B wrote:They really fucked this movie by not waiting until Christmas.
aw huh
For sure. When I went it was me, my girlfriend and 2 other couples in the entire theater. This was timed and marketed terribly.
I totally understand that Disney has Marry Poppins to worry about and they didn't to "Solo" that project by putting it up against Solo in December. But they should have moved Solo to December.
Nobody wants to see a fucking Mary Poppins sequel.
Everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?
B wrote:They really fucked this movie by not waiting until Christmas.
aw huh
For sure. When I went it was me, my girlfriend and 2 other couples in the entire theater. This was timed and marketed terribly.
I totally understand that Disney has Marry Poppins to worry about and they didn't to "Solo" that project by putting it up against Solo in December. But they should have moved Solo to December.
Nobody wants to see a fucking Mary Poppins sequel.
B wrote:They really fucked this movie by not waiting until Christmas.
aw huh
For sure. When I went it was me, my girlfriend and 2 other couples in the entire theater. This was timed and marketed terribly.
I totally understand that Disney has Marry Poppins to worry about and they didn't to "Solo" that project by putting it up against Solo in December. But they should have moved Solo to December.
Nobody wants to see a fucking Mary Poppins sequel.
You shut your stupid face!
Everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?
I liked Solo. I feel asleep a few minutes in the middle of the movie, which was strange, but it was probably an early sign that I had gotten infected by a bug, which really takes away your strength.
I enjoyed the action scenes, the interaction with Lando was great, the story made sense (perhaps apart from those rogue villains). I think the actors all did a fairly good job. Han himself had a few strange scenes, especially at the start of the movie, but then came into his own. Can this be because of the change of directors? Overall I do think it lacked something to make it really great. Hard to put my finger on exactly what, but the story was more or less predictable. All in all I am looking forward to seeing it again, and had a lot of fun with it. Two thumbs up.
Of the new movies I still think Rogue One is the best. Solo lacked some of the epicness and depth of TFA/TLJ, but it didn't have any of their bad parts either, and that is certainly a bonus.
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Two quick points. Solo is currently enjoying its second week at number 1 in the US box office, by a healthy distance, and where’s all the ranting about RT now? (Its at 71/68% approval)
Findings are nobody is going to the cinema. That can simply be explained via avengers/end of school term etc
It’s picking up business in other markets (2 weeks top of the charts here, too)
Wookiee’s got legs. And he’s bringing han with him maybe.
That's only because nothing significant came out this weekend. It's still over 100,000,000 behind that piece of crap Deadpool in the U.S. for total sales. And what, the same amount under budget?
The end result of all this is that, according to the most recent reports, Solo: A Star Wars Story cost over $250 million.
To date, “Solo” has made $115.3 million internationally and $264.2 million worldwide.
Marketing usually doubles the price. And after the theaters take their cuts (and a higher cut in foreign markets), studios can easily lose money.
Isn’t the general rule to cut the box office figures in half to estimate the studio’s take?
Anyway it’s all bullshit. They call any movie that leaves theaters with a $20m deficit a flop, as if they all stop making money the day they leave theaters.
