When the original Star Wars came out it was almost literally the ONLY game in town,what few sci fi flicks that were out at the same time may have been enjoyable but when compared to SW were pretty...well dismal,about the only major competition SW had was Star Trek.
With the prequel films SW had it a bit harder what with the Marvel characters out at the time like X-men and Spider-Man.
Now? hell it's a bit crowded and as I said elsewhere just WHEN SW seven shows up is gonna be a sign of how well they think it can do against a Marvel film,many pointed out to me that it's gonna be before the set of Marvel films because,well,Disney doesn't want to jam it's franchises on to of each other.
Bullpucky.
I think they're gonna stick SW in Dec or something because they KNOW it'll do ether badly against something like Avengers or Captain America or just get by.
Don't get me wrong I like SW but time has deluded it and the only ones who may look forward to it are guys old enough to have grown up with it,and maybe like me are old enough to have seen some of the films in the theater (I saw two of the prequels) one thing I think hurt SW is Lucas himself as he's never given an idea just WHAT he has in mind for the series-a trilogy? yes at first and then? nope,gonna be a six parter because I couldn't make the first three right at the time yada-yada and now it's done! no more Star Wars! you hate me! so finished!! for good!!!!
Nooooooo~gonna shuttle it to disney and there's gonna be three more.....
Nobodies excited for Star Wars anymore because nobody knows if this is it or if there's more,or side projects,or new material Lucas just kept making it up as he went along or hid his cards too well,if he'd have come out in 1983 and said he wanted to do more and he would when he felt the time was right SW would be a damn juggernaut,now it's just another set of movies.
