What would be your top 3 biggest entertainment blunders in the last 15 years that had they done it better it would've made a lot more money?
Obviously without saying, the virus that is DEI/obsession with representation has ruined a lot of stuff, but here are my top 3.
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Not having Luke training Jedi students as one of the opening scenes of episode (could have easily had Han/Luke/Leia and maybe Lando reunite at the beginning, also you could've had Rey be one of his top students and the other Jedi provide an outlet for future stories)
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Not doing an inspirational Superman movie with Henry Cavill (speaks for itself)
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Marvel deciding to follow the All-New All Different crap instead of years of better source material for their movies. Why not do a Kirby inspired F4 or the X-Men, Silver Sable, Black Cat, actual Defenders, etc. But of course it makes more sense to push characters who are self inserts whose comic books keep getting cancelled like how they are really pushing Ms. Marvel to be the face of the company. (I know the comic book industry has had issues in the past, but to constantly push crappy female characters or race swapped characters that nobody asked for as well as telling actual comic book fans to piss off is beyond insanity)
Honorable mention: letting some moron showrunner be in charge of Wheel of Time when he cares more about girl power/lgbt representation.
Not sure it cost them money but not having Jon Snow fight the Night King was dumb or at least him and Ayra fight him together.
Lucasfilm not continuing the EU in it's own continuity instead of telling a group of very loyal fans to piss off.
What are yours?
Not having a cohesive and planned trilogy for Star Wars. They ended up pissing off almost everyone with the shifting story and tones.
Dark Universe. I get The Mummy sucked and you panicked but geez try a second movie at least. You could have cut cost and made a few movies to earn some shekels
The DC Snyderverse. Why did they put Snyder in charge of the DCEU? Did they think people wanted Superman to have the same energy as The Watchmen? And Batflek was awesome how did you dummies not get a solo flick of him?
I'm going to honorary mention the major sports leagues jumping off the apolitical train and embracing progressive politics full bore.
Old World of Darkness books probably did the Universal Movie Monster shared universe concept the best ....
You know how Airplane! killed airline disaster movies? Well, "Comedians meet the Universal Monster" movies probably killed that genre back before I was born.
Airplane was a parody of the movies like Airport right? I haven’t seen those but I love Airplane and can speak jive with the best of them
Yep.
All good ones. Like with the Last Jedi, why wasn't there an exec to say, "you know a lot of fans are really excited about seeing Luke and this is how you want to portray him?"
Baseball and Hockey didn't get too crazy. I honestly started watching hockey in 2018 due to the fact I got so sick of the NFL. I still watch my Cowboys but that is it. I used to watch a ton of ESPN shows and loved the Sports Reporters on Sunday morning and Around the Horn. Final straw for me was when Around the Horn closed the show with a rant about kids in cages. I discovered Clay Travis after that and read his book "Republicans buy Sneakers Too". Haven't really watched any NBA since Jordan retired.
Shit even if they wanted to go with the Rian Johnson subversiveness, do it coherently and give them a through line.
What sucks is that Luke goes through struggles and doubt during the EU and still chooses to do what’s right
The EU is dead, my friend. Forget the past kill it, if you have to.
None of the legacy characters were treated well. It's terrible how little care Disney put into Star Wars. It was just a way to make content.
Everyone seemed to know the movie was shit except anyone involved in its production. When the review came out that dropped the phrase "this movie subverts expectations in amazing ways" as a backhanded code for 'disappoints and underwhelms' while still rating the movie A++, it confirmed that we were going to be in the shit over the franchise permanently going forward.
Yeah, I'll never understand buying a property that had a singular vision and then deciding to make three direct sequels with three different directors. I know after TLJ they fired Trevorrow and brought back JJ, but that wasn't planned.