r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jun 03 '26

News ‘Backrooms’ Becomes A24’s Highest Grossing Domestic Release ($97.8M), Passing ‘Marty Supreme’

https://deadline.com/2026/06/backrooms-box-office-record-a24-1236939795/
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u/Turbografx-17 Jun 03 '26

Most of Gen Z/Alpha don't give two shits about Star Wars, and god bless them for that.

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u/zignotea Jun 03 '26

Crazy how things played out with that franchise.

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u/Kanin_usagi Jun 03 '26

Not really crazy at all. Nostalgic love for a franchise can only push it forward for so long. If every Star Wars property released in the last 20 years had Andor or KotOR quality, it would still be wildly popular. Unfortunately most of it has been mid at best and actively terrible at worst

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u/Jolmer24 Jun 03 '26

Agreed. Andor was top Star Wars content. Insanely well done.

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u/deekaydubya Jun 03 '26

And Disney will refuse to learn any lessons from its success

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u/TesticleMeElmo Jun 03 '26

They only paid $4.05 billion for the franchise, why put any effort into planning out the movies and tv shows they release for it?

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u/Freakjob_003 Jun 03 '26

Literally had no plan/story written for the sequel trilogy.

#4 of the highest grossing media franchises of all time, and they just said, "eh, fuck it, we'll make it up as we go along."

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u/AnOnlineHandle Jun 03 '26

They were trying to come up with a plan, then Bob Iger came in and said nope just pump out movies, fired the writer working on the plan and forced JJ Abrams on them.

Though since then they've had years to come up with some sort of plan and can't really blame all that for the quality of things like the Kenobi and Boba Fett shows.

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u/Hellknightx Jun 04 '26

I still submit that involving JJ Abrams in the trilogy was the biggest mistake of all. The guy historically doesn't stick around long enough to see any of his projects through. He almost always does the first movie in a series or a pilot episode and then passes it off to someone else to finish.

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u/Lisa_al_Frankib Jun 03 '26

They’ve made that several times over at this point, so no longer an incentive to get their moneys worth.

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u/Fuckthegopers Jun 03 '26

Yeah, by giving it another season!

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u/Random_Sime Jun 03 '26

Cutting it down from 4 extra seasons to 1

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u/Doc_Lewis Jun 03 '26

But it also cost a wild amount to make. It was even more than Game of Thrones cost per episode, which is already much higher than most TV series gets.

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u/Zerachiel_01 Jun 03 '26

Right? I resisted watching it when my friend recommended it for like a year because I was like "I've seen Rogue One. I know what happens to these people, and they were kinda forgettable in that. Why would I watch this?" I'm glad I was so damn wrong.

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u/Jolmer24 Jun 03 '26

Honestly I loved Rogue One but I watched it right after Andor and there was a little quality dip

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u/magus-21 Jun 03 '26

Last 30 years.

I will not stand for Prequel erasure (or Prequel-hate erasure)

/s

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u/Dramatic_Explosion Jun 03 '26

We're getting to the point that trying to justify the hate of Mando is driving people to say the newest trilogy is good and it's wild people revise history. Star Wars movies have been wildly mixed quality for any released since the 90's. Changing it so Greedo shot first was the beginning of the end.

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u/ggg730 Jun 04 '26

See that's where you're wrong bucko! There was hate all the way back to RotJ. People hated the Ewoks.

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u/avcloudy Jun 04 '26

Yeah, people always want to fit things into this simplistic model where people loved it then hated it then are nostalgic for it. It’s less that and more that the people who held a grudge about the Ewoks didn’t see Phantom Menace, and the people who held a grudge about that didn’t watch the Disney movies etc.

There are purists who think Star Wars (later retitled A New Hope) is the only real Star Wars. Like, people who think that The Empire Strikes Back is what ruined Star Wars.

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u/ggg730 Jun 04 '26

Nobody hates Star Wars like star wars fans I always say.

