The money is in big film franchises. Marvel is making insane money on MCU, so companies like Disney and DC are trying to create a similar platform. Not to anyone's surprise, Disney doesn't give a flying shit about the previous canon.
When you do them right, yeah. Kathleen Kennedy is going to end up fucking the Star Wars IP as hard as Paul Feig fucked Ghostbusters, or as hard as WB films is fucking DC movies. Marvel films work because there is a person in charge who knows what the fans want and is willing to give it to them. You can't say that about some other IPs.
I think it is becoming readily apparent with whole nations sticking their noses up at Solo that the Star Wars fans aren't as fuck dumb as cape shit sippers. Still dumb, but obviously not as willing to bend over and spread their cheeks.
That's because Solo and shit need you to remember shit from previous movies; Marvel films have continuity but it's pretty easy to just drop in and enjoy them without having watched the previous ones.
I see a pickup truck on my way to work probably once a week. It has THREE Star Wars stickers that take up most of the rear view mirror, a Star Wars bumper sticker and the license plate reads “findbb8”
Please direct me to someone as crazily obsessed with Marvel and I will happily change my stance, but until then I firmly believe that Star Wars fans are more obsessed and willing to waste their money.
Oh damn, I meant the small back window of the pickup truck, still blocking off a solid 75% of it with only open space being the center sliding window. Still retarded tho
Not to anyone's surprise, Disney doesn't give a flying shit about the previous canon.
Sure. But that's stupid since "the previous canon" is what makes the franchise popular.
It's like buying McDonalds and then deciding that burgers are lame so you're gonna turn it into a chain of michellin rated artisanal organic salad/tofu places. Why?
First, "the previous canon" is about more than just encyclopedic knowledge of characters. It's the feel, the tone, the themes those characters embody.
Second, the lack of prior knowledge is not actually why people aren't watching. They aren't watching because the movies are shit.
This is especially obvious with a franchise like Star Wars where even in the original trilogy, the main draw was the idea of an invisible backstory and worldbuilding lurking in the background. Like there was an entire universe full of people and events that we only got references to. And yet, nobody tuned out when Princess Leia (who the fuck is she) sends a secret message to General Ben Kenobi (who should we care). Nor did people eyeroll at the reveal that Uncle Ben was actually Ben Kenobi the whole time. Instead it all worked smoothly and fluidly because the story was well told and well acted, and the few bits we DID know gave us enough grounding to be invested and want to find out the parts we didn't.
I don't know how Disney fucked this up. But they did and it's fucking pathetic.
anyone who likes the new star wars is mentally (and likely physically) inferior. we should even use this as part of a metric to decide who goes to the camps and who gets to live.
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1 ragnathorn 2018-05-29
The money is in big film franchises. Marvel is making insane money on MCU, so companies like Disney and DC are trying to create a similar platform. Not to anyone's surprise, Disney doesn't give a flying shit about the previous canon.
1 jubbergun 2018-05-29
When you do them right, yeah. Kathleen Kennedy is going to end up fucking the Star Wars IP as hard as Paul Feig fucked Ghostbusters, or as hard as WB films is fucking DC movies. Marvel films work because there is a person in charge who knows what the fans want and is willing to give it to them. You can't say that about some other IPs.
1 Lvl100SkrubRekker 2018-05-29
I think it is becoming readily apparent with whole nations sticking their noses up at Solo that the Star Wars fans aren't as fuck dumb as cape shit sippers. Still dumb, but obviously not as willing to bend over and spread their cheeks.
1 pitterpatterwater 2018-05-29
That's because Solo and shit need you to remember shit from previous movies; Marvel films have continuity but it's pretty easy to just drop in and enjoy them without having watched the previous ones.
1 Ravensthrowit 2018-05-29
I see a pickup truck on my way to work probably once a week. It has THREE Star Wars stickers that take up most of the rear view mirror, a Star Wars bumper sticker and the license plate reads “findbb8”
Please direct me to someone as crazily obsessed with Marvel and I will happily change my stance, but until then I firmly believe that Star Wars fans are more obsessed and willing to waste their money.
1 pitterpatterwater 2018-05-29
What retard puts stickers on the rear view mirror? Do you mean the back mirror?
1 Ravensthrowit 2018-05-29
Oh damn, I meant the small back window of the pickup truck, still blocking off a solid 75% of it with only open space being the center sliding window. Still retarded tho
1 Che_Gueporna 2018-05-29
Sure. But that's stupid since "the previous canon" is what makes the franchise popular.
It's like buying McDonalds and then deciding that burgers are lame so you're gonna turn it into a chain of michellin rated artisanal organic salad/tofu places. Why?
1 ragnathorn 2018-05-29
Of course. Disney is out of touch as fuck.
1 pitterpatterwater 2018-05-29
The movies needing knowledge of the previous canon out really enjoy is literally why no-ones watching them in non-Anglon nations.
1 Che_Gueporna 2018-05-29
No, it isn't.
First, "the previous canon" is about more than just encyclopedic knowledge of characters. It's the feel, the tone, the themes those characters embody.
Second, the lack of prior knowledge is not actually why people aren't watching. They aren't watching because the movies are shit.
This is especially obvious with a franchise like Star Wars where even in the original trilogy, the main draw was the idea of an invisible backstory and worldbuilding lurking in the background. Like there was an entire universe full of people and events that we only got references to. And yet, nobody tuned out when Princess Leia (who the fuck is she) sends a secret message to General Ben Kenobi (who should we care). Nor did people eyeroll at the reveal that Uncle Ben was actually Ben Kenobi the whole time. Instead it all worked smoothly and fluidly because the story was well told and well acted, and the few bits we DID know gave us enough grounding to be invested and want to find out the parts we didn't.
I don't know how Disney fucked this up. But they did and it's fucking pathetic.
1 myshl0ng 2018-05-29
Marvel should remake Spawn, but with a white dude as lead.
1 TSwizzlesNipples 2018-05-29
A) Spawn isn't owned by Disney/Marvel
2) There's a remake in the works now and it will be a horror film
1 sRand45 2018-05-29
literally shit.
anyone who likes the new star wars is mentally (and likely physically) inferior. we should even use this as part of a metric to decide who goes to the camps and who gets to live.
1 TSwizzlesNipples 2018-05-29
Rogue One was the most tolerable out of the last three since everyone died.
Solo, if it weren't a SW movie, would have been a good space heist movie. But it is a SW movie, so it sucked.
1 pitterpatterwater 2018-05-29
Rogue One was pretty decent.
1 aqouta 2018-05-29
I thought TLJ was actually good until the last like 30 minutes. Didn't really like any of the others.