Is Star Wars DEAD To You? - Rant!
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- Опубліковано 10 чер 2024
- Ever since Disney has taken over Star Wars, there seems to have been a huge decline in enthusiasm from fans. Perhaps it's just an audience that has grown up now and doesn't care about the childish nature of the franchise? Maybe it's because all of these Disney+ shows have tarnished the Star Wars brand? Perhaps it's the large focus on representation and less so on story? Could easily be all of the above. I give my thoughts on Star Wars today and would love to hear from you!
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I stopped caring about Star Wars when they killed Spock
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Star Wars 5: The death of a franchise
They brought him back in Star Wars 3: The Snyder Cut.
@@qui-gonrick7002I think that was called Rebel Moon lol
I'm done. The Last Jedi killed it. Luke Skywalker was Star Wars. They character assassinated him, they killed my interest in the property.
They even character assassinated the new male characters maybe not as much Ben Solo but yeah... So weird.
Same. Even Mark Hamill, who's one of the most agreeable people on the planet, hated what they did to Luke.
Star Wars died with Luke Skywalker
this, I hope others enjoy it, but its not for me or anyone in my family.
@@TheCoderaven24 I haven't seen it... And I never will.
SW been dead since Force Awakens. The corpse has just been farting and twitching.
Star Wars died when Poe Dameron made a "Yo mama" joke in The Last Jedi.
The defintion of insanity should now be Star Wars fans who continue to believe that Star Wars will return to being good again.
Unless the Disney board changes. If the board changes, then we should be good (hopefully).
@@McFrozenNuggetsFingers crossed.
I never liked the stupid Marvel humour and they go and put it in Star Wars!
So true, the character assassination in The Last Jedi was done on most the male characters. The Force Awakens was meh but I was hopeful.
Star Was is now just a practice in defiling a corpse at this point. It’s deader than dead.
Its crazy that after paying billions for the IP they started a new trilogy with no overall plan for the story. That is such a brain dead move
There actually was a general plan. It was vague, but it was there.
They teased how Snoke was an ancient being who watched the empire rise and fall. Adam Driver said that the plan for Kylo was to be the opposite of Vader. Kylo starts out conflicted and was supposed end totally committed to the dark side.
Rian Johnson took a jackhammer to the overall plan and Kathleen Kennedy liked it.
I grew up on Star Wars, saw the original at the movies. Super fan. Star Wars is dead to me.
The last Jedi took away my excitement for star wars. My love for it remains
For me .... Star Wars died when that purple haired woman hid her plan from the Entire crew, and then broke physics by going to light speed and destroying the enemy ship. Not mention Carrie Fisher's vacuum breathing when the ship was hit with enemy fire. Now I am just done.
Oh yeah...I think it was Adam, this one, made a joke about that, calling it "Mary Poppins" something like that.
Speaking of which: "Just a spoonful of bullshit helps suspension disbelief! In the most disgusting way!" 🎶 🎵
I actually yelled "Oh fuck off with that bullshit" in the theater when she rammed the ship. More than a few people agreed.
It wasn't when the movie suggested that Luke Skywalker, the character that saved Darth Vader would try to outright murder his young nephew in his sleep??
Star Trek has the Picard Maneuver, going to warp for a very very short time to make it look like the ship was in two places at once.
@@Nomad0036 They didn't destroy other ships with warp
After Ryan Johnson, I gave up. Like, movie theaters.
The Mandalorian gave me a brief glimmer of hope. Ahsoka made me actually cry, I was mourning the death of Star Wars while watching it.
After being a die-hard fan for 30 years, and reading dozens of EU books and comics, I checked out after The Force Awakens. I couldn't believe the positive reaction that movie got, it was utter garbage. Luke gave up and ran away, Han abandoned the New Republic and his family and went back to being a smuggler for some reason, and Leia was still leading a rebellion 30 years after defeating the Empire.
People blame TLJ, but that was just the nail in the coffin, it died with TFA.
100% agree
I never thought I'd come to despise Star Wars as a kid. Now, I will only rewatch the Original Trilogy, Rogue One and Andor. I accept a lot more of the video games, than i do the movies and shows.
Me holding my heir to the empire books.
@@mOnStErSonfilm absolutely! All those early books are amazing.
Rogue One and Andor were painfully boring to me.
