The prequels made Star Wars far too complicated, unrelatable and inhuman, but it looked and felt like Star Wars, CGI and all.


The Force Awakens borrows Star Wars as an excuse to make money on a dumb movie about anonymous people (played very well, I have nothing bad to say about the acting at all) doing whatever the fuck's convenient.


It's the equivalent of filming the stupid stories I told myself with Han Solo and Boba Fett action figures as an eight year old.


The lightsaber fight sucked, and The Force never mattered less than it did here.


Kylo Ren was a pretty dope villain, loved his voice and the mean shit he did to that laser.


But if Luke Skywalker is THAT DUDE with The Force, and he had to train on a rinky dink smuggling ship for months just to understand how a lightsaber works, some slave girl and a Stormtrooper we never even saw pull a trigger shouldn't be able to just stumble onto a lightsaber and punk the kid who's A) established to have Skywalker blood and B) went to fucking Jedi school.


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