Goodbye Star Wars

Rating: 2/10 (5 May 2018)

I just don't care about Star Wars anymore. Everything interesting is gone or watered down. Interesting character duo Rey and Fin: replaced with watered down and pointless duo Fin and Rose. Mysterious and exciting character back stories like Rey's origin: nope. Back stories just dropped. Luke Skywalker as the most powerful Jedi ever to live: nah, he gave up the force and has been sitting in a hole for the last twenty or thirty years. Lightsaber that has so much history that it causes Rey to have a force vision: we'll literally just throw that away and discard it.
The irreverence with which they treated the world in this film really bothered me. The silly jokes at the beginning, Rose saving Fin, Rose kissing Fin, Rose's entire character. It all just made me feel nothing. When she kisses Fin I felt nothing other than a little anger that she was so incompetent and stopped Fin from saving everyone.
I've been a fan for a long time, but I have no need to continue to watch them beat another franchise to death. Star Wars is basically turning into the Hobbit movies: killing the spirit of the created world for mass appeal and dollar bills. Star Wars is nothing special any more. Though, I suspect Disney don't really care.