Saw it again today (3rd viewing).

The peaks and valleys of the movie have kind of evened out for me. The parts I loved I think are just pretty good, not amazing. The parts I disliked don’t bother me as much. Overall, I think it’s a pretty good, but not great movie.

A couple notes about pacing. I wish more time was spent with Rey on Jakku for world building.

where the pacing really does not work for me is the destruction of Hosnian Prime, and then the attack on Maz’s castle. It all kind of happens at once. One moment Ren is on thr bridge of the star destroyer watching the Starkiller fire; two minutes later he’s attacking the castle.

Then the rebels show up. It’s just too much. I don’t think they should’ve shown up at all. Just have Han, Chewie, and Finn escape to the rebel base.

Also seems weird that Leia would show up at that battle at all.