Why is the sequel trilogy considered a failure?

Why is the sequel trilogy considered a failure?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It isn't. It was mostly loved by critics and audiences and each installment broke even at the box office.
    But a lot of spergs and chudcels hated it for either fanboy or socio-political reasons.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The only one people liked was the Force Awakens, and that hype quickly died off. Even I liked it the first time I saw it in the theater, but the second time it lost something. I feel like the second time I watched it was the first time I really saw that movie.

      Rise of the Skywalker is honestly one of the worst films ever made and should be studied for that reason.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Nice spacing, R*dditbro.
        Also, you didn't mention The Last Jedi.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It's funny because after I posted that and realized that the bottom text was as long as the top text, I wondered if someone was going to mention reddit. You're predictable. I almost never write more than one paragraph. The fact that the one time I do sends you into an autistic meltdown about reddit is honestly bizarre. I hate reddit too, but you're fricking delusional.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeh this. Audience score sits at 86% for Rise of Skywalker at RT. They weren't a failure at all, there's just no accounting for bad taste.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Audience score sits at 86% for Rise of Skywalker at RT.
        >t. falling for the obvious freezing of the score

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          but then why is TLJ only at 42% audience score?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >but then why is TLJ only at 42% audience score?
            Because that score was recorded in 2017. Prior to 2019, the RT audience score system was freely open to any registered user. After Captain Marvel, however, RT execs decided to rework the system so that only registered users Fandango movie passes (AKA shills) could leave reviews (this only applied to theatrical films, not streaming) as a way of "keeping trolls from review-bombing new movies," all for the true purpose of protecting their woke-leaning propaganda. Ever since Feb. 2019, the audience score for theatrical films has a "Verified Ratings" title up and front, and all 0/5 star ratings are excluded from contributing to the cumulative aggregate.
            One other thing to keep in mind that the head of RT is a former Fandango president who also used to work at the Walt Disney company. He has discreet business ties with them. Make of that what you will.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              thanks for the writeup fren, that's fricking crazy

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >broke even at the box office.
      Big failure, then.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      even though the sequels made money, or broke even, merch sales dropped off like a rock into water.

      Star Wars toys used to dominate toy shelves, taking over an entire section, but around the time Rise of the Skywalker came out, they took up a narrow section that's as big as wrestling toys.

      In the past, even when there was no movie or cartoon pushing sales, Star Wars still took up a third of the shelf in toy aisles, which also used to be bigger.
      And this was despite gluts and huge clearances, where stores were stuck with a ton of left over stock from Phantom Menance and Clone Wars. It took less than a year for them to get rid of that trash and continue ordering the constant waves Hasbro kept on pumping out. With the sequels, stuff from Force Awakens was still on the shelves by the time RotS came out. This meant, for 4 years, that old stock took up space that was meant for new stock. So even with smaller sections for toys, they still ordered less than the allotted space (on shelf and in the backrooms) could hold.

      It's pretty pathetic when movie lines like Rampage get almost as many orders as Star Wars does.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Lots of reasons that I don't have time to go over right now. Point is, it was one of the biggest cinematic failures in history and everyone, even Disney, knows it. They're so bad that it amazes me that it was made by people who had professions in filmmaking.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Autistic manbabies. That's all.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Dumb coomer

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      If you're gonna be a simp homosexual why not pick someone actually hot?

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Directed by the most annoying J.J. in Star Wars history

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Binks?

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I never knew what the stakes were at any point. Is the resistance 10% of the republic, 50%, 90% or exactly the republic? Is the first order 10% of the empire, 50%, 90% or the entirety of the empire and their might?

    A core feature of your movie needs for the audience to understand "what happens if the good guys win by the end of the movie versus the bad guys"

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because it was written by a focus group instead of 1 or 2 talented and passionate writers.
    The best show on TV right now has 1 writer.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      the last jedi was not written by a focus group

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It literally isn't.
    The criticism is extremely over-exaggerated and honestly we're dealing with a knee-jerk reaction.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The movies are bland as hell. They aren't the worst movies ever made but they are not star wars movies and it's disgraceful that they are labeled as such.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >They aren't the worst movies ever made
        Glad we agree. But let me guess? You don't want to agree lmao

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Literally what Xoomers and Millennials said about the prequels.
        Makes you think, don't it?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The prequels were heavily carried by Palpatine, Obi Wan, and good world building. I still enjoy them for those reasons. What's there to enjoy about the sequels?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Those were bad yes and now these are worse. It all goes downhill

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It should have made 6 billion it made 4 billion

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Whoops

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      And then he jumped at the chance to star in the sequels which were exponentially worse by a then unimaginable factor

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm one of those people who loves Last Jedi and thinks it's a top-3 SW movie. Rise of the Skywalker was so bad that it completely killed my interest in Star Wars and the only related thing I've watched since is The Mandolorian.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Exactly. The sequels had one great movie. The prequels fricking suck.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I keep asking this - how could RoS have possibly followed TLJ in a satisfactory manner?

