Soooo... you expected an accurate non-fiction account of the Empire being opposed by that plucky band of Rebels?
I didn’t know what to expect in 1977. No one did.
They hype surrounding the initial release of this movie was enormous. No supposed Science fiction move had ever had such a budget or such a premier.
Being a science fiction fan from my earliest childhood I expected a more serious introduction.
Had they NOT USED that introduction as it was written my opinion would have been different. It started out just like a Grimm’s Fairy Tale, “Once upon a time in a land far, far away........”
I have never seen one Star Wars movie since the first one and now that Disney owns it, never will..................