Last Star Wars movie I will ever watch.

Rating: 1/10 (24 August 2016)

I went into this film with low hopes after seeing the destruction of Star Trek under J.J. Abrams' watch and it turned out even worse than I expected. The Force Awakens is just a remake with a more diverse cast and CGI. That's really all there is to it. And it's a bad remake too. I left the theater not really caring about any of the characters because we were given no time between the bang-bang boom-boom set pieces to really get to know them all that well. The plot of this film (no spoilers) basically makes everything that the heroes did in the original trilogy completely meaningless. Nothing changed and nothing improved. And what they did the the Han/Leia relationship is completely unforgivable.
After watching this movie with friends, we sat silently in a restaurant afterward and tried to figure out our thoughts and feelings about this film. Probably the only way to accept this movie is any way is to consider it J.J. Abrams' badly written fan fiction. Star Wars had only three films (six if we're going to be extremely generous, since at least the prequel trilogy was made by George Lucas himself) and then the series ended.
If you haven't seen this movie yet, don't waste your time. Just re-watch your DVD of A New Hope and save yourself a few bucks. If you have seen it, I'm sorry we both had to suffer through that garbage.