I mean Avengers: Endgame also had a 58.7% drop off on the second weekend, that makes it look similar to Thor 2.

I don’t disagree that there are multiple ways to measure this. This is basically the jobs of multiple people in the film industry.

And of course we’re just talking Domestic, what if a film is more successful internationally? What if it bombs internationally, but is amazing domestically?

Also DS2 and Thor 4 both came out after Endgame, is superhero fatigue real, how do we measure it. Also after the peak of COVID, some reports say theaters still aren’t back to pre-pandemic attendance.

I don’t say all this to discourage discussion. I just think that we (and anyone) can probably use numbers to prove anything.

I definitely agree that as a viewer, Thor 4 was a step down. But I don’t think it turned me off of a Thor 5. In fact after Thor 1 & 2 I had low expectations for 3, I would have said cancel/scrap it and give me something else, but it turned out to be the best one.

I have my criticisms of DS2, but I’m excited for DS3.