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Ron Howard Says Online Trolls Were Partly To Blame For ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Box Office Fail
Deadline ^ | June 5, 2019 | Andreas Wiseman

Posted on 06/05/2019 8:31:45 AM PDT by EdnaMode

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To: freepertoo

The only movie I ever saw in theaters so
many times would be “Thunder Road.”


61 posted on 06/05/2019 10:01:56 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: EdnaMode
Ron Howard has said that online trolls were partly to blame for the lacklustre box office performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story.

Riiiiiight...and some Russians trolls buying ads on Facebook were partly to blame for Hillary losing the election.

Just because your pathetic fan-base is unable to think for themselves and have to rely on social media for their opinions doesn’t mean the rest of us normal citizens can’t smell an obvious stinker.

62 posted on 06/05/2019 10:02:25 AM PDT by Shethink13 (there are 0 electoral votes in the state of denial)
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To: freepertoo
I saw Rocky 2 16 times. The audience reactions were so much fun!

LOL, so were the Italian guys really trying to make the black guys pay for their candy?

63 posted on 06/05/2019 10:04:11 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EdnaMode

How about the story line sucked. . . . . .


64 posted on 06/05/2019 10:05:15 AM PDT by Godzilla ( I just love the smell of COVFEFE in the morning . . . . .)
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To: PapaBear3625

Been watching the new Star Trek Discovery Show.
one semi-strong male (the awesome Anson Mount as Capt. Pike)
and something like 8 superior women. smarter, faster and better...oh yea also tougher than ever.
Admirals, doctors, top officers, brilliant scientists, decision makers etc.
The rest of the men are either emotionally weak, incompetent or evil.
pisses me off....whatever, the final season 2 episode was frigging EPIC.


65 posted on 06/05/2019 10:06:32 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: mowowie

There is very little that Hollywood products are worth wasting your time and money.


66 posted on 06/05/2019 10:07:58 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Organized Crime is now in charge of the District of Corruption)
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To: Eddie01

Exactly ... we are the final critics (who cares what somebody that makes a living being a critic thinks) ... and WE decided to spend our money elsewhere. Give us a good product, we MIGHT go see it, but with every “preview of [in]Coming attractions” the future looks dimmer for Hollywood.


67 posted on 06/05/2019 10:08:09 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for.)
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To: EdnaMode

Live by the Onlinen Troll, die by the Online Troll, Opie.


68 posted on 06/05/2019 10:09:50 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: EdnaMode

I only watched it because I was on a plane back from Denver. I didn’t expect much from it. Have to say, it didn’t suck like I thought it would.

Not blockbuster material, but a decent movie.


69 posted on 06/05/2019 10:10:36 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: dfwgator

LOL! No, but during the fight scenes, the audience lost their minds! I have never seen anything like it... and that was for all of the originals I-IV


70 posted on 06/05/2019 10:11:49 AM PDT by freepertoo
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To: frnewsjunkie

“Little Opie Cunningham.”


71 posted on 06/05/2019 10:20:09 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: freepertoo

My high school tough guy/bully was so jacked up after leaving the theater after watching Rocky 3 he started sucker punching people waiting in line for the next showing...
Showcase Cinema Dedham, MA 1982


72 posted on 06/05/2019 10:23:53 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: EdnaMode
Maybe it's because people got concerned when the studio virtue signaled by airbrushing the blasters out of the movie posters?

-PJ

73 posted on 06/05/2019 10:25:53 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: EdnaMode
Solo: A Star Wars Story mustered $393M at the global box office off an estimated $275M budget. Released last May, the film arrived only six months after The Last Jedi. Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker, due for a December release this year, will be the fifth Star Wars universe film released since 2015.

That's too many Star Wars movies in a short time. They are competing with themselves. The original classic trilogy films were released 3 years apart. In the meantime, there were imitator space operas being released to try to capitalize on the Star Wars phenomenon.

Same was true of the James Bond films. When Bondmania was at its zenith, there were all kinds of imitative (and inferior) spy movies and TV shows being made, but the Bond films themselves were always more popular than the weaker imitations. The Star Wars people are making their own weaker imitations and diluting the cachet of the Star Wars name.

74 posted on 06/05/2019 10:26:50 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (If it weren't for fake hate crimes, there would be no hate crimes at all.)
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To: mowowie

Frigging sociopath....i wonder if that d-bag is still alive....

With my luck probably living the life right now..


75 posted on 06/05/2019 10:26:58 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: EdnaMode

He did everything but blame the Russians. Pathetic.


76 posted on 06/05/2019 10:27:40 AM PDT by lodi90
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Bookmarking


77 posted on 06/05/2019 10:28:01 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: EdnaMode

I agree with him it was better than the other crap SW movies.


78 posted on 06/05/2019 10:28:42 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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To: C19fan

Last Jedi TOTALLY sucked but made a fortune.


79 posted on 06/05/2019 10:29:21 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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To: EdnaMode

I’ve been watching it on Netflix over last couple of days.
It’s okay so far. good action, dialogue and effects.


80 posted on 06/05/2019 10:29:28 AM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal (NorthernSentinel))
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