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06-18-2018, 09:13 PM
Ended up seeing Solo the other night. It slightly exceeded my expectations. It was unquestionably superior to The Last Jedi in every respect - the most basic being that it was at least entertaining (TLJ was, in addition to all of its well-documented SJW-inspired faults, a simply boring and ineptly executed piece of film-making). It wasn't a great film or even as good as a Han Solo origin story probably should have been, but it was passable summer action fare. There was certainly a little too much "girl power" going on for my taste in a movie that was supposedly all about Han Solo, but it wasn't completely of control by the standards of 2018. I thought Ehrenreich did a pretty decent job as Han, and Woody Harrelson was fun, if somewhat out of place (although certainly less out of place than Samuel L. Jackson was in the prequels). The action sequences were well done and there was sufficient nostalgia between Han, Chewie, the Millennium Falcon and Lando to scratch the Star Wars itch. The appearance towards the end of a certain prequel character was very cool. I left the theater thinking that they did a decent job, but that with such iconic characters and source material available they really should have done better. Also curious to know what the film looked like before Ron Howard re-shot half the scenes. It must have been godawful in its original state, so Howard perhaps deserves some credit for salvaging it as much as he was able. I'd give it a C+ (for comparison sake, I'd give The Last Jedi an F, Rogue One a B+ and The Force Awakens a B-).
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06-19-2018, 08:19 AM
I won't give the crapheads any money - they are hateful cultural marxist SJWs - it's tantamount to supporting Anita Sarkesian on patreon.
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06-21-2018, 09:20 AM
Personally, if I were Disney I would assign Mark Hamill as a story consultant for any future Star Wars. Maybe he's not a writer, director, producer, or something but he sure as hell should be listened to because he gets what SW should and should not be. They need someone with a functioning bullshit-meter with some real veto-power.
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06-21-2018, 09:27 AM
That was worth clicking on The Guardian for. To see with my own eyes the consequences of their actions.
This was all so unnecessary though. Had they just left the social justice alone and stuck to making good Star Wars movies, then all the old fans like myself would be enjoying all these wonderful spin-off movies, dvds, blu-rays, merchandise for the kids etc for years to come. But no, they knew best and couldn't resist. 'Franchise fatigue' again! Yeah, keep telling yourselves that.
I'm pleased that Boba Fett has been saved from the indignity of whatever hellish re-imagining his character would have been subjected to. Fuck knows what outlines they had in mind for him.
The Comments under the original Collider article show that people get it, even if the media hacks are still ignoring the elephant in the room.
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06-21-2018, 10:40 AM
Yeah Lucasfilm just doesn't get it. Stop spewing this "franchise fatigue" bullshit. Everyone who knows better is quick to point to the Marvel movies--Black Panther and Infinity War released within months of each other and absolutely crushed it. And it was even the same year. I mean, that kills the franchise fatigue argument right there.
Your SJW nonsense doesn't sell. We don't want it. We don't want shit stories like TLJ either. I don't know how else we can show these idiots we mean business. No one is buying your toys, no one is buying your blu rays, and no one is going to your fucking movies now. You reap what you sow.
I'm glad these movies got cancelled. Otherwise we probably would have gotten a gay Obi Wan and probably a trans Boba Fett.
Cynical Contrarian is right. We must keep up the boycott and get the message out and grow our numbers.
They think Solo was bad? Wait until we show these fucks what we have in store for Episode IX.
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06-21-2018, 10:40 AM
If folk are anything like me, it isn't even a conscious boycott. They aren't going to see SOLO because it's a bad film, some of the reviews on here for example point to it being ok to good. I'll watch it for free when I get a chance.
No, people didn't go to see SOLO because of TLJ. Because it was shit certainly, but also because they realised they were turning up to a parties where they were no longer welcome.
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06-21-2018, 06:25 PM
Any chance they get to make alternative Episodes 7,8,9?
That's a great way to re-hash the franchise yet again, and get people to actually watch and, amazingly, ditch the other idiotic attempts at destroying Star Wars.
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06-25-2018, 09:05 AM
This Breitbart article pulls no punches in dissecting the box office failure of SOLO. Honestly, it could have been written by a number of people on this thread;
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2...cover-why/
Some choice quotes;
'Solo is going to lose a fortune.
A Star Wars movie is going to lose a fortune.
And our hopelessly corrupt entertainment media refuse to say why'
and,
'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.'
and,
'As far as I know, and I have given it a good faith perusal, no one, not a single member of the establishment media — even as commenters fill their sites with complaints about how the infusion of Kennedy’s obnoxious politics have ruined the franchise for countless fans — has shown the moral courage to even raise the idea that this might, maybe, could conceivably, possibly, be, perhaps, part of the perchance problem.'
Lastly, a strong finish to the article, with perhaps my favourite quote;
'Kennedy is a literal book burner when it comes to Star Wars, and to protect their access and their own delusional need to never acknowledge that left-wing politics equals box office death, these moral cowards are intentionally ignoring one of the biggest entertainment stories of the year.'
'Left-wing politics equals box office death'? If only that were true. They usually just sneak the politics in under the radar. Maybe they'll just go back to that, rather than boiling the frog too quickly with Fembusters and the like.
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06-25-2018, 11:09 AM
Those official failure explanations remind me of the old communist ones of why the Eastern European living standard was so low and lacking:
+ it was Western meddling and sabotage
+ it was the laziness of their people (even saying that East Germans were more lazy than West Germans)
+ there was just too much corruption by individuals
But mostly they blamed the evil capitalist West for sabotaging their economic utopia and not that there was something fundamentally wrong with their system.
The same is true now - they blame the toxic fans, they blame the weather, the time, the holidays, the competition, they blame Russian hackers for hacking the Rotten Tomatoes score. IT IS EVERYTHING BUT THE BLESSED UTOPIAN FEMINIST SJW DOGMA!
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06-26-2018, 01:43 AM
< 80% SJW is a real revolutionary in our times.