Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

[Mola Ram]

So has there be any box office projections yet for TROS? So far I've seen reports that it'll gross $185 million on its weekend, which is low compared to the last two.

My predictions: $75-80 million weekend opening that makes it a bomb, 90% drop on its second weekend.

Disney is not going to allow this movie to bomb. They may not be able to stop it from underperforming, but they will pull every dirty trick imaginable to ensure its opening weekend is profitable, or at least looks that way.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Disney is not going to allow this movie to bomb. They may not be able to stop it from underperforming, but they will pull every dirty trick imaginable to ensure its opening weekend is profitable, or at least looks that way.

I don't want to bring up Solo again considering that was a troubled production, but the Rat doesn't care the realize that Star Wars has become a franchise no one wanted to return and have unnecessary woke politics in it.

 

[Mola Ram]

I don't want to bring up Solo again considering that was a troubled production, but the Rat doesn't care the realize that Star Wars has become a franchise no one wanted to return and have unnecessary woke politics in it.

Solo was a spinoff. The side stories were always considered experimental, and if they could use a bomb as an excuse to focus on Disney+, that still works out for them. This is the conclusion to the major franchise pillar. There'll just be way too much egg on their face if it flat out tanks. It may well bomb, but that will absolutely not be the story the first weekend, and anyone claiming Disney is massaging the numbers or mass-buying tickets will be accused of peddling conspiracy theories.

Caveat: I would love to be proven wrong about this.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Solo was a spinoff. The side stories were always considered experimental, and if they could use a bomb as an excuse to focus on Disney+, that still works out for them. This is the conclusion to the major franchise pillar. There'll just be way too much egg on their face if it flat out tanks. It may well bomb, but that will absolutely not be the story the first weekend, and anyone claiming Disney is massaging the numbers or mass-buying tickets will be accused of peddling conspiracy theories.

Caveat: I would love to be proven wrong about this.

It will be interesting to see if the mouse tries to buy its own tickets like with Captain Marvel, since the IRS knows about it now.

 

[BrunoMattei]

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

So has there be any box office projections yet for TROS? So far I've seen reports that it'll gross $185 million on its weekend, which is low compared to the last two.

My predictions: $75-80 million weekend opening that makes it a bomb, 90% drop on its second weekend.

The first part there is really optimistic, it is gonna have a good opening weekend, the Story is going to be defined by the second weekend drop off.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

You know, the way Disney SW portrays the original cast while Disney profits off of it would make great material for gender-race studies professors.

 

[Jaimas]

Ackmena (Bea Arthur's character from the Holiday Special) becoming a rebellious lesbian

....Bea Arthur was the best thing in the Holiday Special.
They won't even let us have this. Christ.

 

[Adamska]

That's rather like saying that Leonard Nemoy or Marc Alaimo are not who you use ever when it comes to Vulcan or Cardassian anything -

No. At this point you've already lost if you are going to do actually try and defend Traviss' works and you reveal your flags with this move.

And you're getting very sad if you think I'm actively talking about you when I went with the reactionary Mandos or the wolfaboo thing; I was referencing Imperial Japan more than anything else. Because it'd be like poetry; it rhymes. The wolfaboo was Filoni.

Jesus Christ calm down.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Who plays orange anus face Yoda?
Why would disney/Lucas want to feature her?

Assuming this wasn't asked ironically, Lupita Nyong'o, who seemed to have her breakout moment in 12 Years a Slave, voiced Maz Kanata in both the ST and the animated Forces of Destiny (aka SW for SJWs).

She ticks off enough woke check boxes to be featured as much as possible.

You know how fucking miserable it is to know that a bunch of edgelord niggers on kiwifarms can unironically formulate a better and #woker star wars story than the entire disney story department?

Seriously all the story ideas I have seen from people in this thread have been centred on giving more depth, background, and gravitas to the female and non-white protagonists in order to give them a halfway chance of gaining both mass audience popularity and the respect of crusty old fannurds.

