You don't spend $200 million making a movie that only makes $200 million back, that's stupid, the point isn't to make "amazing" movies (which frankly Kong wasn't) it's to make PROFITABLE movies, which Kong also wasn't.
THE MOVIE MADE BACK TONS MORE MONEY THAN IT COST TO MAKE!!!!! Even if it was 200 million to make, I don't care, they don't owe you an apology for making an expensive film. That's my final argument and nothing you say is going to change my mind. It was a SUCCESS. The domestic gross was only part of it. IT MADE FAR MORE THAN 200 MILLION DOLLARS!!!!!
SUCCESS, SUCCESS, SUCCESS, SUCCESS!!!!!!!
I know I'm getting shrill, but you are friggin frustrating to talk about this with. You keep saying the same thing over and over, and I have presented a flawless counter-argument, and then you just say the same thing. All you're saying is "the movie cost 200 million to make!!! Oh my friggin' God!! They should be ashamed, and it only made that much in the domestic gross!!"
But you're wrong. The film made a huge profit for Universal. It did, it did, it did. I'm tired of saying it. The DVD sales were huge. Universal made tons more than the movie cost to make. THAT IS THE BOTTOM LINE.
And despite what you say, I haven't lost the argument. You just won't present a good counter-argument to the DVD sales. You have failed to convince me that Universal lost money on this venture and it was a financial bust. You will never convince me because I'm right.
Case closed. Over. Nada. Zip. That's the end. It's over. People who continue it are morons with squirrell-brains. They have broccoli in their socks.
I don't give up because I'm right and you're wrong, and shouting BS doesn't make it true, it didn't make back tons more than it cost to make.
And repeating your shouts just makes you look childish and stupid, especially when they're false. Stomping your feet will not make Kong a success, it was a failure, it was a failure because they spent too much money making, and if the best argument you can come up with is yelling the same wrong word over and over again then you too are a failure.
I don't need to present a counter argument to the DVD sale, the DVD sale argument is a red herring, it is not related to the core discussion of if Kong was a success at the box office. It wasn't, and even if every man woman and child in the country bought the DVD that still wouldn't change the past and make it a success in the box office.
Gosh then you have to resort to insults. Insults tell the world you know you're wrong but aren't man enough to admit it. Which souldn't come as a suprise since your entire post was done in the spirit of a petulant 6 year-old that isn't allowed ice cream before dinner.