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Well, now that you mentioned it... I LIKE The Phantom Menace. Sure has its flaws (JarJar, CGI that hasn't age well, and a few more things), but is still pretty enjoyable. At least it's a movie that makes sense and tells a tory. Now, The Last Jedi? If you skip it and jump straight from 7 to 9, you won't miss anything besides Snoke's and Luke's deaths.
That's why I say 9 was too much information for a short 2 and a half hour movie, they should have done this in 8, Rey's training, Knights of Ren, Rey's parents, Snoke's origin, instead they lost an entire movie with.... Luke being a coward, Rose and Finn going to a casino planet for nothing, and.... Snoke's death was meaningless.
Still think JJ shold have directed the whole trilogy, I think while it wouldn't be as good as the original or the prequels, it would be less worse than it came.