Do you have franchise fatigue? Or is there still a franchise that you enjoy seeing?
Just thought about it with the latest announcement about a new Jurassic Park release.
The first one is a masterpiece, the sequels are debatable.
What do you think about this trend in the industry to juice the maximum out of every movie?
Godzilla! (Japanese Godzilla. Minus One was like the 30-somethingth movie, and it was fan-frickin'-tastic!)
They’re all trash imo. Zero creativity. Risk aversion. Just make something new. There’s tons of people with ideas yet they don’t use any of them
Jurassic Park was a good book and the original film was great. Just let it die, people.
I was done with everything Marvel after the 3rd Spiderman movie and 2nd Iron Man. Saw Endgame cuz of the memes, but will never watch another Marvel flick willingly again. Ditto for Star Wars after the latest trilogy.
Star Trek is dead for me midway through Discover; just kinda stopped caring. Ditto for anything Lord of The Rings or Wheel of Time. Got halfway into the new stuff and just tapped out.
Fargo and True Detective were good a couple of times but kinda don't care.
Regarding the Marvel movies, I’ve slowly been working through them because I missed the bus when they were big and only saw a handful here and there (Doctor Strange, Guardians Vol 1 and Tom Holland’s Spider-Man movies, which are actually pretty good).
I made it past the first Avengers movies and I think they start getting better after Iron Man 3, Thor 2 and Avengers: Age of Ultron, but oh my gosh if the majority of the movies up to and including the first Avengers aren’t incredibly mid at best. I think watching them after all of the hype as they were coming out loses some of the charm, and I have to give props to what they accomplished creating a Cinematic Universe. But they are just so whatever.
Just kind of rambling, but the whole MCU seems to be incredibly over-saturated and I would be amazed if they are able to continue to carry popularity even close to what they had leading up to Endgame.
In general, I don’t really have a fatigue for franchises. Though I’m growing more sensitive to the sorts of milking decisions studios etc will make to make money off of the franchise … and relatedly have a bit of a craving for stand alone films or stories.
Watching Ahsoka right now and enjoying it and the way it sits on the franchise.
Something I’m growing weary of is Star Trek. I’m rather tired of the obsession with prequels and the TOS era and really prefer they tried something new like in the TNG era. I’m not sure how many more times I can tolerate Kirk appearing in SNW.
Franchises have always struggled to reconcile the need to reinvent themselves on the one hand, and the need to retain those elements that attract fans to the franchise on the other. As a long-time Star Trek fan I also want the franchise to push forward and try new things (and in some ways recent shows have done so - eg Lower Decks being Trek's first sitcom), but at the same time many fans just want to see the characters that they know and love, hence the obsession with bringing back - or tying new characters to - legacy characters (ala Strange New Worlds or Picard's third season). I wish they'd kept Kirk to the very last episode of Strange New World, and was even a bit disappointed to see the TOS Enterprise appear at the end of the first season of Discovery.
a bit disappointed to see the TOS Enterprise appear at the end of the first season of Discovery.
My memory is that many were to the point where there was some sort of consensus of concern about it loud enough that the show runners made assurances that S2 wouldn’t take place on the enterprise.
Sentiments have shifted since then, interestingly, to being more accepting of SNW evolving into a hard TOS prequel flirting with rebooting TOS. I can’t help but think it’s an MCU effect.
discworld stuff.
There's not been enough of that filmed to get tired of it. Everything out's been good to great, but there's so much more there that'd work well on-screen.
Discworld has basically a perfect track record with me and it still hit franchise exhaustion. Never read a bad Discworld book and I love Pratchett, but at some point I just subconsciously decided that it was enough. Maybe one day it'll wear off, but I've never felt a desire to finish the series even though I'm more likely to enjoy another Discworld book than a random new author/series.
I would like to see the Babylon 5 reboot go forward.
Anything Tolkien I'll still enjoy. Yes, even Rings Of Power. Lol
I really liked Rings of Power! I think it was mostly just the neckbeard brigade who made so much noise about it lol
I liked it too. Just... If the writing and dialogue were as good as the visuals and music, it would've been a great show.
What kinda saved it for me was finding value in the Sauron / Galadriel arc. As a Galadriel fan I struggled with the show.
But in the end, the idea that Sauron and Galadriel had this one off sorta platonic/spiritual hook up that flirted with the possibility of joining forces is interesting and sticks on my mind. It’s a nice exploration of the canon idea that Sauron was maybe contrite for a moment and that Galadriel has a rich and special past. And resonates nicely with the Doom of the Noldor.
I didn’t like a lot about how the story was told, but there were kernels there that stuck with me.
Otherwise, I’m not sure I can tolerate the wizard being Gandalf. Like if they clarify that I might just be out. I’d prefer they don’t clarify it, maybe tease that it could be Gandalf, so that book/canon fans can safely have the head canon that it’s a blue wizard who happens to be similar to Gandalf in some ways while everyone else can feel comfortable with it feeling like Gandalf.
I’m still on the marvel train, but I was fascinated by the comics already and really love to be in a Marvel universe "from the start" I really don’t have fatigue there, they even cut release a series every month and I happily consume it, lol
I just refuse to watch franchises any more whatsoever. They're creatively bankrupt fan service vehicles aimed at maximising profits.
I get fatigued with the amount of Star Trek/Wars and LOTR social media content I have to sift through
Almost finished watching all 20-odd James Bond movies. Fun but Not sure I’d watch any more. No interest in other franchises I used to like e.g. alien or Indiana jones.
Honestly I'm still enjoying most of the newer Star Wars shows! I was worried that Disney would ruin it entirely for me like they eventually did with Marvel, but I've really enjoyed almost everything that's come out despite that god awful train wreck that was The Rise of Skywalker lol
Yes, I do.
I've grown to the point of exhaustion with Marvel where I wont choose to see anything new on my own. They still make things I enjoy, like Loki, but unless a friend asks me to see it I wont even consider it. This isn't just a superhero or quality thing either. I will still at least consider something by DC even though it has had a far worse track record in terms of me enjoying their output (though it's still at a significant disadvantage).
Star Wars was a really early example for me starting to lose patience with franchises. As a kid, I devoured Star Wars content. I watched all the movies, read the EU, played the games, excitedly showed up to the theater for Episodes 1 & 2. But in the three years between 2 & 3 I was tired of it, and ended up seeing it after the movie came out on DVD because a friend put it on at their place. This is despite a very high success rate - I liked the EU stuff I was reading, I enjoyed Episode 1 (and to a lesser extent 2), I loved the games. Episode 3 did end up being a miss for me, but I think it might have been the first and it came after my exhaustion with the franchise.
Dragon ball, i hate where the franchise has been heading yet I'm intrigued to keep watching
The Fast and Furious franchise keeps delivering, I'm really looking forward to 11 and Hobbs and Shaw 2