I think so.
there is only a few on Bloo that saw every movies at it's first release, when we were teens/adults.( born before 1965)
this one seems made for kids to capture a new generation of Star Wars fans.
people have a hard time relating to movies made a decade or two before they were born.
now they have their own "new hope".

+1 agreed

I like George Lucas and think the prequels were underrated. The ideas behind them were great but I will admit the films could have been done a lot better. They did add a lot of new dimensions and depth to the galaxy and they are very original (very important for me). I wish Disney would have stuck to his treatment but had Kasdan write the screenplay rather than dropping his treatment altogether.

Episode 7 added very little if anything new to the Star Wars universe. It had great characters but was TERRIBLY unoriginal. As a sci-fi/fantasy movie it was great. Not so much as a saga film. I'm sure all of us loved seeing the OT gang together again and seeing the opening scroll again was very emotional so it was a nice experience to have.

I can understand from a creative standpoint dropping the EU to "allow for maximum creativity." That really sucked but when Disney did that and then "borrowed heavily" from Episode 4 I can't help but feel slightly ripped off.

I'm sure my rankings will be somewhat unpopular but here goes.

5, 3, 6, 2, 4, 1, 7 although 2 and 4 are pretty much a tie.

Pretty much sums up how I feel.

Pointless bashing.

Plot holes!
Obi Wan forgot he had droids AND forgets that Leia and Luke are Twins and that Vader is there Dad and its probably a bad idea to take them anywhere near him being that they had to hide them because he could sense them and that Yoda was still alive...I could go on.

here is the the thing with sagas. it will all depends on the next movies.
a lot of those plot holes can be filled easily with the next movie.

some can't out seem very hard to cough r2d2

I am really looking forward to understanding why rey is so powerful (knows wookiee) so easily, why luke ran and hid away yoda style, what has happened to the first order and republic, snoke's backstory, captain phasma, and maybe even more on han solo and the millennium falcon. perhaps some of these stand alone films will help out a tad.

but I guess what I am saying is that a lot of the problems we see today might not exist tomorrow (2 years from now).

but I for one thought it was a great opening movie that is really meant to set the stage. rey and kylo ren being trained and destined to battle again, the fight scenes being amazing and the use of actual force outside push, lightning, and jump all were amazing to see and I am looking forward top seeing them progress and see where they take kylo ren. hans last image of loving his son, I feel, will play a large part in kylo's struggle with the light

Les posted a great theory on Facebook. If Rey is Ben's sister, that explains why she knows Wookiee (first few years with Chewie), explains why Han was right there when she left the planet, and puts a lot more meaning into Kylo saying that Han would have disappointed her as a father. Doesn't explain why she was placed on Jakku in the first place though.

Could you clear this up?

I don't know. Didn't the movie try and characterize Phasma as a stormtrooper commander? I thought that she didn't deal with Snoke for the same reason other commanders didn't--too low on the totem pole. The First Order's military looks very hierarchical.

I just don't really buy the idea that she's an third-party contractor. If she is, that would help resolve her character of some of that plot hole. But I think that movie was trying to characterize her as a stormtrooper commander, in which case, her lowering the shields would be completely out of character.




Same. And this is ignoring questions like: "What happens when they use up their sun?", "Why did Finn call it a 'sun' and not a 'star'," "Why can they still see on the planet, if their only source of light has been extinguished," and, my favorite, "How can they store and ENTIRE STAR's mass inside a PLANET and not cause it to collapse into a black hole?"

Also, I don't know enough physics to say for certain, but I'm pretty sure that using a "thermal oscillator" to store the energy makes no sense. Call it a "thermal power converter" or whatever, just not an oscillator. Because while "oscillator" *sounds* cool, it makes NO sense whatsoever.

I understand what UrbanShmi is saying about not looking at the science too closely, but everything I mentioned above bugged me during the movie. The way I look at it, if the science is so bad that it snaps me out of the moment, they did something wrong.

(Also, can I complain a bit about calling it a "sun"?? That just doesn't sound Star Wars-y to me. As far as I remember--correct me if I'm wrong--Star Wars always uses the word "star", not "sun"?)

lol, I have this image of that clay referee off of celebrity death match answering all these questions with his typical "I'll allow it" answer.