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.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
By the sounds of it...
Critics are outnumbering audience.
Ewan McGregor did a great job as Obi Wan.
Karl Urban did awesome as Bones McCoy.
paid star wars shill...lol
“Moral turpitude” clauses still exist in the industry.
Only catch is, what constitutes “moral turpitude” has been redefined. Kiddy porn? Yup. Sexual harassment? Yup. Same-sex “marriage”? Nope. Multiple sex partners? Nope.
The vast majority of Hollywood “creative” types will end up as nihilists. But they will never admit it.
When you compare positive to negative reviews you wonder if they saw same film.
Nobody is a single property nerd. And given the buzz about Disney’s opinion of Deadpool I think there was a push to make sure it made bank. And again, 5 months.
This explains it. I think rotten tomatoes is full of fake accounts that vote bad if the movie has no liberal PC in it. It votes 100% excellent if there is liberal PC.
The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions were literally released months between each other (six months, as a matter of fact), and even the latter film did a LOT better in the box office than Solo did. So no, it had nothing to do with it being months between release.
And as far as Deadpool 2, I doubt that was the case. I really doubt Disney would have tried to make Deadpool a lot of money especially considering it was a sequel film anyway. It wouldn’t have been as big of a priority compared to, say, The Avengers: Infinity Wars, or even The Incredibles 2, especially not when Deadpool isn’t even geared towards their usual audiences, which were families, kids, and early teens.
Yes, it is indeed true that nobody is a single property nerd, but the problem is that it bombed among even the casuals, not just the Star Wars fans (who BTW are pretty much boycotting after some of the tasteless remarks by Disney and JJ Abrams where they insulted their audiences).
That still doesn’t explain why it failed in the box office, though (plus, technically, Rotten Tomatoes would have probably given it at least a slightly higher rating due to Kasadan mouthing off that Lando’s pansexual right before release).
Trump voters' fault. They didn't embrace their favorite characters being turned into a bunch of pansexual dick smokers.
Difference being the previous Matrix movie was 4 years before Reloaded. Solo is the 4th SW in 3 1/2 years. Plus an animated TV show (which was actually pretty good), books, toys, etc etc. There’s been about 5 times as much SW in that time frame as the entire body of Matrix work.
Disney doesn’t own Deadpool yet, but according to all the buzz (mostly from Ryan) Disney ain’t into it. But Disney is into money. I know of at least one “make Deadpool make money so Disney keeps it going” social media movement.
It’s the casuals that make a movie make money. There just aren’t enough nerds to keep a tentpole up. And it’s the casuals that are the most likely to suffer from SW and/ or nerd movie fatigue. The SW fans aren’t boycotting, they’re bitching, but they go. Because that’s what nerds do. The old “worst movie ever” thing. They see it 5 times and bitch about it every time. And then they see the next one 5 times and bitch about that. They follow the Doctor Who life cycle, every outgoing Doctor is the best non-Baker ever, every inbound Doctor is the worst ever.
I liked it too. Except for the robot-in-love thing, and I just ignored it. Didn’t care for the ending, although the girl had to go to make room for Leia later.
Actually, the Matrix, besides the three films, had the Animatrix series which were released before Revolutions aired, not to mention a chat blog with the creators of the franchise, not to mention the video game Enter the Matrix and the comic “Bits and Pieces of Information”. It was also rather notorious for essentially forming a new legal defense called the Matrix Defense, which was a variation of the Insanity Plea. In other words, it was actually about as overdosed during that time frame as Star Wars was during those five months (and I’m limiting it to those five to six months since you indicated Solo failed due to it being released five months after The Last Jedi). Also, I’m not sure I’d call Rebels particularly good. The so-called “victories” by the Rebels were actually pretty embarrassing, even if I were still someone who rooted for the Rebels, as it made the Empire look so grossly incompetent it’s a wonder they even MANAGED to last as long as they did (only Vader and Thrawn came across as even remotely competent), and let’s face it, if the villains are depicted as incompetent, it doesn’t feel like the heroes’ victories seem well earned. It’s sort of like watching Jessie, James and Meowth losing to an inexperienced and nearly dead Caterpie despite literally holding every advantage they could possibly have:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drUaIEbRr_c
And if they don’t even own Deadpool yet, they really have zero reason to make money off of it. Besides, they can easily make money by just releasing it DTV like they did under Eisner with those sequels, so that really doesn’t work as an explanation.
