From: jas221@yahoo.com   
      
   It's not the heroes journey premise that bugs me. That, at least is expected.   
   It's all the little things copied what we had already seen in the movies.  you   
   listed many of them. There were just so many it took me out of the movie. When   
   they showed the    
   giant death star planet, I could help but think to myself, 'really, are you   
   shitting me?' There was just so much of that. These are the things that keep   
   me from calling it a great movie.  It's why I feel it's just ok. That and the   
   pace of the movies.     
   Everything was always frantic and rushed. The original movies weren't like   
   that. That's just J.J.'s style and I could have done without it and I think it   
   was the major reason I did not feel like I was watching a Star Wars movie. No   
   matter what the flaws    
   of the PT, I still felt like I was in the Star Wars universe.  A huge diverse   
   universe.  Not one were everything seems to be happening in the same place.    
   Destroy a cluster of planets and now the entire Republic is destroyed? And it   
   can all be seen from    
   whatever place the first order and resistance is located? Seeing nothing   
   really new shrank the Star Wars universe. Not that I blame J.J. for that.    
   That's Disney and their rush to get these movies out. One more year of   
   planning and developing would have    
   help I think. Maybe then they would have realized that the stormtrooper with   
   whatever that was battling Fin with a lightsaber was just dumb. And Han has   
   never fired Chewie's gun?  Ever? And Han is surprised by it? After decades   
   together? Dumb.   
      
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