Was this movie doomed to fail from the start?
Or did it flop mostly due to backlash of TLJ?
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should have came out at christmas time like the rest
shareI don't know about doomed, but I think it certainly had an uphill battle from the get-go; "Han Solo's origin story" was never that interesting a premise to begin with.
Of course, the brilliant minds at the helm deciding that what Star Wars needed was making its protagonist of 40 years a pathetic, cowardly failure certainly didn't help it any.
Agree - in the time it took him fail at everything to try and get back to Qi'ra, up to and including being sentenced to death, SHE became a 'top lieutenant' in the big bad crime syndicate AND a Sith in training ... LOL.
Clearly the entire film was a setup to promote her instead, which is not a surprise.
It failed because it was BORING.
HOW do you make a movie about Han Sol BORING?
Was this movie doomed to fail from the start?
Or did it flop mostly due to backlash of TLJ?
Is that not the same thing?
It was doomed to fail from the start due to backlash of TLJ
but even if there hadnt been a TLJ , it would still have been doomed from the start because Star wars fans a whiny impossible to please bitches who dont understand that it is them who have changed not the movies.
thats why there is "backlash of TLJ" - and every movie since ep 7
Kinda both. There was a lot of backlash about TLJ, but this had production troubles too. They got rid of the Lego movie guys, who apparently wanted to make it a comedy. Changing directors doesn't help. It shouldn't matter, but audiences see that and just bail on going to check out a movie.
Plus, let's be honest, a lot of people didn't want to see someone else play Han. I was like that myself and only saw this movie on a whim it's last week in theaters. I ended up loving it.