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Rey's true lineage will be revealed, Ren will be killed or redeemed (he shouldn't be redeemed, IMO but Vader was redeemed, so I guess it's not off the table), Finn & Rose fall in love, blah, blah, blah. There's no mystery, save for Rey's parents and at this point, I don't give a **** if she's the granddaughter of Assage Ventress and Count Dooku, she's a boring character and definitely a Mary Sue. Blech. |
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I already know what's going to happen....the First Order is going to turn on Kylo, he will be alone and devastated, and Rey is going to save his ass. And then together, they will take down the First Order. There's actually an amazingly insightful analysis of TFA and TLJ and how it's a play on the Anakin-Padme romance and a re-working of an old literary trope...and quite magnificently done at that. Kylo Ren, Rey and the Usurper/Holy Mother Quote:
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18 days in TFA: 750,230,824 TLJ: 531,512,829 The domestic earnings gap is now just under $219m Foreign gross doesn't get broken down the same way, but TFA total: $1.13b TLJ to date: $523m (film doesn't open in China until the 5th) Looking at the current numbers and trends, the movie is still on pace to gross hundreds of millions less domestically, and hundreds of millions less outside the country. First 4 days of week 3, domestic: TFA: $98,263,555 TLJ: $66,813,601 From this point forward, TFA brought in just under another $185m domestically. TLJ had better have really strong legs, or this is going to be a $500m+ drop. |
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I don’t wake up wanting it to do bad and I don’t need others to affirm my issues with it (though enough people have voiced the same complaints that I know it’s not just me). Hopefully Solo and Episode IX are better. |
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Finally saw it yesterday.
Let me start off by saying: I think the "magic" of Star Wars is just about played out for me. It has nothing to do with social justice warrior messaging. It has nothing to do with poor actors. It has nothing to do with poor writing and directing. It's not gaping plot holes. It's just... overexposure I guess. From the opening scene of this movie and opening lines, it just felt sort of childish. All that being said, by about 20 minutes into the movie, I'd settled into the story and was enjoying it pretty well. I can definitely see how a second watching of this movie would help, because once I settled into the tone of the movie, I began to enjoy it. Maybe that's the overarching problem of these movies. Each director has set a different tone, and it takes a while to figure out if the movie is going to be dark (Empire), light (prequels), dark (Rogue One), mixture (Last Jedi). That's a vast oversimplification of the different tones, but each one has been a bit different due to the different directors and writers. This one has quite a few too many lame one-liners that were going for cheap laughs (Leia saying "You like what you did with my hair?" and a bunch of others, that one just springs to mind). What I don't get is the cries of SJW messaging throughout the movie. So people make money off war and the wealthy profit while exploiting the underclass? I guess Iron Man (and a jillion other movies that point to this fact) all are SJW ridden as well? Their are WOMEN leading the rebellion? OMG!! The one woman was also a total **** who was unlikeable as hell. This online "rightwashing" backlash against anything that's remotely perceived as hostile to conservative ideas is bothersome. However, I suppose it's what the Left gets for the absurd mental gymnastics around identity politics that they've been playing in their ivory towers and academic cultural essays for the last decade. Anyway, overall, I enjoyed the movie, but I think that the magic of Star Wars that requires me to obsess over the universe is over. Maybe I've just outgrown it.
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Watched this again online.
Still cant believe the crap they pulled in this movie. Its like they said, "screw any previous character, and/or any sub plot, aaaaaand fart noise."
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Almost to 1.1 billion.
The countdown to 1.5 begins. ![]()
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Rey will absolutely not kill Kylo Ren.
But she will save him, despite protests from her buddies. Hux will seize power with a coup.
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Say what you want but this film has now achieved the largest EVER drop from week 1 to week 2.
Over $100 million. This last week a STAR WARS film was only keeping barely above (under 3 million over) Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle...
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