Even if not done all that well, it still may be enjoyable We do have the good historical NASA movies/series so it's not like the alien fantasy stuff was all there was.

(the alien and paranormal stuff on the History channel, on the other hand...)

It's OK, I still respect you the same as before...

Another fun read is 'Paperback Apocalypse: How the Christian Church was Left Behind' by Robert M. Price. It starts by looking at what prophecy was actually in the Bible, as the writers saw it (did you know much of the Psalms are the remnant of polytheistic worship? Damned interesting), then moves on to the entire history of American "end of the world" religious fiction up to Left Behind. The fact The Omen is included makes it on topic as well

That's reading way too much into stormtroopers. There is no terror from them, never has been, apart from the usual when dealing with enemy soldiers. I'm sure many were drafted, and not fanatics (only in an all volunteer army, or at least service, can you ascribe any political identity to them). Replace them with a generic WW I soldier in a gas mask from any side and you'd have the same effect.

What the prequels did was ruin the Clone War. I mean, here was a mythical historic struggle of the previous generation that the Republic won, but probably at great cost. I think we all assumed they were FIGHTING the clones, or maybe the fight was over cloning (similar to iirc the wars in the DUNE books that led to the ban on computers). To reduce it to "our clones fighting their robots" makes it rather meaningless...

Star Wars and Star Trek don't count, as those people are directly killed by the main characters as part of the plot. Now, if the Death Star had accidentally fired at some point destroying a random planet, THAT would have counted

(you could count all the Ewoks who died when the remains of the second Death Star rained down on Endor, but unfortunately that wasn't shown on film...)

And double feature it with Magnificent Seven.

It's just once it wins,we consider it "good".

Actually, after mentioning Birth of a Nation I realized it would be better to have them do an earlier film, so we can see the changes that happened. For example, 1913's The Last Days of Pompeii. It's so early in film technique that they put up a title card saying what's happening, then show that scene which the audience can now put in context.

If there's a genre of film that really needs more commentaries, it's these old classics.