Another thing we know: Nothing will change and the GOP will offer up another serving of #thoughtsandprayers.

Shit, the pitchforks come out just for commenting that the trailer doesn’t actually look “spendorious” or whatever the fuck io9 called it... I imagine one would get tarred and feathered for writing a negative review of the film.

Yeah, but the lowest viewer rated of the Star Wars saga, plus the bombing in the second largest movie going nation will give them pause... I mean, movies are flops because they “don’t make as much money as they should have” nowadays, not because they don’t make money period.

It was always going to make money as a Star Wars movie. But to finish only slightly above Rogue One and 300 mil short of TFA (domestic - 700 worldwide) has to be very short of expectations.

If I was Disney, I’d just bury this movie and try to write it off. It’s going to be a disaster and will do even more damage to the brand than TLJ did.

I thought that was obvious. Criticism armor. Nobody would dare write a negative review with those three in it.

This is going to be a bad film. And we’re going to hear about how we are bad people for not liking this film. But objectively it’s not going to be good.

Seems unlikely.

When my grandson comes home from school, I usually greet him with, “Hey, buddy. How you doing? Did you learn anything interesting today?” But he’s 5 and so everything at school is still interesting to him, and he’s glad somebody wants to know. I know it’ll pass but I’m enjoying it while it lasts.

I have never seen anybody posit that Luke turned the torpedo, ever. Rather, it was always implied that he just used the Force to guide his aim (“You’ve switched off your targeting computer, what’s wrong?”) and the visuals were always just a bit misleading. Even Red Leader’s shot would have had to make that turn but,…

Does the force teach people who have never even seen an ocean how to swim?

So many possibilities for lubricant jokes.

Well, we know what happened to his REAL hand...

I mean he undercut almost every other serious moment with a joke so what’s one more?

We get it Rian, you’re a troll. Can you just shut up already?

I always assumed it had just had the flesh stripped from, Terminator style, and he just never bothered to re-skin it.

Seems like he really is doing a lot of explaining for this film .

I bet JJ does something crazy like introduce Battle Meditation.