It seems that Disney has hired some progressive director to make a new Star Wars movie, and I just want to be on the record saying I do not care. They totally lost my casual interest in the franchise for entirely nonpolitical reasons.
I enjoyed the movies that existed when I was growing up. I had Star Wars toys and played Star Wars video games as a kid. I saw The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker, the two most recent movies, in theaters.
They didn’t make any sense. Not for nerdy reasons such as being inconsistent, or whatever, though that might be true as well. I just found the stories to be impossible to follow.
The original three films, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi, are great movies (Return is my personal favorite). I liked the three prequels more than most people did (certainly more than Jack Butler did). They’re clearly worse than the originals, but they’re still good movies.
The Force Awakens, the first of the most recent trilogy, was good but only because it was basically a copy of A New Hope, which is better. Rogue One, the one-off released after The Force Awakens, was good and original. I haven’t seen the Mandalorian series, which might be good, but I don’t care about the franchise enough to buy Disney+ to watch it.
Someday I’ll tell my future kids that Star Wars consists of episodes one through six and Rogue One, and we’ll watch them and enjoy them. After that, I’m Star Wars–ed out.