re: Who wants to have an I hate the SW prequels complaint thread.

It was a fine movie. And Abrams did more creative things with the Force than Lucas did in the prequels.

The fact of the matter is they needed to give us a competent movie to give us faith back into the franchise. They succeeded. I'm sure they looked at vigorously at the Plinkett review to make sure it passed all of his criticisms. It did, but Plinkett later complained about the lack of creativity in the story.

I will not give TLJ the same benefit of the doubt as this. It needs to do something different from Empire. But we have a highly competent filmmaker behind it, so I'm not all that nervous.