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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
You have absolutely no clue. You don't work in the entertainment business on any level, you don't understand box office receipts, you don't understand how this has thrown a wrench into Disney's grand plans for Star Wars and the new Star Wars sections at Disneyland and Disneyworld.
Nothing. Nada. Zero. You're just a guy on the internet that reads fan sites that you agree with and parrot their conclusion(s).
It doesn't matter whether or not *I* personally liked the film. The results are disastrous for Disney.
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I highly doubt this impacts the new Star Wars sections in Disneyland and Disneyworld in any drastic way. People still love Disney and Star Wars. Harry Potter is still a HUGE draw for Universal Studios and the last true Harry Potter movie was in 2011.
People who think this movie and its somewhat disappointing results or reception spell doom for the Star Wars universe are just being severely melodramatic. If it survived the Prequels, it will survive these movies too. You don't really seem impartial on this issue as you are dead set on your message of disaster and ruin for all things Star Wars. And you are on here shouting down anyone who doubts you like you are all knowing because you're in the business. If being in the business made people all knowing, we wouldn't even be having these discussions would we? If the next movie is good and people like it, it will rebound just fine. The Star Wars universe and legacy is far more resilient and ingrained in our culture than you seem to think.
And this movie is still the highest grossing movie of 2017 and the 9th highest grossing movie ever in the history of movies, and it is still in theaters so it will still gross more than it has so far. I get all the arguments you want to make about how despite those facts it is still a complete and utter disaster of epic proportions (and how you know so better than everyone else here), but if Disney can't figure out how to make money off a movie with those numbers, they are total morons.
And there is still a great chance that Episode 9 will do better than this one. Given the bad word of mouth on this movie from pissed off nerds and internet trolls, it could really be viewed as a success that it has done as well as it has. If fan reactions to Episode 9 are better, it has plenty of room to surpass this one and likely would.