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'Solo' Will Lose $50M-Plus in First Defeat for Disney's 'Star Wars' Empire
Hollywood Reporter ^ | June 4, 2018 | Pamela McClintok

Posted on 06/04/2018 5:04:20 PM PDT by EdnaMode

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To: SkyPilot

If Carrie Fisher had starred in a movie called Leia in 1984, I would have loved it, but Commander Purple Hair Evening Dress was a waste of time.


41 posted on 06/04/2018 6:17:29 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: EdnaMode
I remember seeing the third film back in the 80's. My Kids saw the newer stuff, and My Grand Kids had the latest films on the DVD. Looks like the same movie with younger people.

I thought "Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow" was cool.

42 posted on 06/04/2018 6:18:26 PM PDT by jaz.357 (Blithering Intellectual.)
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To: EdnaMode

The millenials don’t like white male heroes, particularly when uncharismatic actors play them.


43 posted on 06/04/2018 6:19:10 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: EdnaMode

LOL


44 posted on 06/04/2018 6:21:46 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: EdnaMode

Something really bad seems to have happened to the advertising for this. I saw the first ad around here TODAY! Somebody seems to have it in for Ron Howard in looney lefty land.


45 posted on 06/04/2018 6:23:51 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (It's morning in America)
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To: SkyPilot

star wars has always been about little boys pretending to be heroes. its about cops and robbers. its the mythology of boyhood. When social justice virtual signaling got injected in and what little boys loved was ignored star wars died.

at this point because of the poison coming out of the studio the franchise is dead for the next five years. Disney needs to admit all its blunders and fire most of those people working at Lucas films that are in management. the franchise can recover but anyone who made decisions on the story creative side needs to leave.


46 posted on 06/04/2018 6:24:38 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: Architect of Avalon

No, commander purple hair evening dress was absolutely horrible. They did do the noble thing in the end by killing her off.


47 posted on 06/04/2018 6:25:13 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: piytar

Spontaneous Review from a young lady cashier...
Upon seein add on back of my cereal box.

She was ‘forced to go’

Is the only one movies she has seen.

‘At least the movie theater. Served food’

And had nice seats !

She ate her meal and then fell asleep on her mother’s shoulder about 30 minutes in.

Said ‘her mother has pictures !

Thus ends the unsolicited review ...

I think that makes the movie less than one star in her opinion.

Roflol


48 posted on 06/04/2018 6:25:15 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: EdnaMode


and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

49 posted on 06/04/2018 6:28:46 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: RooRoobird20

Thanks!


50 posted on 06/04/2018 6:29:10 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Star Wars is dead. Let Kathleen Kennedy finish making it into totally female characters.

Uh, note to Kathleen, chicks don’t really like the idea of fighting and being horribly mutilated and killed during futuristic space based hand to hand combat. That’s a dude thing.

Too much pu$$y power in the new Star wars nonsense.

Kathleen Kennedy succeed into making Luke into the biggest Star Wars pu$$y of them all.

Way to go Kathleen!

Killed a good thing.

Wait, so she’s setting this all up so Sabine Ren and Asoka Tano can come and....wait... those are chicks too.

Damn it, I’m out of ideas here.

Solo was a fan centered film. That’s another reason for the low box office. Unless you’re very knowledgeable about SW, you won’t think it’s really Star Wars...

Spoiler/Karma alert..... Han shoots first! (Those who have seen it will get the pun.)

Star Wars is and remains....dead to me...


51 posted on 06/04/2018 6:30:33 PM PDT by pacificus
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”I hope they don’t screw it up, Darth Vader is my favorite Star Wars character.”

Well, to paraphrase Yoda, with regards to being disappointed, “You will be....you will be.”

52 posted on 06/04/2018 6:31:58 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
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To: EdnaMode

Star Wars ended after the first one. They plowed that row so many time that nothing grows anymore.


53 posted on 06/04/2018 6:34:07 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: ground_fog

I did a few cars stereos for her and Steven back in the day while working for stereo to the stars she was very generous and sweet to me i was not political back then I wish I would have kept all the memoriablia i got


54 posted on 06/04/2018 6:44:37 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: EdnaMode

Well, you cast han solo with a metrosexual and there you go.


55 posted on 06/04/2018 6:48:29 PM PDT by stanne
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To: piytar

The worst performing books in the now legends releases were the Solo oriented prequels. Don’t know a single person who really desired to know more about the character.

Time will tell. Last Jedi did no favors to the property, but I really think subject matter was more the issue here.


56 posted on 06/04/2018 6:48:36 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: EdnaMode
I saw Solo on Saturday. It's not very good, but it's certainly better than the nonsense that was The Last Jedi. Terrible, nonsensical story which threw away everything that had been set up in The Force Awakens, a heroine I didn't care about at all, and Mark Hamill is even worse an actor now than he was in the '70s.

At least Solo had some decent action scenes, Chewbacca, Donald Glover turning in a very good performance, and the brief return of a villain who was criminally under-utilized the first time around. I'd recommend Solo over The Last Jedi any day.
57 posted on 06/04/2018 6:52:33 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Crucial

Purple hair didn’t work for Gerry’s UFO series either.

I never got it.


58 posted on 06/04/2018 7:01:45 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: EdnaMode

why is that?


59 posted on 06/04/2018 7:06:24 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: Architect of Avalon

Doubt they’ll go ahead with them.


60 posted on 06/04/2018 7:06:53 PM PDT by Rastus
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