Terrible: trying to be a reboot and sequel at the same time simply can't work

Rating: 1/10 (23 December 2015)

If this was the first ever Star Wars movie I might have given it a pretty good score as a bit of fun, but the original movies do exist, this movie is a bizarrely rehashed sequel of those, and my life would have been better if it had never been made.
Let's play a game. For each of the points below am I describing A New Hope or The Force Awakens?
1. The main hero is living unhappily on a desert planet.
2. The main hero is an orphan.
3. The main baddie is a black-masked villain.
4. A droid that bleeps has key information wanted by the baddies.
5. The droid that bleeps hides on the main hero's desert planet and meets the hero by chance.
6. The baddies search for the bleeping droid and destroy the main hero's neighbourhood.
7. There's a cantina scene with a band playing music.
8. The main hero meets a father figure who helps them against the baddies.
9. The baddies have a planet weapon that can destroy other planets.
10. On the planet weapon the main bad guy kills the father figure with a light saber.
11. The planet weapon has a major weakness that requires a pinpoint accurate shot to exploit it.
12. The goodies fly x-wings to the planet weapon and destroy it against all odds.
Let's play another game. For each of the points below am I describing The Empire Strikes Back or The Force Awakens?
1. There is a revelation about a father-son relationship.
2. The main hero goes in search of a famed, reclusive Jedi Master to receive training.
Well, for each of the 14 points above you have a 50/50 chance of being right, because The Force Awakens is primarily a rehash of A New Hope with bits of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi thrown in. I could have added even more examples of plagiarism if I'd had enough of a word limit.
If you enjoyed this movie then I'm genuinely pleased for you; taste in movies is subjective and each to their own.
However, I don't get what they're trying to achieve and it doesn't work at all. If they had said "we're doing a reboot of A New Hope to bring youngsters / newbies into the fold" and not included any old characters then I would have been disappointed but could at least understand the rationale. But it can't be a reboot because they have old characters in it and refer to their history from the earlier films, so it fails utterly as a reboot and therefore must be considered as a sequel.
As a sequel, despite some good scenes and characters, in my opinion they rip off far too many key plot elements from the original trilogy (see above) and it is a deeply unimaginative rehash as an overall plot. Of all the options they could have chosen, this was the worst.
If you are in denial that this film massively copies A New Hope then I question your ability to reason. Fine, feel free to overlook that and like or even love this movie, but denying irrefutable facts (not opinions) of major plagiarism is not a path to credibility.