Glad I did not pay $ to see a good franchise drown

Rating: 2/10 (3 October 2016)

I am happy I did not pay money to see this. We saw it on Starz. Hubby and I stopped the movie to eat dinner and realized we were only 30 minutes into it. It was slow. 30 mins felt like an hr or more. First Order? What the hell is that? If Lucas did something like that, it would have been in 1, 2, or 3, not way down the line like Disney. Having a group called the First Order would make the group the first. what is so 'first' about it since stormtroopers and sith are already established? Disney could have said the Order is before or started when the Jedi came into being. It would have made some sense. The First Order can be a new enemy, but then there would be no dark side. They just threw in an enemy it seems. A revised version of the dark side. We want a new movie, not revised, especially since our beloved Star Wars characters are dead or aging. The graphics are good because that is what Abrams does-delivers good graphics and not much else. What about the guy on the throne? He looks like something from Harry Potter. Ooh, big evil guy who wants himself to be menacing. Sidious was menacing in his own right and did not need to be gigantic. Covering his face with a hood did it all.