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Post by merh on Dec 30, 2019 3:00:24 GMT
That they may not NEED a giant box office if this leads to other moneymaking potential. Did you know the reason they made the Incredible Hulk movie was toy sales were good off the Hulk? Which is a whole other thing for SW. Merchandising. I do not get the mentality of SW fans. When Lucas wasnt making movies, they were releasing books with a trove of characters. Marvel can have 3 movies a year & was it 4 Netflix series, AoS & Cloak & Dagger? Why are SW fans so limited? Why should it be so hard to track multiple stories? I pretty much see all the MCU & DC movies plus the SW ones. Jurassic Park/World. We have a new Matrix coming (really? After that 3rd one?) John Wick... We can all keep track of multiple plots of stories. There are dozens, maybe hundreds of planets in the SW universe. All have potential stories. And all are reason to make these shows. To sell merchandise. Lucas said he made more off toy sales than directing the SW films That depends on how big a gain in merch they can make off of this, SW has dropped almost 20% year to year in terms of retail sales since 2016, they went from like $3b in sales to less than $2b in just 2 years even with movies coming out, if this see's a rise in merch back to $3b then yeah at this point TROS could make not a penny more and Disney would be like F it we made our money, but that's unlikely as those merch numbers are the result of 10 other films, 2 other long running TV shows, and several original video game, novel and comic creations, so unlikely last minute add ons to the legacy are going to raise merch sales by almost 40%.
And Disney wont move forward of other projects if TROS fails to make money, that's common sense, they will invest it in properties that show profitability, not ones that stem from failures, have we been hearing anything about Solo sequel or spin off ideas? no because it bombed and Disney decided to scrap the "A Star Wars Story" series in it's tracks afterwards, so if TROS bomb expect much the same reaction towards it's specific characters.
Also god you are so clueless, it isn't about not being able to follow multiple storylines, this is the idiotic excuse Disney and WB have used for the separation of TV and films and why certain characters are barred from appearing in the TV shows, which we all call them out on the bullshit nature of it, it is about the money, these Disney+ shows cost GOT money to make, Disney is not going to debut 3 seasons of these shows on the service at the same time due to it being less profitable for them to do so, this is where the MCU had the benefit, their network TV shows were done a lot cheaper and they look it, the Netflix shows they were being paid to make for Netflix to air them, so it was no skin off their nose, as for movies Disney is not going to risk it when Solo bombed so hard when it only had a 6 month break between it and TLJ, and why give up an extra release slot they could give to Pixar or take away from Marvel or not develop a Fox IP they brought?
It is not the story elements that limit SW it is the sandpit they are in, Disney is not going to spunk $500m on SW shows a year to just throw $200-300m of that down the drain by overcrowding their service so that no one show is worth the price of it's cost, they also are not going to pump out more $250m movies and shell out $150-200m in marketing per film if they aren't making heaps of cash back, especially if doing so means taking food off of another branches plate.
And ultimately how big merch does will tend to follow how big a movie does, a $1b movie is a much bigger ad for toys and merch than a $500m grossing movie, because twice as many people potentially saw the $1b movie compared to the $500m movie, so a bomb in theatres means a $400m+ advert for their merch was seen by less than anywhere as low as 100m people world wide, the more people who see the movie a means the more money Disney makes or atleast the less they may lose, but it also means the dollar per eyeball ratio is shrinking, $900m is basically $4 per person they spent on advertising the new merch, $1.8b would mean they spent $2 per person to advertise as well as widening the scope of who they advertised to, so if it bombs it fails on multiple levels, where as if it is a success it is also such on multiple levels, so regardless Disney wants and needs these movies to be successful, they wont make them otherwise.
I loved Solo. I hated all the idiots who refused to see it because it came 6 months after TLJ. Ooooo. Only 6 months! Does that not sound like you guys can't follow too many stories? I see people who say it was a good movie once they bothered to watch it. So, yeah. I do sort of resent a certain segment of the fanboys who think they own Star Wars. I didn't like what Lucas did with the prequels. I didn't abandon Star Wars. I don't own Star Wars. I still think Lucas failed to properly show why Vader turned evil. Doesnt change how he was in the original trilogy that his creator failed to properly tell his origin.
