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People keep showing up to spend a billion dollars at the box office for Star Wars movies. Internet discourse isn’t necessarily a good indicator for the success
by fshbbdssbbgdd 4y ago
People keep showing up to spend a billion dollars at the box office for Star Wars movies. Internet discourse isn’t necessarily a good indicator for the success of mainstream movies.
- samatman 4y agoThe discourse surrounding Marvel is ten times as grumpy, Star Wars is simply underperforming. The Mandalorian was a decent save, but they're out of films that a bunch of people will go see no matter what, now that the core storyline is told. There's time to turn the ship around, but if the next two cinema releases are duds the franchise is in real trouble. Marvel can blow a movie any time they like. It's Disney, I expect they'll squeeze profit out of the IP for a long time to come, but that might end up dominated by short animated series aimed squarely at kids. Hard to say, Favreau understands what Star Wars is and hopefully they see that and scale it.
- pas 4y ago> now that the core storyline is told how is it told? it's ... ripe for a proper reboot or whatever. time to step out of the tall shadow of Vader. Marvel had a vision and went with it. It was a by definition hyper-fractured caricature of a nice story, but they kind of made it work. The Star Wars universe could have much more consistency and depth at the same time, if they pick a vision.