MovieMan89
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The last time Xmas fell on a Friday something truly amazing happened at the box office. I think history is about to repeat itself.
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The final scene is easily my favorite in the film, and possibly one of my all time favs in the franchise. Their looks to each other run the gamut of emotions in a matter of seconds and it made me a little teary eyed. However if she ends up not being Luke's that scene will lose most of its impact for me. It's so amazing because it feels like a father and daughter connecting on a profound level. I feel like when she sees him she instantly knows/remembers who he is. She just wants him to be proud of her as she presents him with his lightsaber, and he is overcome with pride with what she's already accomplished. Meanwhile, both are elated to even finally be having this reunion and seeing each other in the first place. The sweeping 360 spinning pan right afterwards is also glorious. Anyways, that's what I got out of that scene but maybe I'm totally nuts.
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Please oh please hit the high end so that movie about Chris Pratt's pet dinosaurs Saturday record can go down!
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I like your theories, I can see them being very accurate. I forgot Jedi training started so young. So he may not have even needed to do much to make her forget things. Again, not like we remember a lot from 4 or 5.
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What would be the point in hiding her away if she was already a skilled and trained Jedi? Couldn't she protect herself in that case? Don't disagree with you about Sydow's role though.
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I wouldn't think so. She just feels the Force "awaken" something in her, and that is her Jedi lineage. The Force is very strong in her because she is a third generation Jedi (presumably with a grandfather and father that were two of the most powerful), so I don't think she requires the kind of training most would. We already know she was a skilled fighter roughing it on Jakku. Don't see why it's such a stretch she could wield a saber so well already. I think she was told about the Force and all that as a young child, and for reasons we don't know yet Luke had to hide her away. He told her he'd come back for her when she was old enough (to start training), but then decided against that after the Kylo situation. My theory anyways. I would be surprised if she was already trained and just "lost" her memory.
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She doesn't have to have "amnesia" if she was just really young. How much do you remember from 3,4, and 5? Maybe a few people can remember back then really well, but most of us can't.
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I don't know. This is turning into a pretty massive bomb at this point. I know it's not "fair" so to speak that it gets taken out on him, but it likely will. I don't see him anywhere near the directors chair for awhile at least.
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Not a bad Sat for such a massive preview number, but I won't lie about being disappointed it didn't really go up minus previews. Thought it for sure would. At any rate, I do know TONS of people going for Xmas next weekend, even if they've already seen it, so next weekend should be massive again.
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I actually love how the lightsaber battles were built up in the OT. Nothing too fancy or crazy in ANH, a little more intricate in ESB, and then full out epic in ROTJ. I already get the feeling they will do that for this trilogy as well.
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Last act of ROTJ is pretty fantastic. Most of the first too. The middle always seems kinda disposable though.
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Yeah, I never understood why people kept wanting to discredit its OS popularity? I mean the OT were huge OS for their day and age, and same goes for TPM. AOTC and ROTS were a little more muted, but still hardly anything to scoff at 13 and 10 years ago. It's like people thought that ROTS came out 2-3 years ago when in reality it was a full decade ago. Of course it wouldn't be a viable OS comparison. Anyone who has followed the market knows how much its expanded, this decade especially.
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It would have definitely lost some gross starting at midnight because it was a school night. Plenty of parents weren't going to allow even high schoolers to be out until 3am on a school night, especially since some may have been finishing up tests yesterday. However, DH2 opened in a time of year that's not a problem, so it had that advantage over TFA. So the way I see it, that evens out the advantage TFA got by starting at 7. Both were basically on a level playing field
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Probably second only to Three Men and a Baby for most "WTF?" #1 movie of the year since the 80's. I guess there's Sniper too, but I still hate calling that a 2014 film.
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A year ago half this board thought AoU was beating TFA and TFA was doing like 500 or so.
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Lol, I thought they were serious ones until that too.
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Honestly, we can probably count on Rouge One doing about half of TFA. So let's see what TFA finishes with first.
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I doubt it goes that high for OW. Minions showed that animation OWs just don't really go much higher. I think 125-130m OW for Dory, which will be huge for animation. Only goes above that if marketing is on Illumination level, and Pixar marketing has never been on that level quite frankly.
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My thoughts as well.
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Rogue One has the potential for 500 for sure. It will pull at least 100 for OW with the words "Star Wars" in the title, and then if it ends up getting great WOM it is in the perfect release date for that. Also if Vader ends up being in it at all, then you can basically add an extra 100-150m to whatever it would have otherwise made.
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When ROTS smashed the OD record 10 years ago it was with 50m. Crazy what the record looks like after TFA. I even remember discussions from late last decade about if anything could ever hit 100 OD, and almost no one thought so. Everyone was shocked when DH2 got to the 90 mark. That stood 4 and a half years. I definitely think this OD record will take us into the next decade.
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Especially since Friday proper is where TFA really wins out. DH2 only made 48m on Friday opposed to 62-63m for TFA.
