Posted on 06/02/2018 5:39:02 PM PDT by Enlightened1
With no serious competition opening at the box office, Solo has officially collapsed with a catastrophic -68 percent drop in its second weekend. After grossing a measly (we are talking about a Star Wars movie here) $82 million in its debut weekend, Solo bottomed out in week two with just $28 million. How bad is that?
In its second weekend, The Force Awakens was grossing $50 million A DAY.
The Last Jedi grossed $70 million.
Rogue One grossed $55 million.
In worse news, Solo is by far the most expensive Star Wars movie produced yet, with a reported price tag of $250 million. Add another $150 million for publicity, and we are talking about a $900 million worldwide breakeven point.
After The Force Awakens, Rogue One, and The Last Jedi grossed a domestic $936 million, $532 million, and $620 million, respectively, Solo will probably skid to a stop before it reaches $230 million.
The news is just as bad at the international box office, where Solo has only added $82 million, despite opening everywhere.
Solo is going to lose a fortune.
And our hopelessly corrupt entertainment media refuse to say why.
How desperate are the entertainment media to cover up the fact that Kathleen Kennedy’s obnoxious, story-killing, left-wing politics are killing Star Wars? Over at the far-left Washington Post, Steven Zeitchik, who is actually paid money to analyze the box office, blamed it on — try not to laugh — a late spring release date, the fact Solo is a spin-off, yes, Star Wars fatigue.
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1. Except the USSR still lasted nearly a century. You want a true example of what a truly incompetent government is like? Look at Robespierre’s France, which didn’t even manage to last FOUR years before collapsing on itself after the Revolution, then got reorganized into Napoleon’s Empire, and France STILL hasn’t recovered to this day, swapping various regimes (at least seven, maybe nine).
2. Like I said, they shouldn’t have reported on it unless they have actually done so.
3. You know that JRR Tolkien would have been completely horrified and disgusted if you told him that Aragorn was pansexual for his marrying an elf, right? The guy was a devoted Christian, and would NEVER have supported the pansexual agenda, not to mention promoted it, IF he even was aware of it in the first place (as LGBT elements are strictly forbidden by Christians and the Bible). And the Star Trek episodes, like Star Wars, was meant to push allegorical elements of things like interracial marriages, which aren’t even close to pansexual. And yes, being plant-sexual or bestiality IS required to be “pansexual”, since it literally means gender fluidity, or anything that moves, even if not strictly the opposite sex. I think you’re using the term “pansexual” loosely.
I haven’t seen it (seeing Deadpool Tuesday), so I’d appreciate some examples.
I thought it looked good from the previews. Doubt I’ll go. Just wait until it’s broadcast.
The shirts show they don’t get Star Wars one iota.
Momentum and size. And actually it only made 69 years.
They HAD to report on it. It was a major deal, and Disney wasn’t the only company trying to buy Fox. That announcement was basically telling the other suitors to stop now, they lost. Plus there’s a certain amount of time a deal needs to be public before you file SEC paperwork.
Who cares what Tolkien would think. He had the character go cross species. There is no pansexual agenda, it’s just people who aren’t into limits. And no it does NOT require bestiality:
not limited in sexual choice with regard to biological sex, gender, or gender identity.
STOP LYING.
Saw it, it was MEH.
The one character and the events around it were pure political nonsense, served no purpose, but it wasn’t nearly as over the top ridiculous as the whole sub plot of the last mainline film with the Asian and the black guy.
It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great... but the L3 character or whatever it was was clearly a political kludge shoved in that didn’t work, and wasn’t needed... but it was nowhere near as bad as the stuff shoved into the last one.
What stood out to me during the film, was that the pacing and timing were off... the lines clearly designed to be comical largely didn’t work...the audience wasn’t laughing at them and it wasn’t that the lines themselves weren’t funny, but that the acting and timing around then was off... so they didn’t come across, often, as the comic relief they were meant to be.
Probably the biggest issue (spoiler alert) story wise was these “pirates” that just show up out of nowhere to cause plot devices... somehow they know exactly when something is going down and cause events to drive other actions.. but how do they know it’s going down right when they show up?
The biggest issue overall was simply the characters just aren’t selling the same character... the dialog is mostly there to sell it but the acting/directing don’t get it across.
Solo is the loveable scamp... and you just don’t get that vibe out of him in this film.
I don’t think the film is failing on its own, I honestly think it’s failing because the fans were dismissed by Lucasfilms in their rightful critiques and criticisms of the last film. I think it’s just being boycotted not out of fatigue, but after the last film and the treatment by Kathleen Kennedy etc al after then last Film, fans have just thrown up their hands and said enough.
