...and i see the same thing happening when the Phantom menace came out: people desperately want it to be good so badly that they convince themselves that they aren't disappointed, until years later when it's socially acceptable to talk negatively about star wars.
the movie is riddled with insane coincidences, bad acting, poor CGI (in places when it's not even needed)....and things that make you question the plot and motives of the characters. This, to me, is the prequels with Han and Leia sprinkled in for nostalgia.
below is a list of rants off the top of my head.
1) supreme leader Snokes hologram is too large and he looks like a cartoon golum from LOTR that has a long face instead of a round one. Duplicate copy.
2) rey steals (and flies) the Millenium Falcon... too easily, from some boring-design-cartoon creature that just happens to live in reys village lol?.... and Han finds them literally moments later (in outer space) too quicky and coincidentally. (this is a huge galaxy yes?) why wouldn't Han own the falcon anymore? not explained.
3) kylo rens sword looks dumb as f**k to me and nothing can ever change that. He is a force user that is so powerful he can stop blaster bolts in midair, then later in the movie he struggles to force-pull a lightsaber out of the snow a few feet away. kylo ren is a snotty kid that doesn't scare me. Every time he takes his helmet off his hair is perfectly combed, ... oh and people don't sweat in this universe.
4) Every character is a kid, like 18 yrs old. In Empire strikes back, Harrison Ford was almost 40 years old... Luke and Leia were full grown adults, people loved it. Now we get BB8, which is a little kid robot. ...if you can imagine a thing.
5) Skywalker is missing (not explained why) and Liea (looking for luke) discovers that some old guy in a village... on some remote planet... has a small missing peace of a map that r2d2 has (r2 is owned by liea now) BTW r2d2 has shut down and gone offline for years for some unexplained reason....(but then comes to life conveniently and at the perfect time at the end of the movie to complete the map.)
6) c3po has a red arm in the beginning (unexplained) and then has his gold arm back at the end of the movie. (again unexplained)
7) rey finds bb8 in a massive desert, being captured by a cartoon creature, literally right behind reys house. rey then just walks up and says "no" and just takes the robot. the cartoon creature just shrugs it's shoulders and trots off. What??
8) finn is a human jar jar binks and shouldn't even be in this movie. It should be poe dameron and thats it. but they have to push that interracial agenda don't they?.....you have no backstory of this character or why he does the things he does or his motives. He even speaks ebonics. not kidding.
9) maz kanata: complete cartoon fail. Everything about this character is wrong and my 10 year old boy could come up with something better in 10 minutes. the scene in the trailer when she hands the lightsaber to Princess Leia is not even in the movie. This character is disappointing beyond words. Boring. Why does she possess Luke's lightsaber just sitting in a harrypotter-esque unlocked wooden chest at the bottom of a CGI stairwell? Unexplained. Don't care at this point.
10) the creatures Han has in cargo bays are ridiculous cartoon blobs with tentacles. The blobs chase/eat the pirates (two groups of pirates when only one was needed who also show up literally 60 seconds after Han comically finds rey and the falcon.)....one blob grabs finn.... it holds him in its tentacles for 5 minutes and doesn't eat him for some reason. I guess the blobs read the script.
11)....i could go on and on and on.
12) the new death star (called: star killer, how original lol, I'm really surprised they didn't just call it "star death").. is 10 times the size of the old death star, and is literally the size of a planet, ...but yet finn and Han bump into rey in the halls of this planet as they are trying to rescue her. The coincidences in this movie are too crushing to ignore.
13) captain phasma is only in the movie for maybe 30 seconds and is not even needed. Does no action or shoots no blaster. does nothing, and I'm not even sure why she is in this movie. Flashy-filler-distraction. If you are expecting an updated badass Boba Fett? (which she should be)... let me relieve you of this illusion.
14) Rey only knows about the Jedi as fables, but yet in a single day without one speck of training she can use Jedi mind tricks, use force-pull, and use a lightsaber as prolific as Vader himself. Even Luke had to have several training sessions with Yoda.
15) and of course the most stupid scene of all, at one point stormtroopers are attacking and Finn all of a sudden has lightsaber skills and fights a stormtrooper that has a anti-lightsaber baton for some reason (remember no one has seen a lightsaber in 30 years)... why would the Stormtrooper have such a weapon? not explained.
.... I can literally list 15 more examples but this thread can only be so long. I was planning on returning to the theater today to watch episode 7 again but I have no desire to ever see it again... until maybe it comes out on torrent. I've watched Empire Strikes Back 30 times in my life and will probably watch it again 30 more.
See the diff?
I'm sad...but w/e. Hollywood isn't capable of making good movies anymore.
This movie has failed and is not good.
