This drives me nuts when people are like “OMG its the same story!”. Duh, its the normal hero story. most movies the same story. Just like most movies have a hero and bad guy. Or a couple whos marriage/relationship gets rocked when something bad happens, but then get back together at the end. Or like every monster…

I’ve seen the movie and even with the similarities, I thought it was very epic. I might not be that picky as other though. I’m a simple man, I see Star Wars, I like it ;)

Get you with your judgement. Look up Abrams answering his critics on the subject, he did so a while ago, including being reported on this very website. And he’s a much better writer then anyone here will ever be.

It continues to amaze me how much trouble people seem to be having enjoying this movie. Yes, there are story beats that echo the original. Not all of the story beats, and not all in the same order, and there are a lot of new beats as well. When the prequels came out, I was certainly among those crying that this did…

I’m amused by all the people bitching about how similar the two movies are because if The Force Awakens had been unlike the original trilogy, those same people would be complaining about how it wasn’t Star Wars enough.