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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 9, 2018 19:41:53 GMT
...after Last Jedi & Solo Bomb".
A video with this title was put up on YouTube back in December (not putting the link because f**k the guy who made it). Since then TLJ has made $1.3 billion (i.e. more than 15 MCU movies, more than any X-Men movie, more than any Fast & Furious movie, more than any DC movie [including the Dark Knight films], more than all but one Harry Potter movie, and more than any SW movie except for TFA), and Solo is set to break the Memorial Day box office record. I will never get tired of laughing at the SW haters who keep predicting failure for the new Star Wars movies, only to have to explain why they were wrong. (Literally saw people saying that the Solo projections were "fake news" being made up by the "liberal media", lulz).
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Post by ryboto on May 9, 2018 20:05:35 GMT
It's still garbage, so whatever.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on May 9, 2018 20:57:00 GMT
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Post by shinnickneth on May 9, 2018 21:06:20 GMT
A movie can make all the money in the world. It doesn't mean I'll like it just because it made a lot of money.
Did you know that The Shawshank Redemption was a box office failure? It wasn't until it came out on VHS that people started renting it at the local video stores and it became a hit. I love that movie.
On the flip side, I have no interest in watching the Transformers movies. I was never big on that series to begin. It's just loud nonsense with far too much CGI. Now the series has made so much money that they keep pumping more out. Does that mean the movies have substance just because they make lots of money? No.
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Post by Waxer-n-boil on May 10, 2018 0:57:05 GMT
...over Last Jedi & Solo Bomb". A video with this title was put up on YouTube back in December (not putting the link because f**k the guy who made it). Since then TLJ has made $1.3 billion (i.e. more than 15 MCU movies, more than any X-Men movie, more than any Fast & Furious movie, more than any DC movie [including the Dark Knight films], more than all but one Harry Potter movie, and more than any SW movie except for TFA), and Solo is set to break the Memorial Day box office record. I will never get tired of laughing at the SW haters who keep predicting failure for the new Star Wars movies, only to have to explain why they wrong. (Literally saw people saying that the Solo projections were "fake news" being made up by the "liberal media", lulz). No rational person thinks that a SW film is going to totally bomb at the box office because no SW film has ever totally bombed at the box office! It's Star Wars! TLJ did make $1.3 billion, but it still underperformed. Since you're so fond of projections, TLJ was projected at least $1.5 billion. So projections don't mean much. The projections for the Solo movie mean nothing. Stop posting about it over and over again like it's a fact. You know what the projection was for the Black Panther movie? $750 million or less! So much for projections. TLJ is the 2nd highest grossing SW film, but adjusted for inflation it is 6th best. It just got passed by a Marvel movie last week. And guess what? In another week or two it's going to get passed again by another Marvel movie. You can make fun of the fanbase critics of the Disney trilogy all you want - but the fact is that TLJ did underperform. And the trilogy is trending down. Don't be surprised when episode IX makes less than TLJ at the box office. Just don't be surprised when it happens. |
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Post by Tristan's Journal on May 10, 2018 8:23:35 GMT
I am not for firing but for a mutual termination or limiting Kennedy to formal production matters (she is undisputedly good with that). She is still commercially successful and has a modern agenda, but there are ample warning signs and red flags
- NO creativity, imagination or originality (artistic degradation)
- in lieu of artistic vision the films are (very clumsily) agenda-driven (mostly superior white females busting balls)
- the last movie slightly underperformed
- The toys sales went embarrassingly down (one of the former core commercial boosters of the franchise; millions of Rose Tico toys are without a home and get buried with the ET Game module soon)
- The video game business is down (EA all I say)
- all leading to an increasingly toxic and frustrated fanbase which is very, very worrying.
They should act now.
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Post by shinnickneth on May 10, 2018 22:18:13 GMT
You can make fun of the fanbase critics of the Disney trilogy all you want - but the fact is that TLJ did underperform. And the trilogy is trending down. Don't be surprised when episode IX makes less than TLJ at the box office. Just don't be surprised when it happens.If it doesn't do well (money wise), the argument will be, "Well, not every Star Wars movie can make that much money. Of course there's going to be one eventually that doesn't make as much." If it does well the argument will be, "Neener-neener-neener! Solo made lots of money! The true fans win! Neener-neener-neener!" You know...the whole tone of the OP.  |
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