Possible. But I also beleive that some people have a tendency to assume that because a film has Star Wars in the title, it can't possibly be bad.
I really don't see how some people can't tell the obvious differences from the two trilogies. The original was based on old Westerns....classic good guys versus bad guys on the new frontier (in this case, space.) The bad guy was clearly obvious, he wore all black. The simplicity in the plots were on puropose, give just enough information to move the good guys along from situation to situation and action scene to action scene. Like the old Saturday serials, that was the point. The new ones however are drenched in what is supposed to be a large deceptive plot complete with political overtones and filled with such "drama enducers" like galactic senate meetings and action scenes involving trade federations and blockades. Yeesh, how I almost long for the days when George didn't have the time or the budget to tell the whole story. There's nothing wrong with wanting to have a more detailed or serious plot, the trouble arises when it's not written in an exciting manor and the actors don't give performances great enough for us to care.
The new trilogy also gets too caught up in the years of "geekdom" if you will, created in the absence of new material after the original trilogy ended in 83. We never hear the word Padawan in the original, yet it's peppered here in these. And exactly how many times is the phrase, "Be mindful of your thoughts" used in the first two? I know I've heard it too much already. The midicholorian thing is another example. Heck, nobody knew most of the names for the many, zany creatures appearing in the original flicks until they magically appeared on the toy boxes later on. It's almost become a series too wrapped up in itself. And the simple fact that Boba Fett goes from being a minor player who clumsily dies in ROTJ to having a father that is the base of an entire clone army shows me a Lucas willing to pander to the fan base. I know I had several different images come to mind when I first heard the phrase "clone wars" in the 77 original. None of them involved the minor character of a bounty hunter though. Turns out my wondering thoughts were more exciting than what George conceived.
One critic put it best in 99, I forget who it was.....this trilogy tells that part of the story that didn't need to be told. I believe he was right. Doesn't mean the movies are automatically terrible or that the third is already terrible. But it also doesn't mean that some of us are just imagining that the originals were better.
