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atomicheavybike:

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/05/6-theories-on-why-solo-hasnt-performed-at-the-box-office/

This is a pretty good round-up of the reasons Solo might be doing so (relatively) badly at the box office.

Plus any article that describes James Corden as “the Jar Jar Binks of humans” gets an automatic upvote from me.

My vote is on #4: The Last Jedi Killed Our Enthusiasm.

“the message of the film was: screw you for caring.
If those mysteries had been resolved differently to how fans expected, that might have been fine — but it was deeper than that: It was saying that they didn’t matter.

As we saw when Luke casually tossed away his lightsaber, or when Snoke was handily disposed of… what Rian Johnson was saying was clear: “Hey! You know all of those mysteries that you care about? The ones we set up the previous film? The ones you’ve spent the last two years speculating about on forums? Yeah, none of it matters and you’re just a sad, lonely nerd”

So given this, would it be surprising if some viewers felt that they didn’t need to check in with the next one? If nothing matters, then why should they care about Han’s backstory?”

If you ask me #4 is the biggest reason. TLJ told us that they do not give a shit about fans in any way, shape or form. But Solo is a 110% fanservice movie, so much in it is going to leave the general audience either confused or they’ll miss the deeper implication of it because of their lack of knowledge. Heck even casual fans are confused about several things in it.

I partially agree with #5 the “the kids don’t care” theory. Not that kids don’t care about Star Wars but that they don’t care about Solo specifically. As I said this is a fan movie and it’s a movie for older fans. The movie forgot that it’s a franchise primarily aimed at kids and adolescents and it forgot that the movies aer for the general audience not its hardcore fans.

When you add these two together with TLJ’s “fuck you for caring and fuck you in general!” to Star Wars fans then it is no surprise that this movie is struggling financially. Scant months ago they told the primary audience for this movie that they don’t give a shit about them and now they really expect that same group to caught up money to see Solo?

Looks like Star Wars fans isn’t buying it.

TLJ is like a quilted comforter that you put it in the home washing machine, but it chokes your washing machine, so you have to drag it out still sopping wet and put it in a garbage bag because you mean to take it to the laundromat the next day, but you keep putting off the laundromat visit, so it gets disgusting and mildewed in the corner and you feel terrible because you know you should take it to the laundromat, but it smells so bad you don’t want to take it anywhere and every day you think about throwing it in the trash, but you don’t because that would be a waste… and it just sits there in a dark corner (of your mind)… arrrrgh

And I’m not even a Star Wars fan. 

@solacekames, posts like this are why i love your blog

I’ll never get why people hate The Last Jedi

I don’t like it for the reasons that other people mentioned in this thread and because I feel like it butchered Poe and Finn’s characterization to prop up other characters.