How many droids did Disney use to get this to 7.9

Rating: 2/10 (11 November 2019)

Most of the top IMDB movies are violent, serious and depressing. There are barely any genuinely happy films in the IMDB top 300. That's ok, that's just what humanity tends to enjoy. That's why Star Wars always stuck out to me as a saga because it ends with peace in the Galaxy. It stood for hope, the triumph of peace in the end over war, good over evil. Han Solo was the ultimate hero. A likeable rogue, a vagabond, who never seemed to want to do the right thing, but reluctantly did it anyway, saved the Galaxy, married a bloody princess.
What does this movie tell us 40 years later. Han and Leia the other massive hero from the original films had a "We need to talk about Kevin" introduction to parenting, Leia hit the booze hard, their marriage fell apart, by the way the whole universe fell apart again, ten minutes after the Return of the Jedi and we find Han hobbling around the galaxy in his 80's still wheeling and dealing with Chewbacca, just before he's murdered in cold blood by his problem child.
The plot of the movie is almost identintical to A New Hope. Imstead of attacking a flaw in a Death Star, they're attacking the flaw in a Death Planet, that by the way wipes out all the planets that we became acquainted with in the prequels. It tells us that basically everything that happened in the previous movies was completely pointless, the galaxy is ruined again, the New Order is in control. The metacritics who scored it so highly should be ashamed of themselves or at least discontent with their bribes and the mighty George Lucas should realise his wonderful story has just been destroyed now forever.