'Solo' stalls at the box office, raising concerns of Star Wars fatigue

[ShadowDeath]

More like the utter incompetence at making a decent star wars movie about han solo. They've butchered the franchise.

Yup, after the last episode I refuse/d to watch another one in theaters. It was a waste of my money and time. Angry Joe's videos on it explains everything I hated about the movie.

 

[Nightfire]

I must be the only one who liked this movie.

I heard it was actually good aside from the stupid robot, but like me, so many are fed up after the TLJ disaster.

 

[amghwk]

Fatigue?

Nah...

People are still buying and even pre-purchasing the next Call of Duty or the next Final Fantasy games...

Though we're talking about a movie here, the mindset of (most) consumers are the same... whether games or movies...

Some people are suckers... and keep consuming what the money-milkers churn out...

 

[m4a4]

Just watched it. I liked it better than TLJ, but like Rogue One better.

Had a couple twists I didn't see coming.

 

[alabama man]

Wow... Star Wars haters?!?!? Thought this kind of vitriol was reserved for Apple and Microsoft....

The movie was good... at least, I thought so (and it still made over $80 million in a weekend, so plenty of others agree with me) - "franchise fatigue" clearly is NOT a thing, as Marvel Movie #20 and #21 are still raking in millions...

As the article stated, the opening weekend choice wasn't ideal and it had stiff competition... this was NOT a failure in any aspect... it's still the #1 movie of the weekend and will almost certainly make obscene amounts of cash...

I have to say that this has been a great year for blockbuster films - I've been impressed with each Marvel movie, and am very much looking forward to Jurassic World

"this was NOT a failure in any aspect... it's still the #1 movie of the weekend and will almost certainly make obscene amounts of cash..."

Depends, to me and you this would have been a roaring success but for disney ceo who want's all the money, not some of it, ALL THE MONEY, to him this is a failure.

 

[Michiel]

Marvel has proven that franchise fatigue does not happen when you make great movies and TV shows. Solo did poorly because Episode VIII was absolute garbage. The analysis videos on YouTube that talk about all of the things wrong with that movie are better than the movie itself.

Exactly, the whole "franchise fatigue" thing is just a smokescreen pulled up by Disney and the media who overwhelmingly praised The Last Jedi, even when audiences were at best massively divided.
Then Disney as well as JJ Abrams went on a crusade insulting all the fans who didn't like these movies and calling them mysogenistic and other stupid insults. Then there is Kathleen Kennedy with her "the force is female" bullshit.
They've brought politics and their own particular ideology into Star Wars but they forgot that at least half the population (and probably even more worldwide) do not share their politics or ideology. Marvel did the same thing with their comics but have mostly managed to keep it out of their movies.
Then there was the fact that TLJ was just a bad movie, that mistreated beloved original characters and replaces them with boring, one-dimensional new ones and completely ignores everything that happened in the previous movie.

The weird comments by Solo writers about Lando being a "pan-sexual" didn't help either. Not everything has to be about gender and sexual orientation all the time.
From what I've heard, Solo is actually a decent movie compared to TLJ, but I'm not the only SW fan who has decided not to go and see it just because of what they did to TLJ and the politicization of SW by Kathleen Kennedy's Lucasfilm.

 

[misor]

Is it because Han(d) Solo has a different meaning?

 

[captaincranky]

I love this........ EVERYONE knew this movie was going to be underwhelming, and now that it actually has become somewhat underwhelming, we must write a story as if this is news......lol

Next after the break, water is wet, but first here's Jen with the traffic......

Well, I only plan to be "underwhelmed" by this movie when it hits Redbox.. And really, for $1.75, plus PA state tax, and about 2 miles of driving, how bad can it be?

BTW, Techspot could always use a good staff writer, and you sound like you've got your finger on the pulse of one thing or another...Still, "water is wet", likely won't cut it, even with the low standards you claim our current journalists practice.

Don't worry about me though, I'll be fine even if you don't get the job..(y) I've got the weather channel's hourly forecast on its own tab, location centered no more than a mile from my house.

 

[captaincranky]

....[ ]...The weird comments by Solo writers about Lando being a "pan-sexual" didn't help either. Not everything has to be about gender and sexual orientation all the time.
From what I've heard, Solo is actually a decent movie compared to TLJ, but I'm not the only SW fan who has decided not to go and see it just because of what they did to TLJ and the politicization of SW by Kathleen Kennedy's Lucasfilm.

You choose to believe it, not, or call me a bigot, but gays are so completely entrenched in the fashion, theater, and script writing professions, it's become harder and harder to find OTA TV characters, who think, (or act), as the sex they were born as.

When the homosexual-propaganda gets to the point where it becomes completely over the top, and I feel it doesn't really represent a cross section of the public at large, the show or movie gets tuned out, or turned off.

Men's figure skating consists almost entirely of gay men. It's sort of like a jazz dance troupe, with solo performers who twirl and twirl, in the most outrageous costumes.It helps to understand the jumps, if you count each rotation as a, "look at me", look at me", "look at me"! (That would be a triple). Although you do still have to check the takeoff position to tell which exact jump was performed.

I could go on about the time the US couldn't field a team for the Olympics, since the competitors were all dead, or at least half dead of AIDS.

