User blog comment:Ireithien/PSA: Daisy Ridley is Pretty Much Flawless/@comment-5111283-20151228043459/@comment-4257955-20160103033510

Okay I'm going to step out on the unpopular opinion plank and say that TFA is only marginally better than the prequels, and all four pale in comparison to the originals.

At first I was like "yeah TFA was a good reboot, good movie", but now looking back I don't really like it that much. It feels forced in spots, the plot is VERY A New Hope-esque, and it felt like a extremely well-oiled machine that was meant to be popular, make money, and start a nice cookie-cutter assembly line of Disney-manhandled films. So many callbacks made it feel fanservice-y, and it felt too...safe? There wasn't any boldness. Oh look another planet destroying sphere weapon, how original? Not really? And the fight scenes were okay, I have no beefs there. The acting was pretty alright. But I still can't get past the inhuman corporation vibe I got from the whole film. I really hope the movies get better, and less like the byproduct of a massive, entangling web of merchandizing and nostalgia-tickling.

This isn't to say it was a bad movie, it was a fun experience, and Harrison Ford is actually the most perfect human ever, but I still really can't get into it.

imho