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[VoiceOfReasonPast]

I relate. I'm about the same age as Mike and I have no curiosity about new Star Wars beyond watching the stuff fail, which is connected to a broader interest in watching Hollywood's fixation on franchises fail.

Also same. My dick doesn't even react to new Star Wars announcements anymore.

[Kugelfisch]

I've seen the original trilogy as a kid before they were made ridiculously shitty by Lucas plastering CGI on top of it. I thought they were okay. The aesthetic of the universe has always been better than the actual movies themselves.
I had a few toys and I liked some of the video games. Those have always been better than the movies to me.

When Episode I came around, it was massively hyped up. It was supposedly "our" Star Wars trilogy. A way to experience a glimpse of what it must've been like in the 70s for the people around the cinema release of the original three movies.
All of them blew ass! Nobody liked Episode I, Episode II was seen as mediocre and everyone was holding out hope for the third movie.
Review sites were running cope propaganda about how it was going to be darker (or at least not as goofy) as the first two movies and that we would get to see how this whiny bitch Anakin became badass Darth Vader. It too was a pile of steaming shit.
I had no hope for Episode III to be any good after watching the first two but I was going to those movies with friends and thought I might as well watch all of them. This is very similar to how I will often read a book series until it truly turns to absolute shit but will at least finish whatever pile of crap ruins it.

But what I also did was that I swore to myself that they'll never get me again. I'll never fall for their shit again. Thus I haven't watched any of the Disney movies or shows and never will. Doesn't even matter that it's Disney. I wouldn't have watched a Lucas one either, even if people swore up and down they were great.
Since I never loved the series to begin with it was very easy to follow through with it.

People just need to let this kind of shit die. Everything has a point where it falls off. A novel series, a band, movies, all eventually either end or turn at least so mediocre they are not worth spending your time with. Star Wars has been past that point since the turn of the fucking millennium!