When you’ve lost Rolling Stone, which has pretty much come out for every far left thing, that’s’ not good
There are multiple problems with this movie. 1st, they presented it as EPIC! when it should have been “come for some good, mindless summer entertainment!” They should have told Pascal to keep his stupid mouth shut. And, come on, the muppets in New Hope, Empire, and Return looked more realistic than Grogu. He looks like a dog’s chew toy. That was fine for the tv show, not when you’re paying all that money for it while going to the theater. And then there’s the notion that Pascal barely shows his face and his stuntman gets billing right below him, with people thinking he wasn’t really acting much in the movie.
On the flip side, it has a good Rotten Tomatoes of 89%, but, there are other high rated movies that lost money, and this could lose $100 million, and, with the changed times, they aren’t going to make that back on DVD rentals and sales, along with the stream at home. People who saw it are saying it was a good watch, they enjoyed it, no Woke, but, more like a 2 hour TV episode.
Is Star Wars dead? Mostly. If they were smart they’d dump the new universe and go back to the one as written by top tier scifi writers. Books that were on the NY Times best sellers list. How about doing The Hand Of Thrawn trilogy, which was the first big one? Do the Darth Bane trilogy, which was a 1,000 years before New Hope and established the Rule Of 2? Do the graphic novel about the establishment of the Jedi? How about the big Sith War 5000 years before? The material, great material, is available.
Iran seems to have set the Hormoz tariff at 10$ per barrel
They are in no hurry to negotiate
The new Supreme Leader is NOT going to give up his 60% U235
The IP is completely DOA. They took the 3 original characters, signed the 3 actors to contracts, and then did NOT put the 3 people who define Star Wars (Han, Luke, and Leia) in a scene together. They made Luke and Han broken down old men, and they made Kylo Ren a broken young man (because all the men have to be broken). Giving Kylo Ren a helmet that made him look like Darth Duckbill didn’t help.
As for the men being broken… They even made Finn a clown.
All so they could elevate the perfect, flawless, girlboss, Rey Palpatine. No one liked Rey, except Kathleen “put a chick in it” Kennedy.
Now they have a movie that would have been a bad series on Disney+, that will lose 100s of millions of dollars. (Don’t believe the $165 million budget being bandied about – it doesn’t include salaries for people like Pascal or Weaver, and a lot of other stuff.) No one cares about Star Wars
They can’t abandon what they’ve built, because they don’t believe it was wrong, or bad. They believe that we are all too stupid to see what they were doing.
40, 50, or 60 years ago, writers had life experience. Gene Roddenberry was a veteran. He flew the B-17 Flying Fortress in the Pacific. That is why Star Trek, under his guidance felt like a real military organization.
Others had read classical literature. Star Wars drew on everything from Buck Rodgers, and Dune, to Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Writers in Hollywood today all come from upper-middle and upper class families. They all graduated from a small number of writing programs at coastal elite universities. They all are to the Left of Bernie Sanders, and the only literature they know has been written since 1960. They couldn’t adapt the Expanded Universe in a meaningful way if they had half a billion dollars. Which is what they would get
Some people just may have “outgrown” it