Mixed feelings for TFA. Like paying a visit to old elementary school classrooms, where you remembered things to be different than they actually are when you come back as an adult. There were more things I didn’t like, than the ones I liked; I think this film was a missed oportunity to actually having done something different. But in the end it’s star wars, and better this than nothing.
I find it funny how people will complain that the film didn’t do anything different, and then go on to complain about the things that JJ did that were actually different.
Well, funny or not, that’s exactly how I felt after watching the movie. In my opinion they changed things that shouldn’t have been changed (visual code, music approach, camera style, composition of the frames, etc) while got needlessly attached to other things that could have been changed (like the designs) or should have been different (like the plot).
To me it’s not a generic versus between innovation and preservation, but more of a disagreement on where did this movie innovate, where it did not, and where and what did it preservate or not.