Solo: A Star Wars Story

[RIDDICK]

Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)

Nobody cares what you think. Thread cleaned.

SSF in a nutshell.

Snoopy can't pretend anymore.

 

[loki2371]

Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)

Ive read rumors that roseanne made that tweet on purpose to ruin the fox deal

Fox will pick her show after the deal goes through. Im not joking either. It was a planned tweet

If true then it may have backfired. Don't like Roseanne. Never liked the original show. A friend who watches it told me that a rumour within ABC is they may actually bring back the show without Roseanna. Since apparently he said the new show focused more on the daughter and not her. That would truly be sweet justice. Everyone returns to work at ABC except Roseanne.

 

[YoNoSe]

Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)

Oh no they got Jye.

The cast wouldn't even return to Roseanne if they picked it up.

Can we just get a twitter/youtube reporting thread? Jeezy Creezy they made a Grace thread and she's still got her love handles all over this joint.

 

[pixletwin]

Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)

Ive read rumors that roseanne made that tweet on purpose to ruin the fox deal

Fox will pick her show after the deal goes through. Im not joking either. It was a planned tweet

I could see that being true. But what about the fall-out with the other cast members. Is that a put-on too?

 

[crows]

Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)

I could see that being true. But what about the fall-out with the other cast members. Is that a put-on too?

Yeah no one else would know.

Roseanne has fought for civil rights for decades. She pushed the network to allow two women to kiss on acreen before any other network did it.
They tackled racism in the 90s when the little boy refused to kiss a black girl and she would ground him for it and teach him racism is wrong
The new show had a trans boy and a black girl as her grandkids. She was also gonna receive an award for the episode where she defends her muslim neighbors.

Everything about that show has been about acceptance and against discrimination. The entire writing staff were liberal. Im not saying shes not crazy but that tweet was meant to end the show and it was weird how quick disney ended it. They are gonna lose millions from it. Almost like if it was all planned. The outrage from it felt manufactured too. There was someone pulling the strings apparently.

Solo flopping was like a bonus lol

 

[Bo Shrek]

Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)

So apparently Disney has only made back 1/4 of the $4bil from movie profits towards the purchase price it paid for all the Lucasfilm properties.

I'm not a numbers guy, but 1/4 back with only four movies released sounds like a climb up in the right direction. No?

 

[crows]

Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)

I'm not a numbers guy, but 1/4 back with only four movies released sounds like a climb up in the right direction. No?

Not if the brand is ruined.

It would only be good if movies kept doing well... not flopping and pisding off people. They seriously need to fix this

 

[YoNoSe]

Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)

Nothing says Han Solo like Roseane conspiracy theories.

 

[loki2371]

Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)

I'm not a numbers guy, but 1/4 back with only four movies released sounds like a climb up in the right direction. No?

If it continues in that direction. I'm sure Disney had a plan and an estimate as to how long till they recouped their investment. TLJ underperforming and Solo flopping I'm sure has put a dent in that.

And it's also to make aware the many SSF members who seem to think Disney already made all their money back because of box office totals. Many even arguing so in the abandoned and closed TLJ thread. Disney is far from SW being profitable for them. Not something they or their shareholders are likely to be happy with at this stage in their plan.

Yes in the long run they will make money.

 

[jye4ever]

Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)

Oh no they got Jye.

The cast wouldn't even return to Roseanne if they picked it up.

Can we just get a twitter/youtube reporting thread? Jeezy Creezy they made a Grace thread and she's still got her love handles all over this joint.

Junkion...i’m a mess.



But no i’m fine.

I’m just following my grandmothers advise from when I was a wee lad.

She said “jye4ever keep your friends close....”

Yeah no one else would know.

Roseanne has fought for civil rights for decades. She pushed the network to allow two women to kiss on acreen before any other network did it.
They tackled racism in the 90s when the little boy refused to kiss a black girl and she would ground him for it and teach him racism is wrong
The new show had a trans boy and a black girl as her grandkids. She was also gonna receive an award for the episode where she defends her muslim neighbors.

Everything about that show has been about acceptance and against discrimination. The entire writing staff were liberal. Im not saying shes not crazy but that tweet was meant to end the show and it was weird how quick disney ended it. They are gonna lose millions from it. Almost like if it was all planned. The outrage from it felt manufactured too. There was someone pulling the strings apparently.

Solo flopping was like a bonus lol

That was quite the move at tanaab.

 

[crows]

Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)

Nothing says Han Solo like Roseane conspiracy theories.

Is about the money disney is losing
It is about their stock going down
About the shareholders being upset. About their deal being lost with fox.... so yes it is connected.

 

[Khev]

Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)

I'm very curious as to how LFL will handle young Solo, Qi'ra, Maul, etc. Because off the top of my head I can't recall a single sequel getting greenlit to a film that lost money. Even good to great films like Fury Road and BR 2049 appear to be done due to underperforming at the box office.

Will LFL try to incorporate those characters into other spin-offs or just move on from them completely? If it's the latter at least we got a sweet prequel (that pretty much everyone agrees didn't need to be made in the first place) that covered all the most important elements of Han's backstory in worthy fashion.

 

[crows]

Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)

I'm very curious as to how LFL will handle young Solo, Qi'ra, Maul, etc. Because off the top of my head I can't recall a single sequel getting greenlit to a film that lost money. Even good to great films like Fury Road and BR 2049 appear to be done due to underperforming at the box office.

Will LFL try to incorporate those characters into other spin-offs or just move on from them completely? If it's the latter at least we got a sweet prequel (that pretty much everyone agrees didn't need to be made in the first place) that covered all the most important elements of Han's backstory in worthy fashion.

Boba fett movie gets re written withnthem in it..
Add jabba.

