[Discussion] Do you have franchise fatigue? Or is there still a franchise that you enjoy seeing?

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• psmgx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Jurassic Park was a good book and the original film was great. Just let it die, people.

  I was done with everything Marvel after the 3rd Spiderman movie and 2nd Iron Man. Saw Endgame cuz of the memes, but will never watch another Marvel flick willingly again. Ditto for Star Wars after the latest trilogy.

  Star Trek is dead for me midway through Discover; just kinda stopped caring. Ditto for anything Lord of The Rings or Wheel of Time. Got halfway into the new stuff and just tapped out.

  Fargo and True Detective were good a couple of times but kinda don’t care.

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  • Mayonnaise@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Regarding the Marvel movies, I’ve slowly been working through them because I missed the bus when they were big and only saw a handful here and there (Doctor Strange, Guardians Vol 1 and Tom Holland’s Spider-Man movies, which are actually pretty good).

    I made it past the first Avengers movies and I think they start getting better after Iron Man 3, Thor 2 and Avengers: Age of Ultron, but oh my gosh if the majority of the movies up to and including the first Avengers aren’t incredibly mid at best. I think watching them after all of the hype as they were coming out loses some of the charm, and I have to give props to what they accomplished creating a Cinematic Universe. But they are just so whatever.

    Just kind of rambling, but the whole MCU seems to be incredibly over-saturated and I would be amazed if they are able to continue to carry popularity even close to what they had leading up to Endgame.

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• maegul@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In general, I don’t really have a fatigue for franchises. Though I’m growing more sensitive to the sorts of milking decisions studios etc will make to make money off of the franchise … and relatedly have a bit of a craving for stand alone films or stories.

  Watching Ahsoka right now and enjoying it and the way it sits on the franchise.

  Something I’m growing weary of is Star Trek. I’m rather tired of the obsession with prequels and the TOS era and really prefer they tried something new like in the TNG era. I’m not sure how many more times I can tolerate Kirk appearing in SNW.

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• psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would like to see the Babylon 5 reboot go forward.

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• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  discworld stuff.

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  • solitaire@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Discworld has basically a perfect track record with me and it still hit franchise exhaustion. Never read a bad Discworld book and I love Pratchett, but at some point I just subconsciously decided that it was enough. Maybe one day it’ll wear off, but I’ve never felt a desire to finish the series even though I’m more likely to enjoy another Discworld book than a random new author/series.

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• solitaire@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes, I do.

  I’ve grown to the point of exhaustion with Marvel where I wont choose to see anything new on my own. They still make things I enjoy, like Loki, but unless a friend asks me to see it I wont even consider it. This isn’t just a superhero or quality thing either. I will still at least consider something by DC even though it has had a far worse track record in terms of me enjoying their output (though it’s still at a significant disadvantage).

  Star Wars was a really early example for me starting to lose patience with franchises. As a kid, I devoured Star Wars content. I watched all the movies, read the EU, played the games, excitedly showed up to the theater for Episodes 1 & 2. But in the three years between 2 & 3 I was tired of it, and ended up seeing it after the movie came out on DVD because a friend put it on at their place. This is despite a very high success rate - I liked the EU stuff I was reading, I enjoyed Episode 1 (and to a lesser extent 2), I loved the games. Episode 3 did end up being a miss for me, but I think it might have been the first and it came after my exhaustion with the franchise.

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• speck@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I get fatigued with the amount of Star Trek/Wars and LOTR social media content I have to sift through

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• toxicbubble420@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dragon ball, i hate where the franchise has been heading yet I’m intrigued to keep watching

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• yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Fast and Furious franchise keeps delivering, I’m really looking forward to 11 and Hobbs and Shaw 2

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