Strange that no one is factoring in the fact that a bootleg dropped 2 hours after the midnight screening in the UK has finished. BEFORE most other places even started showing it. Now there have been 3 different bootlegs appear in 3 days. This didn’t happen for TFA or TLJ. It was a week before a bootleg dropped for TLJ. On social media there are posts filled with people saying that they no longer have to pay to go and see it.
And then there is the fact that this one has been released the weekend before Christmas. People are avoiding going out during the day to the cinema because of the Christmas rush. I’ve seen many people saying they can’t go until after Christmas.
Outside of this site the reaction towards TROS has been overwhelmingly positive.
But what i can’t believe is just what this site has now become. Fans openly wishing for these films to fail? Seriously? This place has now become everything it had always been accused of. It was bad enough when TLJ came out , but now it’s become a place i no longer enjoy visiting.
I hate to point it out to you, but this has happened before. There were many different bootlegs of TLJ within 5 days. And before ROTS was released, a low quality digital copy of the film got leaked (complete except for the end credits). This is normal and not odd in the slightest.
And I don’t know about you, but the people I know have more time to see movies during Christmas (and many people like to finish their Christmas day or whatever holiday they have by seeing a movie). And the release date is only 5 days later than TLJ.
And come now, I’ve been reading the spoiler thread and few have been wishing it to fail. Some predicted it would fail, but for the most part it has just be curiosity as to whether Disney/Lucasfilm/Kennedy/Abrams could pull off a successful end to the saga. I haven’t seen it yet, but I expect (from the spoilers) that I’m really going to love the ending, even if I have issues with the film before that. I do know some vloggers have been hating on it already, but really, critics are horrible judges of new popular movies. If Rotten Tomatoes had existed back in the 70’s, a lot of the ratings would have been much different. A lot of critics hated the original. I really have no explanation for the bad critic ratings of TROS, but the audience reaction has been favorable. The audience score for TLJ is 43% with just over 200,000 ratings (or a little over twice as many as TROS has right now). But the critic rating is 91%. So that film which a large number of OT members don’t like has better critic ratings and worse audience ratings that this new film does. Reactions are not going to be across the board. But I also am not surprised that this site which is heavily OT-centric to not be a bit wary of any new film, especially one claiming to wrap up the saga. Give it time. Just look how the PT is looked at today.