What was Lucas Thinking?

Rating: 4/10 (27 April 2016)

Clearly, Lucas wasn't thinking at all except with the immature mind of a 6 year old boy who cant see outside the box. It was bad enough that he pulled a Ripley Scott type of Formulaic copy of his previous movies. Instead of progress in the story line to a better Republic with our original actors all happy and doing well, Lucas goes right back to another Death Star, another Emperor, another ridiculous Darth generation, the same old "hide secrets in the robot" while the clones chase them down and the same old resistance fighting them. As if they never defeated the Empire in episode VI. Not to mention the same old Shield power source ploy and a weakness in the death star for the fighters to shoot at. It is like watching a condensed reboot of episodes IV-VI all over again.
Then he hires cocaine (or meth) addict JJ Abrams (The destroyer of Star Trek) to direct the film with mostly darkly lit scenes where no one can see anything. The one thing that the original Star Wars had going for it was the nicely, brightly lit scenes and shiny clean technology. What is it with these Sci-Fi's which make everything dirty, dark and rusty? Especially when there is no atmosphere in space.
If that isn't bad enough, Lucas kills off their top grossing box office star. Then their negligence severely injured him when the hydraulic door of the Falcon fell on him. His ankle was broken at a 90 degree angle, needs plates & screws to repair it... and was so heavy the director injured his back trying to lift the door off of Harrison Ford. Shame on you.
I'm really getting sick of these movies and directors endangering and injuring our actors. NO MOVIE IS WORTH THAT! Harrison, you need to be checked for osteoporosis. It is a common problem that few men bother to check. You have had too many broken bones lately and we don't want it to be the death of you.
The problems with this movie doesn't end there. You only see Luke Skywalker at the very final scene for just one minute and he doesn't say a word in the entire film.
The movie is mostly casted with young nobody's who are bad actors with stupid, unexplained story lines and the plot has gaping holes. Nobody knows what anyone is doing in the first half hour. It makes no sense whatsoever.
There is also no excuse for not using those silicon makeup talents to help eliminate neck & facial lines and sharpen the jaw line a bit on the older actors. Makeup artists can build entire faces and alien species. Don't tell me they can't help the actors look younger with some thin layers of silicon to smooth the skin. Even I know how to do that kind of movie makeup.
Lucas is clearly a moron. Nobody wants to see a rehash of an old story. They want progress. They should have been at peace with families rebuilding the Republic and the Jedi Knights. The fans are into the relationships and people stories of this series. We don't give a crap for laser sword fights or death star battles. Those are boring & repetitive after 15 seconds. We wants to see character interaction, ingenuity, cleverness, progress, family, technology, fabulous alien architecture. Fabulous outfits and streamlined ships. Not a rehash of old stories. It is OK to include some of the familiar sites but not rehash an entire movie. Dead boring and annoying. That is bad enough but he is now expecting to do more Star Wars movies. Without Harrison... good luck with that. You had better figure out how to resurrect him... if he still wants to be on your films after you nearly killed him.
However, since the fans cannot control the quality of the movie, they go see it and buy it anyway to complete their series collections... so Lucas laughs all the way to the bank because he knows we will watch whatever crap he dishes out. It is a shame he does not consider what WE want instead of what HE wants.
Even though the movie is bad, I know you will want to go see your last chance to see the original actors again and complete your collection. But take the time to send complaints to Lucas. Perhaps he made a fortune at your expense but he shouldn't get off scott free.