Hipsters don't seem to like The Force Awakens. I don't seem to like hipsters. There is balance in the Force.

Rey in Ep. 7 is a far more fleshed-out character than Luke was in Ep. 4. This is the first act of a 3-part story.

Max Landis got a lot of shit for having the balls to point out, when the hype for The Force Awakens was at its height, that Rey IS in fact a Mary Sue. Maybe not as bad as Tauriel from the Hobbit Trilogy, but still pretty awful.

Han and Chewbacca has been fighting side by side for decades, its just in the Force Awakens that he realized he liked the Bowcaster.

This guy gives the movie a "C" then the very first complaint he has to justify is that there were not enough ship designs in it... Ill take proper character development and acting over that any day...

I swear to god, if I see "Star Wars Episode IX Part One" and "Star Wars Episode IX Part 2", I'm going to flip shit.

"I'm not saying I could do it better"

Time has proven every criticism to be valid.

Kylo Ren is the only villain to stop a laser blast in mid-air and to lose to an untrained jedi in the same movie. That's original...I guess :-(

One of my favorite moments is when Rey started tapping in to the force to do the Jedi mind trick on the storm trooper.

I'll be honest....this film felt like a billion dollar fan-fiction by JJ Abrams

Rey invented the Jedi Mindtrick and perfected it at the 2nd attempt.

It disappoints me to see people already reacting to my opinions in the comments without watching the whole thing, but unsurprised.

It's just RIDICULOUS that people think that Rey's arc was too fast and too unbelievable. SPOILER ALERT: First of all, she already is an expert in melee combat, as shown on Jakku. Second, she has a force vision in which both OBI-WAN and YODA talk to her, two of the most legendary Jedi the galaxy ever saw. I'm sure they don't just appear to anyone. And she obviously has a past with the Force - She is a prodigy in the Force! That much was obvious. When Kylo is interrogating her, she turns the tables on him because she is mentally and emotionally stable. She looks into his mind and sees his fear, and uses it against him. Fear is what POWERS the dark side, and she USES IT AGAINST HIM! Genius. Regarding Kylo: he is in chaos, torn between the light and the dark. He has no focus. When he fought Rey, he had just KILLED HIS OWN FATHER. Can you imagine what that would do to him? Also, he was severely injured by both Chewie (stomach) and Finn (shoulder). And, he actually is WINNING until he says "you need a teacher - I can teach you the ways of the Force" - the word FORCE cues Rey to focus on the light side, which gives her power, and then the LIGHT SIDE kicks the DARK SIDE'S ass. They set up the Rey v. Ren battle perfectly. I really don't get why people are having such a hard time understanding all this. Actually, I do. It's Lucas' fault. In the prequels he made it seem like in order to be a Jedi you have to take classes as a child with mini light sabers and other stupid shit. HOW STUPID. In Empire, Luke only spends a few days with Yoda and all they do is levitate some shit. His real training is to FACE VADER. You learn the ways of the force by DOING and learning from your decisions. Also, the force is NOT about learning to wield a lightsaber or becoming a ninja. It's about controlling your EMOTIONS. Yoda says, "control, control, you must learn control." Kylo Ren loses all control. Rey gains it. Rey wins. It's really painfully obvious. In regards to the characters, and the force, this movie was just about perfect.

this movie has absolutely no soul at all what so ever. it has a brain that working way too hard, to make a mindless movie. this movie has no heart, but tries to pull at heart strings with intellectual sentiments that come from a creation that this entire film is anathema to.

The blonde guy is saying exactly how i feel.. the movie was too, convenient. Ray was just not an interesting character to build on, and i feel like everyone is sayig "but the small things" and yeah, that could have been there WITH an original story with some places and people that EXPANDED what Star Wars is.. not emulates what it use to be.

Totally Agree with everything Max said, if Rey had been a male the character would have been reviled, They tried hard to make a cool female hero but failed and there's nothing wrong with criticizing that , but we did have a great female hero this year which was Furiousa so we do have something to be happy about

Rey is one of the best characters that Star Wars has ever had

Even if future movies explain why Rey is a GOD who can do everything, and is powerful - that doesn't change the fact that she's a Mary Sue. I don't get this argument. Just because plot explains why someone is a Mary Sue, doesn't make them stop being Mary Sue's. All the problems that come with Rey's character (especially how it effects side characters and the plot) - doesn't just go away because there is plot that explains why she is a God.

Rey probably never piloted a ship (because she's a poor scavenger), but piloted it better than Han Solo on her first try