Just saw the piece of trash movie. I could detail for 4 hours what they did wrong with it, but I don't have time for that, so I'm going to summarize.
This movie was not made by incompetent people trying to do an honest job.
This movie was not made by fans that have no skill in writing.
This movie was not a typical space opera in a Star Wars skin.
No, this is something far worse.
Other people have written about the fall of civilizations (non-fiction) and some have intended to cause civilizations to fail so they can build something different from the ashes. Others, as we noted in the Dark Knight, have no plan for after the fall. They just want to see the world burn.
The writing techniques used in this movie fall into both categories, and what I would term a 'civilization destructor' was used. This is where you take the fixed points that a civilization relies upon and knocks them out so the rest will come tumbling down in time.
To put it in math terms, if you keep telling people 2+2=5 enough times people will start to accept it or start to stop caring and ignore everything. They become disillusion, numb, or driven mad by the lack of a logical underpinning. Math and physics are such an underpinning, but so are other things like training, experience, and skill.
This movie was written to produce a civilization destructor piece of propaganda, and this isn't the first time I've seen it. And to add insult to injury, Star Wars is a franchise that is a civilization support, something people latch onto to calibrate their lives. Now it's being corrupted, twisted, and destroyed...which further adds to the disillusionment.
And disillusioned or numb people are much, much easier to manipulate.
So how did they do this in this piece of trash movie?
1.Denigrate the heros, elevate the losers to hero status.
2.Denigrate skill and experience, make mastery available to anyone in a few days time.
3.Put women in positions of power, have them bitchslap the men every other scene, all the while not having a single strong female character. This kills both the men and female positive stereotypes.
4.Take an established character and change them over the course of the movie so the character ends up being nothing. You have no idea who they are, because there are no constants. They are whatever the moment demands.
5. Take the Force and make it mean whatever you want...which leaves it a bunch of gobblygook that Lucas warned about.
6. Take good and evil and mix them up until both terms become meaningless.
7. Take heroism and turn it into a bad thing. Being a coward and running away becomes 'good' and damn anyone who tries to fight back.
8. Mix up any and all physics so the things on the screen literally won't do what they do in real life. This makes your eyes all nonsensical, because you can't track things.
9. There is no story. No one knows what the hell is going on, and that just adds to the confusion. So does the choppy filming, editing, and heavy sound effects that make your head feel like it was just in a blender.
10. Unless something is earned, it doesn't have gravitas. Rey can do anything with no training. The Jedi texts are, as fake Yoda said, nothing. Rey knows everything in them...and she hadn't had ANY training. They just said that the entirety of the Jedi Order is meaningless. And she can lift rocks heavier than an X-wing with less training than Luke had on Dagobah. See how this messes everything up?
Mark my words. Star Wars is dead. Disney, and I think really it's more Kathleen Kennedy because this trash hasn't really hit Marvel much yet(other than the Ironman 3 piece of trash), but Disney is doing this across multiple platforms and franchises. It's intentional. Call it social brainwashing if that helps you understand it better. I would have hoped the people who worked with Lucas would have put up more of a fight, but it seems Kathleen Kennedy agrees with Disney and it's full bore into looney land.
I feel sorry for Mark Hamill. He did not want to do this movie. He knew it was trash. He also knew he couldn't say no or he'd be hated for it. They ripped apart the character of Luke and made Mark help them do it.
For that alone, Disney deserves to die. They've already wrecked ESPN. Marvel seems to be the only thing keeping them afloat. And now they're acquiring new properties from Fox. Seems like they have an acquire/wring money/discard/repeat business model going. They can't hold down a long term franchise, and I'm afraid Marvel will end up going that way as well before too long.
Bottom line. You can't mess up Star Wars this bad by accident. This was intentional. It's an intentional assassination of everything good in Star Wars, and now they're parading around in its corpse.
Also did you notice how they killed Admiral Ackbar off-screen and later on just mentioned it in a sentence?
And what they did with the Force was stupid, I personally think, that Leia should have died and not force her character for at least the next movie to be around.
Additionally, when after a couple days' worth of training Rey wielded a lightsaber as good as Kylo, who was trained by "Supreme leader no story behind this guy, he's just there" the only reason that kept me back from simply walking out the cinema was the popcorn and the will to see new ship designs. The Mandator IV, I think and the Supremacy looked really good
Luke never even trained Rey for lightsaber combat. The trailer was a total lie. And yeah, I noticed the Ackbar thing. They're just running down the list of old characters and knocking them off until they have a 'fresh' cast with no connection to the original story.
Also it was made apparently clear they are no longer following canon when afterwards in the credits they have a 'based on characters by George Lucas' line. That means they're not the original ones and this is a different universe. Disney specifically said it was sticking to canon. Now it looks like they're admitting they broke their promise.
And if you're in space, you explode from decompression, Jedi or not. Plus, you CANNOT use the Force to fly. This has been a sticking point in the Star Wars fanbase for years. You can move objects, but not yourself. Leia flying back to the ship through space was a face-palm moment.
And the ship designs...blah. Just a rip off of Star Destroyers and the Super Star Destroyer with no real meaning other than make them triangle shape. And the whole chase in realspace/hyperspace tracking directly contradicts canon. You CAN track through hyperspace for a short range, which was why the millennium falcon got away from tatooine. Because it was a 'faster ship' and could outrun them.
Also, in space, things fly in a straight line. Those lobbing mortar shots made the big ship look stupid. I'll admit, that overall shape could be used to make a cool ship, but they bungled it so much I wasn't impressed. And the blank red walls of the throne room were so pathetically tacky. George Lucas never would have allowed a blank slate like that. He would have filled it with SOMETHING.
And don't even get me started on Vice Admiral Purple Hair. Since when do Vice Admirals not even bother to wear a uniform?