And the telling part is that all the ideas we've bounced off each other here would have developed characters, locations, or other concepts without shitting on previous films, existing canon, Lucas-era characters., or any of the new female characters. If anything, we've come up with plenty of good ideas to make the latter something worth taking interest in.

Han, Luke, Leia, and Lando all needed a great going out moment

Plenty of us have said that the old-school characters deserved to leave the franchise with some sort of grace and/or dignity. It didn't even have to be something flashy or flamboyant, either. I think fans would have been happy to something as simple as a "This isnt our fight anymore. It's all up to you now," sort of scene capped with some words of encouragement from the original characters as the others praise their legacy/accomplishments and vow to do what they can for their generation.

When i was a kid i wanted to be obiwan and i had my parents buy lightsabers, action figures the whole nine yard. Other kids at my local schools wanted to be diffrent star wars characters aswell.

On the playground, even the girls wanted in on the action as Princess Leia because the franchise appealed to everyone without beating everyone over the head about diversity and inclusion. In a different thread featuring old commercials, there is one for ANH toys and action figures showing girls playing with the boys like it's no big deal. It just goes to show how much people will enjoy anything that focuses more on being good than on extraneous qualities (namely wokeness).

Edit: Doomcock's video seems to indicate new leaks. Holy fucking shit, it's getting worse at an exponential rate. I wonder if by release date it'll just be an intern throwing shit at the audience while screeching at the resonant frequency of people's eyes, causing bleeding and blindness.

If it's really true that there are still reshoots going on, that's truly concerning because there still needs to be some sort of post-production to integrate them into the film. The end result can't be all that coherent if they're still reshooting scenes for whatever reason. i have a feeling this will only serve to add to the dumpster fire -- more-so if it's true that the movie has no real endgame and will conclude with unresolved loose ends that shouldn't exist after the conclusion of a trilogy.

At this point, it seems like a live-action rock opera version of Episode IX couldn't be much worse than what's presently captured on film.

 

[Splendid]

Yeah, I'm not buying any stories about ongoing reshoots, there just isn't enough time for them to integrate this stuff properly.

 

[America's Giggling Gigolo]

Its one of the earliest things that was made fun of in this thread. It comes from Disney's Blue tard cum project which was a book made after TFA containing a compilation of many short stories. Among them was a retelling of Skippy the Jedi Droid (now called "The Red One" oooooh), a story about the tusken raider who attacked Luke who is now a tranny, Ackmena (Bea Arthur's character from the Holiday Special) becoming a rebellious lesbian and most importantly a story about the Dianoga (the trash compactor monster) that attacked Luke and the gang on the Death Star.
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The story itself is called "The Baptist" and the author (Nnedi Okorafor) portrays the monster as a strong and independent Force priestess lady named Omi who is very strong in the Force and while on her home planet, she was super smart and wise and fought off a male rapist of her species. She was then captured and sold to the Empire who cruelly threw her into the trash compactor. During this time she saw many visions of the Death Star blowing up. One day Luke and the gang arrived in the compactor and sensing Luke's strength in the Force, Omi decided to BAPTIZE him in gross sewer water. So you see, Omi wasn't trying to strangle and eat our heroes. She was only trying to baptize them in to the true nature of the Force as per the ways of her people, but our heroes cruelly attacked this innocent maiden strong woman. She then spent her last moments in the trash compactor using the Force to levitate objects, knowing she would be destroyed and wondered what her next reincarnation would be before blowing up. She was then reborn as a new life form...

I think we all know who this strong and mighty female incarnation of the Force was reborn as...
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I think this is an example of Disney adopting the reverse of Greedo shooting first.

Don't forget this same book revealed Tarkin is gay and lusts after a young Death Star officer.

 

[Cantercoin]

At least the worst of the old EU can at least be funny in hindsight. So much of Disney's EU is just boring and gay (literally and figuratively)

 

[Cyril Sneer]

No. At this point you've already lost if you are going to do actually try and defend Traviss' works and you reveal your flags with this move.

