Watched it first thing this morning.
I went in totally blind so had no expectations apart from hoping it would be great.
Things I liked:
- Luke. Loved his 'oh just strawberry float off' toss away of the lightsaber. Every time he was on screen it felt like real star wars to me.
- Rey's parents are nobody. Not everyone has to be a skywalker. I suspect at some point her and Ben were supposed to be brother and sister but i'm happy with this.
- Snoke dying. His character wasnt going anywhere unfortunately. It's just a bit cg Andy Serkis with no real depth apart from mostache twirling evilness.
- Snoke telling Ben his mask is gooseberry fool
- Snoke's ship looked great
- The fight in the throne room with Rey and Ben. Like seeing the two of them taking on the guards.
- Craggy island was the first jedi temple. I dont really know why he was at it apart from to read some books apparently but it at least it had purpose beyond just being an island.
- BB8 mimicking the little toaster wheel droid things
- Yoda. Looked like he'd been eating a few force pies but it was semi-well done.
Things I thought were meh:
- The whole plot
. It was essentially the rebels stay a bit out of reach of the first order until they have to stop for petrol. I felt no urgency in it.
- Rey. The actress playing her is alright, but i dont really care about the character.
- Helm's Deep. I get they had to have an obligatory ice bit, which isnt ice but in fact salt as sgt. exposition helpfully spelled out for us because we're all too stupid to work that out. They all just stood behind a giant door.
Things I hated:
- The CG characters. Oh FUUUUUCKKKKK OFF with that gooseberry fool. I thought we were done with all that post-prequels? CG puffins, CG blue milk cows (hey member blue milk!!!!1111), CG horses, CG crystal pokemon deer. Enjoy your new toys kids.
- The CG horse chase. I completely switched off during this. It reminded me of Obi Wan on the back of that dragon. Prequel grade tripe, absolutely awful.
- The casino planet. Wat. Had no purpose beyond a crap joke of BB8 being used as a gambling machine by yet another stupid CG character. strawberry float. OFF.
- Chewbacca getting put off his food by a full frame CG puffin. Why would a wookie get put off his food by that? strawberry float. OFF.
- The whole plot about going to get a code breaker to get passed snoke's shields, but then rey can just get in a millennium coffin and rocket straight in to a landing bay? Maybe Ben let her in, i dont know, but it seemed stupid.
- Leia the magic space fairy. Oh my strawberry floating god. I don't think there's a worse star wars moment, and this is a series with the droid factory in it. Absolutely awful. Urgh. ITS A VACUUM. Oh wait just a bit cold lol wat am i liek lol WHEN YOU WIIIISH UPON A STAAAAAAAARRRRR
- "This is Maz reporting live from a war, i'm at the front line of some war thing for some reason, and somehow i've got a camera man filming this somehow. Just in case you called you know? This is Maz, BBC space, somewhere. Back to the studio"
I feel so empty after it. I realised it was drawing to a close and I wasnt really enjoying a lot of it. At least the bit with luke at the end looked really cool, even though i'm not sure the continuity error of that lightsaber not being the green one can really just be explained away by him projecting. It'd still be his green one.
Thing is, after TFA i couldn't wait for the next film, absolutely pumped for it. Now I really dont care what happens to these characters