Getting back to the whole "initial reactions are at least overwhelmingly positive but you could say the same thing happened with The Phantom Menace"
This is pretty much true except for a few caveats:
It ain't 1999 anymore. We're no longer the movie-going audience of 16 years ago.
Viewers have had all three prequels disappoint them like a chronic case of E.D. and other franchise blockbusters have been rampant in the past several years (Avatar, The Avengers).
Audiences are a bit harder to fool right out of the box these days, especially a Star Wars fandom that is still smarting from the last bowl movement* that George Lucas dumped on us 10 years ago.
*Thank you Mr Plinkett
This is pretty much true except for a few caveats:
It ain't 1999 anymore. We're no longer the movie-going audience of 16 years ago.
Viewers have had all three prequels disappoint them like a chronic case of E.D. and other franchise blockbusters have been rampant in the past several years (Avatar, The Avengers).
Audiences are a bit harder to fool right out of the box these days, especially a Star Wars fandom that is still smarting from the last bowl movement* that George Lucas dumped on us 10 years ago.
*Thank you Mr Plinkett
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