>has only 2 good movies from 45 years ago
>still is the largest franchise with the most fans
Explain that
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>has only 2 good movies from 45 years ago. >still is the largest franchise with the most fans
Frick you RotJ is fricking good and Rogue One is great.
Those are the 2 good movies, yes.
>RotJ is fricking good
Isnt that the one where a bunch of teddy bears kicked stormtroopers' ass? Yeah, its great...if you are 6 yo
>Rogue One is great.
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I believe it is Little Caprice but don't quote me on that
andor tier anti-star-wars
no wonder prequelumpen loves it
I am 80% negative on the prequels and love Rogue One. Frick off.
I'm trans btw, not sure if that matters?
Do you visit any other message boards, if so which, and what Beatles album is your favourite (even if you're not a fan)?
>what Beatles album is your favourite (even if you're not a fan)
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This is the only real answer. Lucas always had interesting ideas and a knack for naming characters, but he needed large amounts of incredibly talented collaborators in order for it to turn out well. After empire he wrested back control, which is why that movie is the weakest out of the OT. It was still directed by an actual director though so it wasn't too bad. The prequels are what happen when you just let George do everything without anyone to challenge him. The sequels are what happen when you have the "professionals" doing everything without any of George's ideas. The extended universe and the shows and the video games are all good or bad or inbetween because of the writing.
>Rogue One is great.
Can someone explain why a decent amount of people enjoy this one? All the characters are extremely shallow, especially felicity jones
Jyn was actually an impressively thick and well-rounded character imo, in comparison to other Disneywars leads at the very least
It's a mostly competently-made 12a action war film with a star wars motif.
It's inoffensive, has some nice visuals and ends with Darth Vader meme moment. Really patricians know that Solo is actually much better
It's not a character piece. It's a heist movie. All that's required is that the characters have chemistry with each other, really. And they do.
Ummm it's got a total boss babe, two minorities (Asian), a non binary robot and kick ass action scenes! Only a stupid child would ask what the appeal is when it's so flipping obvious.
>non binary robot
it uses hexadecimal for core programming?
The fans are moronic manchildren with a budget.
True. Still cant firure out why
It's the Harry Potter/Naruto effect.
A fantastic world and setting thought up by a mid creator.
It's kind of like there's this country full of full bushed, big titted 10/10s but the only way you can ever experience this country is through home videos made by your fat middle-aged uncle.
>Harry Potter
>Fantastic world
It's a fantastic idea for a setting. The actual world building is bottom tier trash.
Yeah that's what I'm talking about obviously
>The actual world building is bottom tier trash.
Can you elaborate?
I agree with him, though probably for different reasons.
>a fantasy Wizarding world in the 80s-90s technology phase
>oh but here you're trapped in a school setting and the actual magic part is highly regulated by bureaucracy
What makes it worse is how the most popular elements of HP aren't even the fantastical ones but 'which school uniform do I get to wear at a boarding school? :0"
Totally wasted.
Reminds me of when a buddy and I were spitballing and came up with sidequel premise.
Police procedural but its a wizard Auror teamed with a muggle investigator as part of a Government-Wizarding World joint task force during Voldy’s first rise to power. The Troubles but with magic. Harry could be the Auror I guess…
also Harry is bitter that he didn't hit that Hermine gyatt and takes polyjuice to become Ron and have sex with her by deception.
make it real "dark and mature" for modern audiences.
one good example: what the frick is the point of a wand? it ‘channels’ magic to make users more powerful but the most powerful wizard of the original series, Dumbledore, does crazy shit without one. In some Pottermore blogs (canon afaik), Rowling explained some Black person school in the heart of darkness teaches all their students to do magic without wands. It’s just arbitrary bullshit. The more Rowling added to the world, the less it all made sense, and I say this as a huge fan.
>some Black person school in the heart of darkness teaches all their students to do magic without wands
That's exactly what I thought after reading 2 first sentences of your post, lol. Apparently, Black folk are just better. We wuz wizards.
In the books wandless and wordless magic are more advanced things you need to learn later
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Only ESB is good movie. New Hope and Rogue One are ok. Everything else is pure garbage
You forgot the holiday special anon
What makes Rogue One better than Revenge of the Sith? I'm curious.
Far better acting, CGI and battles.
Palpatine in 3 is good while still physically normal but once he gets burned he goes way too campy/silly and isn't half as menacing as he was in ROTJ/TROS.
R1 is just ok but ROTS is a garbage so pretty much everything is better than it.
Only New Hope and Phantom Menace are good
>but muh umpa lumpas in Santa Claus Planet
Don't care troony
ESB is the worst OT
Prequels utterly mog the OT in every aspect btw
Cope and seethe about it, boomer homosexual
I feel like Star Wars actually only became popular because of the Clone Wars, got a bunch of younger people on board with it. The original moves aren't great but the 3rd prequel movie is very good. Andor, Rogue One and the first two seasons of the Mandolorian were peak star wars
What the frick are you talking about. This is the most moronic take I have ever heard.
The popularity of the Star wars movies from the originals to the sequels were akin to the Alien movies
>The popularity of the Star wars movies from the originals to the sequels were akin to the Alien movies
Im not sure if that was true, but nowadays Alien series are nowhere near as popular as Star Wars. All franchises are nowhere near as popular as Star Wars
Zoom zoom zoom
ong bro you low key spitting even though everything you be saying is completely historically inaccurate
>Andor, Rogue One and the first two seasons of the Mandolorian were peak star wars
TCW was a baby show for toddlers not so different from sesame street show not wonder why modern Star Wars fans eat any Disney slop
Sesame Street has slavery, beheadings, team killings, biological warfare, and long stories about war profiteering and bank deregulation?
>adult themes are referenced and implied to happen off screen therefore it's a serious and adult show
Are you literally 12?
