Another post I made elsewhere:
One of my favorite scenes in the movie was when Rey was scrubbing some junk on Jakku, and she’s sitting across from this very old woman with tons of wrinkles all over her face. In contrast, Rey looks so fresh, young, and beautiful. But they are both doing the same job, and it might just cause the girl to ponder her future stuck on that planet doing the same thing for the rest of her life. Even better, someone jars her back to reality and I just loved the shot of her for the last two or three seconds of that scene. Putting her head down and scrubbing away, kind of an awkward looking facial expression. No pretentiousness whatsoever. Little things like that combined with the awesome Falcon pursuit off Jakku are what make a movie like this good.
In contrast, many other parts of the film were waaaaaay too self conscious. Poe Dameron flies his X-wing around the ruins of Maz’s castle, blows something up, and Finn looks up, and out of all the carnage going on around him and above him in the air, he happens to see it and exclaim “that’s one awesome pilot!” just because the two of them happened to have a couple of scenes together earlier in the movie. Even though he could never have possibly known who was in the X-wing.
I mean I guess they are supposed to be comrades, but instead of having them hang out during the entire movie and accomplish stuff together, we’ll just have one of them sit out 90% and then insert juvenile moments like this to try and convince you they are new best friends forever. **** off.
Like I said the movie is fun if you don’t take it seriously, but it’s not really a high quality Star Wars. Just too much bull**** it in for me.