They're not "just movies" its Star Wars the greatest IP ever. Unless your referring to the sequels then yes they are just movies, unimaginative, uninteresting and not very good movies filled with identity politics and virtue signaling. That is just my opinion which I am entitled to so you suck it and go play with your Admiral Holdo figure Hehe.
Nope. They are not just movies.
The OT is a way of doing everything in life. It is multi-sensorial, multi-channel perfection.
It is an enormous display of deep respect for the audiences, trying to present them with something that is rich and deep, ambitious and vast, organic but well-made, well-thought but accessible.
It has lots of gravitas, but it also filled with timeless, wide-spectrum, almost self-deprecating sense of humor.
It is simple, yet powerful. It goes to the guts w/o even passing through your brain.
It is nonsensical, yet beautiful. So beautiful that you don't mind it being nonsensical (forget your brain, use your heart).
It is classic, yet fresh. And it is everlasting. So everlasting that even the dated FX still hold up today. In fact, the FX are the least important, just a sort of hi-tech background.
But above all, more than anything else, the OT is the biggest, wildest and most expensive videoclip ever. A videoclip to John Williams' music.
Williams is the key to all of this.
As Lucas himself put it once: "You don't watch SW. You listen to SW."
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