Are you going to boycott "SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY"
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UPDATED: Wednesday, July 4, 2018 18:57
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There was VERY CLEARLY a Warning of Spoilers in the post that you quoted. Although this is not Cinema Forum, what was the purpose of copying the Spoiler while deleting the Warning of the Spoiler? Did Wishy hack your login to make you so rude?
sorry not sorry
Do Right, Be Right. :)
What? Is that posted for posterity?
Here. I'll post it again, for double posterity.
I've never deleted a post of mine, or edited it after somebody else has posted something.
I dare you to find a single instance where I have done either.
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Now, now children.......play nice!
Even though it's not Cinema, we're talking movies here. I must insist on you keep the bickering down please. I will have to impose a 2-bicker maximum. Let's get a ruling from the judges:
What say you, judges? (since it was my post, I will recuse myself. See, we can learn life lessons from the mentally challenged in the White House).
Wish, Zeek, EC? Care to weigh in?
SGG
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
There was VERY CLEARLY a Warning of Spoilers in the post that you quoted. Although this is not Cinema Forum, what was the purpose of copying the Spoiler while deleting the Warning of the Spoiler? Did Wishy hack your login to make you so rude?
sorry not sorry
Do Right, Be Right. :)
What? Is that posted for posterity?
Here. I'll post it again, for double posterity.
I've never deleted a post of mine, or edited it after somebody else has posted something.
I dare you to find a single instance where I have done either.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Yep... I called it.
This is getting too predictable.
As 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' Flops, Are Movies About White Men Box Office Poison?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2018/05/29/as-solo-a-star-
wars-story-flops-are-movies-about-white-men-box-office-poison/#674240cd5d49
Of course that's the take-away here. What else could it be?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Golly. For them to say that the very best films are only about white guys just sounds racist. But that is the sort of hypocrisy we know to expect from the intolerant PC SJW.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yep... I called it.
This is getting too predictable.
As 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' Flops, Are Movies About White Men Box Office Poison?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2018/05/29/as-solo-a-star-
wars-story-flops-are-movies-about-white-men-box-office-poison/#674240cd5d49
Of course that's the take-away here. What else could it be?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Yes, it's true...White Men Can't Jump!
Bwah, ha, ha, ha!
SGG
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yep... I called it.
This is getting too predictable.
As 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' Flops, Are Movies About White Men Box Office Poison?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2018/05/29/as-solo-a-star-
wars-story-flops-are-movies-about-white-men-box-office-poison/#674240cd5d49
Of course that's the take-away here. What else could it be?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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An exerpt from the article regarding movies and White Male Leads:
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Those allegedly boycotting Star Wars over The Last Jedi ironically stayed away from a chapter more suited to their interests. I am hesitant to give the vocal minority who didn’t just dislike The Last Jedi (that’s allowed) but viewed it as SJW propaganda (that’s evil) too much credit. To the extent that it had any effect, you had some folks ignoring Solo either because they loved The Last Jedi or because they hated The Last Jedi. I never thought a Han Solo prequel was a good idea, but even I didn’t see this perfect storm coming.
The writer was looking to make a point about reading too much into the title.
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Not every film starring a young white male lead is doomed to struggle overseas (Kingsman: The Secret Service). Not every female-led or minority-centric biggie is going to kick butt here (Pacific Rim: Uprising) and abroad (Ghost in the Shell). Yet, there is enough evidence to suggest that it doesn’t hurt to have your movie centered on a racial minority or a woman (of any color). The key will still be making movies, of all sizes, that are demographically-specific event movies. It’s why It and Girls Trip were events, but King Arthur and The Mummy were not.
In the final analysis, you still need to make a good movie. The best in writing, acting, directing, etc. if you want people to come.
But then again, he offers this.......
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In the end, Solo had little to offer that was fresh and had little to sell beyond being a movie that happened to be part of the Star Wars universe. But in 2018, an event movie featuring a generic white guy in the lead is that much less of an event movie, and merely being a big-budget fantasy spectacle isn’t enough. Giving certain demographics, a still too rare opportunity to root for heroes that look like them can help create demographically-specific event movies. Thus, from a certain point of view, white male movie stars may indeed be box office poison.
Are White guys still in charge?
SGG
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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Are White guys still in charge?
SGG
They're Jewish. Does that count?
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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
In the final analysis, you still need to make a good movie. The best in writing, acting, directing, etc. if you want people to come.
SGG
Well there's the rub. Almost nobody is doing this now, but you knuckleheads keep spending your hard earned cash in this down economy making these incompetent rich people even richer.
Say no to all of it.
Hell. I have Kodi and could watch any movie or TV show I wanted to for free. I can't even remember the last movie I saw (I think it may have been Welcome to Me), and I even stopped watching TV shows sometime last summer. The only show I've seen at all was about 5 episodes of that sci-fi show I mentioned in the Sci-Fi thread while visiting with my brother and my Dad, but I haven't been bothered to watch any more of it... I can't even remember the name of it.
I dunno. I think I'm just over TV and Movies. They've lost their kick.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yep... I called it.
This is getting too predictable.
As 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' Flops, Are Movies About White Men Box Office Poison?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2018/05/29/as-solo-a-star-
wars-story-flops-are-movies-about-white-men-box-office-poison/#674240cd5d49
Of course that's the take-away here. What else could it be?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Actually the rumors are that Lucasfilm's take away is that Solo released too quickly after The Last Jedi and people weren't ready for more Star Wars.
This from the same company that released Black Panther and Avengers Infinity War 10 weeks apart and they both had amazing box office performances. So, much so that Black Panther was still in theaters when they released it on DVD/Bluray. If you make movies that audiences want to see then it doesn't seem to matter how quickly you release them. Why would suits learn or use logic though?
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Originally posted by Zeek:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yep... I called it.
This is getting too predictable.
As 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' Flops, Are Movies About White Men Box Office Poison?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2018/05/29/as-solo-a-star-
wars-story-flops-are-movies-about-white-men-box-office-poison/#674240cd5d49
Of course that's the take-away here. What else could it be?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Actually the rumors are that Lucasfilm's take away is that Solo released too quickly after The Last Jedi and people weren't ready for more Star Wars.
This from the same company that released Black Panther and Avengers Infinity War 10 weeks apart and they both had amazing box office performances. So, much so that Black Panther was still in theaters when they released it on DVD/Bluray. If you make movies that audiences want to see then it doesn't seem to matter how quickly you release them. Why would suits learn or use logic though?
I still think the main takeaway is that Kathleen Kennedy is box office poison for Star Wars. Or at least it should be.
I did predict this White Male thing on the 23rd though in my Alex Jones parody quote. I had a feeling that people were going to be at least semi-successful at boycotting this movie and that the news was just going to say that it was because it was the one that centered around a white male protagonist.
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The Earth is flat and is only 6,000 years old. 9/11 was a false flag and the Twin Towers never even existed in the alternate universe I came from, and neither did Russians, so I really don't even know what y'all are talking about half the time in here. Donald Trump was real, but he's dead now. He went on to host The Price is Right after he got Fired from the Apprentice and met his end in a bizarre Plinko accident shortly after the fact. The Cloud People are sending laser beams into your brain and making you spend your money on Marvel and Star Wars movies. The only reason that y'all don't think you want to see Solo is because they don't want you to see another movie in the Star Wars universe starring a white male hero. WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!! OBAMA TURNED THE FROGS GAY!!!!
- Alex Jones
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