@TLC:
These things come down to good marketing.
Yeah, that is also another factor so including nostalgia, marketing, increased ticket prices, current film showings, star power, and…dinosaurs I guess.
@HeartOfDarkness:
Iirc Phantom Menace was the highest grossing Star wars movie when it first came out. Hell the prequel trilogy did better grossing-wise then the original trilogy unless the info on wikia is incorrect.
It did well but not as well as it could have done given the amount of hype, fandom, and potential it had. I never claimed the movie bombed. Just the fact that nostalgia alone does not give you the numbers Jurassic World made or else Phantom Menace would have done just as well, if not better.
Jurassic park may not be as big as Star wars but it's still pretty big so i am not surprise by the numbers. And hey if the numbers spoke of the movie's quality then i highly doubt Twilight breaking dawn part 2 would have grossed over 800 million.
No no no no, lol. I'm not equating financial numbers to movie quality. I'm equating numbers to…how well a film captured and kept an audience's interest to see it. That doesn't mean the movie was "good" but it does mean people saw it...a lot. After seeing the movie myself I simply don't feel it warranted the attention.
If I'm not being plain enough I don't think Jurassic World was good so I don't understand why it made so much money based on its quality alone. But I do understand many other people liked it or just wanted to see what all the fuss was about so that's where the money came from.