| Soundwave said: |
"The problem is the studios all went chasing this same audience to the exclusion of everyone else and didn't greenlight even projects for other audiences and those other audiences have just stopped going to the theater."
Dude.. the whole point of this conversation is that they have not really been making these movies catering to us. I mean, they have been using the "Star Wars" and "Marvel" names, but they sure as hell have not been making these movies for us. So it is quite ironic that you talk about "exclusion" when it is actually men the ones who have felt excluded from these franchises.
I mean, they obviously have been trying to attract a totally different audience to these franchises and somehow they just assumed that their original audience was just going to stick around. I guess their train of thought was "Oh, don't worry. These nerd fanboys will watch anything with the tittle Star Wars or Marvel on it. Heck, they will even watch it just to hate on it!"
"For theaters to remain viable other audiences need to be catered to, just making Marvel and Star Wars movies the way the same tired audience wants them is not the answer. Like you make those IP less female leaning and so what? You're just doing what you were doing 10 years ago then. That's not a viable path forward either."
My brother is Christ.. Those other audiences are being catered to. Just this year Lilo & Stich made more than one billion. Last year they had Moana 2 and Inside Out 2, and the year before they had Elementals and The Little Mermaid.
So yes, doing things "the way the same tired audience wants them" is 100% the right way to do things for Star Wars and Marvel. Trying to blend different audiences together is almost impossible to do, as there is VERY LITTLE crossover between the people who enjoy Moana, Frozen, and Barbie, and the people who enjoy Star Wars and Marvel. That is how always has been, and I really doubt that that is ever gonna change.
