Star Wars as you knew it, is dead and buried, but still entertaining enough to watch with the kids....

Rating: 4/10 (21 July 2018)

This movie didn't suck as much as I thought it would, but as my neighbor warned me, "Prepare to be disappointed."
The movie has enough action and lightsaber stuff to keep you somewhat awake, but this just isn't the Star Wars we were looking for; go about your business.
Questions: Why is the universe suddenly so PC and diverse? Not that it can't have women, aliens, or people of color, but it seems so plastered over that it doesn't make sense. All the leaders of the resistance are now women with bad fashion styles. The lady with the purple hair that looks like a 70s dancer? WTF? She is leading the resistance? Her and other folks' acting was atrocious. They face destruction, yet her lines and expressions are more like your mom at a pizza party. The evil empire, per the books and movies, always had human males, and rarely trusted alien races or women with authority, yet now the "Wrong Order" from McDonald's is full of women and sissies(that red-headed admiral or whatever is atrocious).
Why are all the villains so terribly pathetic and badly miscast? Kylo Ren looks like your child's lab partner in middle school, playing with a German helmet from WW2. His motivations are ridiculous. I could write a better script for his reasoning than these people in 15 minutes. Who the hell is Snoke? Why does he look like a butthead? He is such an absolute badass Sith character, but no one even knew who he was during all these years of the Empire and the fall of the Empire, but suddenly, he is some Palpatine-level god taking control????
Why is the script and pacing so bad? Why is the damn movie over 2.5 hrs. long? This is a mistake. They dragged out way too many scenes of boring crap that could have been cut to a 90 min. or 2 hr. run time. Why is Luke so weird now? He can project himself for a fight with Ren, who doesn't even know the difference, and then dies or some crap? Just so they can get away? What kind of lame Star Wars writing is this? Even Mark Hamill complains publicly about how stupid the writing and character of Luke are now. The Asian chick crashes into Fin to keep him from dying, yet he was trying to die(as many other folks in the film) in order to destroy the enemy machinery. If all else fails, the writers just take an iconic scene or plot from the original trilogy, and bake it in with a new face, trying to cash in on what has already been seen countless times. Many scenes are just dumb rehashes of stuff from Empire or New Hope.
How many people sacrificed themselves for the cause in this film? It seemed like a lame plot device that was overused until I didn't care at all anymore who died in a kamikaze run.
Why does Leia sound like she is talking through a ventilator or a mask or something? Why is that other lady's nose so huge? It was so laughably distracting, we talked about it in every scene. They could use it as a javelin to destroy the New Order, or whatever. That takes me to the 1st Order-- this storyline makes no DAMN SENSE. So, in Return of the Jedi, the Empire is smashed, Vader is dead, Palpatine is dead, etc. but a few years later, the whole govt. is still being run by an unstoppable Sith lord and tons of Imperial troops, still bent on killing everyone that resists??? Why? Are they still able to give out great health benefits? Do they have daycare for Stormtrooper kids? It just isn't believable as a viable entity, using the same troops, funds, and superweapons, while the resistance is yet again poor and pathetic, using the same junk or less than they had before the rebellion. Luke's character is idiotic, as is the ability of Yoda to come back as a ghost at will, and play pranks and set fires. Chewie was not in enough scenes, and there are way too many cheesy people and moments. The suspension of disbelief is way too dumb at this point. They just make up any old crap they want, and write it down. Abrams and Disney have ruined this, just so they can continue to churn out 50 movies per decade now, ruing the nostalgia and nuance. You used to have to wait a long time for Star Wars movies to come back out, but now they make too many, and it shows...