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Soundwave on 10 January 2016
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Lawlight said:
Soundwave said:

 

TFA and Avatar have decent stories they're just very derivative (one of A New Hope the other of Pocahontas/Dances With Wolves). 

Avengers, Jurassic World are a tier below. Furious 7 is just plain crap (lol ... I like the franchise but it's true, but I guess what can you do with a seventh movie about driving cars). 

The 80s and 90s had better blockbusters, what the modern day has is safer blockbusters. They don't take as many story risks and have a more consistent quality to them. 

The Force Awakens just proves how huge Star Wars is though, it's just a decent Star Wars film without a lot of the mind numbing stupidity/poor acting of the Lucas prequels. And that's all it had to do to earn basically $2 billion WW and completely demolish the domestic record in under a month. 

It's only huge because they spent a crazy amount of money marketing it and there hasn't been a SW movies in a long time. You can bet that the other SW movies even if better (which I doubt since Disney has a formula that all their movies adhere to) will not make as much money as this one.

Ultimately, all the highest grossing movies are crap.

Domestically I don't think anything will beat The Force Awakens for a long time, it's domestic number is monstrous, it will end up a full whopping $200 million more than Avatar here and there's bound to be a re-release at some point too. 

It wouldn't surprise me if VIII or IX *if they are good movies* can top TFA internationally though. Markets like China and India are behind the Star Wars curve because they didn't experience the franchise in the same way as the West did in the 70s/80s, so The Force Awakens has a lot of foundation building in those markets which will benefit future Star Wars movies. 

I don't think all the highest grossing movies are "crap". They 80s/90s I would say had better written blockbusters though. Empire Strikes Back, Terminator 2, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Jurassic Park, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan, Return of the Jedi, Titanic, E.T., The Sixth Sense, Die Hard, The Matrix, are well written movies for what they are intended to be (mainstream entertainment). 

They all have solid plots, good character progression, and usually very strong protagonists. Even Independence Day, while silly, is more 'human' and grounded I would say that a lot of modern blockbusters which have a completely incoherent plot.