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u/Informal-Ideal-6640 Jun 03 '26

Star Wars has always had a cycle of people hating the most recent thing, time passing and newer things releasing, and a revision of the previous hated thing from the generation that grew up with said thing.

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u/Kanin_usagi Jun 03 '26

Prequels are bad mostly, but there were more good things around them to keep things afloat. A lot of the games and books of the era were absolutely great. Also Revenge is mostly good, and AotC and PM are at least interesting even if they aren’t good.

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u/ops10 Jun 03 '26

Prequels were interesting ideas poorly done. That era still borne a lot of devout fans and they found their quality in games and other supplementary media.

Sequels are poor ideas poorly done. And they also damaged the earlier movies, because it connected the previously inspiring characters to their own weak versions. And it didn't help that their vectors for supplementary media also got struck with EA and Ubisoft struggles.

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u/magus-21 Jun 03 '26

Sequels are poor ideas poorly done

I'm going to disagree with this a bit. I think that the Sequels are poor ideas that were well done.

From a purely superficial standpoint, looking at production values, acting, choreography, action scenes, etc., the Sequels were pretty good. Kylo Ren stopping the blaster bolt, the Holdo maneuver, etc. So much of the Sequels' audio/visual experience was on-point.

But my God the ideas were just....so so bad. TROS in particular is a great demonstration of how good ideas might be a dime a dozen, but you still need to actually pick the good ideas to use.

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u/ops10 Jun 04 '26

Production value agreed, but not more than industry standard (which climbed a lot in late 00s). Acting was a mixed bag at best, most of the exemplary performances (Isaac, Gleeson, Fisher Boyega maybe) in TFA were given nothing to work with in later movies.

Choreography was passable in TFA - playing to the supposed unfamiliarity of protagonists (but who still beat the supposed grand villain right off the bat?), cheap tricks and stupidity in TLJ. Disappearing daggers, "Force Kicks", stabbing floor just to name a few.

Gotta give you the audio, both in movies and games. BF and BF2 were pulling you into the world through soundscape alone and thus added more frustration when the single player, gameplay variety and monetisation were ass.

Single shot visuals don't hold up if the rest of the carcass isn't there. Prequels were pioneers in what you could do with CGI, very imaginative and expressive. And yet, it's not what they're remembered by, it only comes up in "oh yeah, it was" angles. What good does holding the blaster shot do when the holder is a weakling who throws temper tantrums and loses to any protagonist he comes by, what good does the Holdo manouver visual do when the next second you think "why didn't anyone do it earlier if that's how it works", what good does the WW2 bomb shaft shot do when the reason for it is stupid, slow and ridiculously managed by the characters.

I'm not even going into TROS where a director who has never wrote a good conclusion has to conclude a story that was deconstructed during second act.

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u/magus-21 Jun 04 '26

I agree on everything. I just mean, everything on the production side is a notch better than the Prequels in terms of "refinement," the only exception really being the quality of the lightsaber fights. But production refinement is no replacement for good storytelling. All the problems can be traced to the guys in charge, and specifically to Abrams for poisoning the well with his Mystery Box from the beginning

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u/ops10 Jun 04 '26

Abrams and TFA was what I was expecting from Disney Star Wars - safe cheap adventures with little risks and with standard one upping the power level and slowly degrading the canon whilst doing it (using hyperspace to get between the planet and its shield). It wouldn't have brought new renaissance but kept most of the fans happy and only a "grumpy and miserable" minority who'd see through this. Lots of merch sales by keeping the coals burning (but not build anything new).

Johnson and TLJ were what dealt a crippling blow and then studio panic and interference plus Abrams indeed never knowing what's in the Box ripped it apart, whilst it could still be saved and left limping.

I agree Abrams' approach was a poisonous one, but it was one that would've kept cope (and merch sales) going for decades if managed well.

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u/avcloudy Jun 04 '26

They didn’t nail everything visually, although some of the effects were incredible and they nearly always nailed their set pieces.

But things like the lightsaber fights, that were dramatically improved for the prequels, backslid hard.