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Post by dazz on Dec 30, 2019 7:55:22 GMT
That depends on how big a gain in merch they can make off of this, SW has dropped almost 20% year to year in terms of retail sales since 2016, they went from like $3b in sales to less than $2b in just 2 years even with movies coming out, if this see's a rise in merch back to $3b then yeah at this point TROS could make not a penny more and Disney would be like F it we made our money, but that's unlikely as those merch numbers are the result of 10 other films, 2 other long running TV shows, and several original video game, novel and comic creations, so unlikely last minute add ons to the legacy are going to raise merch sales by almost 40%.
And Disney wont move forward of other projects if TROS fails to make money, that's common sense, they will invest it in properties that show profitability, not ones that stem from failures, have we been hearing anything about Solo sequel or spin off ideas? no because it bombed and Disney decided to scrap the "A Star Wars Story" series in it's tracks afterwards, so if TROS bomb expect much the same reaction towards it's specific characters.
Also god you are so clueless, it isn't about not being able to follow multiple storylines, this is the idiotic excuse Disney and WB have used for the separation of TV and films and why certain characters are barred from appearing in the TV shows, which we all call them out on the bullshit nature of it, it is about the money, these Disney+ shows cost GOT money to make, Disney is not going to debut 3 seasons of these shows on the service at the same time due to it being less profitable for them to do so, this is where the MCU had the benefit, their network TV shows were done a lot cheaper and they look it, the Netflix shows they were being paid to make for Netflix to air them, so it was no skin off their nose, as for movies Disney is not going to risk it when Solo bombed so hard when it only had a 6 month break between it and TLJ, and why give up an extra release slot they could give to Pixar or take away from Marvel or not develop a Fox IP they brought?
It is not the story elements that limit SW it is the sandpit they are in, Disney is not going to spunk $500m on SW shows a year to just throw $200-300m of that down the drain by overcrowding their service so that no one show is worth the price of it's cost, they also are not going to pump out more $250m movies and shell out $150-200m in marketing per film if they aren't making heaps of cash back, especially if doing so means taking food off of another branches plate.
And ultimately how big merch does will tend to follow how big a movie does, a $1b movie is a much bigger ad for toys and merch than a $500m grossing movie, because twice as many people potentially saw the $1b movie compared to the $500m movie, so a bomb in theatres means a $400m+ advert for their merch was seen by less than anywhere as low as 100m people world wide, the more people who see the movie a means the more money Disney makes or atleast the less they may lose, but it also means the dollar per eyeball ratio is shrinking, $900m is basically $4 per person they spent on advertising the new merch, $1.8b would mean they spent $2 per person to advertise as well as widening the scope of who they advertised to, so if it bombs it fails on multiple levels, where as if it is a success it is also such on multiple levels, so regardless Disney wants and needs these movies to be successful, they wont make them otherwise.
I loved Solo. I hated all the idiots who refused to see it because it came 6 months after TLJ. Ooooo. Only 6 months! Does that not sound like you guys can't follow too many stories? I see people who say it was a good movie once they bothered to watch it. So, yeah. I do sort of resent a certain segment of the fanboys who think they own Star Wars. I didn't like what Lucas did with the prequels. I didn't abandon Star Wars. I don't own Star Wars. I still think Lucas failed to properly show why Vader turned evil. Doesnt change how he was in the original trilogy that his creator failed to properly tell his origin. I don't give a toss if you liked Solo, that has NOTHING to do with anything, also lmfao at youy resenting fans who think they own SW, coming from the arrogant stuck up chump who thinks because they were alive to see the OT in theatres means it gives you some greater understanding or appreciation for the series, it does not.
Peoples complaint about Solo wasn't it was too soon after TLJ in terms of story, guess what Marvel bring out 3 movies in a year and no one gives a shit, people still turn out in droves to see them, the issue was it was too soon after the massive backlash against Lucasfilm and SW over TLJ, they had done nothing to win back the large portion of the fanbase they alienated, not by having a shitty movie but by demeaning, ridiculing and offending those who did by throwing labels like racist and sexist man babies and such at them, and that the timing all around was fucking stupid, Solo had no time to make a splash or promote due to the botched production, proximity to Infinity War and the huge summer season kicking off, the argument was they should have stayed in December where they had carved out Christmas as SW season, used that extra 7 months to heavily push the movie and give them more time to just make the movie look amazing, as well as sell people on actually wanting a Han Solo movie without Harrison Ford.
