Fang Zei said:

He said he knows several people working on the vfx for TFA at ILM and that they've told him it's not, in their opinion, going to be a particularly good movie.

I don't doubt he was told this, but he only discussed it in the vaguest of terms. Perhaps he was told more by his friends and didn't want to get them in trouble.

He could be talking out of his ass but on the other hand it's possible he was actually told this. It's unknowable so I'm taking that with a mountain of salt. I'm not going to let hearsay effect my outlook on a film....I haven't even seen yet.

Also what Swazzy said was spot on. Also subjectivity is a big thing now a days.