So does the death of Star Wars start with Solo?

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Maybe you heard and maybe you haven’t but there is a large contingent of Star Wars fans revolting against Kathleen Kennedy and the New Star Wars direction by boycotting Solo. The reasons are mostly surrounding Kennedy and Disney politically attacking this group over their criticisms against The Last Jedi and how they feel this new more SJW type story is killing Star Wars.

First I would to say the new saga isn’t great but serviceable imo. I’m not apart of this boycott but I won’t see Solo and it’s because it has never looked appealing and I would rather see Deadpool 2. I originally thought this boycott was stupid and wouldn’t accomplish anything, but these projections have gone from Memorial Day record high to a near below average Star Wars opening. So I honestly think the 71% on RT is also hurting it.

Part of me wants Solo to fail, but not because I want a political victory or want the overall collapse of Star Wars. But more because I don’t want a Star Wars movie every year. I wish there was a James Bond movie space between movies where each movie is kinda an event instead of “ dang we gotta go see this one because we always go..”.


I don’t know who wins between Kennedy or the fans but it’s more interesting than the movie itself imo. What say you?
 
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I don't understand what people are boycotting but I seriously doubt this will be the end of anything.
 

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Marvel puts out 2-3/year. It’s a universe.....these side bar movies just paint a back story to the universe. These 40somethings need to grow up
 

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I don't understand what people are boycotting but I seriously doubt this will be the end of anything.
Most of it revolves around TLJ and how Kennedy has lashed out at fans over the criticisms about TLJ.

Personally I have serious problems with TLJ but I think the majority of these boycotters have gone overboard with their criticisms. However I think Kennedy hasn’t handled the backlash well and it’s given the boycott more relevance.
 
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Most of it revolves around TLJ and how Kennedy has lashed out at fans over the criticisms about TLJ.

Personally I have serious problems with TLJ but I think the majority of these boycotters have gone overboard with their criticisms. However I think Kennedy hasn’t handled the backlash well and it’s given the boycott more relevance.
Interesting. I guess I am not really aware of any of that.
 

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I was waiting on your “ I have never seen a SW movie post” in a SW thread
Well, I do wear it like a badge of honor. Plus it seems to really bother some people. I am like the Star Wars version of the people that always remind us they don’t watch the NFL. I am just reminding you just in case you forgot.
 

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Me either. I've never heard of Kennedy. I've watched all of them and I'm sure that I'll watch this one. I have heard that the movie isn't that good though.
Kathleen Kennedy was a producer for Spielberg and Lucas for a long time. You can name any Lucas and Spielberg big movie in the 80’s and her name is probably attached. But she now is the head of Lucasfilms.

Most of these original boycotters were your typical crybabies, but when Kennedy started to try to justify the 44% audience score as a 4chan sexist movement is really when the boycott started to gain some momentum and after that it’s just been one thing after another. It’s not a huge movement but it could cost SW the record breaking numbers that it envisioned after TFA. IMO
 

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Me either. I've never heard of Kennedy. I've watched all of them and I'm sure that I'll watch this one. I have heard that the movie isn't that good though.
I was aware of some complaints about things like Rey's parents, Snoke dying, Luke's character and Leia using the force but none of those seem boycott worthy to me. And personally, I really enjoyed Snoke dying and Rey's parents being just some random people.
 

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I was aware of some complaints about things like Rey's parents, Snoke dying, Luke's character and Leia using the force but none of those seem boycott worthy to me. And personally, I really enjoyed Snoke dying and Rey's parents being just some random people.
I did too but ultimately TLJ just doesn't hold up. Still better than the prequals but only because they were so bad

as for SJW criticisms I have no care what some lonely Incel thinks of what direction Kennedy takes the series as long as it is good. Force Awakens had issues but was good TLJ had many more issues

For Solo. It looks to be a wreck. They fired the director, had to hire an acting coach mid production for the lead and it just looks bad. I watched him in another movie Beautiful Creatures (for the How did this get made podcast) and wow is he an awful actor. Do think Donald Glover will be great as Lando though
 

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I was so happy when I saw that there was a Star Wars film called The Last Jedi.

Why? Because I was hoping it was the last film in that series. So I could go to the movies on Christmas Day again without having 45 of the 46 theaters in town showing the same film.
 

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I did too but ultimately TLJ just doesn't hold up. Still better than the prequals but only because they were so bad

as for SJW criticisms I have no care what some lonely Incel thinks of what direction Kennedy takes the series as long as it is good. Force Awakens had issues but was good TLJ had many more issues

For Solo. It looks to be a wreck. They fired the director, had to hire an acting coach mid production for the lead and it just looks bad. I watched him in another movie Beautiful Creatures (for the How did this get made podcast) and wow is he an awful actor. Do think Donald Glover will be great as Lando though
He's the main reason I want to see the movie tbh.
 

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I was aware of some complaints about things like Rey's parents, Snoke dying, Luke's character and Leia using the force but none of those seem boycott worthy to me. And personally, I really enjoyed Snoke dying and Rey's parents being just some random people.
Honestly none of that bothered me. It was the casino planet and the quest for fuel aspect that bored me. I say TLJ is a 6.8/10

Most of the boycott stemmed from YouTube personalities and bloggers on big SW forums. But it’s started to really come to light once the projections for Solo started to really waver.
 

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The death of Star Wars won't start but I'm hoping that Solo massively disappoints in Box Office numbers and that it leads to the dismissal of Kathleen Kennedy and all her little yes men.

I'm definitely boycotting this film and any other one while she's in charge. Her personal radical SJW Gender politics along with her mind boggling misunderstanding of the Star Wars Universe is severely damaging the franchise.

Fans (including me)have legitimate criticisms of The Last Jedi but no matter how eloquently we state them Kennedy and her lemmings fire back 'you're racist, sexist, misogynists!!!!!!!!! for not supporting our kind of Diversity!!! We don't care what you think and if you don't like what we are doing we will force it on you even MORE'.

The problem isn't diversity. The problem is it's diversity not done well.... along with bad writing, bad directing, bad acting, bad editing, retroactively changing who characters are fundamentally, retroactively changing the already established mythos, cherry picking what is Canon and what is not, and insulting the fans who have paid enormous sums money for 40 years keeping this franchise relevant.
 
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