CatBus said:

The worst thing about Star Wars being so very, very overrated? The worst thing about the monolithic presence of this franchise, whose each entry devalues the whole? There’s one truly magnificent movie and one very good movie that are being swallowed up by cancerous growth of the larger entity. They’re two flowers, choked out in a lot full of weeds. And there’s some guy named JJ Abrams bringing in a backhoe and a whole bunch of new weeds.

This statement has some truth in it, but it doesn't go nearly far enough because it completely sidesteps the impact of the rampant revisionism in the Star Wars filmography.

If you look at the complete saga as it exists in 2011 with all revisions, you're down to one good movie (ESB:SE), one middling movie (ANH:SE), and crap. The "flowers" he thinks are still in the garden are just dandelions like the rest at this point.

I often wonder about which versions people refer to when talking about the movies. He says that Empire is far better than A New Hope, which is true if he has only seen the SEs.