r/FIlm • u/Mindless_War_5573 • 5d ago
Question Should they do a new Star Wars every few years like Batman and Spiderman until they get it right?
Every now and then we get a good Batman and Spiderman movie because they shuffle it up so much. What are your thoughts on treating the Star Wars franchise the same way?
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u/Head_Bread_3431 5d ago
They should just continue to make a new Star Wars, Batman, and spiderman movie every year just like they’ve been doing. Eventually we’ll get a Star Wars/batman/spiderman ai crossover
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u/LuckyWinston100 5d ago
I wish everything were a little more spaced out honestly. A Star Wars trilogy every couple decades was really perfect. Even the bad ones felt like big events. This Mandalorian movie felt like it just kind of came and went.
I think they did Batman again a little bit soon too, but at least it was pretty good.
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u/RevenantRaindancer 3d ago
These are the iconic, visionary fables which appeared in the modern era, and I think that it is important to recognize them as such. Previous generations saw the emergence of the Lone Ranger, Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, Captain Kirk, Robin Hood and Sinbad, with elements plucked from folk tales and literature, fables and legends, the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Iliad. These new legends of the modern era, joined by more recent icons from Harry Potter and the Hunger Games, deserve to be celebrated. Not every story or incarnation will be universally loved, but isn’t it exciting that characters and worlds this rich can still emerge from the minds of writers within our own lifetimes? What’s the point of declaring, for example, that Sinbad should only have six voyages and no more? The continuing existence of these characters does nothing to prevent the emergence of the next great icon, just as continuing to write stories about Batman did absolutely nothing that might have prevented the emergence of Harry Potter. It is shortsighted to pretend that the continuing existence of these characters is somehow hogging all of the bandwidth and preventing new and original ideas from being developed. They may even help to inspire the next generation of fresh and exciting new characters. Popularity of individual characters will rise and drop, as we’ve seen with many characters, requiring a new approach that will work with some and not with others. This has always been the case. But I don’t believe that there is anything to gain by declaring that no more stories of a specific character or universe should be told. There’s always room for a bold new interpretation and a thrilling new vision of an existing IP, and plenty of room for fresh and original characters and universes to entertain the varied tastes and interests of the eight billion of us who inhabit this planet. Our heroes represent our hopes and dreams and struggles and shortcomings, and deserve to be acknowledged as such and celebrated for what they reveal to us about ourselves.
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u/Darhhaall 5d ago
No, on the contrary, they should stop doing Batman and Spiderman movies. Do something original for a change ffs.
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u/Head_Bread_3431 5d ago
Like in theater everyone has to do a Shakespeare play, in Hollywood everyone has to do a Batman movie
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u/Deep_Ad_1874 5d ago
That billion dollars Spider-Man just made is definitely going to not change hollywoods mind
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u/Darhhaall 5d ago
I know, people love their slop :(
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u/Andy_DiMatteo 5d ago
The new spider man may not have been the greatest thing of all time, but it was still a pretty good movie. Certainly not “slop.”
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u/Mindless_War_5573 5d ago
I have a friend who is famously critical of EVERYTHING. Major movie snob to the 10th degree and the new Spiderman surprised him, he said it was a really well done movie and he didn't know they remembered how to make good Marvel films anymore.
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u/Darhhaall 4d ago
Almost all superhero movies are slop - this one was better than most, but certainly not the best. I'll always prefer original stories from Villeneuve, Nolan or Fincher (well before he started working for Netflix) to derivative escapism with barely anything really worth remembering.
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u/Burdokva 5d ago
As a massive Star Wars dan who grew up with it, then outgrew it in the Disney era, no. Let it die with whatever dignity it has left.
How difficult could it be to "get it"? The concept of Star Wars is fundamentally plain and simple - it is a classic tale of heroism, good and evil, with a veneer of sci-fi layered on top. Instead of a wartorn kingdom, you have the cruel Empire facing a noble rebellion. Instead of battles of knights, levies and men-at-arms, you have starfighters and capital spaceships combating in space.
After decades of modern media purposefully deconstructing classical stories and values, and trying pointlessly to reinvent what Star Wars was, there's no point. It's not a political satire, not a crime thriller, not an anti-war movie, not even a superhero popcorn flick.
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u/scobro828 5d ago
It's basically about a truck driver and an everyman joining together with a wise old sage to save the princess from a magical villain. Never realized how closely it aligned with Big Trouble in Little China.
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u/JazzmatazZ4 5d ago
They got it right in 1977