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Bloomberg: Star Wars is Struggling to Win Over the Next Generation of Kids
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Marvel lends itself better to having a bunch of movies per year since there's a wealth of characters, it's more like a collection of franchises that play in the same pool.
Whereas Star Wars has to focus on the same few characters and events and feels way more limited in comparison, they have yet to justify expanding the universe in a meaningful way, imo.
Whereas Star Wars has to focus on the same few characters and events and feels way more limited in comparison, they have yet to justify expanding the universe in a meaningful way, imo.
People fell in love with Star Wars first because of the amazing and charismatic characters. On top of that you had well designed space ships and everything else...
Now SW is just another thing in the world. It's not special anymore.
Huge SW fan here but it's pretty obvious Marvel has taken over and honestly, I'm not bothered at all.
The prequels, even though they sucked, are better than the new movies. They at least "feel" like Star Wars
I also put Solo in the prequel camp, btw.
As long as I have my 4k De-Specialized versions and the Sequel trilogy ends as well as the first two parts, I'll die a happy man.
What? You mean the sci-fi rehash of Flash Gordon, WWII dogfights, and Kurosawa films aren't resonating with the kids today?!
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Well yeah. It's old as balls. There are better things out there.
Do kids even care about outer space nowadays? Like, do they find it as wondrous as older people did when they were kids?
Do kids even care about outer space nowadays? Like, do they find it as wondrous as older people did when they were kids?
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Prequels tried to do it's thing, despite how bad they were. New planets, new politics, new world-building fascinated me and other kids at the time. It also spawned various incarnations of the Clone Wars.
The Sequels tried a rethread and yeah, I was bored. It forgot what made the original and prequels were all about: new and interesting locales in favor of Skywalker drama.
I feel like the OT were more about the new places where we could go, and the main characters were just our avatars and a way to show us this galaxy teeming with life. Sequel unfortunately thought we care more about the characters than the world itself.
I feel the same way about Avatar: the world was the biggest draw, not the characters.
The Sequels tried a rethread and yeah, I was bored. It forgot what made the original and prequels were all about: new and interesting locales in favor of Skywalker drama.
I feel like the OT were more about the new places where we could go, and the main characters were just our avatars and a way to show us this galaxy teeming with life. Sequel unfortunately thought we care more about the characters than the world itself.
I feel the same way about Avatar: the world was the biggest draw, not the characters.
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I don't know you think the prequels feel more like SW compared to the new trilogy. I feel the exact opposite. If you put all 3 trilogies together it's pretty obvious which one is not like the others. And I like the prequels as crap as they are.
Mine as well, I just find it funny that the clear inspirations for the original Star Wars films are now several generations out of step with modern kid audiences.
This is me. I'm not a kid, but damn. I don't care for the new films.
The Jedi are boring. Marvel has a ton of different heroes with different powers all. Star Wars has Jedi, and if you've seen one Jedi you've seen damn near all of them.
Star Wars needs to introduce characters than can whip Jedi. Jedi all the time every movie is boring.
Star Wars needs to introduce characters than can whip Jedi. Jedi all the time every movie is boring.
The prequels were like comic book movies themselves. Larger than life characters and locations. These new movies are a lot grittier and way more grounded.
Not shocked tbh. Saw the last Jedi with my little brother, I marveled at the visuals my little brother could cared less. He never talked about it after we saw it.
Yeah I want to like the new movies but you're right the world building sucked in force awakens and last Jedi.
Let's explore newer worlds species pleas.
Yeah I want to like the new movies but you're right the world building sucked in force awakens and last Jedi.
Let's explore newer worlds species pleas.
Yeah. For Star Wars, I also feel it probably would have worked better for the universe to have movies that all correlate in the same time period rather than having mostly prequels.
they just want to throw blame on the audience rather than their poor decisions. their movies just aren't that interesting
Do today's children dream of the stars and what possibilities might exist beyond our little blue planet?