As you may have heard, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has taken in more than a billion dollars worldwide, so far. $1.09 billion, to be exact.
But the folks over on Return of Kings still think that their “boycott” of the film was a HUGE SUCCESS. How’s that, you ask?
Well, as RoK contributor David Garrett figures it, if Return of Kings hadn’t warned the men of the world that The Force Awakens is “SJW propaganda,” the film might have taken in roughly $4.2 million more than it did.
That’s right: it could have made $1,094,200,000 instead of the paltry $1,090,000,000 it’s taken in so far.
IN YOUR FACE, SJWs!
So how exactly does Garrett arrive at that $4.2 million figure? WITH SCIENCE.
Fifty-five percent of respondents to a Return of Kings Twitter poll have said that online reporting of the social justice nature of The Force Awakens influenced their decision whether to see the film. Extended across our readership, with over 900,000 users accessing ROK between November 21 and December 21, this amounts to a potential direct impact of $4,219,456.54 (55% x $8.38 x 915,482) on total revenues. $8.38 is based on the average cinema ticket price in the US, which is now an all-time high.
Well, you can’t argue with that!
And that $4,219,456.54 figure doesn’t even take into account the other right-wing media outlets that warned their readers about the evil SJW agenda behind The Force Awakens. Add that in, Garrett suggests, and the total cost of the right-wing “boycott” is in the “tens of millions of dollars.”
I have done a similar calculation to determine how much of a financial effect my writings about their “boycott” have had on the box office of The Force Awakens.
8.38 (ticket cost in dollars) x 7,390,966,099 (the number of people who might have been influenced by my posts, based on total world population) + 0.47 (amount of change in my pocket) – 7.67 (estimated cost of lunch today) / 2 (number of cats in my apartment)
So that comes to $61,936,295,906 per cat in my apartment. In other words, without my influence, The Force Awakens would have lost $60,846,295,906 at the box office (per cat in my apartment), making it the biggest financial disaster in Hollywood history. (I think. I’m not really that good at math.)
A loss of that magnitude would have had a disastrous effect on the world economy, including my cats. And I have prevented it.
You’re welcome!
I don’t understand the whole “taking up of arms against women.”
I thought that every man, everywhere, could physically best every woman, everywhere.
I thought that was the reason they hate movies with “warrior” women characters, like fury road. That it’s stupid to think that there is a single woman that could physically hold her own or best any guy.
But, I do have a uterus that apparently renders me much more intellectually challenged. Perhaps if I had the ever important white penis, I would not be so easily confused. White penis=clarity!
Remember when Mad Max: Fury Road didn’t make ANY MONEY AT ALL?
Oh, wait…
For some reason, SJW narratives sell like hotcakes and will continue to do so.
@Verily Baroque
So true!
List of things MRAs will not declare misandry:
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@David Futrelle
Yes, but you couldn’t have done it without your cats.
How much do you want to bet these boycotters end up torrenting it, something they probably would have done anyway? I imagine there’s a significant percentage of RoK users/manospherians who are tech savvy, self-centered, and immoral enough to pirate movies and think they’re “sticking it to the studios”. This just gives them an additional excuse to rationalize stealing content.
It’s the MGTOW mindset, applied to movies. “Cater to me, or I’ll take my very insignificant bat and ball and go home, and YOU’LL BE SORRY. In the meantime I’ll whine about it, loudly, all over the internet. I badly want this thing that I’m complaining has been forever ruined. I’ll obtain it by trickery or force if necessary, but I’m not going to legitimize it by going through standard channels to get it.”
You don’t have to be a wing nut to not like this movie. Nothing to do with casting and everything to do the the implausibility of just about every plot element and the lack of consistency with established canon. It makes the defeat the Galactic Empire and the redemption of the Skywalkers in the original trilogy feel rather meaningless. There were just too many things that didn’t make sense. Even the fan service was lacking (the lost opportunity to get Han, Luke and Leia together).
Strong female leads matters but only if the character is portrayed as a believable, complex person for the audience to identify with. Sigourney Weaver as Ripley as an obvious example. And of course the actress who plays Rey had to be very much conventionally attractive by present day standards, so how inclusive is that really.
@Dalillama
Are those the Jagers from Girl Genius in your avatar?
“Nothing to do with casting and everything to do the the implausibility of just about every plot element and the lack of consistency with established canon.”
Did you see another movie entirely ? One thing the movie is is being a lot more consistent than the old trilogy.
I guess there will alway be some that don’t like something widely appreciated.
Hello.
Yeah, science. 55% is the part of voters, not readers, so bah (that the same problem we have with elections)… It can be 55 persons out of 100, and because i am lazy, if you round up to 10 dollars the ticket, you successfully boycott up to 550 dollars. Sure that Disney is on the verge of bankrupcy right now.
