Nope.
it was casting a metrosexual as Han Solo
Let us suppose for a moment that the reason Solo flopped was because the fandom is toxic.
Will namecalling and shaming make the next movie a financial success?
TRANSLATION: Get in the theaters and watch the new Star Wars movies, you racist bastards!
Sorry, the problem with the movies is venturing off the original George Lucas theme and movie—inserting perverted characters, having bad characters, having a weak, flat story, etc. Today’s folks do not understand what made Star Wars such a success. They are not George Lucas.
ROFL so it's the fans' fault the fans don't like the new movies. . .People like Marc Bernadin don't need to watch science fiction movies, they already live in an alternate reality. As for blaming "trolls who want only the nostalgia of their youth" I've talked to fans ranging in age from their teens to their 40s who agreed A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back were better than the prequels and the new sequels.
Bad writing, bad directing, and bad acting killed The Last Jedi.
Another example of Star Wars producers and directors spitting on the fans of Star Wars. If you don’t like our movies, you’re a racist and a sexist!
The article makes a few possible points after the usual cries of racism. That old fans are old and the new Star Wars is for young people. But. Fact is Star Wars began failing to deliver what the Fans wanted after the original three. Leftist activism was just the last straw.
Yep!!! This is ridiculous!! The fans aren’t the ones destroying Star Wars....it’s Disney! These crappy story lines that’s veering away from basic Star Wars acceptance; the rush to kill of old fan favorites [killed of Admiral Ackbar in a footnote]; trying to put PC/SJW in there instead of making a great movie; don’t give us a Kylo-Luke fight and Rey can do high level Jedi moves all by herself with very little training; don’t need to know about her parents either because it doesn’t matter
Imagine a gender neutral 'Romeo and Juliet'.
John Nolte over at Breitbart already had excellent analysis on this.
I have a bad feeling about all this...
So you are a bigot and a troll by default if you don’t like the latest “leavings” from the studios. Really a new approach to marketing they got there.
Lucas said there were 9 movies to be made, and that is all I wanted him to do, but he burned out or just didn’t give a shite any more and he sold out to Disney.
Pity.
PC is killing SW.
Here is how to destroy a franchise: Make the heroine an inexplicable Mary Sue (Han, Luke and Leia all had back stories to explain their abilities), ensure that from now on ALL “heroes” will be NOT be Straight White Males, tell your fan base to f themselves, change the narrative to ensure the victory of the heroes lasted only a few years and might as well have never happened, then tell your fan base to lay their johnsons on the sidewalk so you can run over them with a steam roller.
You know — the hiLIARy 2016 campaign strategy.
“The dogs won’t eat the dog food”.
The problem with Star Wars is always the same thing, special effects does not make a plot line! Robert Wise learned that from the 1st Star Trek film. Star Wars is just getting old with the whole force vs. dark side crap. Need to introduce a new mystical power, the Trump-side! It’s not exactly good, but not entirely bad, but no matter what, you always win in the end the liberals always looks and go insane as a result.
Solo is the best of the new crop of films. Yeah, there’s an SJW ‘bot. But it’s far funnier than annoying. The build up to the end of the film is worth it. Woody Harrelson’s as Becket is also surprisingly good.
I only have one reservation about it, but will stay mum so as not to spoil it.
I find myself not interested in new entertainment because the actors have made themselves repulsive that I no longer see them acting just jerks. I’ve been watching old movies instead.