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[Donnie Ebert]

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story official teaser trailer.

My biggest takeaway is how creepy Mark Hamill was at the end of that. Yikes. Smile, Mark. Or move a little so we know you're still alive.

[Donnie Ebert]

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story official teaser trailer.

My biggest takeaway is how creepy Mark Hamill was at the end of that. Yikes. Smile, Mark. Or move a little so we know you're still alive.

Oh. He was being funny:

Creepily creepily funny.

[Jocephus]

how long 'til star wars fatigue

[ghostrunner]

how long 'til star wars fatigue

X years = (Current streak of years with more than 3 superhero movies + number of Westerns in the 1950s) / (consecutive years in the 90s with a movie where a mentally unstable woman became obsessed with the main character)

[MrSaigon]

how long 'til star wars fatigue

X years = (Current streak of years with more than 3 superhero movies + number of Westerns in the 1950s) / (consecutive years in the 90s with a movie where a mentally unstable woman became obsessed with the main character)

This is dismissively simplistic. Today there are also post-apocalyptic based on young adult novel movies. And angry Liam Neeson movies.

Also, is the best candidate for cliche that carried all these ages the down on his luck boxer?

[TimeForGuinness]

how long 'til star wars fatigue

I dunno, it's been going strong for almost 40 years now.

[wart57]

how long 'til star wars fatigue

I dunno, it's been going strong for almost 40 years now.

If they make good movies, I don't know if there will be any fatigue, if they start making sucky ones fatigue will set in quickly - see Amazing Spider Man movies.

[Jocephus]

Maybe Luke had no [expletive] clue how to really fly the x-wing, and R2-D2 was secretly doing everything the whole time.

[Famous Mortimer]

It's weirdly critic-and-quality proof. Even after three miserable prequels, all it took was the guy who'd...made a couple of pretty boring movies ("Super 8" and the second Star Trek)...to get people losing their minds with excitement. I was as big a Star Wars fan as anyone when I was a kid, but this tying of so much of your own psyche to two words (which is all it is now, with the original creator long gone) seems odd to me. Well, it's just a particularly extreme form of commodity fetishism, I suppose, so it's not that odd.

This mania means that Disney don't have to make anything particularly good or interesting, because people will go loopy for it anyway, and making something really good usually takes longer and costs more. The proof of this collective craziness is Episode 1's 56% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. A majority of people saw that pile of garbage and thought it was decent?

[Jocephus]

i would agree...and disney owns the marvel franchise and those apparently do no harm either, though people here complain about super hero fatigue. thus why i wonder about star wars fatigue