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Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com)
New submitter henrydan798 writes to note that Star Wars: The Force Awakens has set a new record for ticket sales, becoming the fastest movie ever to earn a billion dollars at the till. As the L.A. Times reports, The latest installment in the "Star Wars" franchise grossed an estimated $153.5 million in the U.S. and Canada in its second weekend, beating the lower end of analyst expectations of $140 million. This drives the J.J. Abrams-directed picture to a to-date domestic gross of $544.5 million.
"The Force Awakens," which cost an estimated $200 million to produce, debuted last weekend to record domestic ticket sales of $248 million. It also grossed $281 million overseas for a global total of $529 million, topping the previous worldwide debut benchmark set in June by "Jurassic World" ($525 million). This week, with an international estimated gross of $546 million to date, the film became the fastest to surpass $1 billion globally.
Were any of those dollars yours? If so, do you think they were well spent?
Come on, they blatantly rehashed the most well-received scenes from the original series and filled the rest with a whiny "villain", a female "Luke" (because women), an orange "Yoda" and random action. I wouldn't exactly say I was disappointed, because I didn't expect much more from Disney and J.J. Abrams, but that really was unimaginative and bland, even for them. 5/10, "saved by production value".
Although I don't find the movie that good. Too action packed, a lot of special effects, but painfully lacking story and character development. After seeing this new film I have watched again the original trilogy. Oh, my, they were works of art compared to this one! You could actually find a scenario in those movies, the characters really had clearly defined goals (other than "shoot'em all"), there have even been some plots and clever schemes on both sides, and most important, characters really talked to each other during the movie! And this is talking about a trilogy that was essentialy commercial and not-that-deep compared to the well developed SF literature of the time.
I dont know what I saw? It may have familiar props and actors in it. But it wasnt star wars.
It is amazing what a big marketing budget can do to brainwash consumers. Light side or dark side doggie biscuits even. But phantom menace was God too when it first came out and no one would dare say anything bad due to death threats. Even Slashdot talked about how cool that prequrl is.
It didn't become OK to say it sucked until later.
The fact even Finn could defeat a dark Lord of the sith shows how much of a joke it is.
If it wasn't Star wars no one would see it. It's all branding
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the real problem is the introduction of a hyperspace mechanic that breaks the plot to the movie and to all prior star wars movies. so there's that, dunno how much the lore can be fixed for that..
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.