Lost all interest in Star wars after the 2nd movie...
Now I root from The Empire.
Same.
I was a teenager when my boyfriend’s parents took us to see Close Encounters at the theater and it was so cool to see a whole theater full of people step out into the night and look up at the sky with silent, mixed wonder and anxiety.
Didn’t get any crowd reaction like that when we were taken to see Star Wars.
Star Wars was okay but not remotely life altering.
For me, it was the Ewoks in "Return of the Jedi". It was over right there. Well, that and the stupid scene with the worm/mouth thing on Tatooine. Oh, and a repeat of the Death Star attack and destruction. Oh, and that Darth Vader, when finally unmasked, looked like a grandfather in a Hidden Valley Farms commercial. Oh, and the ghostly images of Ben Kenobi and Annikan Skywalker smiling benevolently at everyone at the end of the movie. Ugh!
Geez, what a steaming turd that movie was. And yet, somehow, Lucas managed to dump far larger turds through another six films. And that was BEFORE Disney got its woke, LGBTQXYZ+++ creepy fingers into it.