And that’s exactly my point. They’ve already ticked off most of the fans to such an extent that most of them are already boycotting the films (heck, I’m already boycotting Star Wars due to its mere association with Disney thanks in large part to their mishandling with Lefou in the 2017 remake of Beauty and the Beast, and even if that weren’t a factor, I’d certainly boycott Star Wars after the disaster that was Star Wars Battlefront II and also JJ Abrams’ insulting claim that The Last Jedi failed due to the audience being “afraid of women.” And don’t think that I wouldn’t do the boycott due to being a hardcore fan. I’ve actually been boycotting Pokémon since 2009, haven’t bought any of the games starting with Platinum, any of the card games, the merchandise, or watched the anime under ANY capacity, at most only frequenting internet forums due to my at least not having to pay there. In fact, if I DO get Pokémon related stuff, it’s only for stuff that’s actually free of charge so I don’t have to violate the boycott to do so. In fact, I only modified my boycott once since enacting it, which was to specifically exempt any Pokémon products that featured the character Misty in them. I’m actually a pretty hardcore Pokémon fan, so if I can boycott Pokémon for this long of a while despite being a hardcore fan, I’m pretty sure even the hardcore fans of Star Wars can boycott.). Not to mention the casuals certainly aren’t going to like being told Lando’s pansexual or that they’re afraid of women, so they’ve alienated even the more general audience, let alone the fans.
It would have helped if Nolte would have given us examples of the left wing spin on the movie he’s complaining about.
4 movies
And 75 half hour TV episodes
3 1/2 years
The Matrix didn’t do nearly that much content that quickly. Rebels was really good. And yes the Empire was fairly incompetent that’s how the Rebels win in the end.
You’re not understanding the sentence.
Disney IS going to buy the Fox content
Which means they are GOING to own Deadpool
Disney bosses have made remarks that they don’t like Deadpool on a rather philosophical level
But it’s the money that matters
Deadpool fans have heard the talk and know Deadpool needs to make enough money for Disney to get over their dislike of the property. So any SW and Deadpool fans that didn’t have the money for both went to Deadpool. Guaranteed. They know SW ain’t going away, Deadpool’s not such a sure bet.
Who cares if Lando is pansexual. That is frankly the stupidest damn thing the whiney bitch crowd is whiney bitching about. Really it’s a fictional world with ALIENS, MANY MANY ALIENS. And we know from previous installments some of the character don’t stick to their own race. And if anybody bothered to read the books they know Lando is one of those. Lando has been VERY pansexual for multiple decades. GET OVER IT.
1. If the Empire was truly as incompetent as Rebels depicted them as, they would have collapsed WELL before even the events of A New Hope, let alone Return of the Jedi. In fact, they would have collapsed in, I don’t know, five years, especially given the failures Rebels had inflicted on them. Not even Rule of Fear would have been enough. In fact, had I been in Rebels and I saw the Empire losing, I’d actually laugh at them for the embarrassing defeats.
2. Disney already HAS bought the Fox content, however. They already made the purchase way back in December 2017. Iger even made the announcement that he extended his contract at the same time. The fact that they still considered Deadpool not important enough compared to, say, The Avengers: Infinity Wars, The Incredibles 2, or even Star Wars should speak volumes of how little interest, even monetary wise, they have in that movie.
