“Vengeance is mine,” saith the Ford.

Given how little of an impact said toxic nerds and their boycotts had on other movies that made bajillions of dollars (The Last Jedi, Fury Road, etc.) I don’t think you can attribute Solo’s lack of profits to them. It seems more like it was the usual cocktail of middling reviews, blockbuster competition, nicer…

I think you’re underestimating the number of people who still fucking love star wars but didn’t care to see a Han solo origin story. Or see someone else try to take over for Ford. Or would have rather seen a lando movie. Or would have rather seen a boba fett movie.....Or any character who wasn’t clearly only…

Its because its decidedly non-essential. Its a Star Wars ‘Story’, not a Star Wars ‘Movie’. They will likely end up making a profit when home media hits, as I’m sure most people are waiting for that.

I think it can sustain yearly interest, but it clearly can’t sustain 2 movies in 5 months like the Marvel franchise. (Especially when it’s an origin story for somebody who doesn’t need one and it’s released so close to other huge releases that leech the same audience.) It was smart for Disney to carve out mid-December…

I am a layman using my layman powers of observation to write that the reason for Solo’s middling success is that origin stories are fucking annoying and Star Wars works much better as a triennial release. It’s not Marvel, it can’t sustain yearly interest beyond the devout, stop flogging the mule, Mickey.

The worst thing about Rogue One is that the characters are so poorly developed, and then the movie expects you to care when they all die. Nope!

Those crystal foxes were DEFINITELY somebody’s coke-fueled hallucination.

“Follow the crystal fox past the rocks through the snow tunnel”.

That. That right there is the crux of the problem. The problem isn’t with the Han Solo film. Sure, it probably had its share of production problems, but so did Titanic. Rather, the problem is that I have a life and limited funds, and as such my must-see-in-theater film selection process is geared not so much around…

If they lose money they might care.

When is $100 million disappointing? When you’ve spent at least $250 million and probably more. Disney might actually take a loss on this film.

Had they just waited until December, Solo would have to only contend with Aquaman (which I’m sure it would have trounced), and then it would have all of January to make bank, like the past three SW have.

I just don’t get the logic in releasing a Han Solo origin film at this point. We JUST closed the book on his character in Force Awakens, why aren’t we getting the backstory to someone who actually matters in the context of the new trilogy? Or someone who has been out of the plot for a longer period of time, like…

“The Last Jedi” and “The Force Awakens” both felt rushed to me. Like they didn’t REALLY have the time they needed to refine the script and make everything work the way it should, they just got through the first rough draft and said, “Let’s shoot this fucker!!” Imagine if George Lucas had done that to rush out a movie…

I don’t think people will have a problem with more and more Star Wars stuff, they just need to tap into what audiences want or something new and exciting. Solo wasn’t what people wanted, and we pretty much knew all we needed to know about Solo. From what I can tell people were way more excited about Donald Glover as…

I think Disney really needs to rethink how they are handling the Star Wars franchise. Most of the movies have been disappointing (to varying degrees) for most fans and they haven’t hit the right formula of fanservice, originality, and narrative that, say, the Marvel movies have. I think even if the movies were good…

Disney does this practically every year: they get greedy(ier) and try to dump one blockbuster too many in the crowded late spring/summer season and it ends up flat at the box office. Remember Tomorrowland? That Alice in Wonderland remake? The last Pirates of the Caribbean movie?

All of these movies have their own…

So many people throwing out so many opinions for it, with the “anti-SJW” people dancing on this movie’s grave due to their anger over Star Wars having female characters, apparently.

I enjoyed Solo, but it was incredibly inessential/inconsequential, even for a Star Wars movie. I’d say it’s the worst of the Disney-era Star Wars movies, but that doesn’t make it a bad movie. There’s just not a whole lot of “there” there.

I’d hazard a guess that part of the poorer box office compared to more recent Star…

There’s a lot being written about why this didn’t make what it was expected to make, but I think it all boils down to a general lack of interest in a Han Solo origin story. I just think most folks don’t care why Han is the way he is, and learning about it certainly ruins some of his cool mystique. Just my two cents…