Good interview with JJ above, but I cannot help but think all these theories of alt right groups lowering the score on Rotten Tomatoes is a bunch of tosh.
The film wasnt hated by a large section of fans because it had too many women in prominent roles - what a silly thing to get upset about.
I agree it wasn’t that large (definitely a minority) but there still was a significant amount who hated it for those reasons.
Instead I believe that fans got upset with the same things that bewildered me…lack of consistent tone, pissing over all the good work from The Force Awakens, making Luke wanna murder his nephew and over the top comedy - the same comedy that was originally in ANH but the editors saw fit to remove.
Funny you say it pissed over the good work of TFA in response to the director of TFA defending it. I’ll just say that mindset makes no sense.
As for your comments on ANH, I must say you are mistaken, that’s simply not at all true.