Maybe I'm just an old fart, but that's my opinion for what it's worth!!!! :
Age has nothing to do with it. Being the product of two centuries and more of institutionalized double standards, probably.
I'm sorry, but modern movie critics just don't get it!! You need to consider Lucas' original premise for Star Wars. He wanted to re-create the old 'B' matinee movies he remembered from his childhood, which like pulp science fiction were there purely for ENTERTAINMENT. They were full of action, often mediocre acting, and frequently didn't make total sense, but they were FUN to watch.
This director never hid he aimed at producing a modern myth, a US american mythology. B movies did not chase that goal.
When I pay good money to go to a movie, I want to be entertained; I want to feel better when I come out than when I went in!! I don't need deep and meaningful with political commentary, sjw, etc, etc. There's enough of that on TV I can watch for free. )
SW has always been political. Apparently, it is too simple to state being comfortable with the political messages conveyed in the first or six episodes. It must be that there was no deep and meaningful with political commentary, swj...
Too simple to state that the agenda carried in the previous episodes was tasted, it must be there were no agenda.
Superior minded people add. They are dissatisfied with simple things.
One of the biggest stones in the SW glass house: the destruction of the absolute evil figures like Palpatine and Vader. Under the umbrella of this absolute evil, people are comfortable, the question of evil is easily solved: not them.
Script writers do not work to write stories, they work to please their master, it is the american system of servitude.
This last episode confirms it: the left hole was too big, it had to be filled so welcome back Palpatine. Not only that, dynasties matter a lot in the american system and this episode managed to squeeze the reigning dynasty (Skywalker dynasty) out of the equation. The Skywalker were at the core of all the events.
Now it is learned that Palpatine, out of thin air, has descendents and in retrospect, his dynasty mattered more in the state of the galaxy than the Skywalker.
There obviously is no myth, it is a failure, myths are powerful stories that achieve their own existence, they resist modifications at a whim.
