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>All the Star Wars and Marvel shows are star-studded and larded with top-tier visual effects. I'm just going to throw this out there. What if these shows just

>All the Star Wars and Marvel shows are star-studded and larded with top-tier visual effects. I'm just going to throw this out there. What if these shows just aren't that good?

vnchr 4y ago
I’d say it’s a mixed track record, and that risk of disappointment is enough to deter customets from content they might actually like.
JackFr 4y ago
Also if you’re not into superheroes and Star Wars, despite it being Disney there’s not a ton there.
- saghm 4y ago
  Even if you are, there's the chance that the glut of the content coming out causes fatigue. I used to really look forward to new Star Wars things because it didn't come out super frequently (a new trilogy of movies every few decades, a TV show here and there), but it was enjoyable. Then they started coming out with a new movie and multiple TV shows year after year, and it just wasn't good enough to justify going out of my way to consume all of it. Marvel stuff seems the same way; I'd generally go to the movies maybe once or twice a year, so when there are half a dozen of them coming out for a single franchise within a year or two, it feels more like work than entertainment to keep up with it all. At this point, I'm not sure I'll _ever_ go to see a Star Wars movie in a theater again, which is extraordinary since even 5 or 6 years ago that would have seemed ludicrous to me.
  - WalterBright 4y ago
    I knew I was done with Star Wars movies when I caught myself looking at my watch about a half hour in.
  - ben7799 4y ago
    Totally.. Disney has completely missed the fact that a big part of the pent up love of some of these franchises had to do with people having to wait their entire childhood for a new release. I went to ROTJ for my 7th birthday party. There was no more new Star Wars content till I was 22! Now there is so much you need to pay attention or you'll miss it. People get sick of drinking out of a firehose.
- dmitriid 4y ago
  Marvel released 4 movies and 3 series in 2022. Plus a second season of an existing one and a holiday special. There were four Star Wars series. That's too much content. Two movies a year that Marvel started with was perfect. It gave you tome to unwind, and get hungry for more.
  - JackFr 4y ago
    Superhero movies are like Westerns in the fifties. It’s a just a weird genre that’s having a moment.
layer8 4y ago
You don‘t need a “what if” for that. ;)
ska 4y ago
> What if these shows just aren't that good? What if they aren't that good in a very calculated, lowest-common-denominator way? Any really big $$ production has to have really broad appeal to succeed. Maybe the safest way to do that is just to target some minimum threshold for ticket buying on a rainy thursday.
- ska 4y ago
  Fwiw too late too edit but I meant that in a technical, not judgemental way - and I’m not suggesting that being popular implies not being good.

>All the Star Wars and Marvel shows are star-studded and larded with top-tier visual effects. I'm just going to throw this out there. What if these shows just aren't that good?

vnchr 4y ago

I’d say it’s a mixed track record, and that risk of disappointment is enough to deter customets from content they might actually like.

JackFr 4y ago

Also if you’re not into superheroes and Star Wars, despite it being Disney there’s not a ton there.

saghm 4y ago
Even if you are, there's the chance that the glut of the content coming out causes fatigue. I used to really look forward to new Star Wars things because it didn't come out super frequently (a new trilogy of movies every few decades, a TV show here and there), but it was enjoyable. Then they started coming out with a new movie and multiple TV shows year after year, and it just wasn't good enough to justify going out of my way to consume all of it. Marvel stuff seems the same way; I'd generally go to the movies maybe once or twice a year, so when there are half a dozen of them coming out for a single franchise within a year or two, it feels more like work than entertainment to keep up with it all. At this point, I'm not sure I'll _ever_ go to see a Star Wars movie in a theater again, which is extraordinary since even 5 or 6 years ago that would have seemed ludicrous to me.
- WalterBright 4y ago
  I knew I was done with Star Wars movies when I caught myself looking at my watch about a half hour in.
- ben7799 4y ago
  Totally.. Disney has completely missed the fact that a big part of the pent up love of some of these franchises had to do with people having to wait their entire childhood for a new release. I went to ROTJ for my 7th birthday party. There was no more new Star Wars content till I was 22! Now there is so much you need to pay attention or you'll miss it. People get sick of drinking out of a firehose.
dmitriid 4y ago
Marvel released 4 movies and 3 series in 2022. Plus a second season of an existing one and a holiday special. There were four Star Wars series. That's too much content. Two movies a year that Marvel started with was perfect. It gave you tome to unwind, and get hungry for more.
- JackFr 4y ago
  Superhero movies are like Westerns in the fifties. It’s a just a weird genre that’s having a moment.

layer8 4y ago

You don‘t need a “what if” for that. ;)

ska 4y ago

> What if these shows just aren't that good? What if they aren't that good in a very calculated, lowest-common-denominator way? Any really big $$ production has to have really broad appeal to succeed. Maybe the safest way to do that is just to target some minimum threshold for ticket buying on a rainy thursday.

ska 4y ago
Fwiw too late too edit but I meant that in a technical, not judgemental way - and I’m not suggesting that being popular implies not being good.