'Solo' Headed for Lowest Opening of Disney 'Star Wars'Movies

I mean, Rogue One didn't come out in the middle of a jam-packed Summer season, didn't have Infinity War and Deadpool 2 to contend with, and was only the second installment in the new franchise as opposed to what seems like the twentieth at this point. It's gonna be a crazy weekend with this and the two Marvel joints both still going strong.

Or they just think Solo looks like ass.

I'm a little shocked it will be making that much, and this is on the low end of projections (Deadline's projecting between $135-170 million). With it coming on the heels of Infinity War and Deadpool 2, bad press regarding the directorial change, backlash against The Last Jedi, the unimpressive trailers, there wasn't much of a demand for a Han Solo prequel to begin with, reviews have been tepid so far, etc., I would have thought this would be like $120-130m max even with it being a holiday weekend.

Not really. People on here rate it pretty highly. 

I'm still waiting for TLJ. Surely, it can't be as bad as TFA, right? I'm holding out hope that it won't be a complete dumpster fire.

I have no such hopes for Solo. What a piece of shoddy looking crap.

It'll probably open with less if presales are anything to go by. I honestly don't think there was much they could do frankly, especially given the director problem.

At this point Disney should probably slow down it a bit when it comes to the Star Wars spinofs, but somehow I doubt they will.

I don't think the whole Finn/Rose story should have been done away with, but I probably would've cut out that monologue at Canto Bight and pared down the fathier escape sequence for the sake of pacing. That's kind of par for the course with Star Wars, though, every film in the franchise has had at least one scene that feels needless.

As for Carrie Poppins, I can agree that the way it was visually depicted was odd, but the concept alone of Leia doing that didn't bother me.

I don't know why you're under the impression Leia has the least amount of force power in the universe, she is the daughter of Darth Vader, after all. She hasn't tapped into her force powers in the films beyond being able to sense Luke a couple times, but that's out of a lack of training rather than ability. And this is just me, but given how the series has established that those strong in the force may have other developed abilities that inadvertently tap into those powers (i.e. Luke's piloting skills), I've had the personal theory that part of why Leia is such a strong leader for the Rebellion and later the Resistance is due in part to her force sensitivity. And while I'm on about the force, what it can and can't do has always been a pretty flimsy thing. It's a built-in deus ex machina masquerading as some spiritual energy. The force couldn't be used to pull things, create physical ghosts, black laser blasts with your bare hands, or leap extraordinary heights until Empire, it couldn't be used to create lightning until ROTJ (why even bother exerting the physical energy of a lightsaber duel if everybody just learned to shoot lightning?), and it couldn't be used to do all of the CGI flips until the prequels. Force users do what they want and Skywalkers especially are overpowered, but that's always been the case and so far it hasn't gone too far at least in my opinion in killing the dramatic tension of these movies. At least TLJ reinforced the mysticism of the force and displayed how such incredible feats do take a bit outta you (Leia still being incapacitated for a bit after she comes back and Luke dying because he used the force so damn hard).

You're the first person I've ever seen indicate Obi-Wan was the one using the force in the first film. Pretty sure the implication of the film is that Luke uses his feelings and taps into the force to properly aim his shot, hence why he gets rid of his targeting computer.

Kylo was also shot by Chewbacca's bowcaster, the same weapon that throughout the movie was laying waste to people and making them flip backwards a few feet hilariously with a single shot. Just the fact Kylo took that shot and was still standing was pretty impressive. And he dispatches Finn pretty easily, he's toying with him through most of the fight (turning his back on Finn after he knocked him down, digging his crossguard into his shoulder) and it's only after Finn gets in a lucky shot that he immediately takes him out. As for Rey, he doesn't seem to be giving his all to really hurt her. He mostly swings around her, knocking over trees and only lightly making contact with her lightsaber as she swings around wildly while trying to run away. Even when he has her up against a cliff, he offers to train her instead of trying to take her out. She concentrates on the force, starts acting as the aggressor, and gets some shots on an already wounded Kylo. And if you're referring to him not getting Luke's lightsaber during that force tug of war as him beating beaten by Rey again, they're pretty much at a stalemate after she gets the jump on him and she only gets away clean after Holdo makes the movie quiet for a few seconds. One thing to note regarding Kylo is he had a substantially easier time taking on multiple Praetorian Guards at once and only found himself in a vulnerable spot when he let go of his lightsaber, while Rey at most took on two at once and struggled with one almost the whole time.

As for Snoke, overconfidence being the downfall of dark side users has been a trope in the series, he has no clue of Kylo's conflicted emotions just as the Emperor was unaware of Vader's.