Why did the new Star Wars movies become social events that will be forgotten a week after being premiered in the cinema?

Why did the new Star Wars movies become social events that will be forgotten a week after being premiered in the cinema?

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“Nerd culture is the product of a late capitalist conspiracy, designed to infantalize the consumer as a means of non-aggressive control.” - Simon Pegg

because it is impossible to reinvent the blockbuster the way that A New Hope and Spielberg movies like Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark did

the new Star Wars isn't bad, but since it's not changing the way films are made (and really, they can't) they aren't going to be considered landmarks

>inb4 prequelfags

The prequels didn't reinvent cinema either and had some of the worst screenwriting in film history. The new Star Wars might be "just fun," but that alone is more than the prequels accomplished.

Cultural hipsters have invaded and ruined your beloved star wars, deal with it.

>it is impossible to reinvent the blockbuster the way that A New Hope and Spielberg movies like Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark did

I feel like the next event like this will be when we get a feature length, VR film that is basically indistinguishable from reality

Cinema becoming another form of advertisement to sell catchphrases onto t-shirts is why we're in this mess and entirely Spielberg's fault. I gave The Force Awakens a chance but it really added nothing to the lore or story.

Because the Harry Potter movies happened, made tons of money, and changed the industry forever.

Harry potter is shit.

who /porgsexual/ here?

That's an understatement, it completely trivialized the events of the OT.

Disney and "nerdculture".
We will get new movies every year for the next decade.

doesn't matter, they made money.

It would have happened without Spielburg, advertising and marketing is an inevitability in every medium.

I thought it was two movies a year

It also ruined literature too

Reminder Porg toys and stuffed versions have built in cameras in the eye lenses so Disney can spy on you

So now that nerd culture is mainstream what is the new 'nerd culture'?
I hear normies talking about WoW and DnD now is anything safe?

Nazism is the new nerd culture

High level math/science
Short wave radio
Model trains

tech noir like Blade Runner and Warhammer 40k will never appeal to normies

>Short wave radio
>Model trains
also these

and national socialism

Anime and manga are the counter culture to nerd culture. Thank God for the cultural divide so that it doesn't end up as bland as American Capeshit movies.

Anime is normie as fuck what are you smoking

the vast majority of 200m budget blockbusters these days are all the same formulaic shit, star wars included.

"starwars isn't starwars enough" - some sperg since 1977

We have to wait for based James Cameron to reinvent cinema again

Model trains isn't nerd culture, its an old people with money and time hobby.
T. work in a hobby store

>Box office hit Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 'lost $167m'

According to the Jews some of the films lost them a lot of money

OY! the movie didn't make as much as we thought, so now we lost money we never had
really illuminates my menorah

Attention span is shot

>shucks we lost SO much money on this movie millions of people paid to see
>guess that means we're getting a tax return this year boys!