-Removed-True, I'm not a Boomer, but I'm still a SW fan. I think that Rogue One IS a better film than the prequels or the last trilogy, but I am a fan of Lucas' story, and the lore behind it, including parts and stories you didn't get if you only see the movies. Because of this, I read a lot of the background stories before Disney selfishly dropped them from the canon. The entire storyline is probably way too expensive to bring to the big screen and so it survives through other media, like books, animated tv series, and comics. It is a far-reaching story, truly epic in reach, and far too big to be confined to cinema. Heck, I even liked the movie Solo from 2018. I can't wait to see a big screen treatment of the Admiral Thrawn story, if they ever get that far.
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-Removed-I have to say, it wasn't quite as good as Rogue One. RO comes off as more polished, it's a good film even if sci-fi is not your genre. Solo is a little more rough around the edges, and it suffers from having characters that we know from the first trilogy played by different actors (after all, the characters were younger at the time of this story). Alden Ehrenreich as Solo and Donald Glover as Lando were passable, but still not the obvious star quality of Ford and Williams.
I liked the story, though, as I said. I think in all of Lucas' stories, the actual story is so good that I can look through bad acting and hokey plot devices as long as I get to fill in the gaps in the already existing storyline. This is why I didn't think the prequel trilogy was nearly as bad as everybody said it was. I thought being able to see the character of Obi-Wan Kenobi in his prime and seeing just what drove Boba Fett to be who he became later was actually worth sitting through the entire rest of the trilogy. In Solo, I loved the scenes around the Sabacc tables that fleshed out the story we've heard before of how Solo took possession of the Falcon from Lando and just where the dice came from (not to mention the whole Kessel Run scene, which was fabulous).
Solo was another Disney movie that came out without enough marketing (John Carter, anyone?) and the box office suffered as a result.
