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The Mary Sue
The Mary Sue
Rachel Leishman

We have got to stop monitoring a film’s “success” based on the box office

Movies are judged on a lot of different fronts. The acting, the look of a film, the emotional response to it. But recently, it seems as if the films we’re seeing in theaters are only being judged by their box office performance. Why?

Back when the original six Avengers were dominating the box office, we praised the Marvel Cinematic Universe for its box office records. That has, since, bled into how we talk about movies as a whole. To be fair, we’ve always talked about how well a film does at the box office but that was far from the ONLY thing we addressed when discussing the film’s success. Now, that isn’t really the case.

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