Mind you, I'm not being 100% serious here (her giving Boba Fett a literal gay bestie in the Legacy of the Force series was both hilariously cringe-worthy and completely inconsistent with the type of culture that she'd established the Mandalorians as having), but there's a certain segment of the SW fandom that seems to fly into a frothing, incoherent rage when they're reminded that Boba Fett even exists, and much of the flack that Traviss got/gets, seems to bubble up directly from that same wellspring of irrationality.

And you're getting very sad if you think I'm actively talking about you when I went with the reactionary Mandos or the wolfaboo thing; I was referencing Imperial Japan more than anything else. Because it'd be like poetry; it rhymes.

As previously noted, TCW Mandalorians are much more obviously German in influence than arguably anything else (taking notes from Imperial Japan is more characteristic of Palpatine's Galactic Empire).

I mean, just look at these guys:

The wolfaboo was Filoni.

Has any of the Filoni-directed content explicitly made it out to be that "a radical or reactionary Mandalorian group Order 66'[ed] themselves when faced by the Jedi forcing them to leave their ways", though? Serious question.

Jesus Christ calm down.

Shee-it, niggah, are you kidding? This is the most fun I've had talking about SW in years.

 

[Tour of Italy]

No one in this thread is discussing the real issues.

Like how we should start referring to the female side character in The Mandalorian as Booba Fett.

 

[Creep3r]

local media was saying they just have them going for the big Press Opening, not for the groundling plebs who pay to get in

So not only is this just a one day thing, but they don't even have the decency to show it to their peasants tourists? Just more bullshit press pandering.

At least the worst of the old EU can at least be funny in hindsight. So much of Disney's EU is just boring and gay (literally and figuratively)

Pretty much. The worst of it could be silly and goofy in a Spock's Brain kind of way, like some goofball imperial with three eyes going whaling for shits and giggles or watching a droid Grand Moff getting his shit fucked (both of which were from kids books aimed at 7-11 and 5-9). While with Disney it just seems to be retcons to make things more appropriate for the Current Year or do things that are outright insulting or demeaning that are on par with titty milk Luke to try and shame or wokify everything that came before Disney in a sick attempt at humor and virtue points in books, comics and games that read like they're meant for children but are aimed at adult and young adult readers who find farts at a wedding and space diapers funny.

Don't forget this same book revealed Tarkin is gay and lusts after a young Death Star officer.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who stared into the abyss...

 

[ditto]

Finn is going to troon out and marry Grand Moff Riker?

 

[friedshrimp]

There's this theory going around that Disney has made their movies this year bad on purpose so people would flock to Disney +.

Would explain how bland and lame Aladdin and Lion King were, and how crazy Maleficent II and Star Wars are shaping up to be.

 

[PseudoScrooge]

How about this? I just finished reading STAR WARS (vol 2) #75 comic because I had to see this series though so I could have a complete run to sell on Ebay to support my local comic shop.

In the last couple issues of this comic, C-3PO and Chewie are sent to a supposedly-uninhabited planet to blow it up with hand-planted bombs, only to discover sentient rocks live on the planet. Vader shows up because of course he does, and he and Chewbacca engage in HAND-TO-HAND combat, wherein Chewie bear-hugs him and throws him off a cliff.

It gets better though. The entire planet explodes to reveal a giant Galactus-sized rock monster hatching out of it. THE VERY NEXT PANEL shows C-3PO with the rock people...standing...somewhere....on the planet that just blew up. Or floating in space? Shouldn't everybody be dead?

I can't do it justice, but this issue throws ships, plots, and characters together wantonly like you are watching a five-year old play and drag out every toy he owns. Hell it's probably all traced anyway.

I am glad to see this series die, because I'm getting rid of all nu-wars crap from my home.

Sadly, they are just rebooting it to start over with a new issue 1. But without my patronage!

 

[InsolentGaylord]

There's this theory going around that Disney has made their movies this year bad on purpose so people would flock to Disney +.

Would explain how bland and lame Aladdin and Lion King were, and how crazy Maleficent II and Star Wars are shaping up to be.

No way, can you link me to sources saying this?

I mean it makes sense but it's an awful waste of money. But could be like "Come to our service to get the good shit, forget about the shit at the cinema that sucks".