I would have to conclude that no one under 70 saw the movie and that I was the youngest person to ever watch it.
That's very telling. I mentioned in previous posts, when I saw it (two times), the overwhelming, vast majority of those in the seats were what would be considered "middle-aged" (in their late forties and up). As I also stated earlier, the first time I left the screening room, those waiting outside were around "our" age and were asking us: "Is it good? Is it like the show? Will we like it?" (I said yes.)
So, it now seems to me that those who wanted to see the movie were original fans. They saw it in droves (despite those stupid anti-DS-film fazebook people). Those unfamiliar stayed away. The question is, why? Again, I blame WB marketing. Despite the current vampiremania (which I think is now waning - zombies are the latest thing, and I love those critters, too), the studio just did not know how to promote it. It wanted that apparent money-spending crowd of tweens, teens and 20-somethings. WB thought that it could connect with the
Twilight crowd, but
Twilight has seen it's light of day (pardon the pun) and is waning. But it didn't want to market it as a
Twilight rehash. It didn't know what to do. It tried to market it as an
American Graffiti that those of us in the early seventies flocked to see because of nostalgia. The problem is, the post-generation-X crowd doesn't care about what happened last year, let alone several decades ago. Things have changed in attitude.
Gerard