Haha, you are intresting person, it's not like you already have pretty much every proof of this movie high box office. Only missing link it budget of movie and marketing company to it. Apart of that, you sound like someone who really are into business stuff. So... what's my point?
Is this movie - success in terms of cash grabbing? Most likely.
Is this movie - best of Naruto? Not even close.
Is this movie - ending that fans who'm cared about story (not 15 chapters of interaction between Hinata and her trophy) deserved? Not at all.
So... calculating is pretty much only for calculating?
Because NH fans even with your proofs to them and links to the sources still will be in denial about plot or whole failure of franchise in terms of quality.
No, I calculate because this film shouldn't reach that 2 billion benchmark that Pierrot has set. Whether it's popular with the disenfranchised or adequately consistent to the story, I doubt they're all too concerned. But through offering a responce of financial weakness at the box office, perhaps it will help them to understand that you don't simply drop internal logic from your source material on a whim just so you can satiate the otakus' perverse ideal of side-characters without expecting some kind of reprisal.
Edited by Atheck, 16 January 2015 - 02:25 AM.