Was it Worth Starting Up the Star Wars Mainline Films Again?
Today is Revenge of the Fifth, the second part of the annual celebration of the Star Wars universe by its fans. I was reading a couple of articles, and it seems like there is something a few people got off their chest within these past two days. The new Star Wars trilogy doesn’t measure up to the original trilogy. So now I pose the question above, was it worth starting up the mainline films again. Fiscally, it made all of the sense in the world and restarting the series’ main films gave a good excuse to start selling new merchandise as well. While the movies generate a lot of revenue for Disney, most money comes from the merchandising.
Fans have often said in the last few years that this trilogy just doesn’t measure up to the original trilogy. So, the question posed above is best answered with another question. Was the story of the new trilogy worth it? Were there a lot of people who went to see all three films and come out of it feeling satisfied in the end? The movies themselves managed to sell a lot of tickets and get people excited enough to go out and buy merchandise. Critically, the new trilogy did fairly well and it was only ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ that did do so well critically.
One of the biggest problems with the way the new trilogy ended was that the ending was considered a let down by many fans. The film itself helped to validate some stuff about previous films, but there was so much going on in the film that more questions were brought up. To put it bluntly, the movie just ended up as a disappointment by many because there was so much hype for it. People have said that out of all three trilogies, this one ended up being the least satisfying. The satisfaction of the ending is the biggest thing that can change how people feel about a movie.
‘The Rise of Skywalker’ answered a lot of questions that fans were left with by the end of ‘The Last Jedi.’ However, there were a lot more questions that ended up being posed by fans at the end of it all that make the third film feel worse than the previous two films. Most of the feelings people have towards the movie stems from them not properly coping with how it ended. So, people end up saying that the way this new trilogy ended wasn’t as good as the original trilogy, but in a few years that will be subjective. In the end, was the film worth it to the fans.