I'm 42. I had big hope for great stories in this universe after seeing The Force Awakens. Then The Last Jedi came out and I knew, the direction was off. It never recovered from there.
Ditto. Although I was apologetic for TFA, cuz it’s really not a great film. I just wanted it to be good. It’s certainly the best of the 3, but that ain’t saying much.
It's dead to me, Disney killed it.
that is the bottom line
I felt like the prequels did tbh, back in the early 2000s
@@BenRai2k The prequels are a masterpiece compared to what we’re getting now.
@@SenorbleachThe prequels were narratively a mess but the spirit, and atmosphere were still there and even the bad fell cleanly into a "funny" box that could still be enjoyed.
Nothing is enjoyable anymore, it's not even so bad it's good it's just boring and bad.
@@VioletDeathRei movies are no longer being made for us the fans, it’s for the critics so it’ll be a 90+ rt score instead of focusing on us. They only care about critics it sucks.
How do you buy the largest money making male franchise in the world with literally hundreds of books, comics, video games etc with tons of fleshed out characters and just crap on it.
The fall off needs to be studied
For real dude, George Lucas sold them literally the license to print money with the SW franchise and they run it into the ground so hard, it´s not even funny!
I'm honestly apathetic about the franchise now. I would love to love star wars again.
Star Wars has been disappointing me since 1999. With the exception of the Mandalorian. Yes, you read this right. The prequels are bad and I’m sick of people acting like they are good.
The prequels weren't great, they were mediocre at best, but I still liked Star Wars after seeing them. But after TFA I checked out completely.
@@vanillajack5925The farce awakened.
The prequels are enjoyable Star Wars content, but BAD films. Lore wise midichlorians was controversial, but that’s it. The world building increased significantly.
Star Wars is not what it is today without the prequels.
The were horrible. Terrible stories, boring characters, too much cgi
Rogue 1 is good. But generally agree. The prequels are terrible. I hated them as a teen even though I wanted to lo love them. The only good thing that came from those prequels is the Phantom Menace game on PC. That game was hella fun
Disney hollowed out Star Wars soul, slapped a price tag on everything that was unique and magical and then sold it to the highest bidder.
It’s done. Needs to be sold off and rested for at least a decade. All the Disney wars needs to be sent to legends status. Start 100 years after Return of the Jedi and actually have a plan for a trilogy.
Rogue One was saved by the end battle and Vader.
SW died with The Force Awakens, it’s just a corpse that Disney keeps kicking around now.
You're right! The characters of Luke, Han, and Leia were completely destroyed by TFA. TLJ was just the mail in the coffin.
Think of this though, if disney is kicking its corpse, then all the rage channels that keep making money off ranting about it, must be vultures.
@@BenRai2kSo?
Star Wars has turned into complete 🐩💩. Taking the originals with it.
Star wars belongs on the big screen. Poorly made Disney + shows are starting to water it down too much.
is it dead?
Brother it's a museum exhibit.
Star Wars is what fuels my vehicle.
only fossils left
I love this analogy. Accurate for me too
It became toxic. Full of drama and pushing the message. I just don't care about it anymore. This new Disney Starwars just isn't for me. Just my opinion.
TLJ killed SW
It certainly did for me.
Preach bro.
I couldn't possibly agree more.
It was such a dumb film. First draft and it shows. And it was approved by KK! Maybe a grandma shouldn’t be in charge….
TFA was just as trash, scene for scene remake of a new hope, only with bad characters.
The last Jedi. The first 10 min. That’ when it was all over.
Yup. I remember the feeling that it was done then and was pissed the entire time. Trash film
Genuinely think it was on life support when Lucas sold it. Kathleen Kennedy never wanted to treat it with respect, it was just a vehicle for her message.
It was fully over after Last Jedi though, shat all over the legacy characters to push identity politics. That's kind of Disney's MO in general these days.
Couldn't give a shit about anything Star Wars now, just pure slop, it's just "content" now with no artistry or care for the craft of filmmaking.
A lot of people complain about Kathleen Kennedy. What's the messaging that people don't like and how does it differ from the OT? (I'm genuinely asking because "messaging" is a vague term can mean different things for different people).
@@Jimbo-123”messaging” is just what the J-6er basement dwelling losers throw around after watching Fox News. SW is awful now but that’s due to actual bad story & incompetence about caring about a decent story.
