Many choices are just unfathomable

Rating: 4/10 (29 December 2017)

Many comments have covered the big issues about how the plot from the last movie was thrown away and Rey's power development makes little sense, so let me address some smaller points.
I know a lot of adult purists hate ewoks, but I am of the age that I was a child when I met the ewoks and truly loved them. My daughter was all set for that with the porgs (she took her plush one to the movie!), and then they were in the movie for 10 minutes and did nothing.
Leia flying through space looked really fake because she didn't move. It looked like one of those old movies with a green screen or a painted sheet where the person stands still and the scenery moves behind them. If people with a good force connection can instinctually fly to save themselves, why didn't Anakin fly to avoid the lava that turned him into Darth Vader?