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Genuine question, how do you know Indians jones flipped hard ?
I went on imdb and it is rated around 7 which isn’t bad at all.
Critic and audience reviews (such as IMDB scores) alone don't make a movie a flop or not. Instead, it's the movie's box office performance.
$60M opening weekend against a $250M production budget would be considered a flop. (Source)
Typically, studios want to see at least $100M on their opening weekend to consider something a success.
I want to live in a world in which viewer opinions (reviews and ratings) are the most accepted indicator of movie quality, rather than how much money it made.
Audience and critical reviews will be the indicator of quality in the long term, once the movie's on streaming and disc. And many movies do gain a new life then thanks to how people feel about them.
Spiderverse is a recent example: it's doing gangbusters this time thanks to the goodwill of audiences who watched the first one on streaming (it didn't do great in the box office.)