I don't hate Star Wars. I just don't need to like everything with the name Star Wars.dimejinky99 wrote:You just hate Star Wars. That’s ok.blueviper wrote:dimejinky99 wrote:I dunno. They knew what they were doing. They owned everything it came out against including avengers and except deadpool. I don’t get the reasoning behind it but there was one. It’s not like all the executive heads of departments at Disney suddenly went oh fuck! We put them all out at the same time!
That few weeks was the most populated Disney output I can remember. I’d say they wanted to see how much their franchises actually do cannibalise each other if set against each other.
They ‘lost’ 500 million on Solo? Maybe. Are they bothered? Doubtful. If it had been a Christmas release it would have undoubtedly done around a billion.
Like I said I’d say it was an experiment.
If you buy that they didn’t want Solo interfering with Mary poppins at the box office, read my post again
Keeping SOLO at Memorial Day or moving to XMas still gives you the same mediocre movie. Maybe it makes a few extra bucks during the holiday season but you wouldn't get a better film.
It was pure fun and pure Star Wars. I thought it was great.
Be interested to see how it does on home release. I don’t know if there’s official trackers for those numbers though.
I still love the OT. I have a few SW t-shirts. I still have most of my Kenner toys down in the basement.
I just don't think the PT and now the ST and off-shoots really capture any of the fun, adventure or escapism from the OT.
I guess my comment could be construed that way. My apologies. I should have said it would have been the same movie Memorial Day or Xmas, good or bad. I don't think the numbers would have fluctuated much. I mean, if they waited until Christmas, we'd still be about 4 months from its premiere.
Actually, it might have given us time to get TLJ flame wars out of everyone's system.