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    andor saved start wars

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I cheered, I shouted, I fist-pumped the air, I cried, I stood and cheered. It's absolutely everything that you would hope it was gonna be. I'm so proud to be in it, and I can't wait for you to see it.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's literally the only film series in history to go down one BILLION DOLLARS from the first to the last.

    Just try and wrap your head around that number, one BILLION DOLLARS less from the start to the end, just try and imagine you're a shareholder and you see a movie series start off as the third highest grossing movie of all time, when basic spinoff makes over a bullion dollars, then imagine the next movie has a nearly identical opening and people are projecting it at 2 billion minimum, all they have to do is just keep the ball rolling and you're literally swimming in money to justify the purchase price.

    Then imagine the sudden drop after that opening weekend leading to the thing making less than Age of Ultron, Hasbro reporting their 'Partner brands(You)' are 300 million in the red while all their other properties are in the green, then you have the very first box office bomb in Star Wars history. The merch is literally, not figuratively, being pushed into a giant ass shredder because nobody, not even liquidation stores, want it. Your characters aren't selling, and the last entry can't even beat JOKER. The property was number 1 on the highest grossing media franchises in 2011, now it got overtaken by Winnie the Pooh simply because the property poisoned the brand so much that it still sells merch, and nobody even wants the merch that used to sell because you fricked over the characters so much. They thought they were bringing in a "New audience", but that audience didn't show up, they didn't buy shit, and now you have an empty 2 billion dollar park attraction

    Now that Avatar 2 is a boffo success, they don't even have the hope that someone will take their world record drop of 732 million dollars between the Force Awakens and Last Jedi, Seven Hundred Thirty Two Million down despite neigh identical openings, that's how much of a failure it was.

    Enjoy the most legendary failure of all time, you'll never see another one like it.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because it didn't leave the audience wanting to buy DVDs, collect action figures, play video games, etc.

    The enormous financial success of the previous two Star Wars trilogies came more from producing a lasting base of fans who bought loads of merchandise than it did from selling tickets to watch it in theaters. Think about it: A single action figure costs about twice as much as a movie ticket, a video game about five times as much, and some of the larger things like the big Star Wars Lego sets could cost as much as 50 times the price of a movie ticket. Creating a single dedicated Star Wars fan is worth, in the long run, several hundred times more than a casual audience member who goes to see the movie once and then forgets about it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      justavatarproblems

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Why is the sequel trilogy considered a failure?
    Gosh golly gee, OP! Lemme count the ways...
    >"LUKE SKYWALKER HAS VANISHED."
    >We are the spark that will light the fire that will..."
    >"THE DEAD SPEAK!"
    >"Somehow, Palpatine returned."
    >all the heroic accomplishments from the OT protagonists are rendered completely pointless
    >somehow, in the 30+ year time span between ROTJ and TFA, the New Republic only controlled 5 planets in the entire galaxy
    >once said 5 planets get destroyed by SKB, the First Order suddenly controls the galaxy
    >How did the FO manage to cultivate enough funds to spawn bigger and better military tech than the Empire?
    >Why does the Resistance exist when the Rebels already fulfilled that quota?
    >Rey = overpowered Mary Sue who gets everything without earned merit
    >Finn = annoying minstrel show with wasted potential
    >Poe = unfunny one dimensional ace pilot who can't land a joke
    >Holdo = tumblr as an OC
    >Rose = obligatory POC + forced love interest
    >BB-8 = saccharine soccer ball
    >Snoke was a joke
    >Kylo Ren is a whiny dipshit only loved by braindead shippers & söy-fueled liberal arts grads
    >Hux is an on-the-nose SS officer
    >Phasma was just there
    >legacy characters (Luke, Leia, Han, Ackbar, etc.) get killed off unceremoniously
    >blatant character assassination of OT trio
    >tons of plot holes upon plot holes upon plot holes, and any attempts at trying to fill in said plot holes only inadvertently created more plot holes
    >TLJ created the irrecoverable division in the fandom, albeit it wasn't entirely Rian's fault since JJ & KK couldn't be bothered enough to create an interesting story to begin with
    >JJ, Rian, and Terrio are terrible writers
    >KK is a terrible corporate CEO
    >TLJ single-handedly cratered Star Wars merch sales post-TLJ (no one wants to buy Finn, Rose, Holdo, etc)
    >nu-Wars aliens look bland as hell (they use the same generic horse-faced template) compared to PT and OT extended casts
    Disney only focuses on stories set in the OT now.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      was a joke
      I heard that the producer changed and the new one didn´t want to tell Snokes story and just offed him like that

