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Soundwave on 16 February 2016
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Lawlight said:
Soundwave said:

Titanic also had "fad-ish" qualities to its run. It was a big deal to teenage girls of that time, but will my kids look at Titanic the same way? No. It is will be associated with the late 1990s and Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys and Jennifer Love Hewitt and the other teen cultural fads of the time. 

It's not a bad movie at all, it's a far better movie than Avatar, but the "Titanic craze" as it were is very much a late 1990s type of thing. 

Star Wars as a "craze" is still going on 40 years later and multi-generational, there are 7/8 year olds who are now huge Star Wars fans because of TFA. 

People moved on from TFA within a month of it being released. That's not what I call a craze. Titanic was a phenomenon like no other. Everyone went to watch that movie.

LOL, not really, everyone now is waiting for Episode VIII. 

Star Wars will be making huge money 20-30-40 years from now, nothing stops that train now, if Jar-Jar couldn't kill Star Wars, if Hayden Christensen's acting couldn't do it ... nothing will ever do it. 

There are more Star Wars fans alive today than probably at any time in its history simply because you now have a new generation of 4-12 year old kids are now into Star Wars on top of all those who were previously into the franchise, TFA has also built a foundation for the franchise in developing markets like China for future movies to build upon. 

Titanic is more of a singular event fixated on the popular culture of the late 1990s and is more for *that* specific generation of teenagers, at that time things like Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls, and "teen stars" like Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. were the rage, just like in the 80s it was Molly Ringwald and there were a lot of 80s-centric teen comedies/romance movies. 

But the kid who's 15/16 today does he/she understand Titanic as a pop culture phenemonon? Hell no. It's "just a movie", 1998 might as well be a 100 years ago to them.