This generation's Star Wars

[Lord]

Star Wars has video games and so does Harry Potter. Yeah Halo hasn't had movies but if game sales are any indication of turnout...it would make a killing. Plus Halo has novels, toys, etc. just like all the other franchises.

If you are talking in reference to how Star Wars changed the face of movies, well Halo pretty much did that as well with video games. It pretty much single handedly was the reason that Microsoft started Xbox Live. It changed the face of gaming.

I am not saying Halo is the new Star Wars because I don't see as big of a female or older audience but I can see why it was included here. Halo is pretty much a household name.

Exactly, i only played a bit of halo 1 for the pc but i included it here because of its popularity and because it's universe is also becoming vast with tie-ins as novels and comics.

 

[Erzengel]

I heard a Star Wars reference in like 2 different TV shows and a movie the other day.

If you wanna go by just how much money something makes then anything can be this generation's Star Wars. Pirates, Halo. The book the Da Vinci Code sold over 83 million copies.

 

[Lord]

I heard a Star Wars reference in like 2 different TV shows and a movie the other day.

If you wanna go by just how much money something makes then anything can be this generation's Star Wars. Pirates, Halo. The book the Da Vinci Code sold over 83 million copies.

You can choose whatever category you wantt:, i just put Halo for many considering it this generation's star wars and Master Chief becoming iconic but if you want then The Dan Brown Trilogy is This generations Star Wars

 

[Erzengel]

Well, I'm choosing the category of franchise, that changed cinema and fully ingrained itself into popular culture. That being said....there is no this generation's Star Wars for me.

 

[Lord]

Very well, you may all choose any franshise, even if it started as a video game that you thing is close enough to what Star Wars was, just have fun.
For example, i'll Name
DUKE NUKEM

 

[Erzengel]

Before Duke Nukem and Master Chief, there was a plumber called Mario.

 

[Doc Ock]

I'd love to say Harry Potter, being my favorite franchise eva(and kinda debunked Star Wars as my most favorite)! But honestly, I don't think this generation has a Star Wars. Or at least anything like it.

 

[chaseter]

Before Duke Nukem and Master Chief, there was a plumber called Mario.

Sadly Mario's thrown has been taken over by FPS like Call of Duty and Halo.

 

[Erzengel]

But Mario has sold the most.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game_franchises

 

[Doc Ock]

Sadly Mario's thrown has been taken over by FPS like Call of Duty and Halo.

IMO the likes of Call of Duty and Halo has dumbed down gaming and FPS games as a whole. I think the first Halo trumps the later installments. And COD4 was the final good COD game. But its just my crazy opinion....

 

[Lord]

Don't forget the greats Doom, Quake and Return to Castle Wolvenstein.

 

[Octoberist]

I think that...a new movie franchise should try to do it's own thing rather than being the 'next big thing'.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Ok, forget about everything but the movies, how dearly these movies are held in the public's hearts and how crazy they would go if a new film in this series was announced as being released.
With Harry Potter the real phenomenon is the books, the films are a spin off of those, it's the books that everyone scrambles for and queues up all night for, they are the continuation of the story, the movies are just live action versions for an extra bonus.

So of course it's the Lord of the Rings movies, when the Hobbit is released there will be a media hoopla most akin to the SW prequels, would this happen for a new Matrix? no, X-Men, it isn't. Spider-man? it won't. and the Batman phenomenon was centered around one movie, BB was barely a blip on the cultural radar in comparison, so you can't compare it really as a whole series folk have been following since day one, a lot of people don't even know there was a previous film in that series.

 

[Paste Pot Pete]

Harry Potter is the closest answer but even that is subject to re-evaluation years down the line.

That's the thing. "Star Wars" isn't "Star Wars" just because of what it was in the late 70s and early 80s; it's what it's been for the last thirty years.

Star Wars has continued to thrive without ever really stopping. For something like Harry Potter to rival it's status, it's going to have to keep going. More books, more material. Keep going and going and going.

Basically, "this generation's Star Wars" is still Star Wars.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Star Wars is a timless franchise, and Harry Potter is cool, but I don't think the Harry potter filsm will ever be held in sugh high regard as Star Wars.

 

[Octoberist]

Harry Potter will be known for the books, while the movies just complements the 'franchise'.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

^^ Exactly.

 

[chaseter]

I disagree. The movies pumped up the book sales and Harry Potter has two spots in the top 10 worldwide box office grossers of all time and Deathly Hallows 2 will also easily make it.

 

[dark_b]

it is Harry Potter . but it was not original created for the movie. HP would be still big even without movies IMO.

 

[chaseter]

It wouldn't be as big without the movies. The movies tapped into a whole new group of people plus lets face it...books are on their way out sadly.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

I disagree. The movies pumped up the book sales and Harry Potter has two spots in the top 10 worldwide box office grossers of all time and Deathly Hallows 2 will also easily make it.

It's the books that are the story, and the story is what the fans hold dear, the movies are incomplete versions of the books, they are just luxury spin off bonus material.

edit: Put it this way, if there were no books in the first place, and the first HP movie was an original screenplay, it would have been lucky to have gotten a sequel, cause it was not a great movie.

 

[Octoberist]

Books are not dying. (Excluding tablets). Especially with the success of 'The Hunger Games' and even (gasp) Twilight.

People are still reading. It's just that bookstores need to find a way to survive, and they will if they're smart. Look at Barnes & Noble compared to Borders: Barnes' Nook save them while Border's had crap.

 

[chaseter]

I love people who can't distinguish a movie from a book.

 

[chaseter]

Books are not dying. (Excluding tablets). Especially with the success of 'The Hunger Games' and even (gasp) Twilight.

People are still reading. It's just that bookstores need to find a way to survive, and they will if they're smart. Look at Barnes & Noble compared to Borders: Barnes' Nook save them while Border's had crap.

Book sales are no where near what they were 10 years ago...even with the advent of the tablet.

Books will always be around no doubt, but I bet in 10-20 years we start seeing digital books on tablets with actual moving pictures and sound. Can you imagine having a comic with a panel that actually was animated with sound? I bet we see them.

 

[Brother Jack]

In terms of financial and critical success as well as impact, Lord of the Rings.

Nolan's Batman would be close, but it's not finished yet.