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Top 10 reasons The Force Awakens sucked:
10. Max Von Sydow, a classic actor who's been in hundreds of films and is one of my personal favourites, is only in the movie for about 3 minutes. What a waste of talent and opportunity. Other characters that were under-used: Leia, Luke, C3PO, R2D2.
9. When Han shoots Chewbacca's crossbow early in the movie, the blast is so powerful that it sends three or four stormtroopers hurtling through the air, but later when Chewbacca shoots Kylo Ren with it, it just injures Kylo. The bridge Kylo was standing on should have been completely obliterated by that.
8. Finn was a janitor and yet he could wield a lightsaber with skill against well-trained stormtroopers (one of them even had an anti-lightsaber shield thing) and Kylo Ren.
7. BB8 was not distinct enough from R2D2, other than being a rolling ball.
6. We finally get a female stormtrooper in Captain Phasma, but she never takes off her helmet. Actually, she doesn't do much.
5. Rey learns to use the Force too quickly and no training. Luke Skywalker took years to learn it, but Rey did it in half an hour.
4. A lack of interesting, new weapons, aliens, planets and vehicles. At least the prequels gave us cloning, warp locks, battle droids (particularly droidekas) pod-racers, the Nubian royal starship, Dugs, Geonosians, Kamino the water planet, Coruscant the urban planet, Musafar the lava planet, the underwater Gungan city, the asteroid colony of Polis Massa, etc. etc.
3. The Third Death Star. I watched a documentary recently about business lessons learned from the original Star Wars trilogy. One of the points was to learn from our mistakes, and gave the example of how The Empire didn't learn from its mistake after the first Death Star was destroyed, because they rebuilt it, only to have it destroyed again in ROTJ! How stupid is the "Empire" that they build a third Death Star? How unoriginal is J.J. Abrams that he can't think of something better? How stupid do they think we are that they think we'd be impressed that it's 10 times bigger than the original Death Star?
2. The Starkiller base made no sense. How does a planet move through space and drain stars of their energy, yet still have light, climate and any kind of stability? And how did its beam split up in space to hit multiple targets? Why would you want to destroy multiple planets? Aren't you making your point by destroying one?
1. The movie is a complete rip-off of A New Hope. They didn't just recycle plot elements. They basically changed a few characters and re-named a few settings, and that's it.
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