>the Clone Wars, got a bunch of younger people on board with it
What you meant to say was: "video games".
>>the 3rd prequel movie is very good
>oh no
>it’s moronic
People love the worldbuilding. Space N shiet, dude
All the mainline movies plus Rogue One and Solo are at least decent. Yeah, I said it.
Good lore, world-building, ships, and characters to keep people interested. Plus the EU has a lot of great stuff from books to video games. The fact that George didn't milk the franchise and kept it at the 3 movies for so long helps with it not being over-saturated.
>characters
Like what?
There are like 10 same characters in 4578435678 movies and shows
>Darth Vader
>Han Solo
>Palpatine
>Obi-wan
>Yoda
>Storm troopers
>Boba Fett
>Jabba
Luke is also pretty well presented although he seems to be divided amonst fans.
Yes, just like i said, same 10 characters in tons and tons of movies, shows, series, games, books, comics etc.
Most Star Wars fans eat any shit with a Star Wars logo most of them beta males with a blacked Wife
>still is the largest franchise with the most fans
Not anymore. It's irrelevant.
3 > 4 > 5 > 6 > 1 > 2
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is the largest franchise with the most fans
hahahahaha
>Leia golden bikini
>Iconic Sarlacc scene
>Ewok part is fun and extremely overhated
>Luke, Vader and Emperor scenes at the end of RotJ are the most kino part of the entire franchise.
Seriously, frick you if you don't like this movie.
>still is the largest franchise with the most fans
Citation needed
What's the largest then?
Problem Child 2 fanbase
>no good movies
>not even good series
>not even any good comics
>original book that it was based on was horribly written
>still has billions of fans thousands of years later
>the bibble
Woah cool it before you trigger my euphoria!
I tell people I hate star wars now. Saves me time from explaining which things I like and dislike, while also avoiding be labeled by some of these lunatics.
The original movies had universal themes and therefore universal appeal. Pretty much everyone connected with them. So even though like 80% of the original audience has moved on, the remaining 20% is still more than enough to keep printing money with the IP
solo lost money , reylos are weird , peace out!
>one side judges the franchise based on media quality, writing, presentation etc
>other side judges it based on how it fits in with the overall story, in a lot of cases consuming the product regardless of quality, often treating new content on the level of historical texts
Anyone know the professional sounding words to describes these frames of thought? No meme ones like coonsumer, I think the later fits with intertextualy but misses the reverence part. I'm trying to wrap my head around why SW is like this specifically.
“Content Monasticism”, I’d say.
Lucas was smart enough to keep the IP relevant by licensing new stories and converting a film trilogy into a sandbox that almost any story could be told in. Going into a bookstore in the 90s, you’d have a whole section of Star Wars books with new characters and adventures. Same with games and comics. ThatMs what keeps the fandom alive and also introduces new fans.
That marketing was so successful that most other sci fi properties started to copy it to a lesser and effectiveness.
That gets us from ‘82 to ‘99 when the prequels release. Again a huge marketing push with ancillary material fleshing out the timeline, getting a whole new generation into Clone Troopers and Jedi at the height of the Republic.
Its a content schedule way more similar to a videogame series that has regular expansions and content updates.
George had his faults but he knew how to run a business. All this seems simple because we take it for granted now, but this was a cutting edge gamble for him when he licensed the first book (ANH novelization) to be written.
One of the biggest fanbases in the world is a top-down shooter game for paedophiles (you play as magical little girls instead of spaceships). Literally the same game remixed 15+ times.
If you're not familiar with Touhou I can't stress just how huge it is.
>ON PROGRAM
I also cant phantom this one. Almost every shit with SW logo on it is guaranteed to make 1 billies. And all the movies and shows are mediocre at best.
>largest franchise
lol
>most fans
LMAO even
Andor and Revenge of The Sith are kino. And don't forget the games, KOTOR 2 is better than almost all of the movies
Kotor 2 is unfinished and anticlimactic.
Darth Nihilus is a Snoke tier villain.
Embarrassing 13y.o. manchild post.
isnt the largest franchise pokemon?
if we judge based on what has its own board on Cinemaphile, yeah it’s Pokémon (and MLP LULZ)
lightsabers are cool.
Yeah, if you are 9
Because it has space wizards with a fricking laser sword and spaceships and they roll around with a space crack dealer and his pet alien bear with a laser crossbow and they blow up an evil government death ray this is the coolest shit that has ever existed. Star wars will be in the history books thousands of years from now and will be noted as the peak of American entertainment. You probably don't like it because you're a Black person and there's none of your kind in this movie.
None of what you said is cool
I don't think anyone actually likes star wars anymore. The ot (and st) are basically just memories that are forever tarnished by whatever troony shit disney is pumping out.
There's very little desire to ever revisit those films when you know they lead to the current crop of trash. Disney has essentially retroactively ruined Lucas' films.
It's pretty sad but that's life.
Lazy ass bait not even worth clicking your post number. Do better, moron.
>still is the largest franchise with the most fans
Is it?
depends how we define franchise , aslo impsoiibel to count number of fans ! *
*IMO
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5/10s x 2
but to address your question OP star wars is popular because of the oppressive marketing presence it had in toys and comics, then video games and books through the 1990s that built up STAR WARS lore to the level of Tolkein
passionate, sweaty sex with padme
The real answer is that Americans desperately want a modern folk mythos and a heroes journey they can relate to. Star Wars got really close and the prequels even modernized it with the political landscape of the day but Disney is dead set on doing anything that would be that empowering.
dead set against*
Cinemaphile really is moronic enough to ask stupid questions like how a nearly 5 decade old franchise with billions of movies, show, comics and games managed to be one of the largest and most beloved IPs on the entire planet.