Anyway, i never go to theater alone so i will not go to see this movie, but that is not boycott (or girlcott, i do not care), especially not under those ridiculous navelcentred arguments.
Have a nice day.
@ kat
Indeed! David’s cats are the true unsung heroes in all of this!
Whenever you notice something like that, just tell yourself: “Star Wars was written as an homage to the old Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon movie serials. The target audience is 8-14 year-olds, and older people who want to reminisce about a time in their lives when things were simpler; when there were well-defined “good guys” and “bad guys” and you could tell the difference just by looking at how they dressed and there was no problem so big that you couldn’t slice through it with some kind of magic laser sword. It’s supposed to be implausible and doesn’t need to be especially consistent.”
It would be a boring movie if evil had been permanently defeated at the end of “Return of the Jedi”.
No, wait, that’s not right… What I meant to say was: The battle between Good and Evil can never be won, it must be fought anew by every generation.
Did you see the same movie I did? The movie I saw had 5-10 seconds with no dialogue after the re-introduction of each of the original characters, which was convenient because we people in the theater needed those 5-10 seconds to cheer and applaud.
I don’t see Rey as being any less complex or less believable than Luke in “A New Hope” or Anakin in “The Phantom Menace”.
I’ll grant you the conventionally attractive thing, but I’m still glad to see more diversity in casting. Maybe we’ll get a non-conventionally attractive protagonist in Episode Ten.
DO NOT CATCRIMINATE… OR ELSE
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Impeccable math there. Much success.
This boycott is for the history books.
Where are all these people seeing movies for $8? My local theatres are all in the neighborhood of $12-$13…
@Boost:
The manosphere pre-selects for this sort of thing: kinda like how fundamentalist religion provides a steady supply of utterly gullible recruits to the far-right.
raysa:
Oh, totes.
Prime example (of so, so many) from today’s news*:
http://www.inquisitr.com/2665488/bible-shock-adam-eve-penis/
*forwarded for pure entertainment value
@Bryce
I thought she was believable and awesome and I loved her character. If you’re going to make this kind of statement, you need to back it up (but put spoiler warnings for those who haven’t seen it yet).
I notice a lot of reviewers see the Original Trilogy through rose-colored glasses and put it on a pedestal. That sets up any new Star Wars movie for failure in their eyes because the new movie can never be like the old trilogy. Nor should it try.
A new movie can outdo the Original Trilogy, but to do that it will need to do something new, and that is heresy to die hard nerds. The Prequel Trilogy had the potential to completely outdo the Original but George Lucas pissed away his chance because of his greed and indolence.
The Original Trilogy itself is actually kind of stupid when you take away all the nostalgia and pop culture legacy surrounding it. Obscurus Loopa did a review a few years ago where she made fun of A New Hope as if it was just another obscure 70s film. It really puts a perspective on things.
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They are indeed.
Ripley is so devastated by the loss of her daughter that she adopts the first orphan girl to cross her path. If you want to talk gender essentialism.
Rey is stuck in a dead-end job that she doesn’t really enjoy, and which pays almost literal peanuts. What’s not relatable about that?
EDIT: Not to mention, Star Wars is almost pure wish fulfillment. Boys have Luke; why can’t girls have Rey?
Hey Falconer
Speaking of gender issues and great female characters, have you seen the Xmas Doctor Who story yet?
BBC 4 is also showing ‘Face of Evil’ featuring my fave companion (River being my second fave) so a good time for strong women.
Yes! We enjoyed the hell out of “The Husbands of River Song,” because S9 was heavy.
“Face of Evil” is one of my favorites. Ah, I remember when Companions did not have to be contemporary Londoners….
EDIT: “The Husbands of River Song” actually interrupted our ongoing conversation about how authoritarian Thomas the Tank Engine is for a whole day.
You mean “Series 35” surely? 😉
It was pretty blooming fantastic. I’m really glad to be babysitting a television at the moment.
Nothing to do with casting and everything to do the the implausibility of just about every plot element and the lack of consistency with established canon
Would this be the same established canon where all knowledge of the Force disappeared in the general population in about 18 years? Yeah, that’s entirely plausible and consistent.
Not to mention the whole Skywalker family being created on the fly. Vader only became Anakin during the writing of Empire, Leia only became Luke’s sister when Lucas decided to stop at 3 films instead of his original plan for 6 (none of which were the prequels).
If you didn’t enjoy the movie, fair enough, but don’t pretend that making the universe bend to the needs of the story is new for Star Wars.
Must confess I’m not familiar with the politics of Thomas the Tank Engine. Someone once put forward a very good argument that “Bagpuss” is an allegory for 1970s labour relations though (the mice = the working class).