Hehe, interesting thoughts on the movie market. I guess that is why I don't make movies. Never care about profits and opening weekend gross domestic product and all that crap. I just care if it's a good movie or not. If I was in charge, TCOF would have been a 14 movie series, each book being two movies. And, yes, there would be a lot of interesting but boring part following kids through woods. And if I was in charge there would definately be a narrative overlay voice which filled us in on all the details that the plotline could not show.
... but yeah, the movie gods would hate me or whatever. .. so...
And is it just me, or is this scene in every movie ever .. you know .. the one where the good guy wins the single hand combat, then they have some semi witty dialogue, and then good guy lets the bad guy live because "I'm not like you" and then the bad guy gets up to stab the good guy in the back and some onlooker yells "lookout" and then the good guys turns around and kills the bad guy because he had no choice (he's "the good guy"). I hate that scene.