Well, technically JJ did it on the first try with Force Awakens. Because you don't get to a domestic gross that high without repeat viewing.
Just don't focus on pleasing the most toxic part of your fanbase.
Honestly, I feel like killing them off was the cowardly option. Basically cut off all those characters from future stories, of exploring what happened to them during and after the events of OT, if they ever interacted with the main cast, etc. Felt the same way about Solo killing off everyone who wasn't in the OT, except it hurt more there because Solo's secondary cast had more actual character than anyone in R1 besides Donnie Yen and maybe the robot.
No, not THAT. I don't want my sacred Star Wars to turn into Marvel where they quippity quip quip their quip into quip quippery.
The MCU didn't have the baggage associated with it that Star Wars does. The OT has been so mythologized and romanticized over the years that every entry is not just expected to be a good blockbuster but a damned transformative experience that simultaneously re-invents mainstream cinema and captures a whole new generation of fans while also re-kindling the childhood nostalgia of everyone who watched the earlier films as kids. It's an impossible standard to reach.
It's again why I suggested they should just do a trilogy once every 20-30 years. That kind of flagrant nostalgia pandering works once, but having to sit through it with TFA, Rogue One, Solo and a shitload of other media we're at the point where most audiences are sick of it and just want it to go away.
I'd say you're being too conservative there. You could make a film that stands with the cream of the blockbuster crop like ET, Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, Lord of the Rings, Fury Road, Black Panther, etc Star Wars fans would still find a way to twist it into the worst thing to happen to the franchise since the last movie.
I mean, I wanted Luke to have a hero's death, giving his life for the greater good, and that's what I fucking got.
This is why TFA did so well. They repackaged and reheated a slightly altered recipe of people's favorite Star Wars meal.
No, there have been plenty of shitastic comics properties that fans have turned away from because it didn't do a good job telling stories. See: The first incarnations of the DCEU.
Your schtick continues to try and cherrypick Spider-Man FFH (91% higher than Rogue One's 83%) and Iron Man 2 (73% higher than Solo 70%) as bad films when they both reviewed just fine.
Don't forget the franchise killing Spider-Man 3 & X-Men 3 lol
And Amazing Spider-Man 2.
If anything spider-man 3 & amazing spider man are shite spidey has never recovered from domestically (attendance of all the new films is so far below the rami trilogy)
But that's just it. They effectively remade ANH and made audiences "feel" like Star Wars was back. It helped a lot being compared to the prequels. It also was Disney "putting the band back together" with the Core 3, for the first time in over 30 years. George Lucas left a bad taste with fans and JJ was not GL.
When you actual decide to address what I am saying to you, we can talk.
