The Fans Have Spoken, Last Jedi Drops A Massive 68%

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Soundwave said:

Do people honestly think if you added a training scene for Rey and made other elements of the film like what a certain portion of the fan base was advocating for that The Last Jedi adds like $400-$500 million in box office?

Does anyone seriously think that?

The movie was making a max of $1.5 billion I think even if it was as "crowd pleasing" as The Force Awakens. A large part of the TFA's appeal was it was the first Star Wars movie in a long time and even more than than that for a lot of people it was the first Star Wars movie to bring back the "feel of the originals" which was a 30-40 year wait. 

A second movie was never going to have that novelty going for it, Disney can either stop making Star Wars films for 10 years if they want to build that feeling back up, but you can't have it both ways. You can't release a new Star Wars movie every year and expect every one of them to be a huge event. At some point it just becomes "oh, hey its another Star Wars".

No idea overall. I know I would've seen it another time or two if they had treated Luke better and not had so much horrendous comedy. There's probably others like me, but who knows.