Sad that he really thought people would forget the story.
Remember Naruto was suppose to be a shonen manga, not a bad shojo ( or whatever the name for romance manga). You lost the general fan there. Than half the movie if not 3/4 is about that and 95% of advertising promote this, trying to justify the mess and hope to make you forgot the main plot. Plus making the movie to catch up the manga. You lost a lot of people there.
You lost every NS fans, Non-shipper and you seem to lost SS fan along the way the more the movie advance. Some NH fan are disappointed by the ending and felt their pairing become canon for the wrong reason, some of those might not see it. LEaving NH and Hinata die hard fan, but even in that group, some won't go see the movie in theater, because they might be in the type that doesn't go see anime movie in theater.
I expect this formula to be a money grabbing thing. But the way it turned out, thanks to Kishi interviews, show it to the world somehow. Plus by the time it come out, some people find closure and didn't need that movie. Plus as I said before, when you promote the last in September, we didn't expect it to be a NH movie as Hinata the main character. That's where it went wrong. Instead of celebrating all the character we knew for 8-15 years, you decide to make every main character OOC and a side character in the main event spot.
My brother and I come to the point where we think Hinata's got schizophrenia and that movie is all play in her head. Only logical explanation (and the whole genjutsu theory).
Edited by archangel, 04 December 2014 - 04:32 PM.