• PunchingWood@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Quite the clickbait article. There has never been so much Star Wars compared to before Disney took over, more movies, more tv-shows.

    I am not surprised they’re putting future projects on ice though, especially with the ridiculous amount of criticism a lot of their work gets.

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      2 months ago

      Not quite, they announce/hint a lot of new movies that we never heard of it again, they released 5 movies but announce/hint at least 10 more if you count Obi-Wan and Boba Fett that were supposed to be movies.

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        2 months ago

        Well I meant that in the 70s-80s there were 3 movies, and then in the 90s-00s we got 3 movies, so like every 20-30 year gap.

        But we got 5 movies in recent times. I don’t know if Kenobi and Book of Boba Fett were supposed to be movies though, I never heard anything other than them being shows. I initially thought that Book of Boba Fett would’ve been part of the Mandalorian show too, which frankly would’ve made more sense. I do prefer the shows though, it gives so much more world and character building and things don’t feel as rushed, although not every show has been good with it.

        I do know about a few planned upcoming movies that were put on hold, and I’m not sure if Rian Johnson’s movies are still happening, I was really looking forward to see what he could do with an own dedicated trilogy.

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      2 months ago

      Seriously – what? I’m so far behind because of how prolific they’ve been. Sure, a good chunk of that is shows, but there are so many movies, too

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      One of the problems is that the TV series are starting to look and feel like TV, even when they’re telling galaxy-spanning stories of huge in-universe importance. There’s a certain je ne sais quoi missing from the production values that even the most garbage of the movie offerings (pick for yourself which those are) still did right. Star Wars fans, including me, are always overdramatic, but as a franchise it’s also getting small.

      Meanwhile, the plans were for there to be at least one movie a year, yet nothing since Solo 6 years ago has even made it into production. Something is off. Whether it’s as simple as a bad media strategy of announcing their “inside baseball” pitches to goose corporate earnings, or an actual dysfunction in the studio, it’s worth talking about.