1. France wasn’t exactly a small country, though. The main country alone encompassed a large part of the European Peninsula (in fact, the only country besides France to even have as much land was its rival Spain), and its nickname was L’Hexagon referring to its overall shape. And that’s not even counting the colonial influence it had during that time, which amounted to large portions of Western Canada, plus most of the midwestern United States (in particular, the plot of land we got from the Louisiana Purchase), French New Guinea, Haiti/Dominican Republic, plus portions of the Carribbean islands, the Falkland Islands, and even part of India. Then there are places like Fort Caroline, Trincomalee, Fort Coligny, and Sao Luis. Also, technically, the USSR was formed around 1917, so it would be closer to 74 years, which even still is STILL a lot more than what Robespierre’s France got, which was four, maybe five years tops before it collapsed on itself and got reorganized into Napoleon’s Empire, and hadn’t had a stable government system since (and counting the colonies, France was pretty huge). And considering that the French Revolution ultimately inspired Communism, I’d say it had a pretty BIG amount of momentum as it was.
2. Fine, I’ll concede there.
3. Yes, actually, there IS a pansexual agenda. Do you really think they’d post a flag advertising pansexuality and try to market it if they didn’t have an agenda? It’s like saying the Nazis “didn’t have an agenda” when trying to push those anti-Semitic films, or that College professors talking about the free love movement during Chaucer lectures “don’t have an agenda” or how about the gay marriage advocates? And yes, it DOES ultimately require bestiality, especially considering that many times a lot of pansexuals actually DO sleep with animals and plants, thinking them as gender fluid. It’s not lying at all. And yes, Tolkien WOULD have thought otherwise, because pansexuality wasn’t even an idea back then, and even if it were, people would have treated it as an abomination (this was back when people still had some moral values to hold on to, especially Christian moral values).
Compared to the Soviet Union?! BWAHAHAHA now you’re just gettin silly. The facts are in. Large Empires are USUALLY incompetent, but take a while to unwind. There’s nothing new or interesting about it.
No there isn’t. Sorry but there’s a lot of paranoia in conservative realms about the “agenda” of various perverted people and most of what they want is to be left the hell alone.
Must be Jurassic Park related. Read the book, saw the movie but not any TV show. Must have been a cartoon.
It was a repeat of past movies scenes.
The actor was bland. He had a David Cassidy hairdo.
22 Times ‘Solo’ Recycled Moments From the Original ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy
https://www.thewrap.com/22-times-solo-recycled-moments-original-star-wars-trilogy/
I am guessing all of you are waiting for Harrison Ford in the next Indiana Jones film due in 2019 : )
He wrote ER(TV). With Goose from Top Gun and George Clooney, and others...
Jurassic Park the book & movie.
1. I suggest you look at this map, it shows France isn’t exactly a shrinking violet regarding size, especially colonial-wise (in particular, look at the green ones):
2. Here’s my idea of wanting to be left alone: DON’T do things that draw attention to the thing you want people to leave you alone for. That especially includes making sure you DON’T adopt any flags, symbols, or anything that would sort you out as that. In other words, be dumb about the idea. The second you do a flag or start broadcasting in any way LGBT stuff, you’re pushing an agenda, plain and simple. At least us Christians acknowledge we have an agenda to push when we’re pushing the Gospel.
248,000 sq miles vs 8.65 MILLION square miles. France is 1/34 the size of the USSR. Sorry but your comparison is laughable to the point of stupid.
People just trying to have sex with willing partners. Kind of hard to do that without drawing some attention. But don’t worry, they don’t want you. So get over it.
Really, get over the whole thing.
You believe in gender identity? Have to check out that list that truly describes FReepers.
I believe in leaving people alone. I believe that by the time you’re worried about how somebody else who isn’t bothering you in anyway identifies themselves there’s a couple of hundred other better things to do with your time. And I believe most of the freaking out happens because people who led sheltered lives are afraid somebody is having more fun than them. And they’re right. There’s always somebody having more fun than you. And me too. I just don’t get uptight about it.
#3 - astoundingly accurate answer. Thank you. Was starting to think the libiots had overtaken FR.
I worry about the breakdown of morality in the world. I worry the immoral are constantly pushing their desires to the world, drawing unstable people into their perversion. However, I also believe the Chassidic, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, know reality and speak Divine truth, so, our present reality is going to end in a short time, and then the Moshiach will appear, and we’ll all be in a most Heavenly place.
People have been saying our present reality is going to end any day now for 5000 years. Don’t take that bet, you’ll lose. As for the morality of the world there’s 7.6 billion people on it. Some of them are immoral, some of them are moral. Take care of yourself, leave the rest alone.
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