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Only thing I'm disappointed with is no Wilhelm Scream. Why no Wilhelm Scream? It's meant to persist throughout the ages!

Overall, movie is fantastic, go see it.

ITT: "Star Wars The Force Awakens is bad because I didn't like it."

Your biased opinion =/= An actual review. Maybe if you gave a logical explanation on each point rather than a emotional tantrum of all the things you don't like then, maybe, it could have been a good review.

1,5/10, worthy of being a youtube comment.

except there was a wilhelm scream. It was faint, but it was there during the escape from the hangar scene.

I don't have a full review but I have some thoughts.

The opening scene is really good. It mixes grit with Star Wars action in a really engrossing way. Too bad the rest of the movie is incredibly tame compared to it.

Finn's performance was much better then I expected from the trailers. He acts pretty natural for the most part (minus the bit in the bar where he NEEDS TO RUN AWAY but instantly changes his mind when the weapon fires).

Ray (Rey?) on the other hand felt out of place. It's either her incredibly british accent in the middle of a desert, or her bizarre insistence on not taking the lightsaber.

The pilot guy from the beginning and Phazma were incredibly underused. Together they had only like 10 minutes of screentime. Surely they could have used then more instead of those scenes with Pri-General Leia. Also, how did the pilot guy survive the crash? That was never explained…

Han Solo is pretty fun in the movie and Chewbacca feels like he's actually contributing to the plot, more than in the original movies even.

Those tentacle things in Han's freighter looked lousy. They moved too fast so you could really tell they're CGI. (why does Finn say they're captured by the First Order when the freighter takes them in?)

I liked the new style cantina scene with the different music, and both sides of the war seeing BB8

Kylo Ren was a pretty neat character. He's a whiny little bitch like Anakin from the prequels, but he's the villain so he feels like he's right where he belongs.

Lord Snoke is a joke. He's a big hologram of a cgi fart monster. Please somebody replace him with an actual person in the sequel.

I liked the scene on Starkiller base that was obviously set up to look like a Nazi rally. It felt authentic enough to work.

Why did they get a cameo for Admiral Ackbar but not have any other rebel ships besides X Wings? Y Wings need some love.

Why does Starkiller Base blow up when they said hitting the oscillator would only disable it.

Lightsaber fight was okay. Not too overly coreographed, but the camera needs some work.

Sometimes feels like it's not Star Wars.
Had humor.
Good action.
Feels like Star Trek at some points.
Kylo is a fuckboy.
The final fight was the best fucking part.
5.5/7

I think it felt very much like if an EU novel was put to film. It had the feel of one of the New Jedi Order series, almost.
It was like looking through a box of old photographs and toys "Hey, look! Han and Chewie!" "Awesome, The Millenium Falcon"

It's pretty much a big Introduction and it feels like it's just revving up for something bigger. But I think it was a very well done "introduction" to a new trilogy.

The new leads, I had low hopes for. But Rey's actress was great, even though I think her character was a bit bland. And Finn was actually really badass.

So yeah, I think it was pretty great. I give it an 8/10.

Kylo Ren is such a clever idea for a character. His introduction is a wonderful fake out. When we first see him, we think he's just "Darth Vader again." He's got the scary costume, the computerized voice, and the force powers. Then he takes off that helmet and…he's some guy. If you passed him in the street, you wouldn't give him a second glance. Pretty soon, it becomes obvious that he's basically a kid desperately trying to imitate Darth Vader, but he's struggling with pangs of conscious. This teasing of redemption made it more tragic when he goes past the tipping point into the Dark Side. In short: he's young Anakin done right. Think about it. In the relatively few scenes we had with Kylo Ren, we learn nearly everything we need to know about him, feel his struggle, and witness his turn. Effective brevity in storytelling. Compare that to watching Anakin bitch and moan his way through three films and the choice is obvious.

Overall, I liked The Force Awakens, though it's kind of hard for me to accept it as canon. As I've said before, I see no reason why the pre and post Disney universes can't exist as equally valid canons, but it just seems weird to me that we've been hearing about what happens after Jedi for decades, only for this new movie to come and say "Nope. This is how it really happened." Still, I had fun, even if parts of it came across as a bit fanfiction-y.

"This is Starkiller Base. It's like the Death Star, but way bigger and can blow up, like, three planets at once. Original space station! Do not steal!"