Of course the expectations of profit for a Burton/Depp venture are higher than most, even if the duo doesn't always look for big box office projects to do. They are held to a higher standard in terms of performance expectations.
Given the performance of their past films, I can see where there can be high expectations when Depp/Burton collaborate. But neither that nor the reasoning as to why DS might be considered a different case was honestly the issue I was attempting to illustrate with my post regarding what was recently said on Box Office Mojo. In that specific case it was huge distortion of previous opinion for the writer to have previously laid out valid reasons for why it was very unlikely that DS would make the kind of money that Depp/Burton's previous films have and then to turn around and blast the film for not making the type of money that Depp/Burton's films have been known to make in the past. And what the writer recently said was worse still when his very own prediction of what the film could make domestically (without
The Avengers being factored in, which is a whole other issue in itself) was basically half as much as what he's now saying it was "inexcusable" that the film didn't make. Apparently he thinks none of us remember what he said previously so we're not about to realize that what he's saying now completely flies in the face of what he said then.
It's his flip-flop that's at issue - not what DS should've would've could've made.
And actually, it's his own credibility that can be more negatively viewed than anything negative he aimed at DS.
Depp Shadows wasn't a wild success but it wasn't the absymal failure either.
Very true.
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