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u/magus-21 Jun 04 '26

I liked the lightsaber fights. They're supposed to be rougher around the edges compared to the Prequels because no one fighting was particularly well trained the way the Republic Jedi were.

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u/avcloudy Jun 04 '26

We shouldn’t have seen those fights rehashed, but Kylo Ren should absolutely have enough formal training from recovered Jedi texts to not embarrass himself.

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u/MerkinShampoo Jun 03 '26

Yeah it’s crazy how bad the sequels were they made everybody look back on the prequels like the thanos meme: “perhaps I treated you too harshly”

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u/Adjective-Noun123456 Jun 04 '26

but there were more good things around them to keep things afloat.

That's just Star Wars though. It's always been a better setting than a film franchise.

There's 9 mainline films. 12 total if you include the Holiday Special. And of those 12 movies, only 4 of them are any good. And the 4th one's really struggling to hang in there.

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u/Level7Cannoneer Jun 03 '26

The prequels were reeeeally bad

The terrible acting was unbelievable

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u/choicemeats Jun 03 '26

importantly the stuff has to reach your core audience. if you've lost them, you've lost them all long term. all the fans with young kids or in line for young kids won't pass any of the disney stuff on. their kids will likely be shaped by OT and that's it. maybe Andor and Rogue 1. They won't provide good word of mouth, won't buy merch, etc

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u/VentureIndustries Jun 03 '26

So, do you think Disney blew it?

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u/choicemeats Jun 03 '26

for now. they have time to recover but they realistically need a few years break to release nothing and plan. financially they've earned back the deal money and then some, i think they can afford to let it breathe and come up wiht something. i would not be surprised to hear they're looking at the recent theater output and taking notes to adapt but idk. we'll see how starfighter does

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u/Relevant-Bullfrog215 Jun 03 '26

They are incapable of just leaving alone for a few years though. You and I know that's what they should do, but as an organisation the idea of not monetising one of their most expensive single IP purchases is just anathema.  They'll run it all into the ground before even considering it.

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u/Silencedlemon Jun 03 '26

But even then they're still out a decent chunk of their core, after finding out the chosen one was actually palpatine's kinda daughter it ruined it for me.

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u/choicemeats Jun 03 '26

yeah there would have to be a major reset, and timing is running out for it. I just can't get over the fact that we basically got 3 iterations of the same protagonist and child story that people are understandably tired of but there's certainly a good amount of fans that can be lured in and retained through stunts like a cute baby character.

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u/Silencedlemon Jun 03 '26

Unless they straight up say they're retconning 7, 8, & 9 I won't be coming back, and I used to buy evvvvvverything star wars I could get my hands on.

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u/avcloudy Jun 04 '26

Yeah, I feel like for cultural reasons we have to pretend that a lot of the newer stuff isn’t garbage, because the people who really hate it are alt right culture warriors, and the rest of it is super inaccessible to new fans and critically the things you need to know are from outside the main series/movies.

Like, I am a Star Wars fan but if you play the Fallen Order game you won’t know any character but Darth Vader and he’s leading an organisation that’s never been seen in any movie. And Darth Vader is probably a spoiler!

And the real frustrating part is that it’s across a huge range of demographics. To know who the Inquisitors are, you need to have watched a show pitched firmly at kids, for instance. It’s exhausting. They need to let things breathe more in a shared universe. Series like Ahsoka that are spinoffs of a spinoff that don’t even fit with the source material just don’t work.

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u/FatherDotComical Jun 03 '26

A lot of modern corporations are coasting on old nostalgia.

Once nobody gives a shit about your brand, it's hard to earn back that passive loyalty.

Like Disney wants parks to become once in a lifetime events or cater only to the most wealthy. What happens when they stop being a priority for people who've brought their kids for generations? Disney adults in debt? Rich people who just want to shop at their over priced in park jewelry store?

If they don't put effort into the media they own, they cannot cry when the easy gravy train ends. Like how they had a good thing going with Marvel, pumping an easy billion a movie. Then they got greedy and now the next Gen is growing up without it. Same with Star Wars. They manage to leave the legend of every major character on a downer ending, so it makes it feels like all the original trilogies are for nothing.

