[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

Have you seen what Thor is up against at the box office? Not exactly what I would call competition.

Blade Runner 2049 had no competition and it still bombed. Thor made lots of money because it was part of the MCU and was well reviewed.

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Homecoming underperformed, and wasn't able to pull in as much as the Spider-Man 3.

How did it underperform? It made nearly $335 million ($117 opening weekend) and was the top movie of its weekend (and I believe it beat out War for the Planet of the Apes the following week).

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BvS and MoS were considered largely busts considering the characters and situations being portrayed.

Of course they were busts, they were garbage movies.

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Hugh Jackman's final love letter to Wolverine barely cracked 225 million.

Okay, so? It still made its money back.

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Even the latest Transformers film couldn't draw, and people know what they have been getting for years with that franchise. Still didn't stop them from showing up in droves, except this time, they didn't.

Because people finally realized the Bayformers franchise sucks monkey balls.

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I know where you are going with this, but to answer your question honestly, I only enjoyed the Daniel Craig Bond films, which were a bit more grounded and serious in tone from the others.

If you like Craig's movies, you should definitely check out Dalton's two.

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Except the Force Awakens was a carbon copy of EP4,

So? It worked.

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and the Last Jedi is already bearing a stark similarity to EP5. Hopefully it will prove me wrong.

Don't know how you get that feeling as nothing to me screams ESB.

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I'd be up for more Star Wars truthfully, but I don't care about a young Han Solo or Boba Fett at this point.

Frankly, I think Boba Fett is one of the most overhyped worthless Star Wars characters that people only like because he looks cool. Vader had to do all of the work for him to capture Han and then he gets killed by accident by a blind man with a broomstick. Yep, so badass.

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Originally Posted by Panther

it's one big TV show.

This is actually how movies have been for the last decade. These days they are just high budget TV shows. My issue comes when they plot out a trilogy and decide the first movie, which hasn't even proved itself, is made just to set up the following movies rather than telling its own story.

The reason Star Wars worked was because Lucas didn't have a guarantee his movie was going to be a success, so he knew he had to make it be its own story with a beginning, middle, and end.