Then the prequels came out and it was like... meh. It was much better in my imagination.
When I hear Kenobi mention the clone wars in the original film I imagine something different than what we got lul. I do this with a few things in the films. Luke and Leia are not siblings in my mind. There was never a second death star. Han was never recused from Jabba's palace. When Yoda says "there is another" it's someone we'll never met and never will.
Hell, when I watch the first film I imagine that Vader is not Luke's father and that the Emperor is not a force user. The movie doesn't make sense otherwise.
For every Godfather 2 and rise to prominence of Vito Corleone, it seems like there's a whole crap load of The Thing 2011, Terminator: Salvation and Carlito's Way: Rise to Power.
If I was walking out of a theatre in 1972 having just seen the Godfather, and someone says "I want to see how the Don became the Don" I might have slapped them. It could so easily have been bad. I think Godfather Part 2 and Empire Strikes Back were a major factor in Hollywood sequels transitioning away from cheap inferior cash-grabs.
Fair enough, but doubtful anyone knows the whole story without reading the comics. I’m not arguing, Star Wars could’ve done better with certain story introductions.
Well the point is that the whole story is in the movies. The comics tell a different story. Or more accurately different versions of the same or similar stories. You could read Thanos' comics backstory, but it's different than what we've seen in the movies. For example the whole thing with his home planet falling to destruction due to overpopulation never happened in the comics.
The comics are the source material, the movies are the adaptations (sometimes loose adaptations). There is no equivalency in Star Wars because the movies have never had source material, the books etc. were always meant to be spinoffs of the films.
All that info you gave me about the original trilogy wasn't explained in the first 2 movies
Everything I said was from the first movie alone. The first half of the first movie in fact.
That entire backstory is available to you in this trilogy as well.
As I and several others have said before, if the information is not in the film itself than it is useless. If there was so little thought put into the movies that I have to read multiple books explaining what the movies failed to, why should I give a fuck? No series should need the third film to explain the setting, and it shouldn't need supplementary material either.
n that they brought down an iconic character with someone who wasn't described.
It isn't that he is not described, it's that he is brushed aside as unimportant despite everything previously indicating he was highly important. He appears to be the cause of everything bad that has happened, yet now he's dead, killed by a guy who has already been defeated by our protagonist, so who cares what happens next?
I hope for your closure they describe that in the next movie
Don't bother. There is no closure to be had from this franchise.
unless it's Thanos. In that case we just accept that there's this big dude who can beat up Hulk without any prior background.... & his whole crew of baddies just show up & do sh*t & we know nothing about them either.
Thanos was seen previously. He gave Loki the mind stone in the Avengers, causing the primary conflict of that movie. We saw him in Guardians of the Galaxy attempting to manipulate Ronan into getting the power stone for him. We knew he was the adoptive father (kidnapper?) of Gamora and Nebula, that he trained them as killers and that he tortured Nebula when she couldn't beat Gamora in battle. We knew he killed the entire family of Drax. This was all established in multiples movies years before Infinity War. The movie itself concisely gives us his backstory and his motivations for doing what he does. Meanwhile Disney Star Wars presented Snoke as this big bad in two movies without giving us so much as a hint or a clue about his backstory or motivations. He's evil and powerful because the plot demands it, not for any actual reason.
) Nothing you say is real. You twist everything... just like you twist your own superior understanding of movies in general. 