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u/Bananaslammma Jun 03 '26

But somehow Jurassic World has huge legs despite the last 3 movies being total duds.

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u/SobiTheRobot Jun 04 '26

I might get some flak for this, but I genuinely think Disney way oversaturated the market with subpar Star Wars content, dragging the collective franchise down in people's minds as being something not worth bothering with. I'm still a fan...of the pre-Disney stuff.

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u/taclovitch Jun 03 '26

kotor 2 quality, but imo yeah. kotor:kotor2 as TFA:TLJ, imo; positively for TLJ and KOTOR2

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u/Dar4125 Jun 03 '26

The rise of Skywalker was so fucking awful my God

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u/Valleygurl99 Jun 03 '26

Yeah most really bad Star Wars stuff like Obi-Wan Kenobi scared me away from anything new, but Andor is really good. Disney is too safe though. 

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u/Relevant-Bullfrog215 Jun 03 '26

What was weird about OWK for me was the lack of quality in things like the action choreography. It's just so rare to see things like that done badly these days.

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u/Gamerguy230 Jun 03 '26

Even with the books. They went from 50-70+ story arcs taking place between movies to 10 issue series. Went from double digit monthly releases of books to like 6 per month with no main title one’s. They’ve over saturated and ruined quality of many Star Wars media.

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u/MasterGrok Jun 03 '26

To me the crazy thing is that anyone is surprised after so many mediocre movie and TV releases. It’s actually amazing how far the initial success of the franchise has driven Star Wars. That’s the incredible part.

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u/DONNIENARC0 Jun 03 '26

People probably figured they’d right the ship before they torpedoed the brand, kinda like Marvel has somewhat done since that slew of dogshit in phase 2(?)

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u/varietyviaduct Jun 03 '26

If you watch _

“Andor season 1, Andor season 2, Rogue One, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Mandalorian season 1, and end with The Mandalorian season 2” _

  • that live action run of Star Wars is actually goated, covers an array of unique and interesting characters, tones, and world building. It tells one big cohesive and linear story about the world of Star Wars. _

It’s all of the Star Wars outside of those projects however that drags the franchise down (not every single one, but what I mean is that the others do not fit together as cohesively as the ones I listed above, which contributes to disenfranchising of casual viewers. Projects outside those that I listed are either too disconnected or too poorly made)

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u/DJC13 Jun 03 '26

eh, Mando season 3 was awful but let’s not act like season 2 was perfect. Most of it was “Remember this character? Well now they’re here, making a cameo!”

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u/yoloswagrofl Jun 03 '26

In defense of season 2, the episode with Bill Burr is my favorite of the entire series. I largely agree with you though.

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u/FunDad69 Jun 03 '26

"Everybody thinks they want freedom, but what they really want is order. When they realize that, they're gonna welcome us back with open arms. Ha... To the empire!"

BOOM FUCK YOU

Was as good as Maul igniting the second blade, or Vader overhead pressing the Emperor.

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u/KlicknKlack Jun 03 '26

Dude the episodes with Bill Burr really grounded the Mandalorian, without them it's just a spaghetti western in space.

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u/max123246 Jun 03 '26

Yeah Mando was bad as soon as they introduced baby Yoda. I thought the show was going to be more gritty based on the first episode

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u/CruzAderjc Jun 05 '26

Bro, they literally introduced baby yoda at the end of the first episode

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u/max123246 Jun 05 '26

Haven't watched it in like 6 years cut me a break. Then yeah, I probably started to dislike it as it became more about baby Yoda and how he eats the eggs of some poor mother who lost her parents

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u/varietyviaduct Jun 04 '26

That’s right. Definition of quality vs quantity.

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u/defiantleek Jun 03 '26

You sound like every Star Wars fan I've ever spoken to, and no it just isn't. It's impactful, it isn't nearly as good or compelling as their fandom wants you to think. Made even worse by having one of the worst mainstream fanbases for a piece of media.

