AngryLittleAlchemist said:
It's frustrating that pretty much every reply I've gotten is "if you don't like them" or "they're box office hits" , both of which I've addressed already. My comment about Disney mishandling the license actually has nothing to do with that, since I think it was pretty obvious I was talking about the production of films, and not the amount of revenue grossed or how critically acclaimed the films are. You know, because that's what this entire thread is about? It should be pretty obvious that Disney is mishandling the series during production given how well documented it is, but considering I've gotten the same reply from you and another user, i'm just going to assume nothing will change your thought process. Again, never talked about the quality of the films(aside from my OG comment which is just about "creative differences") or how much money they made. Those are not the only things to consider when talking about how a franchise is handled. Since you guys want to make a success story out of Star Wars movies doing well in theatres(shocker), I'll just say that 3 out of 4 of Disney's Star Wars movies that were or are in production have had serious issues during development. I don't even care that this specific director was fired, he is not that great in the first place. The irony is that I think you're only commenting like this because Star Wars is in a better place than it was during the Prequels. You like the movies more so you defend them. But i'm not talking quality or revenue. And guess what? The prequels were very successful! So i'm not talking all that, i'm talking how it's handled during production. |
The production of the films is directly related to the box office and to the consensus (as in critical and mouth to mouth reviews) of the movies released so far. Even if Kathleen Kenedy were firing directors and having reshoots every 1 month and it was producing great BO and critical response it would be "handling the franchise well". Toy sales have also gone up and the brand is worth more now than before Ep VII and Rogue One. Under her management 2 movies were released, both were sucess, theres nothing else to discuss realy, what you think of the pratice moraly is besides the point, it yields results and makes the franchise grow. Star Wars rebels is also a sucess and its also under very heavy scrutiny by Kathleen Kenedy (the rebels crew can't just do whatever they want, the storys are all veted by the franchise producers), so thats another sucess story for her management. This is exactly what Kevin Feige has been doing to Marvel movies in the last 10 years (or however long ago was Iron Man I). If the next couple of movies come out and they are bad movies (critically) and don't generate much BO and cause the brand to loose value then we may have grounds for a debate, right now Kenedy's way of handling things has made the franchise grow and that is statisticaly documented. As much as you want to disociate this discussion from BO and the quality of the movies there's no way to do so cause one thing goes hand in hand with the other.
Also, on your prequels point, Ep I was sucessfull but only on the BO, the consensus on the movie was that it was an OK movie at best, wich in turn meant the next 2 movies lost a lot of BO potential and since both were also badly received by the audiences and critics it plumeted the franchise value wich ultimatly meant Lucas sold the thing (for a lot of money, but believe me, no money on Earth woudl've been enought to buy this franchise if the prequels were in fact sucessfull as you clain). None of this has happened under Disney/Kenedy's management so far, in fact the oposite has hapened, the franchise is worth way more than what Disney payed for it. As I said theres no way to disociate the sucess of the movies from the handling of the franchise discussion, and so far whatever the hell Kenedy is doing, as imoral or as screwed up as it may seen, is working.
