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Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy
Why? You dont think people wanted to see the return of Luke Skywalker? That's all I cared about since I heard the new movies were coming out.
They are less than 60% of TFA date for date . You think they are happy and expected that?
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TFA was an event with anticipation the likes of which we'll likely never see again. Not just the first SW movie in 10 years, but the return of the main original characters not seen in 30+ years. What can you even compare it to in the past or potential future? There's nothing close.
There's just not going to be that kind of anticipation and demand for anything else.
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There's a lot about TFA that might turn off people from future movies--it was largely a re-hash of Ep I. They killed off Han. Luke was in it for 2 seconds. Kylo is no Vader--lack of a compelling villain. You can pretend Rogue One wasn't a "real" SW movie, but people rave about it and it did less $ than TLJ.
And, look at the history of the last two trilogies--the 1st one was huge, the 2nd was lower, and 3rd (because it was the "last") boosted interest enough that it finished between the 1st and 2nd. I imagine this trilogy will probably follow the same, but it has something else going against it (in addition to Han AND Luke now being dead)--there's a SW movie every year now.
TLJ is the third SW movie in a span of two years. By the time IX comes out, it will be five movie in a span of 4 years. It just isn't the event it used to be and it the core group fans has aged. Kids today and younger generations aren't into it like kids of the 70s and 80s were. Even the kids I know who like it--they don't LOVE it like we did. They've more into X-Men and the comic book movies or Harry Potter. They grew up on other things. Their parents might have taken them to TFA because it was a huge event, but they aren't necessarily going to go back year after year.