8 Problems Nobody Wants To Admit About Star Wars: The Force Awakens

1. It Doesn't Live Up To The Hype

There was no way. There was literally no way that Star Wars: The Force Awakens was going to come out and be a 100% perfect movie - it was impossible. There will always be some diehard fan, hidden away somewhere like Yoda on Dagobah, who will take umbrage with some part of the film. Heck, I'm one of them. Fans have grown jaded, since the obvious disappointment of the prequel trilogy; but that cynicism did not get in the way of the intense excitement that surrounded the release of The Force Awakens. JJ had the entire deck stacked against him, and he pulled off a hell of a coup; but TFA remains an imperfect movie because it has too many people to please, and too many weak spots to slow its critical appraisal. I'll wager there are non-fans out there right now who are checking it out to see what all the fuss is about, and coming away disappointed. Because it is not a perfect movie. For fans, casual and intense alike, it's either too similar to A New Hope, or not similar enough. Some of the new characters are not clicking with longtime fans as they should, and some of them are. The problem is that Star Wars has been placed on a culture-wide pedestal for decades, that makes it impossible for anything to come close to satisfying like the original trilogy does in the nostalgia of your mind. But it can damn sure come close. In the end, that will be up to us, the fans. My suggestion to you all is that, in the run-up to Episode VIII, do not put all your hopes and dreams into it being great, or it being everything that TFA wasn't. All of us got caught up in the hype machine for The Force Awakens and some of us got burned because of it. Let's be careful to not repeat the same mistakes with the next part of the saga! Agree? Let us know what you make of all these points in the comments.