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Spoilers Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - Grading & Discussion

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it's not a mental block. It's the ability to think in more than just black & white terms regarding SW. I care about SW but don't give two shits about the box office. Why? Because I know that financial decisions are made at a level I have zero control over.

Guess what? I'm enjoying SW more now than I have in a while. Why? Because my wife and kids are along for the ride. I have friends that I can costume with now with their kids. My wife and I are reading novels together.

Bottom line: Fuck the box office. I make SW mine through my activities.

Another post full of complete nonsense.
 
The only reason I care about the box office is because I like to see things I like succeed.
I think it was 2 years back right after Solo that I said that it's unlikely that we'll see another big Star Wars film for at least 10-15 years. The very next day they announced that they will be making the next movie for 2022, and I have to eat crow. But guess what? I shouldn't have. I was right and should have stuck by my feelings, which usually happen to be exactly right.

So I am saying it right now - we will not see a Star Wars movie in the theaters until ~2030. And that doesn't make me happy.
I doubt very, very much that we'll have to wait that long. I'd expect 2023 most likely. I was thinking 2022 at first, but that might be a bit early, unless they are already working on something and are just waiting until one of the Comic-Cons or Star Wars Celebration to announce it.
 
If you want more, particularly more that follow the current course, you're shitting bricks like me right now.

The last film did a BILLION dollars, and everyone seems to hate it, or so I'm told. That the sequel trilogy is such a miserable failure that Kathleen Kennedy was fired two years ago.

Going through life watching YouTube videos is a terrible way to learn about the real world. There will be a film in 2023, by either Feige or Waititi. Or, possibly, Rian Johnson.

Star Wars isn't going anywhere.
 
If they spent $400 million dollars on production budget and advertising, and got 50% of theater revenue, Disney walked away with $100 million dollars in profit off of The Rise of Skywalker. That is before merchandising and secondary markets for the film are factored in.

I don't see them as exactly pissing their pants over the film.

Maybe it isn't Avengers money, but at the same time neither is it Terminator: Dark Fate. Drowning in $130 million dollars of red ink.
 
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The last film did a BILLION dollars, and everyone seems to hate it, or so I'm told. That the sequel trilogy is such a miserable failure that Kathleen Kennedy was fired two years ago.
As is often stated, I would love to fail like the sequel trilogy did.

The point is that we have no control over the future of the franchise. And, strangely, I'm OK with that. I would rather them explore SW in many different avenues that try to kowtow to old fans like me. They will experiment, fail, struggle and create. I went through ten-ish years of no SW content that I enjoyed (from ROTS to right before TFA). I still manage to hang out with friends, talk SW and have fun with the franchise.

I really struggle with this idea that if no new content is produced that somehow SW is finished.:shrug::shrug::shrug:
 
Again, Lucasfilm is certainly not done creating Star Wars content. Its just not content that one rather opinionated and outspoken poster doesn't like. And so, ya know, gloom and doom and nonsense and all of that.
Nope. As I stated, I will worry about Star Wars when they stop producing content. Until then, there is a quiet satisfaction for me for what has been produced thus far, and in anticipation of what is to come.
 
There have been a grand total of maybe nine years since 1999 when Lucasfilm wasn't giving us new Star Wars content. We'll survive if we have to wait a couple of years between new movies or TV series, which likely isn't going to happen when it comes to streaming shows.
 
There have been a grand total of maybe nine years since 1999 when Lucasfilm wasn't giving us new Star Wars content. We'll survive if we have to wait a couple of years between new movies or TV series, which likely isn't going to happen when it comes to streaming shows.
Exactly.
 
I don't get the people who have to have new content all the time as if their very fandom depends on new movies and series episodes always being at their fingertips. We got just three new canonical Star Trek adventures between 2005 and 2017 and we did just fine.
 
I don't get the people who have to have new content all the time as if their very fandom depends on new movies and series episodes always being at their fingertips. We got just three new canonical Star Trek adventures between 2005 and 2017 and we did just fine.
I feel a similar way. I stated before (here or another thread) but between the prequel trilogy ending and TFA there wasn't really a lot of new SW content I felt like consuming. I tried The Old Republic MMORPG, but the rest was all fan based stuff, discussion boards, fan fiction, etc.

I don't need new content to enjoy a franchise.
 
Let's be fair. If you include comics, novels, video games, roleplaying games additions, etc., since the release of the novel Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker was published in November 1976 (yes, six months prior to the release of the film), not a year has gone by where something Star Wars-related has not been released. Those things might not be your cup of tea, but Star Wars has really never gone away. Certainly not all of it has been things I've been interested in, however, to say that it has not been there, is a lie.
 
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