Say goodbye to the era of great Sci-fi film makings

Rating: 2/10 (22 December 2015)

This movie is the contradiction of what Star Wars "A New Hope" was back in 1977. The movie heavily relied (if not straight copy & paste)on ANH, but it lost all of its spirituality and what Star Wars was about.
Before I move on, I will point out why Star Wars was significant, game- changer in entire movie history. As Forrest Wickman pointed out in "Star Wars Is a Postmodern Masterpiece", you will find out how it was perceived at the time of the release: path-breaking yet weird. Not many predicted that such movie will be a ground breaking masterpiece which will define sci-fi for next decades. It was George Lucas' hugely ambitious experiment project that no one dared or even thought about when it came out. It was original to its core, and gave audience unforgettable experience what it means to be like to enjoy a new space adventure, different from "Star Trek".
Such spirits live on for the whole original trilogies, and in prequels as well. Don't get me wrong. I also think prequels were bad movies and George Lucas was somewhat need to be blamed for such failures. But they were original, with new spaceship designs, new stories, new alien world and species that expanded the Star Wars Universe. Everyone of his episodes, whether bad or good, worked to expend our imagination and acknowledge how we can incorporate our own ideas to the movies. This is proved by how many Star Wars dedicated novels and games (we call it Expanded Universe, or EU) are contributed by the fans, continually expanding our imagination with novelty. For example, check Star Wars: The Old Republic (video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuNvCOUy1Ts).
Prequels were bad because of Lucas' poor directing (which he acknowledged), poor scripts and overuse of CGs, not because of his stories and ideas.
We see none here. The story sounds very familiar that you won't need any spoilers (except Han's death). All the designs and backgrounds are unchanged except their names. Same X-wings and Tie fighters are there, with nothing more added. (They even went on to exclude B-Wing bombers, A-wing attackers and many other vehicle which were mind boggling when they came out).
JJ Abrams not only copied from his predecessor, but also left out many of the fascinating elements. This movie was just a fan-made reboot of the Episode 4 with no effort to put any new ideas in it except modern CG working and BB-8 droid. This is a lazy work of film making and it is regrettable that many people are buying into these plagiarized, unoriginal movies that will turn out to be "forgettable" (other examples are series of Marvel movies, Jurassic World etc).
Some reviewers commented "the magic is back!". No. This only confirmed how great George Lucas' ambition was when he started Star Wars franchise, and the death of magic Lucas created for us.
I will rate this movie "2". The movie itself was decent, but its serious lack of originality and lazy script writing are what made me to give it unfavorable review.