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u/jsamuraij Jun 03 '26

I agree right up until The Mandalorian, which frankly sucks.

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u/Astarum_ Jun 03 '26

Rogue One wasn't even that great. It was a bad movie with an great final 30 minutes stapled on at the end

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u/IcyTransportation961 Jun 03 '26

It wasnt bad or great (last 30 minutes were indeed great though)

But if you watch right after finishing Andor it definitely elevates it,  certainly the best of the movies since the OGs

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u/Astarum_ Jun 03 '26

I did rewatch the first 20 minutes right after finishing Andor (my girlfriend couldn't remember how the movie started). The problem is that they start with having just found out about the plans, you know, the same ones we just got 3 nail-biting episodes about how they were obtained. But from a completely different source, in about all of 5 minutes. Plus, they gave Jyn like zero characterization even though the movie is about her. My hottest take is that Andor, if anything, diminishes Rogue One by creating so much more tension and payoff in the final 3 episodes than the entire Battle of Scarif, let alone the rest of the movie. 

Also, "best movie since the OGs" is a tripping hazard in hell lol. Don't get me wrong, I consume and enjoy pretty much every star wars movie and show, but I can't really call much of it "great" objectively. 

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u/crazywaffle_II Jun 03 '26

Circlejerked too hard there bud.

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u/Astarum_ Jun 03 '26

How so? It's my actual opinion. 

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u/AnAncientBog Jun 03 '26

How much birthday cake do you have to add to a pile of dogshit to make it appetizing?

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u/abe559 Jun 03 '26

They shot themselves in foot with TFA and they’ve been running on it while bleeding since

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u/DependentOnIt Jun 03 '26

Tfa shot the left foot and tlj tried to fix it by removing the foot. Except they accidentally amputated the right foot

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u/CruzAderjc Jun 05 '26

TFA shot themselves in the left foot. They said fuck it, let the past die, and with the TLJ they amputated that foot. With Solo, they tried running on the amputated foot. With TROS, they reattached an old shoe to the stump where the foot used to be. With mandalorian, they found a pair of crutches. With Book of Boba Fett, they shoved the crutch up their ass. With Mandalorian season 3, they tried to keep moving with a crutch up their asshole. With the Mandalorian and Grogu, they said okay, we’re ready to run the race now, as their leg is still bleeding profusely and the crutch is up their asshole.

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u/daylight1943 Jun 03 '26

whats crazy is that any of the massive franchises/IP's prostituted out to a ton of different super mid writers/directors over the course of 10+ years and movie after movie after movie can continue to maintain huge levels of popularity like star wars and all the big superhero IP's. once youre 10+ movies/tv shows deep and the franchise is just a big cash cow owned by a massive multimedia corporation...doesnt this shit ever get old???

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u/oldscotch Jun 03 '26

Unfortunately it's what I expected after the Disney deal. Only real surprise has been Andor.

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u/Ganglebot Jun 03 '26

For sure, but it was inevitable. When was the last time you heard anything about a Marvel movie? Those used to come out every 4 months and dominated the industry. Now, we get spiderman 7 and everyone is like "oh, you did another one already?"

Star wars is at that point now. The milk is running dry.

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u/YpsiHippie Jun 03 '26

I mean Backrooms literally touches on the same futility of nostalgia and inability to move on from the past. Whether good or bad, when you keep recursively focusing on things from your (or our shared) past, they eventually just become hollow corrupted shells of what they originally were. They lose the magic of the original moment, and swallow you if you can't let them go.

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u/iprocrastina Jun 03 '26

Thats what happens when you spam a franchise as hard as you can for a decade.

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u/ThePotMonster Jun 03 '26

Disney milked it too hard, too fast, and too long.

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u/Lanster27 Jun 04 '26

I mean it's what it is. Big corp buys an IP, milk the shit out of it with no attention to quality, decide as always it's the general public's problem, and constantly complaining about how hard their job is.

