Wook, have you read the article?
What I am asking myself is at what point into the movie did those people who complain about the similarities to ANH started to predict the outcoming of the movie?
Aren't e.g. James Bond movies always following the same structure to the point of being carbon copies of each other and aelf referencing?
I think those who did not like the movie and because of it lost their sw love should wait for Ep8 for a final verdict.
For me, it was one eye roll after another, at the egregious plot line ripoffs from ANH. I was so appalled, so nonplussed at what I was watching, I couldn't imagine the ripoffs would continue throughout the entire film.
I walked out of the theater crestfallen. Saw it a second time a week later...same result, just slightly less shocked, since it was my second viewing.
The TFA FAIL hasn't caused me to lose my love of SW. I still rank ANH and ESB as my favorite films ever! And this TFA turd has made the Prequels look better. I'd rather watch any one of them, including TPM, instead of TFA again.
I went into TFA spoiler-free, and cautiously optimistic, that JJ being one of us, a fan who fell in love with Star Wars as a kid in that magical summer of '77, and who didn't like the SEs, and who didn't love the PT, would create a new SW film that captured the look and feel of ANH & ESB, while giving us a new original story. Well, he failed miserably--on both accounts, but especially the latter.
So, ever the optimist, I hope Disney, and Rian Johnson and Lawrence Kasdan and Trevor Somebody and whomever else makes the next Star Wars movies, will come up with something new, recapturing...NOT THE PLOTLINES...but the look and feel of ANH & ESB. Having said that, after the total FAIL of TFA, if Disney keeps putting out crappy SW movies--carbon copy crap or original crap--I will not be a bit surprised.
The Wook