That's the other thing almost no one wanted the movie, people wanted a Solo movie when it was Harrison, they didn't want a Solo movie with some chump pretending to be Han Solo, also most people I hear from say the film was alright at best, most complaints is how stupid many of the moments in the movie are, such as how he got his name, him talking Wookie to Chewie, hitting the checklist of ok so here is how Solo acquired everything he has when Luke meets him, all during this one mission which is his first real op, where as if they had focused on one thing it could have simply been the story of how Han and Chewie became pals, or how Han got the Falcon, how he acquired his infamous blaster, not you know everything in the span of 2 hours, it's also regularly criticised for being just a meh story not even fitting to the character, in ANH he's out for himself, his returning to help Luke is Han becoming a good man, turns out nope he's always been the softie nullifying the importance of his return in the final battle, again the best praise I have heard is that it's an ok scifi adventure, but it's not a good Han Solo origin movie which is what it is.
Fans own THEIR fandom for SW, we do not OWE it to SW or Lucasfilm, if as a fan you or I do not like something we can take our fandom back and not reward subpar work, we like what we like and we do not have to like what we don't just because it has a fucking brand name on it.
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Post by Jan El Señor on Dec 30, 2019 17:13:02 GMT
Solo sucked.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Dec 30, 2019 20:23:57 GMT
Since the newest attack on TROS's incredible box office success is that it had a $100m+ drop from Weekend 1 to Weekend 2, I thought I'd share this list of total box office failures that share such an ignominious record:
Drop in box office from Weekend 1 to Weekend 2: Avengers: Endgame $209.7m Star Wars: The Last Jedi $148.4m Avengers: Infinity War $142.9m The Lion King $115.2m Avengers; Age of Ultron $113.6m Captain America: Civil War $106.5m Star Was: The Rise of Skywalker $105.3m The Avengers $104.3m Incredibles 2 $102.4m Jurassic World $102.2m Iron Man 3 $101.6m
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Post by dazz on Dec 31, 2019 1:20:28 GMT
Since the newest attack on TROS's incredible box office success is that it had a $100m+ drop from Weekend 1 to Weekend 2, I thought I'd share this list of total box office failures that share such an ignominious record: Drop in box office from Weekend 1 to Weekend 2:Avengers: Endgame $209.7m Star Wars: The Last Jedi $148.4m Avengers: Infinity War $142.9m The Lion King $115.2m Avengers; Age of Ultron $113.6m Captain America: Civil War $106.5m Star Was: The Rise of Skywalker $105.3m The Avengers $104.3m Incredibles 2 $102.4m Jurassic World $102.2m Iron Man 3 $101.6m Lmao do people still bitch about this? it's a common thing that happens with I think every $160m+ opening weekend movie, it's drop off of around 60% is very typical also, besides opening "weekend" vs 2nd weekend is an unfair comparison because the "opening" weekend includes Thursday screenings so it's 3 1/3 or 1/4 compared to just 3 days so the drop off makes sense.
This is what annoys me, people using the numbers without context, without the context these numbers mean nothing.
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Post by scabab on Dec 31, 2019 21:24:39 GMT
It's at $761 million now. I've seen people say it's probably going to finish around $1.1 billion.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Dec 31, 2019 21:28:16 GMT
I predicted $1.1b on another board. (Before anyone who saw my box office post on this board points out that I threw out a $1.03b prediction, that was based around TROS having the same multiplier as TLJ Personally, I think it will have a larger multiplier.)
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Post by johnspartan on Dec 31, 2019 22:38:07 GMT
Endgame made 2 billion, the final installment of SW could have done 2 billion if KK, Iger, JJ, and Rian weren't blatantly sabotaging these movies.
