Star Wars Appreciation **Spoilers Ahead**

Saw it over the weekend and had high hopes – left pretty let down. There were some good moments but overall it was pretty boring.

TFA was criticised for re-hashing ANH and ESB (which is fair enough), but it still totally felt like a Star Wars film, the camerawork and effects, while obviously CGd, still had some sort of charm to them. Remember how good that sequence was where the hi-jack the Falcon on Jakku and take out the Tie fighters while flying through that burnt out Star Destroyer?

I didn't find anything in this film reached this. There weren't enough lightsabers and what there was seemed somehow boring.

Overall far too many WTF moments:

• Flying Leia. Already pointed out but still!
  
• Snoke. Not enough back-story, finished off far too easily. Left us nothing there.
  
• Kylo Ren. Bad. Good. Bad again. Bit quick to flip-flop.
  
• Where were/Who are the Knights of Ren? Were they the guys dressed in red who all let each other get chopped down one after the other when Ren was a good guy for a few minutes?
  
• Rey's parents. Dragged out for another film or are we satisfied they were just nobodies (in terms of the story)?
  
• Use of the force in general, it's all over the place. Example that spring to mind: Yoda's ghost able to hit Luke with his stick
  
• What was that whole casino planet bit about?! I'm sure everyone is a fan of Benicio del Toro but still.... was this the "Trump is evil" part?
  
• Luke dusting off his shoulder (IMO most annoying of all the shit jokes)
  
• Last scene, Harry Potter?
  
  

I'm sure there's more but that'll do. I've probably come across a bit more negative there than I mean to. I just really wanted it to be better as I felt TFA set the scene quite brilliantly.

Will give it another watch with family over Xmas, maybe it'll seem better on 2nd viewing.