re: Report: Endgame level traffic and demand already reported 20 minutes into TROS ticket sale

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who have been whining for the last two years about a movie will without a doubt find yourself with your arse in a seat in a movie theater. May not be opening night, may not be the first week, or even the first two weeks, but at some point the majority of you will not be able to stay away. May even be just so you can come here and scream and holler about how correct you were.

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At the end of the day, the world of Star Wars is more important than the last two films. That's why everyone will most likely see it.

And that's also why the negative reactions are correct. There's a world that people are invested in that is getting changed significantly.

I don't remember seeing a crew of people in the Terminator thread being all "bullshite...you know you're going to see it because you won't be able to resist!" when we noted that movie looks like shite, too.

And that movie at least still has Arnold in it probably doing Arnold stuff.

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Pretty sure the numbers from Solo prove that most of us weren't bull shitting about not going see it, and the numbers from this shittastic movie will show that as well.

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In all fairness, Solo is not the same. It wasnt the conclusion to a saga or have 8 movies worth of build up. It was really really easy to sit that one out, there was no previous investment in it.

I am in no way a star wars nerd. But with this last trilogy im on the fence. I enjoyed TFA and I didnt enjoy TLJ. If I like TROS i'll consider this trilogy overall not so bad and vice versa.

My least favorite part of TLJ is what it did to this board. It single handedly changed this board for the worse. TLJ was a SJW movie and all of a sudden every movie that comes out that seems like it maybe in the slightest way has some SJW tones brings out people bitching about it. The m/tv board has become poli board 2.0. Everybody makes a big deal out of everything now. I cant ever remember anybody ever making a big deal out of some feminist/non white leads/SJW subject before TLJ. Its like the most common saying on this board now is "I knew everyone would melt over that." O there was a 2 second clip in Endgame where chicks were walking next to each other, let me throw a fit over that. People melt over any little thing that upsets them and I freaking blame it on TLJ. And politics. This is still a great board if you stay away from SJW threads. End rant, cue downvotes.

The movie doesn’t have to be good. They just made hundreds of millions before it’s even released. People buying tickets now are being pretty stupid if you ask me.

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LJ came out two years ago, and while not good, is better than the previous two Terminator movies.

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False.

There hasn't been a Terminator made that was as bad as TLJ.

TLJ was so bad, it made people yearn for Attack of the Clones

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My least favorite part of TLJ is what it did to this board. It single handedly changed this board for the worse. TLJ was a SJW movie and all of a sudden every movie that comes out that seems like it maybe in the slightest way has some SJW tones brings out people bitching about it. The m/tv board has become poli board 2.0. Everybody makes a big deal out of everything now. I cant ever remember anybody ever making a big deal out of some feminist/non white leads/SJW subject before TLJ. Its like the most common saying on this board now is "I knew everyone would melt over that." O there was a 2 second clip in Endgame where chicks were walking next to each other, let me throw a fit over that

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Asking because I'm curious as to the answer...but is your take that there is not more of these scenes in movies over the last few years which has resulted in more commentary on them, or that there is more commentary on them without any increase in scenes like this?

Whether or not you think it's appropriate to comment about that on this board (and I agree that all things have seemingly gotten political nearly all the time) I'd lean HEAVILY to the first scenario for this problem more so than the second. But I'm interested in what you think.

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I think Hollywood leaned into it heavily on some major properties, like TLJ and Ghostbusters, which made it appear there are more of those scenes occurring. . .when in reality it probably isn't anymore now than 20 years ago.

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FWIW, I tend to think it's both. they clearly leaned into is a few notable cases, and then there were other movies in which there were scenes which defy any other explanation than just pandering to SJ issues more so than in previous years. I'd say that not only were they done specifically for that reason, but in most cases you had members of the production pointing them out as that making them impossible to ignore.

Funny thing...took my family to see the Fathom events 40th Anniversary of Alien last weekend. Mt favorite of the Alien franchise, which I know is not the popular opinion. But I'd never seen it on the big screen, it having come out when I was 9. But, seeing it today in 2019 I was struck by the most obvious thing, which was that while Ripley ended up being the hero of the movie, there was nothing especially "heroic" about anything she did in the first movie. Yes...she was correct in wanting to keep the away team in quarantine but she was simply the only one following orders. After that, she simply gets lucky in that she's largely in the right place at the right time. Hell...she ought to have died in the air shaft as she first was going to be the crew member who went in there after it, but Cap Dallas went instead and gave her another task. And...at no point did her sex every come up. not in a positive way...not in a negative way. It was not an issue. She was just the Second Officer on the Nostromo. And everyone loved her as a character...men and women. Men weren't running around complaining in 1979 about not liking a strong woman, and women weren't running around claiming that the patriarchy was dead thanks to Ripley! They liked her character.

It's almost impossible to imagine her character, or the characters which surrounded her, to be written as they were then in 2019 in today's climate. I kind of think that's what people seem to be feeling when they go into movies at this point. A level of preachiness that really wasn't as heavy handed in the past.

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Not a stupid arse comment, it's the truth.

All you losers who have been whining for the last two years about a movie will without a doubt find yourself with your arse in a seat in a movie theater. May not be opening night, may not be the first week, or even the first two weeks, but at some point the majority of you will not be able to stay away. May even be just so you can come here and scream and holler about how correct you were.

It's going to be hilarious when the movie comes out and the spoiler thread is 100+ pages even though there are so many of you who claim you will not see the movie.

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How full of yourself can you be? You have no idea what I or anybody else actually intends to do. Were you one of the idiots that claimed that all Saints fans would still watch the Superbowl after they said they would not? Because we can see how that turned out.

I won't go see it. And no matter how many times you say I will, I still won't.

BTW Disney got their headline out but it seems presales are not nearly as hyped as some are making it out to be.

No report from fandago or AMC yet, which is odd if it was setting records.

Just this report from a lesser used Atom tickets about it finishing 2nd to Endgame. When freaking Aquaman is 3rd on it's all time list.

Not saying it won't presale great or even do great at the box office. But let's not count chickens.