My Favorite Star Wars Film, and I have been watching all of them for 40 years.

Rating: 10/10 (15 December 2017)

I am not a die-hard fan that has read all of the books, so I can see why some would dislike this movie. It does have a Marvelesque feel to it, but the Marvel movies make tons of money and they also make people happy, so what's wrong with that?
As for the merch haters, come on, George Lucas started that whole business. Star Wars makes way more money on their merchandise than on the selling of the movies. I'm looking forward to my crystal fox.
Another complaint is that they overdo it on preachiness. I guess I'm just so used to that in today's cinema (Avatar, cough cough) that it just doesn't bother me that much. The original Star Wars had their preachy moments as well.
I hated TFA. I thought it was the exact same story that we've seen 1000 times. I loved this movie. Writers make all of the difference. For the first time in forever they were doing something other than blowing up a death star. I thought the movie was very original, and I guess that is where a lot of the hate is coming from. People feel that it is not true to the original story.
Even the haters admit that this movie is visually stunning. The salt world is the best world that I've seen in all of Star Wars. The battle scene is beautiful and artistic.
Big Spoiler Alert:
People were very disappointed about Luke. Obi-Wan goes into hiding. Yoda goes into hiding, but heaven forbid Luke go into hiding. Luke considers killing the bad guy before he does anything bad-and people fault him for this. It's that great moral dilemma-do we kill Hitler when he is a baby to prevent WWII? Do we enact a Minority Report? So Luke has a moment of this and we feel that Rian has ruined Luke's character? So yeah, haters gonna hate, but I loved this movie. It was my favorite Star Wars film and I love everything Star Wars. I'm a huge Star Wars Geek, but apparently not geeky enough to dislike this movie.