Just back from this. First of all, was worried from the start because some banana split sat next to me with a massive portion of nachos so I was prepared for them crunching them as loud as possible but I've never heard anyone eat so quietly in my life my goodness.
Went into it only having seen the first trailer and had Yoda spoiled by Holly whatshername. Really enjoyed it for the most part, better than Force Awakens but I think Rogue One might be better (need to watch that again, had it on Blu-ray since it came out but still haven't watched it
). Thought the pacing was perfect, the film seemed a lot longer than it actually was.. Some quick thoughts:
I still don't like Kylo Ren. Just comes off as a whiney teenager in literally every scene apart from the lightsaber fight with him teaming up with Rey.
The casino shite
Felt like it was straight from the CGI-fest prequels. Those Trico things
When they said they were off to that dodgy planet I was expecting a seedy Coruscant criminal underworld or something like that.
Old Luke is just badass. Loved him.
The red & white planet at the end looked visually stunning.
Was expecting the porgs to be really annoying and forced but I absolutely loved them
The rebel's plan to just stay out of range of the First Order's ships. What was that?
It was like Space Balls or something.
The rebel ship doing a light speed jump right through Snoke's ship was
spectacular. Loved it an it's something I've thought about since I saw the first film. "What would happen if you just smashed through a ship at light speed?"