| Trunkin said: Probably happened because the film looks kinda shit. I don't even have any plans to watch it when it comes to blu-ray. |
The film is kinda shit. It's dull pandering that only a hardcore Star Wars nerd would enjoy, otherwise the story is flat and there's virtually zero character development for anyone.
Star Wars isn't interesting enough to have standalone single character films, no one in that universe is as charismatic as Iron Man/Tony Stark or Starlord or Thor, etc. etc. etc. They have to invent new characters because the current ones are dull, Obi-Wan and Boba Fett movies will run into the same problem. Without Harrison Ford especially Star Wars tends to turn to shit pretty quick because he's the only one that's able to inject charm into that franchise.
And just on a side note, Star Wars hasn't been the "biggest franchise" since the 1990s at least. The Phantom Menace failed to even get to within spitting distance of Titanic, and TFA failed to match Avatar despite both being shoved down people's throats with unprecedented hype. The other prequels/sequels/spin-offs are not anything that impressive in box office. Maybe Star Wars was the biggest thing back in the 70s/80s when it had no real competition, but that's about it.
The successive prequels, even the one that SW fans will claim to high heaven was "actually good!" (Revenge of the Sith) got easily outgrossed by franchise entries in the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Transformers, The Dark Knight, and Spider-Man series released around the same time (so I'm not even using films that were released years later where inflation would be a large issue).
So if Star Wars is this unbeatable, no.1 franchise, how is it that it gets its ass beat so regularly? Revenge of the Sith even further to that got beat by fucking Shrek 2, lol, released a year earlier and was not globally the top grossing film of 2005. Obviously Attack of the Clones fared even worse.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 03 June 2018
