Midnights Edge: Star Wars: Attack on the Fans & the Humbling of Kathleen Kennedy - General

https://youtu.be/oy9ryBoNhys Also, minor spoilers from The Last Jedi.

An honest title would be "Attack OF the fans." And Katheleen Kennedy has not been humbled by a bunch of manbaby shitlords who think they can will a better version of The Last Jedi into existence with their fucking pocket money, while sending death threats to the same people they want to team up with to make their "superior movie." (Note: I have no issue with people who dislike the Last Jedi. I only have problem with people who treat star wars like their religion and consider any supposed desecration of their sacred franchise akin to fucking blasphemy. They're space fantasy movies, not high art - to paraprase Obi Wan, you need to go home and rethink your life if you have built your identity around an entertainment product.)

Oh my fucking god it's about that Grace Randolph horseshit ahahaHAHAHAHAHA. The one where she claims some random crewmember at Pinewood told her they listened in on a super top secret Disney meeting with security guards and everything where Bob Iger dragged Pixar and Marvel along too because reasons. Because Disney holds important meetings about their franchises' management at movie studios in England instead of, say, at their own headquarters in Southern California some 8000 or so KM away. Also apparently they literally can't find anyone who would be interested in handling one of the biggest and most popular media franchises of all time. This is fucking "my uncle works at nintendo and says blah blah" tier. How gullible do you have to be to fall for this?

I find it funny how the guy from channel claims they're neutral, while he derides the "identity politics", feminist stuff, and in another video just calls it marxist and collectivist, even comparing the empire to USSR, when it was said to be comparison to the Nazis. sure, not picking sides.

Heh, Star Wars fans really don't like Star Wars.

Actually, this is a thing. It doesn't apply to every craft and discipline in the entertainment industry, but for certain ones; it's very much a thing because once you commit you're pretty much branded/typecast after that, and it doesn't just apply to actors, and once you're looking for work after that and can't find it, word tends to spread. It happens to scifi crews in general, especially writers, actors, non-technical artists and conceptual staff, but Star Wars is a league unto its own.

Honestly the civil war going on inside the Star Wars community has almost ruined Star Wars for me. They're meant to be fun action and adventure movies, and just because movie canon doesn't line up with your own canon. It's wrong to vicously berate someone over their opinion on a goddamn movie.

I wish this channel would go back to putting out edited video essays/documentaries, like they did when the whole Ghostbusters fiasco was going down. That shit was actually brilliant and clued myself and a lot of people into just how bad things were inside the studio system (Ghostbusters literally came about because Amy Pascal wanted her strong female superhero movie and everyone underneath her said "fuck I guess just give her what she wants"), but their podcasts are just waaay too rambly for my taste. Modern Star Wars is crashing and burning compared to the MCU because the people in charge don't really know what they're doing, it's the same issue WB has with their DCEU. Everyone looks at Marvel and assumes "oh we just need like one guy in charge and we can release a movie a year", forgetting that it took them a decade to get to this point. So Kathleen Kennedy puts all her chips on JJ Abrams, who freely admits he has no idea what he's doing in terms of where the plot is going. Everyone keeps saying "when is Marvel gonna have their first flop", and the answer is "unless they start putting out consistently disappointing movies, not anytime soon". Meanwhile Justice League made less money than Thor fucking 3 and "diminishing returns" isn't nearly a strong enough phrase when comparing Solo's numbers to those of The Last Jedi (or hell, even Rogue One). If you're going to saturate the market the way Disney is trying to do with Marvel and Star Wars, you'd better make sure everything you put out is consistently enjoyable. The MCU has done that, which is why we're nearing 20 movies in 10 years and the response from general audiences is "I can't wait for the next one". Meanwhile, Star Wars had a pretty good resurgence with The Force Awakens, and three mediocre to bad movies three years in a row. There simply isn't enough good will left in the tank to make this an annual franchise like they wanted. Solo bombing forced them to reevaluate their approach, which is honestly the best way any of this could have turned out in the long run.

God I had Midnight's Edge