• The Dark Lord ☑️@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    This is a graph of how much people spend to watch each movie. If it was a graph of how Hollywood relies on sequels, it should show how much money they spent per movie.

    All this shows is that people are spending their money on sequels. If people want that to change, they should spend their money on originals.

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      2 months ago

      Each column is the top 10 films of a single year. They seem to increase in box office takings as you go up the column.

      entering data is beautiful mode …

      It’s not a basic 2D graph. And honestly it generally works, especially as the bubble size gives a clear enough sense of the actual box office takings.

      It could be 2D though, with the vertical axis representing box office, and that’d probably work too, but it wouldn’t be as aesthetically pleasing.

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    2 months ago

    2013 and 2017 seemed particularly bad …

    From box office mojo, the listings were (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2013/?grossesOption=calendarGrosses)

    2017

    1. Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
    2. Beauty and the Beast
    3. Wonder Woman
    4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
    5. Spider-Man: Homecoming
    6. It
    7. Thor: Ragnarok
    8. Despicable Me 3
    9. Logan
    10. The Fate of the Furious

    2013

    1. Iron Man 3
    2. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
    3. Despicable Me 2
    4. Man of Steel
    5. Monsters University
    6. Frozen
    7. Gravity
    8. Fast & Furious 6
    9. Oz the Great and Powerful
    10. Star Trek Into Darkness