You have to realize that nearly all sales go through the under 18 market in 2017. This was different back when star wars was created 40 years ago. In those days the adult crowd was the market and so movies were made for adults. Movies today try to ride the bridge between tweens and teens in order to get both groups. These are the groups that will go to the movie, buy the video games, and get the merch. As a consequence the content has to be "dumbed" down, and the deeper elements removed, especially ones that may be disturbing to younger audiences. If the movie has violence it can sell, but if it talks about issues that require thought parents will think twice, and if kids can't go, parents can't go and the whole family sits it out. So the new formula is over the top CGI graphics, very simple linear story lines, and cheesy one liners that the audience(teens) can memorize, and then get placed into toys and onto merchandise. Movies today sometimes don't even have a completed script and often will just shoot action scenes without a direct placement, and then the director fits the action in where it seems to fit. As long as people go , it will continue this way.
OT: Star Wars Eposode 8
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You mean can't use the Force to survive being blown out of a cruiser and "space fly" back inside?? Huh........
.Haha you must be wearing a Ring of Contrariness! In what realm are you basing your argument? Profit? Cultural relevance? Musical Score? Inventiveness? You get slaughtered on all fronts. You seem like a guy that when he smells roses turns around and looks for a coffin. (H.L. Mencken) I hope this next year you can feel the warmth of the sun, if not a nubile woman. Good luck and may the Flying Spaghetti Monster touch you with his Noodly Appendage! : )
Anakin kills children in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith brah!
He was a kid when Star Wars came out...
They sold a buttload of figurines off the original trilogy.
Love it or hate it, can we all at least agree that there are too damn many Nissan commercials with the Star Wars tie in? Horrible commercials shown way too often.
As opposed to say.... levitation, telekinesis, mind control, telepathy, shooting lightning from your fingers, stopping laser beams in mid air, firing a weapon more accurately, image projection, prophecy, and essentially returning from the dead. All of those you can do, but not creating some sort of force field around your body for 15 seconds.
She was unconscious. How is she going to use the force when she is passed out in space. She was a goner and she is dead in real life so I don't see the point in adding the cheesiest scene in history of her Mary poppins back to the shuttle.
I'm a fan old but not new whatsoever.. The (trend) it seems to be noticed as a Star Wars fan is pathetic. If you actually like it I have zero problem with that... But there are waaay too many sheep out there posing and I don't get it.
Like I said in a previous post, I get what they were aiming for. The execution was poor. Couldve been done better and made more sense. Carrie Poppins came across poorly
Not the same movie/show, but there are eerie parallels and it certainly applies here:
Is it more or less healthy than obsessing over the college choices of 17 and 18 year old boys and cyberstalking some of them online? Living vicariously through themfor the next 4 years?
Or, falling asleep and waking up thinking about Scott Frost every day for the last 3 months? bwahahaha.
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