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Soundwave on 30 December 2017
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thismeintiel said:
Soundwave said:

TLJ will hit a billion WW on Saturday it looks like, that would make it the fastest to a billion after TFA, Furious 7, and Jurassic World.

So it'll hit a billion faster than any Marvel movie (yup, Avengers included).

All things considered I think Disney will be fine with it. The second Star Wars movie in a trilogy is always 30%+ down from the opening episode (ESB and AOTC both grossed far less than thieir predecessors) and TLJ also has the fact that it's the third Star Wars movie in three years, so each one is not as much of an event any more (hell we're getting another Star Wars movie in like 6 months).

Empire and Clones at least had a full three year break into between movies with no new Star Wars movies in between. 

The OG SW was in theaters for more than a year. As was pretty much every big movie, since VHS wasn't in the mainstream, yet. You wanted to watch a movie again, you had to go to the theater. It wasn't until 1982 that it was released on VHS.

The movie industry was in the process of changing to what we have today when ESB came out, which meant less time in theaters before it was put on TV and home video. It still made ~$1.3B WW, ticket price inflation adjusted. And that's without the huge foreign market we have today.

What's this movie's excuse, besides like AOTC, it isn't that good of a movie that happened to followe up a not so good movie? 

It doesn't need any excuses, it's making Disney a shit-ton of money and is more of less on par for any middle Star Wars movie. 

People just don't go the middle installment as much, even for Empire which is probably the best Star Wars movie.

Just because it doesn't do everything the hardcore fanboys wanted doesn't make it a poorly made movie either, it's clearly better than any of the prequels which just had laughably poor acting, writing, cinematography, etc. To be honest too, sure they could've done the standard thing with Luke Skywalker and make him a wise old Jedi master that quickly relents and trains Rey, and the fanboys would've gotten their little lightsaber boners ... but we've seen that movie already with Alec Guiness.

Last edited by Soundwave - on 30 December 2017