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JK Fresco posted:People didn't go watch Solo because Last Jedi was so bad Yeah, which is why The Last Jedi was the best-selling Blu-ray of 2018 in the US and the 31st best-selling Blu-ray ever. Because it's extremely unpopular and no one liked it at all. I'm sure that's it.  Maybe people didn't see Solo because the troubled production (especially after they canned Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who are close to household names because of the mega popular Lego movie), strongly negative reviews, and poor word of mouth killed the movie. Maybe people were turned off going to the theatre to see a garbage movie that all their friends and family said sucked hard????
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I sure am tired of all these star wars.
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Oct 18, 2019 20:02
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i think Solo was just a bad idea no-one cared about.
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:Yeah, which is why The Last Jedi was the best-selling Blu-ray of 2018 in the US and the 31st best-selling Blu-ray ever. Because it's extremely unpopular and no one liked it at all. I'm sure that's it. Nobody buys blurays but morons who buy stuff for completeness amd people trying to peove a point Might as well talk about laserdisk sales
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Oct 18, 2019 20:10
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Show us your bluray collection.
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Oct 18, 2019 20:11
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Can't believe the "actually Marcia Lucas was the only reason this poo poo was ever a success" video hasn't been posted yet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEHRNS-Scrs
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Oct 18, 2019 20:12
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uhhhh thats literally the editors job you could say that about like a thousand other films
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:Yeah, which is why The Last Jedi was the best-selling Blu-ray of 2018 in the US and the 31st best-selling Blu-ray ever. Because it's extremely unpopular and no one liked it at all. I'm sure that's it. TLJ made a huge amount of profit and was a success relative to other movies released around the same time, but its performance was disappointing relative to TFA. They started about as well, but TFA lasted much better and ended up grossing over $2 billion. TLJ didn’t get even close to that. It made about 2/3rds as much, which is still an absurd amount of money but it’s a huge drop. One way to look at it is that the gulf between the box offices of TFA and TLJ is about as big as the entire take of The Empire Strikes Back. Despite being the hot new entry in the biggest franchise on the planet, it didn’t really have legs. Solo definitely had its own (enormous) problems in both concept (was anyone really crying out for a movie about Han’s misspent youth?) and execution (Disney firing everyone, etc) but its failure to make money was literally unprecedented for Star Wars. The loving Clone Wars movie made money, and that was a terrible, warmed-up tv cartoon pilot that Lucas bumblefucked into a theatrical release at a time when his cachet was about as low as it ever has been and prevailing opinion was still that Lucas had ruined everything and the prequels were poo poo. I think there is probably more to the failure of Solo than just that the movie itself was bad.
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I actually think that Solo is the best Disney Star Wars film so far.
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TLJ was bad and anyone who isn't an idiot realizes it. However, there is a contingent of people who bend over backwards to come up with contrived reasons for why it was totally good and has nothing at all to do with the current slump in the franchise. Generally this is because they are Extremely Online and consider dislike of TLJ to be an attack on women or something ridiculous, and that defending TLJ is virtuous activism, like punching a chud, because movies and politics are the same thing. Often they will go so far as to deny there is any slump at all, as if Disney suddenly cancelling multiple film plans is just something they do, that comes and goes with the tides, and you cannot explain it. Always, the evidence they cite for Star Wars being stronger than ever is "I saw a little girl dressed like Rey". Inevitably they will cite some number of ticket/disk sales, ignoring any and all relativity, as if total sales for everything have not been going up every year for decades. I can only imagine they are astonished every single year, when whatever Marvel movie was just released takes the perpetually updating title "biggest selling movie ever", in total glee that they get to see world's best movie again, just like last year. Meme Poker Party fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Oct 18, 2019 |
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Bodhidharma posted:I actually think that Solo is the best Disney Star Wars film so far.
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Bodhidharma posted:I actually think that Solo is the best Disney Star Wars film so far. Only because they refuse to develop my luuke meets lumpy treatment.
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I thought 7 was great for the first half of the movie and the Kevin J Andersoned itself with the new mass destruction weapon overkill
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Chomp8645 posted:TLJ was bad and anyone who isn't an idiot realizes it. However, there is a contingent of people who bend over backwards to come up with contrived reasons for why it was totally good and has nothing at all to do with the current slump in the franchise. Generally this is because they are Extremely Online and consider dislike of TLJ to be an attack on women or something ridiculous, and that defending TLJ is virtuous activism, like punching a chud, because movies and politics are the same thing. Often they will go so far as to deny there is any slump at all, as if Disney suddenly cancelling multiple film plans is just something they do, that comes and goes with the tides, and you cannot explain it. Always, the evidence they cite for Star Wars being stronger than ever is "I saw a little girl dressed like Rey". Nice meltdown I don't even like TLJ that much, though I find it entertaining (besides the dumb as hell casino planet stuff), Luke's Jedi planet is hilarious, and the throne room fight scene was excellent. It's more that goons have repeated hyperbolic meltdowns over how supposedly it's the worst piece of cinema ever to put to screen and even worse than the prequels. Obviously, TLJ holds no candle to the original trilogy films, especially the first two... but it's not thaaaaat bad either. At least it tried to do new stuff, unlike TFA's hackneyed rehashing of A New Hope. Was it successful? Nope. But TLJ's not that bad and not even vaguely as awful as the prequel films.
