he has been documented multiple times saying these are the types of movies he wants to make. Look it up on youtube, there are multiple examples out there where he says his goal in film making is 1/2 to love it, and 1/2 to hate it.
But his prior movies and movies afterward were well reviewed and well rated by audiences. You said he had a MO but that doesn’t seem to have been carried out based on his record.
That all makes a lot of sense, no one is ever happy with sequels of any kind for the most part, but it seems like with Star Wars they eventually come around. Look at the prequel trilogy and how much hate it originally received, I'm not saying that will happen with the sequel trilogy, but never say never
my grandkids will be watching Star Wars stuff in 60 years.
I feel most generations are just always going to gravitate to their era and be less inclined to think subsequent movies aren't as good because we're never going to be the same age as when those movies were most magical to us.That all makes a lot of sense, no one is ever happy with sequels of any kind for the most part, but it seems like with Star Wars they eventually come around. Look at the prequel trilogy and how much hate it originally received, I'm not saying that will happen with the sequel trilogy, but never say never
, it’s what a giant chunk of the media market is designed around now, nostalgia sells. It’s never as good as you remember, but sometimes a taste of it does the trick. 
But by almost all objective measures as a story, Empire is the best film in the series. Part of the reason why is that Lucas let a lot of very talented people run with their strengths on that film. Larry Kasdan & Leigh Brackett wrote it, Irvin Kershner directed it, and Paul Hirsh edited it. Lucas executive produced and consulted when asked, but didn't micromanage it, and that was what made it better than the original.
The only reason JJ changed this was because there was so much backlash to Rian's "subvert their expectations" way of doing things. It's also massively breaks cannon. Strong force sensitive characters before TLJ were born into a family of other force sensitive people, or their force sensitivity was improved over many difficult years of hard training. Luke and Leia were so strong with force abilities because their father (Anakin) was a strong force user. JJ was trying to fix all the stuff that Rian had screwed up. It made zero sense for a random person born to scumbag parents to be one of the galaxies most incredible force users, with essentially zero training.
OK, and who is the force user before Anakin? And before that ancestor? Before Ashoka?
Yes they always found force sensitive kids with random parents. They never once found one that the first day the heard about the force was able to master complex force techniques. He was trying to explain how this girl born to nobodies was all of a sudden the most powerful force user the galaxy had ever seen, with essentially no training.
Anakin came from Plagueis. I don't know on Ashoka as I have never watched all the animated stuff. However, I do know Ashoka trained extensively at the Jedi Academy and then again as Anakin's padewan. So once again extensive training, throughout star wars lore is almost always essential for an advanced force user of Rey's ability.
Do you have a link to ratings showing that these were flops?
