Lower your expectations and you might like it.

Rating: 5/10 (29 December 2017)

Well.. where to begin? We all loved the original trilogy, we all more or less disliked the prequel trilogy and many people felt Episode 7 was a step in the right direction (except for the fact that it pretty much copied most of the plot from the original 1977 Star Wars movie).
Now this confused thing of a movie comes out. I could tell you how high my expectations were. I could tell you how disappointed I was. I could tell you about the bad writing and the useless subplots. I could tell you it was about half an hour too long. But I'm not gonna.
I would say the disappointment we all felt comes from having too high expectations. One of whom I went to see the movie with had never seen any Star Wars movie before, and she actually liked this one. So instead I'm going to re-watch it as soon as it's rentable with an open mind, and see it for what it is instead of what I thought it should have been. After all it is the eighth sequel, and how many times in movie history has any franchise managed to get all movies right? That's right. Not even James Bond. Every once in a while there will be a bad one in any franchise. So just think of Episode I when you see this, and I believe most of us will find it's really not THAT bad. This wasn't their best effort I agree, but I still liked the entertainment I got. I still think most of the comedy was funny. The visuals were what you can expect from a Star Wars movie. And so on and so on..
So there's no reason why they wouldn't be able to get it right in Episode 9. Only thing is, where will they go from here? Feels like the over all story line has lost its focus lately. That's what happens when too many people get involved in something and no one is overlooking it. Who wrote the original movies, and who wrote the last two? Think about that for a moment. What is this new trilogy really about? And like Episode 7.. didn't they borrow just a little too much from Empire Strikes Back? Just sayin'..