Solo Headed To Become A Flop? Yep, It Flopped.

[Soundwave]

Faelco said:

Soundwave said:

No they couldn't. 

Even Marvel struggles to hit $1 billion reliably and those characters have 60+ years worth of back story, hundreds of seperate writers to mine material from and Marvel is at its absolute peak right (probably will start to decline).  

Star Wars is a very nerd centric audience, the problem with spin-off films is the "regular Joe public" people who don't give that much of a fuck about everything Star Wars aren't going to be interested about every second character. 

And Star Wars is also limited is what they can do with their characters. You can't just make an Obi-Wan film that's R-rated or wildly breaks from canon, so you're limited in what you can write. 

I don't mind Harry Potter films, I saw most of the main line films, but would I go see a Ron Weasely film? Probably fucking not. The reviews on that would have to be through the roof. Nor would I want to watch a Gimli The Dwarf film from LOTR or something. No thanks, I do like LOTR but at some point enough is enough, that last Hobbit film was reeeeeallly pushing it already. 

Marvel can cheat that because they can dip into other genre types and incorporate modern humor which is something Star Wars wouldn't be able to do either. 

And yet Fantastic Beasts did only around 100 millions less than the main HP movies. Without even any direct link to HP. The Hobbit movies all reached around 1 billion. You're right, who cares about spin offs?

 

I don't get why you can't understand that good movies bring more viewers than bad ones. It's pretty simple logic. 

Not everything is reliant on quality, the last couple of Fast & Furious movies have outgrossed most Star Wars and Harry Potter films by the way ... is that based on quality? 

Solo probably isn't even a "bad" film. I would bet it's in line with a lot of Marvel standalone films (Captain America: The First Avenger is no masterpiece, neither is Iron Man 2 or 3, neither is Thor 2). It's just not an appealing prospect to a lot of people. 

Disney should axe the Obi-Wan and especially the Boba Fett movies. It's too much Star Wars, they're going to oversaturate the brand with too many movies too quickly. Maybe "guy who likes anime and video games" might be into that concept of seeing full films for every other Star Wars character, but how about jock guy who really only cares about Star Wars cuz Yoda and Darth Vader? How about his girlfriend? 

That's where Star Wars will get into trouble, "non-nerds" don't want to see movies about every Star Wars character. You keep releasing this many films this quickly and people are just going to zone out. Focus on IX, get JJ back, focus on Rey/Finn/Poe, that scored them huge box office and huge repeat audience for TFA. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 27 May 2018