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Originally Posted by built2shred
Last I checked a $120 a month cable bill is not exactly free.
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Yeah, but you're already paying that. It's a subconscious expense.
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Originally Posted by built2shred
The way I took your argument was watching to many movies within a franchise (during a short period of time) gives you fatigue regardless if the movie is bad or good. Now your saying that's only if you pay $8 for a ticket? So if all these Star Wars movies were direct to TV there would be no fatigue and they would all be popular?
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Nah, you were just comparing movie fatigue to a TV show and how long it ran for, which has a much smaller budget per episode, requires much less viewership to be considered a success and as mentioned, requires much less effort to experience than a movie of similar nature.
I still believe as you state, too many movies in a short period of time produces fatigue.
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Imo when it comes to movies, either the movie is entertaining or it's not. If you have a franchise and you keep releasing bad to meh movies then people will lose interest in the franchise and move on to something else. If on the other hand you keep releasing winners (IE: Marvel) then the franchise can stay strong for a long time.
I'm not saying that fatigue doesn't play a part but if you keep releasing really good movies fatigue is going to be very minimal regardless of the time between movie releases.
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You're kinda right, we've already addressed Marvel. However even something like Harry Potter with a rabid fan base and good films throughout had declining sales until the finale at the end.
I'm not saying fatigue can't be minimised by quality writing/direction but over time it will happen. Another way of combating fatigue is for the main trilogy films to be spaced out, making them more of an event and have people hungry for them.
As it is, they are just another star wars film with another around the corner.
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Not sure what point you're trying to make. The Last Jedi is a terrible movie, no matter if one pays to watch it or saw it for free.
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Well, you've already said you basically don't like star wars, with only 2 out of the 10 film franchise getting a pass mark.
We were debating franchise fatigue.
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I mentioned they shouldn't produce a Star Wars movie every year. You said they should just get good....
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I believe his argument for the Solo movie doing bad was they're releasing the movies to close to each other, were my argument was the TLJ pissed off so many fans with a horrible story most refused to go see the Solo movie out of protest in an attempt to get Disney to replace Kennedy as President of Lucasfilms....
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Nope, nothing to do with Solo. I just said I felt the Star Wars franchise in general suffered by them coming out before the ink on the contract was dry, saying that they were going to do one movie a year.
My belief was that diminishing returns would net fewer ticket sales as the movies came out. You felt that not to be the case if they were good.
I still believe that no matter how good the movies are perceived, ticket sales would decline over time as people can always just catch the next one at theatres.
