The Mandalorian & Grogu is released this week and is set for the lowest opening weekend of any Star Wars film ever. With the TV shows also struggling, here's why interest is waning.
by AGOTFAN
The Mandalorian & Grogu is released this week and is set for the lowest opening weekend of any Star Wars film ever. With the TV shows also struggling, here's why interest is waning.
by AGOTFAN
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Same mistake the MCU did
Yeah I want to see it but I’m not caught up on the show so feel like I’m not gonna follow the plot. You should be able to just see a movie without worrying that your knowledge from a show that started years back is faded
I’ll be real it feels hard to complain about it being like homework and said article praises andor for being standalone, but the Mando movie is just as stand alone?
the shows are not struggling
>Screenwriter and filmmaker Simon Kinberg is developing a new trilogy, and Daisy Ridley will return as Rey in a post-Rise of Skywalker outing directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy – the first woman and person of colour to direct a Star Wars film.
So they’re still committed to it. Okay.
I’ve seen the film and you don’t need to have seen the show to enjoy it. Sure, there are very minor things that might go over your head, but it’s a fun time regardless
They don’t want to understand that Star Wars TV series are always independent.
Even the Mando movie is independent of the TV series.
I’m not sure whether the problem is mainly the general audience thinking that they have homework to do to watch it. I feel it’s more likely that many of the GA are just not thinking about the movie *at all*.
Anecdotal, but absolutely none of my friends and family who loved Baby Yoda and said “this is the way” to stuff have said a word about watching the movie, much less discussed what they need to watch before watching the movie.
I don’t really disagree with much of this.
Star Wars has turned inwards onto its fanbase, those who relish the homework and complain why they didn’t get set the extra hard questions they wanted to do.
But this was a problem pre-Disney. Without watching the Clone Wars cartoon the switch from the end of Attack of the Clones to the opening of Revenge of the Sith is incredibly jarring. Even 20-odd years ago Star Wars was setting homework.
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Can I watch this without having seen any of the shows? Genuinely asking. (Neither me or my gf have seen any of the shows).
Hold up, a Star Wars MOVIE is out this weekend? Holy shit I’ll just climb out from under my rock.
If anyone who saw it already is reading that, was it good?
I didn’t watch anything post the last sequel movie, but I know that Andor is good and saw some Mandalorian and Ahsoka shorts.
The franchise is utterly directionless and we’re getting projects set in about 20 different eras at the same time.
They need to commit to a new era, make interesting films which are thought out and stop with the Disney+ Filoni slop.
Dune is a great example of what Star Wars could be (albeit with a little more colour and razzmataz)
We only watched the first season and enjoyed it well enough but intuitively we don’t want to see this until we watch missed seasons. Which probably will never happen, but either way, this won’t be a theater watch.
It feels like best case is if word of mouth says this is a banger it will get us to revisit the show then get around to the movie.
The film just feels a few years too late to really cash-in on the craze. S2 of the show felt like a natural conclusion and they keep going back to the well (with the Boba Fett series and S3, and now the film).