STAR WARS but for normies and casual fans

Rating: 2/10 (5 November 2017)

Let me just say NOBODY, NOBODY wanted to see this movie more than me. Ever since I was a little kid I had always wanted them to continue the movie trilogies, so of course I was ecstatic to hear that Disney would be continuing it.(ironic)
I will never forget what it was like seeing this movie in theaters for the first 20 seconds. I was so excited to see what they would do with the extended universe material. What new places they would make, what new enemies would be fought, but to my disappointment, its a minus well be episode 4 again.
The problem with this movie is very simple,it is a remake of episode 4. All the plot points are the same for the most part. No new cool places, no new cool enemies, just the same stuff as last time. For example, the movie starts on a desert planet, like ep 4, there's a droid that has secret plans on it, like ep 4, there's a planet destroying space station, like, episode 4, and there's a battle between the old mentor and bad guy antagonist like ep 4. JJ Abrams lack of creativity is what ruined this movie, as well as his wanting to make the concept of Star Wars so sterile and capid it loses all its morals.
The one thing that infuriates me so much about this movie though is what Disney did to it. I don't care that the main protagonist is female, or that there's a black storm trooper or any of that crap. Its the damage they did to the Star Wars narrative and ultimately the community. This movie is made for NORMIES. Now I know what you are thinking "must be one of those Star Wars elitists again" no thats not the case. I don't think you need to know all 50 something hyperspace lanes in the galaxy to be a real Star Wars fan but come on, open your eyes. Its so obvious that this movie is made to be as vapid and simple as possible. This movie is essentially made for millenials and soccer mom families who can go to the theatre and be like "oh ye get the bad guys" and "oh no the mean dude blew up the stuff". For example, what made the destruction of Alderran so horrifying in episode 4 was how the empire seemingly blew it up in such a quick and heartless manner, really showing their strength and cruelty. But in episode 7 when they blow it up, there's no weight to it, heck you don't even know what system they attacked or what the point of it was. It makes the audience feel disconnected from the event. (For those of you who don't know the system that gets destroyed is the Hosnian system which a large portion of the Republic fleet was stationed at). Nope just show some people looking scared and a scary laser going across the sky.
I understand Star Wars was meant to be a simple movie that anyone could watch and enjoy, its very universal. But the only reason why it was so universally loved was because of a great story that was also very simple and easy to follow. But there's no innovation here, its not challenging or interesting. You can have a great simple story thats innovating enough and brings in new elements without the audience having to know all the backstory. But there's none of that in episode 7, they don't bring in any nee concepts, because Abrams was to concerned making sure they could sell BB-8 toys instead of making a new unique story.
Thats really the problem with this movie, it was made so the average family wouldn't get challenged or offended by anything and just go buy some BB-8 toys for Christmas.