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TFA still sucks. It’s carried by marketing, nostalgia drummed up by marketing, and Driver’s completely wild performance. TFA had its script thrown out immediately preproduction and was rewritten almost from scratch as filming began. It’s a series of unrelated action set pieces strung together with quips and twists. Rey has no motive, Poe contributes nothing, Finn’s only motive is to get away from the movie’s plot. Rehashing “Star Wars” wasn’t actually the worst idea of all time. Phantom Menace did it and nobody noticed because they were too busy boggling at all the weird poo poo in Phantom Menace. KOTOR did it and everyone loves KOTOR. The script is just a dog, compounded by TLJ which is a totally different breed of dog.
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Oct 18, 2019 22:20
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they should remake star wars but as a raunchy comedy
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numberoneposter posted:they should remake star wars but as a raunchy comedy Spaceballs: A Star Wars Story
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Oct 18, 2019 22:25
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Would somebody get this big walking *[beep]* out of my *[beep]*
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Kazak posted:Would somebody get this big walking *[beep]* out of my *[beep]* *laugh track*
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skasion posted:TFA still sucks. It’s carried by marketing, nostalgia drummed up by marketing, and Driver’s completely wild performance. TFA had its script thrown out immediately preproduction and was rewritten almost from scratch as filming began. It’s a series of unrelated action set pieces strung together with quips and twists. Rey has no motive, Poe contributes nothing, Finn’s only motive is to get away from the movie’s plot. Rehashing “Star Wars” wasn’t actually the worst idea of all time. Phantom Menace did it and nobody noticed because they were too busy boggling at all the weird poo poo in Phantom Menace. KOTOR did it and everyone loves KOTOR. The script is just a dog, compounded by TLJ which is a totally different breed of dog. This. TFA was such poo poo I decided to never watch a star wae again
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Here is my list of reasons why Star Wars is hella gay (dude gay, I’m not qualified to comment on the female sexuality of Star Wars) - light saber battles (two sparkly rainbow penises touching, needs no further explanation) - lots of robes (very Gucci fall) - the Jedi say they don’t gently caress but I bet they’re constantly getting each other off with force powers and this is just their freak. I know there are a few lady Jedi around so this is more generally pan but imagine the council from the prequels, lotta dudes jerking each off other with telekinesis for sure
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The droid army in 1 was described as "battle hardened". They were veterans. What kind of war could those pieces of poo poo survive?
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numberoneposter posted:uhhhh thats literally the editors job You're right, but the hook is that she edited 4, 5 and 6(the "Good Ones™"), she had nothing to do with 1, 2, 3(The "Bad Ones™"). While yes, it is the editors job to tell the director/writers when what they did isn't good no matter how much they like it, this is a special case where we can see exactly the difference between a good editor and a bad editor(or lack of one at all).
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Vincent Valentine posted:You're right, but the hook is that she edited 4, 5 and 6(the "Good Ones™"), she had nothing to do with 1, 2, 3(The "Bad Ones™"). While yes, it is the editors job to tell the director/writers when what they did isn't good no matter how much they like it, this is a special case where we can see exactly the difference between a good editor and a bad editor(or lack of one at all). Marcia Lucas didn’t edit Empire Strikes Back and she wasn’t the only editor to work on Star Wars or Return of the Jedi either. She’s a very talented editor who was justly awarded for her role in making Star Wars, but there’s more to making a good Star Wars movie than having Marcia Lucas edit it.
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Icochet posted:The droid army in 1 was described as "battle hardened". They were veterans. What kind of Some kind of star wars?
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Icochet posted:The droid army in 1 was described as "battle hardened". They were veterans. What kind of It's just advertisement. Just like when a lovely restaurant describes their greasy abominations as "best burgers in town!"
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Icochet posted:The droid army in 1 was described as "battle hardened". They were veterans. What kind of Machines break down after heavy use, as opposed to humans who grow stronger and more experienced. You don't want a battle-hardened droid army, you want a brand new one.
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Applewhite posted:Machines break down after heavy use, as opposed to humans who grow stronger and more experienced. You don't want a battle-hardened droid army, you want a brand new one. It just don't make no sense!
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You’re saying it wrong if you don’t rhyme “War” with “Star”. “Star Wars.”
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We already have the RLM thread for this poo poo why do we need another one
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crabcakes dogg posted:We already have the RLM thread for this poo poo why do we need another one every thread should be about how bad star wars sucks and also how bad you suck
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crabcakes dogg posted:We already have the RLM thread for this poo poo why do we need another one
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The RLM thread is more for other movies and people's obsession with a bald farm hand's large package.
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They are weak against spheres, orbs, and balls OP. An errant Dad may try to force a star war upon you, distract the father with the ball and run like heck. HTH.
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Handen posted:You’re saying it wrong if you don’t rhyme “War” with “Star”. Store Wars?
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Applewhite posted:Machines break down after heavy use, as opposed to humans who grow stronger and more experienced. You don't want a battle-hardened droid army, you want a brand new one. George Lucas is way worse at consistent, thoughtful storytelling and world building than most middle schoolers I've interacted with. Probably 3rd or 4th graders too.
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Lambert posted:It's just advertisement. Just like when a lovely restaurant describes their greasy abominations as "best burgers in town!" i guess Applewhite posted:Machines break down after heavy use, as opposed to humans who grow stronger and more experienced. You don't want a battle-hardened droid army, you want a brand new one. i suppose ikanreed posted:Some kind of star wars? 
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And those yo momma jokes really revolutionized the star wars formula, breaking new territory in a bold and inventive fashion.
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