It was actually your video on Star Wars the Last Jedi when you talked about making a grown man cry LOL that I wanted to become a subscriber. Star Wars and its characters (who acted nothing like themselves) was destroyed with that disaster of a movie.
Same
Pretty sure that's how I discovered this channel as well been a fan ever since
To me, Star Wars is reduced to KOTOR 2, pretty much. If anybody "remakes" that, I am done.
Hi, Adam. It's been a long time since I didn't watch one of your rants (sorry for that, my favorite rant ever on YT is yours, on The Last Jedi). About this topic: As a 45 year old guy who constructed TIE fighters out of paper in the 80's, and still watches the 2 good trilogies with his kids, I think the franchise is surely dead. It's like when a metal band goes mainstream and "softens" their sound, eventually *almost always* the crowd at their shows goes shrinking until they release a new album "that goes down to their roots", but it's already too late. It's never gonna be their same sound or attitude, maybe the guitarist quit, etc. About Star Wars: They were family movies BUT mostly male-nerd-oriented. No sister, mom or "sports player" that I knew were really "geek" about it, or even knew the name of secondary characters. Disney tired to go totally mainstream with the new times, expand the audience and all, but they were evidently badly advised and failed; the core is already dead. Maybe they release later some new films "going back to the roots of SW", but I know it's already too late because they lost their target audience.
Star Wars went from "Super Awesome" to "Meh" for me when I saw Phantom Menace. Jar Jar and Annie dropped me out of the loop. I eventually watched the next two of the trilogy about 10 years after the second came out at a friends house. After that, I caught a few minutes here and there of the rest of the minutes, but never finished any of the rest.
Star Wars is ok (episode 1-6) - Disney Starwars is DEAD IP WALKING
I wanted to add: The 2nd episode of Acolyte ... where she walks up to that guy and says to attack her is ... its bad. Its so bad. The amount of clumsy cringe/embarrassment I felt in that sequence absolulety overshadows all other terrible Disney shit so far. It was like watching Disney fumble away the licesne in real-time, almost a 4th wall break. God that whole sequence was the dumbest shit ever.
I’m more interested in the YT commentator space on Star Wars vs watching it until SW can get better. Hoping for a change.
No. I've asked younger family members what they think of the sequel trilogy and they hate them. I don't think the sequel trilogy will ever increase fans, it will always be viewed as one of the biggest failures from a creative point and not to have the 3 main legacy characters share screen time was beyond dumb. I'm just done with Disney in general and sick of the agendas.
My issue with the new stuff is they don't have a unified vision. Kennedy may be in charge but it's clear she hands off all creative decisions to whatever director helms the next project. The shifts is plot, tone and which characters were important changed from movie to movie. Modern day star wars feels very much like a committee project.
I'm genuinely super excited for every new D+ Star Wars show. Some of the shows haven't quite landed at the level of my hype and excitement, but overall I'm generally happy. (I'm 56 y/o, a true OT guy, father of 2 adult girls.)
I'll always love Star Wars, but the Disney stuff is basically fan fiction to me at this point. I don't hate everything. I did like Rogue One, and enjoyed Season 1 of Mando. To be be honest I thought Solo was OK, but completely unnecessary. I am at a point right now that I know the new stuff, for the most part, is not for me, a 45 year old dude. I do think it is a mistake that Disney seems to be leaving us old dudes in the dust, but hey, Disney going to Disney. So no, I am no longer excited for any Star Wars projects.
The Last Jedi took my enjoyment of the theater experience altogether. I was a weekly/monthly moviegoer. After TLJ, I only watched Alita and Maverick on the big screen.
Don't give your money to evil people folks. Don't give your money to people that hate you for your skin tone and gender.
Yes. Disney hasn't been making anything good. The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker are trash. The story ended at RoTJ.
My 11 year old son loves SW. He watches almost everything related to it. But he only loves the original trilogy.
You have sadly hit the nail on the head about these companies repeatedly playing it safe and never taking the risks that will no doubt restore faith in people. Only it's been going on for years now, and they still haven't learned their lesson.
Instead of watching *_The Acolyte_* Adam, I instead watched *_Jimmy Neutron_* (the 2001 movie and the first season of the TV series) this past weekend.
