- Apr 27, 2008
- 64,706
- 78,448
- AFL Club
- Port Adelaide
- Other Teams
- Chael Sonnen: Moral Champion
Chin up GG
Movie Star Wars - Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker - Spoilers and Rumors
- Thread starter Exe Gesis
- Start date
- Tagged users None
- Sep 6, 2005
- 144,886
- 94,756
- AFL Club
- Fremantle
- Thread starter
- #2,377
i can put my chin up as high as the sky but the corners of my lips will always still point down
but cheers for the care
- Sep 27, 2014
- 34,227
- 28,858
- AFL Club
- Essendon
It'll be fascinating to see how this movie goes.
The Force Awakens was not just popular but had such a great hook with silent Luke on the cliff to get people to see The Last Jedi.
The Last Jedi was unpopular and left no hook to come back for The Rise of Skywalker. Hence desperately bringing back the Emperor in the trailer.
If this does well ($1 billion or whatever the pass mark is for what they spent) they'll dismiss the December 2017-May 2018 (Solo: A Star Wars Story) period as an aberration with no harm done except to Rian Johnson.
If this does not well they'll wait a couple years before even announcing the next one.
The Force Awakens was not just popular but had such a great hook with silent Luke on the cliff to get people to see The Last Jedi.
The Last Jedi was unpopular and left no hook to come back for The Rise of Skywalker. Hence desperately bringing back the Emperor in the trailer.
If this does well ($1 billion or whatever the pass mark is for what they spent) they'll dismiss the December 2017-May 2018 (Solo: A Star Wars Story) period as an aberration with no harm done except to Rian Johnson.
If this does not well they'll wait a couple years before even announcing the next one.
- Sep 6, 2005
- 144,886
- 94,756
- AFL Club
- Fremantle
- Thread starter
- #2,379
i think IX will be a disaster
- Sep 27, 2014
- 34,227
- 28,858
- AFL Club
- Essendon
Think it's lose-lose.
This does bad, Disney go "Well let's just re-re-do A New Hope in 2023 because people liked The Force Awakens".
This does well, they go with their Marvel-tone plan from 2017.
Star Wars is too big with too much merchandise for them to really try something creative with it.
- Apr 27, 2008
- 64,706
- 78,448
- AFL Club
- Port Adelaide
- Other Teams
- Chael Sonnen: Moral Champion
I'll still see it twice at minimum
- Apr 27, 2008
- 64,706
- 78,448
- AFL Club
- Port Adelaide
- Other Teams
- Chael Sonnen: Moral Champion
Star Wars was a vision and passion of a small group of people, and though some of them left or became compromised by the other factors, that's something the committee nature of modern Star Wars productions will never understand or capture.
Last edited:
- Sep 27, 2014
- 34,227
- 28,858
- AFL Club
- Essendon
- Sep 6, 2005
- 144,886
- 94,756
- AFL Club
- Fremantle
- Thread starter
- #2,384
ill download the cam version and if its any good ill go watch it at the cinema
- Sep 27, 2014
- 34,227
- 28,858
- AFL Club
- Essendon
I'm going to do this. Interested to see how the movie goes but don't want to encourage them with money.
- Sep 6, 2005
- 144,886
- 94,756
- AFL Club
- Fremantle
- Thread starter
- #2,386
you wont be sorry
- Apr 27, 2008
- 64,706
- 78,448
- AFL Club
- Port Adelaide
- Other Teams
- Chael Sonnen: Moral Champion
Wouldn't it be good if you could get money back from going to the movies if you don't like it?
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
- Sep 6, 2005
- 144,886
- 94,756
- AFL Club
- Fremantle
- Thread starter
- #2,389
could work....refund based on movie minutes watched....youd have to walk out of the movie and hand in your ticket thats timestamped.
- Feb 6, 2013
- 12,443
- 17,240
- AFL Club
- Hawthorn
Honestly I won't be watching it unless the reviews are incredible. TLJ really did kill any interest I had in seeing how things wrap up. I couldn't even hate watch Rise of Skywalker such is my apathy.
- Sep 15, 2011
- 31,587
- 48,048
- AFL Club
- West Coast
I look forward to the reviews from everyone who said they weren’t going to see it, probably the day of release
Personally, I think it comfortably gets past $1.5b and people that didn’t like TLJ claim it’s a failure and it’s all TLJ’s fault.
I don’t think there’s any way this isn’t a financial success. It didn’t need a hook because it had one from the very beginning: the final story in the 30-year Skywalker saga. That said, what counts as a success in a time when Endgame just sold $2.7b in tickets? A $1b movie makes money but is it a success? $1.5b? One thing TLJ and Solo taught us is that Star Wars is not a global phenomenon, it’s a Western phenomenon. TLJ is the ninth highest grossing film of all time in the US but it just doesn’t register in China and some other territories. Hell, films like Fast and Furious and Transformers are much bigger in China.
