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I feel like this is going to be a movie the grows on me as I rewatch it.

It's very weird, going in I figured we'd get retconning of 8, a messy plot, and heavy doses of nostalgia, and my thoughts were, "hell yeah sign me up for all of that", but after getting exactly that I'm not really sure how I feel.

I didn't dislike it, but I don't think it's great. There were moments and callbacks that I absolutely loved, fanboyed over, and got emotional because of, but there were so many moments where I literally threw my hands up in the air in the theatre and said, "are you serious?". The issue is that those latter moments always came right before or after the former moments so it impacted my enjoyment of them a little bit.

I thought the second half was immeasurably better than the first half. I enjoyed the references and callbacks for the most part, I liked the ending.

The Leia scenes were all bad, which is really unfortunate. It was a tough position to be in but they were incredibly immersion breaking for me. I couldn't even pretend that they fit. The scene where Kylo and Rey are fighting over the ship in the air with the force is probably my least favourite of the film. I was incredibly angry at both the Chewie and C3PO things and them going back on both of them just makes me annoyed that they even did them in the first place. I also thought the whole "I'm Rey Skywalker" thing at the end was very cheesy.

Better than 8, probably not as good as 7, for me personally, but again I could see it growing on me.
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