I'm waiting for the really good one:
Star Wars: The Delightful Brunch of Jar-Jar Binks.
Watch Jar-Jar slice a bagel with his light sabre. And then spread cream cheese on the bagel with his light sabre.
Posted on 12/22/2019 8:46:49 AM PST by EdnaMode
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s opening weekend will land south of both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, according to domestic box office estimates Disney sent out this morning.
The Rise of Skywalker’s first weekend pulled in $175.5 million in North America, $90 million of that from the Thursday night early-bird showings and then Friday’s full premiere. Though it’s an estimated total, $175 million is still short of the top 10 among domestic opening weekends all time, behind 2016’s Captain America: Civil War.
It’s also not in the same tax bracket as Skywalker’s trilogy predecessors — The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi both took more than $200 million in their debut weekends, good for third and fourth in that (domestic) category, all time. At this point, the opening weekend top 10 is largely an intramural competition, with Disney films accounting for 13 of the top 14, and six of those in the last two years.
But $175.5 million still makes The Rise of Skywalker the third-highest grossing Star Wars movie after its first weekend in the United States, comfortably in front of Revenge of the Sith, which earned $108.4 million from its 2005 debut.
Internationally, The Rise of Skywalker added $198 million to its gross (for $373.5 million worldwide), helped by $26.8 million and $12.1 million from same-day premieres in the United Kingdom and China, respectively. By comparison, The Force Awakens scored almost $500 million ($494 million to be precise) in its first weekend worldwide, while The Last Jedi took in $437.5 million. Notably, China waited about a month after both movies’ launch date before they premiered in that country.
Disney started out the weekend by tamping down industry-watchers’ expectations, offering a $160 million estimate for The Rise of Skywalker’s domestic box office even as other third parties projected $200 million or more.
The comparatively depressed box office haul could reflect any number of audience trends, ranging from fatigue with the 42-year-old franchise; last year’s underwhelming Solo: A Star Wars Story ($148 million opening weekend worldwide, $84.4 million U.S.) ; a critically tepid, if not thumbs-down, response to director J.J. Abrams’ vision for the franchise; or the querulous chatter of a divided fan base on social media.
Rotten Tomatoes currently gives The Rise of Skywalker a 54% rating among critics (meaning percent of positive reviews), which is low enough to get the green splat icon. Moviegoers, however, give it an 86% (meaning ticket buyers who gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars, or more). Metacritic’s aggregation of 59 scored reviews also lands The Rise of Skywalker at a 54; Metacritic readers rate it a 50, evenly dividing more than 1,000 user reviews between positive and negative.
“There’s certainly a palpable sense throughout The Rise of Skywalker that the creators are trying to revisit and pay off every satisfying battle and memorable moment from Skywalker Saga history all at once,” says our spoiler-free review. However, “the film feels clumsy, hurried, and above all, like an admission of creative defeat.”
They squeezed the last milliliter of thala-sirens milk out of this franchize.
*YAWN*
Okay.
“Woke go, broke you will go, hmmmmm....” ~ Yoda
You must be a Jim Healy fan.
Disney crapped all over the core of Star Wars. Their totally unnecessary SJW injections and unexplained breaks with previous movies was bad enough.
The fact that they killed off the original characters in an ignoble manner, they also turned them into weaklings and failures in everything they did.
$375 million in 3 days. Somehow I don’t think anybody’s going broke on it.
I’ve seen some photos of a baby Yoda.
Is Jar Jar Binks the mother?
The budget including marketing and reshoots was huge on this movie.
Yeah. And it’s already made money on toys. They ain’t losing money on this one. Solo yeah, too much too soon there (which is too bad, that’s a good movie). This one had the rest, and will make the cash. Near a billion. Profits will be had. Though buried, cause it’s Hollywood.
Star Wars has been jumping the shark since Phantom Menace. Not worthy of my time.
Franchise fatigue my butt.
When you not only publicly insult the fans on a regular basis and then make a movie that not only insults the fans but destroys EVERYTHING the franchise stood for then you’ve decided you don’t WANT the audience that made your movies popular and successful to begin with. But of course that’s THEIR fault and not yours.
But boy golly for all that “franchise fatigue” they certainly are making a killing on Baby Yoda merchandise.
IMHO, Star Wars ended with “Return of the Jedi”. Everything since then has been cheap kiddie crap. Ads to sell toys and pajamas.
I went and saw the movie on Saturday with my buddy who is a die hard Disney trilogy fan. I’m a die hard Original fan.
It’s funny, I ended up enjoying the movie more than he did it seems.
The first 60% of it flat out sucked due to poor pacing and rapid scene changing. It is difficult to sit through and enjoy, but I did have some yummy popcorn.
The last part, and basically the scenes that were between Kylo and Rey, I enjoyed.
I never gave a crap about either of these two characters, but the actors did well with what limited material they had to work with here. Driver and Daisy are good actors. I enjoyed Ridley’s performance in this film well more than I enjoyed Natlaie Portman’s performance in the prequels.
I thought the scene with Adam Driver and *** **** was very good. This was my favorite scene of the movie by far.
Overall, I’d give this move a C or C-, the first part just is not redeemable, but the last part allowed me to be entertained and say that overall I had a good time, and I’m glad that I went.
Otherwise, the theater was totally full, noon showing, there was a very small smattering of applause at the end by some people in the theater.
My friend said he felt the movie was rushed, and generally was disappointed.
Have you seen any of The Mandalorian on Disney+?
Now THAT is how to do Star Wars and do it right. Easily the best thing on TV. And so far it's absent any of the SJW crap. Also, it's quite a joy to see Carl Weathers back in action.
I wont be spending another nickel on anything Star Wars or Disney. They lost me years ago.
SJW Wars: The Rise of Soywalker.
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