The Best Star Wars Ever!

Rating: 10/10 (27 December 2015)

I haven't posted an IMDb review in a decade but I had to write this one. I've been reading all these negative reviews, and I can only conclude...the hate is strong in them. This wonderful film appeared in the #25 spot in the IMDb top 250 and has been pushed steadily down ever since. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? Here are some frequent complaints about TFA from the IMDb trolls and why they should be disregarded by sane people. *FN doesn't look like Temeula Morrison and they just cast a black actor and a female lead just to be politically correct. REBUTTAL: It's 2015, get over it. PS: Stormtroopers are not, and never were clones. They discontinued the clone program by the events of ANH. *It's stupid that FN can pick up and use a lightsaber. REBUTTAL: A lightsaber, on it's own is just a weapon. A mechanical device. You hit the switch and it goes BROOOOOMP! You don't have to be Force Sensitive to use one. General Grievious uses lightsabers and so does Han Solo. If you can use it to cut open a tauntaun, you can run somebody through with it. *Rey couldn't defeat Kylo Ren with no formal training in the Force REBUTTAL: She defeated a wounded Ren, who was still in training himself, which makes sense in every possible way. *The plot is identical to ANH and borrows elements from ROTJ just to be completely unoriginal! REBUTTAL: TFA is more of a reboot than a sequel so I expected all the fan service. And they did it damn well too! I felt like it was more of a tribute to the OT than outright plagiarism. *Han Solo went out like a bitch. REBUTTAL: No, he didn't. That whole scene was exceptionally well done and touching. People that sat behind me in the theater audibly gasped when they saw it.
This is what I loved about TFA. *There's only one mention of the prequel trilogy and it's a passing mention of a Clone army. So, no talk of Padme, Jar Jar or midichlorians or the other things that ruined Star Wars for me! *The climactic lightsaber duel is an actual sword fight. They minimize the flipping around and leaping 500 feet from badly created moving CGI platforms! *The CGI is not as obtrusive as the prequels and looks pretty damn good. *The character dialogue and interactions are spot on and don't feel forced at all. Nobody sounds like they're reading their lines (like a certain Nabooean Queen) before the director yells CUT! NEXT SCENE! *LUKE! Mark Hamill gets 10 seconds of screen time, and NO LINES, and is still able to convey more emotion and character than Hayden Christensen could in the entire PT! *BB8! The little dude is AWESOME! He's cute and he's funny and conveys a lot of different emotions. When he hangs his head after hearing of Poe's supposed death, I was like AWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
If you actually did see the film, and didn't like it, you probably don't like Star Wars and could have spent your ticket money on another movie. I am going to see it again!!!!!!