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| numberwang said: I believe that TLJ and the attack on large parts of the fanbase that followed has permanently cut away that large chunk of the audience and I don't think SW will easily recover from that. What we see now is the aftershock accumulated over the last three years. Foreign markets will be even more confused by what is going on and abstain. |
Star Wars has gone through far worse with the prequels.
Try waiting 16 years for freaking Episode I only to have every second scene have Jar Jar Binks shoved in your face, or Episode II which some how managed to be even worse.
These new age fanboys crying about this make me laugh, the prequels were a far bigger slap in the face, the Disney movies are at least competently acted/filmed movies that at least feel the originals in tone. They are more somber and have that "lived in/old dusty sci fi tech" feel the originals had.
The prequels was like expecting the most epic film ever and getting a cartoon for kids instead.
Star Wars will never be that big in China either. It's too slow paced of a franchise that requires a lot of past investment in the story and can't do stuff like this:
Chinese audiences probably are wondering with Star Wars why half the movie has an old fart on the screen half the time or who the green puppet guy was and why they should care. Mark Hamil or Harrison Ford even don't mean shit to them, they never got those old movies. It's too much of a reach to expect people jump in at part VII or VIII of a story and really give much of a fart.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 03 June 2018
