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Disney CEO confirms a 'slowdown' of Star Wars output after disappointing Solo returns [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | September 20, 2018 | Ross McDonough

Posted on 09/20/2018 12:41:57 PM PDT by C19fan

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To: siberianheat
All these women in charge, and they have no idea how to create positive female role models on the screen.

I've wondered about that myself. Came to the conclusion that no one else hates women as much as other women.

Made sense, at least to me.

21 posted on 09/20/2018 1:07:01 PM PDT by wbill
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To: siberianheat

“Last Jedi was so effin horrible that I stayed away from Solo like the plague”

Same here ... for the same reasons.

Solo wasn’t bad by any stretch of the imagination ... especially given how it had to be reworked. It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t awful.

If Ep VIII wasn’t so frigging terrible, Solo would have done well at the box office. Instead, that lousy bitch running the show managed to LOSE significant cash on a frigging Star Wars film (you have to work hard to do that!!!).

I still can’t see why they’re giving that director, Rian “Lil’ Kennedy Bitch” Johnson (or whatever his name is) the keys to the SW universe ... Ep VIII had some cool scenes, but the important stuff, like story, character development, etc., was a disgrace. It was a convoluted disaster. They should have just let JJ direct all three for better or worse ... Rian is frigging AWFUL.

They won’t be getting a dime from me for a long time ... if ever again.


22 posted on 09/20/2018 1:07:36 PM PDT by edh
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To: C19fan
No the problem is except for "Rogue One" the new Star Wars have been mediocre at best.

Agreed.

Rogue One was a decent flick. One that I would watch again if I came across it.

The rest I would pass on. They lack any sort of magic.

23 posted on 09/20/2018 1:08:33 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I see “Force Awakens” on TNT or some other channel and I take a pass. I would rather watch “Empire Strikes Back” for the 1000th time.


24 posted on 09/20/2018 1:10:07 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

I lost interest after trying to watch episodes I, II, and III. Terrible direction, casting, plotting, storylines, etc. Boring. After that crap-fest watching ROTJ is wonderful, even with those stupid freaking Ewoks.


25 posted on 09/20/2018 1:10:28 PM PDT by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like tractor.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Re: Rogue One...

My new favorite trilogy is the 3rd one (Revenge of Sith), Rogue One, and Star Wars. With "Sith" as the weakest link, but required to set up the rest.

Flows really well, and the movies don't entirely suck. Idiot who played Anakin Skywalker emotes like a block of wood, but you don't really watch "Star Wars" movies for the great character depth.

26 posted on 09/20/2018 1:15:46 PM PDT by wbill
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To: C19fan

Well, the MCU releases at least 3 films every year, and they’re all blockbusters....

Maybe its because they are WELL MADE entertaining films.


27 posted on 09/20/2018 1:15:51 PM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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To: C19fan

the actual “mistake” they made was that the last three SW movies were utter derivative dreck, with not a single compelling original notion to add to the SW narrative ...


28 posted on 09/20/2018 1:17:46 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: C19fan
'I made the timing decision, and as I look back, I think the mistake that I made — I take the blame — was a little too much, too fast,' he admitted to The Hollywood Reporter.

No, the mistake you made, and you can still take the blame for it, was too crappy, too fast.

29 posted on 09/20/2018 1:19:32 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: siberianheat
That picture with all the women is what mystifies me. Here's the thing: Last Jedi was created by SJW women, but the women in the film are all made to look ugly and gender neutral, at best.

Look again at that photo, and see if you can make the connection between what you said they did to the women in the film and their own appearances.

30 posted on 09/20/2018 1:23:04 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: C19fan

Space cowboys fighting nazis was a winning formula once. It could be again.


31 posted on 09/20/2018 1:24:03 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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No, Bob.It's not about Solo. It was never about Solo. You CRAPPED on a worldwide phenomenon that millions love and told those millions to get lost.It's corporate euthanasia of an entity you own(and feel free to kill AND expect the mourners to pay you for it! **Rant ahead**

As a 30+ year fan who became one as an adult(no childhood destruction) allow me to give you a checklist from OUR(your customers) perspective:
PC doesn't belong in SW. The whole idea was that it was NOT us, not HERE. It was an escape, a fantasy we could relate to but were not battered with.
You UNDID the core PREMISE of the story.It's like re-writing WW2 and saying the Allies were fools, the war was a waste and the Nazi's won. Did you have a corporate meeting to come up with the best way to kill 'old' SW so you could have a blank slate for your version? The bad guys were the Empire, the Rebels were the good guys. Evil lost in the end. Good triumphed. We celebrated and loved it.
You show the rebellion as losers. 30 years later the bad guys are bigger and badder. All those rebels died for nothing. They were stupid-WE were stupid to believe it! You wanted their past dead-killed- and their naïve fandom dead with it.(But you still want our $$)

You UNHEROED the hero.In 30 years he had NO adult Knights out there-no graduates except psycho nephew? You made him a weak, beaten loser in HIS eyes and the viewers eyes!Fans didn't want that anymore then they want a child molester Batman with a leather fetish or delusional Spiderman who climbs out of buildings and falls to his death.
Leia was a hit and run that got played. Her kid is an evil psycho.So much for that imagined romance
Once you say everything we liked was wrong and should be discarded, you offer the Female Karate Kid. Uber Marysue! Stronger, faster, better and scarier than any living being! And so mysterious. Newsflash 'mystery' in this case is lack of depth in storytelling. Cartoonish.
Final clue that it's Disney's reimagined SW that is wrong- your lead actor( who has lived with this character) doesn't understand what the hell you did or why you're doing it. He told you to 'give the fans what they want'. Disney/Johnson said 'NO we give them what WE want'!!

DO YOU HEAR US NOW? We don't want what you're doing to SW. You might make money- but hey-the porn industry does too! Capice?
32 posted on 09/20/2018 1:29:27 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: C19fan

Watched Solo last night. Right up to the end I thought it was a decent movie. The kid didn’t do that bad playing Solo. He’s a bit on the short side and at times that was a distraction. Then at other times he wasn’t ‘rugged’ enough, but overall not terrible. No one was going to live up to young Harrison Ford though.

Spoilers inc...I actually enjoyed the movie right up until they revealed the rival gang leader and her motives. It completely broke the immersion to have the rival as a fifteen year old kid and complete of course all the usual downtrodden anti-white male crew.


33 posted on 09/20/2018 1:30:47 PM PDT by Alcibiades (I'm not tired of winning. More MAGA. More Mooch. More 5D chess. More covfefe.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Only if it tells how he was secretly the Sith master manipulating everything behind the scenes... a Darth Binks movie could be a hit!


34 posted on 09/20/2018 1:32:37 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: C19fan

Keep Rian Johnson away from Star Wars movies and change Kathleen Kennedy’s role to selling Yoda dolls at state fairs.


35 posted on 09/20/2018 1:34:56 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: C19fan

Meanwhile the MCU is set to expand with the acquisition of the FF and mutant properties.


36 posted on 09/20/2018 1:40:40 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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To: C19fan

They told us to fuch off if we didnt like the pussy worshipping, beta cuck version of Solo they shoved at us.

Said the movie revenue was just fine and what they expected.


37 posted on 09/20/2018 2:02:32 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: a fool in paradise

How about a movie called “Jar Jar Binks dies 100 different ways”...?


38 posted on 09/20/2018 2:03:55 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: TexasGator

Yeah but they found a shortcut so actually its a bigger boast instead of it being a mistake in units.


39 posted on 09/20/2018 2:05:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ClearBlueSky

Nice summary.


40 posted on 09/20/2018 2:07:14 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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