Star Wars: The Adjusted Numbers

Yes, yes, yes. We can all agree that "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has broken all box office records and stands firmly atop the franchise in terms of first-run (raw) box office dollars. Yay for Force Awakens!

But let's get serious here.  People who trash "The Phantom Menace" continue to live in some sort of weird fantasy dream state because they not only say "Phantom Menace" was bad, they claim "The Empire Strikes Back" was good.  Well, if it was so good, why didn't anyone want to watch it at the theater?