Weekend estimates have TROS up to $478 million, passing TPM ($474 million) for 16th all-time. Next up is Finding Dory at $486 million.

Hoping to take my daughter next weekend to see it on a giant screen, which will be a first for her.

Almost a month after it came out, Star Wars finally releases a picture of Palps.



According to Digital Spy, the Visual Dictionary for the movie tells sort of how Palps came back to life.

According to the tie-in book, Darth Sidious was brought to Exegol by his hooded cohorts called the Sith Eternals (via Digital Spy). These mysterious beings weren't mentioned in the movie, although they were explicitly featured during the climactic battle between Rey and her grandfather. Apparently, they are devoted Sith followers who were Palapatine loyalists. After Darth Sidious' defeat in Return of the Jedi, they brought him to Exegol, and using "technology and occult," they were able to revive him.

I haven't picked up Kylo Ren #1 or #2, but probably will tomorrow - #2 went on sale last week and has some kick ass preview images along with the cover: And yes, it's a younger Lor Sarn Tekka with Luke and Ben!













They could put out a comic a week featuring Luke's adventures post-ROTJ and pre-TFA and I would never grow tired of them.

Tucked my kids into bed, kissed my wife, and ran up to catch a late Sunday night viewing for the 1st time last night. Loved it!

I'm not as much of a Star Wars fanatic as many in this forum, but I think it was a very well done and entertaining and a moving movie.

It's been fun to go back and try to research some questions I've had and things I noticed or even missed.

But, it was a very powerful movie and a nice ending to this franchise.

In all-time Adjusted for Inflation it is the 9th SW film to pass $500M domestic box office by the way.

The only ones that have not are Ep II and Solo.


2 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope $1.5B
11 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens $965M
13 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back $876M
17 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi $839M
19 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace $806M
44 Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi $603M
62 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story $539M
70 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith $529M
79 Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker $501M

So is it a flop by Star Wars standards?

Finally saw the movie yesterday, I enjoyed the movie overall but a couple of points are pretty bad.

First as many have already pointed out, why bring Palpatine back at all. Any random sith overlord could work in this role. Even bringing back Darth Maul as a master of dark arts would have been way better. But then to double down on Palpatine with the grand daughter story is odd, if you want Rey conflicted that's fine just have her be conflicted over her feelings for Ben. The tie to Palpatine isn't needed.

The second and perhaps more egregious issue is the over reliance of the plot on this transference of life force power. It was used at least 5 times in the movie to solve major problems. It's like in Knocked Up when the guy only has the dice move, by the third time I'm wondering why this skill is just now being shown as a mainstream jedi power. Sure would have been nice for Luke to share some life force with his dad at the end of RoTJ. And then, as if they had reached a dead end they just decided to have Ben dissapear so Rey and him don't get caught in a neverending cycle of sharing their last bit of life force with each other.

Not to spoil but Maul would actually be worse. He's been killed twice. Palps' master would have been perfect & could be tied to episode 3.

yukmonkey said:

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So is it a flop by Star Wars standards?

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I don't think so.

If Ep II and Solo are (???) then maybe it's the Mendoza line at $500M-ish.

I have a hard time calling anything that makes $1B worldwide a flop.

But if you want to cuz it's in the bottom 1/3 then sure. However RO is considered one of the better ones and it's only $38M above IX.

Films also sometimes underperform but gain appreciation in the longterm. I think this film will be more highly appreciated than some of the ones it is under now. I prefer it to III and I for example.

Box office is of course just one measure.

The one true flop was the animated movie.

Wait when did they kill off Darth Maul again? It's been a few years but he was featured prominently in the Star Wars Rebels series and I didn't remember him being killed off, but perhaps he was?

TROS passed the 2017 beauty and the beast for 14th all time over the weekend, up to $507 million.

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This was so great. This is always the Star Wars I wish people would see and think of as 'Star Wars' as opposed to the bad dialogue and Jar Jar Binks of Ep1-3.
I still like the original episodes (they had their flaws), but the CW cartoons was where the depth of the characters can be found. And this fight scene was great. And if this was all real, probably how quickly it would go down.

Some cool frames from The Rise of Kylo Ren #3 that came out last week as he seeks out the Knights of Ren after destroying the Jedi Temple