Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

I am very disappointed :/ It was so mediocre. Abrams was way too afraid to do anything different and so much of it felt forced and contrived. I really wanted to love it, I am a HUGE Star Wars fan (I've been to 5 Star Wars conventions, 4 Celebrations etc.) But I just simply didn't love it. It was "okay".

The good stuff: Finn and Rey were awesome, I really liked them. And Supreme Leader Snoke was fantastic. Kylo was decent, I guess. He was really great when he had a tantrum and raged. Hayden, take note. Leia was awful, Carrie Fisher's acting is terrible. Pretty annoyed that the spoiler I accidentally read a few months ago about Han being killed was true, but I believed it back then as well because it made sense. It didn't actually bother me in itself to be honest, it just somehow felt silly. Obi-Wan death 2.0 with new future Jedi 2.0 in training watching as it happens etc. Same thing with Luke not being in the film at all till the very end, it made sense so I believed it, and I guess it worked. Although Luke going into hiding while all this shit is going down is a little stupid. He really went that emo? Really? And where the fuck did this map come from? Jesus it was like an exact replica of A New Hope. I liked the bait and switch with making us think Finn would be the new force sensitive/jedi when it was actually Rey, and she was pretty awesome, although if a tad bit unbelievable to be that strong.

Absolutely hated the Weasley general at first, but then when he went all Hitler I thought he was pretty decent. Anyways, that's just some random ramblings. There was also a lot of "convenient coincidences" and quite a few borderline plot holes that annoyed me. Overall the film somehow felt both too fast and too slow, if that makes sense.

Ending spoiler

Ha, yeah, no training whatsoever, not in the force or in using a lightsaber, and yet she totally fucked him up. I mean, she was retreating throughout most of the battle, but she was holding her own, and then they lock sabers and he mentions training her, which like totally reminds her that this force thing actually exists or something, closes her eyes to meditate like she's mother fucking Qui-Gon Jin reincarnate, and then just completely wrecks him. Lol.

Also LOL at the size of Death Star 3.0. I saw a scale graph a few weeks ago of how big the original Death Star was compared to other Sci Fi ships/the moon/Earth etc and then they say Death Star 3.0 is like 10-100x larger. That's as big as Earth if not larger, iirc the graph correctly. I love how they can build these things so quickly and get them destroyed so fast and yet they keep doing it.

Ugh I'm making myself sad talking like this. I'm going to bed and maybe when I wake up tomorrow it will feel like a better movie. I should just ignore all the shit and bask in the Star Wars love. It wasn't bad overall I guess. My fault for having high expectations. Finn and Rey were superb, Kylo was good, Snoke was great, and that gives me a lot of hope. They are the future of the films.

I think it's pretty obvious that Rey had been a student of Luke in the past. Her memory was wiped somehow (perhaps diabolically by Ren or by Luke to try to protect her from being found). Triggered by the battle, her prior connection to the Force began to more fully "awaken" and hence she was Luke 2.0. I'm sure this will all be made clear in the subsequent movies. If not, well then yeah, it's pretty damn dumb, but I don't see how it won't be the case.