Saw this again the other day and it’s even worse now. Almost as bad as the prequels as time passes. Absolute garbage. Will not be watching it again.
Nonsense: the prequels are better than TFA. At least in TPM when Anakin meets Obi-Wan he’s not “oh, you’re Obi-Wan, really !” and “No way: Yoda !?! I thought you were a myth !” (with the weird Daisy Ridley squirrel face it’s even worse). At least Lucas tried to do something. He failed, but he tried. JJ failed without even trying to do something.
[I’m really not sure I already said I didn’t like TFA. Did I ?]
I think they are all terrible movies (the four of them), so it’s hard to rate one piece of garbage as less smelly than another piece of garbage. But I do think you’re right–at least Lucas tried to do something innovative even if he failed in horrific fashion. TFA, on the other hand, while not being incompetent or monotonously boring, WAS one of the least genuine and intellectually dishonest films I’ve ever seen. Absolute rubbish.