| AngryLittleAlchemist said: I mean, not really. You know, you might not know this, but there's this thing. It's called "production". And often times, the way you can produce something can be mishandled, but the sales you'll get on it can still be good. You can still make a profit! Does that mean the series isn't being mishandled? Not necessarily. During the production and creation of these films, it's a disaster. And as much as you want to use BO or critical acclaim it is not the be all end all of how something is handled. The prequels were also very successful, and a lot of people didn't even hate them till years after their original screening. I wouldn't say though that the development process of those films was handled correctly. Either way, you care more about a word I said than the point of what i'm saying. Let's say we take the word mishandled completely out of the dictionary. What does that change about how effectively Disney is making product? Yeah - it's making an insane amount of profit. As if a Star Wars movie published by one of the biggest corporations on earth wouldn't. But that still means that during the production of the film - it's being poorly treated. So what is changed when you look at the actual point and not just some word you don't want to associate with a company? Nothing. |
How can a production be mishandled when the finished product is a sucess ? Have you ever seen any Naughty Dog behind the scenes when they talk about how their game's production go ? Its generaly kind of a mess realy. Remember all the debacle with Amy Hennig's departure from UC 4 ? Maybe for you and for me the production would look like a disaster, but the fact of the mater is: whatever the hell it is they're doing, as screwed up, disorganized or crazy as it looks, it works. Whatever happens in production is only being mishandled if the finished product is suffering for it, so far it hasn't.
Also, again the prequels were not a sucess, did they make a lot of money ? Ye. Was that money good when you consider they were Star Wars movies. Not by a mile. Episode 3 made less money on the US than Ep IV (not adjusted), Ep IV came out like 30 years before III, thats insane, Episode II is the least grossing Star Wars movie of all time, even I wich did gross 1 billion worldwide pales when you consider Ep VII made over 2 billion and that if you adjust IV for inflation it also made over 2 billion. Also the franchise devalued after the prequels, and it is an urban legend that the movies were aclaimed on the time of release (one a lot of naysayers repeated to exhaustion after watching Ep VII and not agreing with the critics), you can go to Rotten Tomatoes, wich was around by the time of Eps 1, 2 and 3, scroll down the reviews till you get to release day reviews and see a plethora of negative ones (Ep1 released on 1999, RT came up on 2000 but basicaly all the reviews listed as 2000 there are launch day/week/month reviews they simply uploaded them when the site came up on January 1st of 2000). It was realy only a pocket of very eager fans that praized Ep I, overall that movie was trashed criticaly and on world of mouth (its the only rotten movieof the franchise on RT), so much so it damaged Ep 2's , wich is also not well received, BO beyond repair. 3 was received positively in general and did manage to save face for the franchise a little, however damage had been done, the brand lost value and a lot of steam, hence why it went to the fridge and ended up being sold 10 years later.
