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Even if it's balls out fantastic we'll be sitting there thinking 'now why weren't the other two this good?'
Yeah, but that's your bad. If you're going to let a permanently sour outlook mar what you just admitted would be a "Balls out fantastic" movie then that's not the movie's fault, that's your inability to take the movie for what it is and find an excuse to justify your disappointment in the previous two movies. Sure, you could blame the filmmakers for your sour outlook on the previous movies, but that's a weak excuse to write off a completely new movie and then dismiss it's triumphs by then going "Well, what about these other two?" it's announcing that you're going to be looking for an excuse to bitch instead of actually watching the movie.
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and the sheep-like mentality of audiences these days
And I don't think it's at all provable to say audiences now are more retarded and braindead than audiences prior. That's nostalgia creeping in and taking over in place of rationality. The ratio of great films to shitty films has always been about the same..you just don't remember the mediocre films of the past because a) they weren't memorable then and b) middle of the chart pieces of fluff don't ever make it on greatest hits compilations, understand what I'm sayign? Time softens edges. Just as many clunkers came out back in the day as they do now.
The quote above also betrays a basic condescension and contempt for people who dont' hold the same opinions as you do.
It's also weird that people who tend to list as their favorite movies popcorn flicks, fantasy flicks and mostly thin, fast moving action adventures are the one pulling this "artistic integrity in the audience" card. I'd buy it a bit more if it was a board dedicated to Godard or Truffaut or Fellini, but on a Star Wars board, the above complaint seems to come off as a little ironic.