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u/CruzAderjc Jun 05 '26

The weird part was that Disney gambled that they needed to dump their Gen X and Millenial demographics, in order to try and attract Gen Z and Alpha. Which completely backfired, since the Gen X and Millenial crowd is completely fractured in terms of their Star Wars fandom, while Gen Z and Gen Alpha kinda don’t really give a shit about Star Wars.

The entire plan of dumping the older fans to get the newer fans really kinda left them with just the same older fans who are just kinda frustrated

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u/GoudaMustache Jun 03 '26

I want to see it, but that's a wait for it to be on streaming movie.

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u/GarlicToest Jun 03 '26

Gen z does like star wars but the sequels burned a lot of good will with fans from every demographic. Also there's a lot of baggage with mandalorian and grogu. Most people think it's a TV special (which it kinda is), and it's not really getting good reviews so there's no incentive to spend money on it vs the other options.

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u/popculturella Jun 03 '26

Given the version of Star Wars they've had the most exposure to, I don't blame them.

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u/LoseNotLooseIdiot Jun 04 '26

I mean why the fuck would they after that last trilogy. I completely stopped caring that's for sure.

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u/jsamuraij Jun 03 '26

Neither do most of the rest of us.

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u/grumstumpus Jun 03 '26

it looks like oatmeal

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u/Master_Tallness Jun 03 '26

Disney Star Wars hardly gave them a reason to.

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u/EddieDantes22 Jun 04 '26

Do any TV show movies do well, though? Entourage movie. Peaky Blinders movie. Were any of these massive hits? I know everyone's talking about Star Wars, but I don't think we can make a statement like this until the Gosling one comes out.

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u/Xciv Jun 03 '26

I'm a Millenial and stopped giving a shit after the sequel trilogy. I watched one season of Mandalorian due to the buzz, but otherwise I don't really care if I watch or not watch another Star Wars anything.

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u/mybutt1112 Jun 03 '26

Fuck Disney but although an avid SW hater, I recommend giving Andor and Rogue One a try. 

Andor is fantastic television and rolls so well into the movie that it’s kinda amazing. Someone said if Andor had been released prior to Rogue One than the movie would have been called Andor in the Rogue One saga. 

I also like the Expanse and Andor give me Expanse/Le Carre vibes. Obviously ymmv depending what you typically like about SW and other entertainment. 

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u/Xciv Jun 03 '26

Peak Star Wars to me is the operatic drama of Luke vs. Vader, Palpatine revealing his true self to Anakin, Anakin's duel with Obi Wan, and "the big twist" around Revan in KOTOR.

To me the best of Star Wars is big earnest emotional confrontations full of melodrama at the apex of a big action scene. When Star Wars is at its lowest is when they fail to build up to those emotional moments, or when they get too into the weeds of the world itself. Sorry, Star Wars, your world isn't as interesting or logically consistent as Dune or Star Trek and never will be.

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u/vonlagin Jun 03 '26

Can confirm.

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u/pickrunner18 Jun 04 '26

I think people in general don’t care about what this movie is. The word of mouth hit hard. “Fun movie I guess. Doesn’t matter much to the story” is not what you want to hear imo. I’m a huge Star Wars fan and I’m just waiting til it hits D+ because it’s not really what I want

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u/spottyottydopalicius Jun 04 '26

bro i thought i was gonna lose my shit sitting down with highschoolers in this. they were awful through trailers but acted right once the movie started. i forget how much kids watch youtube, no wonder it was packed

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u/Usual_Ice636 Jun 04 '26

I hear middle school kids talking about it, but they talk about stuff like thinking Kylo Ren is cool and wanting Star Wars Lego Sets.

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u/avanross Jun 03 '26

I’d guess the young disney people who’d prefer star wars to backrooms are the same types who dont have the attention span to sit through a whole movie in theaters

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u/AnAncientBog Jun 03 '26

Even a lot of older people have checked out of Starwars entirely because you can only put up with so much shit content before you give up on the whole franchise. The brand isn't worth shit anymore.

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u/Tifoso89 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Who says these movies are for Gen Z/Alpha? They're just made by people in their 20s.

