Uncreative, Racist Director Remakes 1st Star Wars Movie, Disses Primary Audience

Rating: 1/10 (28 September 2016)

First off, to address the rumors that everything in this movie has been lifted from the original Star Wars-- It's true. All of it. Han Solo himself would tell you that, using those very words. In fact, he did use those words in this movie. But I digress....
So yeah, I'm not going to focus anymore on this issue, since it has been thoroughly covered by many other reviewers. I will, however, share three observations that nobody else has really felt comfortable addressing in full.
Observation one is: Whether you accept this or not, the reality is that Abrams intentionally set out to show contempt for his main audience. Many reviewers here are clearly aware of this on some level, yet are unable to accept it and try to skirt around it. JJ Abrams is quoted as saying, "We wrote these characters but when we went to cast it, one of the things I had felt, having been to the Emmys a couple times — you look around that room and you see the whitest f***ing room in the history of time. Its just unbelievably white. And I just thought, we're casting this show and we have an opportunity to do anything we want, why not cast the show with actors of color?" First off, I will ask you to replace "white" and "whitest" in his quote with any other ethnic group, and then it should become remarkably clear just how insulting and arrogant his comment was.
Furthermore, of course it was an "unbelievably white" room. That is because Star Wars' primary audience is (drum roll) white people! Young and nerdy white males, in particular. While you can certainly find examples of black, Hispanic, Asian, and other non-white fans of Star Wars, these groups generally don't care that much for Star Wars, which is easy enough to confirm by visiting conventions, cosplay events, and the like. Now, any good businessman would have geared his product toward pleasing the main audience. For instance, if you're an intelligent and savvy film director and you're currently making a inner city comedy along the lines of "Friday," you make the financially sound move and create a product appealing and relatable to the primary audience (American blacks) by choosing a mostly black cast. You don't pick a Japanese or Estonian cast, because it would be a dumb thing to do; you would risk alienating, offending, or simply failing to arouse interest in the one demographic that would otherwise eat up this kind of movie. However, Abrams took the "dumb" move, thereby risking financial loss. Is it because he is stupid or inexperienced? No, this Jewish man did it for a crystal-clear, though understandingly difficult-to-accept reason: to give the finger to white males.
Now, this very demographic (nerdy white men and boys) had the chance to utterly demolish and humiliate JJ Abrams at the box office simply by keeping their wallets shut (hey, I did my part), but I guess our hedonism-driven society values two hours of recycled dross over their dignity.
Second observation is: Everything that happened in the first trilogy is now officially pointless. Han and Leia's romance fizzled and went the way of a drunken Las Vegas mistake, Vader might as well not have died because he was replaced by their son anyway, and their son might as well not been born because all he does is replace Vader (poorly), the Empire is still around under a different name, and the Emperor got succeeded by Snoke. It's been thirty years and Luke has apparently failed at restoring the Jedi Order, as they are seemingly absent from the Galaxy. Also, Death Stars just keep popping up. And so on.
Third and last observation: I don't know if this was done intentionally, but in an interesting move that mirrors real life, the quality of the male love interest decreases as the radical feminist qualities of the female SW lead increases.
Padme was arguably the most self-assured and balanced of the SW ladies. She was a strong leader, and at the same time, completely comfortable with her femininity. She felt no need to diss or embarrass the males around her in order to prove a point, and she appreciated and accepted help from whomever offered it, male or female. She also clearly enjoyed every facet of being a woman, from dressing up to eagerly anticipating motherhood. She captured the heart of heartthrob Anakin Skywalker, one of the most powerful and famous Force-users of all time and the subject of an ancient prophecy.
Leia is hardly a radical feminist, but she is more "modern" in this regard than Padme, and she ended up with the handsome but often money-challenged pirate with a heart of gold, Han Solo.
Rey, on the other hand, is Star Wars' resident Mary Sue and the most incredibly empowered heroine to date. She rescues her rescuers, learns how to do advanced Jedi tricks with zero training, can fly any ship, including the Millennium Falcon, and do it better than Han Solo himself. Now for the bomb: TFA has dropped hints that she will possibly pair up with a wimpy and unappealing former janitor. LOL--wut?
1 out of 10. Respect your dignity; avoid this film.