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Yep, different stokes for different folks. There were aspects about the LOTR and Hobbit movies that I didn't care for, but as a whole, I enjoyed all 6 movies and have re-watched them. I suspect that things like the slapstick barrel ride tend to be a bit of an insider joke, i.e. let's see how far we can push this. I think that started with Legolas riding the shield down the stairs in The Two Towers.
I do think that sales, especially DVD/Blu-Ray/Digital Download sales, are a pretty good approximation of how a movie was received by the general audience. Repeat ticket sales, i.e. the staying power of a movie in the theater is also a reasonable measuring stick.
We are going far off topic, but my biggest gripe with the three Star Wars prequels was I didn't find it to be a believable explanation of why Skywalker became Darth Vader. Basically he was an angst filled teenager who started killing small children in the last half hour of the last movie. I thought the first one was ok. A friend of mine's reaction to the second was "if I wanted to listen to teenage angst, I would have stayed home" (she had three teenagers at the time). I've often said that Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog was a much, much better explanation of how someone who is basically good turns to evil. My reaction at the end of Dr Horrible was "Wow", my reaction at the end of Revenge of the Sith was "Really?" It's not a coincidence that I've seen the second two only the once.
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