Hamilton22 said: God, how many times have they blown up that stupid death star? Can we please find a more creative finale ? I mean really.....this film was just one big mediocre rehash.
I feel like you missed the point of the movie. Yes, they blew up the "Death Star" again (it wasn't one, but that's not the point), but that was SO not the focus nor the point of the end of the movie. The Star Killer or whatever it was called was background to the real climax - Rey's fight with Kylo Ren. I could be wrong, of course, but I am assuming the importance of that fight hasn't been revealed to us yet. I'll bet there's more to the relationship between those characters than we've seen so far. Those are great characters - Rey, Finn, Kylo Ren -- and the focus was on them as it should have been.
I also agree with the above poster who said that the fan service was needed for this after the really terrible prequels (I'm surprised they didn't just kill the franchise entirely, honestly, considering how bad they were). Now that they've brought us back, they can go into more creative territory in the upcoming films.
I unabashedly enjoyed the film, as did most Star Wars fans I've talked to.
And for the record, I thought The Lord of the Rings trilogy was overblown, overlong, and frankly about three hours of good movie for its 12 hour running time.
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