Can't please anyone

Rating: 9/10 (29 December 2015)

Listen, when the prequels came out, all of you harsh critics HATED them because of the story lines and the horrible and overused CGI (which I hated as well). It was missing the nostalgia and gritty production that made the originals so great. JJ was HAND PICKED by Lucas, after Lucas himself gave Disney rough outlines of how the 3 movies should go based on the Star Wars universe. After that, he was hands off. Now, you people hating JJ and wanting Lucas back, are the same people who complained about the prequels and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which was Lucas. Obviously there is no pleasing you. "BOOOOO the prequels aren't like the originals" and now "BOOOO VII is too much like the originals". Absolutely ridiculous. I will admit, there is no beating the originals. They were ORIGINAL. Nothing like them had come out yet. They were adventurous and feel good and exciting. I want to go out and fight the Republic after watching them. But it's 40 years later. They had to please the people who were upset with the prequels, and had to find a way to bridge the gap between that generation and this. Yes, the story line is similar, but this movie was an introduction for a lot of people, both as characters and fans. You cannot be upset at that. It couldn't just jump right into the new storyline with no context. Be patient people. This was a wonderful movie. The CGI was limited. The acting was great. The scenery was beautiful, as was the filmography. JJ even left out his famous lens flare for us. The only things I disliked were: 1) Han's death and how unceremonious it was. 2) Carrie Fisher's acting. She was great in the originals but seems to have forgotten how to in this one. 3) Luke's absence from pretty much the whole movie, and the 3 minute staring scene he has at the end. 4) Finn was EXTREMELY overacted. His character makes no sense. He's trying too hard to be funny and to fit in, and from someone that has always been a storm trooper, this makes no sense. Han, Rey, and Poe are wonderful, and have great chemistry. Kylo Ren's character is intimidating at first, until he throws a complete temper tantrum, which I think should not have been in the movie or should have been written differently to make him fearsome, not weak and childish. All in all, this was worth the hype. I went in excited, and left happy and excited. Don't let all of these negative reviews get to you, they can't be pleased unless they wrote their own film, which I assume wouldn't be that great considering they spend all of their time bashing great movies and not getting paid millions of dollars to write and direct.