Problem solved

 

[jye4ever]

Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)

This is truly uncharted territory.

SW brand the name the label means box office poison wow.

Imagine promoting IX talk about stress.

 

[Prime Clone]

Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)

Not only was Finn relegated to secondary-character status in TLJ, as of Solo he's no longer the only core character who was formerly a Stormtrooper!

 

[Khev]

Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)

Boba fett movie gets re written withnthem in it..
Add jabba.

Problem solved

Except that it doesn't solve the problem if Disney assumes that the problem or part of the problem was Alden and Emilia. Who knows what the company's take away will be with all of this.

This is truly uncharted territory.

SW brand the name the label means box office poison wow.

Imagine promoting IX talk about stress.

Obviously the brand bounced back with TFA after the Clone Wars movie cratered at the box office but this is definitely uncharted territory for SW. I'm sure Disney is thrilled that the success of Episode IX is partially on the shoulders of the guy who wrote Justice League, lol.

 

[JAWS]

Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)

Khev saying his farewells giving the ST its final burial...

Much like the end of ROTJ.. I feel both happy and sad..

Khev turns around and sees JAWS, Wor-Gar and a-dev in happiness:

We are so happy to have him back.

Meanwhile jye:

Yeah you really did follow him down a dark path and then he just.... Left you...

 

[jye4ever]

Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)

Khev had the higher ground lol

 

[jye4ever]

Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)

Except that it doesn't solve the problem if Disney assumes that the problem or part of the problem was Alden and Emilia. Who knows what the company's take away will be with all of this.



Obviously the brand bounced back with TFA after the Clone Wars movie cratered at the box office but this is definitely uncharted territory for SW. I'm sure Disney is thrilled that the success of Episode IX is partially on the shoulders of the guy who wrote Justice League, lol.

Breaking News Disney announces that Lucas is directing IX.

 

[JAWS]

Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)

Lol, the lingering thing with TLJ that does bug me the most are the piss poor military tactics from beginning to end. Yes I've said many times that SW films aren't known for the most logical tactics but at least they've always been *effective.* Sure Tarkin assumedly could have blown up Yavin instead of orbiting it but he was still one second away from obliterating the Rebel base had Han Solo not returned at that very moment and Luke used the Force to make a one in a million shot. Sure the Empire could have assumedly sent TIE Bombers to skim the ground next to the AT-AT's and quickly take out the Hoth shield generators but the AT-AT's still did the job themselves.

But Hux not sending bombers after Leia's cruiser? Why? Because the Star Destroyers could do the job just as easily? Obviously not since they remained engaged in a chase that literally took hours (didn't Rose say they had six hours of fuel?) And Hux's plan wasn't almost thwarted by a fluke (someone using the Force, etc.) no he was almost duped by the most pedestrian of all escape plans (get on smaller life boat/escape pod type craft that literally every ship bigger than a fighter is chalk full of.) Hux had no good reason not to pursue with Fighters and/or Bombers (*three TIE Fighters* obliterated the command ship's hangar and bridge within seconds and yet he orders them to retreat??) leaving the Resistance to come up with a pretty boring mode of escape.

Even if he didn't use Fighters (which the Empire did when pursuing fleeing ships in literally every OT film plus RO) could he really think of nothing else but waiting for Leia to run out of fuel? Even without Fighters/Bombers the OT Empire would have still used the full might of their fleet to stop every escape route imaginable. Once they had Leia's trajectory why not pull an "RO Vader" and call in half a dozen Destroyers to come out of hyperspace *in front* of her? Grrrr. The FO just did nothing that ever made me think "these guys are beasts, how will the good guys escape?" Like I was constantly thinking during the OT and RO.

And as awesome as Holdo's lightspeed maneuver was why would Hux instantly dismiss the option to obliterate it once he realized that it was not unmanned? And why did the ship need Holdo to pilot it in the first place? Were they worried it was going to crash into something if she wasn't at the controls? And getting back to Hux for all he knew Leia herself was still on the ship. Why selectively ignore that one ship, especially when it became clear that it was about to go to lightspeed? Okay so he'd never anticipate a kamikaze attack but he was still fine with just allowing their greatest warship to simply escape?

It's *the* most bothersome thing about TLJ for me, and I've criticized those tactics from the beginning. I tried turning a blind eye because again, tactics in the OT were often logically unsound in favor of stuff that simply looked cool or created an extra level of excitement. But guys like Tarkin were awesome, intelligent, and calculating from beginning to end, same with the Emperor so one critical oversight is easy to accept. Hux is just incompetent from beginning to end (he even needs his second in command to explain what his fleet can do!) which brings the entire First Order down, Snoke and Kylo included.

Then there's Luke. As much as I liked his arc the one thing that I did find surprising was that he left Leia and the Resistance to guess at his intentions when he showed up on Crait. It's cool when heroes have a "secret plan" that they keep from the bad guys that the audience and the bad guys learn at the same time (like the audience learning he was a projection the same moment that Kylo did.) But why would he include his own allies that he's literally trying to save out of the loop especially when being out of the loop could literally cause their destruction?

And maybe he assumed Leia would tell everyone since he supposedly touched her hand and kissed her forehead without really touching her thus revealing to her alone that he wasn't there in the flesh. Why then did *she* just wait until the lightbulb went off with Poe? It just could have so easily gone the other way with everyone senselessly dying simply because Johnson wanted *everyone* surprised at the end.

Damn it Khev! Its what I have been saying all along

Well better late to the party then never

I still hate the Holdo keeps everything a secret also.. The whole "there might be a spy" is a bad excuse since said spy could blow the whistle at anytime after the plan had to be reveled.. More bad military decisions.