Please give me an honest answer

You Lucas cultists are deranged. You can't just like your shitty prequels and be done with it, you have made it a mission to try and change history. You are obsessed with making everyone think the way you do. The sequels are better received overall than the prequels and this movie in particular is almost universally liked. But you lie, lie, lie, because it burns your asshole that people like these movies better than Lucas' last attempt.

At the time it came out, I loved it. I didnt discern the cut and paste, I thought the new characters were intreaging , it left me with questions such as who Rey was and where did Snoke come from. It sounded like Star Wars and it looked like the best of them with cool set design and ships that looked like the OT. I was seated an hour early and the intro of Han, Chewie and the Falcon - my theater loudly cheered and hollared - probably my most fun community experiences Ive had in the cinema. I felt the chemistry of Rey and Finn and felt they were good casting choices. I thought the music wasn't great though with Rey's theme being the only stand out piece and only briefly seeing Luke irked me. Now, I dont like it - anything interesting was thrown away or underused and knowing how the three film story line I am very disappointed.

Yes, I like this movie. It is not the best SW movie but still it is good.

I told myself I was enjoying it in the theater. But it all felt 'off' from the beginning. The music and the familiar sights and sounds of Star Wars were cool, but almost right away it seemed wrong.

Thinking about it later, it was the existence of the First Order seemingly out of nowhere and the way it made the victory of the original trilogy irrelevant. Han's death scene was so strange in how predictable it felt (as in, the Han Solo character should have seen it coming) as well as how it didn't have the impact on me that it should have. I'm still not totally sure why that scene had no emotional impact on me. The way it was shot, or the predictability? Maybe the shot of Han's body plummeting down seemed kind of strange.

The fact that Han and Luke had no scenes together was a reality that sunk in later, and seeing the old characters together was the thing I was most looking forward to. The disregard for the original characters and original trilogy story are the things that really bugged me.

I liked the chemistry and beginnings of a friendship/bond between Rey and Finn like someone else mentioned. That stuff was good. The actors were good; no issue there. I felt bad for Daisy Ridley getting slammed by some fans; she doesn't deserve it. She did a fine job.

The fact that it copies elements of A New Hope never bothered me as much (although i understand the complaint). There's a desert planet, a trip on the Millenium Falcon, and a super weapon, but none of it felt like the clean, structured bullet train of a story that was A New Hope. The over-the-top Lovecraftian monsters Han and Chewie were transporting was too much. The super weapon barely seemed relevant. Like, it was there but it seemed so easily destroyed. Strange.

In the end, after 'Awakens and Last Jedi, I didn't even bother with the last one. Same thing happened years earlier with the Prequels - enthusiasm at first, then just disappointment followed by apathy, haha.

I personally was weary of the Force Awakens once I started learning more about it. Posters, promotional images, and trailers all hinted that it was gonna retread old ground, so I went in cautiously optimistic. Unsurprisingly, I was disappointed.

Since then, the subsequent sequels made half the profits, meaning they lost half the audience, and never recovered. The prequels in comparison lost almost a third of the audience from Phantom Menace to Attack of the Clones, then gained most of that audience back with Revenge of the Sith. The prequels also sold lots of merchandise and inspired the Clone Wars and Knights of the Old Republic, the latter of which is considered peak Star Wars storytelling. The Sequel Trilogy failed to sell merchandise, and theme parks based on them are under-performing even today.

Force Awakens might still have a good IMDb score, but so does Avatar, and almost nobody talks about that movie anymore. Then again, there's reports of rating websites tampering the scores for the sequel trilogy, so take that for what it's worth. Are there people that liked Force Awakens? Of course, we can see them here in the comments. But to suggest that most people still like Force Awakens wouldn't be entirely correct, based on how the later movies turned out financially. If most people liked it, why didn't they come back to see what happened next? Meanwhile, more and more people are coming out in support of the Prequels, despite their somewhat low scores on IMDb. While I might go back and adjust my scores if I feel like it, not everyone does that.

There are parts of it that I think are good. Most of the effects are great and I even like the new characters in this one. The lightsaber fight at the end was great too imo. Other than that, the story and OT characters were awful. I saw it in the theater and watched it once since then. I'm just not a fan of the sequels at all and probably won't revisit them for a very long time.

I was never a big fan of Star Wars. The only one I really liked was Empire Strikes Back from the OT. I didn't think this movie was particularly bad and certainly better than Return of the Jedi and a massive step above the Phantom Menace. All in all not great but not bad.

When I was watching the film in theater I thought it was good. However, a few the days after that my opinion of it kind of eroded. I still think its the best of the sequel trilogy, and has its moments here and there. It was a film that I felt needed its sequel to boost it in the end. Unfortunately for this film The Last Jedi did it no favors as that film no more works with this as it does with the series as a whole.

JJ should have handled the entire Sequel series and really sat down to map it out properly. That was a critical mistake.