This is pure bull**** and you know it.
Which part of it? Kennedy has already proven to be a piss-poor producer introducing gender favoritism to the company, while under her leadership the latest three movies have all been at least partially re-shot costing hundreds of millions of dollars. That alone should be enough to fire a person. But that's not enough, the resulting fallout of bad reception from fans and the failure of related business proves the failure from the point of view of management. The only thing that's not apparent or acknowledged is that this will affect the possibilities of women getting to the position of power in the future. Well this is sort of obvious to anybody in a management position, but you don't have to trust me on this one. However, when even your radical feminists are starting to shout Kennedy is doing that, one might wonder if they might have a point for once.
Yes let's have Star Wars keep catering to basement-dwelling neckbeards instead of, y'know, half of the population of the planet.
How's that
half the population of the planet attending these new films? Given the numbers, I'd actually say they already indeed went and catered to basement-dwelling neckbeards. They just turned out to be different persons you thought they were.
Yes let's regress the entire franchise 40 years that is a great plan.
Sounds like a good idea to me. How about we started to make movies with good plots and characters again? They knew how to do that 40 years ago, but apparently we don't!
So your criticizing the producer based on a quote she gave on the eve of the best of the new movies?
That's not her only quote about it.
So for Kennedy, girls cannot identify with Luke Skywalker. Keeping things equal, then men should not be able to identify with Rey. Obviously that's never been the case. For some reason, men have been able to identify with Sarah Connor, Ellen Ripley and all the other well-written characters. I do expect women are actually able to do the same regardless of the gender.
I'm sorry but catering to old fans is a flawed strategy. Why? Because people die. They die, they move on, they get busy, or worst of all, they have less money to spend on star wars merchandise. To be successful you need to cater to a new audience and bring in new fans, and if the movie is good enough to retain the old fans, bonus. If not- could be worse.
If I'm not mistaken, the 30s something has the most disposable income. So why appeal to a 50-yo fan?
The old fans (30-50 years old) are the people keeping the franchise alive!
Actually, people with most disposable income are not in their 30s. The amount of disposable income is actually the lowest around 30s because of mortgages and babies plus that people in their 30s are generally already more poor than people in their 50s were when they were 30 years old. The max salaries and max disposable income is averagely achieved just before retirement at least here.
I am 99% certain that I'm not supposed to be laughing at Ren outside of the SNL skit. You can write a character that's struggling with a crisis, even one that's sympathetic, but it doesn't mean the audience has to like them. And really that's the issue I had the film. I mentioned this way back earlier on this thread that the pacing was all over the place. The only time I actually feel sympathetic to Kylo Ren is when I abstract him away from the film, which is also the same way I feel about Anakin. Conceptually, they are characters I should be caring about, but when I watch the movies, I don't feel it. And that's the problem.
So to be specific, I like Kylo Ren conceptually, but I dislike Kylo Ren when I see him in the film. Maybe I'd like TLJ more if I was reading it as a novel.
I too find Kylo Ren a source of unintentional comedy gold. I'm mostly wondering about how expensive was the gadget he wrecked this time, or how mission critical was the control panel that he wrecked. That stuff costs money you know.
If I know anything about the army, as a leader Kylo Ren would be facing a **** ton of practical jokes all the time. Particularly during the time of war, the soldiers would, even under the threat of their death ("Whatcha gonna do, kill me? I'm gonna die anyways!"), try to piss him off in ways that could not be linked to them. It wont work every time, but it's still worth it when the brat has rage control issues in front of a group of soldiers who are so very hard trying to show their shoulders are not bobbing. Or that they are not smiling.