May the profit be with you

Rating: Null/10 (19 December 2019)

I saw the original Star Wars back then in the cinema. I was 10 years old, sat on a wooden chair and was mesmerized. It was a great story about a young man and his friends who battle an evil Empire. A simple plot, but wonderfully made, likeable characters, great performances. Sir Alec Guiness, oh, he was truly great as mentor and father figure for Luke.
And now, more than 40 years later, with a budget to create 4 or 5 Star Wars movies from 1977, the creativity, the magic is gone. Nothing to see, nothing to feel. It's sad, that a young audience has to go through this kind of mess. The new trilogy has nothing special to offer. TFA was a modern "A New Hope", not bad, not good. We all waited for the next episodes to see all the questions answered. But Rian Johnson's TLJ subverted all our expectations. It peed on the legacy of the great character Luke Skywalker, it crapped on the Star Wars lore and I am not sure, but it seems as if Rian Johnson tried to make fun of Star Wars, a "Space Balls" in disguise.
Fast forward two years later and JJ Abrams tried everything in his book to erase TLJ. Really? Is there a fight going on within the Lucas-Disney-Branch? How was this even possible? Maybe Rian Johnson had a darker vision for Star Wars (see the first Trailer, there are no jokes, no humor in it and visually really stunning!) but the Execs got cold feet and inserted all that nonsense and forced humor and merchandising figures.
For me, this question (What was going on behind closed door?) is more interesting than the final showdown of Rey and Palpatine in this fan-fiction appeasement movie "The Rise of Skywalker". Overall, the film is shallow and at best mediocre. For me it was a big disappointment and I wonder how Disney will handle that failure.