Flopping
Lowest grossing star wars
Highest budget
Great job KK
Yep, first Star Wars flop. Eighty-something million OW, that's catastrophical, especially for a movie with moderate OS interest. Rogue One, a movie with mostly new characters, made almost twice the money. Solo even has the widest release!
I believe that the problem with this movie is that it is a Han Solo movie, a movie which seems to have no consequence for the main Star Wars story. All the other problems are inconsequential compared with this factor, IMO. People who aren't core fans have no particular reason to see a "Han Solo movie". They made a completely uninteresting trailer with no real impact. Lots of the more dedicated fans were already disappointed by the previous movie. They probably see only Ford as Solo.
In my impression, big fans of Star Wars usually go see the movies many times, they don't just see such a movie once. If the core fans have no interest, it will be damaging for a SW movie. Basically, for a movie like this, which is part of the Star Wars universe, the dedicated SW fans are everything, because SW is a pop culture phenomenon. If you universally piss them of (TLJ, oversaturation), you'll lose big time, and eventually there will be no brand dedication to soften the fall.
I believe Star Wars is over. Maybe it will make a come back, but this saturation of the market with many movies in a short time was a huge mistake.
I could be wrong, maybe...
Episode IX will be a fascinating case when it comes out. People, especially fanboys of the TLJ push the 1.3 Bil as proof it was a massive success. And certainly it did make big money, but just a little bit of research will show it had weak legs compared to the previous two films, it fell below expectation as a whole. So Solo is following a trend.
But I do agree, one of the biggest missteps of the project itself is being made, not many people were that excited on a recast film featuring Solo, so with that shaky foundation you have a production mess, firings, acting coaches, bloated budget, short time between previous SW film and the polarizing reception of TLJ itself which lets be real, the amount of people that dislike that film is legion.
I absolutely hate TLJ with a passion. But Solo was alright, just bland and boring. Nothing really offensive about that movie.
TFA was cool, a rehash, but still nice. It was a good setup for sequels. TLJ just completely fucked it all into oblivion and I have no hype or interest in seeing part 9.
"I have no hype or interest in seeing part 9"
I get that, when TLJ ended I was left with a complete lack of interest in the next film. I will see it because its the completion of this trilogy, but there is no way I am seeing it in theaters.
TLJ already felt like the end of the trilogy. I have no idea wth they want to do with the sequel...
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