mattn792

Someone wasting his time to lecture others about his opinion that they're wasting their time. Such sweet irony.

Boo-urns.

No, the heck with that, I meant you and I could pull off 5 more pages easy. We can even move off Episode VIII and into other (vaguely, some would say very vaguely) Star Wars related topics... - If Leia was GM of the Mets, would she have traded deGrom? - Better fit at the 5 for the Warriors: Chewbacca, or another collection of guys who can fill space? - Green sea monster milk: the next PED to be flagged by USADA? We got this.

Back atcha, plus you and me do find the common ground every so often...

@Chuck Gower -- You got 5 more pages in you? I think we can pull it off.

Try the decaf.

Chuck, it’s the internet. Misinformation is everywhere. You’re never going to win that war. You and I will most likely never agree on this movie, but at least we are arguing opinions on how to interpret the facts and the direction forward. Nothing you or I do is going to stop a certain percentage from baselessly saying KK is going to be fired and charged with grand larceny in the Northern District of Iowa, or that George Lucas has rejoined the production crew and IX will feature midichlorians saving the Millenium Falcon from the clutches of Jaba the Hut, Jr. That banal nonsense just is what it is.

You’re still here retorting every nay sayer, why not just go on with your post-VIII life as well then?

The 2000 Ravens of DVD sales.

They “diversified” with VII. They put out an awful movie with VIII.

Not really sure why you have to bring RT trolls into this, it’s irrelevant to our conversation. Back on point, yes not only Episode I, but also II and III suck. Poor acting, poor character development, poor writing, poor dialogue, the gamut. TLJ suffers the same fate, and it shouldn’t have happened. VII handed Disney a goldmine - the return of Luke Skywalker. THE character. Easily should have matched TFA’s box office. Instead, Luke was a brooding pre-teenish twerp who drank raw green milk. While his sister was flying around in space. Mind boggling idiocy to most longtime fans. Word of mouth/internet spreads, box office suffers.

Perhaps, but don’t plenty of teams plan, and even think, they’re going to win the championship in any given year? And when most obviously fall short, they typically don’t fire the head coach/manager, but they do often re-tool. That’s precisely what should happen with Star Wars. Regroup, re-tool, and reset the bar.

True enough. The 2000 Ravens did still win the Super Bowl after all. All I’m saying is Disney could redefine box office success if they steered the Star Wars franchise to its full potential.

You can’t talk individual players if we’re going to refer to football in this analogy, it would be teams. And ONE has been perfect. One. Difficult? Yes. Impossible? No. UFC, where we could talk individuals — LW champ Khabib Nurmagomedov is undefeated. Will he stay undefeated come October? We’ll see. Does Star Wars want to be the Dolphins/Khabib of movies? Or is it OK being the 2000 Ravens/ Matt Serra?

30-40 per year? It’s not 1998 anymore, there’s 18 at present. Still a good number, sure. But is a billion dollar box office not also getting more common (I’m just speaking anecdotally, I don’t know offhand)?

Baseball is a bad analogy though since we are talking about 600ish at bats. You’re better off looking at football or MMA, where the lower frequency of competition yields a better chance at perfection. Even still, perfection remains fleeting, but not impossible.

Perhaps, but it can certainly be argued that Star Wars properties are a special case. The franchise already prints money, do you want to settle for being a .300 hitter, or are you trying to kick in the door at Cooperstown?

You do, because your OPS went down!

You and I have always agreed on this point, though I still can’t fathom why they wouldn’t have set expectations higher after TFA made the box office it’s person_without_enough_empathy.

Critics would also tell you that “Like Water for Chocolate” is better than “Rambo”, which is patently absurd.

From his reclusive nature, I’m not sure Ditko cared all that much.

You mean you DON’T want to see Leia single handedly take down the First Order by utilizing the stock market while at the same time paying her shareholders a hefty quarterly dividend? What happened to you RMA?

The figures being what they are, wouldn’t you think Disney would want to aim for a higher bar than “well, let’s keep with the trend of a 66% take from the prior movie”?

Does eBay let you use eBay bucks certificates in combination with their coupons? I've never tried to pull that off. Largely because I'm too impatient...

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