I had a much better time watching that than I ever would with this piece of crap from Disney.
Jimmy Neutron is a classic!
@@Aaron.Rants.Reviews Hell yeah!
Im really looking forward to andor season 2 and any movie that just takes place in a completely different era with its own, self-contained story. I get why you might have stopped after andor s01 episode 3, stick with it if you can Adam. The season is structured in a very unique way, every three episodes form their own arc and build up to an incredible finale. The first arc is the slowest and has a nice, but not incredible pay-off. However, the other three arcs deliver some of the best Star Wars spectacle and tension… ever.
The stuff with Andy Serkis is honestly legendary, the show also goes pretty damn dark, you really feel the oppression and fear of the Empire. Very underrated and a must-watch!
The Expanded Universe is canon; The Disney Universe is not canon!
Disney making the Star Wars Christmas Special better and better every year.
Im 25 and have always loved the prequels. Despite that, Star wars has been a joke for years at this point.
I was very young when the prequels released. My dad sat me down and made me watch the first three movies, he’s a HUGEEEE Star Wars fan, and then I was allowed to watch the others and saw Revenge in theaters… and I absolutely ADORED them. I had my 8th bday cake be the “I have the high ground” scene. It wasn’t until I got older and onto Star Wars UA-cam that I realized people actually hated them :( it broke my little-kid heart fr. I will always defend them because they raised me, but Empire Strikes Back will always and forever be my favorite Star Wars because Hoth was always my favorite planet. And it also wasn’t until social media became a thing that I realized it was collectively everyone’s favorite! You win some and you lose some. (For reference im 27)
Rouge One is one of my favorite movies ever because of the seamless flow into New Hope.
I like the first two Mando seasons…. But I fell asleep watching the second episode of acolyte (its a constant loss now)
**Wants a gritty Star Wars that takes a risk
**Refuses to watch Andor all the way through
Its the only live action SW TV show thats worthwhile
His logic in incoherent to say the least.
Star Wars was one of the most influential things in my life. Now that Disney has control of SW, it’s dead.
As a fan of the 3 films and the EU in the 90s they started going wrong with the Special Editions and the prequels.
The prequels added so many horrible elements like the Jedi not being allowed to have children.
The sequels have been a huge fumble and The Last Jedi is where my personal love for the franchise died a sudden death.
*Everyone seems to miss the fact that Luke and Anakin Skywalker are Palpatines... Yes the story has gotten that dumb.
Anakin's dad is Palpatine force sperm.
Luke is Anakin's son. So Palpatine is Luke's grandfather.
Rey is Palpatine's grand daughter.
Rey and Luke are cousins?
It's all the same. What a fucking dumb story they wrote.
I got warm leftovers with the original trilogy, Mandalorian 1&2, rogue one, and I still love taking my kids (and myself) to galaxy’s edge. Alas…
The waiting on the steps with a fishing pole analogy is where I'm at too! I'll stay on he steps a bit longer...
I am an "OG" STAR WARS fan from literally day one in 1977. And I still love it and look forward to all of the new projects as much as, if not more than ever. I like some of the new things more than others, but I have found things to like about pretty much everything that has been released over the last decade. ANDOR, THE MANDALORIAN, and THE ACOLYTE are the best things they have made for TV, while ROGUE ONE and THE LAST JEDI are the best they have made for the cinema. I approach all new STAR WARS with excitement and wonder, still like I did in the late 70s and early 80s.
Just read the Extended universe. Disney didn't pay me any money to consider their crap cannon.
You had more hope then me. I quit at force awakens
I couldnt even describe the feeling but everything felt... off like walking into a forest of paintings of trees
I understand the prequels aren't beloved but it was visually stunning. The sets, ships, creatures, droids, costumes were breathtaking
Disney SW looks somewhere between an edgy city drama or its stock costumes and sets.
Movies are more than just story, dialogue, and character. Its sets, costumes and spectacle.
They want to up female fans but they make the shows visually boring.
I stopped paying for any of it after they tricked me into paying to see a New Hope remake in 2015. As that film went on and I realized they were not going to do anything new but had in fact gone backwards and undone everything accomplished in the original trilogy I became incredulous and saw they had no idea what to do with the franchise.
