Among the worst movies ever made

Rating: 1/10 (1 January 2018)

There are 4issues going on here:
1. Disney is trying to jettison the old Star Wars IP so they can build their own characters, stories and products in the future. This is completely understandable. The way they destroyed the Lucas era story line and Luke was not only deplorable but poorly done from a narrative and writing perspective. They also undercut the seeds planted in TFA. The result is that there is nothing to go back to: no Skywalkers, no Obi Wan, no Rey's parents, no connection between Kylo Ren and Darth Vader. Snoke probably wasn't going to be a good villain anyway but you would have thought they would have talked about the arc of the story before they developed this trilogy. Instead, he's dead. Who was he and why was he here? It doesn't really matter.
2. Bad Writing. You can argue that getting rid of Luke and the previous characters is necessary to move forward and that may be true...but the new stuff they created is just awful. The plot is terrible with lots of holes, flying Leia in deep space who can all of a sudden use the Force, Rey has no training but is stronger than Ren who was trained by Luke and Snoke, the link between Ren and Rey built up over the entire movie (maybe the only interesting thing in the film) and abandoned. The slow imperial ships chasing the lone rebel ships for 18 hours, the gambling planet...The list goes on and on...too many to list here but the movie was uninteresting. As bad as Disney's treatment of Luke is and the resulting anger on the part of many fans the larger problem is that I and many others have no interest at all in the new story and characters.
3. Disney has become too caught up in PC culture. I don't think they actually care about this personally, but they are taking advantage of this moment in our cultural divide to please a younger generation of viewers. What they don't understand is that this SJW/PC movement is only going to last a few years. The movie is dated already. People are going to look at this in a decade and laugh at how stupid and obvious it is. The themes that made the original trilogy great, and even the prequels to a limited extent is, were embedded in human psychology; the hero's journey, self discovery, facing the past (it does matter despite what Ren tells Rey), being defeated, rising and growing stronger. Being born into an imperfect world, fighting against your tyrant and mastering yourself. These themes are abandoned.
4. Disney has become the tyrant and as many others have said the reviews from major media outlets are not believable. This has become another example of old media trying to undercut new media (ie: original movies and shows from Netflix, amazon, etc.). Look at the ratings drop for the media and traditional forms of entertainment and Hollywood. This movie is another example of garbage coming from them.
Star Wars is dead. They took something beautiful and destroyed it.