Go ahead and enjoy it. The fact that I think it's a boring , poorly shot, mess of a film written by an out of touch recluse billionaire with too much ego doesn't mean that you can't even find it your favorite.

I grew up watching a VHS copy of the original trilogy. Those movies are incredible. There are better movies, sure, but the originals encompassed everything that I love about film. It's a simple story, with fun characters who grow and learn, in a setting that gets actual exploration and depth, where all of the editing and the camera work and the sound all come together to help tell that story better. There's cheesy moments, sure, but they add to the charm. It's a movie and it never tries to trick you in to thinking otherwise, and I appreciate that. There's no pretense to the film at all.

The prequels sucked extra hard for me because I'm so invested in the originals, and part of my absolute hatred of them comes from their betrayal of the whole concept of a Star Wars movie. Outside of the fact that it's set in space and there are laser swords, they're basically not Star Wars films. Characters have the same names, sure, but it's not edited the same, it doesn't look the same, it doesn't explore the universe, the Jedi are different, Storm Troopers don't make sense, and it moves really far away from the whole "homage to adventure serials" that the originals were based off of.

I'm going to want to start ranting about Star Wars now.