I haven't really engaged with Star Wars since the Last Jedi. It used to be one of the main things in my life. It's incredible to me what Disney and Kennedy have managed to do. Never in my wildest dreams would i have imagined that the announcement of a new Star Wars product would, at best, be met with utter indifference by myself. Lucasfilm really should give themselves a pat on the back. They have achieved something that i would have once thought impossible. Disney's acquisition of Star Wars will be remembered as one of the greatest creative tragedies of our generation.
My parents didn't grow up with Star Wars when they were kids, my Mom was a Madonna and Michael Jackson fan, my father was a Rock music fan. So they never gave us the Star Wars passion to me and my sisters. I watched the Star Wars on satellite TV back in the late 90s early 2000s as a pre-teen, and the Clone wars etc. came out and I went and saw em. But I never had a fascination for Star Wars like people who grew up with it or have that heritage from their dad or mom.
I understand what it represents for some, but I don't have the attachment to it because Hollywood tends to ruin the goose that lays golden eggs. It's almost a business model of theirs.
For quite a while Disney Star Wars was killing my enjoyment of the OT. I can take or leave the PT trilogy but it never really bothered me. I can't say the same for the majority of what Disney has put out. I now pick and choose what I watch and consider canon, still finding the odd diamond in the rough. I'm grateful for Mando S1 & S2 as well as Rogue One and Andor. Everything else is not worth the effort.
How incompetent does leadership at Disney have to be to not have a story arc for the sequel trilogy. They then hired a director who made a deconstruction of Star Wars with The Last Jedi, and tried and failed to fix those decisions by bringing the already dead Emperor Palpatine back.
Anyone watching Star Wars after what they did to Carano deserves another 9 Biden terms.
For me, it was TLJ. That movie had the chance to reunite the gang again, show what Luke could really do, or generally just not go so far out of its way to subvert expectations. It was great to look at but upon leaving the theater you were struggling to think of a part of the movie that made you want to watch it again.
Andor proves the IP ain't dead, but it is for sure inconsistent.
I genuinely don’t know how anyone can consider themselves a Star Wars fan. People just know it’s popular, so they just pretend to like it. There’s 3 good movies, 6 bad movies, and a hundred bad shows.
And here’s the thing.. I don’t care that there’s bad shows. I have zero interest in watching any of them for even a second
exactly. Prequels all the way 🙌
@@greatjob2023 Not what I meant, but I care so little that I’m not even going to argue with you. I couldn’t give two shits about Star Wars. Even the three good movies are just good
There are at least 8 bad movies, more if you count those "Ewok" tv movies from the mid 80s and the holiday special... :)
Revenge of the Sith should've been the final Star Wars movie just in general. I'm not really a prequel lover but a least it told a story and had a plan.
After the Kenobi series I was done. They had a golden chance with bringing back Hayden and Ewan.....and completely disrespected what came before.
I walked away at the second film. It was so bad, and it was obvious the direction it was headed... 🗑️ Star Wars is dead, it's for old men and their memba berries.
I used to love Star Wars, and then The Last Jedi happened, and it became apparent that instead of telling a well-planned, coherent story across three movies, Disney was about winging it with three different visions for that trilogy, and overly trying to push Rey as amazing while shoving the original cast aside. (Unforgivable that they couldn’t find a way to have a scene or scenes of Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewy all together again while Carrie Fisher was still alive.)
And while I enjoyed the first two seasons of The Mandalorian, like you said, Disney blew it and turned out crap with Boba Fett and Obi-Wan.
Beyond that, it is obvious that they like having the vehicle that is the pre-built Star Wars property that they can just take and hollow out to then insert their pandering to certain groups of people and check boxes instead of crafting and telling good stories.
So yeah, I just don’t care anymore.
I’ll probably show my son when he gets older the original trilogy, but beyond that, it’ll be up to him if he wants to watch the crap that followed (the prequels, in hindsight, had moments, but it was bloated with CGI and horrible dialogue overall).
I"m done with star wars. its been said before until it is sold or Kennedy is fired I'm not gonna watch another star wars movie or television show
Yeah, none of the new stuff can compare to the original trilogy that we grew up with. I enjoyed the first two seasons of "The Mandalorian," I enjoyed "Andor," and then "Obi-Wan" made me lose hope in any Disney+ series. There are no more dazzling alien planets, no more badass spaceships, no more characters to admire, no one to root for anymore.
