Loved it

Rating: 9/10 (18 December 2015)

I never write reviews, ever, this is my first. To be honest I have never felt such a strong need to write one. After I got home from watching this I decided to look at the reviews (I had been avoiding the Internet for two days so I didn't get spoilers) and to say the least I am flabbergasted. Don't get me wrong, we are all titled to our own opinion, but you can't say you are the 'BIGGEST' Star Wars fan ever, and then proceed to spell Chewbacca wrong, AND say you were a fan of Jar-Jar. You just can't (in my opinion anyway.) Then you rate it one star. I'm sorry but even if the film did suck (which it did not) a one star is a pretty ridiculous rating. But I'm not going to spend this review hating on other reviewers, like I said how you feel is up to you, but I do feel the need to put my input in a review. So here's a pros and cons list. Pros- Music, they used the characters themes perfectly along with adding more. I liked this because it really connected this film to the originals. CGI was used VERY tastefully, unlike the prequels, this wasn't cartoon like, obviously there's going to be CGI but they used the minimal amount. (I mean c'mon the Millennium Falcon was actually a real scale model) Characters, the acting was phenomenal, whoever disagrees, I'm sorry. The emotions were real and raw, Harrison Ford of course had part in that, but also it being Daisy Ridleys first feature film, she was incredible. Along with all the other characters. I see a lot of people criticizing Kylo Rens character, but I think he was perfect. You could see the struggle in him, and I know he's not as bad ass as Darth Vader, but that's kind of the point. They're creating a new character. One with conflict, and If you can recall Vader had major conflict. The depth of this movie, with the first six the storyline was straight forward, not a lot of background to the characters unless they were main. This film added the depth, Rey struggling to grasp the force, or when she first touched Luke's Lightsaber, how it transported her, none of the other movies had scenes like that. Same thing with Finn, and the little scenes that add up to him wanting to no longer be part of the First Order. It all added to the film making you feel with the characters. When Luke finally appears, with his them playing in the background, I know a lot of people are upset he didn't say anything, but I disagree. Ending it how it did was perfect. There was no one liner that ended the film abruptly, it was a long awaited scene, that will be continued in the next film. Instead of it pretty much being a "To be continued" storyline it could be independent.
I could go on and on about all I loved about this movie but I do need to list some cons. Cons: Han Solos death. Although I feel this was still needed in the film does NOT mean I was happy with it. It took me ten minutes to even focus again on the movie. We don't really know what happened with Han and Leia, and when they hugged the last time I was counting on them to do the famous "I love you." "I know." Line. And even if it didn't fit it made me sad to know the iconic couple I idolized and wanted to be, wasn't there anymore. Kylo Ren, I'm putting this on here because before I went to see this film I had gotten into the show 'Girls' and it was very hard to go from seeing Adam's character, to well this evil conflicted character. This was in no way anybody's fault but mine, and I just felt the need to put it in the list so the cons would be longer. This film does have some of the same themes the originals had, but for the most part it didn't bother me because it was also very different. For now that's all I can come up with. And to know if you're a true Star Wars fan, if seeing those words pop up across the screen brought tears to your eyes and made you go "Oh god, this is actually happening." You are.