A nice movie, but didn't really feel like watching StarWars

Rating: 1/10 (17 December 2015)

Honestly, I envy those people who could give 10 stars to this movie. I was raised on Star Wars, read all the books I could find, and was a big fan of the SW universe, and wanted to enjoy it as much as possible, but I just couldn't.
This movie didn't feel like Star Wars to me.. J.J. Abrams wanted to add something new to the existing saga, but ended up creating something too different.
You can read a lot about the positive things, since most people praise the movie, so I'm going to focus on the negative here:
* Instead of putting that much drama into it, it could've focused more on details which made the StarWars universe unique (for me at least). I remember I loved the details of the cantins, and cities. Here the cantin looked like something out of the middle ages, and although it was filled with creatures, I couldn't really enjoy it that much.
* Putting that basement with the wooden box and all that stuff into the movie with Luke's first lightsaber, it just felt like something more like out of Harry Potter, then StarWars.
* All those new creatures...I don't have problem with adding new things, but still, I felt like it's too much.
* The Force powers felt a bit exaggerated from time to time
* Some of the jokes were funny, I have to admit that, but some of them seemed a bit forced.
I'm not mentioning the plot holes, since the previous movies had plot holes as well (although this movie has some serious ones), all I wanted to have is the 'Star Wars feeling', which I didn't get.
Sometimes I felt like all this Episode VII hype was all about the money and marketing, and the actors (Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher), etc only agreed to take part of this to get a nice paycheck before retiring.
Watch and enjoy the movie though, and this review is just one drop in the sea :)
--Edit-- Forgot to mention one of my biggest 'technical' problem: the planets. There was a desert (which could've been Tatooine), and a planet with a lakes and forests, then they covered the forest with snow and pretended they are in an other planet. Even in the end of the movie, there is just a Scottish landscape with all the small islands and that's it, nothing science fiction. Nothing like Bespin, Kamino, Coruscant, or any planet which I felt was unique or creative. Even in the Phantom Menace, there was the gungan city, which was kind of creative. Here? Nothing creative. (I didn't find the death star creative, although it did look different.) That's also why I didn't have that Star Wars feeling.