3. No, Lando was NEVER pansexual, not even in the books. At worst, he was promiscuous, like Charlie Harper from Two and a Half Men (which isn’t a good thing, but still not one of those LGBT stuff), or Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, or heck, even Glenn Quagmire from Family Guy.
You’re right, Ewan McGregor was an excellent young Obi Wan Knobi.
The Empire was collapsing. Tim Zahn talked about it quite extensively in the Thrawn books. Between having to devote a lot of military just to keep races that hated each other from starting wars, and the internecine corruption the Empire was falling apart. The question was what was going to replace it. A corrupt version of the same. A highly efficient version of the same. Or a return to the Republic.
Actually no the Disney Fox deal is not completed yet. It’s mostly done, but there’s still some i’s to dot and t’s to cross. Disney had NOTHING to do with the release of Deadpool.
Lando banged non-humans on a regular basis. Once you’ve jumped species you’re pansexual. VERY pan.
1. The Empire lasted unopposed from 19 BBY until about 2 BBY, and even there, lasted largely until 12 ABY with the formation of the Imperial Remnant, and then eventually it managed to regain most of its power by the time of the Yuuzhan Vong wars, and even managed to ultimately supplant the New Republic by the Second Galactic Civil War. And part of the Imperial Handbook implies that they respected free market capitalism enough to actually allow for transparent mercantilism to go uninterfered in the Corporate Sector. That doesn’t strike me as incompetent. And besides, do I really need to point out how the USSR, which literally thrived on fear and deception, not to mention killed a whole lot of its own citizenry either out of malice or sometimes out of incompetence, lasted a whole century, with there not being any rebellious elements precisely BECAUSE anyone who DID try to rebel even slightly ended up dead? An Empire like the Galactic Empire would NOT have been as incompetent as Rebels depicted. Heck, the Old Republic was arguably even MORE incompetent than the Empire when you get right down to it, and even IT managed to last fairly long and have at least some competency to last as long as it did. Under Rebels, the Empire would have collapsed before they even got the idea to use Rule of Fear. That’s what you’re failing to grasp. I know if I were the Empire and I ended up losing to the Rebels as many times as they did in that show, I’d raise the white flag of surrender and even disband the Empire out of shame.
2. I’m pretty sure the articles for the deal made in December made clear that it WAS done. Otherwise, why report on the deal having happened?
3. By that logic, Wedge Antilles and plenty of other Star Wars characters, or heck, Aragorn from Lord of the Rings was pansexual just because they “banged” aliens (or in the case of Aragorn, an Elf). In case you’ve forgotten, the Star Wars lore tended to treat aliens the same way that people treated different ethnicities rather than, you know, being completely separate species (that’s even part of the reason Lucas added in aliens, to pretty much make social statements). That’s not enough to qualify them as pansexual, which would ultimately require them to bang obvious animals or trees or what have you, banging non-sentient creatures.
A lot of that is just a matter of size and momentum. Look at how long the Roman Empire lasted even after it was obviously doomed. A lot of what survived in both empires was really fiefdoms one strong smart local leader able to carry the banner and make it count. Empire’s like that are actually basically destined to be incompetent. When you build by fascist dictatorship everybody in the power structure is looking out for themselves first which means your empire is working against itself, which makes your empire incompetent. Your USSR example actually proves my point. The USSR was a mess, gross incompetencies at all levels. There’s a reason why they had twice as much quality farmland as us and had to buy food from us.
It’s not done. It was agreed to in principle. Papers were filed. No vote has happened yet. They’ve only recently filed SEC paperwork:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/20/17258454/disney-21st-century-fox-acquisition
Summer of next year is when things are projected to be done and that’s only IF shareholders and various government agencies say yes.
As a matter of fact they are. There’s a reason for the old Star Trek line of infinite diversity in infinite combinations. Once you jump species, possibly to one that doesn’t even have the whole male-female thing going on, you’ve entered pan country. And no pansexual does NOT require bestiality.
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