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's just one of Rian's style-over-substance subversions. It's all he knows.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because it didn't have any breasts and I didn't write it.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Why is the sequel trilogy considered a failure?
    Because, unlike Natalie Portman or Carrie Fisher, the ST lacked any scenes showing a single bare midriff.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The failure of the trilogy falls squarely on Lucasfilm under Kathy's leadership throwing out George's guidelines then not pre-planning the new script and plot for the trilogy as a whole. This resulted in Rian shitting the bed with The Last Jedi by not making a proper bridge movie that actually followed up on all the beats that were set up in The Force Awakens. If JJ had done all three it might have been bad but at least it would have been cohesively bad instead of the disjointed mess it became.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    the resistance is dumb, they could've had an interesting cold war situation between the new republic and imperial fragment but JJ is a hack
    just squandered potential all around really

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It alienated core original star wars fans.
    It wasn't a big hit in China (one of the main goals Disney bought star wars in the first place).
    Rey is not a household staple protagonist that Luke was, or even Anakin/Obi-wan.
    Zero replay value, normies would rewatch any random Marvel movie a hundred times over nu-star wars.
    It reduced the brand quality to creating flavor of the month streaming shows.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They didn't have any plan for the story. The first one is just a New Hope with the names of the characters and planets changed. Then every film in the trilogy has nothing to do with the other films and actually goes against them, seemingly deliberately, so each film is kind of its own individual story. The last one is so bad it looks like a reel of deleted scenes from other movies that were adapted to be Star Wars. And on top of all that, it has the worst, uglies, stupidest looking, most unimaginative aliens I have ever seen in Star Wars. They all just look like blobs. It blows my mind that this awful fricking trilogy ever even happened.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >It blows my mind that this awful fricking trilogy ever even happened.
      It blows my mind that a multi-billion dollar company failed to adapt + market something that was seemingly impossible to frick up from the get go. Not even Lucas could ever manage to do that with the tepid prequels, because at least those films still sold toys, vidya, and other memorabilia. Disney Wars just isn't Star Wars, because Disney doesn't get Star Wars.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it made a gorillion bucks and that's all that matters in the end

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I've always thought that making a good trilogy was more important, but I guess we have different values.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You're wrong, Star Wars has been about selling toys from the start

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          People brought the toys because they enjoyed the movies. Disney fricked that up.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          They were able to sell toys because people liked to movies. So making good movies really does matter.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >ditched Lucas and his treatments day one
    >replaces timeless fairytale space opera with generic Hollywood action sci-fi
    >made up the story as they went along
    >actively shit on fans
    >'look at me I'm acting' acting instead of Lucas' preferred pre-method style
    >they didn't care about telling a story, only selling merchandise

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >>they didn't care about telling a story, only selling merchandise
      Said merchandise ended up rotting on store shelves and ultimately discarded, ironically.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >only selling merchandise
      >90% of ST ship designs are OT designs made uglier
      I don't know how the rat managed to frick that one up, but they did

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    they don't exist

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder all nu wars is homosexual shit

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    poop

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because it failed. I guess not quite in a spectacular fashion, although you can argue that getting SW to fail as a cinema event is spectacular in itself.

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Simply put: shit story with no cohesion, wasted actors of multiple generations, wasnt original or special, marketed to middle aged man children with income to spend on dumb shit, ruined classic characters and their legacies.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I like all the characters and I just think the stories sucked really bad. They make diversity more a priority than hiring people who study literature and can write. There’s tons of EU authors they could have pulled to write a great Star Wars script with new characters.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Probably did OK financially but there's no way to continue in the story in the same spirit as the originals that doesn't cheapen the ending of Return of The Jedi

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