After pulling in less than $6.5m yesterday, TLJ currently sits at $572,513,602. At this same point, TFA was at $812,734,828m, and made $12,405,333 for the equivalent day.

So the current domestic drop off is $240,221,226 and growing. That means that the drop off alone, just to this date, would be the #9 domestic grossing movie of 2017. Despicable me 3 is #8 at $264,624,300, which TFA's drop off seems destined to pass.
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Can't imagine 9 even approaching 8 now after the backlash. They better have some sweet ass trailers to draw people back in.
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This film isn't doing shit in China (box office wise) . They should have cast a much hotter asian actress.
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Doesn't someone see these long before they are released? Some of the execs? Testing audience? Anyone? I can't imagine that everyone that saw it said "Yep, we got a winner right there."
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Dane said months in advance that the film divided Disney execs.

KK still gave RJ a trilogy, though - without a pitch, to boot.
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Star Wars films are not tested
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Rogue One did much better in China due to casting Donnie Yen and Jiang Wen but they, unlike the characterization of Rose Tico, were integral to the film and delivered excellent performances.
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Goddamn it really did tank hard.
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Now THIS I can get behind. Finn is weak enough character-wise but when you pair him with Rose?

Sweet, merciful god; their "side adventure" makes Han, Leia, and the Ewoks look like a cinematic fucking masterpiece.

It would be so nice if they both perished at the hand of Kylo Ren...

...I would actually cheer for him for ONCE.
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If Finn had bought it by flying into the ray gun I would have been happy to see something he tried to do end in success...
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it seemed like the perfect ending to Finn's story arch and rian took that away as well.


With some corny ass We fight for what we love sjw bullshit.
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Yep.

Finn is the Jar Jar Binks of the new trilogy.
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am I the only one that Liked Finn in TFA ?


I find Rose Tico to be the New Jar Jar of star wars you have to be a pretty big fanboy to excuse her and finn's story line on the Canto.
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I actually liked Finn in TFA even though he seemed dreadfully incompetent for a person that was born and bread to be a killer as a storm trooper. I could follow what he was doing and could sympathize, he just wanted to get away from the great evil and live a life, what more could a young person want? In The Last Jedi which was a dumpster fire SJW mess of a Star Wars movie his character was just annoying and didn't really give meaning to the movie. His screen time could have been used to bump up Luke Skywalker's screen time and development.
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TFA wasn't my favorite but all the characters fit their roles except for maybe Poe. He wasn't really necessary to the movie. Come to think of it, Poe really wasn't necessary in TLJ.
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