While Leftist media continue to tout that स्टार वार्स: अंतिम जेडी is a revelation, an “intelligent” film, and a new direction for the fantasy sci-fi series, the box office numbers are telling a vastly different story.

के अनुसार फ़ोर्ब्स, स्टार वार्स: अंतिम जेडी‘s second week box office drop-off is the largest in film history. The movie lost a massive $151 million between the first week and the second during its theatrical run, making $219 million during its first week out, but then dropping down to only $68 million during the second week, seeing a near 69% drop-off.

The Forbes article points out that this is an even larger drop-off compared to the first-to-second week box office of स्टार वार्स: सेना जागता, which saw a decline of $98.7 million over the second of the second week at theaters.

Scott Mendelson from Forbes attempts to play it off, saying that it will likely still top out over the holiday at a domestic gross of $465 million, give or take, and attempts to dismiss why the drop-off could be as large as it is. There’s no doubt that the critics and moviegoers are not seeing eye to eye on स्टार वार्स: अंतिम जेडी बिल्कुल नहीं.

So far, critics and actual movie aficionados are having the complete opposite effect of Netflix’s उज्ज्वल, which was castigated without quarter by the palatial movie critic echelon, but was dearly loved by moviegoers.

Mendelson, however, attempts to deflect back to gendered film revenue, ending his piece by writing…

“[…] the top-three North American hits of the year will be Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($400m+), Wonder Woman ($413m) and Beauty and the Beast. Yes, all three of the year’s biggest movies will be female-led blockbuster fantasy movies. But, please remind us again how female-driven blockbusters are box office poison.”

Well anything स्टार वार्स is going to make money, so it doesn’t really count. And महिला आश्चर्य है कि was DC’s only good movie this year, so a lot of fanboys had to support it. His only viable argument is सौंदर्य और जानवर, but once again it’s a Disney-backed vehicle. He would have had a much stronger argument if Atomic Blonde, Valerian or शैल में भूत had topped out the charts… but they didn’t.

वैसे भी, के अनुसार सिनेमा ब्लेंड, स्टार वार्स: अंतिम जेडी managed to double what its nearest competitor did during its opening weekend.

However, the drop-off has been so huge for द लास्ट जेडी that it’s very possible that the film could be matched or overtaken by its third week out.

Fans are quickly attempting to spread the word not to support स्टार वार्स: अंतिम जेडी, but they’ll have to break through the cloud of shills, Disney’s overbearing marketing machine, and lots of fanboys in order to reach the masses. We’ll see if all the negative reviews will affect the movie’s domestic box office performance by the end of its third weekend in theaters.