>>119700913>I doubt the Sequel trilogies would have earned in the billions if all of their audiences were avid Star Wars fans.I think you’re underestimating just how much of a cultural phenomenon Star Wars was and, to a degree, still is.
>You go with your friends and family, watch a movie, have a good time.True, but to actually have a good time, the movie still has to provide something from which a person can derive enjoyment. For some movies, like “Marauders” or “Hell and High Water”, do this through by telling an engaging story with characters who, even when they aren’t likable and endearing, are still understandable, humanly complex, and interesting. Some movies, like “Hardcore Henry” and pretty much any Micheal Bay movie, sell themselves on pure spectacle alone (which i’m honestly fine with. Sometimes all you want to see are big Dakka and bigger booms). Some movies, like that stupid as fuck live action Peter Pan prequel movie Disney made a short while back, aren’t good, but can still allow you to derive enjoyment from them through the sheer hilarity that is such a bizarre, nonsensical, and just plain weird series of events trying to frame itself as a serious narrative. Comedies are self explanatory. And arthouse movies, I don’t know, I suppose they allow people to get high off of their own and each others farts.
The point is that while there are lots of ways to make a movie enjoyable, if not good, the sequel trilogies don’t really do any of them right. The characters are dull and the story is contrived, the special effects and fight choreography are both satisfactory, but nothing spectacular or outstanding really, they’re not exactly comedic at all, they’re aren’t bad enough to be “so bad it’s good”, and they have far too few allegories that either are incredibly hamfisted or incredibly esoteric to qualified as artsy. They’re just kind of bland even to a normalfag.
