I would wager it’s fair to say the die hard fans are about evenly split. I think most casual fans at least liked it, if not loved it. Thing with SW is there are a lot more casual fans.
I can’t say I agree, as a Movie, it was good but not a must-see for a casual star wars fan. Maybe a solid 6 or 7 out of 10 as a movie. I though Jamnji was a much better movie as far as entertainment goes.
Are you a casual fan or a die hard fan? I find the former hard to believe.
Neither? or either? I guess it depends on how you define it.
I am old enough to see the OT in theatres and as a kid I loved Star Wars. One summer I got borrow someone’s VCR before it was the kind of thing everyone had and watched ANH 100 plus time including watching it a few times in reverse. I owned the toys and played star wars a fair amount.
But being into Star Wars that deeply was not being ‘die hard’ it was just being a kid. I was also into Gi Joe and Spider Man etc.
After ROTJ I got older and didn’t pay much attention to SW. Never read a SW book, but did go see all the movies and watched some of the cartoons. Out of 9 live action movies, I probably have only been to the Theatre to see them 13 times? (OT when it came out, twice for ROTJ, then OT again when re-released) The PT only once, RO once, TFA twice and TLJ.
I am sure by the board’s standards, I am not a Die Hard, but at the same token, I can still do every line in ANH along with the movie, so hard to say I am a casual fan.