Love your videos Adam! Been here since I was a kid back in the Feud Nation days and love to see the growth your channel is getting! Keep it up!
Awesome, thanks!
It is a completely dead franchise, everything you see from here is just corporate puff.
At risk of bring boring, lol...
50y/o here. Star Wars is among my earliest memories as a kid and the 1st movie I saw on the big screen. It was on par with Summer break, Christmas, or a beloved grandparent who always sent money in their cards to you. It was just a good feeling in the background of culture.
The prequels were an event. I was a young man with lots of friends, a band, and new to adulting. They were a different feeling than Star Wars of my youth, but still something Special.
The Sequel trilogy came as a dad, and I enjoyed bringing my kids at Christmas time. It brought back all those childhood feelings and I got to share it with my kids. I even loved TLJ. It was a bit uneven, but I was genuinely surprised at the backlash. I defended it for years. But, TRoS was the 1st time I thought, "Oh no! Is this the 1st time I didn't like a a live-action Star Wars movie?" But, reading the novelization helped me accept it, somewhat.
Mando S1&2 was great! Then the slew of mediocre shows came. Even Andor, as good as it was, was a bit slow and not the same Star Wars feeling.
Ahsoka was the last time I looked forward to a Star Wars show. I was hopeful, then I was underwhelmed, then I was simply disappointed by the end.
The Acolyte is the 1st live-action show I had no interest in watching, and haven't, with no plans to.
Star Wars IS, finally, dead to me!😔
Modern stuff definitely is. I collect toys and the vintage stuff is still quite popular, maybe even worth a little more than it was. Not that there was ever that much new product made for the current stuff, but most people aren’t buying it. The people that love the vintage stuff actively STILL crave it.
Disneys biggest mistakes were destroying the original story in the effort to try and make it their own, shift for focussing on the story and more on the message gearing to a "modern audience" which is purley a corporate talking point rather than based on any actual evidence as this audience did not exist, and tossing out their original goal in why they bought Lucas film in the first place to bring in a more male fan base into the Disney franchise
It's been dead to me since The Force Awakens. I used to be the biggest fan. I still remember seeing Phantom Menace like 10 times when released. Me and my friends (all teens at the time) waiting on a huge line to watch it the first day it came out only to be left disappointed.
And last thing I’m gonna comment I really love your theory or idea on how they should’ve carried on the Star Wars movies by Ray, owning up to her true last name, and becoming a palatine, and then bringing balance to the force once again, in the way that Anakin did but not in a negative way? If that makes sense.
I stopped making force swipes on automatic doors ever since my fetal position in aisle 6. Right after seeing
"Last Jedi"
It died along time ago, in a galaxy far away. Gota admit I do like hating on it now. I hated the prequels when they came out but now I watch them on VHS and they've grown on me now, best light sabre fight ever.
No, Star Wars isn't dead to me. Once one realizes that the Disney content is irrelevant. Star Wars is and will always be great. The only new Star Wars content I'd accept is remasters of the old movies with no new edits. I'd also consider watching something new if Lucas worked on it.
I still remember everyone in the theater saying how good The Force Awakens was and me thinking it was a shameless copy of Luke's story in A New Hope. that was a wake-up call for me, but when Disney couldn't make a good movie of the coolest character in the entire franchise, that was the moment that made clear the path they were going to follow: The saddest failure in movie history!
You have just described my journey with Star Wars perfectly.
Weird.
Star Wars isn't being made by fans for fans. My family loathe everything they've released & all generations loved the original. (Collectors items, etc etc).
If another studio buys the brand before we're too old to watch, it might live on. If it's left with Disney, it's done.
I'm biracial, mixed family, I've gay friends & we're all in agreement. Even if this iteration was an original IP it wouldn't appeal. It's CW content without likeable characters, dreadful writing & the productions look cheap & carelessly put together. The make up & special effects are also hit & miss. The Acolyte is possibly the most distracting.
You shouldn't play spot the errors in tv shows, a company like Disney shouldn't be employing ppl that make them. It's not acceptable with those budgets & then asking us for a subscription fee to watch it.
I'll always have a certain amount of fandom of Star Wars, but it's all the older stuff. The new movies are generally bad and I have zero interest in any of the TV shows. I think they need to stop all content for a few years.
