No, the problem is they are trash remakes of classic films with incomptently written stories and rushed to meet this demand for franchises that can compete with Marvel and their well thought out (mostly) cinematic universe.
ghostbusters answer the call was a trash remake. one ghost, some vaginal fart jokes, and Chinese wontons. four funny women who weren't funny and didn't fed off each other. the original ghostbusters was mostly ad lib. direction was off, timing off. it was ok at the best.
8 was the same.
7 started off out of the gate. then died. hard. directionless, cameo heavy, and a complete, undeniable Mary Sue. in the original, Luke was under threat. watching it, yeah, they could've died anytime. the reason they didnt was it was a trap for obi wan and the stortroopers let them go with a tracking device to find the hidden rebel base.
Speaking of, why was the tracking device still active in 8? probe droids and bounty hunters to every known planet to find the rebel bases and the falcon was at each? so the Empire purposely wasted it's time? solo tracked the falcon? What for? it was a functional ship left abandoned. why not go get it? no one on Jakku reported a stolen ship with tracking device?
No, it's going to suck because the big bad fell like a punk. Kylo is not a strong enough character to pull it together. plasma has what? Six minutes in two films and no one knows what her deal is. James bond is an Easter egg, so first orderr troops are a joke. the rebellion exists for no reason. star killer base destroyed suns which magically restart. half the galaxy is wiped right now. major planets central to star wars history and canon are wiped in what amounted to meh moments because you knew they were going to happen.
9 is going to suck because the story cannot be wrapped up correctly as it is off the rails, the villain is dead, the underlings are poorly developed, and the sheer Gaul in the universe is that if you slap star wars on something, people will watch it.
7 had goodwill. 8 had what was left of 7s goodwill and hope. 8 has nothing and might as well be solo. Skywalker was slapped on it. it's return of the Jedi and Luke will return as a force ghost to mentor the prodigy to redeem the Sith. it's shitty return of the Jedi.
Again these are valid criticisms, some of which I share. But I already see people jumping in this chat with the anti-SJW garbage. And that's a side of the starwars fandom that won't be happy about pretty much anything.
What worries me about 9 is if they are going to actually take time for character development, or keep propping up the disney formula cardboard princess where it doesn't belong. Disney has done good female leads now and again, but they are bombing it hard with this Mary Sue writing.
And I think the biggest culprit is pacing. Episode 8 could have easily been broken down into three complete movies that would have allowed time for characters to interact, develope, and grow realistically. Instead the film was rushed, and we have to catch snippets of characterization here and there in passing at lightspeed.
I would argue Kylo has been a better villian than most are willing to admit, being better developed than Darth Vader was earlier in the series. But he's on the more emotional end of the dark side, which isn't what people are used to seeing from the earlier films. His character has developed over the series as an individual. But at the same time he's less competent and powerful, which makes him less of a threat on his own.
The power creep of doomsday weapons isn't a new thing in Star Wars, especially if you are familiar with the extended universe.
The new movies also suffer from trying to pander to older fans with references to the older films.
Solo was really meh. It suffered badly from telling rather than showing. I also think they gave Han a more moralizing character than he should have been, but part of that goes back to George Lucas retconning his character flaws.
Rogue One had a lot of good elements, but it needlessly retconned elements of the original trilogy which muddied the philosophical underpinnings of the series.
I would like to clarify some factual things.
I would again remind that the Rebellion by the time of Rogue One was actually fairly well established, because Rogue One is a prequel to Episode IV. The first Death Star also wasn't capable of engaging enemy fleets the way the Second Death Star was.
