Note: "Solo" has only made $103 million in 5 days, the lowest of any SW movie opening. Kathleen Kennedy needs to be fired!

1: Maybe it's not the content - it's still the best grossing SW movie to debut in May, right? ;-)

2: What were the production costs?

3: How is merch doing?

4: One fan groups loss is another one's win, maybe girls/women will start writing fanfic about L3 now, she might be the most popular figure in that ever!

5: As soon as I can come up with a parody idea and an OS for L3 getting it on with Chewie I'll hit that dubious domain myself, because why not? ;-)

6: The final word ain't in 'til after cosplay season anyway, watch out for the L3s and the redhed rebellion army if you go to a con!

I'm fine with you writing put-down parodies about it BTW. Considering you like the older stuff musicwise may I suggest "Lucy in the sky with diamonds" as something like "Solo is a flop, no diamond" (and if you keep it general you can reuse that for every two syllable movie title you ever disliked and up your total number easily).

Peter, what are you really trying to say? That you want to dress up as L3-37 (the correct designation) and have your black lover Lars Calrissianson dress up as Lando and then get it on, producing a new line of Swedish Erotica? Is that it? Because Sweden is known over here as producing ABBA, Swedish Erotica, and selling ballbearings to the Nazis! You're nation is also the most anti-Semitic in Europe and poetic Justice sees you overrun by Muslims now!!! Have a nice day ;-)

No solo fives! Here's three more 5-5-5! I saw the movie and was very disappointed indeed. The new trilogy and these adventures are not fun. The good guys suck badly and the star battles are boring. Btw, if Darth Maul can survive being cut in half, then Snoke too ??? I heard that Snoke uses cloned bodies as well. Yikes!

With all those trans-whatever aggrieved minorities, how could such a movie fail? Maybe audiences are getting bored with propaganda. I thought the second fourth movie, "The Phantom Menace" was a loser, too and gave up on the series. Only the first fourth movie, "A New Hope" was really worth watching. One gay robot and a beeping vacuum cleaner, along with a blend of the story lines from "The Wizard of Oz" and "633 Squadron". Now that was a movie!

https://youtu.be/bnN-k2Beo4E

When Batman movies went dark it was widely praised as revitalazing the franchise. Now that SW makes the same move lotsa peeps seems to hate it. Why the double standard?

The Batman movies are hit-and-miss. Batman vs Superman was a dud and, well, Justice League stinked. DC doesn't know how to make truly entertaining comic movies like Marvel does. I only gave Suicide Squad a thumbs up due to Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. Wonder Woman was good and I've heard WW2 will feature Kristen Wiig as Cheetah! Hurray! Anyhow, Star Wars is really sucking now. Pete, you're a European and live a socialist lifestyle. America is divided between liberals and conservatives. SW wasn't meant to be a liberal fiasco. We still believe in good vs evil, not good serving evil as in Europe.

You'll be happy to know I've never voted for our long time ruling Social Democrats then, they had began to victor themselves to death already when I was a first timer in the election booth. I've been with all the four parties on the other side, and the pirate party too, because the way I see it file sharing's the final proof that capitalism works, on a free market products will continually be cheaper and cheaper to build and distribute, until there's basically no cost at all and all citizens can be reached with no effort. The American music record industry will, it seems, rather go all out communist to protect an old monopoly than admit that. No wonder the biggest hit producers sit in California.

But I digress. As for our eighty year four generations socialist rule here it fit perfectly an internet meme in four parts that you might have seen; "Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times."

Final observation: L3-37 is similar to 1337 = Leet. Probably not a coincidense. Disney/Hollywood IS poking deliberately at male online culture. We can disagree about the purpose of that, pure humour or evil political intent, but you're right about Hollywood playing it's audience with contemporary PC issues.

I think someone H4xD Peter's brain!

Solo has crapped out at $155 mil as of June 5th. It's expected to lose $50-80 mil or more during it's run. But thank God for Episode IX spoilers already here as filming begins next month. Bounty Hunter Bazine Netal tracks the Falcon back to Batuu where the last rebel base is. Kylo and the Knights of Ren wreak havoc. Snoke is alive. Luke is a force ghost than can project power into the physical realm. Enter Thrawn...

And here I was thinking that pioneerism was at the very core of American spirit and that moving any business forward beyond version 1.0 was at the very core of American capitalism. I'm sure you defended Trump's failed businesses along the lines of "If a quarter back throws 500 touch down passes and 490 of those lead to actual touch downs should be in the Hall of Fame". I would have. But then again what do I know, I come from a nation where all EIGHT parties in the parliament are to the left of your American democrats on most issues - yes, even the new one the other seven call nazis are basically backdraft wellfare socialists from the fifties. If I were a younger man I'd move to Norway, at least they're smart enough to be in NATO (and the percentage of blonde women are even higher than here, ha-ha).