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Post by johnspartan on Jan 1, 2020 18:12:30 GMT
CrepedCrusader TROS is doing WORSE box office than TLJ, what a disaster thanks to incompetent Kathleen Kennedy and her flunkies! www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2020/12/31/star-wars-box-office-rise-of-skywalker-wont-top-last-jedi/#56156ffb51c7The Rise of Skywalker will still presumably pass $1 billion worldwide, but the domestic and global totals of The Last Jedi are now all-but-certainly out of reach.Anyway, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker earned another $15.2 million domestic and $20.9 million overseas on Monday, giving the film a $377.3 million domestic, $383 million foreign and $761.5 million worldwide cume. Sans inflation, it will pass the $381 million domestic finish of Revenge of the Sith (in 2005) by the end of this sentence, with Phantom Menace ($474 million, counting the 3-D reissue) next on the list in terms of Star Wars movies. It just passed Hobbs & Shaw ($759 million) to become the year’s ninth-biggest global grosser, behind Aladdin ($1.05 billion), Joker ($1.062 billion) and Toy Story 4 ($1.073 billion). Of note, the film dropped 28% from Sunday ($21 million) and 48% from last Monday ($29.2 million). That 48% drop is slightly troubling, as it’s larger than the 29% drop on Monday number two for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (which opened on a Wednesday), the 25% drop for The Two Towers (ditto) and the mere 21% drop for The Force Awakens which opened on a Friday and also had the whole “opening weekend straight into the holiday break” advantage that didn’t greet Rogue One and Last Jedi. Both of those films went up from their first Monday to their second Monday, which was not expected here since those films’ respective holiday breaks didn’t kick into until the second Friday for Rogue One and the second Monday for Last Jedi.
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Post by scabab on Jan 1, 2020 20:22:11 GMT
The domestic and global total was always out of reach from The Last Jedi since it opened.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Jan 1, 2020 21:14:42 GMT
The domestic and global total was always out of reach from The Last Jedi since it opened. What if I see it twice a day every day until it leaves theaters?!
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Post by scabab on Jan 1, 2020 21:29:46 GMT
The domestic and global total was always out of reach from The Last Jedi since it opened. What if I see it twice a day every day until it leaves theaters?! Well you could close the gap by about $2,000.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Jan 1, 2020 21:51:18 GMT
What if I see it twice a day every day until it leaves theaters?! Well you could close the gap by about $2,000. Oh, hell yeah. It’s a start. You, uh, got a spare two grand lying around you’re tryna toss my way? Otherwise we might’ve hit a snag in the plan.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Jan 2, 2020 0:08:14 GMT
CrepedCrusader TROS is doing WORSE box office than TLJ, what a disaster thanks to incompetent Kathleen Kennedy and her flunkies! www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2020/12/31/star-wars-box-office-rise-of-skywalker-wont-top-last-jedi/#56156ffb51c7The Rise of Skywalker will still presumably pass $1 billion worldwide, but the domestic and global totals of The Last Jedi are now all-but-certainly out of reach.Anyway, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker earned another $15.2 million domestic and $20.9 million overseas on Monday, giving the film a $377.3 million domestic, $383 million foreign and $761.5 million worldwide cume. Sans inflation, it will pass the $381 million domestic finish of Revenge of the Sith (in 2005) by the end of this sentence, with Phantom Menace ($474 million, counting the 3-D reissue) next on the list in terms of Star Wars movies. It just passed Hobbs & Shaw ($759 million) to become the year’s ninth-biggest global grosser, behind Aladdin ($1.05 billion), Joker ($1.062 billion) and Toy Story 4 ($1.073 billion). Of note, the film dropped 28% from Sunday ($21 million) and 48% from last Monday ($29.2 million). That 48% drop is slightly troubling, as it’s larger than the 29% drop on Monday number two for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (which opened on a Wednesday), the 25% drop for The Two Towers (ditto) and the mere 21% drop for The Force Awakens which opened on a Friday and also had the whole “opening weekend straight into the holiday break” advantage that didn’t greet Rogue One and Last Jedi. Both of those films went up from their first Monday to their second Monday, which was not expected here since those films’ respective holiday breaks didn’t kick into until the second Friday for Rogue One and the second Monday for Last Jedi. Still trying to act like it's a flop, huh? By the end of it's run, DSW films will have cumulatively made ~$6 billion. You mad, bro?