Clearly you haven't watched the Bad Batch. That is hands down the best Disney Star Wars anything out there.
Long story short yes. Filoni started abusing it. Then KK then Rian, then came Leslye.
What was left died with the altering of the canon today.
I don't know if it does make money anymore. It will never be "an event" again.
Oh and hot take: I love Rogue One AND Solo. WHY!?!? Well, they are both actual war movies, with Solo also involving the seedy underbelly of this war torn galaxy. I have watched it multiple times and still love the train sequence, actually seeing cityscapes OTHER than Coruscant. To this day, i dont see the hate but maybe that is becuase solo is almost a warhammer movie. Perils of the warp? Check. Wartorn hellscapes? Check. Objective based action set pieces? Check. Fucking love Solo.
I was done by the Last Jedi. Yes I wasnt pleased with what they did to Luke but it was more about the quality of storytelling I was seeing. I knew the last movie was going to poorly tie it up with Abrams at the helm but Johnson was also not a good choice. A more experienced writer would have used the elements that the first movie had set up not abandon them or pay them off with nothing answers. The answers were not just unsatisfying but rather a refusal to even bother trying to give a satisfying answer to the audience and Johnson arrogantly mocked the fans on social media who had gotten invested in the series. Now that's just the start of the problematic mindset behind the franchise. The creators have actually been toxic to the fans as most fans have been to the creators, and most of the hate that the creators get are due to their own incompetence and lack of skill.
Yes. I checked out after TFA (hated that movie from the start). Then watched Mandalorian because it seemed like something fresh, and even liked the first 2 seasons. Then came season 3, and - worse - The Book of Boba Fett. That again ended it for me; I cancelled my D+ subscription after that. Star Wars is dead in every shape or form for me.
I'm shocked everyone lost interest because of Last Jedi. I at least wanted to see where the trilogy went from there (sunk cost fallacy, I know), like watching a spectacular car wreck. However, for me, my interest died at "Somehow, Palpatine returned" and was completely buried when Dune turned out amazing.
Ahsoka was the final nail in the coffin. RIP Star Wars. I have to tell myself that I don’t care because I’m tired of being disappointed.
Final nail was TLJ.
There is only one way to save Star Wars now: make Legends canon again and relegate all this Disney content produced since Revenge of the Sith to a New Legends category.
Making a film trilogy based on the original Thrawn Trilogy would bring me back quick.
I want to be invested in the franchise, but it just doesn’t feel like the people working on it actually care about the world they’re messing around with.
For now, I’ll just make my way through some of the EU books.
I think a breaking point for Star Wars fans was when Poe quoted the line “somehow palpatine has returned”
I can't even bring myself to watch that movie. The Last Jedi was the end for me
I tried to hang in there. After season 3 episode 3 of the Mandelorian I unsubscribed from Disney+
I was seven when Star Wars was released and they are and always will be my favourite movies.
Seeing A new hope and then having to wait two years for Empire and another two before Return of the Jedi was just so special and nothing will ever come close.
I'm fine with the prequels ,but the only new one worth watching is Rogue One, love that,especially Vader at the end.
Earthworm Jim rules.
Greetings from Australia.
It's not dead to me. I still enjoy most of the Star Wars content that comes out and the Empire Strikes Back will always be my favorite movie. I just don't have the hype that I used to have when Revenge of the Sith, the Force Awakens, and the Last Jedi. And I don't think it's because the content has been bad, but the constant stream of Star Wars content has given me a lot to watch as opposed to wating a decade plus between trilogies.
Like I said, I still enjoy most of the content. But when you're getting never ending Star Wars content with the movies, TV shows, video games, comics, etc. it no longer feels like an epic event.
Princess Leigh floating through space and that annoying ass Rose character; yes TLJ was curtains for me, haven’t watched anything else in the Star Wars universe.
I wouldn’t hand this to Disney as an idea, because it seems like they only know how screw it up, but if you want R rating, gritty, with no Skywalkers and much less Jedi, you could go for Darth Bane trilogy, or Red Harvest. Again, not a suggestion, they will only screw it up
It’s still alive to me. I just select which parts I let live. For me the SW timeline currently ends for me at the end of The Mandalorian S3. I hated the sequels so I don’t watch them. People need to relax a little. It’s just a fictional universe, pick the parts you like and enjoy them.