Franchise fatigue is very real IMO, and it's all the more evident with the recent trend of annual franchises in video games.
I wonder if Star Wars will suffer the same fate at the box office eventually.
I wonder if Star Wars will suffer the same fate at the box office eventually.
Star Wars has transcended "franchise" and become a tax. There is a star wars tax that we all have to pay and that tax rate graduates as you have children.
Death and star wars. They're inescapable.
...in a galaxy far, far away. :D
I'm not sure what a Call of Duty game means any more, other than it's going to be a FPS.
They have had different teams work on the games, there aren't any common characters, time periods vary etc etc.
This is exactly it. Each epic battle scene is so over the top it's almost impossible to come up with something even more epic and over the top. Too bad they don't realize a good story doesn't need that. I thought the older James Bond movies had it figured out.
Because that's how big budget blockbuster films successes are judged. Reviewers.
Of course. I generally don't bother to indicate when I am. I just don't like explained jokes.
Of course I do try not to be subtle about it. :)
I'd worry more about the Marvel TV products than the movies, or if the movies fail as stand-alones (like Ultron).
Ultron was the seventh highest grossing film in history ($1.4b gross; budget of $316 million) and the second highest grossing Marvel movie (after The Avengers).
I'd love a failure like that.
And there's lots of jumping on points coming up, with Dr Strange, Spider-Man Homecoming, Black Panther and Captain Marvel having mostly characters new to MCU and seemingly being relatively disconnected. Thor: Ragnarok might qualify as well depending on how they do it. Ant-Man and The Wasp might too - there's not much of the back story you need to catch up on.
Marvel has a large enough stable of characters to keep on churning out new standalone movies for a very long time. Though they'll need to start dipping into less well known characters, their ensemble movies and TV series will presumably let them test characters.. Then give the top performers sequels...
If they manage to get back control over e.g. X-Men and Fantastic Four too, they'll have characters to draw on for the next couple of decades at current rates...
At which point they can start all over.
I don't necessarily think that's too little time between releases, as an avid movie goer.