Cool. Disney will just keep losing more money.

This should help Nelson Petlz in his hostile takeover.

Why not?

When they did the latest Transformers movie, they wanted it to be 'from the perspective of POC'.

The whole 'giant alien robot war raging on Earth' thing was in there somewhere, just mot as much of a priority.

It didn't do much to fill seats, the only thing that kept it from making it look as bad as it really was is ticket price inflation.

Star Wars is dead to me. Fuck KK, the writers group and the rest of them. Of the last things I watched - Mandalorian season 2 was really good, Boba Fett sucked, and Andor was pretty good. I refused to watch mandalorian season 3, obi wan kenobi, and Ahsoka.

I won’t be watching this new movie or anything else produced by Disney. I’m done with it. I also hate the Star Wars stuff at Disney world is centered around new stuff and not the original movies.

I have seen every single Star Wars movie at the theater on opening night. Including the 3D releases, the animated Clone Wars...

This will be the first one I dont, I may not see it at all.

At this point, it’s really starting to look intentional. I just doesn’t make any sense otherwise.

I've wondered why George Lucas sold the franchise to Disney. He's been filthy rich for over 40 years. It's not like he had to have their money. Did he really think that handing over all that he created to a giant corporation was a good way to preserve his legacy?
Thanks George, and I hope those extra millions comfort you while your film legacy gets turned into a steaming pile of dog shit.

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
At this point, it’s really starting to look intentional. I just doesn’t make any sense otherwise.

Oh, it is. ESG points scored to please their Vanguard/Black Rock overlords. Does it even matter to them if their stock price dips, when all of our 401ks/403bs/IRAs will still Index-in additional buys at every paycheck? Hell, they might even have sold stock before announcing, and they can just buy back in after the announcement. Our robot retirement machines will eventually repair the damage.

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Originally posted by sigspecops:
I've wondered why George Lucas sold the franchise to Disney. He's been filthy rich for over 40 years. It's not like he had to have their money. Did he really think that handing over all that he created to a giant corporation was a good way to preserve his legacy?

Well, Lucas wasn't really THAT good of a film maker, either. The prequels showed us what happened when he had full creative control, and they mostly suck (one can say the 3rd one was 'good' because it "didn't suck as much" as the first two). They said Empire Strikes Back was the original trilogy movie over which he had the LEAST control, and that is widely accepted as the best one. . . Heck, even the first movie wasn't nearly as good until somebody changed the end and gave us the classic finale (in the original, there was no 'ticking clock' with the Death Star approaching Yavin IV and no last-minute save as Luke destroyed it - it was just out in space when the rebels attacked).

And he didn't really care what the fans wanted, either. We have been asking for YEARS for a blu-ray or DVD remastered ORIGINAL theatrical release trilogy set (without all the crap he crammed in there in the 1990s), but he refused. Didney WOrl also refuses to release this (I wonder if it was part of the deal with Lucas), even though they would make millions of $$$ with VERY little effort.

I mean, why WOULDN'T Disney do this? With today's technology, they could do this over the weekend and sell MILLIONS of DVDs/Blu Rays. Yet they don't. A money-conscious entity like DIdney MUST have a reason.

I completely agree, there's plenty of well deserved criticism that Lucas definitely deserves. I just wish that he had been more thoughtful of who controlled the franchise.
But, then again maybe he wanted to ensure that no one would ever make a Star Wars movie better than he did, and Disney is fully up to task for that.

Man, I would love to see Elon buy Disney.

It’s time we have a black woman president at Harvard too. Oh wait…

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Originally posted by sigspecops:
I've wondered why George Lucas sold the franchise to Disney.

At the time, he was dating (and eventually married) Melody Hobson, CEO of Ariel Investments and also at the time, Obama was planning to raise capital gains taxes for 2013. It has been speculated that Lucas sold Lucasfilm a few months before the new corporate taxes were going to take effect in 2013 (many others sold out as well), hundreds of millions of dollars difference. He was reportedly tired of running Lucasfilm and selling it (over $4 billion) was an easy decision for him. Since the sale, he has reportedly made over $10 billion on the deal due to his stock ownership and profits from the Star Wars reboots. I read elsewhere from 2013 to 2020, just his annual dividend payments from Disney averaged $65 million a year.

She's a "person of color"? Hell, she looks whiter than I am.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
She's a "person of color"? Hell, she looks whiter than I am.

White is a color, yo

I have always heard that women make better porn films.

When I ponder what is long overdue culturally, karmatically and theatrically, I totally agree with obaid-chinoy’s intergalactic vision

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Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:
I have seen every single Star Wars movie at the theater on opening night. Including the 3D releases, the animated Clone Wars...

This will be the first one I dont, I may not see it at all.

And that speaks volumes. It's absurd.