Solo: A Star Wars Story

[Chiggles]

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heard it is a good flick but Im not in a rush to watch it at the theater and will just wait once it's out for streaming.
Dead Pool 2 on the other hand was worth it.

^^ This. The hardcore butthurt Star Wars fans backlash is one thing, but that's just being amplified by what I believe is the root of the underwhelming response at the box office: it has more to do with the crappy timing of its release date. Going up against Infinity War and Deadpool 2 while they're still relatively fresh in theatres and in demand for re-watching by many means this spin off was never positioned to do well even before it got released. They should've waited for a different date when there were less monster-sized blockbusters to compete with it.

[statick]

I consider myself a fairly true die-hard fan (grew up playing the collectable card game, read many of the comics & books from the Legends universe, etc.) and I think this is film is quite good. It is certainly not as decent as The Force Awakens, and definitely does not compete with Rogue One, but is better than The Last Jedi.

Then again, I also enjoy Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, when taken as a whole, more than Temple of Doom...

[kertejud2]

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No one has gone to the theater expecting a good Star Wars movie since 1983 so, I'm sure it was fine.

People didn't expect Return of the Jedi to be good?

They certainly expected The Phantom Menace to be good and they definitely expected The Force Awakens to be good with Lucas out of the picture.

[JordanEG6]

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Fan backlash and bad press sunk this one.

Interestingly, this seems to put the Disney/Fox deal is danger since news of Solo major boxoffice issue is sinking Disney stock which is what they are using for the Fox deal. Now sounds like Disney has to throw in some cash to sweeten the pot or Fox may go with Comcast.

I thought the Fox deal was done?

[JRSC00LUDE]

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People didn't expect Return of the Jedi to be good?

They certainly expected The Phantom Menace to be good and they definitely expected The Force Awakens to be good with Lucas out of the picture.

Of course they did, that's why I said 1983.

The rest, we agree to disagree! I think they HOPED it would be good, who wouldn't? But expectations, I had none.

[Xtrema]

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I thought the Fox deal was done?

Closes in summer 2019. Still plenty of time to be derailed by either government or external forces.

http://www.slashfilm.com/disney-fox-deal-comcast/

Comcast want to use $60B cash vs Disney's $52B stock which thanks to Solo proving Star Wars is weak, worth a lot less today and potentially going forward.

Let's put it this way, there is 0 confidence of any business deal in US right now. All it takes one bad skit/joke from Kimmel on Trump and Trump will kill this deal to retaliate.

[dino_martini]

I went to see Solo on Tuesday and from reading the reviews went in with a slightly negative mindset. Came out pleasantly surprised, I thought it was worth the $8.50 on cheap movie Tuesday. Story was solid in my opinion and Lando Calrission is one of my favourite characters from the Star Wars universe. I hope they make another Solo despite the relatively lacklustre performance it's been having.

[austic]

Why would they think they releasing after deadpoll and infinity wars was a good idea? Whoever chose that date should certainly be fired.

[Xtrema]

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Why would they think they releasing after deadpoll and infinity wars was a good idea? Whoever chose that date should certainly be fired.

To be fair, Solo picked 1st, Deadpool moved up ahead of Solo which also made Infinity Wars moved up a week.

[ZenOps]

I wasn't expecting too much, but it was ok. Definitely gritty though - as in there was an awful lot of dirt everywhere. Spoiler:

Dystopian city to trench fighting to space mining

I literally felt like I needed a shower after done watching.