Honestly, I feel that Marvel is only on the downtrend because the big ones are now off screen, and the market is a bit over saturated at this point. After a decade, they are a bit tired. That being said, bring Iron Man back, and that would become an overnight blockbuster LOL.
i had always enjoyed Star Wars, heck my 22 year old daughter has my original Millennium Falcon from the 80's (the one with the micro figures) hanging in her room... and while the Lucas films certainly helped build a base for us.... what really supercharged our family's current fandom has been due to the the Disney ownership/development part. Having a tangible presence in the parks of a Star Wars land has been awesome, it brought it to life so much more than seeing a film or reading a book. Now that fantasy from the screen became something we could touch. Star Tours was always fun, but I cannot describe that thrill of the first time being in Smugglers' Run... or the first time walking into the Storm Trooper room at Rise. Disney owning Star Wars and what they have done with it took us from casual to the much more involved "yes I have a lightsaber on my wall" fans.
Galaxy's Edge is awesome. I remember reading reports from grown adults who cried the first time they saw the Millennium Falcon in person. My friends and I had a great time wandering around Batuu West. I have some cute video of one of them going eye to eye with Kylo Ren, and I got a photo of myself with Rey and Chewie. Definitely an A+ effort by Disney.
Your rose colored glasses of the Lucas years really need some adjusting - the prequels are far from good movies, so really he had 3 movies that were maybe genius and are now more than 4 decades old . You really think there would be as much chatter about the franchise without Disney? There is no way new generations would be into it just based on the original 6, that are decades old. And who's to say the ST movies would have been any better under Lucas? Using the prequels as a benchmark, his ST's may not have been so great.
If Disney didn’t screw up the franchise why the 6 year drought of the movies?
I did not think wooden acting and, at times, embarrassingly bad dialog, could ever age well. LOL
I remember getting shivers down my spine when I stepped onto the bridge of the Enterprise-D at the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas.
What criteria are you using to determine hot garbage?? lol
this thread and pretty much every thread about Star Wars.... got to give points for consistency and persistence.
LOVE LOVE the character interactions. Every time we go to WDW a visit with Chewbacca is a must. Always fun and leaves us laughing and talking about it. Darth Vader is another great character interaction. I got lucky to have a walk around interaction with Din and Grogu. Wish they would bring Hera-Chopper and Ahsoka to WDW
So it’s ok for you (or people in your camp) to call me all kind of mean spirited names and for you to be dug into your point of view. However, it’s not ok for me to question the group think on here or have my point of view?
Also add in some revisionist history about the prequels. I remember how widely mocked they were when they came out. It was relentless.
I can only speak for my own actions... not sure about a camp, I live in a lovely house in the woods with my family... bears, coyotes, bobcats etc outside my widows.... no need for camping here.
It’s really simple to most people yes there were issues with the prequels (I.e., jar jar, Anakin’s terrible dialogue at times, etc.). However most kids loved them and they have gotten better with time. For a variety of reasons, but one was that what Disney did showed us it could be so much worse when you had people that didn’t understand Star Wars running things.
