Where Starwars lost me: horrible 3D redos of the original movies, but no redo-redo now that 3D doesnt suck.
And lately is "Sasquach Starwars Body Soap" comeon, how pathetic.
‘The Force has left Lucasfilm’: how Disney can salvage its $4B investment
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#22Does anyone actually think the problem stops at LucasFilm? It's Disney. They're ruining Marvel properties as well. They care more about pushing progressive ideologies than making a return on investment. How many bad movies and TV shows are they going to push out and then blame bigots when their propaganda fails to entertain?
And then they can't even practice what they preach, removing black actors from posters to placate countries like China. Disney needs to fail.
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#23Re: ‘The Force has left Lucasfilm’: how Disney can salvage its $4B investment
#24The mandelorian is pretty fun in fairness.
it is, but it's also an example of what a wasted opportunity the rest of the star wars franchise has been. The mandalorian is what happens when you have a solid plan for the story you want to tell and how to tell it, and you execute that plan.
the sequels are what happen when you don't.
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#25>The third Skywalker trilogy started off with a bang in late 2015 with The Force Awakens, only to end with a whimper four years later as fans deserted the franchise.
The Rise of Skywalker grossed over a billion dollars at the box office. The current crop of TV shows are some of the most popular things on TV. That isn't what I'd call "desertion". Disney can milk Star Wars for years to come.
It wouldn't surprise me if they've already made back their investment. The five Disney Star Wars movies have made over $4 billion gross. That's not accounting for the parks or merchandising.
I don't see any doom and gloom here for Disney. Things are bad for the moviegoing public, sure, but Disney is doing fine.
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#26Whatever the process was for Andor, do that for everything else.
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#27The mandelorian is pretty fun in fairness.
It's lost alot of drive in the plot though. Seems to be losing alot of steam after this last season concluded.
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#28Does anyone actually think the problem stops at LucasFilm? It's Disney . They're ruining Marvel properties as well. They care more about pushing progressive ideologies than making a return on investment. How many bad movies and TV shows are they going to push out and then blame bigots when their propaganda fails to entertain? And then they can't even practice what they preach, removing black actors from posters to pl…
Didn't Stan Lee push for lots of progressive change, often through his work?
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#29At the end of the day, nobody's left who understands what Star Wars is about. It's a ship adrift.
Marvel works because of the endless nerd wrangling in the comics world imposing narrative discipline and critical standards. Plus the crappy stories don't make it to the big screen. Star Wars just doesn't have that: it's a cathedral and there's no bishop, vs. the much more bazaar and bizarre comic book processes.
Needs a genius at the helm or it flounders. Where's Marcia Lucas these days?
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#30> “The problem isn’t Kathleen Kennedy.” I am not entirely sure that matters. Pissed-off fans undoubtedly want to see metaphorical blood for what, to their eyes, was a forced, ideologically-driven tarnishing of their childhood memories. At the end of the day, the buck stops at the top. Chapman was already punted as a general scapegoat, but is it enough?
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