Just got back, thought it was good and I enjoyed it, that being said there were a few points that annoyed me, but I enjoyed it more than TFA, and nowhere near as much as Rogue One. Here's my basic review of my highs and lows, not particularly in order of appearing in the film because I have shite memory when i'm tired...
Entering into the first scene after the opening crawl flying through the Rebel ships -- that was cool and different and made me smile. I''m also pretty sure if I remember right that the exact same music was also used from an OT film from right after the opening crawl ending when the camera starts scrolling down, that was neat I felt like I was about to watch an OT film.
Leia floating through space using the force -- .............
The general Hux's 'phone call' joke with Poe -- so Hux is a comedian now?, seemed like he was doing a bit of stand-up to me and intentionally trying to be funny, if Domhnall Gleeson intended to actually act that bit as Hux being serious then he did a bad job, and with Eddie from Bottom on the bridge too I felt like I was watching some **** British TV comedy.
The hot Jurassic Park bird sacrificing herself into the Star Destroyer at light speed -- absolute ****ing genius, you could hear a pin drop from the other side of the cinema, it was just a perfect suspense moment with stunning visuals, literally couldn't have made that any better.
The Chinese girl -- could not stand her and it actually ruined the film for me, found her really ****ing annoying and pointless, offered nothing to the plot accept for falling in love and rescuing some animals that nobody gives a **** about, she just simply did not need to be in this film. They made up a random main role just so they can throw in a person of another race, just to make Star Wars more diverse, if the role was somewhat important then fair enough but it was just purely forced.
The casino scene -- didn't feel like I was even watching Star Wars at all, I ****ing hated it, and to finish it off with that stupid animal rescue/racetrack race escape omg I just wanted to die, all of this completely took me out of the film which I was actually enjoying up until that point, and all just to 'rescue' Frankie Four Fingers who ended up shafting them anyway with his imaginary 5th finger. A good 15 or 20 mins utterly wasted which could have at least been used to give a little backstory to Snoke.
Finn says the word bastard?? -- well this is a first, is this film based on the Star Wars universe or Earth?, i'm confused!
Yoda -- I thought he looked really goofy like **** CGI to start with and I didn't like it, but then I realised he's an actual puppet.. I think?, and then he actually looked alright after a few seconds. But hang on what's this?, he's sparking off powerful lightning strikes and blowing **** up in the real physical world now?, where the **** has this little green **** been all these years when people needed him??
Snoke -- OMFG.. I LOVE Snoke, he's just pure evil and really sinister, his character is a really strong one unlike his torso which gets sliced open like butter, I was actually upset that he died because I was looking forward to seeing what pure evil he had in store for us, yet at the same time amazed because that scene was awesome, followed by a lightsaber battle with those guards which was just epic. And I thought the way Kylo covered up his intentions from Snoke by copying exactly what he was doing with his lightsaber was great, Snoke was so absorbed and focused on seeing Kylo take his next important step in getting stronger with the force by killing Rey, that he failed to notice/sense what was happening right next to him, I loved that part, I just think they should have waited until Episode 9 to do this.
The Porg's -- Really loved them, they did a great job in making you care about them, they added the perfect amount of humour to the film I thought, the part where Luke chucked his lightsaber and one of the Porgs is jumping up & down on the power button while another Porg is trying to look inside the end of the saber, was almost pissing myself laughing, great stuff!, and then making me feel bad because they wanted Chewie's food.
Force phone calls from across the galaxy -- I thought that part was kind of cool but then after like the 3rd imaginary Skype call between Kylo and Rey it was getting a bit boring and dragged out.
The gold Falcon dice -- they were Han's dice which came with the Falcon ship when he won it in a bet, they weren't in the Falcon cockpit in TFA nor were they reintroduced to it when Han got the ship back. Why are they all of a sudden hanging in the cockpit now?, where the **** did they come from?, nothing whatsoever was mentioned about them. A small yet annoying anomaly!
The parts where it explained about how Vader's melted helmet got into Kylo's possession, and how Maz acquired possession of Luke's saber in TFA -- no I don't remember those parts either.
