Probably because he only assisted as a "visual consultant" when the actual cinematographers ran into problems on the film.

Work's work and he still shot John Sayles' very good film Limbo in the 90's.

You would think so especially considering that whole "be fruitful and multiply thing" and there are plenty of people who agree with that interpretation (especially scholarly), but deep religious analysis is far above my abilities.

But I thought month 37 showed such improvement.

Depends who you ask. Some hold that "brothers" and "sisters" are used as a more general term the same way we sometimes use the term now as more of a subject of close bond, others who hold that they are children of Joseph but not Mary (step-children), and others who hold that they are daughters of Mary's sister. I'm…

I'm pretty sure the plural is Jesi.

There's also plenty of great spirituals that qualify such as "Down in the River to Pray" and "He Never Said a Mumblin' Word".

Why? It's a lot more realistic having multiple factions and they all have simple easy to follow names. The resistance is not the Republic but they are supported by it (see my reference to France in WWII which considering the influence for the Empire, stormtroopers, those rallies, etc. makes the parallel more…

Not this resistance/republic shit again. The resistance is not the Republic and there's no evidence from the movie that the Republic is very powerful at all and the opening crawl right off the bat established the power of the First Order. You wouldn't need a resistance if those people were actually in charge, it's…

They didn't know about it (I doubt The First Order is broadcasting its progress on such an important project), know where it is (space is inconceivably huge), any info on it's power, or hell even a man on the inside. Really there's so many reasons why they couldn't or didn't attack it before.

And even if it didn't effect The Force Awakens' gross too much they have a whole franchise of films they need to keep people interested for and toys to buy ("where the real money from the movie is made"). The last thing they want is people dreading another set of films a long the lines of the Prequels and watching…

It was the entire focus of the climax, how much bigger does it need to be. It's not like it was something that would just wander into the movie every once in a while when their weren't enough action scenes.

If it was the focus, it would have just felt like a ripoff of A New Hope something which you complained extensively about. It's something that seems hugely desirable for an empire to have and it makes sense that something which in one shot destroyed the entire opposing government and was minutes a way from destroying…

There's time for mourning later, there was more important things to worry about than standing around feeling sorry for themselves and everyone seemed pretty bummed about it. People celebrated winning a huge battle at the end because that is a natural thing to do and it literally saved their lives and the continued…

Only the shield is operational I believe which is a smart thing to put up considering its high value status.

On a planet that was blown to freaking smithereens. And just because the Republic's fleet was destroyed it doesn't mean anything about the resistance who we've established is tied to but not necessarily a part of the Republic. They were concerned about the resistance base being destroyed and with it the last (or…

I thought Christmas only comes once a year.

"Luke Skywalker has vanished. In his absence, the sinister FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes of the Empire and will not rest until Skywalker, the last Jedi, has been destroyed.

From Wikipedia who explains it pretty well "[The Starkiller] destroys the Republic capital and its fleet and Hux declares the end of the Republic." I also believe (my memory ain't what it used to be) that they destroyed a number of other planets/moons around it.

Same basic principal though even with a different name. Also regardless of it's status as an actual republic, a Star Wars style republic, or hell it could have been a republic in the same way The Democratic Republic of the Congo is (in name only) it's still a handy name to use considering it's history in Star Wars…