I have been asked to respectfully not address certain people directly, & I haven't. That being said, if anyone talks out of their rear end so much they need a proctologist to get their teeth cleaned, I have no problem calling that either.
It is worth noting the number one and two global box office films of 2017 are Disney properties and 3 of the top 5 in the US.
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And studio revenue isn’t as big a contributor to earnings as some think. All Star Wars films combined? $9B.
From an investor standpoint this movie could be two hours of Luke farting and still wouldn't hurt the company as much as a hurricane that goes far enough North to effect Orlando.
THIS, I don't understand what you are suggesting in this sentence. Im not ignoring you or anyone, I receive notifications. Sometimes I just don't have anything to say or add and move on with my day. Plenty of people don't respond to questions I ask them, I certainly don't take it personally.
From an investor standpoint this movie could be two hours of Luke farting and still wouldn't hurt the company as much as a hurricane that goes far enough North to effect Orlando.
Which they pretty much did. And that's the problem, if fans are happy to fork over cash for an already substandard product, the product will only cheapen further over time. Cognitive dissonance is a powerful phenomenon.
I'm pretty sure most, especially Disney, don't set out to make a bad movie. The problem with Star Wars, beloved as it is:If you give them what they want, it's fan service and therefore bad. Give them something different and it's still bad. You can't make a product that will meet everyone's expectations. The main thrust of show business is still business, so if they continue making money, they will continue to produce them, good, bad, or otherwise. So cherish the ones you like and ignore the ones you don't. All this complaining isn't going to change anything.
However, the initial reaction to Empire Strikes Back wasn't dissimilar to the reaction that TLJ is getting. There wasn't an internet forum like this to give disgruntled fans a vehicle to voice.Yup, I quote Gary Kurtz who said "Empire Strikes Back would have made the same money even if we didn't push on making it so good". Then again, as Bryan rightly said, good is subjective, so as long as the till keeps ringing...
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My wife is a huge SW, LOTR/Hobbit fan, along with Trek.
I asked if she felt any differently, that the hero is now Rey.
She said specifically. "I dont need the hero to be a male or female, for it to be 'my' movie". "I just want the hero to be heroic, to do cool hero stuff"... "and I cant understand why does a character have to be the same sex, for people to feel closer to the movie" "I love Captain Janeway, but just because she is female does not make her the best Captain in Trek"
God I love my wife, sometimes she makes alot of since.
Some people are talking about this film in terms of the characters.
Some people are talking about this film in terms of the characters.
I can't even get that far. If I can ever get past the dialogue and plot then MAYBE I can start thinking about Luke Skywalker and his "character". But there's too much to unpack before that.