User blog comment:Ireithien/PSA: Daisy Ridley is Pretty Much Flawless/@comment-5111283-20151228043459/@comment-26067066-20160103232528

Personally I thought the child actor for Anakin was infinitely worse than Hayden Christensen. In fact I hated him more than Jar Jar. The only really good performances is the prequels were Obi-Wan and the Emperor IMO. Though it's more bad direction than that the other actors were terrible, even Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Lee did poorly, so I'm guessing the movies were somewhat hastily made.

I don't care for the first two prequels, but I found Revenge of the Sith to be a solid movie. Although the problems of the other prequels remained, they were much less prevalent and the writing was much less painful. Also the Order 66 scene was done brilliantly, as was the opening scene.

Rio has a point, much of TFA's plot was ripped from the original film, to the point where it felt uncreative. The movie was at its best when it spent time with the new characters rather than with its not-so-subtle homages to the originals. Although I definitely prefer it over the prequels overall, I find it to be extremely overhyped, just as the Phantom Menace was when it was originally released. Disney misunderstood what the fans wanted from a new Star Wars movie and instead blatantly ripped off the first movie. I still enjoyed it overall though.