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Is Disney's Star Wars Franchise In Trouble? (cosmicbook.news)
Disney's Han Solo movie was the first Star Wars movie to lose money. But is there a larger problem? dryriver writes:
Comic book news website Cosmic Book News reports that even though Disney put bucketloads of Star Wars out there in 2018, revenues from all things Star Wars have actually fallen, according to Disney SEC filings. Disney made more Star Wars money in 2017 -- when only Rogue One hit cinemas -- than in 2018, when Solo, Last Jedi and SW Battlefront 2 were released.
A Rian Johnson-led Star Wars trilogy appears to have been delayed or cancelled entirely. Rumored spinoff movies for Bobba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi appear to have been put on the backburner or cancelled. Disney's CEO has confirmed that the Star Wars movies are being slowed down.
A Rian Johnson-led Star Wars trilogy appears to have been delayed or cancelled entirely. Rumored spinoff movies for Bobba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi appear to have been put on the backburner or cancelled. Disney's CEO has confirmed that the Star Wars movies are being slowed down.
I saw that one SW movie where Princess Leia went through space like Superman. I was wondering at the time: how did that EVER get through any editing process? Did people really look at that and say "hey, that's pretty good?". It was just weird, and I have a low bar for movies. That scene was possibly the worst scene I have seen in any movie, ever. It was just bizarre. I wasn't really paying attention to the movie until that point.
How's this a surprise?
Disney is about making money, not about art or entertainment. Their primary focus is to turn a profit on the movie they are making. So, if cutting corners makes them more money, if not consulting with the creators of the franchise or taking their advice looks like it will produce more profit, they are going to do it.
But let's face it. The original Star Wars concept was at best 3 movies and it's been down hill since The Empire Strikes Back and we are waiting for installment 9? This franchise has been driven into the ground and milked for all it was worth and then some (pun intended). Few franchises last this long with Rocky and Star Trek being about all I remember.
Disney bought an old used up sports car, that had 200,000 miles, poor tires and a bad front end out of somebodies barn. I'm not surprised they are having difficulty making money on it's restoration. Such work is a labor of love, not profit, and Disney is about the latter. I'm thinking this franchise is about over.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Rogue One was better than any of the 3rd trilogy. First one was just a rehash, while the second was just trash.
Yes. Disney acquired the rights to the greatest movie franchise of all time and flooded the market. On top of this, they decided to make the tentpole of their investment (the sequel trilogy) without even so much of a sketch of a story arc. (Marvel people must be stunned at their incompetence.) And instead of sourcing great material from a vast and wonderful expanded universe to make the best proper sequel trilogy possible, they decided to make everything up as they go film-by-film, giving too much liberty to the creators. This ultimately resulted in Last Jedi. Just from a literary perspective, how did a script that broke the conventional trilogy story arc get greenlit? It's great, for example, when stories are successful with a non-conventional arc but those are the exception, and the "rule" exists for a reason. You don't bet the farm by taking a risk like that. But that's what Disney did.
Did anyone NOT think Disney would muck up the Star Wars franchise? They made a huge investment and wanted to score big, fast. They got a little slapdash about the whole thing and didn't put in the care and love required.
Disney is not a good company. They are to good movies what Monstanto is to good food.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Perhaps the gaping plot holes, illogical character actions, and inconsistency with decades of in-universe lore have something to do with it?
Just a thought.
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Disney tried to copy Marvel's success a bit too much and it bit them. However, I'd argue the enormous decline in quality to be at least as responsible as the rapid release schedule.
Perhaps the two are related? With a bit more time between releases, TLJ's script might've gotten in front of more people and given them more chances to tell Rian Johnson and Kathleen Kennedy they were supposed to be making a Star Wars movie instead of contemporary political commentary. Lord knows Mark Hamill did everything he could to tell them it was dreck.
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sorry but he was right, if the producer AND the director talk nothing but Social Justice and then the entire plot is nothing but Social Justice? Then I don't see how you can call it anything but an SJW movie.
If you would like some examples here goes...ALL MEN in the movie are shown as either weak, incompetent, reckless, or just plain idiots. Our supposed male lead (Poe) gets constantly talked down to, treated like shit, ignored and kept out of the loop, and basically treated like a child. Admiral Gender Studies OTOH is brought in after killing a character everyone actually liked for no damn reason (Akbar) and then made out to be a heroine when SHE KILLS MORE REBELS THAN HUX DOES, she kills so many in fact when I first saw it I thought the twist was she was working for the Empire as she was a better killer of rebels than Hux ever was! Then you have Mary Rey who can defeat trained Sith with ZERO studies cuz...vagina I guess? It certainly is never explained in the damn movie how she is able to defeat all these trained warriors when she was literally a scrap rat a week ago. You have Rose Tico whose whole job seems to be to bring in a completely pointless PETA message and to screw Finn out of actually getting to be anything more than a pathetic comic relief. Which is rather insulting that Lando in the 80s got to be a hero and the only black guy in the new trilogy is a pathetic bumbling sidekick but I guess being a guy trumps his being black in the Oppression Olympics. Hell even Phasma which was built up to be this bad ass evil super trooper got stuffed on a bus and run off screen because God Forbid she actually be able to fight as gasp! Shock! that would mean someone would have to raise their hand to a wamens oh noes! Oh did I mention that Laura Dern announced Admiral Gender Studies is a lesbian so they could score a few more virtue points despite whether she even had genitals or not having fuck all to do with the movie?
So I'm sorry but Kennedy and Johnson made it quite clear on social media this movie was down with Social Justice, the entire plot is based on the premise the females are never wrong and all the guys are evil or incompetent, this is right up there with Ghostbusters 2016 on the SJW scale and the ones that made it are quite proud of that and will be more than happy to tell you so so I really don't see how calling a spade a spade can be argued here.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Who fucking cares? Does having weak male characters threaten you some how?
Seriously, you mistake not likeing something with being threatened by it.
Kennedy and Johnson belittled and insulted anyone who dared to disagree with them.
Let's take a restaraunt for example. If you order a rare steak and it comes out well done, and you complain, so the manager comes out and calls you an asshole, upbraids you publicly, and if you don't like it you just aren't man enough to handle a well done steak - are you going to come back?
Unless you are a masochist - probably not.
Why don't you ask these presumably threatened males if they like the Alien Trilogy. Or if they like the early Terminator movies. TThere is a disconnect between how "strong women" were portrayed then, and the insecure vibe you get from present day movies, which has a strong undercurrent of misandry.
By the way - manshaming doesn't work any more.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.