Question for both Star Wars fans and Not

I really liked Rogue One and really disliked TFA. It looked great, had great music, and I like all of the actors. However, the story was terrible, like bad fan-film level terrible.

I thought TFA was just way too much of a ripoff of Episode IV. Didnt like that they made Rey's Force abilities so easy for her to acquire and then master, like 5 minutes later. I hated how I could effortlessly predict what was going to happen. Really hope Episode 8 is better.

I liked both Rogue One and The Force Awakens. Then again, I'm not much of a movie critic, so there aren't that many films that I hate.

I'm​ not really a Star Wars fan, just regular movie-goer. I saw the original trilogy when I was little and a few times again on tv.

That being said, I don't hate TFA. I just find it ... underwhelming. Like same same, but different, but still the same. Even my dad said it's pretty much just a rehash of the old movies. He likes the prequels and doesn't seem to be bothered by Jar Jar at all.

That's why I prefer Rouge One than TFA, at least RO brings something new to the table. I will watch RO again, but if I want to watch TFA I'll just watch Episode IV instead.

I loved both R1 and TFA on first viewing, but I think R1 is going to be the fan favorite in years to come. As others have noted TFA has a painful central weakness, in that the script is a total ripoff of ANH; and the more times you watch it the more the similarities get on your nerves. I haven't seen R1 as many times but I do think it'll stand the test of time, and of a hundred viewings over the years.

How I have to say there are a set of fans who are so upset with the idea of a female Jedi that they're making a hobby out of ripping TFA and calling Rey a Mary-Sue, as if wish-fulfillment characters hadn't been a part of Star Wars since the beginning. And it's not like the derivative TFA doesn't have a hell of a lot of grounds for valid criticism, it's a fun movie to watch but a huge misstep regarding the fandom - Disney should have made something that a fan can watch a dozen time or a hundred, and on that front TFA is a failure.

I saw the original trilogy when I was a kid in late '80s and wasn't that impressed. I mean they were good movies, but I never understood the hype. The Last Starfighter did more with less. The prequels were boring, but ok. TFA somewhere in between. For me, Rogue 1 is the best of the lot. A good war movie, only set in space.

The original trilogy was groundbreaking. Yes rogue one was good. But nothing we haven't seen before. You can't compare any of the sequels or prequels to the special effects genius of the original trilogy which remember came out in the late 1970's. No cgi back then. The whole thing was miniatures. There was nothing else even close to the effects of Star Wars back in 1977. So that's why people who grew up watching the films in the late seventies and eighties don't like putting these cgi movies in the same category. To make a ship go To hyperspace they merely push a mouse click on their cgi machine. In 1977 it took hundreds of man hours to make one ship go to hyperspace. Want a building to explode? You can't press a mouse button. You have to build and paint a miniature building and then blow it up. Watch the original trilogy and try to imagine how they did it with no computers. Unfortunately in the late 90's they remastered them with cgi which was a huge mistake and now we are getting into another topic. Eventually everyone who grew up between the two sets of film will die off and it won't matter. Just so happens to also be the last iteration to grow up without cell Phones and internet also

They also got lucky with Harrison Ford who turned out to be one of the biggest movie stars of all time. To understand that argument imagine if in twenty five years they make a pirates of the carribean without Johnny Depp. Or a seventy year old Johnny depp that DIES! You think some people who were young during the original pirates of the carribean might not care for that? It doesn't matter how good the movie is. They killed jack sparrow? With a fucking goofy ass whiny temper tantrum throwing millenial villain. Sorry I don't ever want to see that shit again, much less own it