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Is it accurate to say more than 90% of HN readers have seen that movie?
by vdfs 6y ago
Is it accurate to say more than 90% of HN readers have seen that movie?
- ComputerGuru 6y agoWhat movie? I think you mean, “read the book.”
- clarkdale 6y agoNot OP, but I think he was referring to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)[0] which grossed $887.9 million and won 4 Academy awards[1]. [0]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120737/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120737/ [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Fel...
- scubbo 6y agoBravo :)
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Not OP, but I think he was referring to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) OP referenced "over 90% of HN readers", who are notoriously out-of-the-mainstream nerds[0], so he probably was referring to The Lord of the Rings (1978) [1] which grossed $33.7 million (which seems a lot less than the 2001 film, but is pretty similar as a multiplier on its budget.) [0] https://www.example.com/what-you-thought-this-was-a-real-source.html https://www.example.com/what-you-thought-this-was-a-real-sou... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_(1978_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_(1978_fi...
- LandR 6y agoHavent seen film or read book. We aren't all fans of fantasy or sci-fi genre.
- bargl 6y agoOf course not. That's why they said 90%. You could argue it's 50% or 23.2832%. But there is a percentage of HN which has seen the movie if the OP has seen it. Obviously there's a percentage that hasn't seen/read it if you haven't either.