Comes out tonight. I’ll probably catch it sometime this weekend. So far the critic’s reviews are not promising, but the critics also had The Last Jedi rated very high and it sucked ass.
Even the Star Wars genre can become overexposed. What is it, one film a year for 4 straight years, now?
I honestly don’t know. My son would want to go see anything Star Wars-related if they did a crossover musical with the Backyardigans & Justin Bieber. And maybe I’m wrong about the risk of over-exposure, as the roaring success of every super hero movie imaginable being successful for the last 10+ years, will attest. But whether it’s US Steel, Elvis or Beanie Babies....every “icon” eventually jumps the shark, and is never the same, again. And it’s typically when you can’t conceive of it happening or start to believe that this thing is impervious to that rule, that it happens.
The only thing Star Wars has is a 40 year back log of desire with only 6 movies over that time period with large gaps between movies. I think they will be able to milk this for a long time as long as they do not make horrible movies. More Rogue One type movies and you can print money for years.
I think it’s at that point. Not only over exposure, but terrible writing and storylines that have left the fans dissatisfied. It’s not hard to write a satisfying story, but it’s like they are trying to do things to intentionally break the Star Wars mold. Maybe the newest generation will pick it up, but most Star Wars fans are going to grow very apathetic with Disney’s version of Star Wars.
Boba Fett to get his own 'Star Wars Story https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/boba-fett-star-wars-story-232129769.html
In my opinion Star Wars is about Jedi’s. Star Wars without Jedi’s as the main story is very meh to me.
My sensing - and I’m not even a Star Wars fan, but am instead just talking out of my ass - is that they simultaneously know that the franchise has to move beyond the original cast to something new and more sustainable, but they don’t yet fully know what that “new thing” is...and without losing the enormous affinity that so many millions hold for the original. That’s hard as hell, and maybe impossible.
There was a time when I hoped George Lucas would just write a book detailing the last three episodes. I'd have read it in record time. Then probably re-read it. Fast forward 15 years or so and I didn't even see Episode 8 and I probably won't go see Solo even though he's my favorite character. I imagine they will ruin him to some degree. They are going to overdo it and make it awful. Probably have a crossover story with Transformers here in a few years.
He had a cool-looking suit that didn't really amount to much for 70s and 80s kids. After that, I got nothing.
i think, with the trilogy, the balancing act between throwing us a bone with the old and bringing in the new, is what's holding it back
Star Wars had mountains of good material they could have drawn from for the movies, but Disney threw it all out when they said the Extended Universe was no longer canon.
It's more that the new movies are shit. The story, to this point, makes no sense and nothing has really progressed.
Someone was trying to tell me that there are mountains of material written about how the plot of Episode IV makes no sense and that Rogue One was somehow an attempt to rectify it. I've not seen IV in a few years, but I can't really recall any plot holes. It wasn't an overly complicated plot, so I can't see how they'd screw it up too bad.
Then doing weird stuff like Leiah flying through space and Ben and Rey force Skyping in TLJ hurts much worse.
