Discussion Anyone else feeling uneasy about the possible spin off films?

People have been worried that Marvel was going to over saturate the market for years, and they didn't even with 2 or more movies per year. Not every film was intended to be a big budget film, and each one had its own niche to fill in between the heavy hitter gaps. And, every once in a while, one film stands above the crowd and does pretty well. That's what Disney's aiming for with these spin offs. Smaller, though still quality, products more intended to flesh out the universe, please the fans, and fill the gap inbetween movies than be major blockbusters. They're in an entirely separate genre from the superhero films sure to flood the market and almost entirely choke each other out before this decade's end, so there aren't any worries about flooding the market.

What's really bothering me is that these directors and writers are really unproven. They have only about one truly good film each, but so I don't know why exactly they were chosen.

 

Yes I am a bit worried because I'm not a big fan of the rebels in the end of A new hope and return of the Jedi and if the first spinoff is all about them I will watch it but hopefully it will be better than expected!

 

The way I look at it is this. If they're good, well then you simply have another good/great SW film to add to your collection. And if they're not, well then they don't really effect the "main saga" films anyway (so they'd be easy to ignore).

 

The simple fact that these films will take place on multiple planets in the GFFA, and not in variations of CGI versions of New York (as so many Marvel films do), already makes them better, IMO. Yes, there will be clunkers. But I'm looking forward to the gems.

 

While everyone is praising marvel , am I the only one who thinks they have the most over rated movies? Iron Man is horrible so is Avengers, especially after re watching them recently. All it is is massive CG scenes and a typical smart ass RDJr. The captain America movie is about as exciting as watching paint dry. So if this type of stuff is going on at marvel, and is something Disney wants to imitate, I don't see much good except good box office numbers for a week or 2. Then again I hope I am 1000% wrong bc the SW universe is literally endless with ideas for exploration.

 

Avengers is definitely overrated IMHO. Iron Man is okay, haven't seen Captain America. But Thor and its sequel are great.

 

Watch Captain America: TWS, it's really damn good. Oh and the Daredevil Netflix show, wow was that awesome.

 

I'm with you. If the Star Wars films aren't much better than Marvel's output, I will be pretty disappointed.

 

Me too, even though I don't think that will happen.

At any rate, this thread is supposed to be more general. For conversations more specifically about comparisons to Marvel, we have this other thread: http://boards.theforce.net/threads/fear-of-sw-being-marveled-sw-avengers.50022111/

 

Out of curiosity, what gives you the impression that the Star Wars spinoffs are not likely to be of a high quality?

 

Wait, what? That's not what I meant at all... I think they will be of a high quality. I think they will retain most of the look and feel of the Episodic movies that are also being made. What I meant was that I will be disappointed if the Spin-offs feel like Marvel movies, but I don't think that will happen anyway.

 

Oh, sorry! I thought by "I don't think that will happen" you meant that you didn't think they would be better than Marvel's output. Apologies.

And yeah, I agree.

 

Eeek, no! Sorry for the confusion.

 

A potentially dangerous and consequential error.

 

Not uneasy, more like set fan brainpan on ignore until there's a spin off film with a character or concept I'd pay $ to see.

 

I've felt uneasy about the spin off films from day one.

 

they are going to oversaturate Star Wars so hard by putting these out between ST releases.

they should wait until at least a few years after the ST has already finished, and they should only make these when they're actually good and add to the story. I posted a few ideas in another thread (a Palpatine film, for example, I see being interesting).

Rogue One I predict won't have much of a reason to exist.

 

you know except for explaining why episode IV can happen. I don't believe in over saturation if they have a hundred good ideas make a hundred good films. Making more or less does not make any of the individual movies better or worse you can have an original idea make a movie and it can be bad or you can make a sequel or tv series to a massive franchise and be better than the individual original idea bad movie if they feel they can make these movies because they have individually good ideas let them. Also as someone who enjoyed portions of the EU the EU had a lot of stories some of them bad but I never felt it was over saturated each storyline and period had original ideas that expanded the universe. These movies are intended to do that they are going to be lower budget films and do what CW and Rebels, comics, books and what the old legend material did expand the universe and make it feel big with massive amounts of lore.

 

I felt uneasy about them when I thought they'd be actual spin-offs, i.e. about characters from the saga, such as the Boba Fett, Han Solo, or Yoda origin films we'd been hearing about at first. However, hearing about the plot of Rogue One is reassuring, and the "war film" vibe they're going for even more so. So, just based off of what we know for that first film, I feel a lot better about them as of right now, and knowing that these Anthology movies are going to play around with different genres and themes than the Saga films has me greatly interested.

 

If the Anthology films are genre-spanning (and it sounds like Rogue One is likely to be a realistic war film, rather than your usual Star Wars space fantasy), the risk of over-saturation is greatly diminished. I wasn't sold before. But now that I've seen that teaser for Rogue One, I can't wait for all kinds of Star Wars films.

 

Yes. It seems like there milking cows. The can work obviously but for they should to the main episodes. And then old republic era trilogy. 1 character based spin off seems like everyone would get bored and the average movie goer will get tired of a new Star Wars ever year thus hurting the episodes

 

As long as they don't significantly affect the OT or alter our perception of the original films, then I'm fine with whatever they do as long as it's well made. But if they start playing around too much in that era, there's going to be an inevitable conflict especially with the modern trend of blockbuster movies having to follow a certain formula (opening action scene - plot/character development - midmovie smaller action scene - some shocking development - HUGE giant explosions that destroy a city).

I'd also rather they steer relatively clear of main characters we already know. I don't need to see a Han Solo or Yoda spinoff movie.

 

Based on what we've learned so far about Rogue One, I am now confident that these films will do quite well-in fact, it may even draw in people that otherwise don't really like Star Wars at all, not just the fans who will see it anyway.

 

Not to be insulting or anything, but as a closet SW fan (I don't really have a group of friends that are SW fans, and have never been to a SW event), I must say that SW fans appear extremely neurotic in general. It looked for the longest time as if SW movies were going to die with Lucas, and be a lost cause (in fact, GL himself was basically saying this almost explicitly). Now the SW universe is booming in a huge way with huge budgets and the biggest and best actors, writers, directors, etc. in the world (not to mention the OT actors back), yet somehow there is all of this fretting about this and that, all this anxiety about what might happen; all of this criticism and negativity, as if it is all a BAD thing. Like, wait a minute, I thought you were a SW fan, and that meant SW was GOOD to you. Geez man.

I think the spinoffs are a fantastic idea. I love that we get different twists on the SW universe, and can't wait to see what they come up with. I think the concept behind Rogue One is great, and am really intrigued by that trailer. I am more and more confident given what KK is saying about these that we are not going to get what I really don't want, i.e. excessive rehashing of old characters (as in stories that focus on main characters from the OT and PT). I do hope they at some time totally take it out of the dominion that we know of in the SW movies, e.g. something like The Old Republic, that would knock it out of the ballpark for me if well done.

 

Fans of anything appear extremely neurotic. It's the nature of fandom.

FWIW, I agree. This is the SW explosion I'd always hoped for. It can only be a good thing.