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Jan 2, 2020 0:08:44 GMT
Endgame made 2 billion, the final installment of SW could have done 2 billion if KK, Iger, JJ, and Rian weren't blatantly sabotaging these movies. Lol. You mad, bro? Yeah, you mad.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2020 1:04:26 GMT
over 2 billion for the force awakens is laughable. Good for Disney though, laughable in the fact it was so derivative of a new hope. I really wonder what percentage were hardcore sw fans, general sw fans and general audience for the nostalgia awakens? Wonder if there were any surveys? This is the message we sent Disney by that huge box office. I guess we shouldnt be surprised by the outcome re the next two films or the anthology films which are all in the shadow of the originals, not moving past story-wise or creatively. We get what we deserve
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2020 1:07:13 GMT
I loved Solo. I hated all the idiots who refused to see it because it came 6 months after TLJ. Ooooo. Only 6 months! Does that not sound like you guys can't follow too many stories? I see people who say it was a good movie once they bothered to watch it. So, yeah. I do sort of resent a certain segment of the fanboys who think they own Star Wars. I didn't like what Lucas did with the prequels. I didn't abandon Star Wars. I don't own Star Wars. I still think Lucas failed to properly show why Vader turned evil. Doesnt change how he was in the original trilogy that his creator failed to properly tell his origin. I don't give a toss if you liked Solo, that has NOTHING to do with anything, also lmfao at youy resenting fans who think they own SW, coming from the arrogant stuck up chump who thinks because they were alive to see the OT in theatres means it gives you some greater understanding or appreciation for the series, it does not.
Peoples complaint about Solo wasn't it was too soon after TLJ in terms of story, guess what Marvel bring out 3 movies in a year and no one gives a shit, people still turn out in droves to see them, the issue was it was too soon after the massive backlash against Lucasfilm and SW over TLJ, they had done nothing to win back the large portion of the fanbase they alienated, not by having a shitty movie but by demeaning, ridiculing and offending those who did by throwing labels like racist and sexist man babies and such at them, and that the timing all around was fucking stupid, Solo had no time to make a splash or promote due to the botched production, proximity to Infinity War and the huge summer season kicking off, the argument was they should have stayed in December where they had carved out Christmas as SW season, used that extra 7 months to heavily push the movie and give them more time to just make the movie look amazing, as well as sell people on actually wanting a Han Solo movie without Harrison Ford.
That's the other thing almost no one wanted the movie, people wanted a Solo movie when it was Harrison, they didn't want a Solo movie with some chump pretending to be Han Solo, also most people I hear from say the film was alright at best, most complaints is how stupid many of the moments in the movie are, such as how he got his name, him talking Wookie to Chewie, hitting the checklist of ok so here is how Solo acquired everything he has when Luke meets him, all during this one mission which is his first real op, where as if they had focused on one thing it could have simply been the story of how Han and Chewie became pals, or how Han got the Falcon, how he acquired his infamous blaster, not you know everything in the span of 2 hours, it's also regularly criticised for being just a meh story not even fitting to the character, in ANH he's out for himself, his returning to help Luke is Han becoming a good man, turns out nope he's always been the softie nullifying the importance of his return in the final battle, again the best praise I have heard is that it's an ok scifi adventure, but it's not a good Han Solo origin movie which is what it is.
Fans own THEIR fandom for SW, we do not OWE it to SW or Lucasfilm, if as a fan you or I do not like something we can take our fandom back and not reward subpar work, we like what we like and we do not have to like what we don't just because it has a fucking brand name on it.
Solo was great for what it was but yeah it definitely could have been turned into a trilogy. Then again, people would say Disney is milking Solo. A catch-22, cant satisfy everyone
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Post by johnspartan on Jan 2, 2020 1:38:27 GMT
CrepedCrusader TROS is doing WORSE box office than TLJ, what a disaster thanks to incompetent Kathleen Kennedy and her flunkies! www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2020/12/31/star-wars-box-office-rise-of-skywalker-wont-top-last-jedi/#56156ffb51c7The Rise of Skywalker will still presumably pass $1 billion worldwide, but the domestic and global totals of The Last Jedi are now all-but-certainly out of reach.Anyway, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker earned another $15.2 million domestic and $20.9 million overseas on Monday, giving the film a $377.3 million domestic, $383 million foreign and $761.5 million worldwide cume. Sans inflation, it will pass the $381 million domestic finish of Revenge of the Sith (in 2005) by the end of this sentence, with Phantom Menace ($474 million, counting the 3-D reissue) next on the list in terms of Star Wars movies. It just passed Hobbs & Shaw ($759 million) to become the year’s ninth-biggest global grosser, behind Aladdin ($1.05 billion), Joker ($1.062 billion) and Toy Story 4 ($1.073 billion). Of note, the film dropped 28% from Sunday ($21 million) and 48% from last Monday ($29.2 million). That 48% drop is slightly troubling, as it’s larger than the 29% drop on Monday number two for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (which opened on a Wednesday), the 25% drop for The Two Towers (ditto) and the mere 21% drop for The Force Awakens which opened on a Friday and also had the whole “opening weekend straight into the holiday break” advantage that didn’t greet Rogue One and Last Jedi. Both of those films went up from their first Monday to their second Monday, which was not expected here since those films’ respective holiday breaks didn’t kick into until the second Friday for Rogue One and the second Monday for Last Jedi. Still trying to act like it's a flop, huh? By the end of it's run, DSW films will have cumulatively made ~$6 billion. You mad, bro? Nope, I never said it's a flop, I said it's performing WORSE than TLJ. Ya DUMB bruh?