Personally, I think it comfortably gets past $1.5b and people that didn’t like TLJ claim it’s a failure and it’s all TLJ’s fault.
- Sep 6, 2005
- 144,886
- 94,756
- AFL Club
- Fremantle
- Thread starter
- #2,392
i might "bookmark" that post
- Feb 6, 2013
- 12,443
- 17,240
- AFL Club
- Hawthorn
Jokes on you, you'll be reading a review from Pichard Ryor on opening day. But nah seriously am not interested at all. Didn't watch Solo until it was out on DVD.I look forward to the reviews from everyone who said they weren’t going to see it, probably the day of release
I'll do what I do with Solo - skip opening week, then check it out.
This is from a guy who went to midnight screenings of the prequels.
Problem is, it'll be a disaster that makes money.
TLJ was a disaster - still made money.
This is from a guy who went to midnight screenings of the prequels.
Problem is, it'll be a disaster that makes money.
TLJ was a disaster - still made money.
- Sep 27, 2014
- 34,227
- 28,858
- AFL Club
- Essendon
False
Did the same thing with the prequels, midnight screening for each. Too old for that s**t now, but saw TFA, R1 and TLJ on opening mornings.
Solo was the only Star Wars film that not only did I not see on opening day, but ended up going in the second or third week. I attribute 20% of this to not really being that excited for this movie that we didn’t really need, and 80% to the disillusionment of Disney’s ridiculous handling of TLJ.
- Sep 15, 2011
- 31,587
- 48,048
- AFL Club
- West Coast
Agree to disagree. Anyone who is fan of Star Wars will want to see how it ends. I think it’s a safe bet to say that everyone who has seen the eight that came before will watch the ninth, regardless of what they thought about VIII or the prequels or anything else.
The other thing is, the hype machine hasn’t even started. Just the name reveal got everyone flocking back to these threads, once the marketing kicks in full force (and it will be much bigger than Solo because a. they are not expecting a flop, and b. they pretty much have a month to themselves rather than being in the middle of other big summer movies), enthusiasm will kick right back in.
SM
Bigfooty Legend
Not sure that's true when they encouraged RJ to do whatever he wanted.
SM
Bigfooty Legend
Didn't you say similar of Solo and plenty still haven't seen it?I look forward to the reviews from everyone who said they weren’t going to see it, probably the day of release
I don’t think there’s any way this isn’t a financial success. It didn’t need a hook because it had one from the very beginning: the final story in the 30-year Skywalker saga. That said, what counts as a success in a time when Endgame just sold $2.7b in tickets? A $1b movie makes money but is it a success? $1.5b? One thing TLJ and Solo taught us is that Star Wars is not a global phenomenon, it’s a Western phenomenon. TLJ is the ninth highest grossing film of all time in the US but it just doesn’t register in China and some other territories. Hell, films like Fast and Furious and Transformers are much bigger in China.
Personally, I think it comfortably gets past $1.5b and people that didn’t like TLJ claim it’s a failure and it’s all TLJ’s fault.
- Sep 6, 2005
- 144,886
- 94,756
- AFL Club
- Fremantle
- Thread starter
- #2,400
No one REALLY cares about how the story ends anymore.
Disney well and truly ****ed the living hell out of this franchise with TLJ and Solo beige-fest.
People have been tuning in a lot to all the criticisms of Disney/LFL and have taken note. All the things Mark Hamill said, all the subtle criticisms of how Disney mishandled the treatment of the ST, all the SJWism they've infested into it, all the abuse by Disney/LFL toward the fans over TLJ etc etc.
You can see that turning away from SW in a variety of other areas, that portends IX will be a major flop -- galaxy's edge a ghost town, merchandise sales flat-lining, sales of books/comics, etc.
STAR WARS IS DEAD.
Disney well and truly ****ed the living hell out of this franchise with TLJ and Solo beige-fest.
People have been tuning in a lot to all the criticisms of Disney/LFL and have taken note. All the things Mark Hamill said, all the subtle criticisms of how Disney mishandled the treatment of the ST, all the SJWism they've infested into it, all the abuse by Disney/LFL toward the fans over TLJ etc etc.
You can see that turning away from SW in a variety of other areas, that portends IX will be a major flop -- galaxy's edge a ghost town, merchandise sales flat-lining, sales of books/comics, etc.
STAR WARS IS DEAD.
Similar threads
