Solo Headed To Become A Flop? Yep, It Flopped.

[Darc Requiem]

NightlyPoe said:

thismeintiel said:

They're all definitely shocked. They thought brand power would have given them the largest launch for Memorial Day Weekend, which would have been a good headline to point to when the people who didn't like it or were boycotting were pointing to it being the smallest opening for a SW film. However, they didn't even come close. 

They're also shocked to find out that the vast majority of people don't think exactly like they do, either about the films or their politics. So now they are reaching for any excuse to explain away the poor BO results. Half the world/fans must be bigots and/or the film wasn't diverse enough are the two very poor reasons, which also clash with one another, many seem to have finalized on. Denial is an ugly thing. 

It really is all about the narrative with you.  In the end, Solo is going to do about 2/3 of Rogue One.  Are you really so monomaniacal that you believe that close to 2/3 of the Star Wars audience is boycotting?  That includes like 75% of the foreign audience that don't even share our politics.

Even a massively publicized controversy like the NFL kneeling stuff, which spawned hundreds of hours of news coverage, was stoked by Trump himself, and actively offended many Americans on a patriotic level, only saw a 10% audience decrease.  The Star Wars complaints?  Mostly confined to the internet among people who already agree with one another.

You're never going to make a compelling argument that your preferred narrative can account for more than a fraction of the drop in box office.  There aren't enough people who agree with you to even come close to account for this performance.  It's not excuse, or denials, it's common sense.  There's more going on here.

Solo is on pace to make less than half of Rogue One. TLJ grosses 75% of their estimates. It was expected to make 1.8 billion. It made 1.33 billion. I'm not going to say that Solo's lack of success is entirely due fans boycotting the film. There are other factors like stiffer competition like Deadpool2 and Avenger Infinity War. However fan dissatisfaction and Lucasfilms response to it are clear a major factor. Rogue One was a side story full of a bunch of characters no one ever heard of. It made over a billion at the box office. Solo is a movie starring Han Solo, Chewie, and Lando. It's not even going to hit 500 million dollars.

Last edited by Darc Requiem - on 03 June 2018