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Soundwave on 19 March 2018
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Insidb said:
Soundwave said:

Titanic and Avatar are better films than any Star Wars movie outside of the OT. Sad, but it's true. 

The Force Awakens is the best one of the bunch ... that's a fairly vanilla, dull film. 

Titanic is without question the cultural touchstone movie event of the 90s, I would say Jurassic Park is second, Phantom Menace was all hype. The Matrix was a far better film in the action/sci-fi genre for that year and The Mummy was more fun. 

Avatar was uninspired, rehashed nonsense: its success is a stain on mankind.

TFA is the all-time US box office leader and the best-made SW film, because Lucas littered all of his films with incomprehensible directions.

I'm not sure what Jurassic Park or The Matrix have to do with Titanic or Avatar, because we're not talking about those films. Even so TPM more than doubled The Matrix' take in 1999. TPM is a mess of a film, but it simply outperformed the competition.

TPM was supposed to crush Titanic, it was soooooooooooooooooooooooooo hyped, it wasn't even close though. It wasn't even the most talked about film of that summer, that would be The Sixth Sense. 

Star Wars in general nothing special box office wise if you strip it of pent-up artificial hype (Phantom Menace got like 16 years build up, Force Awakens 10 years). 

Revenge of the Sith for example, which most Star Wars point to as the "good prequel" isn't even in the top 5 for films in the 2000s ... being bested at the box office by The Dark Knight, Shrek 2, Pirates 2, Spider-Man, and even freaking Transformers: Revenge of the Ass Farts. Attack of the Clones isn't even in the top 19, lol. That's horrendous. 

Strip Star Wars from years of pent up hype and it's very easily beaten by many types of film properties.