I left after an hour. I was so bored. Felt nothing for any of the characters. I think I’ve outgrown the whole thing. In the end, I think the best were ESB, ROTJ, and Rogue One.
Here's the problem, as I see it: This trilogy crapped all over a lot of the lore and canon that George Lucas had worked really hard to build. JJ Abrams even admitted that he doesn't really like or care about Star Trek or Star Wars. So while the films might not be bad in the sense that you want to walk out of the theater, they're bad in that they change the rules for the Star Wars universe. That upsets people. Star Wars is a massive expanded universe that people love. That's why the franchise has been so successful for so long. Example - taking a space cruiser and suicide it into a fleet at hyper speed. This pissed people off because if this was really a thing, why didn't the Rebels just yolo an empty cruiser into the Death Star? So while I personally enjoyed Solo, for example, I pretty much just suspended disbelief that he wasn't actually Han Solo but another character entirely because I thought it was ridiculous that they were having anyone other than Harrison Ford playing Han Solo. The movie itself was fine and I enjoyed it, but that fact always bugged me. But I think another good example is Peter Jackson with Lord of the Rings. You could tell he loved Lord of the Rings with how much work and passion he put into the trilogy. That's why it was so good, that's why it won awards, and that's why he was a great person to put in charge of that franchise. But then he had to take over the Hobbit series because of issues with directors and you could tell his heart wasn't in it. There was no passion. That's why the Hobbit series was not even remotely as good as the LotR films. We didn't get LotR Peter Jackson. We got Hobbit Peter Jackson.
Im starting to feel that the reviews for Star Wars are more about getting clicks, or views on youtube than anything else.
