I am a star wars fan and I liked the first 3 and the first sequel. The last was a dud. Maybe the 3rd sequel will be good.
Don't bet on it.The creative well dried up years ago...but the revenue has not.
Some say that Empire is a better film (better effects, basics already laid down, more drama, etc.). It ends with several cliffhangers. It is an incomplete film (the first one can stand on its own).
If you watch Return of the Jedi, you are stuck with a subpar followup and the whole thing ends with those damn Ewoks (teddy bear marketing tool, I hear in part because there wasn't the budget for a planet of Wookies).
Then if you watch this new trilogy, you are stuck with the whole story ark being the story of young Hitler, er Darth Vader. We find him in the first film as being a slave who must win the race to "save the farm" or whatever they raced for in so many movies in the 1930s-1980s.
In the second film, he falls in love with a princess (how else would his daughter become Princess Leia?).
In the third film he goes over to the dark side.
I would be interesting in hearing what the final trilogy was supposed to deal with. That is the only story arch that could redeem the franchise in my mind. In absence of it, I will hold to just the first film.
I'm not much of a Star Wars fan, but Episode I was surprisingly good considering the white-hot disappointment of the fans. And it WAS rather un-PC. Episode II was a terrible, cookie-cutter, paint-by-numbers, play-it-safe-and-don't-piss-off-the-fans toy commerical.