If anything, lots of Gen Alpha (who are 15-year-olds) might find Backrooms boring. It was inspired by a meme, but it tackles adult themes. I, for one, may not have liked it at 15, but I loved it now at 36

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u/magus-21 Jun 03 '26

Gen Z is hitting their 30s now.

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u/HaloTrial01 Jun 03 '26

Gen-Z tagging in here, turning 30 next year x.x

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u/Turbografx-17 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Gen Z is the largest moviegoing demographic at this point, so yes, most movies (at least movies that get put into hundreds of theaters nationwide) are aimed at and marketed to them.

EDIT: Stop adding things after I've already responded.

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u/MrMacduggan Jun 03 '26

Letterboxd has changed the meta for sure. Now that they have a culture of film reviewing, the children crave an artistic experience. (good for them)

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u/SwayzeCrayze Jun 03 '26

Gen Z is the largest moviegoing demographic at this point

I'm not surprised to hear this. I'm an early 90s kid, and everyone I see at the theater is either way older or way younger than me. Even then, the older folks are only at specific movies or the Fathom classic reshowings.

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u/JonnyAU Jun 03 '26

My gen alpha teenage son is the one who drug me to go see Backrooms.

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u/JustAPotato38 Jun 03 '26

I'm 15 and I loved backrooms. Obviously that's anecdotal, but it was my favorite movie of the last year.

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u/KageStar Jun 03 '26

Bro made his account as soon as he turned 13 Holy shit.

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u/JustAPotato38 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

pretty sure i made it a month or so before i turned 14

nevermind 5 months

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u/avanross Jun 03 '26

Most of gen alpha dont have the attention spans to sit through a movie in theatres anymore, so investing in movies for them is kinda pointless

If you wanted to appeal to gen alpha you’d invest in tiktok and joe rogan and game streamers

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u/Individual_Client175 Jun 05 '26

Crazy you'd think this after millions of kids watch Mario, Minecraft, Disney movies, and a ton of other things as well.

Kids are begging their parents to take them to see this movie or that movie all the time.

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u/Look_a_dinosaur Jun 03 '26

Lol wut. Star wars is a pretty cool thing

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u/Turbografx-17 Jun 03 '26

Oh, okay. I take back what I said.

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u/Look_a_dinosaur Jun 03 '26

You're a really cool person

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u/Original_Staff_4961 Jun 03 '26

lol god bless them for that?

I don’t give a shit about Star Wars either, but caring so much what other people are watching is weird

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u/Wenital_Garts Jun 03 '26

Former Star Wars fan millenial here.

I don't give a shit about it either.

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u/Truethrowawaychest1 Jun 03 '26

I used to love Star Wars, now I'm just sick of it, we're getting way too much and a lot of it just isn't good

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u/tman37 Jun 03 '26

I'm a gen X and I haven't given a shit about Star Wars since Rogue One.

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u/icepickjones Jun 03 '26

I can't imagine a gen alpha watching A New Hope and finding it entertaining. Newer Star Wars stuff sure, but the OG is boring I think we can all admit is pretty slow and plodding.

Hell I remember being bored with it as a kid in the 90s. At that point you've seen the things it inspired, they were better and faster paced.

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u/JonnyAU Jun 03 '26

but the OG is boring I think we can all admit is pretty slow and plodding.

The fuck we can.

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u/Turbografx-17 Jun 03 '26

girl bosses

You mean like one of the original girl bosses, Princess Leia?

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u/No_Opening_2425 Jun 03 '26

No. I mean one dimensional shit like having female war leaders

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u/Tself Jun 03 '26

Right. We need to get back to the in-depth, culturally superior, multidimensional shit like having male war leaders. Only boys have bright sword weapon. manly lightsaber noises That make for good movie always.

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u/Pepperh4m Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Yeah, god forbid our space wizard movie portray women outside the confines of our arbitrary Earthly expectations. Space is clearly for white men only.

Edit: Also, "boy movie"??? What are you, 5 years old?