>>212235707>It was comparable to the feeling I had walking out of The Phantom Menace.Please do not compare Episode I with Jar Jar Abrams slop ever again. The Phantom Menace had plenty of flaws, but it's an extremely creative movie that expanded the lore of Star Wars in hundreds of ways, George Lucas put a lot of thought on the world building, from Galactic politics, to the ecosystem of Naboo, to the myriad aliens that he added each with a unique backstory, it was fucking amazing and it gave us 15 years of kino videogames, books and novels, and other media.
The Force Awakens is a mediocre cashgrab with no thinking and no plan behind it, it fails at basic worldbuilding like having no idea of what the First Order wants or who the big bad is, it's just a cheap rehash of the OT to sell toys, except it was so cheap and creatively bankrupt that it even failed to do that, as its characters are souless and its plot is dumb. It negates the entire arc of the OT, cancels all the character development that happened in the originals, and it has a lazy script that is just plain bad. For example, in TFA there is a scene were Han hands Chewie the detonator for the sapper charges that they had planted. It telegraphs the fact that Han is going to die, literally a zoom up of Han's hand giving Chewie the detonator and telling him "you take the detonator". Why was that included? Just plain bad script writing skills of whoever added that line. I groaned in my theater seat as they were telegraphing Han's death right there. Just an example of the dogshit writing. Not to mention the hundred mystery boxes, Hosnian Prime being blown up with no consequence, somehow everyone being able to see it on the sky (dumb), etc, etc.
If you left the theatre liking TFA or feeling optimistic about Star Wars you are a 100% certifiable midwit.