ST Am i the only one who is so disappointed as to NEVER watch TFA EVER again?

Complaint thread? Come on mods, it's getting ridiculous.

 

Pretty much exactly this. How anyone could find the prequels to be more competent films, in any regard, is baffling. Whether you like the plot or not, TFA is just a better made film than the prequels. From the production design, to the acting, to the directing. It's a more competently put together film.

 

I think the bolded section is debatable and depends on what a person hopes to get out of a movie. The action, for example, is something I felt overwhelming as though I never had time to breathe or stop and gather my bearings. I longed for a quiet moment or just a more somber or thoughtful scene of two characters getting to know each other better. The characters are likable, but in my opinion at the expense of making them three dimensional. Finn, for example, is funny and a great guy. But given his background as a child soldier, I never for one second believed in the character. And Rey is such a good person and has such power that she feels incomplete -- she's really lacking in terms of flaws and struggles for me as a character. I also, personally, don't think it's the funniest. It has gags, yes, but I found the exchange of banter between Han, Luke, and Leia in ANH to be much funnier and more organic.

If you enjoyed it, more power to you. But I found it hard to sympathize the way I did for Finn or Rey or Kylo Ren because, to me, their motivations rarely made sense and were often at odds with their backstories. Even if a character is whiny or has unlikable traits, I personally, can still enjoy them a lot if I understand why they're like that and why their response makes sense given their history and current circumstances. I still feel like they're a real, human person.

 

I'm okay with someone not liking it or finding it disappointing, but this is SO wrong. None of the prequels were as well-made and had as much passion put into it as this film, come on now.

What was so dumb about it? TFA looks like a work of geniuses when compared to TPM and AotC.

Agreed. I think some people really need to look at the prequels as films, and as them, they are just terrible. I'm sick of linking people to Plinkett reviews, but they really are excellent. Sums up every reason why they can't touch any of the OT films or TFA.

 

You can't please everybody.

The issue with a movie this big, that means so much to so many, is that they could have made the best movie in the history of movies, and some would have been underwhelmed. There is no way to replicate what the OT was because it was so innovative that we were amazed. The PT was successful just on the attachment to the OT. TFA is much better than TFM and AOtC.

 

Someone thinking that the prequels are better and more well thought out films than TFA is a completely legitimate opinion, equal to your own. It's your right to disagree. But someone else isn't "wrong" just for having a different opinion than you.

I've seen the Plinkett reviews. And the Confused Matthew reviews. And all those so called "take downs" of the PT. Not a one of them is convincing in my opinion.

You think the prequels are terrible films and that is your right. So respect the right of others to think that TFA is a terrible film. Art is personal and one's response to it is subjective.