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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
Wait a second: You're telling me that your friends and family initially "hated" The Empire Strikes Back? What?
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That was my brother's experience as well, not his personal experience - cause he loved it (I was 6 so I don't really remember my initial reaction). But he's long said that many people didn't like ESB when it came out.
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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
Also, while Empire didn't gross as much as the original film or Return of the Jedi, it did put up huge numbers, more so than ROTJ, when it was re-released a few times.
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I think you are reinforcing our point here Dane. So people initially didn't like ESB and many maybe even heard many poor reviews - which might have led to its early poor performance. But as time passed, and knee jerk reaction faded, it did much better on re-release.
I don't know if that is what is going to happen with TLJ, this is just SPECULATION, but it seems reasonable to think, given the number of people (including folks on this thread) that after seeing it a second time - liked the film much better, that TLJ may have a similar re-bound.