it's like a rich guy made a fan fiction movie

Rating: 1/10 (2 January 2016)

A lot has already been written about the failings of this movie (and there are a lot and I only have 1000 words so I can't go into all of them) but there were a few specific things I'd like to address.
I feel like it's a bad piece of fan fiction. You know the one's where horrible things happen to the original characters and some random new characters are thrown in to fix it all. Also because the people who wrote this thing had no idea what the original characters were about in the first place ie loyalty and fidelity. Han had already transformed from smuggler to hero - we didn't need to see it done again. We needed to see how that character would have matured over 30 years, but he didn't mature. In true fan fiction style Disney is rewriting the Han Solo character from being lovable rogue to complete a**hole (so Poe Dameron can replace him in this new PC world), he's not the character written about in the pre-Disney books anymore where he's a leader and a hero and a brother-in-law, father, grandfather, husband and friend. Nope he's just a smuggler and a pilot and that's it.
I saw an interview with Harrison Ford where he said the old characters had been given, 'satisfactory' back stories and I thought at the time we could be in trouble with this film. Satisfactory is a very specific choice of words, it's like he wanted to say it's terrible but couldn't.
The people who are saying that it's like Episode 4 because that's what fans wanted...no we didn't we wanted a new story. We wanted new characters we could care about...seriously you could have blown up all the newbies and I wouldn't have given two hoots.
It's like Disney looked at what people hated about the prequels (that weren't that bad btw) and then what people liked about the Originals and just copied and pasted it. If there's 30 minutes of dialogue in this whole thing I'd be shocked.
In this new Hunger Games/Harry Potter/Avengers mash up you apparently have no life between 30 and 60. The characters are all either under 30 (and great at everything) or over 60 and just plain worn out and tired because apparently they made bad choices. Only wait a minute...they didn't, I saw the movies, they made great choices. They were loyal, heroic and brave not the husks we saw on the screen.
I wonder how much today's viewers will like it when in 20/30 years someone writes Ray as a bad wife and mother with an evil child whose husband has run away, when Fin and Poe abandon their friends and families and then die a pointless death? That's all Star Wars is now the ongoing saga of bad parenting...fan fiction at it's worst.
I won't be watching anymore Disney Star Wars. As others have said Star Wars is dead.