re: JJ Abrams wrote all 3 screenplays for the sequel trilogy, Johnson scrapped everything

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To put this in financial context. TLJ worldwide box office is $700 million less than TFA. Disney needs to pay attention.

If you piss off the parents and older crowd, you will not get a younger generation of SW fans. Kids these days do not need Star Wars and have many more options than what we had as kids.

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This is such an excellent point. I'm 47, so I'm really that first generation of young kids that saw Star Wars in the theater in '77. Star Wars and Indiana Jones were the be all end all...and it was largely our fandom that drove the prequels at first. Partly because we, ourselves, had been waiting for years to get back to the story but by them many of us had kids of our own and had been telling them about our experiences with it. I still remember WANTING to love Phantom Menage and then finally having to admit it was s steaming pile of shite.

I enjoyed TFA even with it's issues and was looking forward to getting past the reboot phase with TLJ. what they allowed Rian Johnson to do with the franchise has completely killed my interest in the main line story at this point. I already hate the whole idea of a Solo movie so I'm not going to see that, and unless EpisodeIX gets tremendous reviews that suggest they went back and fixed all the frick ups from TLJ, I won;t watch it either.

My boys are now far more invested in the various super hero franchises and couldn't care less about Star Wars. For them, there is no nostalgic pull so these movies REALLY DO rise or fall on their own merits, and as long as they suck there are far better options for fantasy movies like these.