Haven't had a chance to read through the thread yet but I just got back from watching it and figured I'd share a few thoughts while they were still fresh. Not completely sure how I feel about this one but I think it was a good movie overall. There are a lot of things I didn't like though.
The opening crawl set a bad tone almost immediately. I read it and thought, oh great we're doing Empire all over again. The Poe/Hux exchange was awful. Compared to the opening of FA this one was not good. Can't say I particularly enjoyed seeing Poe take on the Dreadnought all on his own either. Rogue One reestablished some gravity in the Star Wars universe and seeing a single X-Wing zip around taking out this massive ship made me pretty mad.
Captain Phasma was actually badass... for about 30 seconds. Her fight scene was very well done and I loved the way Gwendoline Christie moved. The way she stalked towards Finn during the fight was cool. Too bad they took her out.
I enjoyed Rey's story arc and all of her scenes. I also liked Luke's scenes although I am not confident that killing him off was a good decision especially with Carrie Fisher's death. I suspect Luke will still play a big role in the next one where he'll probably be haunting Kylo. Loved crazy old force ghost Yoda.
The entire resistance story line fell flat for me and Finn's casino adventure should have been left on the cutting room floor. That was prequel levels of bad. It's a shame too because I really liked Finn in the FA but I felt he was wasted in this one.
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