I mean I like it because it's Star Wars.
I hate it because (some how) they failed to make a Star Wars movie.
That's it exactly, you've nailed it!
I'm waiting for Solo to hit the $5 theater because while I do want to see it on the big screen, I'm afraid it's going to go the Rogue One or Last Jedi route & just be kind of a cool space movie instead of a part of the SW universe.
tbh, I really wish they had followed the books. There were so many amazing books written in the expanded universe, like just some really incredible, top-notch stuff (along with some pretty mediocre stuff, but when the stories were good, they were
good), and they could have pumped out a movie every month until the end of time based on those novels & made trillions because every single Star Wars nerd on the planet would have gone to see them. Huge missed opportunity, imo. Although I understand they're building it up as a Disney franchises & for theme parks & wanted control of new stories & whatnot, but still...so much great content that would have been just absolutely fabulous to make into high-quality films. I would love to see something like Solo directed by Taratino, the next full-on SW movie directed by Nolan, the Jedi kids movie with training by Luke directed by Spielberg, etc.
I have the same problem with the new Star Trek movies. I really enjoyed all three of them (well, maybe not the weird dirtbike scene from the last one, that kind of jumped the shark for me lol) as really super fun space movies, but they were not 'Star Trek' movies...Star Trek is more about thinking & figuring out how to handle situations than action, something a little bit meaty to think about & wrap your mind around. Like when the Borg queen gives Data skin, or when they find the planet with the hackey-sack-playing kids who came from an advanced space-faring society that had already bypassed our Trekkie team. Just another good movie, rather than a good Star Trek movie, if that makes sense.
I was really hoping with TFW that they would launch off the rehash (which was fun, don't get me wrong) & go on a Force-fueled adventure, but it simply hasn't happened. They missed the boat on the right elements for keeping it fun. Same deal with Transformers. First movie? Loads of fun! Had the transforming sound & a good story etc. The fifth one, the Last Knight? One of the dumbest movies I've ever seen. They finally fixed the faces on the robots & made it so you could tell them apart, and it was just beyond lame & scatterbrained of a movie. It really bugs me that they don't stay true to their roots, to the stuff that everyone loved originally. Which is why I like Breaking Bad so much...start to finish, just a solid, magnificent job all around. But then you have Lost, where the first two seasons were the bomb dot com, and then it quickly went downhill from there.
So yes Disney, I will give you my money because I am a fish in your barrel and you have the Star Wars bullet, but that doesn't mean I have to be happy about it