Fear not - a fan edit will save this travesty

Rating: 1/10 (31 January 2018)

I had to go see this movie a second time just to make sure I missed some redeeming feature the first time round. Unfortunately It's still a travesty after a second viewing.
Despite all the things wrong with it (very well spelled out by other reviewers), I realised that - like the edit of TPM that chops out Jar Jar completely - this movie can be redeemed by a fairly simple fan edit (bear with me).
The worst parts of this movie can all be chopped right out and it will no affect the continuity. Yes that's an indictment on the film itself (way to go Rian!), but it will turn the film from a burning dumpster to simply 'meh'.
Cut the lame prank call and go straight to space battle. Remove the gavity bombs (duh) and just have the fully laden bomber crash. Same result.
Cut the Luke lightsaber toss (way to go Rian!). Buy a prop lightsaber from a comic shop and film a 5 second close up of a female hand passing it to a man's hand. Easy as pie. Yeah Luke is still (inexplicably) a miserable old ******* but at least we aren't all insulted (way to go Rian!). Then chop the scene where Rey picks it up.
Chop out yoda and chop out the burning tree (makes no difference).
Re the infamous Leia in space (way to go Rian!) - Chop out the whole scene from when Kylo hesitates shooting to leia arriving back in the ship. Later, straight after Rey and Kylo kill Snoke, insert the 'fetch me my shuttle' part (after he smashes his helmet) and then have Kylo attack the rebel ships AFTER snoke is dead (makes no difference). Blow up leia (for more psychological effect make Kylo be the one who shoots), blast her to space and then Leia is dead as a door nail. After all, poor Carrie Fisher is no longer with us.
All that leaves us is a few scenes with a comatose Leia that can be cut, and the talking scenes with Luke on the salt planet can be cut or edited to make her a force ghost instead.
Chop out the entire space casino / locksmith side plot (way to go Rian!)
Chop out the hyperspace bomb and just have the purple headed bra burner blown up instead (it makes no difference to the story as the First Order get to the salt planert anyhow).
Chop the porgs out. Chop out the space cow and the spear fishing. Chop out the space nuns. Hell, even chop out the sea weed filled emo cave. Chop the space dogs out. Then make a rebel PA announcement that the FO space cannon has caused an avalanche that Rey has to clear.
For special bonus we can even chop out force skype and your parents were hobos. The story is so weak that it wont make any difference (way to go Rian!)
And lastly - chop the Luke 'fade to nothingness' scene. Just have him collapse from exertion (but still alive), not die to spite us (way to go Rian).
Yeah it will still be a ***** movie but not an absolute disgrace. And in actual fact it will tie up the loose end of what to do with Leia.