Saw it today first star wars I´ve seen since Episode 1 I think. Didn´t see 7,8 or Rogue one. I enjoyed it it was a fun return to star wars for me. I was expecting this to be a mess but now I kinda hope they make another solo movie.

I thought Solo was pretty fun, but the reality is, this movie was only going to appeal to so many people. First of all, you can't replace Harrison Ford. You just can't. I got comfortable with Alden in the role, but knowing these Star Wars movies aren't a reboot of the universe, it never leaves the back of your mind that these aren't the people you grew up with in the original trilogies. I can understand that being a distraction with people.

Also, this is a case of too much too soon. People were let down with Last Jedi, and didn't want to hop into a new SW movie right away. There wasn't tons of hype on it until the last minute which probably showed that the studio didn't really believe in it as strongly either. SW isn't Marvel comics, which gets by on threading stories of larger than life types in a shared universe. With Star Wars, everyone with abilities only has one powerset, the force. These movies are a shared universe, but told in different timeframes and aren't leading up to a bigger goal.

Right now, if Star Wars is going to be successful on the big screen again, then the movies are going to need purpose. Not just pouring the same water into a new glass each time. And giving themselves some breathing room.

It was the head of distribution who said it. You should have posted sooner because now all I can find is everyone covering how bad it's doing. I believe the h headline was similar to "too soon to say it's fatigue" and was mostly quotes from David Hollis.

Sure, buddy. Head of distribution doesn't know what he's talking about 

Disney’s worldwide distribution chief Dave Hollis, who is exiting the studio this week after 17 years, allowed that expectations were certainly higher on the movie and said Mouse execs will “spend a lot of time digging into every question in every market to get the answer” to why Solo so under-performed. “We came into the beginning of the year with this one of the most anticipated films. We gotta spend some time looking at the exits and get a better handle on all the questions.”

So basically this movie is more on the fan service side like Rogue One from what I gather? I am still sort of curious to see this movie, especially since the whispers that they fell on hard times in getting this thing out, so I'm curious how well they were able to pull it all together.

A couple things are tainting any hype I had for it though - Harrison Ford was already pretty young in Episode 4-6, but now Alden Ehrenreich is a slightly younger Han Solo (who doesn't seem to look or act much like Ford's Solo)? Just seems weird to me.

Also, I know it's hardly related/connected, but TLJ was so bad that is seriously killed a lot of my Star Wars hype in general by shitting all over the lore, so that really played a part in tempering my hype I think. Everything just seems nonsensical and insignificant now so I just no longer really care about the SW lore or story.

Well, they did. 1. May is a wonderful release date. You know, first week of summer and all. 2. Black Panther is not a popular or well known character. Unlike Solo. 

Bigly. Came out worse than their worst case scenario after revising their worst case scenario down multiple times 

They won't. 

Since Wednesday 45213 people have seen the movie in Norway, an absolutely pathetic number.

Foreign markets are really shitting on this. They completely ditched the star wars name for China because of TLJ performance. It was pulled after a week. This will be too

For korea, it debut behind 3 movies 

The domestic is like half of what they were originally thinking. Star wars relies more on US than most movies