This was my first Star Wars movie and there was no awakening for me

Rating: 1/10 (18 December 2015)

There is a movie theater in town where seniors can see movies for four dollars before four p.m. I take advantage of that if there is a movie I am interested in. Today I decided to give the Star Wars movie a shot if it would not be too crowded. It wasn't. I cannot recall if I ever saw one of the movies in this series before. If, it was not in a movie theater and it did not have my full attention. Of course it was impossible over the decades not to know some of the characters and I was intrigued because Joseph Campbell, who I admired, thought that the Star War movies were outstanding. He was a friend of George Lucas. Well, I may have to get the DVDs of the old Star War movies to judge that, but this movie was not outstanding.
If you are not familiar with the whole thing, you are lost and I was. So my impression of the movie was the following: These white armors. the soldiers on one side, are wearing are completely useless. They could as well wear sweatshirt as far as protection goes. There is an incredible amount of shooting and explosions in this movie, if I would have known that, I would have saved my four dollars, I hate movies with a lot of shooting and explosions and as I thought that this is mainly a movie for children, I did not expect so much violence..
Harrison Ford looks his age. As I have not seen the previous movies, I did not really understand who he was and what he stood for. Obviously he is too old for the franchise now , so they killed him off. This film has been promoted on every single show from early in the morning until late at night and so I happened to see one show where Lupita Nyong'o was introduced as a member of the cast. I have to admit that I did not see her. Maybe she was wearing a mask?
I saw a lot of merchandising stuff. Not that I ever bought anything related to a movie, but I thought that little round robot was cute. Is that available as a toy?
I guess this movie is only meant for people who are already fans. It certainly did not gain a fan in me. Actually I was bored and disappointed. At the end it felt like a boring TV series with a cliff hanger trying to keep you hooked. . By far the most interesting thing in the theater was my neighbor who seemed to masturbate all through the movie, maybe he also thought that the movie was not exciting enough.