Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3156395-20130412022554/@comment-3317214-20130520160103

Not really, no. I've already been over why it's better to use a single country's statistics opposed to a general, worldwide one. Whether it is better or not, is beside the point. There's a significant amount of the gross (roughly 50%) outside of the domestic gross. That much is irrefutable.

And the movies are made in America. American standards are worldwide standards whether you like it or not... America's not the world, but it does lead the world in this, so American standards are global standards if you like or not. You clearly have to get out more. In many cases, American standards are worldwide standards. But definitely not in this case. No country takes note of the amount of gross a film by made in the US, other than the US. And going by your earlier statistic, this means that, although your domestic values are useful and the American industry standard, over 95% of the population of the world don't care about them.

Now, so far, you've been trying to disprove this point just by claiming it's wrong. Because we're talking about American films in an American dominated industry. But if that's really the case, prove to me that other countries care about US domestic grosses.

Bollywood's a bad example. It's a very large, highly-localized film industry. Of course they don't care how well American films do in the US because they don't care much for American films anyway. Hollywood cares a lot about how well a film does in the US because it's the largest market for them. Bollywood's not a bad example. It's just the same as films from Australia, and I presume films from European countries also.

Of course Hollywood cares a lot about how their films do in the US. Bollywood cares a lot about how their films do in India. Australia cares about how their films do in Australia. America doesn't care how well Australian films do in Australia. Likewise, Australia doesn't care how well American films do in America.

I did read what you said. You were upset that they didn't say the daily numbers were domestic, and you chalked it up to some ra-ra nationalistic crap. The problem isn't with the website, it's with you not knowing how to read it. Not upset - Disappointed. Not just daily numbers - All of the tracking ones from Daily to Yearly, and all of the different indices. I Didn't chalk it up to nationalistic crap. I just mentioned that it didn't tell me that the numbers were domestic. There's no problem with me reading it, there's literally no indication that the numbers are domestic.

It's okay, you've assumed wrong on everything else. Well that's just not true.