But the general tone of propaganda coming out of the entertainment industry, is that we should envy, revere, embrace and even emulate all LBGT individuals, while being ashamed of being straight.

But "pan sexual", really? That's just outright, "pan-der-ing".

 

[GreenNova343]

Am I the only one that thinks this movie bombed because there's a bunch of no-name actors? I don't like seeing re-casted characters in any movie, let alone actors who are not well known. This feels more "TV show-ish" then awesome new Star Wars movie.

That's funny... Woody Harrelson, Paul Bettany, & Emilia Clarke as "no-name actors". Next someone will say that Robert Downey Jr. & Michael Keaton were only in "a few" movies before Spider-Man: Homecoming...

 

[DJMIKE25]

I must have bad taste. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.

 

[Squid Surprise]

That's funny... Woody Harrelson, Paul Bettany, & Emilia Clarke as "no-name actors". Next someone will say that Robert Downey Jr. & Michael Keaton were only in "a few" movies before Spider-Man: Homecoming...

They'd prefer "big name" actors like Billy Dee Williams, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill....

 

[OutlawCecil]

That's funny... Woody Harrelson, Paul Bettany, & Emilia Clarke as "no-name actors". Next someone will say that Robert Downey Jr. & Michael Keaton were only in "a few" movies before Spider-Man: Homecoming...

Oh, my bad. The famous Alden Ehrenreich has the lead roll. He was from what again? Supported by the famous Emilia Clarke as you pointed out. I doubt many people know her from anything other than Game of Thrones. Paul Bettany, maybe some people know the name but I had to look him up. Woody Harrelson is arguably the only well known actor in the whole darn movie...

 

[GreenNova343]

That's funny... Woody Harrelson, Paul Bettany, & Emilia Clarke as "no-name actors". Next someone will say that Robert Downey Jr. & Michael Keaton were only in "a few" movies before Spider-Man: Homecoming...

Oh, my bad. The famous Alden Ehrenreich has the lead roll. He was from what again? Supported by the famous Emilia Clarke as you pointed out. I doubt many people know her from anything other than Game of Thrones. Paul Bettany, maybe some people know the name but I had to look him up. Woody Harrelson is arguably the only well known actor in the whole darn movie...

A Knight's Tale, A Beautiful Mind, not to mention a couple of Marvel movies...not like Paul Bettany is hard to recognize.

As for needing big names...almost none of the main characters were played by big-name stars. Carrier Fisher? Aside from being Debbie Reynold's daughter, she'd had one film credit before Star Wars (& I can't say that "Shampoo" was that big of a hit). Same with Mark Hamill, just 1 film credit (same year, 1977; Wizards probably is more well-known than Shampoo, but probably not by much). Harrison Ford was maybe slightly better with 8 films to his credit, but he was never credited for his roles in 3 of them, & of the other 5 only one (American Graffiti) is even a known film -- & he had only a secondary role in it. The two "big-name" actors in Star Wars (Alec Guinness & Peter Cushing) even played secondary roles. So saying that "It doesn't feel like Star Wars because we don't have big-name actors in it" shows a disconnect from reality, when the original Star Wars helped no-name actors achieve big-name status.

 

[captaincranky]

That's funny... Woody Harrelson, Paul Bettany, & Emilia Clarke as "no-name actors". Next someone will say that Robert Downey Jr. & Michael Keaton were only in "a few" movies before Spider-Man: Homecoming...

It depends on your age. For example to me, Cary Grant, John Wayne, William Holden, Katherine Hepburn, and the princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly, were "big name actors". Although I admit, I've pretty much forgotten what they looked like...

For "breast men", there was Jane Mansfield, possibly Ann Margaret, and Mae West..

I didn't actually think Mark Hamill came out of retirement unless there was a bit part in another Star Wars movie available.

 

[OutlawCecil]

A Knight's Tale, A Beautiful Mind, not to mention a couple of Marvel movies...not like Paul Bettany is hard to recognize.

As for needing big names...almost none of the main characters were played by big-name stars. Carrier Fisher? Aside from being Debbie Reynold's daughter, she'd had one film credit before Star Wars (& I can't say that "Shampoo" was that big of a hit). Same with Mark Hamill, just 1 film credit (same year, 1977; Wizards probably is more well-known than Shampoo, but probably not by much). Harrison Ford was maybe slightly better with 8 films to his credit, but he was never credited for his roles in 3 of them, & of the other 5 only one (American Graffiti) is even a known film -- & he had only a secondary role in it. The two "big-name" actors in Star Wars (Alec Guinness & Peter Cushing) even played secondary roles. So saying that "It doesn't feel like Star Wars because we don't have big-name actors in it" shows a disconnect from reality, when the original Star Wars helped no-name actors achieve big-name status.

The difference here being actors and actresses in Star Wars didn't have to prove anything. It was a made up story. This Han Solo movie is riding on the back of (now) big-name actors so people expect a certain level of acting and similarities with the original. My original point was just, maybe people don't see enough similarities.

 

[Michiel]

I was surprised to learn from reviews that in the movie it's actually played as if Lando is in love (and has sex) with the SJW droid character. I thought the pan-sexual thing was just something the writer had thought up in his head to virtue signal on Twitter, but they actually put in in the movie! Apparently there is also a Han en Chewie shower scene! (I kid you not! ))