal than the US? Come on now.
Instead I'd say the excessive patriarchy still found (and justly challenged) in the US is instead the reason of WW's domestic success. That's fine.
Venom, on the other hand, is just fun escapism, sometimes it is just enough.

Besides, not everything that has success in the States but not elsewhere, is because others don't get it.
Oftentimes it is the other way around, some people here regularly use the "argument" (which I'm sick of) that the Chinese box office somehow rewards bad movies, as if no bad flick ever breaks out in the US, Suicide Squad anyone?

It's a two way street, people(s) like what they like.

I think the Chinese box office rewards spectacle above all. I don't think it would be that different if people in English-speaking countries were watching loads of films in other languages.