It was fun, people liked it, original characters or no. I could have excised a lot of Solo from TFA and still find that film perfecly great.Are you guys kidding me here? I thought any reasonable person would be able to realize that the massive success of force awakens was because of the original actors reprising their classic roles and the whole "now this is star wars, not that prequels crap" vibe. Why the heck else do you think that movie was that popular????
Also, this does nothing to account for Rogue One and its financial success.
I must hang out in different circles than you. Discussing BO always involves domestic and international.I've literally never heard an American talk about anything other than domestic numbers... I was certainly only talking about American reactions to the movie.