Is the hype for Star Wars hurting every other movie this season?

[filmlover]

4 minutes ago, department store basement said:

What exactly does "4 quadrant movie" mean? I've never heard that term used before. Are the axes gender and age?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-quadrant_movie

[department store basement]

Just now, filmlover said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-quadrant_movie

 

So exactly what I thought it meant. Cool.

[Kalo]

Yes. Those second tier blockbusters can't repel hype of this magnitude.

 

 

[JohnnyGossamer]

No. I don't buy it. But, I do buy that it will impact movies released just before and directly after it. I'll be curious to see if it impacts movies like Hateful Eight, Revenant and Joy. I'd assume not but you never know.

[Deathlife]

To some extent, yes.

 

I can only speak for myself but i really don't have much interest in any other movies until Star Wars. It's not so much a matter of people saving their money for SW7 as much as it is "the movie" of the year (or maybe decade). Everything else seems like "little leagues" compared it.

 

I didn't see Spectre until its third weekend (its lukewarm reviews didn't help) and I might not even see MJ2 at all (breaking the last part into two movies didn't really connect with me at all and it kind of killed me interest in it).

[Spidey Freak]

2 hours ago, The Panda said:

Without a 4 quadrant film like Star Wars you might have had a larger amount of people more hyped for a variety of films that didn't have the type of appeal it has.  

 

Exactly. The casual fans (mostly belonging to the quadrants not targeted by Spectre, MJ2 and TGD respectively) aren't all that willing to check the movies out because they are waiting for the universe-binding colossus on its way.

 

Also, the fact that all three of these movies got meh reviews didn't help their case either.

[forg]

Nope, the relative disappointments of the other movies have other factors going for it but not really because of Star Wars. 

[ShouldIBeHere]

Whatever SW shadow there is wasn't helped by Spectre and MJ2 being mediocre movies (at best).

[Mojoguy]

November has pretty much stank to high heavens this year because there has been no breakouts, with the possible exception of Creed.

[Filmovie]

Imagine if also Star Wars sort of dissapoints with a sub-500 M

 

 

[Hatebox]

Spectre is simply performing like a Bond movie - ok in the US, well OS. More and more we're appreciating what a freak Skyfall was.

Edited November 27, 2015 by Hatebox

[Spidey Freak]

1 hour ago, Hatebox said:

More and more we're appreciating what a freak Skyfall was.

 

Or more and more we're appreciating the POWAH! of Adele.

 

[Last Man Standing]

It's harder to make a movie feel like an event when you have THE event movie just around the corner, but I don't think that's the main reason those movies underperformed.

[Those Crazy Swedes]

I can totally believe that it's having an impact. Speaking entirely for myself, It's made a big difference to my enthusiasm for other movies. Movies like MJ2, Spectre and TGD are ones that I'd be excited about in other years. At the moment, I'm *so* psyched about Star Wars that everything else feels like a non-event by comparison.

Edited November 27, 2015 by Those Crazy Swedes

[Maxmoser3]

Star Wars will bring in the business we were asking for since last weekend.

[dudalb]

Star Wars will not hurt any movie until it actually opens.

Certainly is not hurting Creed very much.

 

 

 

[BoxOfficeFangrl]

Mockingjay and Spectre did nice jobs of diminishing their own hype without Star Wars having anything to do with it: Spectre's ads and trailers were muddled and vague, while Mockingjay just tried to sell everyone cars (????).

[Ethan Hunt]

Maybe

[RobinHood26]

22 hours ago, filmlover said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-quadrant_movie

 

Wiki is so lame, it gives Titanic and Meet the Parent as an example. They don't even understand their own explation . 

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, Jay Salahi said:

 

Wiki is so lame, it gives Titanic and Meet the Parent as an example. They don't even understand their own explation . 

Uh, Titanic is a perfect example of a 4 quadrant movie. It made as much as it did because it appealed to all different kinds of people.