Issues with the science in the story

Rating: 8/10 (5 January 2013)

I understand that this is a movie with imagination being the focus. Nevertheless I wish to point these out.
1. For some reason people in the movies seem to like animals looking similar to dinosaurs. We see them in the Entire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Given the technology why would anyone use someone like the Tauntauns in the Hoth planet if they had good technical transport.
2. Why have sounds from moving spaceships. Sounds travel in places where they can, there is no sound in space.
3. Next, the X wing fighters, they seem to be a slightly improved variation of the F-14s with capacity to travel in space, everything is done by people. We have automated fighters already, most future planes are going to be fully automated. All testing and correction seem to be manual, now most of these are fully automated. Given this being the future it will be more so.
4. A lot of the fights between the imperials and the rebels seem to exaggerated versions of video games. It looks silly really, where people sit on laser guns, target points and shoot them. It gives an impression that the movie addresses small kids and the video game market.