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Jan 2, 2020 1:39:01 GMT
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Post by dazz on Jan 2, 2020 3:40:44 GMT
I don't give a toss if you liked Solo, that has NOTHING to do with anything, also lmfao at youy resenting fans who think they own SW, coming from the arrogant stuck up chump who thinks because they were alive to see the OT in theatres means it gives you some greater understanding or appreciation for the series, it does not.
Peoples complaint about Solo wasn't it was too soon after TLJ in terms of story, guess what Marvel bring out 3 movies in a year and no one gives a shit, people still turn out in droves to see them, the issue was it was too soon after the massive backlash against Lucasfilm and SW over TLJ, they had done nothing to win back the large portion of the fanbase they alienated, not by having a shitty movie but by demeaning, ridiculing and offending those who did by throwing labels like racist and sexist man babies and such at them, and that the timing all around was fucking stupid, Solo had no time to make a splash or promote due to the botched production, proximity to Infinity War and the huge summer season kicking off, the argument was they should have stayed in December where they had carved out Christmas as SW season, used that extra 7 months to heavily push the movie and give them more time to just make the movie look amazing, as well as sell people on actually wanting a Han Solo movie without Harrison Ford.
That's the other thing almost no one wanted the movie, people wanted a Solo movie when it was Harrison, they didn't want a Solo movie with some chump pretending to be Han Solo, also most people I hear from say the film was alright at best, most complaints is how stupid many of the moments in the movie are, such as how he got his name, him talking Wookie to Chewie, hitting the checklist of ok so here is how Solo acquired everything he has when Luke meets him, all during this one mission which is his first real op, where as if they had focused on one thing it could have simply been the story of how Han and Chewie became pals, or how Han got the Falcon, how he acquired his infamous blaster, not you know everything in the span of 2 hours, it's also regularly criticised for being just a meh story not even fitting to the character, in ANH he's out for himself, his returning to help Luke is Han becoming a good man, turns out nope he's always been the softie nullifying the importance of his return in the final battle, again the best praise I have heard is that it's an ok scifi adventure, but it's not a good Han Solo origin movie which is what it is.
Fans own THEIR fandom for SW, we do not OWE it to SW or Lucasfilm, if as a fan you or I do not like something we can take our fandom back and not reward subpar work, we like what we like and we do not have to like what we don't just because it has a fucking brand name on it.
Solo was great for what it was but yeah it definitely could have been turned into a trilogy. Then again, people would say Disney is milking Solo. A catch-22, cant satisfy everyone The thing is it really could be one movie if done smarter, make it a film that spans a decade of the characters life, we have seen that so many times which allows you to cram a lot more moments into a movie and feel natural, it all being done during a single mission and short time span makes it feel cheap and lazy.
Also the catch 22 argument doesn't work when Disney were clearly looking to milk this thing, it surely wasn't a must hit everything because we have no choice situation, they left the movie with a bunch of sequel/spin off potentials, but again the problem is they didn't make a movie people are clamouring for sequels about, the most talked about was a Lando spin off.
Also "great for what it was" dude please you gotta elaborate on that, as that can be taken in so many ways man, Howard The Duck is imo great for what it is, which is a terrible movie with cheese and horrendous acting up the wazoo but I love it anyway , same for most Oscar bait movies, they are great for what they are, tremendous if derivative stories with top tier acting in an amazing movie I never want to watch a second time.
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