I certainly feel quite disappointed having to eat crow, naturally. But let's also put something in perspective here.
The reason certain movies are projected to fail is simply because the press WANTS them to fail, and they go "See, it's failing!" They have a pre-set narrative, and they are dead set to condition the audience to respond to it. If the press didn't plant things like that and just took an approach of "let the chips fall where they may," the movie in question would be appreciated more on its own merits, instead of the public, buying what the press says, and going, "Oh, it's not going to succeed, why bother buying a ticket to see what the fuss is about?" I hate that aspect. Basically it's as if they take it upon themselves to be like Johnny Appleseed, planting garbage instead of apple trees.
The press basically shoved a great number of Disney's films down in this manner, kept saying "It'll fail, it'll fail, it'll fail," and the mantra was lazily accepted. Why? Because the press is so in love with the idea of "Disney in disarray", they'll do whatever it takes to make it so and manufacture things to go along with the valid problems. They just want to kick Disney in the teeth for anything and everything.
