As much as I still love and appreciate SW77/ A New Hope, I’ve found it to be one of the least… watchable of all the Star Wars movies. So much of it has aged horribly. The space battles feature ugly composite shots that get repeated over and over again, Han is so blatantly sexist that he uses the term “female advice” as an insult, the lightsabers look incredibly fake (and not even in a consistent or stylized way), and worst of all: some of the extras have mullets.
Which version are you watching? I ask because I’ve found that the lightsaber effects have gotten worse each time they’ve been recomposited (probably due to degradation of the elements), whereas 4K77 still has the original compositing and it looks great.