Maybe Star Wars is dead for people born in the 1970s?

Most of my buddies born in the 70s enjoyed the sequels, bar the last jedi , i suspect more people 40 and over watch star wars more than people under 30

Except there are older people that liked the sequel trilogy, and younger people that didn't.

Disney already tried killing the past by de-canonizing the EU books and trashing the first six movies on social media, that didn't go over so well for them.

China became a Communist country in 1949 because Mao encouraged his young Red Guard to "kill the past."

Full-blown Gen Xer here.

I kinda feel like the magic has been squeezed out of this franchise. I was excited for The Force Awakens and it was a fun movie. I loved Rogue One. Since then it's gone off a cliff and even The Mandarin isn't pumping up my interest.

I'll always have a special place in my heart for the original trilogy. I just don't have the same excitement any longer. I have seen Solo, The Last Jedi and Skywalker once. I have tried to watch them again and end up turning them off not even halfway. Maybe they can bring it back but I'm not exactly holding out hope.

I don't know anyone under 21 that is a Star Wars fan... so I guess the fanbase is from the 70/80s?

Your insecurity is insane. Your certainly allowed to like and dislike whatever you want, but this obsession to scream at the top of your lungs how "hated" the sequels are is hilarious. Facts say otherwise:

The Phantom Menace 52% & 50%
Attack of the Clones 65% (and that's generous) & 56%
Revenge of the Sith 80% & 66%

The Force Awakens 93% & 86%
The Last Jedi 90% & 42%
The Rise of Skywalker 51% & 86%

Metacritic:
Phantom 51 / 6.1
Clones 54 / 6.1
Sith 68 / 7.8
Average: 57 / 6.6

Awakens 80 / 6.7
Jedi 84 / 4.1
Skywalker 53 / 4.6
Average: 72 / 5.1

IMDB:
Phantom 6.6
Clones 6.5
Sith 7.5
Average: 6.8

Awakens 7.9
Jedi 7.0
Skywalker 6.6
Average: 7.1

MRQE:
Phantom 67
Clones 67
Sith 77
Average: 70

Awakens: 81
Jedi: 81
Skywalker: 63
Average: 75

I think you're off-base on this. I watched the originals as a kid-- Star Wars came out on my 7th birthday-- and loved them, and grew up with them, as did most of my peers. We were all excited about the prequels, and were incredibly disappointed in how shitty they were. We were nervous about another trilogy, but for the most part, and of course with a handful of dissenting opinions, we loved The Force Awakens. It was on par with the first two films, and better than Return of the Jedi. The remaining two films of the new trilogy were entertaining, faaaar better than the prequels, but not on par with the original three, or TFA.

In my experience, the only people who don't admit that the prequels are shitty are those who grew up with them as we did with the original trilogy, and have a nostalgic attachment to them.

I think the brand is still obviously popular. Personally, I just don't find it interesting anymore. I loved Rogue One, thought Solo was entertaining, but disliked the sequels. I haven't watched The Mandelorian and probably won't until the series ends and don't plan on watching the Bad Batch. I think I'm just bored with the unoriginality of it all.

I don't need to know anymore about Kenobi and how he was not on Tatooine or how he fought Vader a second time and nothing really happened, or more about the clone troopers, or Andor and his time as a rebel. I wish they would create something original not tied to the OT with entirely new characters far in the past or future. That being said, I am looking forward to the series about Palpatine and his Sith alchemy experiments between episodes 6 and 7.

I think I should add that there was a good story there with the prequels, but they are not good films. Lucas should have let someone else direct them. My largest gripe with the sequels are that the story is awful. They are well directed films, but terribly written.