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

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thismeintiel said:

NightlyPoe said:

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.

And your folly is thinking that no one outside the US can agree with "our politics."  There are people of all political bents across the world.  Just accept it. 

As for the kneeling, it must have had more of an impact than that if the NFL is now outright saying they will no longer allow it.  The drop in audience and merch sales must have been enough that they feared what would happen if they continued to allow it to happen.  The thing is the NFL is a BIG part of people's lives.  Many weren't just going to drop it, even if it the disliked the kneeling.  The fact that 10% just left is pretty shocking.  And the NFL knew more would leave this year if they allowed it to continue.

But, hey, you can continue to think the SJWs make up the vast majority of the US/world if that helps.  And ignore that even self-described Liberals are pissed that this stuff is being forced into SW.

I really wish people would stop associating hardcore SJW types with liberalism. It's not true liberalism. It's thinly veiled cultural Authoritarianism if anything disguised as fake virtue - people who view anything and everything from the lens of identity and want to exercise censorship, policies, and authority based around these constructs. If anything, it's quite a conservative way of thinking, or at least a neoconservative one.