I'm not sure what on earth possessed me but I rewatched TFA the other day, for the first time in years. My 3rd viewing of the film.
I was actually having fun for the first 30 mins or so. Shallow dumb fun, but fun nonetheless.
Watched it from the start up until Rey and Finn escaping and meeting up with Han and Chewie. Then got bored and fast forwarded. Stopped at the battle scene at the cantina/Castle thing. Watched that for a bit. Got bored and fast forwarded until the final battle. Quite enjoyed the X-Wing attack on the deathstar rip off/TIE dog fights etc. Switched it off after deathstar 3 blew up.
No plans to rewatch TLJ or TROS. I'll go to my grave having only watched each of those films just the once.
So yeah. First half hour. Finn and Poe great together, enjoyed their scenes. Finn and Rey were quite entertaining for that first 30 mins or so too. Rest of the film was mostly dull.
If they had only had JJ do all 3 of the ST, we might have ended up with a shallow dumb but fun trilogy. Instead they brought on RJ to do whatever he wanted with the middle part of the trilogy. Oh well.
There are still issues with TFA. Although he's likeable, Finn is still a bit too happy go lucky, energetic puppy in my opinion. You'd think a child soldier of an extremist paramilitary group would have more of an edge. There was potential there to make him a Jedi too, which would have been an interesting arc from stormtrooper to Jedi. Finn, like pretty much everything else in the ST, was a missed opportunity.
The old Rey doing stuff like telekinesis and mind trick etc without training. The hope that all will be explained in the next movie. Lol no. Thanks RJ.
There was an interesting story there, Rey potentially turning to the darkside because she had all this power and ability without cost or training. The quick and easy way.
Easily could have had Rey turn to the darkside to play against a Jedi Finn or a reformed Ben Solo. So much potential.
Snoke. Could have done something interesting. Had him be an ancient Sith. Had him be Plagueis the Wise, survived Palpatines attack but left scarred. Lol no. Thanks RJ.
TFA also has a severe lack of world building and explaining. I seen the excuse that ANH didn't do much either but that was the first Star Wars. At this point it's a well established universe. They ought to explain who the Resistance is and who the FO are better. The FO destroyed the New Republic in that one deathstar 3 attack and that's it, they're done?
I know this stuff was later explained in books but for crying out loud.
I have no intention of watching the other 2 parts of the ST so you'll be spared from reading long rants about them from me.
And besides. The arguments against TLJ and TROS have been repeated ad nauseum over the last few years and I've no desire to retread it.
