Yes but it too late.  Johnson tore dow all of star wars lore with this debacle.  I'm very sad.

LMAO! Insta-fave!

1.Agree to some extent to the first point.While I dont think it was useless, given that it was due to Finn and Poe mistake that the Resistance almost got wiped out, the purple hair lady could have told them the plan from the get go.

2. Yeah, this one also bugs the hell out of me.Cant understand how they werent able to build everything back up from the end of episode 6 and end off the empire for good, but that a problem with the overall trilogy, not this movie in particular.

3.I dont agree with this.Because first off I would say that this must be easy to dodge.First you would need to position the ship just right, and the enemy ships would have to be in perfect position to also inflict significant damage.Plus, even if someone was trying to do that, the enemy could see right through their trap and simply dodge or minimize the damage that they would inflict.Not to mention the potential loss of men that this would imply, because you would need a big ship to take out the other large ships.Plus this only worked because the empire was so dead set on following the resistance that they basically made a line of ships right behind them and didnt worry about any kind of counteratack.

4.But the ship that loses the fuel stops accelerating, and keeps going at the same velocity, while the one chasing keeps gaining speed.Thus eventually it will catch up with the one it is chasing.

5.I thought that was pretty self explanatory.He wanted it to end because people placed too much power on them, and power corrupts people.The Jedi once held a place of great power, and due to power being a factor that corrupts people, when a Jedi turns to the dark side, it turns as a person of major influence over others, which only leads into disaster.This in turn facilitated not only the creation of the empire, but its conquest over the universe, because Palpatine was a Jedi of great power(or was in a position of great power thanks to the Jedis, something of the sort).Surely there must be similar examples through history of these kind of occurances, and thats why Luke wants the Jedi itself to dissapear, its status quo, but not the people who can master it.

6.Not sure what a Mary Sue is.

7.He was cocky, and that got him killed.He was too confident on his control over Ben, and that got the better of him.Its like that Indiana Jones scene, where indy kills that highly skilled fighter with a gunshot.Snoke let his guard down and was stabbed in the back.

I don't know. With all the other messages they had so on the nose, it wouldn't surprise me that's the exact reason why they did it. I think they wanted a girl Jedi, which is perfectly fine, but didn't want her to have to struggle too  much. Either because they felt like girls wouldn't want to watch her suffer through those struggles or they didn't want the male Jedis to look so powerful next to a female, even though we know those males had to go through the same struggles. Whichever it is, it's insulting to the audience's intelligence, as well as women, thinking they wouldn't be interested in or couldn't handle a female protagonist who isn't perfect.

It really doesn't help that a lot of people made excuses for it in TFA, saying that it would be addressed in this film. And that she would actually train with Luke.  Personally, I wouldn't have forgiven it 100%, but it wouldn't have bothered me as much when I rewatched TFA. None of that happened. And while some are still trying to defend it, there are a lot who have woken to the fact that she is just a Mary Sue.

It really sucks cause Daisy Ridley's personality shines through her character and it makes you want to like her. But, her Mary Sue status makes her far less interesting and less likable. 

Seriously, you should stop writting non sense like this. There is no "work" bewteen Luke/Rey. Nothing. We get one hour of a depressed and weak old man grumbling.

It's the most lazy work ever. We have that in every TV show/movie. Old , depressed people who are self defeating and refuse to do anything. If it wasn't Star Wars, Luke would have had some wiskhy bottles right next to him.

It was lazy and disgusting. The fans outright rejected it. They are more clever than you think.

I'll love to read how people defend it.

Always had a laugh at people defending the mary sue that is the girl, how ilogical are these sequels and the cheap humor it them.

I'm just going to have end this pointless discussion. You're using the whole "itz teh holidays" to defend a horrible weekend drop for any movie at any time, let alone a huge franchise like SW.  Even I, who was being incredibly negative about it thought it would drop 55%-60%, yet it did much worse than even that. And no, the holidays aren't going to completely fuck over a huge franchise like SW. If they thought it would, they wouldn't release at this time of year.

And I don't like lazy writing, which is why I don't like this movie. Apparently, a lot of people don't, considering the user reviews and drop in box office. Oh, I guess I'm just imagining all of that. 

Bravo for picking subjective musings to address instead of all the clear evidence that Rey is an awful character. It really drives home the point that you would rather argue that the movie isn't sexist than argue that Rey isn't an awful character.

1. That makes her so edgy. Just because she grew up in a bad environment doesn't mean she would have excellent fighting skills. In fact, given her physical stature and the age she was left there, one would have to assume her main survival tactic was just letting bigger people take what they want so they wouldn't hurt her. The complete lack of muscle definition and the fact that she'd never fired a blaster before back that up.

6. Staff ≠ Sword that can cut nearly anything. Lightsaber combat is a very intricate thing. Just look at Finn's handling of the lightsaber, and he's actually had formal training in armed combat. Not only that, but he was the best of the best. But a nearly weightless weapon with nearly infinite cutting potential is much more difficult to use.

As far as the "but why bring up gender" comments: it's a subjective musing. It has no evidence and serves no purpose. But that won't stop you from bringing it up like my mentioning that completely disproved every valid point I made, right?

I find your lack of analysis disturbing.

Take out the 45m previews, factor in that Sunday was cmas eve which is usually a bad box office day and you get a different picture.

Speaking of lazy. I was just reminded of another big plot hole. Two actually. They are in the mine that supposedly has no other exit, and the big blast door is lowered. How did they all get out of there in those shitty crafts, while also being able to line up without getting blasted to hell? I don't recall them opening the blast door (which opening long enough for them to get out would have been a death sentence), or the crafts being in that main room behind that door. The 2nd, the Order was given the instruction that there are no prisoners, no survivors. Yet, they not only let them return to the base in the rest of those shitty vehicles, but allow Finn to not only talk for a min with Rose in plain sight, but allow him to drag her back to base? Something that must have taken at least 5-10 mins?