We've been snookered

Rating: 3/10 (19 December 2015)

Imagine if the following plot was released/leaked before the movie came out and how people would react:
1. Droid with important info lands on desert planet; 2. Droid meets up with orphaned, scrappy youth who becomes main hero; 3. Hero escapes from the bad guys looking for droid (in the Millennium Falcon no less); 4. Hero leaves home world because there is nothing left there for him/her; 5. Hero meets up with old guy who becomes father figure; 6. Old guy tells hero about the Force; 7. Bad guys have giant weapon in shape of planet; 8. Bad guys blow up home world(s) of good guys; 9. Good guys decide they have to destroy giant weapon planet; 10. Hero and old guy/father figure end up together on weapon planet and successfully sabotage it; 11. Old guy/father figure gets killed by the main bad guy (with a light saber no less) right in front of the hero; 12. Good guys destroy weapon planet by targeting the only weak point; 13. Hero leaves alone to find teacher to learn more about the Force.
I tell how people would respond - they would be bull****, which is exactly how I felt after leaving the theater. After all this time they couldn't be a little more original with the story? The production, special effects and battle sequences were OK, but I can't believe this movie is getting so many positive reviews by people who I'm sure are aware of the previous SW movies. If people knew beforehand that the plot was just a retread of the original, JJ and Disney would have never been able to make this movie. As a SW fan (who doesn't consider himself a fan boy), I was really disappointed that this what they came up with after all this time. - fin