To return to RED TAILS, I suspect the reason it didn't click with a wider audience is the same as the inevitable failure of a movie called THE FIGHTING TEA PARTIERS OF IRAQ, Celebrating a small group for their particular charactteristics and viewpoints rather than simply targeting the widest possible audience for escapist entertainment. I'm glad ANH was made in it's era and with it's pre-PC Westerns and WWII propaganda features Fantasies tropes. Maybe the ST set decades into the future of the galaxy will have a bit more space for PC pandering, but ESB, ROTJ, and the PT had too much of that beside-the-point, jar-you-out-of-the-movie nonsense as is. As I've said before, it's unavoidable for a movie to be entirely without a "message" as they involve human drama and experience and there is always some political and social aspect to that, but the goal should be to make a movie for maximum popular entertainment value and make any unavoidable political and social aspects serve that purposel rather than the other way around. There is enough material available from history and legend to build strong minority and female characters. GL managed to slip in messeges about slavery and discrimination using robots.