Honestly, I don't understand what was so good about the old Star Wars movies? Had the Internet been around back then, no one would have liked those ones either. There is not really anything better about them than the newer movies.
Did anyone actually think that the Droids, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and all of those characters WEREN'T cheesy as hell? How about lines like "May the force be with you!" This is what Starwars is about, complete cheese. Characters like Jar Jar fit in there fairly well.
I think the difference with the Internet is that the nerdy Starwars fanbase is upset that every single character is not Terminator badass - the Internet nerd is very egotistical, and anything that threatens that "badass" persona they build up for themselves is something they want nothing to do with - this is why so many of them like Industrial and Heavy/slash/core/evil/death/black/badass/hardcore/deathcore/slashcore/evilcore/badasscore Metal. You're a bunch of GROWN MEN who play magic cards and dungeons and dragons, and read comic books, in places where no one else on the Internet is looking - and yet you critisize Jar Jar =P
Truth be told, I can't get through any of the Star Wars movies except for Episode 3 - Revenge of the Sith, and Return of the Jedi if I had a lot of Caffeine.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
