New Star Wars Movie Solo Has Worst Opening Weekend In Recent Franchise History By Far

Wanna know why these new Star Wars movies SUCK (and by new, I'm going back to the JarJar Binks days and everything after)?! Because of their not-so-hidden political agenda and political correctness!! The reason Lando/Billy Dee Williams worked is because he fit the role of a smooth scoundrel who happened to be black! The reason Mace/Samuel L Jackson DIDN'T work as a black jedi is because he was jammed into the role for social reasons! He was a black guy who was a Jedi, and not a Jedi who happened to be black. Nevermind that I couldn't BUY into his role because of his previous work on Pulp Fiction and other racist remarks he's said in the past! That's the same reason JarJar Binks was a disaster! Because Lucas (and now Disney) felt they HAD to fill cultural gaps so that everyone felt included in the Star Wars universe. Just as the "Asian" aliens did. Just like Rey/Daisy Ridley did. Just like Finn/John Boyega did! These characters were/are FORCED upon us because Lucas/Disney felt they needed to convey a message of inclusivity in the universe! I mean, what's next? LGBTQWTF aliens? A lesbian female lead? Look, I don't mind inclusivity....but it has to appear genuine and natural. Not forced by some PC liberal bitch (with the last name Kennedy, what a shock!)! That's why the original Star Wars episodes worked (that, and they weren't released every year)!! We didn't look twice at Leah being a strong woman, because they balanced her character properly. Now you have 80lb females without training killing males three times their size, despite female Jedis never being part of the original concept. I'm seeing this in the videogames that are coming out too!

I'm tired of having politics and social issues forced into every goddamned thing I do/watch/see/read. etc. ! We go to movies and play video games to get AWAY from all this PC bullshit!

Solo mat not have had the greatest opening ever, but it was still a helluva lot better than the Last Jedi. I went in with low expectations and was pleasantly surprised.

I don't give a shit that a bunch of annoying people didn't go see this movie. I'm going to see it just as soon as I can watch it in comfort at home. When you are sitting watching a movie do you really care that it didn't perform financially as some ding dongs in a boardroom wanted?

Now comes the Boba, Yoda, and Windu movies. Quantity over Quality.

Still 100m aint nothing to sneeze at unless you are the black hole that is Disney.

Alden Ehrenreich was extremely miscast in this role. He comes off as a soft wuss-bag rather than being sardonic and gritty. He may not look like Harrison, but that is not the point. He doesnt have the mannerisms at all

The reason this movie bombed is because the fans are speaking with their wallets. This isn't a disney issue, Marvel is run well, and Star wars isn't. The fans want Rian Johnson and Kathleen Kennedy gone. They openly talk poorly about the fans and shove their political agendas right in our faces. And before anyone says that Marvel does the same thing too, You're right, marvel does address inclusivity and political agendas, but they're done in more subtle ways, and the movies are still dynamite.

I'm sure people will pounce on TLJ because everyone loves to complain 24/7 about that movie 5+ months later, but there's other factors that contributed more to this. Weird release schedule for one, I'm still kinda surprised they released it in May instead of December. Then you had blockbusters like Deadpool 2 and Infinity War looming around where usually Star Wars films have little competition. Then there's also production issues and pretty lackluster marketing.

It's a shame, Solo was actually pretty good.

Anyone remember when advanced ticket sales info were released saying that solo "broke black panthers record"? Tell em Muary!

"And the lie detector says that was a lie".

This is the kind of movie that you decide to see on video as you're buying tickets to a Marvel film.

Reason why it bomb Han Solo story because he don’t look like old actor who played him when was younger. A lot people like old actor who played Han Solo that’s reason Han Solo story bomb. If old actor who played Han Solo in this movie would movie would sold more I guess.

Heh... Nice to see the fans are reacting as they should to The Last Jedi.... Wasn't sure how many of the people talking about boycuts were actually gonna stay true to it.

It's kinda funny though how GameSpot conveniently forgets to mention the huge fan backlash to The Last Jedi, and how that could have A LOT to do with why SOLO is bombing... and how they've in general refused to acknowledge the existence of the backlash and only writes positive things about it... How they're ignored the pettiness of the big guys surrounding the movies (Rian Johnson, JJ Abrams and the antichrist of Star Wars herself, Kathleen Kennedy)

I like GameSpot, and it is my go-to site for nerd-news... but holy **** they have seemed like paid-to-be-positive kind of people.

I've still not seen a single The Last Jedi article where comments haven't been turned off, for unfathomable reasons :P I might have missed some, but I haven't seen any

I knew as soon as Disney acquired the right to the Star Wars franchise that they would run it into the ground by constantly releasing films. Star Wars fans aren't used to getting this many releases so often and I don't think they want them either.

I'm kind of getting Star Wars fatigue. I mean we used to go years without anything Star Wars. Now we can't go months without an animated TV show or some other spin off coming out as well as the main franchise. It wasn't much fun watching all m favorite characters I grew up with die off one by one - especially the stupid way some of them died. Has to be one of the most pointless deaths in cinematic history for such an iconic character. Then you have Rogue One where the entire cast dies. Yeah, that gave me warm, fuzzy feelings. I still enjoy them but, dial it down a notch. My son saw the Last Jedi before I did and when I asked him how it was he said, "It was different. That's about all I can say." That didn't inspire confidence.

Star War movies made today have an hard time matching the hoopla of the first Star War movie even if the movie effects are superior to the first one. Each one made gets duller and duller because it does not move forward with new ideas. I like Solo but I am not interested in his story very much. At least move away from the original characters and give some others the spotlight like Admiral Thrawn and his role after Darth Vader's death.

Many moons ago I came to the realization that being a hardcore fan of franchises be it marvel, starwars or any other numerous series' that come out and expecting amazing things every time was setting my expectations too high. When it comes to things like superhero movies for example, I have been a major fan for a long time since comic books, cartoons and so on, but when they make a movie its story deviates, things aren't done how I would want them, so now I just go in treating movies as just a sci-fi movie, or action movie or what have you.

Too many franchises are trying to be milked way too long, and some fresh new things would be nice. Unfortunately when someone tries to make something new the vast majority of the time it instantly gets compared to older more established franchises and essentially being put down because its not the same. Damned if you do, damned if you don't kind of situation.

The last jedi was hella bad and sucked all the excitement out of Star wars also no one wanted this movie

I'm interested in the Bobafett movie. I'm hoping to see Vader and Fett working together, maybe including others bounty hunters such as Bossk, IG88, Dengar etc... Also, some kind of Lightsaber duel. Will wait and see.