I slept through most of TPM, and didn't even bother with the second one. And I'm not very excited about the third one either, Star Wars is so 70s.
I'm with you. That said,
I think George has it backward.
I'm sure this movie
will makes lots of cash,
and I'm pretty damn certain
it will be thought of
as a big failure
as entertainment and art.
But the folks that go
won't care much about
entertainment or art, they
just like flashing lights.
That's certainly one way to look at it but on the other hand I still find the original a good movie with very basic themes that are ageless. While there was advanced film technology in it they weren't really the story.
It seemed like each subsequent movie the film technology became more of the focus and thus they lost their "charm".
So I still watch the original from time to time (I have the first three on Laserdisc), I think the story has held up well like a good John Ford movie and unlike the rest.