Movie was pretty good, but I can see why the interwebs was calling it a remake (of ROTJ?)
Of A New Hope. There are certainly similarities. Hitting familiar story beats isn't even really new to Star Wars. The endings of The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, for example, were intentionally meant to mimic the endings of A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back.
I like to think of it as History keeps repeating itself.
My one gripe throughout this series though, is that Rey had a speeder that just hovers there, even when not in use. but when she needs to haul her load over to her camp, she has to drag it through the sand. Do they not have a little hoverbarrel to cart things around in? a hover satchel that she can tow behind her....? anything? they seem so advanced in certain areas to no apply them to other logical areas as well.
Rey is a scavenger. She barely gets by with what she can find which, as shown in the movie, is slowly losing value based on the amount of portions she is given in exchange for the junk she scrounges up. It's surprising she even owns a speeder though we're supposed to surmise that she probably fixed up a junker. It's a necessity, a hoverbarrel or something similar is not.
I didn't really mean her specifically, just in general. the tech just seems so common, that you expect to see it utilized even at the lowest levels of poverty. like cell phones, cars, TV.
I just expect a hover everything to be so common place, that you could just build hover stuff with do it yourself home kits using scraps from out in the desert wreckage.
Can't believe HS won't be making it to the sequel though. Good thing he got his payday on the 1st movie. and why wasn't Chewie a little greyer? do they not age?
George Lucas seemed to go a little overboard with fanservice after The Phantom Menace by reintroducing characters like Boba Fett and Chewbacca (ultimately not understanding how to successfully and subtly do fanservice). Anyway, Chewbacca looked exactly the same in Revenge of the Sith as he does roughly 18 years later in A New Hope, implying that Wookies age slower than humans.
i wouldn't have hurt to give him a few grey strands up top somewhere.
although it would have been hilarious if he was actually a little bald on top.
But overall I really enjoyed it. Not sure about the additional cost of 3D though. it really only stood out in a few scenes, but I know it really pops for more people than it ever has for me.