Uh... the flashback was because they were important to REY, not because they should be important to you. It was portrayed as a mystery because it was a mystery to Rey.

Err... my comment was pretty mild, man. You do you.

Unsurprised to see that you don’t even have a cursory understanding of the argument I was making, because again, you’re clearly not interested in a reasonable discussion. My suggestion was that test audience feedback shouldn’t influence the content of a film before release. If you want to measure how well a film did…

Where did the word “everyone” appear in that sentence in the post? I must’ve missed it...

Why? Y’all don’t seem to have any real reason for this desire, other than “because I want it that way.” What does it provide to the story that’s so important to you?

So wait... you don’t read music journalism to find new music, but instead in the hope that they’ll rehash old music? That seems quite perfectly ass-backwards.

“not having people with places to relax” -- huh? No idea what you’re trying to say here.

You didn’t ask any questions, though - you didn’t even say “I don’t like them.” You just said they’re “terrible and have always been terrible.” That’s not a good-faith comment, and pretending it was is laughable.

Of COURSE there are bands you like that I don’t - you’re a person with bad taste. But you won’t see me on…

I picked the only metric that I know to have any statistical relevance. You’re the one who picked a laughable one which has no relationship to actual reality. But believe whatever you want - I’ve never changed anyone’s mind on the Internet, and don’t plan to anytime soon. Can’t fix people who aren’t open-minded enough …

Rotten Tomatoes “Audience Score” only measures the people angry or happy enough to rate it on Rotten Tomatoes. Let’s use a rating system that’s more statistically sound: CinemaScore does exit polling with an estimated 6% margin of error. Their Audience Score for TLJ was exactly the same as The Force Awakens and Rogue…

The Beatles are boring garbage, just like your boring comment. Also they peaked a lot longer ago, and haven’t released anything interesting since, so...

You’re opinion isn’t unpopular - hating Radiohead is the “new cool.” But why bother reading an article about a band you hate and then leaving a comment spreading your negativity? I despise country music, so I just don’t ever read about or comment on it. Why do Radiohead haters so desperately need everyone to know they…

You seem to have a lot of blind, unsupported negativity to go around. Just for callibration’s sake, what is actually a “great song” to you? Because for my money, Radiohead has written some of the best songs of the last thirty years, so I’m genuinely curious what you think tops them.

So... if Star Wars makes the same amount of money no matter how good it is, why have a test audience? You can’t both argue that it would’ve been the 11th highest grossing film no matter what, AND that test audiences are desperately important.

So you agree with me, then, that listening to test audiences is pointless for Star Wars? Thanks for accepting my central premise.

And my daily game of “spot the sociopath” is completed.

You really think the director of the 11th highest grossing film of all time should be taking notes to heart from random dipshits who don’t even work in the film industry? That’s a pretty bizarre view to defend.

“A large part of the fandom feels like me.”

That’s your subjective interpretation - luckily, not the basis on which the justice system works. It’s broke enough just sticking to provable facts.

One reason they don’t is that these people are making frivolous calls, not false calls. There’s a higher burden of proof for filing a false report - you have to prove that they knew the charges were false when they made the call.