cringeworthy moments and cop-outs

Rating: 1/10 (15 June 2018)

I saw this movie many months after it was released and was unaware of how it was received because I wasn't paying attention. I didn't read anything about it on purpose and didn't watch the trailers because I didn't want those to ruin it for me. I am a life-long Star Wars fan, but not one of the hard-core types (SW was my favorite set of movies and I had the toys as a kid, but grew out of it and never got into the comics or games, etc).
Then I saw it at a friend's place several months after its release. Almost immediately, the Poe vs Hux scene set the tone for what this movie was to be, and it was not good. This movie had great visuals, but the plot and characters just sucked. I was initially in a state of confusion after watching this.
Afterwards, I started looking online and saw a few things: apparently the actress for Rose was being harassed online (?) and how Rian Johnson was lashing out at certain fans (partially to defend her?) and partially due to his arrogance at realizing he made too many mistakes with this movie. Honestly, what I saw of him behaving online was very immature. I saw a pic of him holding a sign saying something like "your Snoke theory sucks". The back and forth of it all reminded me of junior high school.
RE the Rose character: I thought the character was very annoying, particularly at the end when she ruined Finn's only good potential act in the movie (I liked Finn in TFA, but he was kind of lame in this movie). But, that, in and of itself, would not have ruined this movie entirely (and certainly doesn't justify anyone harassing the actress, obviously).
The whole movie, when taken into context with the written statements of RJ after the fact, smells of his hubris. He wanted to make this "his" movie and to hell with any continuity. If he wanted to do it this way, then why not just make a goofy, comedy/sci-fi movie on its own without standing on the shoulders (and pissing on) the legend that gave it that perch in the first place? I guess that might also happen now that there are rumors of him getting his own trilogy... wow, talk about rewarding bad behavior.
Anyway, I won't go through and document all the cringe worthy moments as there are far too many and others have done a thorough job of that.
The main cop-out to me was the way they handled Snoke (and yes, I have read Rian Johnsons rationalizations of this, and no, I didn't have a "fan theory"). I am not passionate enough to join the "get Kathleen Kennedy fired" movement, but I now no longer care about Star Wars and won't bother seeing Solo or Episode 9- and certainly won't touch RJ's coming spin-off trilogy with a 10-foot pole.
Another thing I want to add is to address the way KK, RJ, & JJ Abrams have dismissed any criticism of this film by painting all those who dislike it as racist, sexist white supremacists who fear women. First of all, my 2 sisters and wife also called this movie "garbage". Second thing specifically to address JJ Abrams comment about critics fearing strong women: total BS. Alien was probably my second favorite movie series growing up and even into adulthood and you won't find a stronger female (believably written, unlike Rey) character as Ripply out there. This lame deflection on the part of these executives shows their arrogance and disconnection with the common movie fans, whom they seems to have a strong level of disdain for anyway.