The power of nostalgia on the human condition...The film was not released in China in 1977...
I read that China just let it's people see the original Ghostbusters not long before the 2008 Olympic games, USA volleyball players were perplexed when the Chinese fans were dressed like it's characters and chanting "Ghostbusters!"
Who cares what communists like
shareHollywood...your 401k...diplomats...
corporate owners and stockholders , that's it.
shareIt's also a comment about nostalgia...and it's power to compel people to spend money on a sub par product.
If this were a brand new movie without it's glorious past..one could argue that it is a John Carter.
nostalgia alone won't make 1 billion, i agree to an extant . Ghostbusters 2015 tanked
shareSo the question remains why does this movie appeal to Americans/ the West...and not the Chinese?
shareStar Wars is a religion in America passed down from generation to generation
shareChurchgoing is in decline in America but Star Wars fan base grows..a weird world.
shareits not growing in America. Its having a correction after TFA high. It will continue to be a healthy market, but not more than 1 movie a year.
shareProbably because one is hard to believe fictional nonsense with people running around using magic, and where brothers and sisters hook up, while the other one takes place in space.
shareStar wars was never that big a brand in China, so that is hardly a surprise.
shareSince China is not driven by nostalgia, it's an accurate index about the quality of the new trilogy. No nostalgia involved, if the movies are good, they'll watch them, if they're not, well, then nope.
The movie has flopped there. Draw your own conclusions.
I have 'aged out' of the Star Wars brand so it is hard for me to judge the quality.
Most middle age men in 1977 thought the original movie to strange.
Obi wan thought it would flop
Yeap, but back in the day Star Wars was something completely different. It was the first scifi movie that looked like a scifi movie. The only other movie that I can think of and did something remotely similar was the Matrix. Or perhaps Alien or Blade Runner (and this one wasn't well understood neither, critics massacred it).
It's logical that middle age men thought the movie was strange. Because back then, it was.
RotS, on the other side, it's not strange. It's not innovative, or different, or new. It's just... bad.
It is obvious that 95% of the brain power went into special effects while just 5% went into the script.
The horses on the battlecrusier is a prime example. I was waiting for the commander to simply look outside the window and just tilt the ship ( which would have been cool btw) but it didn't happen.