Brian Earl Spilner said:

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3rdGen2015 said:

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If I remember correctly, in the TFA thread we waited until the New Year to bring spoilers back. That gave everybody time to see it around holiday travel/family get togethers/etc.

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This was in the "big" Star Wars thread, not the TFA thread. I think in this specific thread, spoilers will likely be fair game starting on the 14th. (Though spoilers tags would still be nice.)

I'll make a post on the other thread asking people to leave spoilers off it until New years.

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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3rdGen2015 said:

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If I remember correctly, in the TFA thread we waited until the New Year to bring spoilers back. That gave everybody time to see it around holiday travel/family get togethers/etc.

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This was in the "big" Star Wars thread, not the TFA thread. I think in this specific thread, spoilers will likely be fair game starting on the 14th. (Though spoilers tags would still be nice.)

I'll make a post on the other thread asking people to leave spoilers off it until New years.

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11. Mark Hamill learned a major lesson from Johnson. "At times, I'd say to Rian, 'We gotta think of what the audience wants,'" Hamill says. "And he'd say, 'No, we've gotta think of what we want.' Which is a learning process for me."

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Now that we're just under a month out, any predictions for opening weekend and total box office?

For reference, TFA opened at $247M and finished at $936M and RO did $155M and $532M. (Domestic)

I'm going to go with $200M opening and $850M total.

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TCTTS said:

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I'm almost certainly going to regret saying this, but want to call my shot before reactions start coming in just in case...

The Best Picture race is wide open this year. To the point where critics have seen literally every candidate by now and nothing has emerged as a front-runner yet. Lady Bird and Call Me By Your Name are the two closest probably, with Phantom Thread, The Post, and Dunkirk kind of lingering as well, along with a couple others. But there's not a strong push for any of those titles, and this is the first year in a long time where a single movie or two doesn't have a clear edge at this point.

Point is, if - and that's a big IF - The Last Jedi somehow ends up being a transcendent Star Wars movie, the kind where, say, Mark Hamill has an incendiary performance, and the material elevates the film to something more than just a blockbuster, there's a small chance The Last Jedi could swoop in and take Best Picture. In other words, if ever there was a year something like this could do it, this is it.

Again, people are more than likely going to end up laughing at this idea come next week, but it's a thread to be mindful of come Saturday when reactions start dropping. Should they be genuinely, truly through the roof - and stay that way for 24 hours or so, after everyone has cooled down - a Star Wars movie might actually have a shot at taking the cake come March.

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jr15aggie said:

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Of course I'm biased and would love to see a Star Wars movie win best picture, but IMO Hollywood / The Oscars really needs this right now.

Ratings of the event are way down and Hollywood in general is currently trying to hide its black eye. The Oscars hasn't helped that in recent years. To many viewers, the event and the stars come across as pompous jerks. They sometimes get way too caught up in the "this is art" bull crap and forget that most of their income is from regular folks who just want to see something fun and entertaining.

It's time for the Oscars to put a fun movie in the spotlight again IMO... just feels like a smart PR move.

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